skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Washington is doing a lot better despite not being the biggest route into our largest trading partner or flush with oil money. Texas is among the worst states in the union.

Texas is one of the worst for human rights to the point where I wouldn't even drive through. They had to make a law that their police have to stop searching drivers buttholes without cause and yet they keep getting sued for doing random cavity searches. The last run through my parents got the third degree with implication that they might be immigrants. My fathers roots are in England/Scotland and both families have lived here for longer than the US has been the US.

It is the among the worst for reproductive rights with lawmakers wanting to punish women for abortions obtained in other states, punish women who even drive through anti abortion counties on their way to leave the state, and let any interested party including woman's rapists collect a bounty on the head of their victim in a brazen attempt to avoid getting the law thrown out.

Because of this and other factors its drastically short of doctors having almost the worst ratio of doctors to patients in the US

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/rankings-and-ratings/s...

It has more people without health insurance than any other state and its getting worse in recent years.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/pe...

It is among the worst for law and order. It's AG is a criminal several times over.

https://apnews.com/article/paxton-indictment-texas-d5e57fc6c...

It allows a certain county judge selected by Trump handle all the most insanely biased cases that nobody in their right mind would take handing out rulings binding citizens in other states. These cases are so ridiculous that the 6v3 conservative Supreme Court has to keep stepping in to put down this court's militantly stupid decisions.

It is among the worst for democracy. It is working to try to pass a law that all statewide offices would have to be held by candidates who won the majority of the majority of its counties not its population. For reference Texas has 256 counties some with as few as a few dozen people and the majority of the majority could constitute as little as 4% of its population. It wants to enshrine rural republican rule at the expense of anything else.

It filed a lawsuit last go round asking the surpreme court to literally throw out everyone's votes and essentially appoint Trump President.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/11/texas-lawsuit-suprem...

Despite being hard on crime its murder rate is slightly higher than average while its incarceration level is much higher than average.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/research/us-criminal-justi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_intentional_homicide_rate
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/technology/general-motors...

This is the reporting bad drivers to insurance companies part, not the cameras part.
Mail clients kinda do that (or at least they can, if asked to). Also, why would academic papers need JS anyway? CSS and images, I can get, but beyond that there's no need for anything fancier.
Style attribute lacks a selector (“color:red” vs. “.comp {color:red}”), forbidding the most useful use case. Shadow dom is an inspection nightmare used only by a few progressive web purists. Style.css is an untyped incoherent spaghetti. There’s no really good place for an element style in current implementation.
Occupancy rates for MFDs that used RealPage are still below the historical failure thresholds. The only problem lower rents would create is reducing the return for investors.

If the government only bails out small landlords, that's fine, otherwise it'll open up the market to complete capture by large investors.
I can't believe that baising fines on the wealth of the criminal could possibly lead to zero innovation.

There's a difference between risk taking in doing something new and innovation and risk taking of riding the line of legal/illegal. I for one, would much prefer an environment where businesses were a little more afraid of breaking the law to exploit people/environments/other businesses/etc.
Unfortunately, it's very unequal: A firm with a 5% profit margin would be hit way harder by "10% of global revenue" than a firm with 50% profit margin.
> A lot of these projects are financed with rent projections as part of their valuation to lock in loans and attract investors

I would like to see proof of this. All the commercial backed mortgages I have been privy to come with debt service coverage ratios, which can trigger default if total cash flow is not as expected.

Some rent is always more than no rent. Lenders aren’t fooled by property owners earning less money, but advertising higher than market rate rents to prospective tenants.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dscr.asp

The only question is if the lender wants to trigger the default and take over dealing with the property, and many times they don’t, and prefer to renegotiate the terms of the loan.
Tom7's relatively small oeuvre of videos are frequently re-posted here and just as frequently re-upvoted, and they deserve to be.

Discovering what the video is about as it discursively unfolds is part of the joy. There comes a moment in every video (multiple moments, even) where you'll suddenly be like, "wait, I can't believe what you appear to be suggesting", only to find out that not only is he suggesting it, he actually implemented it. There are few video creators who are as attuned to the hacker mindset as Tom7; I decline to summarize and instead strongly recommend you watch it and find out for yourself. It's a video about the logistics of juggling a trillion chainsaws, in a manner of speaking.
Excuse my ignorance, is this different from Andrej Karpathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

Anyway I will watch it tonight before bed. Thank you for sharing.
Banks aren’t in need of government bailouts here the 1.5T is more for shock value than an actual issue. “$95 billion of the US properties in distress or at risk of becoming so”

If hypothetically 50B in loans goes bad that’s a minor issue spread across the industry.
"Dutch startup Blendle's early success in Europe has already attracted 550,000 users, the majority millennials, to read and pay for individual articles from publications like The Economist, The New York Times, and The Washington Post."
https://www.businessinsider.com/blendle-to-launch-in-the-us-...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/11/post-the-latest-twitter-al...
> Greece
According to the 2020 US Census, about 80% live in an urban area. However, the definition is not exactly what people think of when you say “urban”.

