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by graycat | 2025-06-10 02:48:59+00:00
On "Section 174" and more on taxes from Hill, Barth & King LLC

at

https://hbkcpa.com/insights/proposed-tax-bill-addresses-trum...

is in part:

Jobs Act. The bill also addresses the “big three” business tax provisions: deducting research and development expenses, 100% bonus depreciation, and loosening the rules for the deductibility of business interest.

with

deducting research and development expenses

For more there is (with my reformating of the text):

HBK

Home / Insights / Proposed Tax Bill Addresses Trump Campaign Promises and Expiring TCJA Provisions

Proposed Tax Bill Addresses Trump Campaign Promises and Expiring TCJA Provisions

Date May 15, 2025

Earlier this week, the House Ways and Means Committee released details of a multi-trillion-dollar tax-cut bill. The legislation closely follows President Donald Trump’s campaign promises of no tax on tips and overtime, tax breaks for seniors and car buyers, and extension of much of the expiring 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The bill also addresses the “big three” business tax provisions: deducting research and development expenses, 100% bonus depreciation, and loosening the rules for the deductibility of business interest.

Key Provisions

(1) Permanent extension of individual income tax rates (no new millionaire’s tax rate)

(2) Permanent extension of the higher standard deduction with temporary increases for 2025 through 2028

(3) Additional $4,000 standard deduction for seniors (subject to income limitations)

(4) Estate and gift exemption increased to $15MM

(5) State and local tax deduction is increased from $10,000 to $30,000 (subject to income limitations)

(6) Child tax credit of $2,000 made permanent with an increase to $2,500 for 2025 through 2028

(7) Return of the $300/$600 above-the-line deduction for charitable contributions

(8) 100% bonus depreciation for assets placed in service after 1/19/25 and before 1/1/2030

(9) Full expensing of Section 174 domestic research and experimental expenses for 2025 through 2029

(10) Increase in the Section 179 deduction to $2.5MM with the phaseout beginning at $4MM

(11) Qualified business income deduction made permanent and increased to 23%

(12) Addition of a special deduction for “Qualified Production Property” which allows 100% depreciation for manufacturing buildings

(13) Eliminates many business, home and vehicle energy tax credits

(14) Creating a new round of Qualified Opportunity Zones with investor tax benefits

There is still substantial debate to come as this bill moves through Congress. We will continue to monitor developments and keep you updated on any changes that may affect your tax situation. Please contact HBK with any questions or to discuss how these potential tax changes might impact your specific financial circumstances.

So items (8) and (9) seem to have to do with deducting "depreciation for assets" and "Section 174".
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by liualexander112 | 2025-06-10 02:49:42+00:00
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by brudgers | 2025-06-10 02:49:51+00:00
I was listening to an interview of Alan Parsons and when they were talking about 1973’s Dark Side of the Moon, he mentioned that it was not nominated for the album Grammy and that Stevie Wonder won.

So I listened to Wonder’s Inner Visions and it was clear why it won. It is a much better album. It is a pity Inner Visions is largely forgotten.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-06-10 02:51:39+00:00
Yes! And it was frustratingly patented! https://patents.google.com/patent/US7397964B2/en

I made a comment about this a couple of years ago, but I fudged the explanation of it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34937618

I suspect that their new technique implements the existing fast gaussian blur, and since the patent is about to expire, it was a good time to spice it up.

I suspect as others have mentioned here, they use a "Liquid Glass" shader which samples the backing layer of the UI composition below the target element and applies a lens distortion based on the target element's border radius, all heavily parameterized so as to be used with the rest of the system's Liquid Glass applications like the new icon system.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-10 02:51:50+00:00
> Your protests are tame: no fireworks, a few tyre fire lasting like a hour, no BF60s

Tame is good.

The administration wants the protests to turn into a flashpoint so they can send in more military control.

