MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dang | 2025-06-06 18:56:02+00:00
Related. Others?

The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533 - June 2025 (927 comments) (<-- you are here)

Big Beautiful Bill R&D Tax: Will tech go on a hiring spree again? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44028106 - May 2025 (19 comments)

The Consequences of Limiting the Tax Deductibility of R&D - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639202 - April 2025 (64 comments)

House restores immediate R&D deduction in new tax bill - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39212650 - Feb 2024 (8 comments)

Ask HN: Best country to run a boostrapped startup from? (After Section 174) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39098371 - Jan 2024 (31 comments)

US tech innovation dreams soured by changed R&D tax laws - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38988129 - Jan 2024 (3 comments)

Ask HN: IRS section 174 – cause of layoffs? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38957651 - Jan 2024 (21 comments)

Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38931860 - Jan 2024 (37 comments)

Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38870429 - Jan 2024 (20 comments)

IRS tax code change in Section 174: R&D is an expense - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38642461 - Dec 2023 (23 comments)

New tax rules on R&D expenses may lead to layoffs for devs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38636866 - Dec 2023 (7 comments)

Tell HN: People laid off in my company due to IRS Section 174 changes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633668 - Dec 2023 (6 comments)

Tell HN: Submit comments to IRS re tax treatment of software dev expenses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38120388 - Nov 2023 (225 comments)

Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614313 - April 2023 (981 comments)

Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for bootstrapped companies? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34627712 - Feb 2023 (187 comments)

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by error503 | 2025-06-06 18:56:14+00:00
If they're injecting targeted ads in the stream, then the stream producer must be 'smart'. It's not much of a stretch for it to enforce playing out the segments at approximately realtime (or whatever speedup they want to allow), and to force the advert segments to play out before anything past them. Some sidechannel could be used to inform the client about what's going on and produce a sensible playhead position.

It seems inevitable that this is the end game, and I don't really see viable ways around it for realtime playback. For offline playback, yeah, presumably that sidechannel includes enough information to cut out the ads.
by Pansy3 | 2025-06-06 18:56:18+00:00
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by badc0ffee | 2025-06-06 18:57:11+00:00
> Back then, using audio tapes to hold data was revolutionary, in terms of storage space and price. The payoff, however, was that it was slower than anything you've ever used in the modern day. It could take 30 minutes to load something into the system through a tape.

No, use of audio cassettes to store data was well established when the Adam came out. The difference was that it was much faster than other home computers, which typically used a standard cassette deck, or something close to it.

It definitely did not take 30 minutes to load a program from cassette. Here's Buck Rogers loading in 12 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyt2u78qAFs
by paxys | 2025-06-06 18:58:02+00:00
Why is that a problem? Self identification is a good thing. The real problem is people using the box you check for real world decisions like college admissions, jobs and scholarships.

Re: the bone marrow thing, no one is using self identification as a way of doing blood or organ transplants ("you say you are black so your marrow will probably work for him"). There are real medical tests to check for all this.
by sReinwald | 2025-06-06 18:58:20+00:00
> Oh yup. The way I've always described myself is I have extremely "muted" emotions, bordering on none the overwhelming vast majority of the time. I only very rarely feel extreme emotions of any kind.

I remember infuriating my mother almost every day after school when she'd ask "How was it?" and I would just shrug and say, "I don't know."

She thought I was being evasive or something, but I was being completely honest. I genuinely didn't have an answer because my internal state was, as you describe perfectly, muted. Most of the time, I just felt... like a neutral, warm grey. Well - still do. There was no data to report.

> I don't remember hardly anything about my own past outside of factual information, and that tends to fade rather extremely with time. Even times when I was quite literally sobbing I don't remember the emotional impact of, just the fact that it happened, sometimes not even the cause.

I think remembering the fact of sobbing but not the feeling is the perfect distinction between semantic memory ("a thing that happened") and autobiographical memory ("an experience I had"). The factual data point was recorded, but the emotional qualia wasn't encoded for retrieval.

> On the other hand, I have extremely good factual memory about random shit and can usually build up a solid approximation for how something works from first principles on demand for an extremely broad array of things. Trade-offs, I guess.

I wouldn't even necessarily call it a trade-off so much as a logical consequence. If the brain's system for storing rich, first-person experiential data is impaired, it makes sense that it would rely on and strengthen its system for storing third-person factual data. The "what" gets stored efficiently because the "how it felt to be me when it happened" isn't taking up much space on the hard drive.

> It's what I imagine being an AI would feel like from the perspective of the AI.

