MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sneak | 2025-07-24 21:40:47+00:00
I always assumed that Starshield (DoD starlink) exists so that the DoD can make strategic geopolitical decisions (like giving satcom c&c to Ukrainian suicide drones in Crimea) without painting a target on the back of SpaceX’s big moneymaker.

They famously did not want to get involved in the war.

I imagine DoD having their own constellation with equivalent tech was the deal set up to give the Russians and whoever else a different set of targets to retaliate against, push comes to shove.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-07-24 21:40:51+00:00
That's not really what got Intel into deep shit. They got where they are now by ignoring the main business, and spending giga$ on every trend they could stumble headfirst onto. The money returned to the shareholders was reasonable, all the written down acquisitions and failed product lines were not.

So far as the firings concentrate on all the ancillary stuff that Intel shouldn't have gotten into in the first place, it's positive.
by rs186 | 2025-07-24 21:40:52+00:00
I don't think there are many people that say classes are bad outright. After all, you can write Go code that look identical to code in another language with classes. It's more about misusing OOP and unnecessary amount of abstraction people complain about.

Also, patterns in data science often don't transfer to general programming. Very few data scientists annotate their python types, let alone writing unit tests. Source control of Jupyter notebooks is often non-existent. It's a different way of doing things, and I would exclude numpy/pandas from discussions unless necessary.
by supplied_demand | 2025-07-24 21:41:01+00:00
Chicago has had fewer shootings this year than any time in at least a decade. There are plenty of news articles on it if you care to read up. Those of us who actually live here can visibly notice the difference.

[0] https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/11/shootings-homicides-chicago...

[1] https://chicagocrusader.com/violent-crime-in-chicago-sees-bi...

[2] https://www.wbez.org/cpd/2025/05/01/chicago-hasnt-seen-an-ap...
AI in CICD Deployment Pipelines
by nullusername | 2025-07-24 21:41:48+00:00
There was a recent article on using AI in CICD deployment pipelines. The article was written by someone who implemented AI in pipelines already and covered how expensive token get on logs jobs, how errors compile over various steps, and about the author’s experience in implementing it. I didn’t bookmark the article and have spent over an hour searching for it. Does anyone know which article I am referring to and can provide a link?
by alterom | 2025-07-24 21:42:24+00:00
While this is "based on" the open source codebase of VSCode, it's very much unclear from the project page which features and dependencies aren't open source or even free-as-in-beer (..and may require a paid subscription, enterprise plan purchase, premium account, etc).

I.e., where they are making money off of this.

One clear indication that there are strings attached is that they're bundling a specialized GenAI assistant with the IDE.

Wish it was made clear in the FAQ. It doesn't cover this at all.
by karahime | 2025-07-24 21:42:30+00:00
My best guess on this is that it's as simple as 1) most people are not Apple users (harder to reach critical mass online), 2) and most Apple users are aware of other ways to access things if that's what they want, while the ones who don't want that buy Apple in part because of the more walled garden aspects. This is purely speculative though, so it would be interesting to see surveys or other perspectives.
by addaon | 2025-07-24 21:42:33+00:00
It rather depends how specific the flavor of the ingredient is, though. Not everything has generic versions. "Maker's Mark" instead of "bourbon" probably doesn't add anything to a recipe -- exploring other bourbons is likely to give good results, although it may be valuable if the bourbon specified has particularly unusual characteristics that the drink is balanced around. And even Cointreau instead of triple sec is silly (in my opinion), although Grand Marnier is different enough to call out (and to expect some work needed when subbing). But for something like Green Chartreuse... it's a brand name, sure, but it's also what it is; there's nothing else like it, nothing else that you can use to build the same drink. And Kina Lillet is in that category. There are plenty of "brand name" drinks that were never popular enough to generate near-exact clones, and are gone to the giant Long Island Ice Tea in the sky.
by npteljes | 2025-07-24 21:42:43+00:00
Maybe it shouldn't be surprising, but without the knowledge, the opposite of the thing can be explained the same as the thing itself. For example, "The energy you take in has to go somewhere", but I also poop everyday, so maybe I just poop out the unnecessary calories? I know it works for water soluble vitamins for example.

