MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LoganDark | 2025-06-06 20:09:40+00:00
I so don't understand why everyone's been taking the bait and calling this company Meta. I guess because the restructuring was intentional by Facebook for manipulation purposes (everyone mistrusted Facebook at that point and they needed a new identity in order to try to gain people's trust again), while Google doesn't really use Alphabet as a front because they seemingly don't care if people know them as evil.

I very commonly see things like Google acquires this, Google acquires that, even in cases where the acquirer is actually Alphabet, but I almost never see anything about Facebook, because everyone's now calling them Meta. Maybe I'm fighting a losing battle at this point, but I will never forget their past actions nor malicious intentions just because they tried to change their name.

I know the brand "Facebook" still exists for the social network, but Meta is still Facebook at its core. Same people, same values, same data harvesting. They're just using other methods to get at your data, abusing trust that maybe people wouldn't have given to Facebook if the name change hadn't occurred.

I think I must feel a little bit like Louis Rossmann must've felt when Time Warner Cable changed their name to Comcast. He still holds all of their former misdeeds against them and I think it's a real shame that more people don't do that for Facebook.

Sure in plenty of people's minds Meta is still its own entire dystopia and a half, but it still feels to me like they've all forgotten the precedent that Facebook set all the way back when that name was the one they put on their dystopia.
by chughes87 | 2025-06-06 20:09:47+00:00
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

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Technologies: JavaScript, React, RamdaJS, Apollo Client, Ruby on Rails, AWS, GCP, Playwright, Cypress

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13 YoE in software engineering. Mostly in webdev at startups.
by kgwgk | 2025-06-06 20:10:08+00:00
> Dear ChatGPT, is construction labor deductible as an expense in the year it is incurred according to GAAP? Please answer in a few lines.

Under GAAP, construction labor is not immediately deductible as an expense in the year it is incurred if it relates to the construction of a long-term asset (like a building). Instead, it is capitalized as part of the asset's cost and then expensed over time through depreciation. Only labor costs not tied to asset creation (e.g., routine maintenance) are expensed as incurred.
by lowkey_ | 2025-06-06 20:10:11+00:00
Everything you just said but imagine revenue is $500K, and you spent $500K on salaries for the team.

You can only expense $100K of the salary costs this year, so even though you're break-even, you pay taxes on $400K in income.

Or, even worse, imagine revenue is $250K, and you spent $500K on salaries for the team.

You can only expense $100K of the salary costs this year, you're already -$250K on the year, and now you're paying taxes on $400K in income. You're destroyed.

VC-backed startups aren't designed to get profitable quickly, and I don't see that as a problem for the American taxpayer, and nobody is saying the taxpayer is giving money or helping. A business losing money should not have to pay taxes on income, as if it's not losing money.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-06 20:10:52+00:00
> "Maintain the purest racial pedigree"? What does this even mean in actual terms?

It’s usually, as it is in this case, genetically meaningless. Culturally, it means someone picked an arbitrary point in the past, counted up the cohort of people within some group (and a metric for testing in-ness), and then deemed descendents of only that group to be pure, descendents of that group in part to be impure, and people who have no ancestors in that group to be outsiders.

In practice, recordkeeping past a handful of generations gets annoying, so most cultures set this line somewhere within 200 years ago. (The concept correlates with nativeness to varying degrees.)
by xivzgrev | 2025-06-06 20:11:51+00:00
the idea is that normal business expense are deductible.

in this case, your taxable income is $1.0M, and cash flow is $500k ($1.5M - $500k salaries - $500k taxes).

now you have to amoritize it over 5 years. so your taxable income is $1.4M ($1.5-500k*20%), taxes are 700k, and cash flow is $300k.

Uncle Sam just reduced your cash flows by 40% by a simple tax change. You eventually make up the difference, but for fast growing tech companies, that's a large shift in current flows and significantly changes their investment strategy.
by Szpadel | 2025-06-06 20:12:43+00:00
that's exactly why Intel proposed x86S

that's basically x86 without 16 and 32 bit support, no real mode etc.

