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Yes they (land rents) deplete access to opportunities (don't know about _your_ situation in particular) -- the "housing theory of everything" is one articulation -- far greater than platform rents (which I'm also not a fan of; look at my comment history and you'll occasionally see me calling for ad taxes). Even platform (or more broadly tech) rents are often taken by landowners, who are not as subject to competition.

You're dramatically underestimating land rent, probably well over $10t/year, total land value over $200t.

No affiliation with either, but I don't think Java and Scala are punching at each other, and they're both doing great. Needless to say Java has continued to exceed expectations and given its huge role in the world, that's worth [handwave very huge number] in consumer welfare. Scala has evolved the last several years to again become perhaps the most interesting big-ish application language, eg see Odersky's recent https://scaladays.org/session/opening-session-keynote/ and https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786335.3813127

The simile works for me, illustrated by something earlier in the blog post:

> If a junior programmer does not learn to write code and simply generates it, they are robbing themselves of the opportunity to develop the visceral understanding of code that comes with being down in the trenches.

I never learned to write any assembly language and am pretty sure as a result I do not viscerally understand what a compiler generates, though I enjoy recreationally looking at godbolt as much as the next person. Given a lot more time I'd get to assembly (and below) but I don't feel that I robbed myself.

There's a difference in how you can reason about a nondeterminstic system from how you can reason about a determinstic one, but you can reason about both, and you can develop a visceral understanding of both.

Not just a hobbyist,* an enthusiast[1[2] previously[3[4].

[1] https://x.com/seiyanuta [2] https://seiya.me/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42631873 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986229

* I do get the reference and releaize I'm changing the class of the referent. Anyway FTL (or the next one...) FTW, godspeed.

The CA amending bill with a carve-out for open source is still active, is not yet law (see https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.x... for the changes to current law if the bill passes).

Including on the dimensions of (1) having a very fast website and (2) not having any paywalls. Feels very good to read.

Agreed as does the org putting out the linked paper https://www.prohousingpgh.org/blog/policy-land-value-taxes

And if you read the linked paper, particularly the section "Effects of Reassessments on Split-Rate Taxing Bodies" (split rate being the riff you're referring to), making land value assessments more accurate of course makes land value taxation more appealing.

I can't tell from the site or the linked twitter handles. Their core ask for every state seems to be "Please support clear safe-harbor language for lawful local AI ownership, research, model modification, open-source publication, and local execution" rather than stopping or amending any specific bill/law.

One they _could_ be referring to is the California AI Transparency Act which isn't compatible with open source licensing, see https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/g...

Cool concept, I hope it becomes fully realized, scaled, copied. Created a play prediction question to track that https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/by-eoy-2030-what-wil...

Good development, along with the most recent changes to https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

A colleague is hosting a virtual session on these and other similar bills around the world in two days https://maintainermonth.github.com/schedule/2026-05-22-age-a...

Or, now slightly out of date, read https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/w... Added: I had not scrolled far enough on the front page, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214215 is on this blog.

Which is approximately all companies because all companies use software and depending on what the researchers look at, 90% to 98% of codebases depend on OSS.

Conclusion: support OSS from general taxation, like the Sovereign Tech Fund in Germany does. It's a public good!

https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031 https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822239138038382684 "In the end it came down to Swift vs Rust, and Swift is strictly better in OO support and C++ interop."

ExoAgent (from your bio/past comments) looks really interesting. Godspeed!

I don't know that there are any similaries besides the names -- well maybe something thematic about distributing the future or what looked like it at the time to more programmers -- but the handful of times I've run across Grain (probably all on HN) I'm reminded of Wheat https://web.archive.org/web/20050215032130/http://wheatfarm....

Do you have a pointer to where LeCun spoke about it? I noticed last October that Dwarkesh mentioned the idea off handedly on his podcast (prompting me to write up https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-...) but I wonder if this idea has been around for much longer, or is just so obvious that lots of people are independently coming up with it (parent to this comment being yet another)?

Good title!

Different cutoff but similar question thrown out in https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/thoughts-on-sutton#:~:text=If%20y... inspiring https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-...

I've had approximately the same thought, to different but complementary ends "More generally (not covered in this question) perhaps this could also be a fun way to interrogate the tech tree, e.g., what could have been discovered given the data at a given cutoff, how early or late certain advancements came, etc." https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-...

Would love to see it!

Lots of discussion on the EFF's post on this same topic last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985890

I expect a deluge of critical comments near the Dec 2 deadline. Add yours! :)

It is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Ka_8kHTj4&t=903s

It's a very good thing the US has declined to sign this. The digital rights community has been campaigning against it since its proposal by Russia in 2017. The US not signing it is a small victory across a very large loss. Many explainers like https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/joint-statement-un-cyb...

There doesn't seem to be much info about OMA available online. Your thesis linked from https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/groups/trustworthy-system... which is linked from your home page/timeline is a broken link. Perhaps https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3450147 is the best in depth info available currently? Looking forward to future developments and success!

Great to see in the priorities "sandboxing by default" (under desktop variety) and https://nlnet.nl/project/Capability-based-RedoxOS/ (under security).

As the post mentions wallets like MetaMask being the targets, AFAIK MetaMask in particular might be one of the best protected (isolated) applications from this kind of attack due to their use of LavaMoat https://x.com/MetaMask/status/1965147403713196304 -- though I'd love to read a detailed analysis of whether they actually are protected. No affiliation with MetaMask, just curious about effectiveness of seemingly little adopted measures (relative to scariness of attacks).

Added: story dedicated to this topic more or less https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45179889