Hindsight is 20/20 in this case. It's nice that the explanation is not complicated ("calories in, calories out"), but many other simple things have been thought of as true, only to be put on their head by science. I welcome the scientific confirmation, and I hold that the path to knowledge it's not straightforward at all.
by dm118 | 2025-07-24 21:43:04+00:00
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by scarface_74 | 2025-07-24 21:43:25+00:00
I can assure you that Tim Cook doesn’t review every product. I seriously doubt he even knows what’s going on with half of them. There is absolutely no way that he used the butterfly keyboards and said they were acceptable.

Compare that to Jobs who after he announced the iPhone and started using it, saw how much the screen scratched and went back to the drawing board and had then re-engineer it before it shipped six months later. He even announced they were doing it.

Better yet, the infamous “what does Mobile Me suppose to do?…Then why the f%%% doesn’t it do that?”.

You noticed that Cook didn’t wear the Vision Pro once during the introduction? Compare that to Jobs introductions of the iPhone and the iPad.

Rumors are, that Cook doesn’t even use a Mac day to day.

On the other hand, Jobs didn’t use a Mac after his return until OS X was released. He was also definitely not a fan of the Motorola phone with built in iTunes that he introduced on stage.

Can you imagine Cook writing an open letter on Apple.com like “Thoughts on Music” or “Thoughts on Flash”?
by pizlonator | 2025-07-24 21:43:29+00:00
> I would recommend reading beyond the title of a post before leaving replies like this, as your comment is thoroughly addressed in the text of the article:

The title is wrong. That's important.

> Java is in fact thread-safe in the sense of the term used in the article

The article's notion of thread safety is wrong. Java is not thread safe by construction, but it is memory safe.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-24 21:43:33+00:00
This is one of the most confusing things I've ever read.

Cognition acquired Windsurf. So how has he "joined Cognition"?

"I had a place at Google DeepMind as part of the deal." What does that mean? DeepMind doesn't have anything to do with Cognition or Windsurf, right?

Why would an offer at Google require forfeiting vested shares in Windsurf? Is that Windsurf policy or Cognition policy or Google policy?

"I was ultimately given a payout of only 1% of what my shares would have been worth at the time of the deal." So he took the payout and forfeited the shares? "In going to Cognition, I’ve chosen a different direction." Or not, he rejected the payout and kept the shares? I can't even tell what's hypothetical versus what actually happened.

I literally don't understand a single thing about this tweet. I've read all the comments here so far and my confusion seems to be shared. Can anyone who has context please help explain what's actually going on? And particularly how any company could force you to forfeit vested shares in a company?
by edwardbernays | 2025-07-24 21:43:43+00:00
Payment processors will refuse to service payments for fictional harm, but will happily help people support a fascist[1]. If we're going to censor things, we should at least censor the actual, out-and-out, self-admitted fascists. Icky games with fictionalized harm do not seem to result in real harm, yet we have a very recent history showing the harm of real-life fascism. What a strange standard!

[1] https://www.givesendgo.com/rift-connor-emergency-fund
by wpm | 2025-07-24 21:43:43+00:00
Hi there, I support this stuff and would not care in the slightest if someone built right up to the sidewalk because literally, who gives a shit?

All my favorite places have their buildings built right up to the sidewalk! ITS GOOD! I'm tired of pretending it's not! What are we afraid of? Oh no! There isn't a pointlessly small patch of astroturf out front?

I would be happy that people are building on all of their available land because it is scarce and it makes the units bigger.
by samrus | 2025-07-24 21:43:59+00:00
Thats fine. Great even. But thats just normal nueral net inference. Why mention agentic AI over just AI? The gpu doesnt care if the inference is being done for object detection or chain of thought. Intel can only make gpus, their products dont care about the software at the app level.

