skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In a traditional portfolio with a mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, those seven stocks [Mag 7 stocks] each account for, on average, about the same share of overall portfolio risk as a 1-2% allocation to bitcoin"

- Blackrock, December 2024 [1]

[1] - https://www.blackrock.com/institutions/en-us/insights/portfo...
Since 2019, Texas solar PV has grown around 14x, California around 9x.

While that's a difference, it doesn't really support your claim that "California is stuck ..."
I'm not up to speed on the California court system, but is there some way to establish if a case is sealed?

Wouldn't such a form of lookup, in itself, defeat the point of trying to make it secret?
And Bitcoin isn't backed by a country's economic output and their military.
… I mean, yeah, you’re not _supposed_ to invest in cash. Cash is, essentially, for using. If, say, your pension is in cash, you’ve been very poorly advised.
There are so many attributes that its impossible to list them all, just like there are countless attributes that can distinguish a person, with new ones being discovered everyday.

You mention "personality" and that's a good analogy for a company's cultures - It's the organization's personality. Just like personalities, most are neither good or bad inherently, they're just different. Some personalities are better suited for certain endeavors (eg. extroverts are generally better at sales) and attract certain type of people more than others.

So a "good" culture is one that aligns well with the business objectives and attracts the type of talent that are better aligned with those objectives.

Here's an example:

Apple has a design-led culture. Product designers have tremendous influence on what products get made and how they get made. One way this expresses itself is in how leaders make decisions: Through demos. Which makes perfect sense when your business is reliant on the tactile experience of a product and its look-feel.

Google, OTOH, has an engineering-led culture. A lot of product decisions aren't made via demo, but with data. Leaders may see a demo of an improvement to, say the search engine, but they'll rely on usage data to determine whether it should be rolled out or not.

These examples also demonstrate how one culture might not be the best for certain lines of business. Apple, relative to the other tech giants, is way behind on its implementation of AI, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's because its not data-driven at its very core.
Option three: They get enough drivers to cover most of the peak, and end up paying for some idle time otherwise. Just like almost every company with permanent staff.

Alternatively option two with an explicit, upfront decisions who is actually part-time, so there are no surprises and the rules are known.
Do you have any information about the privacy achievable by Meshtastic?

From a quick glance it looks like it‘s using static NodeIDs derived from the Bluetooth MAC address in the always unencrypted Packet Header.

So not only can you sniff these messages from far away at greatly simplified complexity when comparing to cellular communication, but also tie it to the hardware that you carry with you.

Mesh networks sure have its uses, but I‘d be wary of their offered privacy in the presence of adversaries you could be facing at protests!
Here are tips for running it on macOS using MLX: https://twitter.com/awnihannun/status/1883611098081099914 - using https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M-...
Either harm is bad.

If you release arrest records, people who are innocent have their reputations sullied.

If you don't release arrest records, it's easier for the police to do questionable things (particularly to the poor and otherwise disadvantaged) without it being visible to the media, public, and those that might seek to right these wrongs.

(Why so many arrests that don't lead to charges is interesting. People who prove innocent is one cause, and another is prosecutors only advancing really strong cases to maximize conviction rates is another. These are hard to tell apart.)

So, the right now when we publish arrest records we give police the tool to create some lasting harm to people without strong proof, but make it harder for them to capriciously arrest people or for prosecutors to abuse their discretion.
But why is all that cereal $8? Where's the competition driving prices back down?
> As you say, this case is the exception, but there has to be a decent middle ground that allows exceptions and doesn't allow casual voyeurism.

I agree, although I think that middle ground is elusive :-)

Two things that strike me as easy to do and unequivocally good from a civics/civil liberties perspective: forbidding "mugshot" journalism (cf. Florida) and forbidding "perp walks" by local PDs. Both disproportionately punish the poor/underprivileged and directly promote the kind of reputational sullying that local PDs revel in.
Sounds like a fun item for an escape room.
What's the SOTA for memory-centric computing? I feel like maybe we need a new paradigm or something to bring the price of AI memory down.

Maybe they can take some of those hundreds of billions and invest in new approaches.

Because racks of H100s are not sustainable. But it's clear that increasing the amount of memory available is key to getting more intelligence or capabilities.

Maybe there is a way to connect DRAM with photonic interconnects that doesn't require much data ordering for AI if the neural network software model changes somewhat.

Is there something that has the same capabilities of a transformer but doesn't operate on sequences?

If I was a little smarter and had any math ability I feel like I could contribute.

