MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Telemakhos | 2025-07-24 22:34:19+00:00
Not only have they avoided the duopoly: they've avoided dependence on US tech and US financial surveillance/control. The EU depends on Visa/Mastercard for cross-border transactions especially, and they've never been able to get their act together well enough to establish a home-grown, EU-wide payment rails system that would give them independence from US processors should they need that independence. That's a lesson that Russia learned back in 2014 and remedied with its Mir rails.
by juliasilge | 2025-07-24 22:35:05+00:00
Yes, but that is the server mode that is not free to use. If you want a free mode that lets you connect to a server, you might want to check out the remote SSH support: https://positron.posit.co/remote-ssh.html

We talk a bit about why we chose the Elastic license here: https://positron.posit.co/licensing.html

We have thought pretty carefully about what kind of functionality works well in extensions (in fact, we build and maintain a number of extensions!) and came to the decision that the more integrated data science experience we wanted to make required forking.
by frankfrank13 | 2025-07-24 22:35:15+00:00
in like 2011 I saw Daniel Radcliffe in How to succeed in business without really trying, and there's this line

> And other men may carry cards, as members of the Diners

that i did not understand until a few years ago someone mention the show, I remembered the line. And now at this moment, where this article reminded me of the Capital One acq. of Discover which happened to own Diner's, I can't help but think of this zombified credit card company limping along.

Sign me up for the Diner's platinum, which I have to assume will get 5x points at the five-and-dime.
by nine_k | 2025-07-24 22:35:33+00:00
But AFAICT in Zig you don't have to have async and sync versions. Instead, the runtime may choose to interpret `try` as an async or as a synchronous call, the latter is equivalent to a future / promise that resolves before the next statement [1]. This is a sane approach.

Having separate sync / async versions that look like the same function is a great way to introduce subtle bugs.

[1]: https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-async-io/
by bediger4000 | 2025-07-24 22:35:35+00:00
I disagree that what's termed "AI" is more exciting than space exploration. Current "AI" feels a lot like NFTs/blockchain/cryptocurrency, and Windows NT before them.

Trump's ending the US space program, but what's more exciting than a planet inhabited entirely by robots? Robots that drive around and take pictures of a planet, the entirety of which people probably will never explore.
by givemeethekeys | 2025-07-24 22:35:38+00:00
It feels like it is worse now than it used to be. Back in 2010, you would be giving up a nice salary but not a much nicer salary by working at a startup.

So, startup base compensation hasn't kept up, and the career and financial risk of working for one has gone up due to higher interest rate and higher open-market asset prices.
by layer8 | 2025-07-24 22:36:06+00:00
> In Java, String requires two allocations

That’s true, but thanks to GC an allocation also is just a pointer bump in Java, and the two allocations are likely to be close to each other. For short-lived strings, the GC cost is furthermore zero, because only the longer-lived objects need to be tracked and copied with generational GC. So, “heavy cost” is relative.
EA+De+Id=Progress
by snappr021 | 2025-07-24 22:36:49+00:00
f() + f() + f() =

Let's break it down:

(Earth/Earther): Represents "Earther" or humanity connected to the Earth.

(Handshake/Collaboration): Symbolizes "humankind's ability to take action" and the collective effort.

(Lightbulb/Idea): Represents "collective designs" or the ideas and plans that humanity comes up with together.

(Rocket/Progress): Signifies "externally" and the impact or progress made outwards, beyond individual thought into acti
by louison11 | 2025-07-24 22:37:57+00:00
30 min a day or 3hrs a week in a gym is all you need. I’ve been working out for 10 years, and if I can pull 3 hours in 1 week, it’s a great week! And it’ll keep me real strong. Plus, makes you sleep better, which means you probably need to sleep less. Working out is almost always a “you get more than what you gave” kinda deal.
by juliasilge | 2025-07-24 22:38:21+00:00
I work on Positron, and I would say no, it's a different product that has a different set of tradeoffs than RStudio. RStudio is a different IDE, and it is not going anywhere; our company is committed to long term support for it.