Maybe they mean the more vram needed for agentic AI? but then the sane thing to say would be that theyll offer more compute for AI.

its just an unhinged thing for a chip manufacturer to say.
by ppaattrriicckk | 2025-07-24 21:44:02+00:00
... what tf?

On top of studying engineering at uni, his "side-gig" is being creative, empathetic, and fantastic at communication - and your prime recommendation is to "hire" him to be a specialist hidden away in the back office? Which interwebz forum are you on?

EDIT: My last question is clearly an echo-chamber statement. But that doesn't subtract from the fact that, yeah, should he found a business, yes, he'll deal with certain "BS". That is the weight we'll all carry. But he's quite likely capable of moving civilization forwards, so... :shrug:
by hagbard_c | 2025-07-24 21:44:04+00:00
> people literally shoot themselves in the head

How does that work? I would have understood this if it said people shoot themselves in the head or - if you insist - people physically/actually/sometimes/even shoot themselves in the head, it would be people taking up ballistic weapons which they point at their heads and fire away. Literal shooting on the other hand sounds like something Chekov would write about, something about the rifle above the fireplace in chapter 1 which needs to have been used by the next chapter [1].

Maybe I'm taking all the superfluous use of the word literally too literal?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun
by wtf2025 | 2025-07-24 21:44:15+00:00
I’ve not ever had to experience that particular management style, but I think it’s the one where they don’t give a rat’s ass about their employees or unique thought.

I’d also hoped that some major semiconductor company would NOT embrace AI, just so they could differentiate themselves: “Our shit may be too slow for the Terminator to use, but it was designed by and for humans to use as air-gapped spreadsheet running machines with USB-key sneakernet email.”

Given that there is a growing backlash towards LLMs by the general public (not just one writers’ guild), that might sell some stock.
by nomel | 2025-07-24 21:44:16+00:00
> Intel's fab issues are overstated in my opinion.

The fact that they can't use their own fab for 30% of their products [1], all of which are those that require power efficiency and compute performance [2], suggests it is not overstated.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-will-keep-u...

[2] https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/intel-is-using-tsmc-4nm-f...
by giantg2 | 2025-07-24 21:44:18+00:00
"This policy should tell you something about the actual cost/benefit of private arms as far as overall safety goes. Cuts through the noise and hypotheticals rather nicely."

Yes, most people will feel quite safe in a secured facility with controlled access, simialar to court houses. Imagine living in a place where everyone has been vetted and the perimeter is secured with armed guards.
by dang | 2025-07-24 21:44:24+00:00
Related. Others?

Major Quantum Computing Advance Made Obsolete by Teenager (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28413023 - Sept 2021 (44 comments)

Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17654220 - July 2018 (216 comments)

Customers who liked this Recommendation Engine may also like its Dequantization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17519001 - July 2018 (30 comments)
by rvz | 2025-07-24 21:44:49+00:00
I see lots of doomers in here talking about Intel failing. Well, the truth is the government will just bail them out again.

But instead let's discuss some turnaround suggestions, starting with:

(1) Acquiring at least one or two AI chip technology startups. (Lightmatter, Cerebrus, etc) (2) Assembling an AI hardware research team focused on efficient AI + software compatibility with existing AI accelerator libraries. (3) Investing heavily in the PyTorch team at Intel.

(1) is the most important and urgent action that Intel can do to sort out their issues.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-07-24 21:44:55+00:00
> If they don't want people making money off of this stuff on their platform

They don't care if people make money off anything as long as they get a slice. This is strictly about cutting costs. As said elsewhere, adult content has much higher rates of "fraud" (both actual fraud, and what people lie saying is fraud when the Mrs. sees it on the statement) especially charge-backs. The companies don't want to deal with the charge-backs so they're pressuring platforms to remove the content from sale.

None of this is about morality, sex workers, sex work or any of the other THINK OF THE CHILDWEN nonsense. It's just cheap fuck corpos trying to weasel out of as many of the expenses of their businesses as they can fucking manage, because fuck knows VISA is really hurting for money these days.