In 2020, the census lists 2,611 urban areas, including areas with a few thousand people.

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...

Shouldn’t be too hard to break this down with a more colloquial definition (say, areas over 500k or 750k people). I’m just not at a real computer :)
> if WhatsApp is shut down in the EU, for instance, it will cause massive problems, loss of life and money, etc.

Please explain how WhatsApp shutting down in the EU would cause "massive problems, loss of life and money" rather than e.g. Signal having two weeks of instability due to 200M new users and that being the end of it?
That’s likely considered when assessing the fines.
> Most people try to minimize taxes

No, most people don't care about their tax the way wealthy people do. I ended up in a wealthy family through marriage and I can tell you nobody I my original social circle spent even a fraction of the effort the wealthy do when it comes to taxes.
I noticed that the Firefox Multi-Account Containers addon isn't working for me on Zen browser. I'm using it via Flatpak. Does anyone else have this issue?
We Don't Build Beautifully
> I can't imagine startups will ever even attempt to meet these regulations.

Most of DMA targets only "gatekeepers" (i.e. big tech), not small startups.
Branding is important and should be done by professionals. It makes my eyes hurt to look at the original logo - the 80K was money well spent.
The industry has spent decades moving revenue worldwide via complex financial engineering to avoid taxation. This is the end result of that innovation.
It’s actually much easier for you to “shelter gains” in this way: You don’t have to worry about estate taxation.

Anyone can borrow against assets (securities and otherwise) they own. Home equity loans are big business, and securities-backed loans aren’t obscure below $300M.

Frankly, it’s the “but the ultra-rich get special low-interest loans” bit that’s the most unbelievable part of the write up. But it’s also the keystone: Without these magic loans, it’s just standard estate planning (which is all about tradeoffs of taxes vs. control) + a likely suboptimal investment strategy.
But how many of them have hot data centers to offer? Google is a direct competitor, so Oracle or Amazon are kinda the only other two big options to offer them what MS is right now.

If MS drops OpenAI, it's not like they can just seamlessly pivot to running their own data centers with no downtime, even with pretty high investment.
> Who do you know that gladly pays more than they legally have to pay?

What paying more in taxes gets more done in the things paid by taxes.

It's like there is a direct dependency between a money received from the taxes and the things made/built on the tax money.
… that’s just X (f.k.a Twitter).

BlueSky doesn’t have meme pages relentlessly spamming OnlyFans models, promoted via the broken blue checkmark system.
https://archive.ph/rREC3
Besides, isn't it over the top expensive for a few seconds of video ? Election is a factor but even without it I don't know if there's much of a business plan there, what would they have to charge, $20 / minute? Then how many minutes of experimenting before you get a decent result?
"In response to this data breach we are offering you free Experian plastic surgery services for the next year."
I kept seeing this behaviour on some websites in to the late 00s and possibly even in to the early 10s, your comment mede me realise I haven't seen it recently though :(
Thanks! Look forward to getting it when it is released.
That's what they would be if the web continued to consist of only static documents, as it used to in 1991. Unfortunately, people figured they can run a program on each request and feed its stdout to client browser, ruining bookmarks in the process. Later, they figured they could run code client-side, adding final nail to the coffin of browser bookmarks.

Bookmarks suck at being bookmarks because they're only an URL in a database. However the site looked like when you saved the bookmark, it's unlikely it'll look the same when you visit (you lose scroll position for starters) - hell, it may not exist at all anymore.

Tabs keep state. That's what makes them good at being bookmarks. You switch to the tab, you see the site as it was when you left it before; you don't lose any state (at least within hours to days of a single session; tab unloading and session save/restore complicates this, but they still restore more state than normal bookmarks do).
That's not sufficient to be unsurprising.

What if a sum has more than 2 consecutive Fibonacci numbers? That doesn't cause a problem, but it takes a little more work to sort it out.
X to get Y happens.

A tech company using a blog to get whatever imaginary consent from random anonymous privacy-aware individuals is so many levels of unhinged that it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Throwing chainsaws in space is probably a more reasonable "juggle" that for example using blockchains as mass storage. It's also probably cheaper for the environment to boot.
It's even more modal than that, 4o accepts text, image, audio, and video input, and produces text, image, or audio output. Video input isn't available yet and was only briefly demoed. Image and video output haven't been demonstrated publicly at all yet.

Rapid productization isn't the priority of most ML devs.
Do Rolexes have a subscription? This is a clever marketing stunt, but doesn't really add up. Rolexes are appreciated by many because as long as they aren't abused, they'll require a little servicing but usually not much. Mice and keyboards are total wear items, more like car brake pads.