But I am smart enough to know that just building bigger and bigger data centers is not the ideal path forward.
> even being “a little” behind is a gap that grows exponentially every day

This theory has yet to be demonstrated. As yet, it seems open source just stays behind by about 6-10 months consistently.
That's a different model - the 2.5 Turbo one. Today's release is something different.
I'm not sure what multisearch option does? I would think that it would do the same search on all the places checked but it doesn't seem to do that?
I run a N97 based MiniPC off a power bank when I'm travelling, works fine along with my mobile hotspot.
They were sealed because the abused woman refused to cooperate with the state - a pretty common occurrence with abuse victims and definitely not “proof” that the initial arrest should be hidden from public view.

Everything in the initial report is pretty horrible.
> Not just small newsrooms; Gawker was plenty big.

Yes. It was maddening seeing news orgs everywhere yawn at this process. It was an obvious proving ground event - and today is being more widely deployed.
Keep in mind "Mens rea." If you are implicated in the crimes of the crowd all of these actions may be used to increase the penalties you face. Even if you "trust" the crowd, somehow, you should remember that agent provocateurs exist.

You might ask what attending a large scale protest is intended to achieve and decide for yourself if the personal risks are worth it.
I disagree. We publish the full name of the victims, disclosing their privacy and the one of their families, but we don’t disclose the full name of the criminals.

For their privacy.
Do you know (or does anyone else reading this know) how the lock-stepping works?

It seems like it would be an enormous challenge to keep modern CPUs exactly in lockstep. All of the same interrupts have to occur at exactly the same times and be handled in the same amount of time? (I guess the hardware has to physically ensure that every interrupt is raised on both CPUs at the same time?)
Creating new money helped propel economies since a long time ago. It has downsides but almost universally countries have agreed that the positives are worth the downsides.
> Most people in the U.S. criminal legal system are not accused of serious crimes; more often, they are charged with misdemeanors or non-criminal violations

I've probably committed misdemeanors; I don't think I've committed a felony. If misdemeanors are committed at a higher rate than felonies, and felonies are prosecuted at a higher frequency than misdemeanors, most prosecutions will be misdemeanors and most uncaught crime would have been charged as a misdemeanor.

> low-level offenses, like technical violations of probation and parole

It's difficult to call probation or parole violations "low-level offenses" without knowing the underlying offense.
I think the article made it very clear that there is a distinction between an arrest and a conviction.

But I guess it's very easy for you to write such a comment without ever establishing that the person is actually guilty, as if, in domestic violence, people should be considered guilty unless proven innocent? Thankfully you are not a prosecutor.
same thing realpage was doing for renting.

It is 21st century version of a cartel.

Cartel via an app. It should be illegal. I was hoping feds going after RealPage would be a deterrent to that trend. But with the new admin, yeah thats over.
How is that worse, as a VC firm?

If I was betting on technology right now, I would bet on SF-in person teams with young founders and a focus on AI. Sounds like the perfect target.
> How fortunate we all are!

I think so.

As someone who makes things, they solve a really important chicken-and-egg problem for me.

i.e. Where does the money needed to make a thing come from before you make it so that you can sell it and make money from selling the thing?

I suppose technically I could risk my money, assuming I have some. But I'd much rather risk the bank's, and I understand that they will charge me for that.
Update: from the linked thread at https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/classic-ii-possible-... there is this quote that supports my theory:

This seems to put something into A1 [...]If you clear bit 3 from the second word of the instruction this stops happening.
Hey, at least they're not making paper clips.
I recall reading in one of Ken White's pieces that his one of his most frequent types of consultation, in his First Amendment litigation practice, is with victims of domestic violence being sued by their abusers.
Then all of that data is turned into HTTP requests which turn into TCP packets distributed over IP over wifi over Ethernet over PPPoE over DSL and probably turned into light sent over fiber optics at various stages... :-)
The US has truth has absolute bar to defamation. He really did get arrested the police report says what it was reported to have in it.
Following this reasoning, a 200 response would also be appropriate, as AI bots wouldn't flag anything as suspicious.
> GNOME Wayland session

I wouldn't use that. Try KDE if you want a decent gaming experience. Gnome was very slow in even implementing something like adaptive sync, so they hardly are prioritizing latency issues for the end user.

I.e. Gnome's problems ≠ Wayland problems in the broader sense. Conflating the two is wrong.
There are lots of examples of empty housing taxation, canada, france, etc. https://www.greenbuildermedia.com/blog/do-vacancy-taxes-work...

The effects seem to increase the housing supply but are in and of themselves not a one stop solution to the problem.
Most of the garbage aspect is because toolkits refuse to support multiple monitors on DPI with X11 with the argument that "Wayland is just around the corner", for decades now.

For example Qt does per-monitor DPI just fine on X11; it's just that the way to specify/override the DPI values just sucks (an environment variable).

