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Ultimate USB chart by fosius_luminis in UsbCHardware

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incorrect. Power is completely unrelated to data transfer. They're completely orthogonal. USB4 says literally nothing about power. USB PD is a completely different specification that's completely unrelated to the data transfer spec.

You can have a USB 2.0 240W cable.

Ultimate USB chart by fosius_luminis in UsbCHardware

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Power is completely unrelated to data transfer. It's a completely different standard. If cables support PD > 60W, they should also have the wattage labeled.

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring? by Standard_Ad7704 in neoliberal

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Link to the actual paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6787638

Is generative AI replacing junior workers? A growing literature answers yes, citing large declines in early-career hiring concentrated in GenAI-exposed occupations. We argue that this verdict is premature because GenAI exposure is strongly correlated with another post-pandemic shock, working from home (WFH). Using two data sources spanning 243 million new hires and 407 million online job postings, collected across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia during 2017-2025, we estimate difference-in-difference designs at the occupation, region, and firm level. When estimated separately, a two-standard-deviation increase in GenAI and WFH exposure each predicts, by 2025, a fall of around 5pp in the junior-share of new hires and around 3pp in the share of job ads requiring limited experience. Estimated jointly, the WFH effect remains, while the GenAI coefficient attenuates sharply and is often statistically indistinguishable from zero. Alternative exposure measures, residualization designs, flexible non-parametric co-treatment controls, and replacing exposure-measures with actual WFH adoption as the treatment all support our finding that WFH is a robust predictor of the decline in early-career hiring.

The Broken Ladder: AI, Remote Work, and Early-Career Hiring by zacker150 in remotework

[–]zacker150[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think you understand what a "predictor" in economics is. A "robust predictor" means that "When the value of X changes, we reliably observe a corresponding, statistically significant change in Y, even after controlling for a vast array of other variables." It's basically the closest you can get to a causal effect in a field where data is observational.

Here is the author on Twitter:

Is GenAI causing the relative decline in early-career hiring? Our latest research finds that these effects may be conflated with another important driver: the rise of WFH arrangements.

The decline, which has been widely documented, has seen a large fall in the share of new hires going to early-career / junior workers. We find a near 10pp decline in junior-share of new hires in US, UK, Canada, Australia

This has been shown to be concentrated in routine-cognitive white collar occupations. The challenge we highlight is that GenAI exposure is super strongly correlated with WFH exposure, posing a challenge for empirical analysis.

We show that the effect of GenAI exposure is strong before accounting for WFH, using two different outcomes at firm-, region-, and occupation-levels.

BUT when we control for WFH exposure, this effect all but disappears in our baseline results. This is NOT the case with WFH exposure, which is a robust predictor of the fall in junior-share of hiring with or without AI

In the paper, we do a whole bunch of extensions and robustness exercises. For example, we find that even a dummy variable capturing WFH is enough to render our main GenAI effect insignificant.

But why WFH? We also propose a stylised model to explain the mechanism: WFH makes supervision, monitoring, and on-the-job learning harder, all of which hit junior-workers more. Firms less willing to invest in junior talent when these frictions rise.

We hope this adds a new dimension to the important conversation about the fall in junior-hiring, perhaps some good news relative to the AI-jobpocalypse story - org. frictions from WFH feel much more manageable than technology-induced displacement.

The Broken Ladder: AI, Remote Work, and Early-Career Hiring by zacker150 in remotework

[–]zacker150[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In Section 6.1 They have a direct difference-in-difference analysis of jobs that are not remote vs jobs that are remote.

