MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Retric | 2025-04-14 23:50:37+00:00
Billionaires benefit most from the largest tax exceptions. No tricky accounting needed it’s baked blatantly into the tax code. Long term capital gains are specifically lower than short term capital gains. Further gains are only taxed on sale allowing a lifetime of growth to pass to the next generation tax free.

They also operate at a scale where many tax breaks become viable. CEO owners aren’t paying themselves nominal salaries because they are actually working for free. Creating a shell company to own your 50k car isn’t useful but it’s damn well worth it if you’re buying a 50+m dollar yacht for personal use. Turning depreciation into a nominal loss offsetting capital gains etc.

Meanwhile people of lesser means get stuck with all kinds of crap like a 10% early withdrawal penalty on 401k plans.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-14 23:51:17+00:00
Yes and when I did receive a large portion of my compensation in stock, I had it set to sell all as soon as it vested and diversified it. If I had gotten the same amount of compensation in cash, I wouldn’t have put 25% of my compensation in AMZN. So why would I keep my vested RSUs? In fact this year I will get the same amount in cash that I did in 2022 in cash + RSUs. I have no plans on putting 25% of my compensation in any one stock.

Selling my “equity” in a private company once it vested wouldn’t have been an option.

Note for those who don’t know: Amazon has a 5/15/40/40 vesting schedule with their first four year offer. The first two years you get a large pro rated cash signing bonus to make up for the back heavy vesting.
Show HN: Code+=AI – build AI webapps in minutes by having LLM complete tickets
by cryptoz | 2025-04-14 23:51:49+00:00
The goal is to resolve frustrations while coding using AI, such as irrelevant changes sneaking in, messy copy+paste from ChatGPT to your editor, and getting quick previews of what you're working on.

3min demo video: https://codeplusequalsai.com/static/space.mp4

The main problem I'm solving is that LLMs still kinda suck at modifying code. Writing new code is smoother, but modifying code is way more common and a lot harder for LLMs. The main insight is that we're not modifying code directly. Rather, Code+=AI parses your source file into AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) form and then writes code to modify the AST structure and then outputs your code from that. I wrote a blog post detailing a bit more about how this is done: https://codeplusequalsai.com/static/blog/prompting_llms_to_m...

The system is set up like a Jira-style kanban board with tickets for the AI to complete. You can write the tickets or you can have LLMs write tickets for you - all you need is a project description. Each ticket operates on only 1 file however; for changes requiring multiple files, the LLM (gpt-4.1-mini by default) can Generate Subtasks to accomplish the task in full.

I also provide a code editor (it's monaco, without any AI features like copilot...yet) so you can make changes yourself as well. I have a strong feeling that good collaborative tools will win in the AI coding space, so I'm working on AI-human collaboration as well with this.

There is a preview iframe where you can see your webapp running.

This was a very heavy lift - I'll explain some of the architecture below. There is also very basic git support, and database support as well (sqlite). You can't add a remote to your git yet, but you can export your files (including your .git directory).

The architecture for this is the fun part. Each project you create gets its own docker container where gunicorn runs your Python/Flask app. The docker containers for projects are run on dedicated docker server hosts. All AI work is done via OpenAI calls. Your iframe preview window of your project gets proxied and routed to your docker container where your gunicorn and flask are running. In your project you can have the LLM write a webapp that makes calls to OpenAI - and that request is proxied as well, so that I can track token usage and not run afoul of OpenAI (it's not bring-your-own-key).

My next goal is to let users publish their webapps to our Marketplace. And each time a user loads your webapp that runs an OpenAI call, the token cost for that API call will be billed to that user with the project creator earning a margin on it. I'm building this now but the marketplace isn't ready yet. Stay tuned.

Really big day for me and hoping for some feedback! Thanks!
by SR2Z | 2025-04-14 23:51:51+00:00
Seriously - the whole point of giving your early employees equity is so that you can attract talent without blowing your budget.