This stupid decision is going to chase us until the end of times since Xwayland will have no standardized way to tell its clients about per-display DPI.
> It's been 4 years. When are we culling the COVID animals? The answer is that there's no culling because there's no animal population with a virus that is close enough that it could have been the basis for COVID.

The animals were culled right at the beginning of the pandemic. The Chinese government immediately ordered all of the farms that raise the types of animals that caused the original SARS to cull their stock. We have never seen a sequence from any of those culled animals, either because no sequences were taken, or because the government doesn't want them to be published. In any case, culling the potential host population would have been a very effective measure for preventing the virus from spilling over again.

> The closest known wild-type virus - the one in those bats from over 1000 miles away - is still missing several key features (eg furin cleavage sites) that would be exceedingly unlikely to have all evolved multiple times in the few animals that made it to the wet market.

First off, the fact that the closest known virus is in bats 1000 miles away is not at all surprising. With the original SARS virus, the closest known virus in bats was also from a site about 1000 miles away from where the human outbreak started. Second, other coronaviruses have furin cleavage sites, so this is something that has evolved multiple times. Third, we're not just talking about a few infected animals. We're talking about a population of infected animals, maybe on different farms. The few that were brought to the Huanan market in Wuhan seeded the outbreak in humans, but they were part of a larger infected population.

> Almost every animal population that has resulted in a pandemic in the past has been pinned down in a matter of months and "dealt with."

This is not true. It took literally decades to locate the origins of AIDS. We still don't know the origins of Ebola (not a pandemic, but it has caused a series of large regional outbreaks and is the subject of intense study). There is a vast diversity of coronaviruses in bats, and the more scientists look, the more they find.

> it's looking increasingly like a virus that has been through a lab IMO.

Literally every piece of evidence has pointed towards the market, from epidemiology (which has firmly established that the outbreak radiated outwards from the market) to genetic evidence (multiple lineages of SARS-CoV-2 present in the very stalls where wild animals were being sold at the market).
> Nordstream of course is no issue and does not need to be investigated.

Did anyone ever say this?
From the Swedish Public Prosecutor's Office:

https://www.aklagare.se/nyheter-press/pressmeddelanden/2025/...

> A vessel suspected of carrying out the [suspected] sabotage has been seized following a decision by prosecutors.
family tree from the paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08409-6/figures/1
This nicely sums up my distaste for the recent Lex / Zelenskyy interview. I feel like the auto-translation was a mistake, and I would have preferred anything else.
As a blanket statement that is incorrect. For example, in Finland it doesn't have to be false.
50 meters is way to deep for it to be any kind of accident.
I mean there’s two sets of social norms here, right? Set one is that whenever you see the first person advocating or starting to break windows or start fires or do something else illegal, you all point at the guy and chant “fed, fed, fed” until he slinks away in shame or maybe shove him out of the crowd and into the police lines and let the cops handle him. The other set of norms is that when you see people do those things, you don’t snitch. Various protesters will adopt either set of norms.

Maybe you’d argue that the second set of protesters are actually feds; I won’t argue the point because I prefer the first set of norms myself.
> does the increase in money supply explain the price collusion that businesses admit to doing

Why would one cause of a phenomenon explain another cause?

The hypothesis "both wood and plastic burn" doesn't require wood to explain to existence of plastic.
The wait time when you can't afford the physician is infinite. That's the market at work.
The aider benchmarks that swyx posted below suggest o1 is still better than r1 (though an oom more expensive). Interestingly r1+sonnet (architect/editor) wins though.

This suggests r1 is indeed better at reasoning but its coding is holding it back, which checks out given the large corpus of coding tasks and much less rich corpus for reasoning.
> I can't remember the last time I saw news reports about an arrest where the arrestee plausibly benefited from the story being publicized

Bad week to say this, given Ross Ulbricht was just pardoned. There's zero chance he would've been pardoned without all the publicity around his arrest and incarceration.
Weird to not mention the country of the ship, since that seems relevant in a war scenario. Malta - https://maritimeoptima.com/public/vessels/pages/imo:9648879/...
The problem isn't abstractions. The problem is leaky abstractions that make it harder to reason about a system and add lots of hidden states and configurations of that state.

What could have been a static binary running a system service has become a Frankenstein mess of opaque nested environments operated by action at a distance.
“Open source is truly democratizing the field of robotics.”

Uh, when was GPT-4o made open source?
Are you making the "if you've got nothing to hide" argument?
Biggest cause is ineffective reasoning in a large context in my experience (more than 350 lines).

Im my experience, ChatGPT breaks down when it needs to consider more than 350 lines and its performance is sloppy before that.

To get solid performance out of it, I essentially need to specify the important areas and changes as well as the desired approach.

