skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but typically there are clear guidelines on what will be punished and what is allowed. That was not the case under Gensler. Crypto companies begged for clear regulations and the SEC steadfastly refused to publish any. Instead they just filed enforcement actions and people had to find out their view of things in court.

And as your link says:

> “We in the crypto space felt it was very deceptive the way they [the Biden administration] went about dealing with crypto firms. They told crypto firms to come in and register, to come in and engage with them,” said Nic Carter, a founding partner at crypto investment firm Castle Island Ventures. “There was no meaningful way to do that.”
Brings the average rate up to 33%.
It's lacking. A good title should save a click for those who are not interested in details but just the conclusion.
The list of law firms with the expertise, resources, and will to take on the administration is getting shorter and shorter, because he's targeting the ones that piss him off with EOs aimed to wreck them if they don't pay up and shut up, and that strategy is working.
Why wouldn't they? It's an easy and profitable way to pump their property values. Obviously they make an exception when they stand to profit, but I invite you to attend any county zoning meeting ever if you think this doesn't happen. The meetings are nothing but catfights of this exact description.

I've always marveled at how it's 100% accepted to talk about poor people employing six dimensional chess and dubious strategies to scrape undeserved pennies from the system, but it's somehow unthinkable to even so much as contemplate the possibility that rich people are pulling obvious levers to extract millions. The double standard is absolutely wild.
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Ha. “I Don’t Know” is probably my most common answer to questions at work, often followed up immediately with "What have you tried" or "What has changed"
Trump couldn't care less about America. He treats the presidency as his private business. This was all a ploy to make a lot of money, nothing else.
My read is that they will still prosecute fraud once it happens, they just won’t proactively regulate the industry.
Appreciate the fresh thinking.

Until the 90s, that's the trajectory we were on. For life to constantly get better whilst human servitude is lessened over time.

We should be getting ever shorter work weeks and earlier retirement ages. It's the entire point of technology.
Probably spends another $600 on takeout.
Wouldn't it be smarter to do that before increasing the tarriff to 125%? That doesn't make sense to me either..
The US currently has 49 ongoing national emergencies, that are renewed every year by the president

The last 8 or so were created by Trump. Like you said, he's just doing what is already allowed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_i...
That article seems confused, e.g.:

> If government spending isn’t going to pay government workers, it must be going to pay people who work in the private sector — nonprofits, for-profit contractors, consultants, and so on. In other words, state capacity is being outsourced.

The money is going to social security payments. Social security went from <1% of federal spending at its outset to more than 20% of federal spending today. Medicare and other assistance programs are a similar story. Most of the money from these programs goes to paying benefits rather than administrative costs, which is generally regarded as a good thing. But they're also what together now constitute the majority of federal spending.

Meanwhile there is another reason why the number of government workers has gone down: Computers were invented. Things that used to be done by hand are now done by machine, and then you don't need as many clerks and bookkeepers to manually process paper records. This is also generally regarded as a good thing.

The points it makes about unfunded mandates and NIMBYs holding everything up with meritless lawsuits are valid, but the "ministerial review" it proposes is the existing permitting process. The problem is we have unfunded mandates and NIMBY lawsuits on top of that, which could simply be deleted and replaced with nothing.

This really seems like the fundamental misunderstanding:

> And guess who’s responsible for monitoring Medicare spending? Bureaucrats. So that’s at least a 2300% return on investment in bureaucracy!

If you only look at the most efficient thing a bureaucrat could be doing, look how efficient bureaucrats are!

Meanwhile the government is still paying thousands of people to process paper records because although computers were invented many decades ago, only parts of the government have discovered them and there are still many things you have to do by bringing physical documents to government offices to be processed in person even when those things have no legitimate reason not to be a government website.

What we need is not to have more bureaucrats, but rather to finish computerizing the things that have no reason not to be so the existing government employees can do the high value stuff instead of wasting time shuffling paper that should have been bits.
Yeah, a percentage of the U.S. Republican Party are isolationist, that doesn’t make globalism 19th century-style dead. Jesus fucking christballs.
Yeah the older I get the more I see how average I am at almost everything, and how much I don't know about a lot of things.
Can use your laptop in the car safely. A friend of mine had his laptop yanked on BART. Chap ran off, my friend gave chase, and that guy threw away the laptop. Surprisingly, only dented! But I'd rather not experience that. 28 minute ride vs. 45 minute ride after 10 min wait is pretty large difference IMHO. If no traffic, that's even shorter. For me, from Caltrain station (where I live) to airport I have a record door to gate of 16 min. That's a no planning choice. If I have to make a 45 minute ride I have to plan: take the T-line to Powell, switch to BART, ride down to the airport? Crazy. No chance.
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The human nature. The moment UBI is set at X amount, the cheapest rents will jump, so will the price of a coffee, of a burger & fries in a fast-food, etc.