This shit is exhausting.
by d_watt | 2025-07-24 21:45:03+00:00
They're not directly solving the same problem. MCP is for exposing tools, such as reading files. a2a is for agents to talk to other agents to collaborate.

MCP servers can expose tools that are agents, but don't have to, and usually don't.

That being said, I can't say I've come across an actual implementation of a2a outside of press releases...
by zbentley | 2025-07-24 21:45:27+00:00
Not really; the problem is that languages with IO monads often provide a runtime that can schedule IO-ful things concurrently (or, in Haskell's case, lazily) based on the type. Python has no such scheduler; users have to run their own in the form of an async-capable event loop or a sequential (threadpool/processpool) executor for blocking code.

Because of that missing runtime for scheduling and evaluating IO-ful things, tools like superfunctions are necessary.

In other words: IO monads are only as useful as the thing that evaluates them; Python doesn't have a built-in way to do that, so people have to make code that looks "upward" to determine what kind of IO behavior (blocking/nonblocking/concurrent/lazy/etc.) is needed.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-24 21:45:34+00:00
> I only listened to that one podcast and it was at the time of oumuanua I don't know if in the meantime he veered completely on the crackpot side.

I don't know that he is a crackpot. However, he's been seeking out money for his research effort to identify alien objects. Which is why I offered up my non-crank option, that tossing a bit of alien dust on things helps him get funding.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-07-24 21:45:35+00:00
I wonder how much surplus calorie intake in the US is related to weekly grocery trips where you store hundreds of thousands of calories in your house at any time.

It's one of the first things that stick out when I live somewhere walkable where I can walk to the corner shop for a can of beans and avocados on demand, and I can keep my fridge/pantry quite barren of perishable food.

For example, in the US, even buying a bag of ten apples from Costco means I'm probably going to eat five apples today. Versus picking up one apple on my walk back home when I feel for an apple.
by cthalupa | 2025-07-24 21:45:58+00:00
Yes, exercise is good for you regardless of weight. We should all do it.

But the idea that there is little evidence that obesity causes health issues is absurd. There's absolutely mountains of evidence, and we have very firm understandings of the mechanisms underlying many of these issues, too. Hell, just being bigger, even if it's all muscle mass, is bad for your heart.

The all-cause mortality curve is J shaped because many more of the people at 10% bf are there because of disease and not because they're shredded from a strict diet and a consistent exercise.

I've lost roughly 100lb of fat over the past 9 months. I have gotten back to lifting 5 days a week, but even before that with just losing weight my health markers improved significantly, I've felt better, aches and pains and discomforts have all but disappeared, etc. My stress, alienation, environmental contamination, etc. conditions are all the same, and I'm working just as much, if not more.
by duxup | 2025-07-24 21:45:59+00:00
Bruen decision itself is absurd.

I don't really care about this law in particular, nor that the court followed the Bruen decision because they don't have much choice.

But this idea that you can't pass a law related to guns because you couldn't point to another law in the past that was passed seems bizarre. So if you pointed to a past law that banned guns in say a school, but not a library ... that's how this works? It makes no sense.

If there's a reason to strike down a law for other reasons, constitutional reasons fine. But the idea that "I think this law is too new" just seems like old man "close the patent office" kinda stuff. Or more likely they just reasoned themselves into the outcome they wanted, forget common sense.
by benreesman | 2025-07-24 21:46:36+00:00
We've had crime season gilded ages before. We've had trusts and corruption before. I agree that on present course and heading we are not going to make it out of this one in anything like the position we're accustomed to, but it's not impossible and frankly it wouldn't even take that much.

Forums like HN full of senior technologists and future founders are disproportionately high impact. If the tone around here shifted a little to stop excusing what YC has become and start embracing how it all started?

Shit like that adds up. geohotz had that post a few weeks ago about this late capitalism internet shit, he was pretty deep in with the Effective Altruists and he got it together. I said at the time and I'll say again, you get a few more people like that to sober up? pmarca and lex and people? Maybe even pg?

