MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jleyank | 2025-06-09 22:33:27+00:00
Hopefully whoever’s sweeping people off the streets is careful - there’s a tremendous amount of biotech/pharma in San Diego and HN knows all about Silicon Valley. Damaging those two communities “to spite California” is going to do way, way more damage than they realize. The investors can fund companies wherever they want, giving the tax dollars to other locales. And other countries will probably offer similar visas to get their hands on it.

Once gone, it just might stay away. Returning California to an agricultural state will put a huge hole in federal revenue.
by sho_hn | 2025-06-09 22:33:51+00:00
In fact, Apple once did a version of Aqua that did an overengineered materials-based rasterization at runtime, including a physically correct glass effect.

It was too slow and was later optimized away to run off of pre-rendered assets with some light typical style engine procedural code.

Feels like someone just dusted off the old vision now that the compute is there.
by moralestapia | 2025-06-09 22:34:11+00:00
I own two that I really like.

sci.app

and

vga.ai

^^

Some good ones I can think of:

archive.org (does what it says)

ifconfig.me (same name as the tool)

noise.fm (I want this for a personal project but came in late)

js.org

radio.garden
by jasondigitized | 2025-06-09 22:34:59+00:00
They will follow the Buceee's model. It's not about the gas. It's about amenities and merchandising. Because of the amount of pumps, they would make a perfect fit for lots of electric chargers as well if they wanted to convert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WksA55t6f9o
by sh34r | 2025-06-09 22:36:03+00:00
I wonder how many civilians will be disappeared before a Dem governor finds their balls and musters the state militia. There’s millions of patriots out there just waiting for the call to action. This nonviolent shit will get you killed. MLK was a gun owner.

If that kind of talk worries you, consider how much uglier it will be when the good people of LA form unregulated militias instead. Do you really want to see Ruby Ridge 2: Rooftop Korean boogaloo?
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-09 22:36:15+00:00
Devils advocate might say

1. Lots of groups want to pay less tax to suit them. Just because it benefits us doesn't make the lobbying logical.

2. We call ourselves builders. But you presumably can't claim the cost of building your house against income tax. So why is out building different.

3. Come on; be honest: software development was always the loophole. You have coders building next year's features and you are saying that is a legitimate expense against this year's profit. You couldn't have made profit this year without a half implemented unreleased AI sparkle?

I really think the law is silly from a practical point of view but it's good insofar that other countries' silicon valleys need a chance ;)
by tptacek | 2025-06-09 22:36:58+00:00
I've been on HN since 2007 and believe I have seen literally every possible permutation of this particular debate, and I don't have a stake in it. Value your equity at $0 unless you have a very good reason not to. The comment I replied to make falsifiable claim, and I felt it was worth falsifying, so that's what I did.
by msgodel | 2025-06-09 22:37:16+00:00
Sounds like a fun experiment. That should be enough to keep your phone charged or maybe power a small laptop.

I like to use boost style charge controllers and run the panels in parallel boosting up to 48 volts (nominal.) This is optimal for sub 2kw arrays (otherwise you'll start needing impractically large conductors.)

Although with a set up that small it doesn't really matter.
by hbcondo714 | 2025-06-09 22:37:32+00:00
> You don’t have to worry about the exact tokens that Foundation Models operates with, the API nicely abstracts that away for you [1]

I have the same question. Their Deep dive into the Foundation Models framework video is nice for seeing code using the new `FoundationModels` library but for a "deep dive", I would like to learn more about tokenization. Hopefully these details are eventually disclosed unless someone else here already knows?

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/301/?time=1...
by perihelions | 2025-06-09 22:38:28+00:00
You're not cynical; it's his plain, revealed character. He's been openly fantasizing about soldiers shooting protestors for years. He's asked his own defense secretary if he could do it for him,

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097517470/trump-esper-book-d... ("Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump asked about shooting protesters")
by jordansmithnz | 2025-06-09 22:38:39+00:00
Having used it very briefly, I think it’s a reasonable direction. Before you all jump to tell me why I’m wrong:

1. It makes depth and layering extremely clear.

2. It prioritizes focusing on the content.

These are good principles and I think they’ll last the distance. There are plenty of refinements needed, especially for accessibility. I suspect over the next few years we’ll see the direction toned back a little while still retaining the best parts.
by mionhe | 2025-06-09 22:39:00+00:00
I think you are right, and it would be wonderful if people could mind their own business more.

