MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by netsharc | 2025-06-06 19:47:32+00:00
> Are you going to block AWS and Azure and everything on them because US-region instances don't implement French website blocks

*French shrug*

I guess their idea is to just make it obnoxious enough for casual users. At the moment a French resident wanting to watch these games without paying can just install VPN, connect to it, and watch the pirate streams. If the VPN providers are forced to comply, having a VPS is still a viable option, but for a casual user it's complicated enough that it might be enough to significantly reduce the number of pirate-stream watchers.

Then again, because of Internet censorship in e.g. China, Iran and Russia, there are several services designed for a 1-click install of a personal VPN on a VPS...
by kimbernator | 2025-06-06 19:47:58+00:00
Realistically, all that actually matters is where I land relative to the population at large. Since so much of the world economy is tied to stocks, by buying into it I will remain at least at parity with my current socioeconomic status regardless of whether the market goes up or down. Nobody with real money is just holding it in cash in case the whole stock thing doesn't work out.

If things go the way they have been for a while now, I'll be able to retire comfortably. If stocks don't gain or lose a penny for the next 40 years, I think society as a whole will have reframed retirement. If society collapses, it didn't matter anyways.
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-06-06 19:48:08+00:00
You can begin with an easier pattern…

Breathing through the nose, in for a count of three and out for five, then repeat.

As long as the outbreath is longer than the inbreath, you will get some effect.

Could also try relaxing first by massaging the Vagus nerve. An easy way to start with that is to massage in a circular motion the skin area in front of the Tragus (front skin flap) on each ear.

You can combine that with the measured breathing for added effect. They both stimulate the Parasympathetic nervous system.
by jeromebrock | 2025-06-06 19:48:09+00:00
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by cortesoft | 2025-06-06 19:48:10+00:00
> The longer a risky asset is held, the less chance of loss you’ll have

I understand what you are trying to say here, but it really depends on what the “risky asset” is. If you hold a diversified set of risky assets, like a stock market index fund, then what you say is correct.

However, there are other risky assets that don’t hold to this “a long time horizon reduces risk” statement. For example, if you put all your investment in a single stock, that is a risky asset that does not necessarily revert to the mean over time. Many companies go out of business, and the stock goes to zero and will never recover no matter how long you wait.

It is important to note what kind of risk you are taking.
by Retric | 2025-06-06 19:48:15+00:00
> Who does incentivizing R&D disadvantage?

Taxpayers who end up with the bill and every company is competing for workers, office space, etc. Incentives across decades shift what people study, what business get created, etc. R&D sounds great abstractly, but it’s not some panacea where unlimited funding results in pure gains.

The economy is generally more efficient without central planning, and dumping money into anything that can be classified as R&D is simply inefficient.
by deanputney | 2025-06-06 19:48:38+00:00
That is kind of strangely worded, but I think I see what they're getting at.

Say you would have been exactly not-profitable ($0) if you could expense all of your R&D as in the old system, therefore avoiding tax. Now with the new rules you may be on-paper profitable because you can only deduct 20% of the R&D as an expense this year. The remaining 80% of that expense tips you over, becomes profit, and that's taxable.
by logifail | 2025-06-06 19:49:02+00:00
> I would argue that lives have value even when people have preexisting medical conditions

(Otherwise healthy) school-age children - and younger adults - always faced a very low risk from Covid-19, and we had solid statistical data on this from at least May 2020 onwards.

Maybe we need to look at where our decision-makers get their information, and their incentives?
by throwaway29303 | 2025-06-06 19:49:59+00:00
Too much gameable measurement on the tax end, and too much unnecessary bureaucracy both to support that on the tax end and the retraining end;

I'm not sure if I agree with this because, after all, AI systems are going to be taking care of this so... What's bureaucracy for us is a couple trillion cycles on a CPU/GPU on a machine somewhere in a data center.

An agent to take care of the bureaucracy, another to retrain someone for a new job, etc.

And, yes, the long-term plan would be to fund UBI at some point; because if these systems become so capable and so efficient might as well let them do everything for us while we humans enjoy leisure time.
by os2warpman | 2025-06-06 19:50:22+00:00
I think this is a dumb idea.

It is a dumb idea.

BUT.

