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by sitkack | 2025-08-01 16:54:16+00:00
Lol, I explained the breakthroughs and ... you go directly to area. Is this some sort of "don't think of the elephant" issue?

The ability here is that it can do storage and computation directly in the optical domain, this immensely reduces latency of crossing from photons to electrons and back to light again. Exactly what you want in a network switch.

I made no comment about it being used in a cpu.
by nyeah | 2025-08-01 16:54:18+00:00
If it's meant to be an example, then it's wildly cherry-picked. Very few of the nation's homeowners live in NYC or SF. Even fewer home buyers are serious about those markets. The exceptions are often in co-ops where down payment %s are much larger. It is not accurate, it's not even rational, to use those markets as reference points for a national discussion.
by esbranson | 2025-08-01 16:54:27+00:00
> Are you ignorant or a troll? … You could also be an ignorant troll.

I'm a significant Wikipedian, so maybe.

> Are you really conflating civil asset forfeiture, where no person is convicted of a crime but their property is seized and not returned, with criminal fines which are imposed after a conviction?

No. They are independent and serve different purposes. Criminal fines are meant to be taken against legally possessed assets. When someone steals $10 million dollars, the $10 million dollars is seized via civil asset forfeiture. Hence when National Propaganda Radio reports some white collar criminal was fined $10,000 dollars for stealing $10 million dollars, what they're not telling you is that the $10 million dollars is going to be seized via a civil judicial process, regardless of any criminal judicial process. Otherwise it's easy to be confused when white collar criminals almost always get fines less than they stole. All criminals would have to do is steal more than the maximum fine, and NPR happily lets massive amounts of leftists think so.
by em-bee | 2025-08-01 16:55:31+00:00
It is but it isn't.

ok, yes, i was just talking about the simple case. you are right that the issue is more complicated, so i actually agree with you. i am talking about similar problems here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44757142

i am looking forward to your post. i added your blog to my rss reader
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-01 16:55:46+00:00
Due to first-past-the-post voting in the US, I have at most two realistic options for my vote.

For the majority of the problems I see that I believe the government should be addressing, one side says "that's not a real problem" and the other side offers a really bad solution that they also won't realistically be able to make law.
by CPLX | 2025-08-01 16:55:47+00:00
It’s Andreesens all the way down.

The abundance movement is not a grassroots group of people, it’s a lab creation of billionaire/donor types. Andreesen is one of them, that’s the context for the link. Reid Hoffman is another.

These people want to find a way to distract from the appeal of progressive policies of the kind put forward by Lina Khan and others who actually attempt to directly take on the concentrated economic power that’s strangling normal people in this country. They’re the ones doing the strangling.

It’s propaganda, a PR project by oligarchs. It’s fundamentally done in bad faith and there’s absolutely nothing obligating me to take them at face value.
by arp242 | 2025-08-01 16:56:03+00:00
"We believe that paedophiles are using an area of internet the size of Ireland, and through this they can control keyboards." – Syd Rapson MP in 2001.

But really, with 650 MPs there's bound to be a few that are a bit silly at least some of the time. You can hear some wild takes at the local pub too (or nextdoor), but that doesn't mean everyone in your area is a moron.
by anonzzzies | 2025-08-01 16:56:17+00:00
As a pupil of Dijkstra and seeing at least some rise in formal verification because of the modern tooling and as a follower of Lean (and Agda, Coq, Idris* etc), I hope it will be at least a strive to deliver parts of proofs in code verifiable form. More machine verifiable building blocks will lead to a bettering of everything.
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by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-08-01 16:56:40+00:00
In my opinion, they’re legally and morally treated as a person because it works in society, not because it expresses something fundamental about child development. It’s not an argument against abortion.

>I'm wary of classifying any group as partial people.

I think you need to in certain areas if you want to understand the world better is all. A braindead person isn’t the same as a non-braindead person, and there’s likely a continuum between them. My response is to suggest assigning a reasonable point between the two past which someone is a person.
by IFC_LLC | 2025-08-01 16:56:52+00:00
Exactly. Qualiflation. We have substituted the inflation with the inflation of quality. Yes, the AC in 80x used to cost $2k, and thank pete, in the current market it costs only $2.5k. But if you compare the quality, you will get the idea that that old AC is about $15k right now, cause it was so damn good and unbreakable.
by rprend | 2025-08-01 16:56:58+00:00
I think it’s important to note that this is asking rent, not what people are paying on average. Landlords do tricks to make rental history appear more expensive than it was, and every online posting should be read as aspirational price, not a real one. Listing inflation helps increase price expectations for the future, and has helped drive the crazy rent inflation NYC has seen post covid (exceeding other expensive metros like SF).