Lighting things on fire and launching fireworks is enough to create the tipping point. Don't encourage this stuff.
by LamaOfRuin | 2025-06-10 02:52:16+00:00
The criticism the parent identified has almost nothing to do with these studies. It was that there is an equilibrium point where enforcement is counterproductive, but it did not identify anything about where that is or how that point relates to where we are.

At some point it gets to that level, but all of these studies show it is extremely far from that at present. This is also not at all what the IRS has been advocating going after.

The extremely cheap (for the IRS) audits you are talking about are the ones they have been doing for years because they can afford to. The tax situations are simple so don't require significant resources to audit. These are also the situations the original comment was talking about. The IRS and others have been advocating for years for the resource to go after actual tax cheats of wealthy individuals and corporations, whose tax situations are (intentionally) so complex that it is a serious investment to audit. Once you do audit them however, their tax dodging decreases for years into the future. This costs the employees and financial advisors dedicated to dodging taxes money.

The "hidden costs" you are so concerned about here, in many cases cannot be argued to exist. The people that would spend time defending violators are otherwise fully employed doing the opposite... coming up with ways to get around the taxes their employers or customers are supposed to be paying. Instead of costing $2, that comes out as getting yet another $2 out of that audit by distracting a societal parasite.
by Leo-thorne | 2025-06-10 02:52:33+00:00
I tried X's encrypted chat last week just to see what it was like. The interface is clean and it works smoothly, but once I understood how it actually handles encryption, I stopped using it. If they hold the private keys and there’s no forward secrecy, it makes me cautious. It feels more like something that looks secure rather than true end-to-end encryption.
by lasiotus | 2025-06-10 02:53:35+00:00
> Not sure how to help with this [...]

I guess not much can be done at the moment: dependencies are often the primary obstacle in porting crates to new targets, and just comparing the list of dependencies of wasmtime vs wasmi gives a pretty good indication of which crate is a bit more careful in this regard:

https://crates.io/crates/wasmtime/33.0.0/dependencies https://crates.io/crates/wasmi/0.47.0/dependencies
by cosmicgadget | 2025-06-10 02:53:52+00:00
Thank you. And there is a WSJ article linked that talks about nonprofit hospitals having high executive comp and funding new projects. It does also say:

> To be sure, some nonprofit hospitals, particularly ones in inner cities that handle large numbers of uninsured patients, remain under financial strain and are struggling to keep their doors open.

And it is also worth mentioning that in some (many?) systems, 'providers' refers to physicians who aren't part of the hospital system in which they work. So the doctors can be doing just fine while the hospital is barely scraping by.
by busymom0 | 2025-06-10 02:54:14+00:00
To be fair, they are supporting devices as old as iPhone 11 from 2019 which I think is very good.

https://apple.gadgethacks.com/news/ios-26-ipados-26-compatib...

I do hope they fix the legibility issues for text heavy content though. For example, on their homepage, their screenshot of the notifications screen looks impossible to read:

https://i.imgur.com/nnks3NZ.png
by Terr_ | 2025-06-10 02:54:46+00:00
There are good reasons to green-up our cities, but [edit: capturing] global CO2 levels isn't one of them.

Living things typically don't store carbon long-term, unless you take extra steps like burying them in bogs. Even if we were to collectively invest in sequestration, it'd be more effective with trees that are lower-maintenance, more densely/conveniently situated, and where residents don't complain that a tree needs to be kept-longer/removed-sooner. Perhaps we'd choose something else entirely like algae.
by throwanem | 2025-06-10 02:55:16+00:00
I meant "state," and was sloppy in my terms ironically in hope of aiding understanding since no one here even seems to know what distinguishes a state from a nation. The distinction here between state and feudal (ie vassal) lord is in sovereignty and should be trivial to all but a Randite, which is what you argue like whether you claim the allegiance or not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44231857 I've always found it a bewildering irony that soi-disant "objectivists" should so constantly display such pervasive inclarity of thought, and the "rationalists" lately likewise. What you really want to talk about and don't know it is a warlord. But we do at least agree that Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or any of that ilk, and any given Somali "general," deserve to be taken about as seriously as one another.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-06-10 02:56:01+00:00
I once encountered a podcast’s Atom feed that included an <?xml-stylesheet ?> reference to an XSLT stylesheet, so when opened in a browser the feed became a decently laid out list of episodes, complete with <audio> tags to listen to them in place. And there’s nothing even the slightest bit hackish about it, in contrast to the usual polyglots like the one in TFA, but somehow it had never occurred to me that you could do that. Your reference to JSON-LD feels similar.

