This would be extremely hard to put into legislation that wouldn't affect just about every single site on the internet currently.

Wow, I just a saw a YouTube video of Flea's house for sale in the LA suburb of La Crescenta for sale. Super nice house. Strangely I also saw Steve Vai's house for sale in LA at the same time. Also super nice house.

Well Flea just released a jazz record where he plays trumpet. I admire him for it, but might need some financing now.

https://youtu.be/1r0k2AW153g?si=-J6qNeyc3dHQJ6Gk

He also played in a Star Wars series as a bad guy kidnapping Pricess Leia. I like him a lot.

And in Back to the Future too

Maybe trying to escape the wealth tax?

I think there is a "mansion" tax in Los Angeles proper, but La Crescenta is a separate city.

Not sure any of the band members are over 1b individually which is the current threshold. Maybe, though.

There have been arguments that the wealth tax proposal has loopholes that would allow it to be extended to much lower levels of wealth without a further amendment. More importantly, if that’s the way the state’s politics are trending, it might be worth it to leave and come back if the threat goes away.

Who knows, maybe one of the band members invested in a successful startup, or is an LP for a VC that did. That’s not unheard of for the entertainment industry. Most people wouldn’t have pegged Ashton Kutcher as an investing genius, but he has been highly successful.

I remember that Singapore caned an American teenager back in the 90's for vandalizing cars. It was a big event in the news at the time.

It looks like every CSU System is on the list (California State University). Surprised this hasn't hit the front page yet.

Possibly because they haven't released the data yet?

I'm honestly surprised more people aren't talking about this.

We saw this during the pandemic when everyone wanted to purchase bicycles. Shimano (they make bike transmission parts and brakes) saw a huge increase in demand. Shimano didn't want to invest into new factories as they assumed the demand was a temporary spike. I'm pretty sure this is what is happening currently with RAM, SSD's and processors. New fabs are coming on line, and Apple is looking at both Intel and Samsung to bring additional capacity online. If the AI boom dramatically slows, it's going to be interesting to see how the industry responds.

I don't get this, is there a world where we need fewer cpu/ram/ssds in the future?

Like, there's so many things that could benefit from a cheap processor involved in their operation, the growth seems effectively unlimited.

There's definitely a world where we need newer products, but not as many or as fast in iteration. My gaming PC has 128GB of RAM... And I built it years ago when RAM was laughably cheap. I still never touch the sides on it.

Ok sure, assuning your gaming machine lasts 5-10 years, what about everyone else who is born (or turns 18 or whatever) during that timespan?

Really in /etc plain text? I could see some random app possibly doing that somewhere in ~/.config, but I don't think Linux itself stores passwords in plain text for systemwide use.

I think the commenter means that some Linux applications store the passwords they need for access to external resources in plain text.

Ha I immediately thought of the Human Fund from Seinfeld. Their fake slogan “money for humans”

Don't think that will happen, they will probably tell their ISP's to block access t those sites.

I think the user needs the ability to set how their data feed works and not be dependent on the hyper addictive algorithmic feed. And parents need to be able to set that for their kids. 90% of the stuff I see in Facebook is garbage that I don't care for.

Wait, weren't there posts in the not too distant past where everyone was signing the praises for Claude and wondering how OpenAI will catch up?

Yep. I think the sentiment here isn't lagging too much in terms of the day to day experience of what is being offered. Kind of makes HN very useful in this regard.

Wait, are SaaS's fundamentally shifting business models searching to maximize the value of a product at the expense of a customer over time?

Strange how things can change!

We've seen this sentiment shift on HN like 20 times in the past year, too often for it to be a real reflection of service quality. Feels more like people rooting for sports teams.

The services (OpenAI, Anthropic) are not wildly changing that much. People are just using LLMs more and getting frustrated because they were told it would change the world, and then they take it out on their current patron. Give it a month and we'll be hearing how far OpenAI has fallen behind.