toogan

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by toogan 1y ago
The title would be improved with "Writing the string ...". I first read it as "Writing the file" which was pretty weird.
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by toogan 1y ago
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 large 40-hour weeks. The number of vacation week and publ
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by toogan 1y ago
Any badness metric you like. LLMs average over that since their training input does.
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by toogan 1y ago
> 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 that AI is around the corner in the next 5 years. Did
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by toogan 1y ago
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 should be done by a machine. Doesn't mean we'll all s
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by toogan 1y ago
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 square. Take away that regulation (in form of the policeman) and
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by toogan 1y ago
> 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 mill stuff. Doing this ‘by hand’ just takes time. Go loo
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by toogan 1y ago
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 the key concepts and results and apply them to something ne
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by toogan 1y ago
Where is your question?
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by toogan 1y ago
> 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 somebody working in a car factory 80 years ago
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by toogan 1y ago
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 much time trying to understand all that existing code, noti
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by toogan 1y ago
.. 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 circles during their hype?
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by toogan 1y ago
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 LLM to produce output with quality that's higher than i
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by toogan 3y ago
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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by toogan 3y ago
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 laws are broken in that case.
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by toogan 3y ago
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 would make it much more lucrative as well.
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by toogan 3y ago
Hm, what about vending machines with things you make yourself, legitimately without any paper trail that would show what you are making?
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by toogan 3y ago
> 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't comment on whether that's fraud in a legal s
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by toogan 3y ago
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 20%, then there were a little under $5000 proceeds
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by toogan 3y ago
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 original damage leaves the claim to the insurance which then deals
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by toogan 3y ago
There is a sizeable community doing so called "magnet fishing". Check out r/magnetfishing
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by toogan 3y ago
But surely they would have a counter of how many tickets were sold in a machine?
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by toogan 3y ago
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.
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by toogan 3y ago
> 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, which finally caught him in the act.