Greed will take over and try to get the _most_ out of the UBI as if we/you/they owe it to those people.
The effort of the grift doesn't seem to match the score, or at least I think that's what the other guy is saying. Are they doing this for the philosophical challenge of it?
Whistleblower tells senators that Meta undermined U.S. security, interests
Cloud resources are trending towards consumer technology adoption numbers rather than being reserved mostly for Enterprise. This is the most exciting thing in decades!

There is going to be a GPU/Accelerator shortage for the foreseeable future to run the most advanced models, Gemini 2.5 Pro is such a good example. It is probably the first model that many developers i've considered skeptics of extended agent use have started to saturate free token thresholds on.

Grok is honestly the same, but the lack of an API is suggestive of the massive demand wall they face.
Is Programming Skill Linear or Quadratic?
37signals posted a job ad for a high paying junior position. The job ad also says software engineering skill over time follows a trajectory. They assume that a junior who is high potential doesn't have a defined trajectory yet. Therefore they want to hire a junior with less experience but lots of potential so they can groom them.

My question: From the perspective that, however harsh, 37signals is correct, is the software engineering skill trajectory linear or quadratic?
No offense taken. It got me curious. I actually do train AI to code in Singaporean English in my spare time, so I try to be aware, lol.

I'm not aware of voice training though. x.AI outsources lots of stuff to Malaysia. Google has some, but has had this data like for TTS, STT, and Google Translate, for a decade or so.
The total volume of money flowing through fishing related business is much larger than through warhammer related.

Fishing distributed about 1 billion in household income in the uk.

Fishing supports about 12.000 direct jobs plus 5.000 in related industries in the UK.

Warhammer has about 3000 employees GLOBALLY. Trickle down is not really present here.

Businesses that do not distribute wealth in the general population are much less relevant than those that do. Taxes are nice but businesses are good at avoiding them ( especially via Ireland ), whereas income tax is the major supporter of our states.
This is the UBI experiment I want to see:

The government creates a new currency called $UBI, with the same legal tender status as the official currency for that country ($FIAT). I.e. people can use it to pay taxes, and people are required to accept it when doing commerce. Both currencies exist in parallel.

In the true spirit of ubi, everyone is entitled to an equal amount of it, and no one should be worse off by it. So they need to issue the currency new currency to give away.

They set up a system so everyone gets the same amount of money, at the same time, for maximum fairness. Everyone's income just goes up, equally.

$UBI officially has 1:1 parity to $FIAT, and this parity is used to calculate how much they'll need to "print" out at a given month. Let's say it's living_wage*population_size. That amount can be adjusted once a year by factoring in the government reserves built up exclusively from tax returns. In other words, the monetary base is a known, deterministic quantity.

They allow free exchange between $FIAT and $UBI, but the government does not officially exchanges it. They also allow people to set prices to their products and services freely.
> What's actually wrong with them.

Market manipulation. 1. Sell. 2. Threaten tariffs. 3. Buy. 4. Walk back tariffs threats. 5. Repeat.

With the secret step 0: Pay enough of an Indulgence to get in the loop of when those are going to happen, and to stay in their good graces so the DoJ doesn't hit you for insider trading.
Rowling made a lot of her money from books, which would mostly be printed by adults in the country they are published in. Also films, filmed in the UK.

That's a long way from advertising unhealthy snacks.

Lego isn't made in dubious conditions, so for toys she's already above average.
Real-time text output à la Apple Dictation with the accuracy of Whisper is something I've been looking for recently - I'll definitely give Aqua a spin.

MacWhisper [0] (the app I settled on) is conspicuously missing from your benchmarks [1]. How does it compare?

[0]: https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper

[1]: https://withaqua.com/blog/benchmark-nov-2024
That's a great data point. Thanks!
Would that be worse? Compared to drastically increasing the number of people who are able to afford to put food on the table, that's downright whimsical.
Oops that was a typo. Yes 2024 levels. Market is unbelievably overvalued anyways.
But the EU announced retaliatory tarrifs, just they weren't yet in effect. Why did they get off scot free?
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I worry that having the SEC regulate crypto can actually be worse for those people, because it sends the message that it’s a legit government-approved investment instead of a wild west zero-sum craps table.
Because the t-bill auction came in incredibly strong. Their conclusion analysis wuickly looked foolish and their embarrassed.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/all-eyes-turn-to-treasurys...
The photo titled "Thief, outside of mosquito-net." really piqued my interest.
Mid term elections are November next year. Some time between now and then, republican house and senator members will start getting more than a little bit anxious about not losing their seats. The current chaos is not great for their chances. The closer that election gets, the more likely it is that something like what you suggest might happen.

