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by msgodel | 2025-06-09 19:55:10+00:00
I've taken a similarly specced machine running Linux out camping and on boat trips "a number of times" (before you complain about me not enjoying nature I was living this way for a while to save money on rent.) here are the models I like:

Gemma3 Qwen 2.5 instruct Qwen 2.5 coder

You should take multiple distills/quants. It's good to have a high quality model sometimes but for most stuff you'll want something bellow 1GB for the fast response times. The quality is close to or better than the original chatGPT and they support extremely long contexts (if you have the memory.) It might be good to take a VLM as well (I've been happy with Qwen's VLM although it's slow.)
by owebmaster | 2025-06-09 19:55:11+00:00
Imagine being the guy saying this to Linus Torvalds when he did the OG "Show HN":

Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. ... It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT harddisks, as that's all I have :-(. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). ... Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
by hintymad | 2025-06-09 19:55:12+00:00
Thanks. Capitalized expense means the expense can be amortized over years? If so, the short-term profit can be higher than expensed cost? That sounds bad in this context as more profit means more tax. However, the OP seems to argue that capitalized expense is good for tech companies.

In the meantime, the parent comment says "Depreciating means that if you pay an engineer $200k in a year, in tax-world you only had $40k of real expense that year, even though you paid them $200k." and then "So the effect is that it makes engineers much more expensive". This seems to also imply that capitalized expense is worse for tech companies?
by willio58 | 2025-06-09 19:55:36+00:00
I agree with those saying this feels like a step back toward skeuomorphic design for Apple. I personally think it looks nice visually, but I do have some concerns: - Accessibility. I don't see good examples in their promotional videos about how contrast of text is ensured to be in an acceptable range. Even for those without visual impairments, this is important for UX. - Performance. I'm usually the guy in the room saying "Apple is not making devices slower over time on purpose", but this sort of graphical intensity is basically needless and I hope they have something in the plans around automatically disabling more complex visual animations if the phone is showing signs of slow-down.
by vonunov | 2025-06-09 19:56:04+00:00
> Even times when I was quite literally sobbing I don't remember the emotional impact of

This is possibly touching on the problem I'm trying to navigate lately. Someone will display observable emotionality while denying the subjective experience. I'm not sure what to do with it. I'm not trying to cure them or anything, all I want is to get them to understand that their lack of internal experience of emotion doesn't improve things out here, where I'm still dealing with an agitated person yelling at me about how fine they are. Does this seem to align or does it sound unrelated, you think?
by dataflow | 2025-06-09 19:56:07+00:00
> A pretty small number of failures and you're looking at a trillion years to make it happen.

This depends on the bias of the original coin. P(H) can be arbitrarily large, making P(HH) the likeliest possibility even for a trillion years. "This wouldn't happen in the real world" would be a sorry excuse for the deliberate refusal to clearly state the problem assumptions upfront.

IMO, if you really want to pleasantly surprise people, you need to be forthcoming and honest with them at the beginning about all your assumptions. There's really no good excuse to obfuscate the question and then move the goalposts when they (very predictably) fall into your trap.
by rconti | 2025-06-09 19:56:29+00:00
+1 for Infuse. I tried to make Plex work for me, many times over the years, and it's always been so frustrating. From needing a server that can do transcoding, to demanding that I name my files in the way it wants them to be named, it just feels so incredibly constraining.

Infuse just lets you... play a file. How novel!
by gortok | 2025-06-09 19:57:02+00:00
The SSBA (Small Software Business Alliance) was set up by Michele Hansen -- co-founder of Geocodio, http://geocod.io (and the SSBA is now run by another person) for this reason -- to raise awareness in Washington DC of the issue with the Section 174 Capitalization changes and the efforts to repeal it.

https://ssballiance.org/

She has also spoken about it on podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oF-xsDd1A4o
by brailsafe | 2025-06-09 19:57:33+00:00
I don't use iOS in any capacity, but I'm sure anything they do will only improve what has always felt like a clumsy OS.