It seems like most founders love pretending that there are armies of top-tier engineers rushing to work at their startup in exchange for pay that's well below market and stock that still won't be worth very much even if the company has a wildly successful IPO.

I really wonder why this happens - is it just greed from the founders? The VCs? Do early employees value stock like shit regardless of how transparent the company is?
by const_cast | 2025-04-14 23:53:15+00:00
It's significant because we already have patterns of thought where we credit civilization and such to white people and it causes problems.

You might not realize it, but thousands of these tiny things over a lifetime creates a subconscious bias. And then that manifests in real ways. Like, for example, disregarding or discrediting an area of study you know nothing about based purely on the type of people who created the study.
by xp84 | 2025-04-14 23:53:27+00:00
The Apple walled garden argues against you here. There are at least 20 million families in America where this holds true:

• Everyone in household uses an iPhone

• Main adult family members use iCloud Mail or at least use Apple Mail to read other mail

• Family members use iCloud contacts and calendars

• USPS Informed Delivery could be used (available to most/all US addresses)

• It can be ascertained what ZIP code you're in, for weather.

I think that's the full list of 'requirements' this thing would require. Just what's standing in their way?
by jltsiren | 2025-04-14 23:53:35+00:00
By default, research belongs to the researchers. That's an essential part of academic freedom. The main exceptions are research funded by grants and contracts that specify otherwise, and when you start looking for patents and other commercialization opportunities.

In other words, the university may have some property rights to your work if you deal too closely with for-profit businesses or national security interests. But if you are just doing normal research with normal grants, you'll probably never see those exceptions in your career.
by anotherpaulg | 2025-04-14 23:54:08+00:00
I just finished updating the aider polyglot leaderboard [0] with GPT-4.1, mini and nano. My results basically agree with OpenAI's published numbers.

Results, with other models for comparison:

Model Score Cost Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 03-25 72.9% $ 6.32 claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 64.9% $36.83 o3-mini (high) 60.4% $18.16 Grok 3 Beta 53.3% $11.03 * gpt-4.1 52.4% $ 9.86 Grok 3 Mini Beta (high) 49.3% $ 0.73 * gpt-4.1-mini 32.4% $ 1.99 gpt-4o-2024-11-20 18.2% $ 6.74 * gpt-4.1-nano 8.9% $ 0.43

Aider v0.82.0 is also out with support for these new models [1]. Aider wrote 92% of the code in this release, a tie with v0.78.0 from 3 weeks ago.

[0] https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

[1] https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html
by crazygringo | 2025-04-14 23:54:29+00:00
Well, it's proportional to their spending to some degree. It takes a world-class endowment to fund a world-class university. And it's all from private donations.

Harvard doesn't make a profit. It educates students and does research. It sounds like you're arguing Harvard should be broken up or something? But based on what? Is it abusing its power or something?
by yes_really | 2025-04-14 23:54:45+00:00
We can debate about specific requests from the Trump administration, but it is pretty clear that Harvard has been horrible. The previous administrations completely failed to fix it.

- Harvard has been discriminating against Whites and Asians in admissions for decades.

- Harvard deliberately refused to protect Jewish students against intimidation and harassment. Students camped in school property for weeks against Harvard's official rules. They chanted that they would bring islamic terrorism to America ("intifada, intifada, coming to America"), established a self-appointed security system that monitored and recorded Jews, and remained there for almost a month while the school simply refused to remove them. [1]

- Harvard's president stated that calling for the genocide of Jews did not necessarily constitute harassment. This is particularly bizarre when contrasted to Harvard's approach to other groups, like when it considers "misgendering" of trans individuals to be harassment.

[1] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/harvard-jew...
by MangoCoffee | 2025-04-14 23:54:49+00:00
What a waste! I can never understand corporate thinking and how CEOs get such massive fucking pay for decisions like this.