CPU starts initialized in 64bit without all that legacy crap.

that's IMO great idea. I think every few decades we need to stop and think again about what works best and take fresh start or drop some legacy unused features.

risc v have only mandatory basic set of instructions, as little as possible to be Turing complete and everything else is extension that can be (theoretically) removed in the future.

this also could be used to remove legacy parts without disrupting architecture
by kelnos | 2025-06-06 20:12:57+00:00
> Doesn't this just amortize out to be roughly the same amount of deduction over the long term?

Yes, but if your business is not yet profitable, having to pay tax on money you don't actually have in the bank (because expenses exceeded revenue during the year) will cut into your runway, perhaps to the point that your company might not exist in five years... or even two or three.
by bravetraveler | 2025-06-06 20:13:40+00:00
Reminds me of this, lol:

> "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel."

14% all the time vs 35% some of the time

edit: Closing numbers are far less impressive than those buried in the middle of the post. Confusing; bye everyone
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-06 20:15:17+00:00
> are your skills of expression already that hobbled by chat bots?

You have it backwards. My skills of expression were hobbled by my upbringing, and others' thoughts on self-expression allowed my skills to flourish. I wish I had a chat bot to help me understand interpersonal communication because I could have actually had good examples growing up.
by sokoloff | 2025-06-06 20:15:37+00:00
My reading of § 1.263A-1 is that construction labor must be capitalized.

§ 1.263A-1.a.3.A indicates that it's in scope: Real property and tangible personal property produced by the taxpayer

§ 1.263A-1.e.2 specifies that Direct Costs are subject to capitalization: Producers. Producers must capitalize direct material costs and direct labor costs.

(I'm just a taxpayer, not a tax lawyer or even an EA or CPA.)

What tax code references or treasury regulations did you find to support your belief that construction labor can be expensed in the year performed?
by Retric | 2025-06-06 20:15:42+00:00
> none of us would work for a company that isn't doing R&D

So you’d just be unemployed for the rest of your lives? That’s a possible edge case not worth adjusting the tax code for, but it seems unlikely.

> wouldn't force you to pay taxes on a loss.

R&D is an investment, you only pay taxes if the rest of the company is profitable.

If your company is spending 1M / year on R&D and not adding 800k in long term value then in theory you’d be correct. But at that point you either aren’t doing R&D, or are doing such a poor job of it that the government shouldn’t be encouraging that activity.
by jordanb | 2025-06-06 20:15:54+00:00
Earhart seems to be a story of someone pushed beyond their capabilities by a runaway media narrative.

She was a good stick and rudder pilot in an era where most of them were male military veterans. This made her famous but her fame coincided with an era in which aviation headlines were being made by breaking long distance records. She couldn't remain in the limelight just doing loops and barrel rolls.

But long distance navigation required skill with technology she didn't have much familarity like radios and sextants. No doubt she had pressure to run up those firsts before some other female pilot did so she had no time to go back to school. Then you have the whole organization built around her and their expectations.

Her story isn't that much different than Donald Crowhurst.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-06 20:16:03+00:00
There are some misunderstandings in the comments that seem to stem from not having read the section, so I thought it was worth referencing the actual text [0]. It's quite short and easy to read.

The most important bits:

* Subsection (a) requires amortizing "Specified research or experimental expenditures" over 5 years (paragraph (2)) instead of deducting them (paragraph (1))

* Paragraph (c)(3) is a Special Rule that requires that all software development expenses be counted as a "research or experimental expenditure".

That's it. All software expenses must be treated as research and experimental expenses, and no research and experimental expense can be deducted instead of amortized. Ergo, all software expenses must be amortized over 5 years.

I strongly recommend reading the section before forming an opinion. It really is quite unambiguous and is unambiguously bad for anyone who builds software and especially for companies that aren't yet thoroughly established in their space (i.e. startups).