On the Macos side, I'm open to the new aesthetic, but I just hope to god they've been actually investing in performance improvements when it comes to SwiftUI, which has only barely been viable in some cases thus far. If MacOS gets a full UI update, but the Settings screen still lags when navigating between sections, someone's doing something wrong.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-09 19:57:45+00:00
This is why you make sure to compress all your jpegs at 15% quality, so that the information transfer is most efficient, eh?

When I read (when everyone reads), I'm learning new words, new expressions, seeing how other people (the writer in this case) thinks, etc. The point was never just the information. This is why everyone becomes a retard when they rely on the "AI"... we've all seen those horror stories and don't know whether to believe them or not, but we sort of suspect that they must be true if embellished. You know, the ones where the office drone doesn't know how to write a simple email, where the college kid turning in A-graded essays can't scribble out caveman grunts on the paper test. I will refrain from deliberately making myself less intelligent if I have any say in the matter. You're living your life wrong.
by tartoran | 2025-06-09 19:58:05+00:00
> Using AI generated content to mass-scale torpedo the web could be a tool to get people off of Google and existing social media platforms.

How? Fill the web with AI generated content or just using LLMs to search for information? As more junk is poured into training LLMs this too will take a hit at some point. I remember how great the early web search was, one could find from thousands to millions of hits for request. At some point it got so polluted that it became nearly useless. It wasn't only spam that made is less useful, it was also the search providers who twisted the rules to get them to reap all the benefits.
by MrDarcy | 2025-06-09 19:58:23+00:00
This comment is misleading and misses the point.

When you buy an office chair you capitalize the asset on your books.

The chair manufacturer in turn pays wages to a person to construct the chair. Those wages are not capitalized, the manufacturer deducts them fully when they are incurred.

The main issue is that “software manufacturers” must now depreciate those same wages over 5 years. Which is unique and does not pass a basic common sense sniff test.
by al_borland | 2025-06-09 19:58:29+00:00
The classic example is the save icon being a floppy disk. Older people understand the history, and young people figure it out, even if they don’t know the history.

Computers are full of these things though. The Shift key is a reference back to how typewriters worked. We didn’t change the name of the key, because nothing physically shifts anymore. Most don’t know what it means historically, but they still know what it does on their computer.

I’ll all for bringing skeuomorphism back.
by atmavatar | 2025-06-09 19:58:51+00:00
TBH, the story would be more on the nose if the guy simply had the AI spit out an invitation list which he used without bothering to check.

Taking the output scores to produce a list of guests is exactly the kind of task people would ask the AI to automate away, and as certain other AI-related stories today suggest, we're not supposed to review the output.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-06-09 19:59:23+00:00
Thank you. I really appreciated your comment.

> I think we the technorati need to be educating non-technical users of these things as much as possible in order to demystify them so that people don't treat them like oracles.

Exactly. That phrase "meeting people where they're at" comes to mind. Less as a slogan and more as an pedagogical principle. It's not enough to deliver information, it's important to consider how people make sense of the world in the first place.

Like you pointed out, the analogy to divination isn't meant to mystify the tech. It's meant to describe how, to many people, this interface feels. And when people interact with a system in a way that feels like consulting an oracle, we can't dismiss that as ignorance. We have to understand it as a real feature of how people relate to symbolic systems. That includes search engines, card catalogs, and yes, LLMs.

This is one of the densest concentrations of AI-literate minds on the internet. That's exactly why I think it's worth introducing frames from outside the dominant paradigm: anthropology, semiotics, sociology. It's not to be sill or weird, but to illuminate things engineers might otherwise take for granted. It's easy to forget how much unspoken cultural infrastructure supports what we call "information retrieval."

If a few comments dismiss that perspective as silly or unscientific, I don't take it personally. If anything, it reassures me I'm tapping into something unfamiliar but worth sharing and worth having deep discussion on.

