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Switching to Codex if their subscription includes 5.6 and Anthropic’s doesn’t include even some small quota of Fable. I’d be using local LLM’s if I didn’t want any access to frontier

House tax changes... strong yes

Share tax changes... ugh

My hope was cashed up bogans would start betting on shares instead of housing/crypto. At least it could be funnelled into something productive

Australia also has a 60 year productivity low and a government that is boosting taxes on capital gains on shares/business to basically a worldwide high. So take our experiments with a grain of salt!

It's frustrating that even brand new Unifi devices that claim to support IPv6 are actually pretty broken when you try to use it. So 10 years from right now even, unless they can software patch it upwards.

Banks remain with COBOL because it's unsexy and stable. And then they say... let's just YOLO some vibe code into the next release sight unseen! Logic checks out.

They also launched dummy satellites from the "pez dispenser", directly simulating the actual mission payload, about 4 months ago.

Lol thank you. Original as far as I know, most welcome to steal!

The trick is that the USA steps up the buy price of an asset when you pass away. So if you use cheap loans your whole life, you can defer capital tax until it goes away.

Instead of two certainties in life being death and taxes, it's now death or taxes.

How does that work in practice?

If you're bootstrapped, borrow a bunch of money to pay tax because your company got to $10M val. But then the market shifts and it goes back down to $0 in later years, do you get the money back?

Even if you do, it sounds weird taxing someone for the right to create something, especially when they're still in the middle of creating it.

Yes! I rewound the video to double check

But honestly at this point I’m destined to buy a Steam Machine despite having a hefty Mac that could do gaming if only it were possible. Valve have been amazing about open computing and Apple are basically the enemy at this point.

It makes me wonder about what using steam machine for all computing might look like, as the new home of open computing and gaming.

Had some very weird behaviour from cloudfront used purely to serve images from s3. Mostly huge slowdowns and outright failures on endpoints. Was about 15 hours ago that I noticed it by chance.

Was nothing on the aws status pages and no alerts/errors in my console. Eventually it sped up again.

Omfg you're right. I was half joking before, but yeah that's... quite a coincidence

Nakamoto = central origin

Origin = CIA?

Vision Pro is an excellent example

What Apple really needs to do is mimic their old policy of no fees except for games. Let everyone develop for it, and then rug pull by making the fees apply to everything

But they can’t do it twice. So the Vision Pro ends up with no ecosystem

Ewwwwwww

There’s too many hackers on hacker news!

Pretty scary for Apple shareholders. They're basically saying that the extremely expensive hardware alone isn't enough to make a profit anymore? They're that reliant on the app store monopoly now?

There are all sorts of protections around who can be a custodian of someone’s money (for good reason)

However there are use cases like running a marketplace, where the platform would like to be able to direct the flow, maybe hold things temporarily in case there are multiple transactions or to split a transaction up between different clients, before paying it out daily or weekly as a lump sum. Often it’s just to avoid fees, because the marketplace operator charges their fees in a different way (like a flat monthly invoice) and they want to assist with money logic as a service, but not be the custodian of the money.

Even just knowing that money has moved at all can be useful, without any ability to touch it, and it’s difficult to get permissions from conservative financial institutions, whereas permissionless ledgers make it easy.

Crypto can help add that nuance. It’s still your money, but you can give a third party the ability to do some things to assist you, without giving the ability to transfer it all to themself and run away with it.

Anecdotally I saw a post on reddit about a senior SWE in the USA who was laid off and couldn't get any interviews, with their old job outsourced to eastern Europe. And then this month the people he hadn't even got a response back from started requesting he apply for their jobs. Only one data point but the market might be coming back.

Depends how many liberties it takes in imagining the world

Lidar is direct measurement

I want to say that part of empathy is a selfish, self preservation mechanism.

If that person over there is gleefully torturing a puppy… will they do it to me next?

If that person over there is gleefully torturing an LLM… will they do it to me next?

Blocked. By Order the Queen.

I'm sure someone could whip up some merch super quickly as souvenirs/protest

Elon's Y Combinator interview was pretty good. He seemed more in his element back amongst the hacker crowd (rather than dirty politics), and seemed to be doing hackery things at X, like renting generators and mobile cooling vans and just putting them the car park outside a warehouse to train Grok, since there were no data centres available and he was told it would take 2 years to set it all up properly.

I think he's just good at attracting good talent, and letting them focus on the right things to move fast initially, while cutting the supporting infra down to zero until it's needed.

Restaurant staff are still nice in Australia, and friendly.

They don't HAVE to be, but they also don't have to do a bunch of unnecessary stuff to play the tips game, like fill up water that's barely empty or check in on how you're going all the time.

Maybe people in America like a "service heavy" experience, and the only way to get it is tips?

Interesting! So the desired number of children dropped (I wonder what number it was reduced from, maybe from an unrealistic number), and the # of hours men spent with their children went up, and women did get back to work earlier. It seems overall to be having the right effect?

The article dances around the reason… the desire for flexibility is financially penalised.

The gender pay gap is really the parenting pay gap, since it didn’t exist before the age where people start having kids. Encourage more men to be stay at home dads and you’ll see the gender differences disappear.

I’m so grateful that hacker news isn’t swayed too much politically - people in general are willing to consider any novel argument on its merits in search of deeper understanding. As opposed to say Reddit where if you don’t agree with the hivemind it’s instant downvotes.

This article has aged well: https://paulgraham.com/say.html

This was our experience too. I don’t know how Microsoft gets anything done, their systems were just buggy, poorly documented chaos for us.

We had a boat load of credits, an existing codebase/system we were just trying to move from AWS, and even tried to use their “expert mentor” service or whatever it was called. Their expert had zero knowledge and was immediately clear that they were worse at reading their own docs than us.

Never trying Azure again, and I’d like my wasted hours back please.

As a non US resident - not having to think about tipping the driver makes me excited and significantly more likely to visit. Tipping culture is just exhausting!

If someone could automate wheeling the food a few dozen metres from a restaurant kitchen to a table next it would be perfect :)

Agreed, I’ve only implemented one endpoint, but even on that the amount of data coming back was too high, and the json shape ate up context

I think MCP responses will be high level, aggregated, sorted, etc. Also strongly considering YAML over JSON