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People don't really choose to work, we work because we need to afford food and get health care and rent housing etc. If you live in a town where the job you can get is at Amazon then you don't really "voluntarily" work there, and considering it's pretty simple stuff that hires anyone this is probably the case.

> Tesla is free to use other companies or methods to deliver, create their own delivery companies from scratch , deliver the cars with their rockets. I do not think they can cut off the power but there could be problems finding people fixing their electrical issues if they appear.

In theory, but it's not unprecedented for payment providers to refuse to process payments so they'd not be able to pay people to even get started (if they went that way)

* standard but rare. This really escalated after Tesla brought in strikebreakers and threatened the Swedish labour model which is built by Unions and not the government

Fwiw it's a quote from https://webpack.js.org/concepts/hot-module-replacement/, what else would you like to know about HMR?

> This is only when you do an intellectually dishonest trick of comparing Stockholm the city to american states capita-wise

How?

30 in Stockholm, population of ~950,000 21 in Boston, population of ~650,000 7 in Denver, population of ~700,000 etc...

I was going off of government info [0] but if you manually check you'll find it still works out albeit unicorns change pretty often at the moment.

[0] https://start.stockholm/en/about-the-city-of-stockholm/how-t...

edit: Okay Boston might have 31 [1], but while you're comparing leading cities to Stockholm you still have the remainder of the US which brings innovation rankings down. My overall point that Sweden has a decent level of innovation & startups (per capita) while maintaining a much better standard of living still stands IMO.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/hub/greater-boston-area-unicorn-s...

Sure, but other stats are useful too like "Unicorns per capita" being higher than any region except SF. Stockholm is surprisingly innovative - even the day to day surprises me with technical integrations between services. I used to live in Palo Alto & the difference between Stockholm & even the Bay Area is huge, minus the self-driving cars.

My point is that having these Union collective bargaining agreements doesn't impact innovation in either # of successful startups or just general country innovation metrics.

Which is why I used terms like "in my opinion". Data is great but slow and I know my feelings are reciprocated by many others. Give it a year and see if current sentiment affects the stats as this is an ongoing issue while the data is over a year old.

Either Tesla folds OR sales drop because you can't service your car. This isn't rocket science, but unless you have sales data for the last month there's not much to really debate with beyond anecdotes.

Swedish unions are there to set minimum wages, benefits, pensions, etc… because we have an actual free market & the social cushion for the natural losers of a free market. Unions have to take the role of negotiating with companies because the government doesn’t.

It is well known companies that guarantee paying the minimum salary and pension for staff members immediately lower innovation - it happens all the time in Sweden, a country with a higher innovation index per capita than the US (according to World Bank/UN annual studies).

Fwiw in Sweden I get a company car and was considering Tesla but this Union issue has meant I no longer trust the level of service I will get long term & probably will get a Polestar instead. It is having some effect because, in my opinion, he is likely to decide to just up and leave one day and I’ll have a non-serviceable car. There’s not many automotive CEOs, if any, where that’s a consideration for me apart from Tesla and it does stem from his Twitter persona & rash decisions/going back on things a lot.

I love it when people parrot what they heard - what misinformation? Do you mean the Robert Kennedy stuff? I can have my own strong views that the vaccines were useful and still enjoy content - if you just consume what you hear and relay it of course you shouldn't be around "fake news and stupid theories". Saying that 99% of Rogans podcasts are not like this.

Is it because I'm in Sweden/EU? But as a premium user I don't see these ads people are on about?

I think I'm using a different app to the rest of these commenters, I don't have anything as bad as people are talking about. Or do people just use the free version of the app?

It’s light entertainment and he tends to cover topics I am interested in like BJJ/Muay Thai. If he goes on about Covid etc I just half listen, it’s rarely that long.

That’s a crazy reason to drop using Spotify

Rogue likes are good enough, if you build a procedurally generated games it’s very hard to not make it very boring and empty. Many roguelikes do a good job at keeping things fresh enough to replay while not allowing for that.

This is a little off, unless you give “unit” a very different term than most use it. The term unit vs division tests are used in the military, so a unit test is to check combat readiness of a unit and division tests is the combat readiness of a division. The books that use that term mostly come from US Artillery documentation.

I wonder if the etymology of modern unit testing does come from that; but if it did I’d assume the other terms would exist too.

The difference between Quality Control and Quality Assurance is really important but most developers don’t really know the difference, and their only form of quality is QC catching some bugs on the way out rather than QA catching them earlier in the pipeline. I’m a contract test engineer & very rarely see the latter - for example test design alongside feature design. It’s amazing how quickly you can improve a products quality metrics (defect leakage, customer reports, defect costs, etc) by focusing a little on the QA side of development.

It’s one of the issues companies have when they think they can just replace QA with developers automated tests - it misses every other part of quality except a subset of QC.

I read they use that methodology at Google X - the team take pride in proving ideas can't work by doing the hardest part first. There's some good blog posts on how this works and how they kill projects fast.

* Largely government owned means 60% ownership by the Swedish government and 40% by the Danish government.

Someone mentioned it'd be interesting to do a study of the Dunning-Kruger effect on the Bay Area/HN yesterday and after seeing the authority people talk about Swedish unions with almost every point being incorrect, I agree. Why do people feel the need to comment on things that they just don't know? I like Lesswrong and similar forums where people preface comments with how sure they are of what they're saying - HN could do with similar.

Maybe I’m being dumb here but isn’t the brain of one of those people the same, basically, as the model? So if a model can do X and is valued so highly, surely it’s value is pinned on a known brain that matches its skills?

Go is so boring that I found AI tooling to start being far more effective, fwiw

What does an LLM really do? And can it create sometimes entirely novel math that goes against its training set to solve something, and know it’s right using a proof tool that may not even accept that? I agree but on a different order of magnitude of years.

I’m not trying to understate the stuff you can do with LLMs or formal proof tooling that could be attached to randomly try things till it reaches a solution to a novel problem, but some solutions you see to lesser problems are sometimes so pie-in-the-sky I think stumbling on one is barely better than a random walk. And I think mathematicians like Tao are far better at narrowing that down. As an aide I can see it’s use, I just don’t believe we’re going to have LLMs & tooling solve these grand problems until compute power is orders of magnitudes better, and even then I’m still sceptical. BUT I’m not a mathematician and this is based on my intuition from pub talks :)

You’re actually gen X outside of the US too, unfortunately!

I don’t want to totally dox myself but there’s a couple crypto companies doing that sort of stuff like Algorand, Tezos, Cardano, etc :)

Alameda Research had some gold medalists iirc!

First person to submit a mechanised proof gets the payout to the address that submits the code? People can pool money into a pot? No one manages the funds individually and on a set date funds return to senders?

That’s an app on top of the append only DB with some logic that either requires IRL groups to manage it, or a blockchain contract. I prefer the latter tbh!

First person to submit a mechanised proof gets the payout to the address that submits the code? People can pool money into a pot? No one manages the funds individually and on a set date funds return to senders?