Thanks again for engaging in good faith. That's the kind of exchange that makes this place valuable.
by graypegg | 2025-06-09 19:59:34+00:00
> They have so much power to improve and fight against the dystopian world that is being created by all these evil corporations, if they just realized what we actually need to build.

That is a tad dramatic. You could also say the same thing about any art form.

- Painters spend all of their time working on artwork only a few people will ever see!

- Musicians don't realize how their time is wasted composing music that won't solve any problems!

- People are starving right now, as another writer dares to write a story that simply tries to entertain the reader.

Everything is political, and we all should keep that in mind. We all have effects on society no matter what. But also, it's fine to make a cromulent thing because it's interesting. We've all only got so much time alive, but you're going to squander the experience if you try to min-max impact on those 90-odd years. People do have to live for themselves sometimes, and this person likes making a neat homebrew OS.
by codingdave | 2025-06-09 20:00:40+00:00
Say whatever you feel. They will listen to you and sort it out into support or opposition to current legislative efforts. You don't have to have a perfect script - just tell them what you think. But I would caution you to talk about the issues you care about, not telling them you support a specific bill. Because they need to know what issues you care about so that when legislators propose changes to the bills (which always happens), they know whether those changes are aligned with what they are hearing from the people. You'll note that the letter OP linked to does not say that it supports the bill - it supports a specific change they want to be prioritized.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-09 20:01:03+00:00
Some teams have a frickin' bad attitude and couldn't care less. Try submitting a bug about how menus are displayed 5px from where they are supposed to be in a GTK app rendered on a X11-server that runs on the Windows desktop and see if the GTK developers care. Or try telling the react-testing-framework folks that they're asking me to put handrails in my bathroom when my house is burning down. Have experiences like that and you'll conclude it isn't worth filing bug reports.

Now the linux-industrial complex is a special case, if you are a software engineer and know how to isolate a problem and submit a great bug report you will often hear from people who will say you sent them the best bug report all quarter. It helps if the team is working with web tech, younger, more diverse, and never heard of the GPL.
by surgical_fire | 2025-06-09 20:01:06+00:00
> Do you really think that Apple, of all companies, did a cross-platform UI refresh based entirely on vibes without considering user taste, usability, accessibility, etc?

We are talking about the same company that to make a the MCP a little bit thinner released that crap with only two USBC ports, forcing everyone to carry fucking dongles everywhere.

And let's not forget that awful butterfly keyboard.

So much usability, so much accessibility. No vibes, no sir.
by gbacon | 2025-06-09 20:01:38+00:00
Even if Amazon pays no corporate income tax (only one category out of many), they pay much more in taxes per year than you would in several lifetimes.

The phrase “fair share” is political, which is to say meaningless. The people who have earnestly invoked this phrase in my experience have resisted requests to define the term and have sometimes launched personal attacks for daring to raise the question. Will you break this streak? What in concrete terms is Amazon’s fair share? Your fair share? If they differ materially, why?

I’m a capitalist and therefore wish zero ill toward you. Cronyists, authoritarians, and collectivists may want to abuse you, and that is a contemptible way to treat one’s fellow humans. Both parties to a free exchange benefit. Both sides can win because it is not a zero-sum game. As a matter of fact, you are advocating for a game that your side cannot possibly win. Consider that Amazon has enormous incentive to hire the very tippy-top best accountants and tax attorneys to find every crack in the tax code that middling staffers and nepo hires can barely scribble. It does create some benefit to society in the form of the incomes that these highly paid tax pros generate, the comforts it affords them, and the downstream jobs demand for those comforts creates. But in the big picture, it’s adversarial rather than constructive. Certainly we can come up with a more peaceful and constructive arrangement.
by sshine | 2025-06-09 20:02:07+00:00
The last time I used Jira, the CTO who decided he should be the project manager had made a ticket category named "Category".