I can't speak for the original commentator, but my own experience is one of trying to mind my own business and having this experience thrust upon me by people who are very excited about their pets.

I guess I'd like people to keep their pets to themselves the way I keep my kids to myself: if someone asks I'm generally happy to talk about them, otherwise I don't volunteer information.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-06-09 22:39:11+00:00
> This is not the way that a democracy is supposed to function: with the voted out president trying to thwart the incoming president.

Wild that you can unironically say that Biden appointing committee members is undemocratic..

I can only imagine what you'll say when you hear about what Trump did when he lost the 2020 election. You will be most upset when you learn about that I suspect.
by drekk | 2025-06-09 22:39:21+00:00
Biden and Obama's administrations deported more people per day than Trump in his first term, or so far in his second. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

Veterans are not getting support because Republicans vote against the bills. Fentanyl is claiming lives because both political parties sold out the American people to the Sackler family. I don't feel the need to address your "thug" comment. Most of those undocumented folks are employed. Together they make up 5% of our national workforce. And every undocumented person pays taxes without qualifying for benefits. It has been 60 years since the national guard has been deployed without consent of the governor. The last time was the Kent State massacre. It's an intentional provocation that will kill Americans, same as last time.
by hotsauceror | 2025-06-09 22:39:48+00:00
You are not a dinosaur. I would argue that the great majority of engineers at our org do it the 'old fashioned' way.

My own experience with LLM-based coding has been wasted hours of reading incorrect code for junior-dev-grade tasks, despite multiple rounds of "this is syntactically incorrect, you cannot do this, please re-evaluate based on this information" "Yes you are right, I have re-evaluated it based on your feedback" only to do the same thing again. My time would have been better spent either 1) doing this largely boilerplate task myself, or 2) assigning and mentoring a junior dev to do it, as they would only have required maybe one round of iteration.

Based on my experience with other abstraction technologies like ORMs, I look forward to my systems being absolutely flooded with nonperformant garbage merged by people who don't understand either what they are doing, or what they are asking to be done.
by kergonath | 2025-06-09 22:40:36+00:00
> the Windows kernel already had a concept of "personalities" from back when they were trying to integrate OS/2 so that zero-to-one for XNU could be a huge lift, not the syscalls part specifically

XNU is modular, with its BSD servers on top of Mach. I don’t see this as being a strong advantage of NT.
by aquariusDue | 2025-06-09 22:41:36+00:00
A few years ago I would've said you were incredibly cynical, but nowadays with so much AI slop around social media and just tonnes of bad content I tend to agree with you.

Now the Cyberpunk pen and paper RPG seems prophetic if turn your head sideways a bit https://chatgpt.com/share/684762cc-9024-800e-9460-d5da3236cd...
by sergers | 2025-06-09 22:41:39+00:00
i am not a skeptic, but with covid19 vax i first hand witnessed completely irregular menstrual cycles, and nerve issues/trigeminal neuralgia that doctors have been unable to "explain" only occuring after my first jab and continue for years.

i took 2 jabs at that start of covid vaxinations, fcked my life up to be honest.

only now doctors they are saying may be related after years of inconclusive reports..

we jumped the gun on covid19 vax, i am fine with anything being out many many years.

we wouldnt dare give it to our children.

BUT we are upto date and will continue to be upto date on immunizations as required by local health and schools (covid is not one of them).

so we arent anti-vax.

we anti-letting us and our kids be the test bed.
by michaelt | 2025-06-09 22:42:07+00:00
> What other sort of capital expenditure has you do releases every day, or requires 24/7 monitoring?

