MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by farts_mckensy | 2025-06-09 20:59:18+00:00
Great. What do you think that proves? That doesn't negate my inital argument. The data is largely useless, and often counterproductive. The evidence shows the vast majority of plots are foiled through conventional means, and ruling out false positives is more trouble than it's worth. I cited sources in this thread. Where are your sources?

"Corporations and the US government are spending money on it, so it must be useful." Are you serious? Lmao.
by thinkindie | 2025-06-09 20:59:47+00:00
I believe that this is and similar example are missing a very important point in the narrative: in case of developing land to build a building, you will still have the possibility to deduct 100% of the salaries of the construction workers.

Those construction workers will build the building (= the product) on top of the land that you acquired (another asset) which means you are assets become the land itself and the building. Land and building will have their own asset value (purchase price or evaluation) that will be used for over X years.

As far as I understand as an European watching this from abroad, they are trying to evaluate the value of the asset (= code, the product) of a startup by using development costs as a proxy.
by ensignavenger | 2025-06-09 21:00:00+00:00
Generally speaking, yes, you can immediately deduct the non depreciated value. Most machines will be scraped, giving them a "scrape value". You would immediately deduct the difference.

In fact, sometimes when you dispose of an asset, you get more for the scrape than you have left in depreciation- and you have to take that difference as a profit.
by paxys | 2025-06-09 21:00:32+00:00
> Cows (or chickens, for that matter) are not less precious than dogs

You can feel that way, and that's fine, but people are allowed to decide what they do or don't find precious. They are allowed to rank species and members within a species in order of most to least precious. There's no inherent rule that all life must be valued the same. Would you not be more sad about a human child dying over a cow? Would you not be more sad about a loved one dying about a random person you don't know a few thousand miles away?
by delusional | 2025-06-09 21:02:13+00:00
> OK, so Twitter themselves are our adversary.

The worry people generally have about these sorts of systems isn't that they distrust the substrate NOW, as you say all bets are off at that point unless you're a cryptography expert and programmer yourself, but rather that they want protection of the data they produce now from being read in the future.

Basically, If twitter wanted to read my data today, they could do so. If they decided in 2 years to read my data now, it would be too late because it was encrypted. With the encryption key, that's trivial. If they have to save the plain text, well that's too late now.
by derf_ | 2025-06-09 21:02:15+00:00
> Limes had yet to be discovered or something

"In the 1497 expedition of Vasco da Gama, the curative effects of citrus fruit were already observed and were confirmed by Pedro Álvares Cabral and his crew in 1507.

...

In 1614, John Woodall, Surgeon General of the East India Company, published The Surgion's Mate as a handbook for apprentice surgeons aboard the company's ships. He repeated the experience of mariners that the cure for scurvy was fresh food or, if not available, oranges, lemons, limes, and tamarinds.

...

It was not until 1747 that James Lind formally demonstrated that scurvy could be treated by supplementing the diet with citrus fruit, in one of the first controlled clinical experiments reported in the history of medicine." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
by bradleyishungry | 2025-06-09 21:02:30+00:00
this is not entirely true and i’ve seen the exact same comment regurgitated with the same exact numbers for the past two years. I am not in really in favor of section 174 but i’m tired of seeing misinfo. I have discussed this with a CPA multiple times and its simplified and blown out of proportion in a way that you can’t actually have a conversation about it
by JeremyHerrman | 2025-06-09 21:02:46+00:00
I know this book is a first hand account from Esslinger himself, but aside from your quoted passage, I've never seen Snow White refer to a specific color, only to the design language itself. Even the other mentions of Snow White in his book refer to the design language, not a color.

The first product to feature the Snow White design language was the Apple IIc, which featured a color known as "Fog" which is distinct from the Platinum used in Apple's products from 1986-1999. For a good side-by-side comparison, check out this image of an original Apple IIc (1984) and the Apple IIc Plus (1988): https://i0.wp.com/lowendmac.com/wp-content/uploads/iic-and-i...
by kstrauser | 2025-06-09 21:03:05+00:00
> it has been all down hill since skeuomorphic design

I strongly disagree. I don't mind if people like skeuomorphic graphics. Want to make the "play" button look like a 1987 tape deck? Not my thing, but everyone has different preferences. That's fine.

But I loathe, detest, hate, despise, skeuomorphic user interfaces. Remember when Calendar.app would only let you turn one month page at a time because that's how desk calendars work? How Podcasts looked like a reel-to-reel recorder and waste tons of screen space? Contacts app imitating the limitations of a physical black book because that's how real books work?[0]

If you like brushed metal or whatever, right on. Again, not my thing, but you do you! But I cannot abide the fake limitations that skeuomorphic design pushed onto software in the name of making apps work just like their physical equivalents. The UI on the magic boxes we're typing this on are limited only by our creativity. Please, please don't infect them with the real world's restrictions when it's not necessary!