That being said, I’ve found it has cut my development time for most features by at least half, even in large codebase so I would be curious to know how you are approaching it currently.
I hate to disappoint you, but the canonical way to clear a 68K address register is `SUBA.L An,An`. My asm-coded replacement for the Metrowerks code resource runtime uses it:

<https://github.com/jjuran/metamage_1/blob/master/mac/toolcha...>
> those with bitcoin exposure (even 1% of portfolio or whatever) will be minted and those without will be fighting over the scraps.

Why? There’s no way to derive value from that use.

There actually would be if it were, say, Ethereum (which is proof of stake, with fees accruing to holders). However, let’s say Ethereum were to become a global reserve currency. This would be essentially a tax on all financial activity, and governments and companies would be _strongly_ incentivised to create an alternative which they controlled and which did not have that tax.
Something a _bit_ like this, incidentally, has already happened. Prior to the creation of SWIFT, international bank transfers generally went through what is now Citibank. Governments, and banks other than Citibank, generally saw this as unsatisfactory (even though AIUI Citibank was doing it extremely cheaply and not deriving all that much value from it; the mere threat that they _might_ was enough) and thus SWIFT was born.
I'm less interested in whether arrest records are public than I am in whether they are publishable in online newspapers. If I have to go down to the county courthouse to get access to the records, then there's a barrier that prevents people from casually googling someone and learning that they were arrested at one point.

If every arrest is published with both first and last name in the local newspaper, which is then archived online and fully indexed, that doesn't seem to be serving the cause of government transparency so much as the cause of sensational local news.

I also think that allowing publication of the arrest but without the full name of the alleged criminal would address concerns about government accountability while not handing a dangerous reputational weapon to the police.
A real false start on that baseball metaphor.
if top 4 independently controlled 97%, that wouldnt be bad. But rather, if they are colluding via an app, it is a caretl. pure and simple.
> just Fidelity and Vanguard (and S&P themselves) have to do due diligence

You're proposing bankrupting millions of Americans' retirements because Uber didn't follow local taxi rules?

> if $100 billion fines were on the table for companies like uber, that diligence would be priced into the stock and it would be far more effective

Yes. Again, we're re-inventing massive fines.
Fair enough. Is he the exception that makes all of the lives ruined worth it?
Precisely. This is the difference between scandal-mongering and journalism. Both can cover things that are true and factual, so can be deemed news. However, the former is closer to entertainment than it is to information of value.
Links? I've been hearing this for probably 8 years now.
that's a fair take.

I'm curious - do you say that after having strongly considered and researched alternatives?
Do those adjacent organisations inspire confidence?

- https://www.activeinference.institute/

- https://spatialwebfoundation.org/
I've had a generally positive experience with MindMac[1], which is another native macOS app. I've raised a few issues and feature requests and the developer has been pretty responsive to feedback.

[1] https://mindmac.app/
How so? None of this would more than mildly inconvenience me if it were lost. Important notes/files are of course saved in appropriate locations, but a lot things aren't that important
> If the law would be as such and be upheld

It wouldn't be upheld. It couldn't be upheld. The first time somebody were stupid enough to try to uphold it, it would prompt a popular firestorm that would undo its effects. (I'm not even approaching the numerical impposibility of attempting to enforce something like that.)
Possibly true, but not relevant to a case in California.
I've used https://isitsnappy.com/ on the iPhone to do these kinds of measurements pretty quickly, to substantiate why I sucked at Steam Deck rhythm games when connected to a TV.

(I do not suck, my setup had 100ms lag)
You are kidding right?

OpenAI -- for now -- is planning to build 5 gigawatt data centers (yes, plural) to continue its quest towards AGI. -- see HN archives. Meanwhile they are also looking into private nuclear power for the same purpose.

Any serious competitor will likely need to do the same.

So there's a rational choice and tradeoff to make:

Net zero or AGI.

We can't have both.
Software has bugs and water is wet. Wait til you hear about HTTP, TCP, UDP, IP torrents, etc... and "simple" is not really a term I would designate to X11. I mean, its fine, but even just the ecosystem surrounding X is convoluted, outdated and absurd. Things like xinit, startx, .Xauthority, xresources, xhost etc... are all a mess.
The transit problem is largely a housing problem because mass transit needs a threshold amount of population density to function and that level is below what you get when the majority of the land area is zoned exclusively for single-family homes. But that's not something you can solve overnight -- it takes time to build stuff like that -- so people are still going to have to decide what to do today.

Moreover, even if you build more multi-family housing and mass transit, you're still not changing the nature of the issue, only the scale. There will never be 100% mass transit use because there will always be higher and lower population density areas and some proportion of people living in the latter. Then the people who live outside the reach of mass transit may want to come inside it from time to time, and you'll still have car service for that, and still have peak and off peak, and still have to answer the same questions even if there are only a third as many people doing it.