I would say that Positron is better for folks who use more than one language (not only R) or want to customize/extend their IDE in a way that is not possible in RStudio.
by stillpointlab | 2025-07-24 22:38:55+00:00
I can confirm this is effective - I have done the same.

I haven't done extensive experiments, but I have noticed anecdotal benefits to asking the LLM how they want things structured as well.

For example, for complex multi-stage tasks I asked Claude Code how best to communicate the objective and it recommended a markdown file with the following sections: "High-level goal", "User stories", "Technical requirements", "Non-goals". I then created such a doc for a pretty complex task then asked Claude to review the doc and ask any clarifications. I then answer any questions (usually 5-7) and put them into a "Clarification" section. I have also added a "Completion checklist" section that I use to ensure that Claude follows all of the rules in my subdirectory "README.md" files (I have one for each major sub-section of code, like my service layer, my router layer, my database, etc). I usually go and do 2-3 rounds of Claude asking questions and me adding to the "Clarification" section and then Claude is satisfied and ready to implement.

The bonus of this approach is I now have a growing list of the task specifications checked into a "tasks" directory showing the history of how the code base came to be.
by 867-5309 | 2025-07-24 22:39:18+00:00
that's only a very recent change, and not universally rolled out. for decades shops charged ~£3 "connection fee" for paying by credit card, no matter the purchase amount, and many still (probably illegally) enforce a minimum spend if paying by credit or debit card. like when paying or withdrawing money abroad, it's just a lottery as to the "fees" you'll be charged not because there are such fees, but because someone in the '70s created super advanced tech to detect usage outside the country of issuance, and everyone got used to that
by rprend | 2025-07-24 22:39:22+00:00
Speaking as someone who tried (and failed) to build a competitor, merchants don’t actually care about the fees. We built a mobile payment system using bank transfer rails (ACH debits and FedNow credits) for ecom platforms. QR payments, just like AliPay, but for the US. We studied past failures at this same idea, and targeted specifically high ticket items (jewelry, luxury), because the fees are a bigger problem, and we could solve other problems with pay-by-bank like limiting botting/scalping and providing digital proof of purchase for resellers.

We raised some money, built it, and demo’d it to dozens of different business. Instant clearing, way cheaper fees, bundle fraud insurance, digital proof of purchase. But it was an uphill battle- people didn’t want it.

Merchants might say they care about the fees, but in practice they care about conversion and getting sales. If you want them to act you need to promise to bring in new revenue, not reduce their cost of existing revenue.

Second problem is the rails. Your only option to debit is ACH, and ACH’s can be returned by the customer for any reason up to 60 days after the debit. Even with return-risk profiling, we had issues with Russian fraudsters using stolen SSNs to onboard as a merchant, do a “custom jewelry” sale for thousands, then as soon as the merchant gets paid out, ACH R10. The “merchant” has RTP’d that money away so when we try to debit it NSFs.

RfPs on FedNow (if they ever get widely adopted) would solve this, because at least they’re irreversible. Until then the only competitor is crypto, but good luck getting US consumers to use a different currency at checkout without tanking your conversion (people have tried!!)
by devnonymous | 2025-07-24 22:39:27+00:00
The last section in the article speaks about RuPay but isn't this just one of the many implementations of UPI[1] ? In any case, imo, it is the start of the end for the duopoly and it is my hope that an truly open standard and protocol (unlike UPI) emerges (and no, the blockchain is not it -- crypto would just be accidental complexity in any potential solution).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
by 90s_dev | 2025-07-24 22:39:34+00:00
To be fair, the Monaco team did an amazing thing. It's not clear to me just how much of VS Code's complexity is essential to its genius, but if anyone ever creates a slim version that does 90% of the work in 10% of the code, it would forever change editing like VS Code did. It would be great if it was portable too, but it's hard to get that without pulling in HTML + JS + CSS as dependencies. Maybe as a Dear ImGui extension?
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-24 22:39:50+00:00
There was this idea that they would be able to take individual steel sheets, cut them and fold them into shape with some interior welds to cheaply and efficiently manufacture the body. The stainless steel and the weird shape came from what they thought this process would require.