Sounds about right to me. I feel the same. I have access to the facts, like my I'd argue objectively fairly impressive achievement I described above, but I don't seem to have the emotional data. So, I can reason myself into knowing that I achieved something - but I'm not feeling it.
by mopsi | 2025-06-06 18:58:34+00:00
One has to recognize the genre of "Threads" and "The Day After" - they represent suffering porn that has little to do with how actual disasters play out. In "Threads", the way people suddenly lose the ability to speak and rapidly turn into cavemen after a nuclear strike is comical. Kids grunt instead of talk, everyone shuffles around like zombies, and basic things like farming or using tools just vanish. How is anyone supposed to take that seriously? Is that how Cologne, Dresden, Würzburg and Pforzheim, or Hiroshima and Nagasaki looked a decade after they had been destroyed in Allied bombing raids? The truth is that even after infrastructure gets bombed back to the Middle Ages, life remains surprisingly normal, and people quickly rebuild.

Hiroshima in 1957, about a mile from the epicenter of the nuclear strike: https://img.i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,...
by systemstops | 2025-06-06 18:58:57+00:00
Race is a social construct, but one loosely based on biological reality. As we unravel the mystery of human origins using ancient DNA, we are starting to get a better understanding of the how different groups came to be.

The idea what we are a homogenous species with no biologically important distinctions between groups - which became popular in the postwar period - is coming to end. But, we are also not returning to racial essentialism of the past. The new narrative of human differences will be far more complicated.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02117-1
by HenryBemis | 2025-06-06 18:58:58+00:00
In all seriousness, who expects and decency, privacy, respect (of human rights) from the makers of Myanmar flame-fanning, the scum who allowed/facilitates Cambridge Analytica (and the likes), to name but a few?

Perhaps Zuck wants to look like a good tech-bro by smiling at Joe Rogan and advertise "I am one of you guys, I too do BJJ", but in his soul he is a filthy snake who lies all the time ("FBI forced me and I railroaded you but 3 years later I come clean")..

"...it's my nature, said the scorpion."
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-06 18:59:00+00:00
> Mhmm, so would it be fine for a private platform not allowing say, Muslims on their website?

Depends on the sense of “private”.

If it is, private in the sense that it is a platform run by a Christian Church for the use of organizations affiliated with that Church, and not offering information dissemination to the general public, sure.

If its a private business offering platform services to the public at large but specifically excluding Muslims, then it is potentially engaging in prohibited religious discrimination in a public accommodation. Unlike religion, political viewpoint is not, federally, a protected class in public accommodations, though state law may vary.

(OTOH, under the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and similar laws in many states, and case law based on and in line with the general motivation of such laws, laws including state public accommodation laws, are being looked at more skeptically when they prohibit religious and religiously-motivated discrimination, as an impairment of the religious freedom of the discriminating party, in theory irrespective of the religions on each side, but in practice favoring discrimination by Christians and against non-Christians, so possibly the Muslim exclusion would succeed even in a public accommodation.)
by lesuorac | 2025-06-06 18:59:20+00:00
> But Apple conveniently took steps to prevent you from leaving their shop, so they can charge whatever they consider a fair price.

This is the part that is monopolistic.

Kroger collecting money when Bryer sells ice cream in their store is fine. Kroger prohibiting Bryer from selling ice cream else where is not.

This should honestly blanketly apply; as-in Bryer should not be allowed to enter a contract with Kroger where they'll only sell ice cream at Kroger. Bryer can choose not to sell at other grocery stores but it should never be a contractual requirement.

> You cannot rationally defend this, jurisdictions worldwide are suing Apple for this, because it's a blatant racket. It is indefensible.

Even if Bryer's ice cream was zero-margin, if you go into Kroger's store to buy it then Kroger is entitled to some compensation. The practice of collecting a commission from products you are an intermediary for is highly defensible. The practice of prohibiting others from selling their own goods to people not under your control is not (i.e Schools can ban an ice cream vendor from visiting a school).
by zozbot234 | 2025-06-06 19:00:15+00:00
> 16-core Zen 5 CPU achieves more than 2 TFLOPS FP64. So number crunching performance scaled very well.

These aren't realistic numbers in most cases because you're almost always limited by memory bandwidth, and even if memory bandwidth is not an issue you'll have to worry about thermals. Theoretical CPU compute ceiling is almost never the real bottleneck. GPU's have a very different architecture with higher memory bandwidth and running their chips a lot slower and cooler (lower clock frequency) so they can reach much higher numbers in practical scenarios.
by hsuduebc2 | 2025-06-06 19:01:14+00:00
Yes please. It's invasive garbage. When I click "uninterested" on ukraine war news I immediately got russian propaganda. When I do it again I get back Ukrainian news. I just dont want to see it. Same with politics. It's just switching sides which it shows when I click hide but I cant hide the theme as a whole.