[0] https://www.betalogue.com/2012/01/15/abook6-dumb/
by VT-Business | 2025-06-09 21:03:17+00:00
The article explores the Sentinelese people of North Sentinel Island, known as one of the most isolated communities in the world. Unlike neighboring tribes, they have consistently rejected outside contact, preserving their traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle. The authors review historical encounters and archaeological evidence to better understand their culture, language, and autonomy. Emphasizing respect for the Sentinelese way of life, the article advocates for a “hands-off, eyes-on” approach—observing from a distance without interference. It also reflects on past colonial and modern intrusions, suggesting that ethical engagement must prioritize the community’s right to remain undisturbed and self-governing.
by stalco | 2025-06-09 21:03:51+00:00
I installed it. I really wanted to love it but it’s bad. It’s very busy and the proportions in the Settings app are awful. It’s on the “cozy” side of things (as opposed to “compact”). This means you see less options at one time on the screen and have to scroll more around the OS to get where you need to.

As for accessibility… It’s hell. Have a look: https://imgur.com/a/6ZTCStC
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-06-09 21:04:15+00:00
> Not going to bother with this one. Do some research into how compilers work, maybe.

> so the code generated by your language's LANG-to-WASM backend can't be optimized as heavily as its native backend.

https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/ir/ Intermediary representations. Most modern compiled languages are optimised independently of the target architecture. So the code has been optimised way before it even became was text. the LANG-to-WASM backend has most, if not all optimisations that LANG-to-arm64 would have done. The final parser is nearly trivial in compute and complexity, making its implementation a pretty approachable intermediate programming exercise.

Comparing it to running a modern compiler optimisation for a high-order language is apples and oranges. The only optimisation realistically remaining is the processor's speculative execution engine.

> Not sure where I claimed it wasn't

> Not only is it subjective but V8 does so much to optimize JavaScript code that I wouldn't be surprised if the benefits for most applications were negligible anyway.
by msgodel | 2025-06-09 21:04:16+00:00
You can get AR glasses that do everything useful the AVP can (it can only work as a monitor for your laptop and do some useless 3d TV tech demos) from China for $200. I have a pair and use them heavily. They're comfortable, they don't look extremely bad, and most importantly: they're plug and play so all your software just works with zero compromises.

I think AVP could be interesting if Apple let people actually do things with it but it looks like they'd rather write it off.
by 827a | 2025-06-09 21:04:27+00:00
Running the iOS beta now. There's structural elements to this redesign that I think are generally great. Mostly, they've moved the search bar to the bottom of many of their apps (messages and settings are the most obvious). The centered island-style navigation bar feels better than the old boxy-style one.

The transparency effect is a nightmare. Its so fascinating to me how this made it through to an official iOS release. We'll see how it plays on GA. I think we're going to see some major changes to the way its designed before GA.
by scblock | 2025-06-09 21:04:30+00:00
I don't know that this is really a good idea, but if you insist then LM studio is a good tool for local LLMs and has nicely formatted output. Smaller 4B models will probably run fine (they do on my M2 Pro at least). I prefer it to ollama, and it makes tuning the system prompt and temperature easy.

Others will probably have better model recommendations, I am using Mistral and Gemma myself.
by ricardobeat | 2025-06-09 21:06:22+00:00
Unlikely. Frosted glass blur was introduced almost twelve years ago in iOS 7, and was supported all the way down to the iPhone 4. Many apps like control center have used a full screen blur without any performance issues for a long time.

Apple at the time created their own 'approximate gaussian blur' algorithm specifically to enable this, and it ran crazy fast on devices where a simple gaussian blur would barely achieve double digit FPS. Even if this 'liquid glass' effect is heavier to compute, on the hardware we have today it will be a negligible performance concern.
by mrbonner | 2025-06-09 21:06:29+00:00
The containerization experience on macOS has historically been underwhelming in terms of performance. Using Docker or Podman on a Mac often feels sluggish and unnecessarily complex compared to native Linux environments. Recently, I experimented with Microsandbox, which was shared here a few weeks ago, and found its performance to be comparable to that of native containers on Linux. This leads me to hope that Apple will soon elevate the developer experience by integrating robust containerization support directly into macOS, eliminating the need for third-party downloads.
by thenaturalist | 2025-06-09 21:06:35+00:00
Fully agree with your sentiment, and it was kinda sad to see the demo going there.

"And this is how easy I can replace this custom component with a new glass component...".

The whole thing is just wild.

There was plenty of UX enhancements which looked solid, but just for them to be paired with a design choice of N=1 elements is... well let's see if it pays off I guess?
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-09 21:06:41+00:00
I think probably a much bigger problem is app bloat. Devs are usually using very recent if not brand new top end devices to test and develop against which naturally makes several types of performance degradation invisible to them (“works on my machine”). Users on old and/or low end devices on the other hand feel all of those degradations.

