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The title would be improved with "Writing the string ...". I first read it as "Writing the file" which was pretty weird.

The 40-hour workweek was introduced in Germany in the mid-1960s. 60 years later, it's still standard. A few 39-, 38- or 37.5-hour weeks here and there, but even those are by and la…

Any badness metric you like. LLMs average over that since their training input does.

> But let's assume you have true, fully general AI. Very strong assumption and very narrow setting that is one of the counter examples. AI researchers in the 80s already told you t…

Has the last 70 years of productivity increases led to a reduction in weekly work hours? No. Some jobs will be automated away. Good thing. Braindead stuff that a machine can do sho…

Threat of violence is not violence. A policeman standing on a public square threatening to incarcerate anybody who is violent results in no violence actually happening at that squa…

> Last week I did the amount of work that would’ve taken me give or take a month. A significant part of it was writing an API client for a system I needed to use. Pretty run of the…

The key ingredient in a formal course is the formal examination. Be it graded exercises or a written or oral exam. It forces studying at a level where you can reproduce and explain…

Where is your question?

> The job loss depends on the average speed up, That's such a economical fallacy that I'd expect the HN crowd to have understood this ages ago. Compare the average productivity of …

Indeed. My roommate has just been put on a new project at his workplace. No AI involved anywhere. But he inherited a half-done project. Code is even 90% done. But he is spending so…

.. new stuff that quite obviously won't be able to live up to its hype. Indeed. Or would you argue that NFTs actually did live up to the BS that was ascribed to them in some circle…

I mean ... most code out there is pretty bad, so LLM assistants contributing pretty bad code just keeps the mean where it is. And obviously it has to be, how can anybody expect an …

How do you report it? Is there a field "income from illegal activities" in the tax forms? Asking for a friend.

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Is not paying tax on income from theft actually tax fraud? I mean, the theft itself is obviously unlawful. But perhaps you wouldn't be taxed on theft proceeds anyway, so no tax law…

Hm, true. But I sometimes see people walking along beaches doing this kind of thing. Though they're probably hoping for rings (gold, silver, diamond, ...) rather than coins, which …

Hm, what about vending machines with things you make yourself, legitimately without any paper trail that would show what you are making?

> Obviously I wanted a way to do better than the system allowed and wanted to know if I could use magnets to pull the coins towards me[1] In other words, you wanted to cheat. I can…

The article's author probably just messed up the math somewhere. According to wikipedia, there were 18,220 daily rides in 1978 on the Edmonton LRT. If he got $900 daily and that's …

Typically when you have damages and are insured, then the insurance pays you and then goes after the original claim to get their money back. That is, the party that had the origina…

There is a sizeable community doing so called "magnet fishing". Check out r/magnetfishing

But surely they would have a counter of how many tickets were sold in a machine?

It would also mean that with him stealing $2.4M, their total proceeds over 13 years were $12M which is less than $1M a year to run their whole LRT.

> Too bad it doesn’t say how he actually got found out. Hm? It does: > In 1993, with the red flags mounting up, the city authorities hired private investigators to observe Kara, wh…