Then the process didn't work, but either marketing or just Musk we're already attached to the shape and aesthetic.

"Exoskeleton" is I think what they were calling it.
by kyrra | 2025-07-24 22:40:04+00:00
My understanding is that Pix took over because the Brazilian gov did transfer payments during covid and the (only?) way to get those payments was via Pix. So it forced everyone to start using it. And once people had more familiarity with Pix, merchants started pushing for it because it charges ACH level fees.

The chargeback system (MED) is only so-so right now, but expected to get better.

There is a lot to like about Pix, but the spec is extremely complicated and hard to implement.
by dpryden | 2025-07-24 22:40:05+00:00
I think you might be thinking of https://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/an-old-article-i-wr...

It says:

> I give the following general definitions for strong and weak typing, at least when used as absolutes:

> Strong typing: A type system that I like and feel comfortable with

> Weak typing: A type system that worries me, or makes me feel uncomfortable
by DSingularity | 2025-07-24 22:40:10+00:00
No disagreements there. I have a friend who grew up in Lebanon who told me how his fathers best friend in high school was Jewish who later came back to invade Lebanon and supervise martial law in the same city they grew up in.

It’s the way of the colonialists. Outsource the occupation to a local minority and your occupation can last a lot longer because the colonial power will be shielded from the inevitable blowback that will follow from the dirty work of colonization. The minority will always be keen to retain your support so you can retain most of the benefits which attracted you to the colonial project for a lot longer.

The world should push for a one state solution. Enough bloodshed already.
by brettgriffin | 2025-07-24 22:41:04+00:00
I agree with this post. I think you've already been terminated, and I don't think it was your fault.

I would stress #3: If you cannot financially afford to just tender your resignation and move on, take the high road and handle this as amicably as you can. Make a concerted effort to show progress in the PIP, discuss your progress in your 1 on 1s, and be as polite as you can. It sucks, it's tempting to lash out, but it is not worth it.

But immediately begin running a process to find a new position, hopefully with more skilled and competent people.
by qsort | 2025-07-24 22:41:46+00:00
I don't want to dunk too hard on this as it seems to be reasonably well made, but how are we making a data science IDE without a good SQL client? I might be biased but that's a major part of the workflow. You're already losing against PyCharm or Visual Studio (not code, the real one) simply because of that.

I appreciate that full IDEs are heavy tools, but when I just need an editor I go with vim, if I have to do real work why not take out the power tools?
by malux85 | 2025-07-24 22:42:02+00:00
When I had some mild success with my first startup in the UK, I got flooded by news organisations offering "premium publication content" --- basically pay us a big chunk of cash to write a positive article on your company.

I was surprised at the number and calibre of orgs that came to me who would basically say anything I wanted for cash, this opened my eyes a lot and made me very suspicious of published media.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-24 22:42:11+00:00
No argument from me there, Android can be better in some areas, and obviously GrapheneOS is going to be the better option above stock/skinned OEM Android if you value privacy and/or security.

But for those not willing to make the tradeoffs that GrapheneOS requires, Apple is probably the better choice IF you happen to trust Apple, or phrased differently - if you want Apple to be the only one spying on you vs. any number of third parties on Android, depending on which apps you install.

As for me, I have no particular love for Apple, despite being entirely in their ecosystem of devices, but I cba to play sysadmin at home and until Google/Android offers the equivalent level of E2EE as Apple's advanced data protection, I'm sticking with iPhone. I could piece together the equivalent myself, but there's something to be said of just having it offered OOTB.
by unethical_ban | 2025-07-24 22:42:23+00:00
Yeah, just from a reputational standpoint I'm not sure I ever want to buy a Sig unless it's used. Too many other good brands to financially support. I've been eyeing a Canik or Walther, I want a premium trigger. The CZs are reliable weapons, but their trigger feels "gritty" to me. My Sig SP2022 is my favorite trigger of the guns I own.
by Slartie | 2025-07-24 22:42:36+00:00
WiX basically lets you directly write the internal data structures used by Windows Installer to run the MSIs. Just in XML instead of some ancient binary database that is used in the MSI files to store things.