The people saying that it is difficult or impossible because of "PhYsIcS" are operating on information that was true when they were young researchers/students studying the state of the art at that time.

Now they are old, and things have changed.

Targets approaching a modern ABM platform at 2-7km/s can be engaged with a very high chance of success. It's not even that expensive. The Patriots in Ukraine can do it.

This isn't my opinion it is fact. There are photographs of the shattered remains of Russian MRBMs with approach velocities of 6km/s littering the Ukranian countryside.

It would take additional research and development to move 10km/s intercepts from "experimental but possible" to "very high probability" bin. R&D that is expensive, but not impossible.

I say 10km/s because russia is targeting 10km/s for all of their new wonder weapons. They are targeting 10km/s because they, like I, know that practically anything <10km/s is "doable".

It is not the 90s anymore.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-06 19:50:35+00:00
I think the definition of "fat enough" will come down quickly as these drugs become better understood. If the side effects are mild or manageable, why not prescribe it to anyone who even comes within striking distance of "overweight"? There are other kinds of medications, like those for high cholesterol, where it's a no-brainer to just start taking them when your cholesterol crosses some threshold.
by pistoriusp | 2025-06-06 19:51:35+00:00
> But as a business owner, this is a stupid reason to choose a solution. Choose solutions that will support the business and give it flexibility to change over time.

I agree with you. If you're starting out, if your business is not profitable, don't pick SaaS. Don't take the time and pay those 5 taxes. Rather just use the platform, and if you're scalable and profitable and growing, pick some other technology that supports you in the long run.
by wdaher | 2025-06-06 19:51:41+00:00
Here's a toy example that hopefully makes this clear:

In 2024, your business has $1m in revenue and has $2m in expenses. 100% of these expenses are R&D salaries (engineers you hire.)

Your company loses $1m/year. (You brought in $1m and spent $2m.)

Under the old rules, you'd owe no tax because you were unprofitable.

After Sec 174, what the IRS now says is:

You had revenues of $1m. But you only had $400k in expenses (because you now have to spread that $2m in R&D expense over 5 years).

So actually you had a profit of $600k! And you owe tax on that $600k profit (~$120k)

So you now have an additional $120k tax expense, making your business even more cash-flow negative.

.

Amusingly, if you're pre-revenue, none of this matters (you have no income at all, so it doesn't matter what your expenses are.) You get hardest hit by this change when you have some revenue and when you do a fair bit of R&D.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-06 19:52:33+00:00
> But in practice how many Americans would be willing to go nuclear in support of a Turkish war against the Russians? In circumstances where Turkey was considered the aggressor state.

The question is how many would be willing to go nuclear in response to Russia nuking US forces in Türkiye in response to a conventional attack by Türkiye, which any plausible "Russia nukes Türkiye" scenario would involve.
by gravez | 2025-06-06 19:52:36+00:00
oh, gotcha. Interesting approach with .md files! I also have problems with agent getting carried away and starting to create documentation, test files, etc. mostly notice this with Claude 4.

It's just cursor's system prompt problem. they just need time to "tame" the model after release.

for now, I just make sure that in every chat thread i have "DO NOT WRITE ANY DOCUMENTATION OR TEST OR ANYTHING THAT WASN'T EXPLICITLY ASKED. STAY LEAN"

But i sort of reached the point where I don't mind claude going off the rails a bit. Like restricting it with .md and constantly updating those guardrails sounds like more of a burden than help.

its just the prompt problem. try reading the chat and every time you see it doing excessive shit stop the chat and slap it on wrist saying "never create .env i already have it, you just don't have access, etc".

also, sounds obvious, but don't forget to create new conversations often. the "ignore a files it's just created" sounds like context window overload. 200k window for a new model sounds like a crime from anthropic
by Retric | 2025-06-06 19:53:39+00:00
> That said it is one thing for data to be cached in the short-term

Cashed data isn’t necessarily available for data retention to apply in the first place. Just because an ISP has parts of a message in some buffer doesn’t mean it’s considered as a recording of that data. If Google never stores queries beyond what’s needed to serve a response then it likely wouldn’t qualify.