Real change happens that way.
by jmholla | 2025-07-24 21:47:19+00:00
Once you're the slightest but comfortable navigating vi, I highly recommend Practical Vim. [0] It tooke me a few days to get through, but I'm 100% in vim these days and more effective in it than in my old primary editor PyCharm.

[0]: https://pragprog.com/titles/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-edit...
by shawabawa3 | 2025-07-24 21:47:19+00:00
You have to know some of the background

Google poached windsurf employees and licensed their tech, paying out billions to upper management but apparently offering a fraction of the value of shares

This employee chose to stick with windsurf instead of moving to Google

Windsurf was then acquired by cognition for an unspecified but probably quite low amount

So this employee is now at cognition
by cube2222 | 2025-07-24 21:47:41+00:00
I don’t believe this is the case. Do you have a link for that?

Cause from TFA “To work with ChatGPT Connectors or deep research (in ChatGPT or via API), your MCP server must implement two tools - search and fetch.”

Also, this page is actually the only docs site about MCP they have, and their help articles link to it too.
by WorldPeas | 2025-07-24 21:47:46+00:00
I think it is a critical omission by this article of this woman's former homelessness. Not that we need to re-litigate that homelessness as a national security issue (though some more urgency may be nice), but this woman is not some unsympathetic traitor, most of what she was doing was over her head. If you watch a few of her tiktok videos, she doesn't seem to clued into what's happening and happy to be normal. It's a shame that it came to this, but I imagine this has happened in other cases that didn't involve state-actors.

https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/the-everyday-americ...
by rdtsc | 2025-07-24 21:48:01+00:00
No doubt the NK comrades will take care of her and put extra cash in the prison commissary for chips and pretzels.

I wonder if she fully knew how much trouble she could get in and just thought she wouldn't get caught. Or, it was more of a "I am just helping out these nice fellers get jobs. No big deal, I am not bothering anyone" case.
by wpm | 2025-07-24 21:48:29+00:00
Imagine though, some people might not be able to afford a place with more sound-proofing. Mandating it doesn't magically make it free. This is how we ended up in the situation we have in the first place where its too expensive to get a roof over your head because of hundreds of little rules and stipulations. Would I prefer to sleep under a highway overpass or sleep in an apartment where the bedroom doesn't have a window? Would I really care?

And just because you mind living with noise doesn't mean everyone does. Why should we outright ban places like that if there are people who might not be able to afford something better, or don't care and would like to save some money?

Like, your entire comment is part of the goddamn problem. Don't legislate your preferences.
by reaperducer | 2025-07-24 21:49:14+00:00
2,500 people out of 70,000,000 isn't "major." And your own link states that 999 service was restored in 61 minutes.

Emergency service lines go down somewhere in the world almost every day. Often for longer than that.

HN didn't used to be a place for people who like to gin up conspiracies, and engage in speculative hyperbole.
by fsloth | 2025-07-24 21:49:36+00:00
It’s not about buying extra years but making your life a hole lotta better as well.

Am not kidding. I hated exercise, I still hate it, but it objectively makes everything else so much better I keep at it.

There are simple and effective protocols. You don’t need to be ”in to it”. You don’t need to buy extra equipment (necessarily) nor do you need purchase anything from anyone (unless you want to).

Running, pushups and kettle bell swings are enough (with a good strategy). Having a daily stretching/mobility routine is advisable the older you get.

Just do it! If you think it will totally suck, it probably will! If the question ”what are you training for” irritates you it sure as hell will keep irritating. There are _zero_ lifestyle things you need to buy into. But it’s medicine. Pure medicine.
by shawabawa3 | 2025-07-24 21:50:01+00:00
Google did a weird thing where they poached windsurf employees, licensed their tech and hired the CEO and upper management, leaving a shelled out company behind

Looks like employees were given an exploding offer to join Google and sacrifice windsurf shares at a low valuation, or stick with windsurf

If you stuck with windsurf you then joined cognition in a later acquisition