So the actual "byzantine incomprehensible mess" (which is indeed the correct description) is the MSI format and Windows Installer, not WiX.
Tell HN: Online Safety Act to be enforced in the UK on July 25th
by trycatchthroawy | 2025-07-24 22:43:09+00:00
From: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/online-age-checks-must-be-in-force-from-tomorrow

"Tech firms must introduce age checks to prevent children from accessing porn, self-harm, suicide and eating disorder content" "Bluesky, Discord, Grindr, Reddit and X among latest firms to commit to age-gating, while Ofcom lines up targets for enforcement"

It appears that the concept of utilizing "parental controls" is "not enough" in the UK but the solution to the problem is frankly a more far reaching measure whilst also being absolutely invasive, just like the government asking Apple to allow access to user's data in iCloud that is not protected by end-to-end encryption.

What do you think about this?
by idiotsecant | 2025-07-24 22:43:26+00:00
Enjoy not buying any chips next time there is a supply chain hiccup. If COVID didn't teach you this lesson, I don't think you're teachable.

If you're making a product one of the considerations you make is how robust your supply chain is. If you fail to make that consideration you will get eaten by the organizations that do, on a long enough timescale.
by javier2 | 2025-07-24 22:43:50+00:00
Either way, Intel needs to get their new fabs sorted out and improve their products. There will be money to be made if Intel can get back the energy efficiency crown. The GPU division are starting to actually enter the lower market segment, but drivers leave a lot to be desired. Reducing work force even more just tells me they have no clue how to fix these issues and are grasping hard.
by xg15 | 2025-07-24 22:44:17+00:00
There is another article linked from this one, that contains a slightly more detailed description of the game:

> Participants clicked on two planets to amass points which put them in the running to win a monetary prize.

Unbeknown to the participants, clicking either planet led to a similar amount of reward, but could also result in the emergence of different spaceships.

From the player's POV, the main task of the game wasn't about the spaceships, it was about finding the planet with the most reward (as the players didn't know the rewards were mostly equal).

I wonder if the "compulsive" behavior might have something to do with the player believing that the planet with the pirate ship were also the one with the largest trade reward - so in their mind, abandoning the planet completely would be a bad strategy, because they might lose more points by not trading with the planet than keep by not triggering the spaceship.

Especially if the spaceship only appears in 20% of all clicks and the player can make themself believe it will appear "almost never anyway".
by mutated_quant | 2025-07-24 22:45:38+00:00
Quantum computing occupies the same space that Nanotechnology used to hold, and AGI is trying to claim; something so profoundly game-changing that it'll rewrite the rules of society itself.

Venture capitalists love this type of story, because its sells the most funding in future rounds.

I wish more people would celebrate Tang's works as a genuine breakthrough, rather than a pin that's bursting the bubble of quantum computing hype.
by juliasilge | 2025-07-24 22:46:43+00:00
I work on Positron, and I would say that Spyder can be a great choice for someone doing data science who uses Python only. I would argue that Positron is a better choice for people who use more than one language during their regular work (Python + C, Python + Rust, Python + JavaScript, etc) or who want a more customizable, extensible IDE.
by 6510 | 2025-07-24 22:46:56+00:00
I just got a rather heavy physical job. Every shift is humbling. :P

I see a personal trainer on youtube one time who summarized all the components of weight loss so wonderfully I cant help but feel I butcher the topic whenever I talk about it.

The number one thing is sleeping. Go though the carnival of things people try to get their sleep sorted out.

The second thing is stress of both kinds. You need to be able to calm the fuck down. The body stores as much as possible in survival mode.

Then comes food. Your body need to adjust to burning fat for energy. People do this with tiny fasts and keto but (my entirely untested theory) is that you should fast for as long as it feels comfortable (no stress) then break the fast with keto. You start with something small, wait a bit then can eat quite a lot as long as there is no sugar and no carbs on the plate (keto). Then you do the next fast for as long as you can comfortably do. If you feel like complete shit eat some potatoes or even sugar and get back to the routine. Switching from carbs to fat cold turkey creates unwanted stress.

