The US Administration is implementing its $100,000 tax on entry by high-skill foreign workers.
It's by far the largest tariff on services trade in history.
A single document has emerged to make the Administration's economic case for the tax. Incredibly, it is packed with basic, large errors.
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Oh I meant as a day trip from Chengdu not HK
Could go either way, I'd do 4/2 especially if cost is a factor. To complicate it further, HK has relatively more going on on weekends, but is also even more expensive on weekends.
Also keep in mind that a trip to a not-super-crowded panda base will take most of a day, if you plan to do that.
Thanks to Hell Gate for reaching out to me for a response! Here’s my Q&A with them. hellgatenyc.com/abundance-ag...
I know a lot of people who could take public transit regularly but don't, and when I ask why it's usually because they've had experiences like this.
I think it's completely reasonable to want transit to be nice, to complain that it's not, and to avoid taking it until/unless that changes.
I've spent a lot of time on transit across (and outside) the US, and I've seen some shit. A lot of it is benign and even endearing, but a lot of it isn't.
If a requisite for increasing US transit usage is "suburbanites should all toughen up," we're going to keep being car-dependent for a long time.
It's true that ~no one gets murdered on the subway anymore. This is a good thing! It's also a poor proxy for the actual reasons that many reasonable parents wouldn't let their 14-year-old daughter take the subway on her own. Or take it themselves, for that matter.
I bet fewer have been groped, had bags stolen, or been screamed at or threatened by an unstable person though (the last one might be close).
I detest the implication that public transit, or cities in general, should inherently be "gritty," and if you don't like it you should move to the suburbs.
Failing to put sufficient data controls in place would be extremely bad for business. This extends to agents, not just employees.
Code is a small, shrinking fraction of the cost of building a business. Your code isn’t remotely worth getting sued and subsequently losing all their B2B customers over.
If your source code can’t touch any 3p server, self-host agents on open-weight models. If you’re good with public cloud you can run on bedrock or equivalent.
In practice there are good reasons to build these things in-house, but risk of providers stealing your code is pretty low on the list.
This reads to me like a concession by DoW. The latest threat is to cancel Anthropic’s contract, which is what Anthropic was suggesting all along, and much less drastic than alternatives (labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk or invoking DPA).
Yeah. I did 2.5 days in Chongqing in January and didn’t feel like I’d have gained much by staying longer.
Chengdu has more to see and do, even just in the city but especially if you do a day trip to a panda base or something.
All awesome cities. If it's your first time in HK I would do 2 days there, maybe 2/4/2 for an 8 day trip.
and free trade
and really really hate the Constitution
Yes, and its supposed impact on Trump’s reelection in 2024. Slowing relative wage growth in 2025 did not cause people to vote for Trump in 2024.
These are real (inflation-adjusted) growth rates, not wages themselves. Wages for the bottom quartile are now growing more slowly than other groups, but they’re still growing faster than inflation. If they were falling, the values on this graph would be below 0.
Most likely IMO is swarm mode/TeammateTool which is currently behind a feature flag github.com/mikekelly/cl...
(there's a video in the tweet linked from the repo)
I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is:
"My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities."
1/14
okay hear me out
Wrote a quick response to the latest anti-YIMBY research paper going around publiccomment.blog/p/sure-it-wo...
I was thinking more of big batch ML jobs like ranking (to the extent non-real-time), labeling, forecasting, etc., where consumers should gracefully handle missing output/fall back to previous run.
Agree your example is still "production" (I would also call it "online") and needs on-call at scale.
Reliability/uptime is one reason you might want a SWE skillset in ML, but it’s not the only reason. Offline ML systems at scale can benefit a lot from performance optimizations and MLOps practices broadly, but will generally still have looser SLAs than online services, often meaning no oncall.
a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.
incredible idea
dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-pag...
Whether this is a good thing depends on how likely congress is to pass meaningful AI safety regulation.
I am personally less-than-infinitely pessimistic about this, which is more than I can say about most things that require congressional action.
I read this as an acknowledgment that (enforceable) federal preemption of state-level AI safety regulation is only going to happen if it comes with meaningful federal AI safety regulation.
Earlier this year, I would have been surprised by this result.
Congratulations Sean O'Brien and #teamsters!
a “Space Force”, if you will
Note that all of the specifics here apply only to Waymo, not to self-driving cars in general.
I increasingly worry that regulators and the public will paint all platforms with the same brush, and was pleasantly surprised that that didn't seem to happen after the Cruise incident.
19/19