Intel paid $16.7 billion in 2015 and sold it for $8.75 billion?! What about all the money dumped into Altera from 2015 to 2025? How much was that? Is Intel just handing over the FPGA market to AMD?
by tharkun__ | 2025-04-14 23:55:00+00:00
See the funny thing is, even with all of this stuff about Intel that I hear about (and agree with as reported), I also just committed a cardinal sin just recently.

I'm old, i.e. "never buy ATI" is something that I've stuck to since the very early Nvidia days. I.e. switched from Matrox and Voodoo to Nvidia while commiserating and witnessing friend's and colleagues ATI woes for years.

The high end gaming days are long gone, even had a time of laptops where 3D graphics was of no concern whatsoever. I happened to have Intel chips and integrated graphics. Could even start up some gaming I missed out on during the years or replay old favourites just fine as even a business laptop Intel integrated graphics chip was fine for it.

And then I bought an AMD based laptop with integrated Radeon graphics because of all that negative stuff you hear about Intel and AMD itself is fine, sometimes even better, so I thought it was fair to give it a try.

Oh my was that a mistake. AMD Radeon graphics is still the old ATI in full blown problem glory. I guess it's going to be another 25 years until I might make that mistake again.
by TrackerFF | 2025-04-14 23:56:17+00:00
I believe Trump is going to disillusion so many voters with his tariff trainwreck, that it will be nigh on impossible for any republican candidate to win the next election.

I also believe that many, far too many US voters care more about what their groceries and consumer goods cost, than the civil rights of their fellow man...and that is what ultimately decides who they'll vote for.
by EA-3167 | 2025-04-14 23:56:29+00:00
I'm not a fan of the Cato Institute either, but I don't think that single fact in isolation can be considered more than simple ad hominem. Full disclosure: I believe that any time someone talks about a whole continent in sweeping generalizations, their argument is probably lacking. I also believe that problems in the poorer parts of Africa such (DRC, Mali, Sudan, etc) cannot be simply explained just through something like Libertarian economic theory.

BUT, I also believe that it's a factor, because frankly West and Sub-Saharan Africa are not the only parts of the world that were brutally colonized. They are one of most persistently poor and dysfunctional though, and so I think more than just kneejerk "history was hard on them" is needed to explain matters.

I think the author offers one element of the puzzle, but by presenting it as a full, standalone explanation he undermines himself and misses the multifaceted nature of complex problems that vary enormously depending on WHICH African nation we're talking about.

But still, you can do better than just dismissing him because he's politically misaligned to you. DOUBLY so when he's just cross-posting someone else's work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magatte_Wade

This is the person who wrote the content, and she does not work for the Cato Institute.
by xp84 | 2025-04-14 23:56:43+00:00
This is the kind of thing that they frequently hand-wavingly claim, however, 'compliance'? I'm not aware of any US garage door regulatory body.

These same companies have you click through 1000 pages of legalese (that thoroughly covers their butts) in order to use their own apps, which are probably more likely to be compromised than a public API, so I don't know why that would come with more liability.
by aoki | 2025-04-14 23:56:54+00:00
I mean, we literally just saw what happened at JHU when their USAID funding vanished. Everybody on that soft money got laid off.

That’s what makes stands like this hard for admin: you’re risking massive layoffs in the programs that are often the least political to defend the academic freedom of the programs that are often the most political. Columbia made one decision. Harvard is making another. You could make Lord Farquaad jokes here, but if it alone loses its federal funding in these expensive research areas, it will lose its preeminence in those areas for a long time.
by 6510 | 2025-04-14 23:57:03+00:00
There was this old statue with a large plaque under it bearing his name. I asked my mum who he was, she didn't know.

I understood the point of a statue was to be remembered if not honored for something but they forgot to describe who he was.

Eventually very little will remain to remember us by. You will likely be reduced eventually to a single commit message.

Therefore I coin a micro-format for code comments and commit messages. You should start with a child hood story, then comes a section about what you've learned that day, then you explain how it applies to the code and finally what have you done.
by blindriver | 2025-04-14 23:57:21+00:00
The US government has determined that the individual belonged to a gang. Also, the government of El Salvador confirmed this.