I recommend this extension. It blocks this ridiculous bullshit.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/undistracted-hide-f...
by bee_rider | 2025-06-06 19:01:24+00:00
It is unsurprising that Venmo has a log of transactions, right? That’s a necessary part of the job. Having it as something that can be presented as a social feed is the weird thing…

It almost seems like a radical art project, philosophical statement, or social experiment around transparency. Like, hypothetically in some alternate universe if they did no KYC, and just published everybody’s transactions, your peers could inspect your transactions, the police could just look and see if you were transacting with criminals… sort of like open source transactions. Maybe that was the original idea? And then eventually they got some actual customers and said “shit we’re a real company now, let’s put the social experiment on the back burner, add an opt-out, and start doing in-house kyc.”
by jcalvinowens | 2025-06-06 19:02:31+00:00
I meant the existence of ulimit was about partitioning resources.

Imagine a primitive UNIX with a global fixed size file descriptor probing hashtable indexed by FD+PID: that's more what I was getting at. I have no idea if such a thing really existed.

> If the array never resizes the searches for free fds and close operations can happen without synchronization.

No, you still have to (at the very least) serialize the lookups of the lowest available descriptor number if you care about complying with POSIX. In practice, you're almost certain to require more synchronization for other reasons. Threads share file descriptors.

The modern Linux implementation is not so terrible IMHO: https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds...
by proc0 | 2025-06-06 19:02:59+00:00
I was never convinced of the uses for XR, if that's the right term where you superimpose 3d on the real world. The only possible way I can see it working is with lightweight glasses such that you then don't have to take them off to do other things while you're in the office. If you need to put a headset on then you might as well change your entire setting around you and the real world is irrelevant.

I mention this because I would assume any headset with only VR will probably be a better product since it doesn't need to worry about the XR use cases. Maybe the VisionPro would have been a much better experience if they just dropped all of those features.
by yed | 2025-06-06 19:03:25+00:00
The title strongly implies that vendor lock-in is a bad thing (the phrase "lock-in" has a very much negative connotation), but then the article proposes that you should just give up and go all in on vendor lock-in with a proprietary platform. The alternative to vendor lock-in with SaaS would naturally be running standardized open-source or home grown solutions. That is what people who complain about vendor lock-in generally recommend, not SaaS. The article would be more clear if it addressed that.
by jrs235 | 2025-06-06 19:04:43+00:00
When using bill reconciliation in order to avoid Senate filibusters to pass a budget, certain conditions must be met otherwise regular Senate rules and the need for 60 Senators to be onboard to avoid a filibuster come into play.

It's not cheating, it's playing by different rules to get most of what you want/need done and then sometimes those that played and gambled were intending to, or hoped to, make the changes later that require rules. Their hope is that 60+ Senators would be onboard for those changes because they (those that gambled and pushed the budget bill thru) managed to get what they wanted at the expense of #$%#ing something up that most others would then be willing to fix/address.
by bijection | 2025-06-06 19:05:07+00:00
The linked article covers this - the main innovation is neither the HIV activation treatment nor the general mRNA-wrapped-in-lipids (LNP) delivery mechanism. Instead, it's a new form of LNP which works on specific white blood cells that were hard to target before.

It was “previously thought impossible” to deliver mRNA to the type of white blood cell that is home to HIV, said Dr Paula Cevaal, research fellow at the Doherty Institute and co-first author of the study, because those cells did not take up the fat bubbles, or lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), used to carry it. The team have developed a new type of LNP that those cells will accept, known as LNP X. She said: “Our hope is that this new nanoparticle design could be a new pathway to an HIV cure.”
by Kranar | 2025-06-06 19:05:15+00:00
>Note that almost every exchange outside the US has been flat or negative for decades.

As someone who works in finance this struck me as a remarkable claim. Upon inspection it turns out to be spectacularly incorrect. After adjusting for inflation it's actually the opposite, the vast majority of countries have seen their own version of the S&P 500 grow over a 30 year period, after adjusting for inflation, not stagnation or decline. Developing countries, particularly those in Asia, have seen incredible returns over a 30 year period, albeit with a great deal of volatility involved.

Our neighbor to the north, Canada, has seen gains that are slightly below the U.S., but our neighbor to the south, Mexico has seen about the same growth as our own, once again accounting for Mexico's own inflation.

Europe has also experienced a great deal of growth with many European countries even growing moreso than the U.S., for example Germany.

While there are examples of decline, they are in countries that are both poor and have unstable governments. Most countries that are strictly poor but don't suffer from instability have for the most part seen growth rather than stagnation.