(In general, XML stylesheets leave me conflicted. It’s a nice idea, in principle, but I do not really see a way it could fit into a frontend with more than the slightest amount of interactivity. Also, I’ve lived through the absolute misery that was rebuilding the hefty Nixpkgs manual on every system update using the—quadratic—DocBook stylesheets, and I don’t want to go back to that.)
by throwaway7783 | 2025-06-10 02:56:09+00:00
It becomes a cashflow issue for startups. While the stable state is the same (not really the same, because of how companies evolve etc), cashflow issues in early days means $$$ from the VC money that I could've used to grow the company, now goes towards taxes for 5 years. That could be make or break for small companies.

If you have a pile of cash that you have no apparent use for, or can live without, yes, it makes no difference.
by sanswork | 2025-06-10 02:57:10+00:00
Ask anyone who had to deal with supporting IE back in the day what the cost to the world is fort supporting tech laggards. They are an anchor on tech growth and a real issue.

If you're running an insecure device past it's support life it's your responsibility and your fault if it's used to attack others. You are fully to blame for choosing to use something past it's serviced life. You cannot expect companies to support old software forever.
by unethical_ban | 2025-06-10 02:57:30+00:00
Whether or not someone supports the current topic of the mostly peaceful and somewhat rebellious and violent protests, this much is clear.

You either support somewhat violent protests, regardless of topic, expecting that law enforcement and civilians will handle it amongst themselves, or you are authoritarian and demand that the federal government intervene with the US Armed Forces the moment someone throws a rock at a cop car.

This is an abomination, and anyone who supports the deployment of troops in my opinion lacks the values I thought were universal in this country.

(To support this action by Trump is to say you don't support the second amendment, on the grounds that the people should never have the power to subvert the state).
by ahartmetz | 2025-06-10 02:58:48+00:00
Might be an attempt at Steve Jobs imitation with special focus on the worst aspects. Regardless of his reported reality distortion skills in person, I always found his big public presentations stiff and fake. I, as not-a-fan of game consoles, think that Mark Cerny gives fantastic presentations. He is always fluent, comfortable, and has an air of sincerity (while the contents are a little salesy). Kinda like a much more polished but slightly more fake John Carmack.
by mindslight | 2025-06-10 02:59:56+00:00
But we can write a similar narrative about the abjectly poor handling of Covid by Trump (using it as a divisive wedge issue as if he was still campaigning, rather than actually leading), causing the ham-fisted overreactions of traditional government structures trying to restore order. So how does that ping-ponging of blame stop? In reality, government will always be simplistically paternalistic and people have the responsibility to wade through the bullshit and actually analyze for themselves - not to just find one damnable overstepping and then assume an alternative must be perfect.

It's like all of these "conservatives" (how they think of themselves, they obviously are no longer actually conservatives) finally had their "trust the system" broken, but then rather being generally skeptical and trying to think for themselves, their general desire to trust authority figures made them latch on to contrarian "authorities". And it turns out those professional contrarians don't actually like our country very much at all.
by graycat | 2025-06-10 03:00:10+00:00
Your Honor, here printed on paper is what the Prosection calls "software". Actually as anyone can see on the paper, what is there is just ordinary typing A-Z and 0-9 with a lot of the typing in English. Businesses have been doing typing for many decades. E.g., this typing is much like instructions to a delivery truck driver to deliver goods to customers. And it's the same if a drone reads those instructions and makes the delivery. Prosecution has yet to show what of this paper is other than business typing ~100 years old.
by DiegoGA | 2025-06-10 03:00:38+00:00
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Technologies: Back-end: AWS(Amplify,security groups,deploy by cmd), SQL, MariaDB, Python, Java, php, laravel