The fact that the lawyer for the person says "there's no evidence" doesn't mean there actually isn't any evidence. It just hasn't been revealed.

I believe that setting Teslas on fire is domestic terrorism. They were politically motivated to specifically target a political figure to intimidate other citizens. I think setting ballot boxes on fire is also domestic terrorism.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-04-14 23:58:28+00:00
If you hold stock in company A, and your current company B acquires company A, that's not insider trading if you already owned the stock in company A before you had any information that company B was going to make that decision.

It is, however, a conflict of interest for you to be involved in company B's acquisition of company A (e.g. influencing company B to buy company A), and might even rise to the level of a breach of your fiduciary duty to company B.
by 3vidence | 2025-04-14 23:58:35+00:00
So you can read the emergencies act here https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2022/02/can...

It requires the house and Senate to vote amongst other requirements.

PMs are re-elected every 4 years and need to continue to win their riding just like every other MP.

The fact that MPs don't regularly vote against their party seems like pretty standard politics across the world.

The government can also call votes of no faith to remove the current PM which has indeed happened to the last 2.

I don't think you need malice to spread misinformation you just have not done sufficient research in this topic before making your comments.

Edit: I'm not familiar with the structure of Israel's government so I cant comment on how much power their PM has individually.
Tell HN: Google terminated my YouTube account but charges me for YouTube Premium
by ent101 | 2025-04-14 23:58:47+00:00
Few months ago, Google randomly, and without warning, terminated my YoutTube account because "it violates our Spam, deceptive practices and scams policy", even though I had only published one simple, unlisted screen recording of my personal project, shared with friends and family. I appealed the decision and got immediately rejected with no recourse.

I was a YouTube Premium subscriber, and Google is still charging me every month with no way for me to cancel the subscription. None of the links work because, well, my YouTube account is terminated and nobody to talk to.

I've tried anything and everything with no luck. Has anybody experienced something like this? How were you able to stop the subscription?
by zem | 2025-04-15 00:00:13+00:00
pratchett is my all time favourite writer, and I love the discworld series, but I never got a good sense of the "spaces between" the way tolkien could do it - e.g. the logistics of traveling from ankh morpork to the ramtops were alluded to, but the journey scenes never really came alive for me in the way that scenes set within ankh morpork did.

the deverry series did come close, and to some extent the wheel of time books (though it's been a while since I read those).
by andrethegiant | 2025-04-15 00:00:23+00:00
It’s a shame that the knee-jerk reaction has been to outright block these bots. I think in the future, websites will learn to serve pure markdown to these bots instead of blocking. That way, websites prevent bandwidth overages like in the article, while still informing LLMs about the services their website provides.

[disclaimer: I run https://pure.md, which helps websites shield from this traffic]
by xp84 | 2025-04-15 00:01:36+00:00
Well, that certainly is the disingenuous corporate line. But the 'hackers' required nothing of Chamberlain -- what they built was already working, until they played a cat-and-mouse game to block them until the maintainer gave up. There are hundreds of companies that do support Home Assistant integrations or at least let them exist, and maintainers are always eager to fix any issue that comes up.

It's really not a dichotomy between aggressively blocking users from having any control over their own home, vs. some kind of imaginary concierge red carpet public API service that hijacks the company's product roadmap. The open source community will basically do 100% of the work for any firm which doesn't opt to actively sabotage.
by jrapdx3 | 2025-04-15 00:01:41+00:00
Certainly seems it ought not to be, but evidently the will to provide "the same protections" is lacking. The unavoidable conclusion is that antisemitism is policy even if it's not official and documented. That truly defies logic considering some of the university's brightest lights have been Jews who've made major contributions to their fields, the school and the country as a whole.
by sergiotapia | 2025-04-15 00:01:42+00:00
Another story for https://serverlesshorrors.com/

It's crazy how these companies are really fleecing their customers who don't know any better. Is there even a way to tell Vercel: "I only want to spend $10 a month max on this project, CUT ME OFF if I go past it."? This is crazy.