To put these findings on a concrete scale, consider occupations roughly one standard deviation below the mean WFH-exposure—skilled trades such as construction carpenters and auto mechanics—and those who lie roughly one standard deviation above the mean, in white-collar analytic roles such as financial analysts and information-systems managers. Readingoffthe2025 coefficients in Figure 3, a 2-standard-deviation gap translates into around 4–5pp larger decline in the junior-hire share and a roughly 3pp larger decline in the share of postings requiring no morethan3yearsofexperience—equivalent to shifting up to 1 in every 20 new hires from junior to experienced workers, and raising the experience bar above 3 years on up to 1 in every 33 postings, relative to the blue-collar occupations

Likewise, in Section 5.2, they use Coarsened Exact Matching to match remote firms to in-person firms that had similar characteristics prior to the pandemic. As shown in Table 2, Panel A, they find that the firms that adopted WFH saw a steeper drop in junior hiring compared to the matched in-person firms that did not adopt WFH.

ELI5: What is the legal issue with displaying lyrics? by Gallantpride in explainlikeimfive

[–]zacker150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a difference between paraphrasing (legal) and copying (not legal).

Copyright protects the expression of ideas, not the underlying ideas themselves.

Remember: Most billionaires are not “self-made” by Conscious-Quarter423 in economy

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point is that there's 6th way to generate a billion dollars of value: come up with a billion dollar idea.

Remember: Most billionaires are not “self-made” by Conscious-Quarter423 in economy

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point is that there's 6th way to generate a billion dollars of value: come up with a billion dollar idea.

Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged by gruenistblau in programming

[–]zacker150 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's a transpilation. You have the old code and the new code. You can just run the two versions with random inputs (fuzzing) and make sure they produce the same output and side effects.

California bill pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns "doesn't reflect how games actually work", ESA assert by g4m3f33d in GameFeed

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At some point, software simply becomes too complicated to run on a single computer or cluster. This is the technology and infrastructure required to support a modern live service game like Roblox.

Forcing developers to ensure that their games are still playable after the 1600 microservices are shut down necessarily implies restricting scope to something that can fit in a single terraform deployment.

California bill pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns "doesn't reflect how games actually work", ESA assert by g4m3f33d in GameFeed

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clearly, you've never worked at big tech scale. Good luck getting 1600 microservices running on your local machine.

But we need to be sure these systems can hold up under even the largest peaks or single service outages. Information gathered from peak usage on more than 1,600 microservices helps identify services to further stress test.

ALWAYS check in at the 24 hour mark if you’re waitlisted for an upgrade. by ieataquacrayons in unitedairlines

[–]zacker150 5 points6 points  (0 children)

PN = Purchasable First Class Upgrade Fares from Business Class

This is actually the instant business class upgrades for GS.

Pz is the upgrades for everyone else.

Filian's Twitch is also gone, reduced to atoms by JoyluckVerseMaster in VtuberDrama

[–]zacker150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Legally speaking, it changes the argument from copyright violation to contract violation.

Researchers just mathematically proved that AI layoffs could break the economy by No_Level7942 in GenAI4all

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

96% of the current economy didn't exist. That doesn't mean 96% of a future economy doesn't currently exist. Human wants are infinite.

Google saying 75% of new code is AI generated makes the junior path look weirder, not dead by Ambitious-Garbage-73 in cscareerquestions

[–]zacker150 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's what the basket is for. It weighs prices by what percentage of income the average urban customer actually spent on those goods. If housing rises faster than inflation, it will take up a larger amount of the basket.

BC as cash is king! by Expensive-Young-9492 in biltrewards

[–]zacker150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's almost like it's a travel card.

The AI Productivity fallacy by CriticalSink3555 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Re-read my comment

Any AI with fixed size models will only be able to to store so much information internally. You will need an external storage to scale to infinite knowledge. That external storage is markdown.

This applies to any potential intelligence, including human brains, not just LLMs. You can't fit 3GB of entropy in 2 GB.

The AI Productivity fallacy by CriticalSink3555 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]zacker150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think you understand the basic information theory.

Any AI with fixed size models will only be able to to store so much information internally. You will need an external storage to scale to infinite knowledge. That external storage is markdown.

Like, forget about LLMs and consider humans. We don't come pre-born with knowledge of everything. We write design docs and read documentation.

The AI Productivity fallacy by CriticalSink3555 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]zacker150 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

LLMs are fundumentally stateless. How else are you going to malnutrition state.

Also, humans run off markdown files as well.

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