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CS and DS people are getting more applied and gaining domain expertise, and can do a lot of economics work now. Academic economists, especially those who primarily do data science …

Or cheating in other ways, like collusion rings [1], reviewers using LLMs to review, or authors putting text in their papers so reviewers using LLMs to review will give them a favo…

3% is actually not bad for what it gets you: fraud detection, not having to lug cash to the bank every day, reduction of theft and employee mistakes, better recordkeeping for taxes…

I'm generally wary of suggestions to overhaul a working long-lasting sociotechnical system. Everything that has been around for decades is patches on patches. The the world wide we…

It's an obligatory warning, otherwise people (even here on HN) will decry your methods as mainly due to privilege, and irreproducible for the average perso.

Agreed, Apple is far worse on being monopolistic and draconian, but people give them a pass because they have cool design. Everything they're doing with iMessage, the iOS and Mac A…

Because each person still uses about 10 full wardrobes in their lifetime, 100,000 prepared meals, a few dozen smartphones and other electronics, a mountain of disposibles like diap…

Even more awkward is when you're having a conversation with someone who is trying even harder to get you to talk about yourself, while you're trying to do some of the same. Then it…

What does it say about people using it for research?

I don't see how that's a better example, and you missed the point. Your example is about someone doing something unethical as part of their job. My example was about someone doing …

That seems like a dangerous line of thought. Imagine a software engineer (maybe one who writes code for airplanes or medical equipment) writes some sloppy code late one night and p…

I would be thrilled if kitchen-only joints replaced sit-down restaurants. I have about 20 sit-downs within walking distance, only about 5 are easy for takeout, none which serve hig…

I think to be more precise, the headline should read: "Minimum wage workers can not afford renting a two-bedroom home at fair market rent using 30% of their income" That feels dras…

Why do you think your analogy is better than the parent post? The parent post makes more sense to me. People to go stores, and the stores charge a markup. In your analogy, the mode…

It's an interesting idea. Wouldn't the cost of raising funds, replacing all the signs, etc. be also damaging? What about having a clear "no speeding at all on speeds over 50mph" an…

There's been evidence of this for a while. 1) lots of regular working people getting suspicious notices about unemployment being filed in their name 2) high numbers of these report…

I've seen this comparison in a few articles. It makes no sense at all. It's like if I said Microsoft's market cap ($1.942T) is larger than the GDP of Russian ($1.7T), or Apple's Ma…

Speaking of charging, does anyone know if usb-c charging is properly implemented? I've bought a number of new devices with usb-c and am disappointed they require the old usb-a to u…

It was more like them selling $300 of movie tickets (I'd watch one a day) for $10. Everyone only used them for the arbitrage.

I wish there was a way to turn off "external content", and only view content created by your friends. If my friend has an opinion about something (even if political, or a social is…

I don't know. Do you remember the Foxconn due to the low pay and abuse they were getting to make Apple products? Or how Apple is trying to restrict our software freedoms with walle…

It looks like Umami does some of that. But I found that Google Analytics does none of it, and in fact year-over-year seems to cut back on the amount of useful information. The main…

It's at least double that now. Rental cars may be triple.

Honestly the issue is that schools don't want calculators (computers) that are too powerful because there could be an app that can just do the homework for students, or let them co…