Quite a lot of them actually. If I spend $$$$ setting up a car factory with a big production line, I'm going to have people monitoring it 24/7. If I build an airport, I'm going to have air traffic controllers working 24/7. And so on.

Of course, the air traffic controllers didn't build the runway, and the construction crew don't direct air traffic, so the whole situation is much less ambiguous.
by eichin | 2025-06-09 22:42:38+00:00
I had friends in MIT's computational linguistics group back in the 1980s who did a casual get together where they'd take turns handing out spectrograms of human speech and for the rest of the group to try and interpret. Apparently this started with some noted researcher asserting that you couldn't interpret a spectrogram faster than it was originally spoken, and one of them decided to learn them well enough to disprove it by example, which turned out to be easy but inspired them to continue by trying to make more challenging ones - culminating in getting John Moschitta Jr. to record for them :-)
by ttshaw1 | 2025-06-09 22:42:42+00:00
Of course Ukraine conscripts, they're in a war for their survival. They aren't drafting anyone under 25, by the way, so it's not as dire as you seem to think. And Russia's beating people and throwing them in pits if they won't sign contracts to go to Ukraine, so it's not all roses over there.

It's not at all unreasonable to think that Ukraine can continue ceding ground and shredding Ladas full of mobiks until Putin kicks the bucket, or the Russian economy collapses. A healthy economy doesn't have a 20% key interest rate for 8 months straight, you know. We've already seen one large-scale mutiny in the Russian armed forces, too, so who knows what else might happen?

You haven't proposed any sort of alternative to continuing to arm and fund Ukraine. What's your idea, cut them off and say "good luck?" How does that benefit anyone besides Russia and the minority of Ukrainians who don't want to fight?

edit: if you're thinking that I care about the financial cost of arming Ukraine, I don't. This is the best money we've ever spent and the only time I've respected our MIC, and I wish we were sending more weapons and more financial support. Every time Ukraine spends $100,000 of aid destroying a piece of Russian armor, that's saving us god knows how much in money spent on deterrence.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-06-09 22:43:03+00:00
Reminder that the authority under which the the US military is deployed against US citizens was intended to be used in exceptional (extreme) circumstances - ostensibly because no other options would suffice.

The Insurrection Act authorizes the president to deploy military forces inside the United States to suppress rebellion or domestic violence or to enforce the law in certain situations. The statute implements Congress’s authority under the Constitution to "provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions." It is the primary exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, under which federal military forces are generally barred from participating in civilian law enforcement activities.

ref: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/insu...

This is the heaviest hammer in the toolbox. Deploying it against citizens he doesn't like because he resents their message is a historical display of bad character and is profoundly unethical in a way that the harshest adjectives struggle to reflect.
by rkagerer | 2025-06-09 22:43:30+00:00
Yes. Here are fact checks for those who don't trust the easy AI answer:

https://www.britannica.com/science/pulsar

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar#Description

They are both forms of neutron stars, which average around 20km but are the densest objects known to man. Fun fact, one sugar cube of their material would weigh about as much as a mountain (https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/neutron_stars1...).
by Animats | 2025-06-09 22:44:31+00:00
With lower material costs, more mundane applications might appear, but probably not all that many. 3D printed titanium eyeglass frames are already a thing, though.

Here's three generations of Space-X's Raptor engine.[1] The last one is mostly 3D printed. There are layers of different materials, and one is a titanium layer. Notice how the plumbing was simplified for each generation.

Rocket engines are mostly plumbing. The fuel is used to cool the engine bell before it is used for power. Everything has cooling cavities inside. All that interior geometry is ideal for 3D printing. In the NASA glory days, those things were built by hand welding large numbers of machined pieces into an engine. Look at that Raptor engine on the right. Everything below the pumps is all one big part. No joints, no welds, no brackets, no plumbing fittings. Nice.

[1] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/08/spacex-reveals-raptor-...
by rekabis | 2025-06-09 22:44:33+00:00
The worst example I ever experienced was finding an actual flaw within some software with Trac as a version control system - somehow DD-WRT comes to mind - and I submitted a bug report with full reproducibility workflow and everything I could imagine. Essentially, the platinum standard for submitting a bug report in software development.