He also put all hardware and software issues into the same sprint "to work as one team", except the hardware issues had very little to do with the software issues; also, the hardware people never updated their tickets, so each sprint just had the same 40-50 spam messages for which you had to create custom filters to avoid.

He also changed the issue sizing mechanism once in a while. So we'd have hours, t-shirts, and Fibonacci numbers (including some odd non-Fibonacci numbers that "seemed right").

I would always prefer a less feature-rich issue tracker with sane defaults.

Linear.app, GitHub Projects, post-its on the back wall of an antisocial project lead, anything other than Jira. It just attracts people who think "Category" is a good category.
by mesh | 2025-06-09 20:02:17+00:00
Sorry for the delay on this and hope you see this.

MOGRT support will be in the uxp 1.0 release. I dont have a specific date to share with you, but around end of summer time frame (subject to change). Will probably be in the beta builds before that, so I would keep an eye out over the next couple of weeks.

Transcriptions are not planned to be in the 1.0 (we are focusing on parity with CEP initially).

Hope that helps...

(I work for Adobe)
by windowshopping | 2025-06-09 20:02:34+00:00
> If you have restricted stock units (RSUs), everything is pretty straightforward. You do not have to purchase RSUs. You just get them at no cost as they vest. Most private companies do something called double-trigger vesting. That just means you are also not taxed as they vest. Instead, you get taxed for your RSUs at some second trigger date, which is usually set to be the date of the future big liquidity event (at ordinary income). One big drawback with double-trigger RSUs is that you are not really able to sell them in tender offers or other pre-going-public liquidity events.

Doesn't exactly mention the important part, that you don't necessarily get anything, does it?
by the_af | 2025-06-09 20:03:41+00:00
I don't believe LLMs have become sentient, nor can it "contemplate on its existence".

That said, I find some of your claims less compelling. I'm an atheist, so there's no "creator" for humans to be worshipped. But also, human intelligence/sentience came from non-intelligence/non-sentience, right? So something appeared where before it didn't exist (gradually, and with whatever convoluted and random accidents, but it did happen: something new where it didn't exist before). Therefore, it's not implausible that a new form of intelligence/sentience could be fast tracked again out of non-intelligence, especially if humans were directing its evolution.

By the way, not all scifi argues that machines/programs can evolve to develop humanity. Some scifi argues the contrary, and good scifi wonders "what makes us human?".
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-09 20:03:56+00:00
I can't wait to see what attempts like this might look like after wasm components start becoming real(-er).

I have huge respect for unikernel designs, and this looks amazingly festureful. & Yet… I don't know why it matters to me as much as it does, but I want so very much for wasm to be useful for more than one big precompiled app.

There's all sorts of work going into wasi preview3 right now, to allow sync and async code to co-exist. Once that happens, it feels like wasm will finally have all the necessary ingredients down to be an everything runtime (although I'd hoped the host-object bridging was going to get more love too, & it's not clear to me that there's any itnent to go beyond js-based bridges like rust web-sys, on and on).

I hope we see more interest in wasm runtimes being used to host more dynamic sub environments, to host not just one amazing process but many processes. The promise of wasm components is to give us: standard, portable, lightweight, finely sandboxed, cross-language, compositional module (according to the wonderful talk linked below), and it seems so near, but this status quo of it being used so extensively in unikernel like applications, needing everything compiled ahead of time, feels like the area I want to see wasm expanding into not as a specification (the spec seems there!) but as a practicable doable thing, like what I want wasm components to be good for. Not just a distribution format but a runtime capability.

What is a Component (and Why) https://youtu.be/y3x4-nQeXxc
by jweir | 2025-06-09 20:04:12+00:00
The Small Software Business Alliance has been actively working on this issue since day one.

https://ssballiance.org/about/engage/

And Michelle Hansen was an early organizer https://x.com/mjwhansen

If you work at all in energy, the Clean Energy Business Network is also proactive in fighting for change. A couple of years ago they put me touch with Ron Wyden's staff. The Democrats are almost universally opposed to what was added to Section 174.

https://www.cebn.org/media_resources/house-republicans-advan...

