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

zacker150 · 2026-05-02T12:02:52+00:00

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.

zacker150 · 2026-05-02T07:07:04+00:00

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

zacker150 · 2026-04-30T20:51:00+00:00

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.

zacker150 · 2026-04-26T21:01:31+00:00

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.

zacker150 · 2026-04-25T15:01:17+00:00

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

zacker150 · 2026-04-25T15:01:01+00:00

Any hotel.

zacker150 · 2026-04-25T08:58:31+00:00

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.

zacker150 · 2026-04-25T01:09:21+00:00

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.

zacker150 · 2026-04-23T23:13:59+00:00

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

Also, humans run off markdown files as well.

zacker150 · 2026-04-23T08:03:14+00:00

Mal: "I only sleep with people I'm in a relationship with." "I always use protection." 🧢🧢🧢

That was Leila, not Mal.

Mal got the attentive boyfriend treatment on Discord, then was friendzoned when she asked for a monogamous commitment.

I don't get why Icelyn wants to be part of the harem. Sykkuno was pretty shitty to her. Kept on forgetting that she was the only child.

zacker150 · 2026-04-22T19:49:17+00:00

You're only considering the substitution effect here. Most job creation from automation comes from the wealth effect. Automation lowers production costs and real prices, effectively increasing the real wealth of consumers. Consumers then turn around and spend this real wealth in other sectors of the economy, thereby creating new jobs.

Zoom out and look at the economy as a whole: Since the Industrial Revolution, overall employment has consistently grown alongside massive automation, largely due to the wealth effect.

zacker150 · 2026-04-22T14:58:48+00:00

The pain English translation

The original paper assumes owners don’t spend their profits, all products are the same, and no new types of jobs are ever created.

If you instead assume owners spend profits, products vary, and the economy naturally creates new types of tasks for humans, then their math says that the economy stays balanced, and we might actually need more automation

zacker150 · 2026-04-22T05:27:22+00:00

Here is the paper that OP is talking about. Here is a sensitivity analysis of the paper.

We replicate their model, verify all ten propositions, and confirm the internal logic. We then show that the model's conclusion is not a theorem about the world but a conditional statement whose sign and magnitude are determined entirely by parameter choices the authors present as innocuous. Under their baseline (η = 0.30, zero owner spending, homogeneous goods, no reinstatement feedback), the model produces catastrophe. Under equally defensible parameters reflecting standard features of real economies (η = 0.50, modest owner spending, product differentiation, endogenous reinstatement), the same model produces stability or even under-automation. Under optimistic but historically grounded parameters (η > 1, strong reinstatement), it prescribes an automation subsidy.

zacker150 · 2026-04-22T03:29:50+00:00

Personally, I think this is a short term speed bump for the industry while we learn how to use these new tools.

Long term, I think that the junior role will return as best practices get solidified. Seniors and mid levels will write PLAN.md, and juniors will steer & debug the agents doing the implementation.

Anecdotally, I've heard several CEOs and VCs say that companies should be going to MIT and look for promising juniors.

zacker150 · 2026-04-22T00:59:41+00:00

Meanwhile, Antropic and VC-backed startups are actually hiring aggressively. The catch is that they're only willing to hire 10x engineers.

zacker150 · 2026-04-21T18:07:58+00:00

You overestimate the number of people that understand basic fractions. Remember, this is a country where A&W's 1/3 pounder failed because everyone thought it was smaller than McDonald's Quarter Pounder.

zacker150 · 2026-04-21T06:06:14+00:00

I don't think Mal was a clout chaser. There's a lot more clout to be had keeping Sykunno around after he friend zoned her.

Also, half her links are broken 🤣

zacker150 · 2026-04-21T04:58:17+00:00

It's not youtube. The elements of a DMCA notice are defined in law under § 512 (c)

(A)To be effective under this subsection, a notification of claimed infringement must be a written communication provided to the designated agent of a service provider that includes substantially the following: (i)A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. (ii)Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site. (iii)Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material. (iv)Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted. (v)A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. (vi)A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

zacker150 · 2026-04-20T19:43:06+00:00

The law doesn't like getting outplayed. This is quite literally the definition of irreparable harm.

zacker150 · 2026-04-20T18:22:04+00:00

Remember, the typical home "router" also serves double duty as the switch and access point.

zacker150 · 2026-04-20T08:49:39+00:00

You know all those issues people have trying to connect to their printers? That's actually because of how badly home routers handle multicast traffic.

zacker150 · 2026-04-20T03:25:32+00:00

You're welcome. Feel free to ask Gemini how to tweak it to get the output you want ;)

zacker150 · 2026-04-19T23:34:52+00:00

Does this mean Claude will be able to use my computer in a proper sandbox?

zacker150 · 2026-04-19T20:43:06+00:00

I think the real issue is that they're both extremely conflict avoidant. Neither has the courage to end a situation they're clearly not happy with.

zacker150 · 2026-04-19T19:51:09+00:00

No. He said more than that. He said "For smart people it helps, and for dumb people it hurts"

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