Also note that this makes Software a special case of R&D. It's the only form of R&D that Section 174 requires you to categorize as such and therefore amortize.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174
Summer projects (preferably open source) for college sophomores
by decartesfolium | 2025-06-06 20:16:14+00:00
I am the parent of a college sophomore. My son is learning data science in the US. He likes computer algorithms and computer security and is willing to code or contribute otherwise. Please suggest meaningful projects (preferably open source) to do over the summer. He can work on them for about 120 hours.

I ask here because he'd like the form of project to be semi-formal (no remuneration is expected, only fun and challenge are what he's looking for) and also because people here are very knowledgeable.
by warkdarrior | 2025-06-06 20:16:21+00:00
Software developers are already too expensive in US, so this applies some downward pressure on those salaries. Frankly the economy will be much better off when tech salaries equalize across geos, thus avoiding the deep whole US manufacturing is in (for example, manufacturing wages in Vietname are one tenth of US manufacturing wages, and thus it is better to open new plants there).
by kelnos | 2025-06-06 20:16:27+00:00
If the article is to be believed, though, the damage is already done. Companies have already laid off large portions of their R&D staff, and have canceled lots of forward-looking technical work. Re-hiring those people and restarting those projects can take years, and that's if companies feel confident enough that the exemption will stick around, and not get removed again in a few years.
by senko | 2025-06-06 20:16:39+00:00
I cannot find it now because OpenAI blocks archive.org (oh the irony), but previously their API privacy policy said no data retention beyond 30 (or 90, I can't recall) day period for abuse/monitoring. I know because I was researching this for an (EU) customer.

Now, the promise is still to not train on API inputs/outputs, but the retention promise is nowhere to be found, unless you're an Enterprise customer (ZDR).

Moreover, at least in my understanding of the order, the court ordered them to keep ALL, not "all unless for those you promised not to keep":

> OpenAI is NOW DIRECTED to preserve and segregate all output log data that would otherwise be deleted on a going forward basis until further order of the Court (in essence, the output log data that OpenAI has been destroying), whether such data might be deleted at a user’s request or because of “numerous privacy laws and regulations” that might require OpenAI to do so.

So in effect, the statement you quoted is false, and OpenAI is actually in breach of their privacy policies.

I asked ChatGPT to parse this in case I misunderstood it, and its interpretation was:

> The company is ordered to preserve all output log data that would otherwise be deleted, going forward, regardless of the reason for deletion (user request, privacy law, default retention policy, etc.).

> In other words: They must stop deleting any output log data, even if it would normally be deleted by default or at a user's request.

> This is more than just keeping data they would normally retain — it's a preservation order for data they would otherwise destroy.

As a result, OpenAI is now unusable for serious business use in Europe. Since the competition (Anthropic, Google) is not affected by this court order, the only loser here is OpenAI.
by Ancapistani | 2025-06-06 20:16:51+00:00
> It's what I imagine being an AI would feel like from the perspective of the AI.

I've been 100% immersed in AI all of 2025, and I think it's impacting my communication skills -- especially the way I write.

Wouldn't it be amusing if after the disruptive period of AI's rise is over, people with ADHD end up being highly sought after for our ability to communicate clearly with them?
by sashank_1509 | 2025-06-06 20:17:03+00:00
There are plenty of Indians who in a literal sense could be classified as white (as in extremely fair pale skin), not just from Kashmir but even from South India. But if you’re Indian you can instantly pick them out as Indian, their entire facial structure etc is different from Europeans. In a sense, it is true, categories like “white”, “black” are social constructs that are meaningless at a genetic standpoint. But categories like, European, Nordic, Indian etc are not, if you put in some effort you can very easily distinguish between because of thousands of years of separate genetic evolution.
Show HN: PixiBall – WebGPU Browser Multiplayer Soccer Game
by NBKMistik | 2025-06-06 20:18:30+00:00
I built a browser-based multiplayer soccer game called PixiBall, inspired by Haxball. It’s fully real-time and uses PixiJS v8 for rendering along with WebGPU to test performance in a real-world setting. Networking is handled with WebRTC, and the whole thing runs entirely in the browser with no installs.