Also, it’s on the entity providing data for the discovery process to do redaction as appropriate. The only way it ends up at the other end is if it gets sent in the first pace. There can be a lot of back and forth here and as to evidence that the courts care: https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_5.2
by vitro | 2025-06-06 19:53:54+00:00
For me, it was playing a musical instrument (transverse flute, then shakuhachi) that showed me that I really don't know how to breathe deeply with my diaphragm. Or, that I wasn't aware of it at all, now my breathing is more conscious, and I tend to focus on it many times, for example, when I'm just walking on the street. Concentrating on your breath is a great way to stay rooted in the present and become aware of your thought processes. Breathing is magical :)
by bob1029 | 2025-06-06 19:54:13+00:00
I question how viable these architectures are when considering that accurate simulation of a spiking neural network requires maintaining strict causality between spikes.

If you don't handle effects in precisely the correct order, the simulation will be more about architecture, network topology and how race conditions resolve. We need to simulate the behavior of a spike preceding another spike in exactly the right way, or things like STDP will wildly misfire. The "online learning" promise land will turn into a slip & slide.

A priority queue using a quaternary min-heap implementation is approximately the fastest way I've found to serialize spikes on typical hardware. This obviously isn't how it works in biology, but we are trying to simulate biology on a different substrate so we must make some compromises.

I wouldn't argue that you couldn't achieve wild success in a distributed & more non-deterministic architecture, but I think it is a very difficult battle that should be fought after winning some easier ones.
by peanutcrisis | 2025-06-06 19:54:31+00:00
He isn't saying there isn't such research being done, he's criticizing the attempts made by ideologues to discredit and discourage research along such premises.

Did you even bother to read the piece? He explicitly opens his fifth point with an example of The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) weaponizing its reputation to do precisely just that. He documented another instance of this in Nature recently as well [0]. If you look at the top subthread here too, Nature Human Behaviour is doing this as well.

Given all that, it seems he's right that the problem with ideologues exists. The success or lack thereof of these ideologues is a separate matter. Your claim that such research still exists doesn't negate the problem he identified. If anything, I don't think we should be comfortable with any kind of intentional distortions to the biology of race and ethnicity. The bad (false) PR could come back and bite, affecting the research and how it might be received. Otherwise, I don't really see any real disagreement here.

[0] https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/05/11/nature-tackles-rac...
by ak217 | 2025-06-06 19:54:57+00:00
Yes, if you are a profitable company operating at a steady state and your investors have a time horizon of (in other words, are locked in for) a decade or more.

Most companies in question don't fit these criteria. They are either large public companies subject to the reactions of the market to quarterly earnings, or small private startups that have limited cash (a runway of far less than 5 years) and are facing a perfect storm of a historic rise in the cost of capital coinciding with this change.

In either case, their cost of labor just went up by a lot and will continue to cause layoffs, labor market shrinkage, and diminished ability to develop new products.
by timewizard | 2025-06-06 19:55:30+00:00
> Users and advertisers started this debate.

I submitted that users have no power and advertisers have it all. So, no, not "users and advertisers," _JUST_ advertisers.

> There was definitely public pressure for Google to take down Covid discussions

There's public pressure for Google to take down information about abortion. So what's the difference? When does "public pressure" reach a point where they act? And is the pressure truly public and organic? Or fake and astroturfed?

You ignore more than you answer.
by latchup | 2025-06-06 19:55:33+00:00
Baseless? You just told us in your own words what you do and how this makes you special. Do you know what baseless means? That's before we even touch on the incredible irony of you assuming I'm a professional failure despite knowing nothing about me.

But that's just how being a manager-man goes; so focused on self-aggrandizement and surrounding yourself with yes-men that you lost your edge. Hope you can cover up your incompetence until the next promotion is due, because if ever a rung breaks away from under your feet, it'll probably be a loong way down to a position that matches your actual skill level.
by orangecat | 2025-06-06 19:56:02+00:00
Right. With concrete numbers, say your main expense is $1 million in developer salaries and you have $500k in revenue. Going by the previous rules, you have a loss of $500k and don't owe income tax. With the new rules, you can only deduct $200k of expenses which gives you a "profit" of $300k, on which you'll owe $62k in taxes.
by masklinn | 2025-06-06 19:56:14+00:00
> In this case Git already had a string set, but it's still not standard so there's a good chance the original author just didn't know about it.

