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Public transit only works if you live in the densest of the dense part of a city. If you live out in Beaverton or Gresham these bus lines lose money hand over fist, not to mention farther-flung places.

Even more likely is those using saunas and tracking metrics with wearables are self-selected to be healthier/more active/etc. Correlation and causation...

regular capitalism works but now that the means of production are not factories, the workers have to become more entrepreneurial. Then they will control their destinies.

The strings attached by the US to deep partnerships are things like trade/commerce, militarily mutual advantages (bases on euro soil from which we will help protect you), not to mention the close cultural and ancestral ties we share.

The strings attached by the Chinese govt to deep partnerships are not so benign.

Um, dismissing the tech as "the local LLMs are dumb" seems shortsighted. I can run some pretty impressive models on my local Mac, but it has >64gb of ram and an M3 Max.

Given the privacy benefit I wouldn't dismiss them so fast. I'd suggest picking one or two that your prompts will work well with and treating it as "we let you run with local models too, if you have a computer capable of that." This will (a) quiet the people who complain about everything and (b) get more people to try the cloud model knowing they could move to a local model for real usage.

Rideshare drivers

Arabella Advisors is about the farthest thing from MAGA you can imagine.

Any argument that attempts to sound serious but includes "Moreover all fascists vote for Trump" has disqualified itself.

Whether someone agrees with your politics or not, this comment doesn't really help the discussion.

There's simply no way to look at the governing going on in California and think this is what the tech industry or movie industry or (formerly) oil industry wants for one of its traditional homes.

The government there has suffered since it went to basically one-party rule. There's no counterbalance for any bad policy ideas.

Used FrameMaker to write my PhD dissertation. It was waaay ahead of its time.

Probably contractually disallowed.

I think it's more likely they want to leave the impression that this is all caused by "far right" anti-vaxxers and not a religious group with roots that go back hundreds of years.

By "his kind" you mean human beings?

H&H is next door, yet for years Zabars got its in-house bagels from Columbia Bagels on 110th and Bway (sadly now gone). Anyway next time skip H&H and just start and end your trip at Zabars ;)

That simply isn't true and the statistics on "good guys with guns" do not show that they are more likely to shoot a bystander. I dont; want everyone on the street packing, either, but at least use real info to make arguments.

To some degree, it comes from the same reason high speed rail doesn't work here in the US while it's a pleasure in Europe. The vast majority of places in this country are truly out in the sticks, and defending yourself from wildlife or humans with bad intent are real worries. In our cities, we have gun control laws similar to Europe.

BTW, those gun control laws don't always work in Europe either. Sweden has the third highest rate of gun homicides per 100,000 residents (after Albania and Montenegro). ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/1465188/europe-homicide-... )

This doesn't make sense. Wall plugs (like circuit breakers) are designed for a particular max amperage draw. If I have a 10A 120V circuit and wall plug, I can't charge my car at 8A?

I have wall ovens that connect via a 50A circuit. Do I need to worry about fire hazards when I bake something for hours and hours?

In Japan they are still widely used by businesses of all types. In the US, I see them routinely in doctor's offices for transmitting signed orders etc.

A lot of margin is people borrowing against holdings instead of selling to generate cash (and tax liability). These Securities-backed lines of credit appear as margin on these kinds of reports...

Seattle has this. 2hr parking if you dont have an residential parking zone registration for your car (it's based on license plate).

Surprisingly they charge $190/yr per car for this.

Not to be pedantic but I spent at least a solid minute trying to understand how you collaborated with a piece of artwork.

Then I realized you meant colleague.

;)

You know of lots of LLM-using apps that don't need to re-run their fine tunings or embeddings because of improvements or new features at least annually? Things are moving so fast that "every 12 months" seems kinda slow...

Not trying to start a flame war, but Mac laptops are pretty much best in class across screen, keyboard (now, no comment on previous gen), battery, and weight. There are PC laptops that compete with individual parts of the lineup (the Dell XPS was competitive with the MacBook Pros for a while), but overall Macs are generally a great choice.

If you're an iOS user, the integration with the OS across devices can be pretty great (Messages on desktop, Airdrop, Tethering).

If you're an iOS dev, you have nowhere else to do your work.

Telco != Techco.

Telcos are cash-flow businesses. They borrow billions with bond sales to fund spectrum acquisition and hardware / network deployment, then optimize payback and profit by taking $80-$200 per account per month from millions of people.

There are smart, forward looking people inside these companies who want to build for 3rd party devs. And they might even get the dispensation from some SVP to start working on an offering, and occasionally one of those makes it out the door to real developers. But ultimately, it isn't a priority for the C-suite, and when that SVP moves off to some other group or company, there's no more sponsorship for the "innovation".

As long as they take in billions reselling Apple/Samsung hardware connecting to Ericsson / Nokia hardware, they're not focusing on anything else.

It seems like most of the "woe is me and my startup" problems people are talking about could be solved with a revenue floor. If this only applied to companies making, say, $50mm+ per year or with software-related R&D expenditures of say $10mm+, it would not hit startups or innovative small companies working on far-flung ideas. I feel bad about those laid off from Meta and MSFT but I will not cry for those companies.

TIL that Hacker News readers think the Jim Beam whiskey company is called Jim Bean.

Right, the biggest issue would be the unlikelihood that both planets would evolve similarly-intelligent lifeforms in the same time frames.

If Venus had a superintelligent species today, we would likely be pets or food.

If it had a superintelligent species 100,000 years ago, we will never know (or not know for quite a while).

And if it has life now that is evolving into something intelligent or superintelligent in 100,000 years, who knows if humanity will still be here to find.

Is the contrapositive also true? If Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos had been dirt poor in childhood rather than solidly middle class, would they not have had success? I.e. how much weight should we put on the things out of their control vs within their control?

IRA contributions are drastically limited to a $7000 cap per year under 50. Whether they should be is another question, and one worth exploring.

Long-term investment is rightly seen as something to be encouraged hence the lower tax rates. You can make the argument that the rate should be more like 0% since the money invested and risked was already taxed most likely...20% is a reasonable value for the market regulating infrastructure provided by gov't entities.