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Other: GitHub, Git, Object-oriented programming, Jupyter, Databases

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by palisade | 2025-06-10 03:01:15+00:00
LLM agents don't know how to shut up and always think they're right about everything. They also lack the ability to be brief. Sometimes things can be solved with a single character or line, but no they write a full page. And, they write paragraphs of comments for even the most minuscule of changes.

They talk at you, are overbearing and arrogant.
by YZF | 2025-06-10 03:01:18+00:00
I agree and this is also true in other countries. I'm not sure why this is even a question. The results of the pandemic sucked big time and people lost trust over masks vs. no masks, boosters, lock downs, and many other pseduo-random rules not backed by any real evidence. This loss of trust was broader than just the vaccines.

We don't even seem to be learning in retrospect. I've yet to see one article from health officials to the public about how they could have done better and what mistakes were made.
by vunderba | 2025-06-10 03:03:30+00:00
There's a great parody video when the Nintendo Wii first came out where it showed two very different gamers playing Wii Tennis. Player one was completely throwing their entire body into it Kramer style, and the second player was sitting on the couch with a faintly bored expression on their face barely twitching their wrist to activate the motion controls.
by lysp | 2025-06-10 03:04:44+00:00
> There are good reasons to green-up our cities, but global CO2 levels isn't one of them.

I believe they can to a point. Trees, parks and greenery lower the average temperature for an area. Less heat being absorbed.

This would likely leads to less of a need for cooling and energy use.

That being said, I don't remember reading about how much of an effect it does have, just that it's not zero.
by Moto7451 | 2025-06-10 03:05:47+00:00
My wife was born in the USSR and this year ended up coming down with HIB (a bacteria initially thought to be the cause of the flu) because it was not part of the inoculation schedule for the USSR and is not universally done. As a woman in her thirties she was sick and mostly bed ridden for two months and has vocal cord damage that may or may not be healed with physical therapy. The whole family picked it up from my son’s preschool where HIB is essentially harmlessly endemic due to inoculations. As a young child or infant, catching a particularly bad HIB strain can cause an infection of the brain and potential death.

Meanwhile my son and I (both inoculated in our first months of life) had a very light cold, essentially unnoticeable on my part, and were ok in a couple days. Because we inoculate children against HIB no doctors sees serious cases like this in otherwise healthy adults and it took many rounds of seeing multiple doctors before they tried looking for HIB. The bacteria is very very common but only the immunocompromised are checked with any regularity.

Incidents like this will become more common if these antivax anti science schemes are in effect for long enough. HIB is not a big flashy name because we have solved this problem. You get a “cold”, are told to rest, and you never remember it happening as time passes. My wife is not going to forget the part of her vocal range that does not work. She has had to stop her singing classes, something she loves.

“You died of dysentery” is a meme in the US because the only people we collectively know who have had dysentery are the characters we played in the Oregon Trail as kids in school. As someone who has had Dysentery care of an outbreak in the Caribbean, I feel like we’re seeing the result of the tremendous success of our health programs allowing completely stupid thinking to gain power.

What really pains me through all this is that the absence of disease does not mean that vaccines do not work! One would think the latest pointless measles outbreak would have been proof to convince people that the antivax rhetoric is all bunk, yet here we are. I don’t understand how we have gotten here beyond people simply not seeing up close what has been prevented by decades of programs.