The problem of course is that any move like that is going to result in chaos inside the republican party. I imagine that might delay the moment before e.g. Mike Johnson (speaker of the house) puts such a thing up for vote in the house. Because it sounds like that would be a career ending move for him. Until that changes, Trump can do as he pleases essentially unopposed.
The yield really isn't that big a deal. It's hundreds of billions of dollars over decades if it moves by 1 percent. Compare that to tax cuts leading to trillion dollar annual deficits.

I mean, it could well be that they are risking the stability of the US economy to save money on refinancing the debt, but that would be a stupid thing to be doing.
Major report on alcohol finds moderate drinking tied to lower mortality
That's not necessarily a good thing. Do the New Americans want the same things as the pre-existing ones? Are they as capable? Not just "in a few generations" but here and now? Are they even likely to be as capable "in a few generations"?

If the statistics aren't very wrong, it doesn't seem like a solution.
Do you think normal people (think, your average investing American) are trading based on this news? They probably shouldn't be... I would think that by far most of the trading these past few days has been institutions, so, a big transfer from some financial institutions to others?
> Exactly no one invests 100% of their retirement savings in SPVs.

Eh. There's probably at least one stupidly overconfident individual who does so, and more who put too large a fraction into stuff like that.
but you do buy that LLMs vibecoding is currently able to build a large amount of functionality in a very short amount of time, yeah?
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How much of a fish industry will remain when the North Sea is a battleground?

Is there any fishing going on in the Black Sea at the moment? (genuine question)
I watched enough Tetris 99 streamers to know the basic strategy, you 4-wide when on defense, and T-spin/Tetris when on offense.
Claude is better at design but isn't as strong a reasoner. I'd expect the Max plan to add a Deep Research like feature too soon.
Also, continuing overfishing is a terrible long-term strategy. Sure, we will have the boats, fishermen and infrastructure around fishing, but that's of no help if the fish are gone.
Not true. VAT is not applied on exports outside of EU.
isn't this also kinda opposed to having the dollar as the dominant world currency?

Lots of countries settle trades between each other using dollars.

Making it harder to get those dollars will leave them seeking to use something else to trade.
Nah, I think that's just the perspective of a petulant bourgeois brat. No serious adult would have that reaction to a condiment earnestly fabricated—especially not at the cost of outsourcing taste—let alone property ownership—to an absentee landlord!
If somebody offered me 1200 GBP a month, tax free, no strings attached, guaranteed for the rest of my life, there is no way I would continue working for somebody else. I would tinker around with open source and pet projects for the rest of my life.

That's almost twice the aged pension here in Australia. (550 GBP)

I guess I would also need some iron clad guarantee that the cost of living would not skyrocket.
If its not cheaper, just subscribe, but subscribing outright doesnt make sense
How is clean electricity doing globally?
They broke the agreement for the handover by about 25 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems
this is not a hypothetical, brexit happened...
They exist for sure. They are not working for the out sources because they have found someone willing to pay them what they are really worth - this might be a lot less than they could make in the US, but a lot more than they can make from the cheap outsourceers. You can find great offshore labor, but you need to hire someone who knows the country to manage those people as not everyone is great. You also need to be willing to pay the great people.
What am I going to do with a second home?

I see where your head's at, but I think a huge portion of the reason for using dollars is that it's simple and easy to manage. You don't need to find suppliers, manage inventory, match individuals with housing, or audit for fairness. Potentially more importantly, you don't need to pay for those activities either!
So that reason is exactly why the person you're replying to said what they said. The OOP said: "If you don't know what you're doing stick to index funds, buy and hold." which is clearly not great advice unless you're under the age of 30
I don't buy it anymore. The billionaires are in charge and we can't fight them. Best thing do is run and hide.
Sure, but when we pay our AWS bills, that money still goes to Amazon which is US-based, even though we servers we rent are in Frankfurt.
What did the UK ask of the EU before Brexit?

All I remember was Cameron asking to expel jobless immigrants, which confused the EU as Britain was already allowed to do that.
Everyday it is looking better and better to self host. I really don’t feel like ChatGPT $200/mo is 10x better than $20/mo and after trying QwQ 32B myself I just can’t justify paying these AI subscriptions. Gemini Flash is also dirt cheap as an api and Groq is dirt cheap and fast for QwQ and other OSS models.
I really like Claude and have the money to spend on something like this if I wanted to but it's not compelling at all.

No new models, no new capabilities, just higher limits. Which I know some people are asking/begging for but that's not been an issue for me. If I needed more I'd probably use the API.