The original commit was made in January 2009 (https://github.com/git/git/commit/b2a6d1c6868b6d5e7d2b4fa912...), strmap was added in November 2020 (https://github.com/git/git/commit/ae20bf1ad98bdc716879a8da99..., strset was added a few days later: https://github.com/git/git/commit/1201eb628ac753af5751258466...). It was first proposed in 2018 (https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180906191203.GA26184@sigill.in... the proposal specifically mentions it fixing possibly quadratic sites).

As noted in the comment, git did have a sorted string list with bisection search, and that's from 2008 (and it actually dates back to 2006 as the "path list" API, before it was renamed following the realisation that it was a generalised string list). Though as the hashmap proposal notes, it's a bit tricky because there's a single type with functions for sorted and functions for unsorted operations, you need to know whether your list is sorted or not independent of its type.
by libraryatnight | 2025-06-06 19:56:31+00:00
I agree. Further, these companies show us over and over again who they are, and whether it's tobacco companies, pharma, food, or oil companies they always know - in exactly the way and at the time that makes you sick to your stomach - what they're doing and who's likely to fall for it in a way that makes. The comments in this topic are feeling a bit sophist
by thayne | 2025-06-06 19:56:32+00:00
The company already pays payroll taxes on those salaries, and the employees pay income taxes. And the people hurt by this aren't the shareholders or top executives, it's the rank and file workers getting laid off, losing benefits, and being asked to work more for the same pay.

What this change effectively did was make software developers significantly more expensive, without increasing the amount those developers get paid.
by tptacek | 2025-06-06 19:56:33+00:00
Yes, I read the piece, and I find it very difficult to reconcile with the volume and quality of research going on in this area. My feeling is that some people want there to be a kind of Heckler's Veto on "controversies" they're concerned about, so that they can rail against it. But there isn't.

The real issue for people concerned about the politicization of this issue is that the science isn't going their way right now.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-06 19:56:39+00:00
> every company is competing for workers, office space, etc

My company is all-remote and none of us would work for a company that isn't doing R&D. Most of an entire profession now has to be amortized over 5 years.

> The economy is generally more efficient without central planning

The old tax code isn't "central planning", it just had the very reasonable property that the government wouldn't force you to pay taxes on a loss.

This scenario [0] is now possible. It wasn't before. That is a catastrophic level of stupidity, and you can't justify it with invisible-hand nonsense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44204353
by mywittyname | 2025-06-06 19:57:25+00:00
> The vast majority of tech workers laid off in the last two years didn't work in research and development.

I bet they were classified as R&D for accounting purposes. Product development largely falls into R&D - it doesn't matter what the product being developed is for.

Every job I had at a megacorp was classified as R&D, and I know because I had to track hours against such.
by wtallis | 2025-06-06 19:57:33+00:00
> Wondering how you'd classify Gaudi, tenstorrent-stuff, groq, or lightmatter's photonic thing.

Completely irrelevant to consumer hardware, in basically the same way as NVIDIA's Hopper (a data center GPU that doesn't do graphics). They're ML accelerators that for the foreseeable future will mostly remain discrete components and not be integrated onto Xeon/EPYC server CPUs. We've seen a handful of products where a small amount of CPU gets grafted onto a large GPU/accelerator to remove the need for a separate host CPU, but that's definitely not on track to kill off discrete accelerators in the datacenter space.

> Calling something a GPU tends to make people ask for (good, performant) support for opengl, Vulkan, direct3d... which seem like a huge waste of effort if you want to be an "AI-coprocessor".

This is not a problem outside the consumer hardware market.
by aduffy | 2025-06-06 19:58:23+00:00
That's quite a war chest to raise in such a short period of time. The market has concentrated with the couple of recent acquisitions. Sounds like likely uses of that cash are

- Buy a few million more users with more generous free tier, as models get cheaper the cost to acquire the marginal customer goes down over time anyway

- Build your own foundation model for coding. tbh I'm skeptical that a company can do this better than the Big 3 AI cos.

- Go to war over enterprise. Do a deal with Deloitte/Accenture and get every single one of their consultants spending 8hrs a day in Cursor. Another flavor: compete head-on with Accenture by making your own service firm that undercuts them and delivers ahead of schedule for once.
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