For example- my current apartment had a crazy high lease concession. The paper rent is 30% higher than what I pay. The only inconvenience is that i had to pay a security deposit at the paper rent, not actual rent. It’s like a software business giving 2 months free then multiplying MRR by 12, not taking churn into account. I am moving out after a year.
by 44za12 | 2025-08-01 16:57:29+00:00
I pay for Cursor, OpenAI and kimi (to use with Claude Code), OpenAI is good with quickly refining my thoughts, Cursor’s subscription I’m reconsidering to cancel bought it for Claude but the rate limits are making it impossible for me to find it useful. Kimi is what truly surprises me, Claude code shows this conversation costed you $500 (based on Opus usage which is mapped to kimi k2) while I’ve barely spent $2. I have Ollama as well, majorly to quickly test small models that could be improved for our usecase through finetuning.
by sibeliuss | 2025-08-01 16:57:45+00:00
I'm a highly experienced (ie very sr) dev with an uncommon ability to focus, am highly productive, and possess broad systems level thinking from BE to FE to design. Can deal with on the job stress very very well, and can work with teams of all sizes. Yet: I've never once passed a live coding test. From my own example -- sorry! -- this model simply does not work.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-01 16:57:46+00:00
Cool but ......

This is my feeling of vibe coding this kind of stuff so far. It's never really good, it's just kind of acceptable because it was vibe codeded.

The way the fish are stretched where they gets sliced into bands is not something I think most humans would generally choose to do. With a few characters of code change you could at least stretch each column so it scales to the next column.

I know vibe coding will continue to get better. There's a bunch of people at my work that have a vibe-coding chat where they show off their latest creation. Most of them they'd done in Gemini Canvas. The prompts are usually 1 or 2 paragraphs like "Make a 3d tower defense game with joypad input where you move a character using the joypad and can place towers by pressing the button. ....." And it spits out a working game but it's only interesting because it was vibe coded, not because the game is actually in any-way-shape-or-form interesting, good, pretty.

Also, I appreciate that this game had a fish recognizer but I also found it super scary. I tried to make to make a sunfish and it was like "not a fish". I don't want bad AI judging what is and isn't acceptable.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-08-01 16:58:12+00:00
This is nonsense for most jobs, and it's nonsense here too. Very rarely are any jobs treated on pure merit of good vs bad performance. Ultimately it ends up being mostly the luck of having reasonable management and good opportunities. Reasonable management is very hard to come by in the restaurant industry.

And either way, if you wanted to believe the merit-based approach, you're talking maybe the top 5% of servers anywhere making "good" money. Wage theft in the industry is colossal.

I will be pleasantly surprised if the removal of tax on tips does absolutely anything to move the needle for the bottom 95% of servers.

The restaurant industry has been lobbying for this to further avoid the pressure of raising wages and the complication of reporting taxes — the reasoning is out there in the open.

This is the sort of modern shell game where corporate interests further obscure costs to trick the lower class into thinking it's a good deal. It's akin to the math on maintenance Uber drivers tend to fail to do when they're calculating their wages... they're absolutely getting hosed and most of them don't even understand how.
by bitshiftfaced | 2025-08-01 16:58:15+00:00
What makes you sure of that? From the article,

> Deep Think pushes the frontier of thinking capabilities by using parallel thinking techniques. This approach lets Gemini generate many ideas at once and consider them simultaneously, even revising or combining different ideas over time, before arriving at the best answer.

This doesn't exclude the possibility of using multiple agents in parallel, but to me it doesn't necessarily mean that this is what's happening, either.
by xp84 | 2025-08-01 16:58:19+00:00
> those who were angry about being “forced” to replace their 30-pin peripherals

> many of these same people would be professing outrage and demanding

As you may have guessed I'm pretty critical of Apple (despite giving them a ton of money) but I'd classify the above critics as idiots (and given the media loves a story like that, a lot of that outrage is entirely made up for clicks). To the extent Apple cares what anyone thinks (and I doubt they do), they surely know that any decision they make will be attacked by this type of knee-jerk silliness.

Media: Apple keeping their proprietary Lightning connector for MFi revenue reasons and because they don't want to be compatible or make it easier to switch to Android.

Also Media: Apple forcing everyone to switch from Lightning to USB to force them to buy all new expensive accessories! Greed!
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-01 16:58:25+00:00
”Cairo applied to 10 graduate programs. Six rejected her because she didn’t have a college degree. Two admitted her, but then higher-ups in those universities’ administrations overrode those decisions."

