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> This will allow Zuckerberg to sell some of this new class C shares to pay a potential tax bill, without diluting his control of the company.

Yes while the article is a bit click-bait, "protect him from California wealth tax" sounds like he found some loop hole for not paying, it clearly says that it is about keeping control in the company and not avoiding to pay ...

> California is the big loser here (as expected).

Sad to see such a superficial and full of confirmation bias comment on HN. I am not taking position, I am not American and I don't think HN is the place for that anyway ... But please read the article before commenting

Re:Muse Spark Open on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:38AM (#50115778)
I find it interesting how companies doing open weight models are shifting from advertising them as "the best" to "the best in the US/EU". One week ago Mistral advertised their model as "significantly outperforming any open-weight model developed in the US or Europe" and the headline of this new meta model is "The Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model".

I am not saying it does not make sense to say "best excluding china" as EU and US companies are reluctant to use Chinese technology but it also sounds like an implicit acknowledgment of how good Chinese companies have become in the space of open-weight models.

Wow this level of negligence at that scale is crazy
No need to make assumption here, the article says it clearly:

> Danfoss told AFP in a statement that most of the affected equipment was "legacy" products which "no longer receive software or security updates". It said its AK-SM800 and AK-SC355 fridge regulator systems were notably affected, with a version of the former using "outdated firmware". It added that it had long advised supermarkets to update from those models.

That being said I am curious what is typically the amount of time for software support offered on a newly released equipment and how common it is for super market to use obsolete software (especially for the part which carry some security risk like something with remote control). Also what about the insurance? Will they (fully) cover the financial loss? I don't know what is in their insurance contract and I am not a lawyer but it seems to me that using obsolete software make the supermarket responsible to some extent

Re:Sonnet 5.5 on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:38PM (#49884767)
Am I getting out of touch or is it becoming kind of confusing what model should be used when? Sure you have tons of benchmarks pareto cost/perf curves etc but at the end of the day when I have a task to give to a model it is not so clear which model and which effort I should choose ... Also benchmark numbers are often reported with max effort but by default effort is medium and based on the pareto curve on this page, Sonnet 5.5 seems more cost efficient than opus only if effort is low or medium!
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @05:15AM (#49461919)
I am quite skeptical that an acquisition by Nvidia will make people move somewhere else ... The network effect remains central, if you are researcher/lab/company and you want to promote your model/dataset you go to the popular platform where most of the community is. The same way most of the public repo are still being published on GitHub despite people being pissed of by Microsoft acquisition. (I you add on top of that the cost changing your workflow, not using HF library, ... it make the transition even more difficult)
Re:GPT-5.2 on Friday December 12, 2025 @02:20AM (#46241683)
The fact that the post is comparing their reasoning model against gemini 3 pro (the "non reasoning" model) and not gemini 3 pro deep think (the reasoning one) is quite nasty. If you compare GPT5.2 thinking to gemini 3 pro deep think, the scores are quite similar (sometimes one is better sometimes the other one is)
> No. Renewable energy capacity is often built out specifically for datacenters

Not fully accurate. Indeed there is renewable energy that is produced exclusively for the datacenter. But it is challenging to rely only on renewable energy (because it is intermittent and electricity is hard to store at scale so often you need to consume electricity when produced). So what happens in practice is that the electricity that does not come from dedicated renewable capacity is coming from the grid/network. What companies do is that they invest in renewable capacity in the network so that "the non renewable energy that they consume at time t (because not enough renewable energy available at that moment) is offsetted by someone else consuming renewable energy later". What I am saying here is not pure speculation, look at the link to meta website, they are saying themselves that this is what they are doing