My parents are old enough to have grown up with people who were irreparably harmed by Polio. The only ones I know of are aging senators or when the odd documentary on iron lungs. The vaccine development for Polio is the example that people like RFK use against all other vaccines, as if they’re all made the same way and as if we had not learned from the experience. Regulations are often written in blood and it’s simply disgraceful that they are throwing away what has been codified so they can smugly sell onesies with “I didn’t get a vaccine” on it.

Meanwhile RFK’s kids are vaccinated.

Charlatan.

If someone thinks they’ve actually been harmed by a vaccine, there’s a part of the government that would like to talk to you. Better do that fast before that gets torn down too.
by speedbird | 2025-06-10 03:06:39+00:00
With the ParcPlace flavour teamwork with Envy version control was pretty slick. And in performance it was mostly compiled to bytecode with some cunning tricks in place to make interactive debugging appear to work at the source level. Truly great environment for exploratory development: concrete example, while building a comms server I could inspect why message handling failed, patch code, rerun from failure, much faster cycle time than most other langs/envs.
by _wire_ | 2025-06-10 03:06:40+00:00
Consider AI as a statistical topography of human thought, then we should expect AI transformer pathos to be human: People try wrong solutions before finding the right one; people's thinking tends to collapse in response duress of complex problems.

As to the meaning of "complete accuracy collapse", this report on Apple research doesn't even allude to what accuracy means.

As to language such as

//...“particularly concerning”. Gary Marcus, a US academic who has become a prominent voice of caution on the capabilities of AI models, described the Apple paper as “pretty devastating”.//

Well that's just pretty f'ing fantastic.

//...a system is able to match a human at carrying out any intellectual task...//

Maybe the Turing Test always put the bar way to too low. Just what we need: mechanically accelerated pathos!
by spockz | 2025-06-10 03:06:45+00:00
At first I thought this sounded like a blend of the virtualisation framework with a firecracker style lightweight kernel.

This project had its own kernel, but it also seems to be able to use the firecracker one. I wonder what the advantages are. Even smaller? Making use of some apple silicon properties?

Has anyone tried it already and is it fast? Compared to podman on Linux or Docker Desktop for Mac?
by BoorishBears | 2025-06-10 03:07:38+00:00
There's a search bar in the System Settings app, you don't need to know what Spotlight is.

I'm staying with family and just handed my 64 year old mother who has never used a Mac my Macbook Pro with the settings app open, and after explaining the concept of default browser in non-leading language (not mentioning the word default), her first thought was to click Display.

When nothing familiar was there her next thought was to click Search and then type in Browser and she made the connection of "Default Browser" to the concept I mentioned immediately.

-

Non-techies are not going to learn the groupings for OS settings any easier than they'll figure out a UX pattern that's been widely accepted for decades: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/search-visible-and-simple/

Of course, who don't know anything about UX tend to assume personal anecdotes map to a much larger sample size than they actually do.
by CurtMonash | 2025-06-10 03:09:49+00:00
Socrates had a skeptical view of written language, preferring oral communication and philosophical inquiry. This perspective is primarily presented through the writings of his student, Plato, particularly in the dialogue Phaedrus.

I confirmed that from my own memory via a Google AI summary, quoted verbatim above. Of course, I would never have learned it in the first place had somebody not written it down.
by matthberg | 2025-06-10 03:10:21+00:00
Note that this letter's requests DO NOT include voting against the reconciliation bill, just modifying it to add a carve-out to fix Section 174. While I agree that Section 174 desperately needs reform and is harmful to the tech industry, the bill as a whole must be opposed, not tweaked.

There are many, many things wrong with the "Big Beautiful Bill", too many to fix through piecemeal efforts like this. It must be resolutely opposed, not endorsed with minor changes.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-10 03:10:26+00:00
I really don't think it would be a good idea to throw more guns into this mix. That will not help any protester and it will help Trump justify his decision to send the military, to his supporters. It will also escalate things. I'm sure most marines will be very hesitant to use force against unarmed American civilians. Half of them wouldn't even have voted for Trump. But if they're up against a militia all bets are off.