You can try it here: https://www.pixiball.com

This was originally a side project to test the capabilities of our custom game engine, but it evolved into a working multiplayer game. Still early in development, but functional and fun — supports custom rooms and smooth physics.

Feedback from a technical or gameplay perspective is very welcome. (We also want to thank Basro and Haxball — their work inspired this.)
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-06 20:18:32+00:00
... or Drools, or the Jena Rules Engine (beautiful source code and easy to modify), or http://www.clara-rules.org/

I really appreciate how rules engines can deal with asynchony: they're great for systems where you apply for a loan online but the loan officer has to look at the application. I wrote a data processing toolkit that wrote a set of production rules for Jena that would build and tear down flux pipelines to do... just about anything. Would love to see production rules applied to the async comm problem on the front end.
by python-b5 | 2025-06-06 20:19:02+00:00
DragonRuby seems interesting, but being a paid product immediately rules it out for me. I've been working on my own similar, smaller framework, which is more work, but I believe it's valuable not to depend on a for-profit company for your work, if at all possible.

Also, the attitude much of the wiki / promotional pages are written in for that framework runs me the wrong way for some reason. "Unity and GameMaker rot your brain"... are you kidding me? No they don't. You're still writing real code and solving real problems. They just have more systems in place you have to work within. I don't like the self-righteous attitude. It's fair to not want to go open source if that's your preference, but don't act like people who don't want to use closed-source software where possible are being unreasonable. I also don't see how what is effectively a Ruby wrapper for SDL3 is such an immensely complicated piece of engineering that it needs to cost as much as they're charging for it.
by cyberax | 2025-06-06 20:19:29+00:00
> Given the choice, Amazon would rather spend 100% of its profits on itself

And why is this bad, exactly? Money will be spent and will go back into the economy. Amazon will have to use the funds to build new offices, datacenters, do research, whatever.

And even if execs give themselves $10^11 USD in bonuses, they will be taxed as personal income, at even higher rates than corporate income.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-06 20:21:00+00:00
> But not being able to take salary as a business expense seems like as thing that would happen if software in and of itself has value, which is largely does not.

To me it seems like a thing that just wouldn't happen. Forget software.

Say you own a McDonald's, and as part of your operations you have some people on staff to take orders, prepare food, and clean the bathrooms. Why are their wages not a deductible business expense?

If the answer is "they are, don't be stupid", then... what exactly was the R&D tax break?
by hirako2000 | 2025-06-06 20:21:03+00:00
If your handicap make coding difficult perhaps another profession would suit you better.

Now if Ai assistance allow you to perform well then that is a different story and I take my advice back of course.

There is a lot to say, positive things about how LLMs enables people to perform at tasks that would be impossible for them. Whether due to handicaps or simply lacking the abilities, or opportunity to train.

My comment was on the impact on "healthy" individuals who remain the majority of the population. And I only spoke for myself, I have no clue maybe it is just me or due to how I use the thing. Thanks for sharing your experience though, I had not considered what might be a concern for the majority with this might very well be an enabler.
by PopAlongKid | 2025-06-06 20:21:11+00:00
>Be honest, who here has actually lived through a major dip and not been tempted to smash that "sell" button?

Honestly, I've lived through four (1987[0], dot-com, 2008 recession, 2020 coronavirus) and was not tempted. For the first two, I was much too far away from retirement to worry about it, and for the third, I was still over ten years away from even beginning to think about retirement distributions, and because of my experience with the first two, again was not tempted. The fact that my investments for much of that time were in pre-tax accounts helped me avoid feeling some pain as well.

