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Whose "fault" is it that the judiciary has become an extension of the executive branch and been taken over by a single party? You tell me..

Democrats don't control the courts.

Willing to bet any amount of money that these testing contracts are going to companies that the Trump family has invested in.

Prop 13 should only cover primary residences. No vacation homes, no investment homes, no apartment complexes, no Airbnbs, no commercial properties, no offices. This single change would fix the majority of the state's tax shortfall. Going on about billionaires and not fixing this obvious loophole should tell you that people in charge aren't actually interested in solving the problem, just using populism to get votes.

They aren't going to sell it, they'll pass it to their children and the cost basis will reset. Their children will then sell it and pay zero tax.

Is Larry page borrowing “up to $50000”?

Try this - go to a bank and say “I’d like to borrow money using my 401k/Roth IRA as collateral. If I fall behind in payments you can liquidate the entire thing, including penalties, and make yourself whole.”

You’d think they’d jump over each other to lend money against such a stable, secure asset right?

Except they’ll say “sorry, this isn’t allowed. IRS treats borrowing against an untaxed retirement account as an early withdrawal, even if the asset itself stays untouched.”

Turns out the government fully understands the concepts of stocks, gains, unrealized net worth and more, and has laws on the books to make sure you are being taxed appropriately for them.

Meanwhile billionaires have convinced you – through their machinery of media, influencers, politicians and more – that this exact same reasoning absolutely cannot be applied to their own wealth. Because it’s “paper money”. It doesn’t exist. There’s nothing to tax. Just cannot be done, or it’ll bend the laws of spacetime.

The broken part is that there is third world-level poverty on the streets outside Google’s offices, working class people cannot afford to live in the Bay Area, and a fifth of California lives in poverty.

Wealth taxes are a symptom of a broken tax system. If you let someone get to hundreds of billions in net worth and then realize they haven’t been appropriately paying back into the system, it’s already too late. Like the article says they can simply say “no” in a variety of ways, from fighting in court to simply leaving.

Sure, but that is a separate conversation. You can sue OpenAI if you can show damages from their actions, for this or any other reason.

The level of legal understanding among technical experts is equally low. The cybersecurity laws as currently written require intent. No OpenAI employee can be held liable since it’s pretty easy to prove they weren’t intending to hack anyone – they didn’t even know about it till much later.

> OpenAI does have a disclosure, but the complaint calls it buried. A Help Center article, “Data Usage for Consumer Services FAQ,” asks “Do humans view my content?” Its answer says authorized OpenAI personnel and “trusted service providers” may access user content for several reasons, including “to improve model performance (unless you have opted out).”

And that’s the end of the lawsuit.

There's a reason people say non lawyers shouldn't talk about legal matters.

Zero technical details on what the "hack" actually was. Willing to bet it was something as stupid as the data being accessible by changing the query parameter, and rather than own up to their own shoddy security (no doubt built by an offshore contractor) they are going to blame the one who found and reported the bug.

When Orion was first revealed two years ago people figured they'd be able to reduce the bulk over time and release them in a form approaching regular glasses, like Meta Ray Bans. Now they've somehow become bigger and more VR headset-like? How is this tech going backwards?

The pro-AI position actually is - the US stock market and economy as a whole is being kept afloat by the AI bubble. If it pops then Republicans are going to have a bad time in the midterms and beyond.

The difference is that financial exchanges are already attacked every second and spend orders of magnitude more on security than random government websites.

The agent is supposed to run on a remote dev box. The purpose is to make the remote machine an extension of your local one, to run extensions, containers, install packages, test deployments, forward ports and tons more. Tunneling is part of the feature set. If you are installing it on production servers and are surprised by its behavior that’s on you.

Step 1 - make a website that takes 3 seconds to load a blank page.

Step 2 - bring it down to 1 second and pat yourself on the back.

Takes 2 minutes to search for news beyond the HN front page - https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creator... https://www.inc.com/georgia-fearn/openai-anthropic-both-cour...

https://www.businessinsider.com/emma-orhun-canceled-claude-p...

> Anthropic’s head of influencer, Lexie Barnhorn, has described creators as essential to building trust in complicated technical products. Its strategy is partly consumer-to-business: People who adopt Claude personally may later introduce it in their workplaces.

> Anthropic’s best-known creator events have been smaller dinners and pop-ups in which Claude remained the ostensible subject.

On the other hand Anthropic has a monopoly on the vibe coder/tech influencer/“podcast bro” market. Claude has been pushed very hard in that ecosystem.

You really think there aren’t an equal number of Claude influencers on social media?

American socialism is less socialist than European capitalism.

Self-driving tech is more about reducing liability than the driving itself. The lidars and 3D maps and world models and everything else is needed to get reliability from 99.9% to 99.99% on public roads. This isn’t a SaaS product where the target is to be “good enough” at the cheapest cost.

If you are letting users run agents and install random software then full access to the execution environment is basically a guarantee. This is why sandboxes exist. Breaking out of the sandbox would be bounty-worthy.

Creating a fake key that decodes the original message into a valid result (including matching the ship's arrival time to the day) would be significantly more impressive than just cracking it.

There's a "unsloppify site" toggle on top but the unsloppified version looks exactly as vibe coded as the regular one.

The product isn’t meant for you or me it is for lawyers. If you can’t take on personal liability for a badly written contract then you shouldn’t be using it.

Makes sense let’s trust Donald Trump instead

Kinda funny that one of the biggest software engineering “influencers” of all time can’t host a blog that survives HN front page traffic. Maybe try LLMs Martin.

He is of course entitled to his opinion on the topic, but I’m personally not going to put too much weight on it considering he hasn’t written software for a living in probably decades.