Then (if you didn't already) start mixing in a small amount of moderate physical activity. Walking for an hour per day is the goal. Keep an eye on what feels comfortable. Stay in the comfort zone. You may have to shorten the fast or eat a bit more between the fasts.

You don't have to go there but there are people who regularly fast for weeks and only have some cravings the first 1-2 days. They are obviously losing weight when they do that.

There are people who add [mild] strength training, will eat more and gain muscle weight. The good kind of weight.

If you add cardio you will also eat more but (like you said) you will feel like shit almost instantly after eating shit. From my experience I think it might actually kill you if you drain your reserves and try to replenish it with bullshit, say deep fried mars bars. You will be less capable fighting of diseases, infections or injuries when completely drained. You will quickly accumulate all the right stomach bacteria to create cravings for all the right things to eat.

Whatever you chose to do, it isn't about what you can do and accomplish today. It has to be a routine that will last 10-20 years. If you go from extensive athletic physical activity to sitting on the sofa for a few months the athletic digestive system is still there.

There was a fun study where they looked at big eaters both skinny and fat. Both ate just about everything but the skinny ones ate a lot more fat and the fat ones ate a lot more carbs. It seems to suggest that for the really lazy fat people an extra bucket of chicken to avoid eating a pizza might be worth a shot. More butter and more eggs per slice of bread. Two steaks and 1/3 the potatoes. etc

I'm not saying it will work but it would be fascinating if it did.
by danielhanchen | 2025-07-24 22:46:56+00:00
Oh 8*H200 is nice - for llama.cpp definitely look at https://docs.unsloth.ai/basics/qwen3-coder-how-to-run-locall... - llama.cpp has a high throughput mode which should be helpful.

You should be able to get 40 to 50 tokens / s in the minimum. High throughput mode + a small draft model might get you 100 tokens / s generation
by tibbar | 2025-07-24 22:47:18+00:00
It's honestly impressive. Even during the major tech cuts of 2022-2023, I think many companies ended up about the same size or a even little larger over the course of a year, due to all the other hiring happening and the fact that the cuts may have partially overlapped with existing performance management anyway. 43% an incredible shrinkage for any company in such a short timescale.
by e_i_pi_2 | 2025-07-24 22:48:45+00:00
OP does address why it's critical:

> Not that we need to re-litigate that homelessness as a national security issue

Without this it's easy to think that this was just a bad actor we could have caught, instead of just a symptom of a deeper issue not being addressed

I'd be more surprised if there isn't a causal link between homelessness and making bad choices - I don't think it's really disputed that there's a causal link between homelessness and crime in general.
by hintymad | 2025-07-24 22:48:49+00:00
Politics aside, I'm really curious how much the renovation should cost. $1.9B seems exceedingly high. To put it in perspective, it cost less than $1.6B to build the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, which is 36 kilometers long. If the cost is in ballpark, we probably should why it's so expensive to renovate a historical building in the US, what would be an alternative, and etc. If the cost could be lower, then the outrage can be warranted.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-07-24 22:49:05+00:00
I love how they don't actually explain why I (or anyone else) would ever implement their API.

Given how disastrous the AI 'industry' has been, between misappropriating data from customers, performing actions on behalf of customers that lead to data and/or financial loss, and then seeking protection from the law in one or more cases of these, isn't providing an MCP service essentially requiring you to notify customers of a GDPR-or-similar data compromise event at some point in the future when it suddenly but inevitably betrays you?

Like, isn't OpenAI just leading people to a footgun and then kindly asking them to use it, for the betterment of OpenAI's bottom line, which was significantly in the red for FY24?
by mattkevan | 2025-07-24 22:49:10+00:00
I used to work for a chief exec like that. They’d see something on someone’s screen and demand changes, destroying months of carefully planned work with a single comment.

In the end, we’d build in ‘breakpoints’ - things that we knew they’d pick up on and want to change so they felt like they’d had some input without damaging anything important. This worked very well.