Nowadays, I try to keep, in addition to an emergency fund, about a year's worth of retirement distributions in money market equivalents, even inside my IRA.

[0]My employer started a 401k plan prior to 1987
by californical | 2025-06-06 20:21:51+00:00
Don’t forget the other stakeholder - the general public.

Yes it sucks for developers, but does it make any difference for any other employee? Why does Joe’s plumbing have to pay those taxes, but Jane’s AdTech company doesn’t?

Sure, there are benefits to investing in R&D in general, and tech has fueled a lot of growth, so incentivizing it has likely paid off for the whole economy. But will that forever be true? Maybe?
by phendrenad2 | 2025-06-06 20:22:23+00:00
Well as I said in another comment, it would still be illegal, because the scope is limited. However, my point here was that you're ignoring the fact that there are probably other laws that cover this, redundantly. I guess the concept of redundant laws can be a departure from the usual world of programming, where we try to DRY everything up as much as possible.
by yreg | 2025-06-06 20:22:24+00:00
I have no experience with this, but I imagine actually deleting files from some giant collection of data that needs to be safely backed up is borderline impossible, no?

I expect that the big tech companies have all kinds of cold storage backups and no one is going to actually go spelunking in those archives to physically delete my data when I delete an email. It's more likely that they will delete the keys to decrypt it, but even the keys must be safely stored somewhere, so it's the same problem just with less data.
by shrubble | 2025-06-06 20:23:00+00:00
There’s plenty of evidence to the contrary, including Denisovan and Neanderthal that is not present in any African population; as well, something like up to 20% of West African genome has an as yet unknown source which is usually referred to as “archaic” or ghost DNA which is not found elsewhere in other populations.

Since the OOA theory doesn’t have any explanation for this evidence…
by doublerabbit | 2025-06-06 20:23:11+00:00
The privacy pages and legal pages don't link. They all return to the homepage.

Without them I am hesitant in uploading my concept art from my project for testing.

Otherwise it is a cool concept and I would potentially look in to if it turns out you don't go all evil villain and claim ownership over the sprites.

Enabling a preview set of sprites without having an account would do no harm neither.

But creating an account without any legal documentation is a no from me as I don't know whats happening with my IP which leaves me uncomfortable.

Even if it's not a ratified legal document; some draft is better than nothing.
by AlchemistCamp | 2025-06-06 20:23:12+00:00
I don't know what that person meant but, like many in the region, Koreans have family registries (戶籍) that record their family lineage. At least among people I've known who have spoken about theirs, Korean family registry records tend to go back much further than the median east Asian country.

The names of the systems related to this registry are slightly different in Chinese, Japanese and Korean but you can see links to Wikipedia entries for each of them from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%B6%E7%B1%8D
by FluGameAce007 | 2025-06-06 20:23:21+00:00
In December 2024, I reported a one-click iOS vulnerability triggered by playing a malicious MP4 audio file via iMessage or SMS. The exploit chain included:

AudioConverterService – memory corruption, AppleBCMWLAN.dext – kernel-level escalation, CryptoTokenKit – silent ECDSA key exfiltration enabling crypto theft.

Despite submitting the report to Apple (ID OE19648805943313), I received no acknowledgment or credit. On April 11, 2025, I forwarded the same working exploit to Google. Days later, Apple patched the issue under CVE-2025-31200, with credit going to Google—not the original researcher.

The linked post documents the full timeline, attack chain, and its potential connection to real-world crypto theft. I am posting for transparency to users.
by ninininino | 2025-06-06 20:24:26+00:00
I could definitely tell population-level differences between phenotypes in places like UK vs Poland when I visited (and yes I know Polish immigration to the UK is popular), and I can tell differences between the average population-level look in German-dominated descendant areas in the US vs Italian and Jewish and Irish areas like NYC. I think maybe people are expecting it to be easy to do individual-level predictions which is a lot more of a coin toss, but just telling the broad differences isn't super hard.