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Certainly! We’re building https://repejo.se/en/ which is a fundraising platform for NGO’s. So far we’ve been focusing on the Swedish market and local payment methods.

We’re looking for use cases where AI makes sense, but for some reason determinism seems to be a highly valued trait when moving money around. I feel a bit of FOMO around AI features in our product, but not enough to shoehorn in AI where it doesn’t fit.

I don’t think end users will start building their own SaaS using Claude Code. They don’t want the hassle and it’s not their core expertise. But I think that SaaS prices will decrease since fewer developers can provide more value, which leaves room for new businesses to enter the market.

I don't know how viable business agents are but I don't care, this seems like so much fun. Just noodling around with agents and seeing what they can do. It must be so exciting trying stuff that I guess no one has tried before and just seeing what happens.

I thought that the article would be about if we want AI to be effective, we should write good code.

What I notice is that Claude stumbles more on code that is illogical, unclear or has bad variable names. For example if a variable is name "iteration_count" but actually contains a sum that will "fool" AI.

So keeping the code tidy gives the AI clearer hints on what's going on which gives better results. But I guess that's equally true for humans.

I've always understood synoptic to mean "see together", that is, the synoptic gospels are meant to be seen together, since they are so similar.

From the FAQ:

When will I receive my enemy?

your enemy is already on its way. do not be alarmed.

The unions don’t make any money from forcing a collective bargaining agreement on Tesla. Unions make their money from membership dues, and all workers are free to join, or not to join, a union.

About 1.5 minutes for the build which is Vue 2 + Vuetify + Vite.

Our e2e test with Cypress take about 1.5 hours, but with parallelisation we get this down to about 10 minutes, half of which is setting up the Docker environment.

I don't know exactly how they work, but GDPR has some dispensations when data is used for academic purposes.

There are two taxes that apply to dividends in Sweden. First the company has to pay a corporate tax of 20.7% on profits. After that tax the person receiving the dividend has to pay a capital gains tax of 20%[1]. So the effective tax rate is 36% [2] which is about half (?) of the tax on labor.

Also, companies do not have to pay VAT on services and goods, so it's very common to by work tools and such through the company. Then you're able to buy stuff for untaxed money and without paying VAT. You're not allowed to pay for private living expenses through the company, but I know people that do that, which effectively makes the tax rate 0%. Until you get audited that is. Buying a computer, headset and paying for your phone service through the company is just fine.

[1] note that there is a cap on how large dividends you only pay 20% on, over that cap the tax rate is higher [2] if I know how to do math

It sounds like you only want to build the frontend yourselves? You could take a look at Cube[1] which will probably work fine as a backend for your in-app reporting.

[1] https://cube.dev/

Cube has saved me hundred of hours. I use it as backend for reporting and dashboard inside our SaaS. In our frontend I've build a light-version of PowerBI and I use Cube for a backend. Instead of manipulating SQL directly I use Cube's JSON query format. Kind of difficult to explain, but Cube might be the best piece of software I have ever used.

Maybe a good tagline would be "self-hostable Backend as a Service for data analysis"?

The key emphasis here being that The Gospel of Marcion is possibly the earliest gospel. The wiki article you link to clearly says that is a minority view not in line with early church tradition.

You have nothing to lose but your chains.

But seriously, it's an interesting question and I got some interesting answers when I asked something similar last week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34945428

Does anyone have recommended reading on worker-owned corporations? How would it work in practice? Would it work? Are there any success stories?

I imagine that eg consultancies could be worker-owned.

Could a startup be worker-owned? How would that be different from a typical startup where workers receive stock grants? In the way they are governed?

Depending on your use case you could consider using SQLite. For example storing auth info in a central database and then having one database per customer.

I really don't understand statistics. My interpretation of "the study is under-powered" is that since the study has so small groups it will be difficult to find any result that is statistically significant. But wouldn't that mean that for any effect to be significant the effect size would have to be huge?

My hunch is that if you have a large enough group even very small effect sizes will be significant, but in small groups only the very largest effect sizes will be significant. Or am I simply bad at statistics?

My question is, did you learn the truth from ChatGPT? It seems like it will always give plausible sounding answer, that may or may not be correct. For example I asked it today to enumerate the rights given to all christians as part of the priesthood of believers according to Luther. It enumerate a couple of plausible sounding rights. Unfortunately none of them were correct.

CubeJS is a great piece of software for dynamically generating reports from SQL or other data sources. Queries are either written in their JSON query format or in SQL. But it's headless so you have to build a frontend yourself.