It was immediately rejected.

The reasoning? “Did not identify the relevant code in which the error occurred”.

Like… WTF????

Edit: confirmed as DD-WRT. I’ve never submitted another bug report to them again. And I’ve submitted hundreds of reports to other projects all over.
by floxy | 2025-06-09 22:45:21+00:00
>Ford engineers, P&G food researchers, and architect salaries are capitalized just like Software development costs.

I'd say the majority of the posters on this thread who are answering questions (as opposed to asking questions) believe this is not the case. What is a good source for learning more about which categories of employee salaries are amortized? Besides becoming a CPA.
by echelon | 2025-06-09 22:45:24+00:00
It's actively being discussed in Congress and is a part of OBBBA.

" H.R.1990 - American Innovation and R&D Competitiveness Act of 2025 "

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1990...

> A bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress last month could offer long-awaited relief to small tech companies hit hardest by an obscure federal tax change — one that many founders say is threatening their survival.

> Industry groups from the Small Software Business Alliance to the National Venture Capital Association and TECNA are backing the bill, which sits in committee. Over 100 House members have signed on. The bill would reverse the changes not just going forward, but also retroactively.

https://technical.ly/startups/r-d-tax-change-reversal-startu...

> On May 13, the House Ways and Means Committee passed “The One, Big Beautiful Bill.” This bill includes several provisions that, if enacted, will be important to businesses claiming research and development incentives:

> The bill would suspend the current amortization requirement for domestic R&D expenses and allow companies to fully deduct domestic research costs in the year incurred for tax years beginning January 1, 2025 and ending December 31, 2029.

https://www.crowell.com/en/insights/client-alerts/house-comm...

> The OBBBA suspends required capitalization of domestic research and experimental expenditures for amounts paid or incurred in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024, and before January 1, 2030. Under the OBBBA, at the taxpayer’s election, such expenditures can be: deducted as paid or incurred under new Section 174A(a),

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2025/05/the-on...
by ponector | 2025-06-09 22:45:31+00:00
There are lots of ways to use AI coding tools.

Cursor is great for fuzy search across the legacy project. Requests like "how you do X here" can help a lot while fixing old bug.

Or adding a documents. Commit description generated based on diff. Or adding a javadoc to your methods.

Whatever step in your workflow which consists of rewriting existing text but not creating anything new - use Cursor or similar AI tool.
by HiroshiSan | 2025-06-09 22:46:01+00:00
The studies referenced are highlighted and spread throughout the video for each point he talks about.

I’m not sure what penis pumps have to do with the quality of his research, they’re a legitimate medical device used in patients with erectile dysfunction. [1]

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9497591/
by norir | 2025-06-09 22:46:21+00:00
Here is the most valuable exercise I can think of for language development: write a function that produces a formatted error string that renders the location of the cause of the error and the reason for the error. Once you have this, it will be much easier to write your compiler from the ground up because every step of the way you can validate that the compiler is only handling inputs that you it expect it to and rejecting everything else.

The error reporting function is not easy to write correctly, but a decent one can be written in fewer than 100 lines of lua (and I am certain it can be done in all but the least expressive languages in under 200).
by BitwiseFool | 2025-06-09 22:46:33+00:00
I've seen a few instances of an arrow pointing down into a box/tray. I'm not sure how I feel about it. It seems appropriate, but the only caveat is that a lot of applications already represent 'download' with a similar icon. I imagine some product designers would be unhappy with a download-looking icon representing saving to a location in "the cloud".
by aucisson_masque | 2025-06-09 22:46:35+00:00
> I’d strongly prefer a society where agency leaders are picked for their expertise, not party allegiance.

Me too of course, but it’s not even about that. I could understand if they chose someone because he is competent and republican.

What triggers me is the kind of snake this man is, if the Chinese offered him money to reveal secrets and he thinks he can get away with, I have no doubt he would collaborate.