Fight this thing - it is terrible. Not just for software but any innovative business in the USA.
by vergessenmir | 2025-06-09 20:04:20+00:00
Go is great for concurrency. Not quite there for agent support. The problem isn't performance or message passing it's the agent middleware i.e logging, tracing, retries, configuration

You need a DSL either supported in the language or through configuration. These are features you get for free in python and secondly JavaScript. You have to write most of this yourself in go
by stego-tech | 2025-06-09 20:04:31+00:00
I think any idiot with two functioning neurons can see the ruling class of India is trying to pull the same strategy China used to take manufacturing: consistently undercut foreign wages, centralizing knowledge and power before turning it on their customers and extracting wealth and power from countries or organizations that outsourced to them in the first place. I think it’s less a matter of who has more or less power, and more that there is an opportunity here for reconciliation in a way that most sides benefit to some significant degree.

* Foreign workers in the USA have more earning potential under such a compromise, allowing them to send more money home or bring family members abroad

* Foreign workers abroad see less exploitation and have more impact on domestic policies and industry

* Domestic workers see a slowing or reversal of outsourcing, increasing wages and job prospects

* Corporate leaders hold off another over-centralization of power by another hostile state, retaining agency and profits for themselves.

“The math” is not the be-all-end-all of things, for if it were we would have never lowered taxes as low as we did, enacted debilitatingly unsustainable defined-benefits programs like many pensions and Social Security, or handed out corporate subsidies as if money was free. “The math” paints a clear outcome of the current path that harms the collective peoples of multiple countries just so a handful of monied-classes can reap most of the rewards for themselves.

Stop relying solely on short-term data with limited constraints, or big data patterns absent context. Do some critical thinking and path predictions, and these sorts of answers become pretty glaringly obvious, as does the ability for a unique compromise to head things off now instead of a full-on hostile protectionist agenda if this is left unresolved.
by vpianykh | 2025-06-09 20:05:05+00:00
Thanks!

I think you are absolutely right. A mediocre engineer will not fit this marketplace, since LLM already produced a mediocre code by definition.

As for talent. Honestly, as an engineer, I would be attracted to success and a challenge. Say someone vibe-coded a successful product and struggling to scale it up. That is a message I'm approaching engineers right now. But I fully understand that I'm a sample one and open to any other views.
by snarf21 | 2025-06-09 20:05:20+00:00
There is a lot of research pointing to the duodenum being damaged and not playing it role correctly. It is essentially the signaler to the pancreas and gall bladder and liver to release All The Things! There have even been some studies around a new approach that resurfaces the duodenum with a hot water balloon that brings back proper function, known as Duodenal Mucosal Resurfacing (DMR).
by sh34r | 2025-06-09 20:05:23+00:00
A sufficiently idiotic tax scheme such as Section 174 can destroy far more income tax revenue than it collects, by destroying jobs and small businesses, and knocking high earners down a tax bracket or three. Section 174 isn’t doing much to tax FANG companies. Apple has all their profits in their Double Irish Dutch Sandwich racket. Amazon cooks the books to appear unprofitable on paper, in a manner that would make Hollywood accountants blush.

This really only hurts the competition, who is completely unprofitable in every sense of the word. And all for what? Left-shifting the collection of a 21% income tax by a couple years? I think many of us would’ve done terrible things in 2021 to only have an effective tax rate of 21%. The government mugged Peter the payroll tax man to pay Paul the corpo tax man, but they disemboweled Peter in the process, and most of the money had to be disposed of as a biohazard.

I don’t believe Section 174 was an honest attempt to manage the deficit. I think Zuck, the PayPal Mafia, and the blood-boy cabal bribed some Congresscritters to kill off what remained of their competition.