I spend $12 a month on BunnyCDN. And $9 a month on BunnyCDN's image optimizer that allows me to add HTTP params to the url to modify images.

1.33TB of CDN traffic. (ps: can't say enough good things about bunnycdn, such a cool company, does exactly what you pay for nothing more nothing less)

This is nuts dude
by leopoldj | 2025-04-15 00:02:07+00:00
> there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs

This appears to be a bad translation. Modern translation is "and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven". This is referring to celibacy. The issue is explained in more detail by Paul in 1 Corinthians 7 verse 8-9.
by RhysU | 2025-04-15 00:02:08+00:00
You could have done the same thing with a margin-enabled brokerage account, e.g. Interactive Brokers or Fidelity.

It's not particularly hard. Just have enough collateral to not get margin called. And, like the margin interest rate better than the tax hit. Shop around for rates. Notice, you don't have to pay the entire down payment this way.

If you have amassed 6 figures of stock and are buying a house, you're qualified to educate yourself on these topics. It's usually worth reading up anytime you incur that sizable a taxable event.

I am not saying this is a great idea, BTW. Just, it's an idea within many people's reach.
by BMc2020 | 2025-04-15 00:02:28+00:00
William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”

Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”

--A Man for all Seasons
by const_cast | 2025-04-15 00:02:33+00:00
Multiple problems here:

1. Universities aren't "incredibly hostile towards Republicans"

2. CRT: critical race theory is a real study. It's just understanding the historical context for the current socioeconomic landscape of America. Do you think black Americans were magically fixed after slavery ended? No? Congratulations, you support the fundamentals of CRT. It just became conservative spooky buzzword.

3. Avoiding hate towards Christians... who is out here hating Christians? This fetish for persecution is getting very strange. At absolute worst, people are asking Christians to avoid passing legislation using their religion. Which is happening at an alarming rate and should be concerning to every American who respects our Constitution!

4. "reverse"... yeah no, it's really not. Nobody has been silencing conservative voices, it's just difficult to hold a conservative voice while being in higher education. Because conservatism as an ideology is naturally opposed to higher education and new ways of thought. It's the same reason conservative pieces of media suck. Conservatism as an ideology is naturally opposed to artistic expression and radical creativity, so of course the media sucks. Nobody is doing it to them, it's just that the way they are is largely incompatible with that thing. There's other fun example of this, too. For instance, why does Christian Rock suck so bad? (Christianity and Rock as ideologies are antithetical).
by protocolture | 2025-04-15 00:03:34+00:00
I went through this weird experience with Cortana on WP7, where I found it incredibly useful to begin with, and then over time it got worse. It seemed like it was created by some incredibly talented engineers. I used it to make calls while driving, set the GPS and search for information while I drove. But over time, it seemed to change behaviour and started ignoring my commands, and when it did accept them, it seemed to refer me to paid advertisers. And considering bing wasnt even as popular as it is now, 10 years ago, a paid advertiser could be 100km away.

Which I think is a path that people haven't considered with LLMs. We are expecting them to get better forever, but once we start using them, their legs will be cut out to force them to feed us advertising.
by wavewrangler | 2025-04-15 00:03:49+00:00
You probably know this and are looking for consistency but, a little trick I use is to feed the original data of what I need as a diagram and to re-imagine, it as an image “ready for print” - not native, but still a time saver and just studying with unstructured data or handles this surprisingly well. Again not native…naive, yes. Native, not yet. Be sure to double check triple check as always. give it the ol’ OCD treatment.
by accrual | 2025-04-15 00:04:51+00:00
It's a bummer you've had poor experiences with ATI and later AMD, especially on a new system. I have an AMD laptop with Ryzen 7 7840U which includes a Radeon 780M for integrated graphics and it's been rock solid. I tested many old and new titles on it, albeit at medium-ish settings.

What kind of problems did you see on your laptop?