If we want to take increasing device lifetimes seriously we need to normalize testing and development against slow/old models. Even if such testing is automated, it’d do wonders for keeping bloat at bay.
by aurizon | 2025-06-09 21:06:57+00:00
Brute force is also comprehensive parametric exploration. Things a human programmer often shortens based on his analysis as well as to save time. The AI has the ability to use massive parallelism to run down these alleys versus sequential exploration - although a pass word 'guesser' can run 10,000 strings in parallel as well. Not quite the same as password exhaustive testing of all characters/lengths, but is related to it.
by SlowTao | 2025-06-09 21:07:39+00:00
Apple is in a reasonably good place to make gaming work for them.

Their hardware across the board is fairly powerful (definetly not top end), they have a good API stack especially with Metal. And they have systems at all levels including TV. If they were to just make a standard controller or just say "PS5 dualshock is our choice" they could have a nice little slice for themselves.
by itsibitzi | 2025-06-09 21:07:47+00:00
SecureDrop is great and we still will be using it at the Guardian for the foreseeable future. At the very least just to support sources who want to blow the whistle but don't use our app.

In terms of how it's different. We attain anonymity without requiring a user to install Tor Browser, which we think is significant. Building this feature into our news app lowers the barrier of entry for non-technical sources quite significantly, and we think helps them achieve good OPSEC basically by default.

CoverDrop (aka Secure Messaging) has a few limitations right now that we'll be working to overcome in the next few months. Primarily that we don't support document upload due to the fact that our protocol only sends a few KB per day. Right now a journalist has the option to pivot the user onto another platform e.g. Signal. This is already better since the journalist can assess the quality of, and risks posted to, the source before giving their Signal number.

The current plan to improve this within the CoverDrop system is to allow a journalist to assess the risk posted to a source and, if they deem it acceptable, send them a invite link to upload documents which the client will encrypt with their keys before sending. This affects anonymity of course so we'll be investigating ways in which we can do this while doing our best to keep the source anonymous. There are a few techniques we could use here, for example making the document drop look like an encrypted email attachment being sent to a GMail account. I like this[1] paper as an example of an approach we could take that is censorship resistant.

Another limitation is that the anonymity of our system is largely predicated on the large install base of our app. In the UK/US/AU we have a pretty large install base so the anonymity properties provided by the protocol are nice, but if another smaller news agency were to pick up our tech as it stands right now then they wouldn't have this property. That said, in practice just having our plausibly deniable storage approach is a pretty big improvement over other whistleblowing approaches (PGP, Tor based, etc), even if you're the only person in the set of possible sources using the app.

[1] https://petsymposium.org/popets/2022/popets-2022-0068.pdf
by jemmyw | 2025-06-09 21:07:52+00:00
why do you care about these things exactly? Please explain a bit more. You like the service but don't agree with the company spending money on... t-shirts? That's not exactly like "I like the company products but I don't agree with them signing up for military contracts". It smells a bit like you want to control what they spend on?

On AI - I think they have no choice tbh, they need to bring something to the table there. I'm pretty pleased with their AI implementation. In search it only activates if you append a question mark. Their assistant is a pretty good alternative chat interface, it lets you choose the model. I cancelled my chatgpt sub because I can use kagi for many models. It has probably fallen behind the tooling others have at this point though.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-09 21:08:11+00:00
> if you don't like their rules, and don't want to follow them, pretty soon you'll be finding yourself disappeared or provided with a half dozen new ventilation holes in your head and chest

Except this isn’t happening. Plenty of people are standing up to the administration, from lawyers to judges to activists and universities and administration. Nobody is helped by this kind of baseless hyperbole.
by username223 | 2025-06-09 21:08:29+00:00
> It honestly saddens me how far Apple has fallen.

Same. For just one example, consider how submenus work. You don't notice when they're done right, but when they're done poorly, they will disappear when you try to choose a submenu item, or stick around when you expect them to go away. Getting them right is subtle; Apple got them right, and plenty of web pages still get them wrong.

That's interface design. Flashy translucency effects are something else.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-09 21:08:41+00:00
Sounds like a great idea.

I have found that users don't give feedback, positive or negative, until they encounter some extreme (usually negative).

I have found the best way to encourage feedback, is to make it dirt simple. Just a text entry field, with some way to respond, so you can follow up.

Most of the work needs to be on my end.
by supern0va | 2025-06-09 21:09:22+00:00
This piece is rather puzzling. The author is essentially claiming that no one can trust their own judgement on AI (or anything?), and that the lack of scientific research means we should be in a "wait and see" pattern.