So I don't know exactly what led you to believe your claim that "almost every exchange" has been flat or negative, but it's certainly not correct.
by HelloMcFly | 2025-06-06 19:05:42+00:00
You completely misunderstood me. I am not incredulous that people use AI, nor am I in any way doubting how it can aid all sorts of processes.

I am incredulous that a primary use case of a genAI chatbot is sharing your chat conversation publicly. It's easy to see why people would do this for genAI images, videos, or even code; I even understand some occasional sharing of a chat exchange from time to time. But routine, regular interest, from regular people, of just sharing their text chat? I do not understand that at all.
by lurk2 | 2025-06-06 19:06:17+00:00
> Where can I find a larger library of high quality documentary, educational and instructional videos?

The question isn’t whether or not YouTube has this content, it’s if it would have proportionally more or less of this content in the absence of a profit-sharing model. The chief problem I have with social media is that the kind of organic content I want to see was already out there before some people decided they wanted to make a career out of it; it’s just a lot harder to find now because there are professionals who know how to play to the algorithm. This works on a mass market level, and I don’t begrudge people for enjoying the content, I just personally wouldn’t call it “high quality.”

It was the same during the SEO boom in the early 2010s; the internet went from a place where novelty was a regular occurrence to one where you reflexively scroll past the first paragraph of every article because you know it doesn’t have the information you’re looking for.
by gytrcrt | 2025-06-06 19:06:21+00:00
I think the difference is: 1. there was no hallucination from information retrieval or classic ML back 2010s 2. there was way lower engagement from general public or even regulator on classic ML system. aka, people were not able to directly "talk" to a ML system like ChatGPT

the 2 points combined drive way more scrutiny on GenAI models/apps.
by rayiner | 2025-06-06 19:06:47+00:00
> Geneticists have long established that race and ethnicity are sociocultural constructs and not good proxies to describe genetic differences in disease risks and traits among groups

I’m Asian and I grew up in the U.S. and for years I didn’t realize the stomach problems I was having were from drinking milk when most asians cannot drink milk, while most European Americans can: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/16jcecc/map_of_lac.... Is race a rough proxy? Sure. But it’s an easy proxy to administer which in the medical context gives it a certain value for making people aware of differences that may be salient.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-06 19:06:48+00:00
There's no narrative of world history that's universally (or even widely) accepted by all scholars. Many reject the idea that there's even a single unifying explanation.

With that said, if you're interested in a relatively neutral world history, I'd recommend the Cambridge World History. Failing that, you could do worse than Wikipedia.

I suspect you won't find that answer satisfying because it deliberately avoids "explaining global inequality", which no single book can do. A short answer that is definitively not the explanation, but most would accept as a major part of an explanation is colonialism. Europeans enjoyed some early successes redirecting existing institutions like those of the reconquista into colonial ventures. Those ventures extracted vast amounts of wealth that colonial powers were able to leverage via luck, historical happenstance, and the institutions evolved to maintain those ventures into a transformation from relatively poor backwaters in the 12th century to an extremely wealthy set of nations. Basically, they snowballed. Even this admittedly abstract answer is too reductionist and misses a lot of narratives many academics would be quick to point out. For example, Machines as the Measure of Men makes the argument that we observe great inequality in part because post-colonialism we've basically defined inequality as "differences from the Western model" rather than by any objective reality of poverty.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-06 19:07:42+00:00
No, because you'd be trapped in a cult of selfishness. A religion of self is a very bad place to be. I am not a self-contained sovereign god-being who just miraculously actualizes the positive reality I envision.

Yes, positivity is essential, and negative thinking is also a trap, but this "Believe In Yourself!" and "Follow Your Passion!" is rotten fruit from the $16 self-help bookshelf in the public library.
by burningChrome | 2025-06-06 19:07:46+00:00
I had no idea this was true until a buddy of mine who I play hockey with started putting super offensive notes on the payment, trying to trigger someone since it was a hot debate after one of our games if this actually occurred. After about five or six of these, someone did in fact contact him first via email, then actually called him and asked him to explain the notes and yes they do monitor these and yes, if its really suspect, the feds will be notified.

Which then begs the obvious - if you're buying drugs, then don't put you're buying drugs or paying off your bookie.
by nickff | 2025-06-06 19:07:52+00:00
I think your points are all valid, but… On the other hand, this sort of preservation does substantially reduce user privacy, disclosing personal information to unauthorized parties, with no guarantees of security, no audits, and few safeguards.

This is much more concerning (from a privacy perspective) than a company using cookies to track which pages on a website they’ve visited.