That was a fascinating read. I did my military service in Sweden in 2010 and one of the quotes I remember most clearly from my commanding officers was "Hesitation kills" ("Tvekan dödar" in swedish), and that seems to be a direct heritage of the doctrine outlined in the article.

I'm sorry to hear that. I think Sweden can be a difficult culture to integrate into. If you live near Stockholm and would like to meet up I'd be happy to introduce you to my group of friends. My e-mail is in my profile.

I'm considering contains for frontend development (Vue) at work. What are the biggest benefits in your experience?

One is covered by NDA and the other was a monetary settlement of 300 EUR. The 300 EUR comes from a case in the Swedish Supreme Court where the courd found that minor, but not inconsequential, infringements of GDPR (or technically the EU directive that came before it) should be awarded 300 EUR in damages.

I’ve settled two GDPR cases so far over here in Sweden. Litigated both myself.

I write using Google Docs and agree with you. It’s suboptimal. I’d rather write in markdown, but some Docs features are too nice to give up, mostly sharing the document via a link letting others comment on my draft. If anyone knows of a MD-based solution that has some kind of collab feature I would be very interested.

My experience so far has been good. Two companies that were completely unwilling to take me seriously suddenly became very willing to discuss a settlement after I’d filed my claim with the court. I believe I ought to have won both cases had I gone to verdict. However I also have a gut feeling that the courts view me with some suspicion. In Sweden we don’t really have a tradition of litigation as a way of enforcing rights (we’re getting there) and seeking compensation for immaterial damages is sometimes looked upon as frivolous since these damages would not be compensated in Swedish legal tradition. So these kinds of damages are a new thing. But this is only a gut feeling since I haven’t gone to verdict.

One last thought. In class actions based upon the GDPR the claimants will be legion while the claims will be small. For example you might have 100,000 claimants each entitled to 300 EUR. As a lawyer, how do you manage all these clients. Since the claims are so low you can spend only very little time per client before the cost for your services become much larger than the claim itself. These cases would be difficult to take on “commission” for that reason. Is there some software for managing class actions?

These are two fun games that makes you familiar with the mechanics. Having a good grasp of the fundamentals always helps.

https://flexboxfroggy.com

https://cssgridgarden.com/

For some reason I've ended up an a list of phone numbers that bitcoin and forex scammers call. I get a couple of calls each year. I'm a European citizen so my usual procedure, if I can be bothered, is this:

1. Thank them for calling me and figure out what website they're trying to get me to sign up to.

2. Ask to speak to their data protection officer and try to make a data subject access request. They will try to end the call here but I try to keep them on the line as long as possible. After about ten minutes they usually just hang up mid sentence.

3. Email the info/help/service at their website and make a data subject access request. Point out that they are handling my data without legal basis and I will be making a legal claim against them in Swedish court.

4. They will reply they have 20 000 lawyers on retainer and devote 75 million USD each year to legal fees.

5. Keep it up and let them know you will be filing a claim against them.

6. They stop responding and close down the website.

If every single person that they call made a stink about it their business model would stop working overnight.

Edit: I realised now that I didn't really answer your question. I really hate these scammers so had to get this off my chest. I don't know what to do in your specific situation. Sorry.

Yes, from my European perspective this does seem weird. Sanctions must be ruled by the principle of legality which also prohibits retroactive punishment. So it's not possible to retroactively make something criminal. This principle ought to extend to tax law. I don't understand why they wouldn't just tax future emissions. They would still achieve the same result without being tied up in the courts.

Even if the actions were not illegal they clearly caused damage, and there is ample evidence the companies in question were aware that their action were causing damage. That seems like grounds for a civil action against the companies. If the federal government want compensation for damages caused maybe it should sue the companies in court? Is that even possible?

From my limited understanding this seems really impressive!

I immediately associated this to possible disruption in the cement supply chain that's about to hit Sweden. Cementa, which produces about 75% of Sweden's cement, will no longer be allow to mine limestone on Gotland. Their permit was due to be renewed but due to the low quality of their environmental impact study the court was unable to determine if the mining might impact the local residents groundwater. So just a week or so ago a Swedish court decided Cementa muts cease mining operations some time in October. And as I said this mine/factory produces 75% of Sweden's cement. So there are more problems with the current way of producing cement than just CO2.

Most probably there will be a limestone/cement void in Sweden that needs to be filled, and I'd rather have you doing it than some new limestone mine. Best of luck to you!

And one of the biggest takeaways, not providing a data subject with access to their data can result in damages of 500 euro.

Have you read https://fireinabottle.net/? Some other HNer posted it just a few days ago.

I feel that perhaps this series of articles has gone off the rails a bit so I'm mostly posting it so that I get to read everyone else's comments.