...and yet, the author literally just published a book called "The Intelligence Illusion: Why generative models are bad for business": https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/intelligence-illusion-2...

It seems they might have missed "motivated reasoning" in their study of human cognitive faults.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-09 21:10:13+00:00
I think in the US they call it right to refuse service. It's not a law per-se but rather a right businesses have unless prohibited by other reasons. One such reason being discrimination of protected classes, like races, sexuality, gender. But they need to be one of the specific classes protected by law, you can discriminate against small businesses for example, that's just business.
by IshKebab | 2025-06-09 21:10:28+00:00
Apart from the cooperative scheduling, I think Spectre probably kills the security model, and I can't understand how this could work efficiently without virtual memory. How do you implement `memory.grow`? Do you have to `memmove` an entire app's memory when it wants to grow by 10 kB and another app is in the way? Is that even possible?

Still, very impressive project!
by jasonthorsness | 2025-06-09 21:10:30+00:00
Incredible that it's a client OS! I think this kind of design can have immediate use server-side because it eliminates quite a bit of security boundary by making the kernel much smaller and eliminating all other libraries and applications besides the thing you are running. I think a key/value store for example would be an excellent candidate to run like this.

Is it possible to achieve decent network performance with this IO model? Can it play any tricks with memory to eliminate some of the copies required when hosting WASM in most programs?
by robocat | 2025-06-09 21:11:01+00:00
> productivity

A hand-waving argument because there's no way to create a baseline. Technology today is too different from the past. It isn't easy to even look at just energy, housing or food. I can't think of an unbiased way to model housing costs. Looking at food prices (let's ignore nutrition and environmental costs):

Historically, incomes have risen faster than food prices as countries have industrialized, enabling a simultaneous increase in the supply and affordability of many nutritious foods.

As a personal example in New Zealand, virtually nobody is eating mutton, tripe or liver any more. Milk prices against median wage over time might be a good estimate for food affordability?

I prefer to try and find good analytical examples that I can understand. Clever people make arguments about everything, but their assumptions are well hidden.

Demographics is an understandable force, because you can find reliable figures from which you can calculate working hours, and you can calculate the number of people not working (retirees being the most significant). HOURS are a great measure for many things, because we are all given the same number equally (to a gross approximation). Nursing and education are good to model as hours in any decade.

Health costs get contentious. Everyone wants more and more money spent, and technology provides more and more expensive medical solutions. But resources are not infinite so an economy needs to have a way to limit healthcare costs.

There's no easy way to model healthcare costs versus income. People want free cancer treatment but they won't exercise and don't have healthy food habits. We could drastically improve quality of life by daily exercise - not sure how capitalism could get blamed here. Healthy eating is accessible but many people don't eat good foods. Who's responsible?

> neoliberalism

An almost meaningless word. Politics is about tribalism.

I believe that we can individually understand some economics by simplifying down to concepts that are unarguably basic like hours. You need the same skill when working with large software systems. There's metaskills to understanding radically different systems.
by pc86 | 2025-06-09 21:11:04+00:00
On what time scale? In a year, sure. But there are certainly days (weeks?) where the actual value produced by any one engineer is zero, or negative.

This whole discussion is sort of orthogonal to the real point, though. The state (or the IRS, or Congress, or whatever) has decided that for some reason, if Jim gets paid $100k his boss can deduct $100k in expenses, but if Jane gets paid $100k her boss can only deduct $20k, because she's typing different things into a different box the computer.

This is a categorically stupid thing to assert. It's a stupid thing to say and it's a stupid thing to believe. Payroll is an immediate cost, paying for the development of software is not remotely the same thing as purchasing a capital asset, and this is exactly what we get when we keep electing nonagenarian plutocrats to office year after year, decade after decade, who think the internet is a series of tubes.
by SlowTao | 2025-06-09 21:11:11+00:00
Back when Jobs was introducing one of the Mac OS X versions, there was a line that stuck with me.

Showing off the pulsating buttons he said something like "we have these processors that can do billions of calculations of second, we might as well use them to make it look great".

And yet a decade later, they were undoing all of that to just be flat an boring. Im glad they are using the now trillions of calculations a second to bring some character back into these things.
by karim7793 | 2025-06-09 21:11:16+00:00
ip-nose: Fast C++ IP Geolocation with GUI and Matrix-Aesthetic CLI ip-nose is a versatile IP address geolocation tool developed in C++. It offers rapid and detailed information retrieval (country, city, ISP, coordinates) for specified IPs or the host's public IP. What sets ip-nose apart is its dual approach: it provides both a user-friendly graphical interface (GUI) for intuitive interaction and a unique, Matrix-inspired command-line interface (CLI) for those who prefer terminal-based operations. This dual functionality, combined with features like history tracking and configurable options, makes ip-nose a robust and flexible solution for network analysis.