I only continue to pay because some of the features in Claude Web are better than what I've seen elsewhere but their latest web redesign is making me seriously reconsider that stance. It's /bad/, breaks scrolling while it's generating a response, break copy/paste/selection, etc. It's incredibly hostile and I have to assume anyone seriously using Claude internally is using a different client.
Globalism is not a “was” by any stretch of the imagination inside or outside of the US.
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I am giving the steel man of why this may work. Whether it does or not, well, you can play the stock market as well as anyone
Former Substack creators say they're earning more money on new platforms
The president told his Truth Social followers that it's a great time to buy stock just a few hours before this announcement: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1143082727259...

It's probably many things, but one part of it is for sure stock manipulation.
Rent is charged monthly, and everyone consumes the value at the exact same pacing of 1/30th the rent per day. Consumers has no leverages, save for weak protections that won't be statistically significant, against price hikes. I think it's reasonable to assune it's more efficient at capturing UBI than regular commodities that can be rationed or splurged on.
This is a really shallow analysis. Those are bulk prices from Alibaba, and don't include the expensive and ridiculously slow shipping. Once you repackage it and and reship it express (included in the Prime price) you're easily adding another $10 a bottle. So actual the margins are much closer to 25-33%.
Yeah, and the day they find an application for crypto that isn't "literal unregulated security" (the basis of all the enforcement "lacking guidelines" you are complaining about!) will be the day I dig deep to find some compassion. Until then, the guidelines are clear if you want to market and sell securities. You just didn't like what they say.
This looks like it'll slurp up all your data and upload it into a cloud. Thanks, no. I want privacy, offline mode and source code for something as crucial to system security as an input method.

"we also collect and process your voice inputs [..] We leverage this data for improvements and development [..] Sharing of your information [..] service providers [..] OpenAI"
https://withaqua.com/privacy
There is also "Tetanus On Drugs" on GBA (later renamed Lockjaw: The Overdose), which uses Mode 7-style distortions to simulate the experience of playing Tetris under the influence. I'm not 100% sure of which rule set it uses, but it does have hold pieces and delayed piece locking at the bottom.
Crypto attorney sues US authorities to reveal Satoshi Nakamoto's identity
A friend of mine also recently redid a machiya in Kyoto. It even had the godness mask near the ceiling, amazing.

Side note: I quickly checked the dedede project and I'm so enthralled with it! I will use it to improve my Japanese, thank you!
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This is basically the communist vision (in its original, positive sense) -- Universal Basic Provisioning achieved through automation and a moderate amount of community service. People are always quick to point out how governments will inevitably screw this up, likely making things even worse than they are now, but I think the idea has merit at least in principle. Unlike the idea of Universal Basic Income. Free markets and free money just don't go together. Especially if this money is given to the "productive underlayer" of society rather than investment bankers. That will just collapse the house of cards from the inside out. Administrators, middle managers and VPs of sales do not a functioning economy make.
Please don't make low-effort bait comments. This isn't Reddit
This is just pricing the same model to higher limits at a volume discount (which makes the pricing per usage lower, not higher). To actually "release a $200 model" they'd have to make something expensive to run like a ChatGPT 4.5 and then have the only plan which can use it worth a damn be that price. Given how bad 4.5 flopped in terms of performance I doubt many will go that route though, it'd have to be different kinds of services not in the current plan instead.
First let me tip my hat and thank you for engaging on this. I think though that we're talking past each other which isn't my goal. So I'll try to explain a little clearer.

The concerns you raise are valid. The process in my example is more rushed than I'd go through in a team context. This is a relatively immature project I'm exploring solo, so the appropriate level of "process overhead" is different than in a team context. I didn't take the time to separate that from what I'd do in a team.

In a team, there'd be upfront discussion to align on what's in the "roadmap" (ie. we'd write a spec), there'd be discussion as the work proceeds if tech-debt emerges and refactors are needed, there'd be CI, tests, coverage, and code review. A good team would own the code forever, so they'd be happy with any refactoring.

When I said massive refactors I meant within the context of one PR. It's insanely freeing to be able to draw with crayons all over your codebase, see what works, and then either `git reset --hard` or refactor it into shape.

If a refactor of existing code is needed, that's its own PR.

In summary, almost nothing changes at the level of team process. Keep all those guardrails - but use these tools to 1000x the amount of typing & exploration you can do!
Yikes that's scary. I'm still gonna take Bart tho. Do what's right for you!
And you were correct then, and you're correct now.

I have no clue where it came from but I've been like that since I don't know, 12-13 years old to this day (45 now).
It will be very interesting to see what deals are made in the next 90 days. There is a lot of speculation that the US will push to isolate China as part of any deals made.

Who knows.
Ahh going back to the days of Government Cheese I see!

Everything old is new again.
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