Think about it, you use a watch mostly by looking at it. Computer peripherals are constantly tapped, dragged, clicked, bumped, sometimes a lot while playing a game or writing a document.

You might as well try to sell me a "forever smartphone", haha.

20 years ago Logitech was the only mainstream manufacturer for quality peripherals, and they delivered at a very, very competitive price point. Microsoft was good but expensive.
Nowadays there are tons of good manufacturers, thanks China. Sadly, Logitech is probably feeling the pinch. I really loved their mega bass computer sound systems in college, like the Z-540 and Z-680. It was tight for a dorm room. I actually still have the 680, but it's in the garage. Incredibly it still works great when I tested it earlier this year.
In Soviet times, if you didn't include a quote from Lenin or Marx or at least the latest Party Conference in your article, you could be seen as dangerous dissident, pretty much regardless of the topic. The quote could be completely unrelated to the rest of the content, but as long as it's there, you've paid your respects and you're ok, and everybody knew this is just one of the things that is done.

Looks like it's more universally human than one would like to admit.
Have private security work the private event. Send a token number of police along, at the city's expense (the same number they'd normally assign to an area with 50,000 people out and about, so the sports event isn't sucking disproportionate resources).

If the stadium is such a hotbed of crime and disorder that private security can't handle it and they really need to escalate constantly to involve armed law enforcement, stop allowing it to host games at all.
That's what I thought as well, but then I saw their competition. Their ratio of bragging vs doing their homework is actually top notch.
I'd like to see that too, but time and time again we've seen that:

a) laypeople aren't usually moved by privacy violations more abstract than someone physically watching you do something.

b) most people aren't willing to don practical accessories that noticably change the perception of your face unless it emphasizes qualities considered sexy.

c) safety gear generally isn't considered sexy

I think that this stuff would be perceived like wearing a physical bike helmet for your data privacy with all the cachet of Google Glass.
That's a Fibonacci ratio. But smaller Fibonaccis are less work for less accuracy.
https://archive.ph/QdyLy
What a silly thing to say. Engineering is just problem solving.
That is wonderful that there are Bitcoin ATMs. The profit generated by the owners of those ATMs isn't a scam, it is real revenue.

The scam is comparing some ATMs to what is happening in AI. Trillions of dollars are going into AI and actually useful things like self driving cars are coming out.
Having worked elsewhere, this. Every part of it. Especially the "barely functional".

Different parts of the company working together is hard/rare enough. Them conspiring together... forget it.
LLM Fine-Tuning Overview
My eyes hurt from the second logo
This is a horrible idea. I have mice which last 20 years, and keyboards too.

Unlike the Logitech's CEO says, that's not hard. What's hard for me, is phone home to use a mouse. What's hard for me, is using Logitech's drivers and closed source junk in Linux.

No thanks.

And I can see Logitech rolling this out, and reducing the quality of their non-subscription product. Well good luck with that Logitech, all over the world legal jurisdictions designed to combat planned obsolescence.

Quebec literally says a thing "should last as long as is reasonable" and yes it is purposefully vague. Examples are that if you do one load of laundry a week, a washer should last decades, but maybe only 10 to 20 years for a family doing daily washes. And that expensive should last longer than cheap.

We meed more of this.

We need this everywhere.

Looking at you LG fridges.
Even so, you shouldn't be waking all 24 cores, the GPU, etc. just to record video. Let the cameras DMA into their buffers and wake up a single core when the buffers hit a high water line. The core only needs to be awake long enough to queue up the writes to storage and then it can go back to sleep.
I expect most nations similarly forbid jamming public critical infrastructure.
No, that doesn't even make sense as a concept. Tumblr has its own templated theme functionality. Users can pick one of many thousands of existing themes, or fully customize one from scratch.

So it sounds like Automattic would need to implement a conversion layer between Tumblr's template language and data model, and the corresponding ones in WP. Their functionality and data models also don't line up 1:1 conceptually, so this is no easy task.
This explanation gets very hand-wavy when it comes to explaining how much the lawyers and investment bankers get paid.

Think about this: how much would you pay to Bobby to avoid paying $1000 to your Uncle Sam? You are technically better off even if you pay $999…

I have no doubt that Mortimer Silverspoon III is better off, and that the taxpayers as a whole are worse off. But I bet that the real winners are the partners at Quahog Sachs and Dewey Cheatem & Howe LLP. The complex paperwork and the decades between origination and conclusion probably make it nearly impossible for anyone else to know who came out on top. But we definitely know who lost.
Yes, but demand for these chips went through the roof because of AI. If Google is on this list it's because they're using them for AI, not because they've got a secret project rendering an insane number of 3D images or something.
This kind of an explanation overlooks the obvious issue: you're exposing yourself to asset valuation risk. We don't tax unrealized gains for that exact reason.