This is both unsurprising and shocking to me at the same time.

For institutions of allegedly pure higher learning in a field where it's known that youth is where the advancement happens, the fact 80% axle wrap over a piece of paper that, let's face it, in modern times of grade inflation is pretty much worthless of anything beyond money and sitting in a seat for four years.
by danudey | 2025-08-01 16:58:42+00:00
Tips are still income. If we increase the minimum wage so that people can afford to live then I can't see any reason why we wouldn't tax tips also.

If you're making $2.50/hr plus tips then I think you deserve a break and not taxing tips is a sensible break. A better solution would be to prevent restaurants from paying their people poverty wages, and if servers aren't risking starvation and homelessness if they go without tips for a week then why would you not include their tips in their regular income?

Raise the minimum wage, require servers to be paid minimum wage, and enforce a straightforward tax on people's income that doesn't distinguish wage from tips. Maybe also increase the 0% tax bracket to something more reasonable, like $20-40k, just to simplify things for people who are struggling to subsist while we're at it.
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by xinweihe | 2025-08-01 16:58:51+00:00
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by shaftway | 2025-08-01 16:59:29+00:00
There's a good read that was put out by OK Cupid (the dating site) 15 years ago outlining exactly this. They had a lot of personality questions that they'd use to match people, so they had a lot of this data correlated with a lot of demographics.

One of the interesting takeaways was about dating compatibility (they are a dating site after all). They found that republicans tended to pair well with other republicans, more than any other group paired with itself, and far better than democrats paired with other democrats.

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by verall | 2025-08-01 17:00:01+00:00
I knew someone who worked a graveyard shift at a Waffle House in NC. After their first month, when tips were distributed, they did not make the federal minimum wage, so they had to request additional pay to get to minimum wage (IIRC it was not automatic).

Waffle house then opened an "inquiry" since if they weren't making minimum wage through tips, it must have been because their service was poor (of course it's actually because it was a weekday graveyard shift).

They got their additional $30 or whatever and were then let go.

So while I agree it is illegal to pay less than federal minimum wage, even with tips, but in practice the system is built such that for poor workers in poor areas, they will frequently make less than minimum wage.

Although probably much less nowadays since the $7.25 is still the federal minimum wage and it's pretty hard to find people desperate enough to work for that little money since recent inflation.
by MADEinPARIS | 2025-08-01 17:00:02+00:00
In the 20th century, currency was the unit of power. In the 21st, it may be model weights.

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Core thesis: Model weights aren't just software artifacts — they encode values, access, and control. Inference is becoming governance. Alignment is becoming diplomacy.

We examine: • The AI supply chain as chokepoint warfare (compute, cooling, and control) • Inference policy as foreign policy: what a model says is what a state allows • China's "middle-stack strategy" vs. the West's modular API empire • The emergence of a multipolar AI order: open weights, local fine-tunes, sovereign SDKs • Why the next hegemon may not print money — it may export weights

Would love thoughts from HN readers working on AI infra, geopolitics, open-source models, or alignment policy.

Full essay here → https://mateopetel.substack.com/p/red-chips-blue-models-ai-a...

Happy to answer questions or dive deeper into any thread.
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by ncruces | 2025-08-01 17:00:18+00:00
At this point, I've also basically abandoned my Google Play apps. I simply cannot afford the time to keep them up to date for no good purpose.

And it's absurd. They were a perfectly sustainable “business” with a single unobtrusive banner ad (no tracking, no permissions aside from internet), that was more than enough to cover server costs indefinitely, for around a million monthly active users. The ad free versions costed $2 but was actually less financially attractive to me (I only created it to give the 1% of users that said they wanted it the option).

They are replaced by apps with full screen ads, trackers and subscriptions.
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by 827a | 2025-08-01 17:00:24+00:00
Similar complaints are happening all over reddit with the Claude Code $200/mo plan and Cursor. The companies with deep VC funding have been subsidizing usage for a year now, but we're starting to see that bleed off.

I think the primary concern of this industry right now is how, relative to the current latest generation models, we simultaneously need intelligence to increase, cost to decrease, effective context windows to increase, and token bandwidths to increase. All four of these things are real bottlenecks to unlocking the "next level" of these tools for software engineering usage.

Google isn't going to make billions on solving advanced math exams.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-08-01 17:00:46+00:00
An example of the Builder pattern in the wild: https://github.com/bikram990/PyScep/blob/8d80bc03368ea8dc6ea...

...especially annoying if it's only used in one continuous chain: https://github.com/bikram990/PyScep/blob/8d80bc03368ea8dc6ea...