You need a man you can trust at this position, someone that wouldn’t betray his country. If he’s the kind to spread money on both side of the political spectrum, regardless of his moral compass, or just dignity, I would be extremely cautious.

That’s basically not a man with conviction, or dignity.
by hollerith | 2025-06-09 22:47:09+00:00
I agree that the production of soy oil in the current economy uses a lot of fossil fuel.

But you brought up soy oil to support your assertion that "energy being renewable or not is unrelated to climate change", which is wrong.

If it were possible to produce soy oil without using fossil fuels, then producing, using and burning soy oil would be carbon neutral.

The argument you want is we cannot simply assume that the world's economy can be weaned off of fossil fuels without a permanent and severe reduction in living standards. Maybe it can be done, maybe it cannot: it depends on how efficient the substitute energy sources get.
by foobarchu | 2025-06-09 22:47:11+00:00
> What other industry relies on its customers as implicit developers?

I would say most of them. To list a few:

- restaurants (almost all of them will send you feedback surveys these days, they also rely on you to tell them if they, for example, cooked your steak to the wrong temp)

- property maintenance (again, feedback surveys)

- auto mechanics (if the thing they fixed is still broken, a good mechanic wants to know)

- doctors (they rely heavily on YOU to tell you what wrong with your body)

- democratic political systems (when working correctly)

- road infrastructure (the city won't fix potholes nobody is reporting, and they won't do anything about badly tuned traffic lights nobody complains about)

- vaccines and medicine (the testing phase may not uncover every possible single side effect, they need recipients/users to report those if they happen)

(Please nobody come back with cynical takes on how these aren't helpful in their specific case/location, that's clearly not the point)
by techpineapple | 2025-06-09 22:47:26+00:00
I sort of love the idea you present that maybe some conservative moderate pro-vaccine people are going to get screwed and maybe die of contagious diseases, and it’s somehow the fault of a bunch of people on the left. That this is a binary zero-sum game where either everyone gets forced to take a bunch of dangerous vaccines or no one gets any vaccines, and that the moral imperative is to promote an extreme ideology that is a reaction to an imagined majority that hold on opposing extreme ideology.
by soneca | 2025-06-09 22:47:39+00:00
A recruiter, or an HR person in general, do work that “fortifies the company’s ability to make a profit in future years” as you say, by hiring people that will hopefully work there for years.

Same as a financial analyst implementing new processes and spreadsheets to better control money spending.

One can argue that most white collar worker is investing in future profit. Sales people nurturing long sales cycles, lobbyists, content marketing, SEO.

Why are software developers (and merge lawyers) snowflakes among all those types?
by outcoldman | 2025-06-09 22:47:39+00:00
Comparing to Docker for Mac. Running on MBA M2. Building a 5GB image (packaging enterprise software).

Docker for Mac builds it in 4 minutes.

container tool... 17 minutes. Maybe even more. And I did set the cpu and memory for the builder as well to higher number than defaults (similar what Docker for Mac is set for). And in reality it is not the build stage, but "=> exporting to oci image format" that takes forever.

Running containers - have not seen any issues yet.
by drekk | 2025-06-09 22:47:46+00:00
It's mostly citizens and residents protesting in solidarity. People who came here the "right" way. Undocumented folks try to minimize interactions with law enforcement.

That immigration is desired by all these red state agribusiness entities that receive no punishment. Curious that we're deploying thousands of soldiers to a blue state to deport... 100 people so far? When they could much more easily go after the people paying these migrants under the table. They wouldn't come here if they couldn't make money doing so. Trump is clearly a television personality and lives for the drama. Makes sense why Obama and Biden managed to deport more people during their terms.
by kratom_sandwich | 2025-06-09 22:47:46+00:00
It certainly seems as if they are more focused on rent-seeking than on innovation nowadays (cf. the Epic Games lawsuit vs. Apple Intelligence). On top of that, the WWDC has shifted to adress the public rather than the actual technical audience that attends the conference. Previously, WWDC keynotes were a bit closer to what is now the Platforms State of the Union presentation.