Let's say you have $10M in in index funds. You don't want to cash out and pay capital gains, so you get a $5M credit line with your stock as a collateral. Then, there's a market crash, your collateral is all of sudden worth just $4M, and you have a bank knocking on your door - but you already spent $5M on a McMansion. Now what?

You can opt for "risk-free" assets, but then, if they're truly risk-free, they're probably not appreciating in a way that would make this tax gamble worth your time.
Throw him to the ground most roughly! Persecute, villify and downvote the cheeky scoundrel!
> 83% of USA population live in urban areas

If you combine dense urban areas with suburbs. It's about 33% in dense areas and 55% in suburban areas. Which actually doesn't improve the driving situation.

> and that proportion is still steadily growing

Which is why I specifically mentioned motorcycles. In areas of the world with even greater urban density than the USA there are a lot of these on the road.

> The same trends apply everywhere else in the world as well.

These trends are influenced by economic policy and socioeconomic mobility of the population, which are not similar everywhere, so expectations do need to be tailored to them.

Editing to add, I actually think we'll see a new class of Drivers License, one that allows you to operate semi autonomous vehicles, and one that allows you to operate fully manual vehicles with a higher level of continuous written and on the road testing required to hold it. Which is a reasonable and non discriminatory solution to the problem.
At this point I'd skip Lucee which has most of the legacy baggage Adobe ColdFusion does and look at BoxLang. https://boxlang.io/

"A modern, dynamically and loosely typed scripting language for multiple runtimes. For the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) giving you tons of Object-Oriented (OO), Functional Programming (FP) Constructs, and dynamic Metadata Programming (MP)."
If I were a billionaire I would avoid as much tax as possible and invest an equivalent amount in things like food banks and natural space conservation because the government is absolute shit at those things.
I'd like to see "10% of revenue or 100% of profit, whichever is greater" (scaled accordingly, i.e. 20%/200% for repeat offenses).
Lotsa places (e.g. Wealthfront) offer a High Yield Savings Account (HYSA) that has checking attached.

I used to know why the US has this odd situation that checking accounts typically do not offer good interest. I guess regulatory capture: lobbying by the banks.
Yes, I think this is a failure of the system but not a failed system. I will go to grocery store this weekend and buy meat to serve to my family and I will not for even a split second assume the meat will hurt them or me, because in a country of 350 million people, these types of things are very very rare.

Our food safety systems work and can be trusted and when a failure happens we talk about it, it makes the news, and changes happen. I really believe that.
IMHO the problem is the majority of new multifamily construction is rentals only. Rentals ran by international firms suck the life out of communities, as people cannot be part of a local community when rent hikes can force them to move every couple of years.

We need large scale multifamily housing for sale.
I mean, how much money did the NFT companies and Tulip vendors make? Nvidia isn't OpenAI. They're selling products that the bubble is built on, not the bubble itself.

How much money is OpenAI or Anthropic making? Because that's what people are thinking is speculative value.

My position has always been that Gemini/ChatGPT/Claude are all pretty great at a cost of Free, and grow increasingly questionable past that. My work is already limiting how many ChatGPT users we can afford with their price increases, and I'm pretty sure OpenAI is still not profitable. If ChatGPT is $50/month as a breakeven cost for them, how many people/companies will buy it then? Most jobs I've been at won't pay for JetBrains licenses that cost way less per head.

I feel like the best comparison is something like Uber or AirBnB where it's easy to be excited about it when all the services are crazy discounted by free VC money, but when they have to start turning a profit, they're back to actually competing with other tools.
Hungary did the same this month but interesting how it plays out here. Because the current meta of the opposition is "everything Orbán does is bad" so this policy also became an issue like that and every non-Fidesz aligned party, teachers trade union etc is opposing it.
What do small/big UFOs look like...?
I left Xitter about 6 weeks ago and went all in on Bluesky. Took time to give feedback to the algo, but it's doing much better these days. I don't feel like I'm missing out on much, you'll get the same news & events on Bluesky. A lot of people who were scared of losing their following are reporting more, better engagement with lower follower counts.

What I really like about it is the ATProto, which while imperfect, seems like the best current design for the next gen of social media built on a federated foundation.

- DID for identity

- PDS for data mobility

- algo feed & moderation choice, you can build your own and anyone on Bluesky can use it (https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderati...) If you didn't see, they recently added anti-toxicity features and are looking towards community notes

- Bluesky is the twitter like view, but you can build anything on ATProto and leverage the shared infra

I'm personally working on a "reddit" like view of the Bluesky network. Not a reddit clone, but a different way to organize the same information around topics, news events, and/or links. One could also design their own Lexicon and build something very close to reddit. One of the cool things is that all the objects for all apps are stored into a single SQLite database per user. So if you want to move your data to a different host, all of the apps, content, and connections survive that migration.
How many hours does it take to make a friend?