MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jorgeoguerra | 2025-07-21 19:38:49+00:00
Positron is solid, but we think our search and apply-edit is better at the moment and we think more people use RStudio right now.

Practically, Positron also requires you to use your own LLM keys (so you're on the hook for the tokens/long context, and if you don't have a BAA or ZDR, you may not be able to use it with sensitive data). For Rao, we manage the tokens and are moving quickly towards HIPAA/SOC 2.

We also plan to develop something similar to Positron in the future.
by goatlover | 2025-07-21 19:39:22+00:00
Sending in troops to LA over the objections of the mayor and governor, masked ICE agents kidnapping people off the street without identifying themselves, people sent to El Salvador prison without due process in violation of a Federal judge's orders, Congress does his every bidding, conservative majority on SCOTUS continues to cede him executive power, sues newspapers and universities he doesn't like, threatens to arrest political opponents, lies about the Epstein files being a hoax. What more evidence do you need? He's consolidating power like Putin and Orban did.
by supplied_demand | 2025-07-21 19:39:50+00:00
==I'm just tired of people thinking timelines are short when stuff performs under super ideal conditions==

This feels like a strawman. We just started doing this in one place with ideal conditions. The next step could be other places with even more ideal conditions New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada (all have more sunshine than "ideal" California). [0]

We need to start investing immediately to begin overcoming the speed-bumps you mention. California has gotten to this point in about 5 years. Spend the next 5 years on the states I mentioned above. Then move on to Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Utah, South Carolina, and Kansas.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/sunniest-st...
by hvb2 | 2025-07-21 19:39:52+00:00
> You don't. Disconnect from the grid completely. If you don't need the power company then disconnect from them.

That's not a fair argument.

> The costs of the power company are in 2 parts. Generation and Distribution

That's the real issue. How, in most places in the us that I know of, these 2 are combined. Which leads to this problem becoming a thing.

We all pay taxes for roads. Whether we use them or not. Being connected to the grid should make everyone pay an equal share based on their connection size. Who delivers power over that connection? Pick your provider, make it a free market where power is a true commodity. Generation prices will drop significantly, distribution prices will probably go up.

You can apply the above reasoning to the ISPs of the world too. Like roads, and electric connections, I think we can all consider an internet connection as vital to our daily lives as roads are
by mingus88 | 2025-07-21 19:40:03+00:00
My dad was a workaholic. Also as is typical with boomers they raised us as latchkey kids

I made it a requirement for my career that I wouldn’t treat my kids the same way. I set boundaries with work and am very upset when work intrudes

Could I have made more money and had more status?

Certainly, but my kids like spending time with me and they’re the whole reason I’m chasing a salary in the first place
by pengaru | 2025-07-21 19:40:13+00:00
> I think your body has natural mechanisms to mitigate that initial discomfort.

I think the main natural mechanism the body uses is endorphins..

In my experience it also benefits from training, coming on quicker at the start of a regularly strenuous lasting activity. When I started going on runs regularly I could clearly sense when the internal drug supply turned on and it became the point where I mentally marked transitioning from a short sprint to endurance mode.

I've also noticed when taking people on long hikes who don't usually do such things, if we take an extended break they usually start complaining of aches and pains and are suddenly wrecked. My assumption has been this is the endorphin supply shutting off, and it's a tough hump to overcome to get flowing again now that the pain/soreness/exhaustion has become realized. I suspect folks who aren't accustomed to getting out and active at all are kind of pre-trapped in that state and don't reach the endorphins flowing mode even once before going back indoors to play vidya.
by bachmeier | 2025-07-21 19:40:49+00:00
> And remember, if you don’t separate yourself from your work you’ll have no “you” when you dial back or become unnecessary or undesirable.

As long as you pay your bills, nobody's going to tell you to do things differently. Financial literacy gets a lot of attention, but time and pleasure literacy get none, and our culture emphasizes consumption and income. It's rare to hear someone talk about the dollar value of having a big block of time to spend doing whatever makes you happiest in the moment.
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-21 19:41:26+00:00
> I agree that no one needs Facebook and if it disappeared off of the face of the earth, nothing of value would be lost.

Well yes and no. Facebook, no. The concept of facebook as it was when it was first released was an interesting one to me. Staying in touch with your friends, I've lived in several countries so I have friends all over the world. This is nice. However they perverted it when they dropped the old timeline and moved to the algorithmic feed. It became useless to me then.

I do see a benefit to facebook-like services though, just ethical ones.

But what I do like about facebook, or rather meta now, is the investment they have done in VR. It's still full of data collection I'm sure, but to me VR is a very interesting tech and it really needed that to get off the ground. Right now it's not really moving along because "AI" stole all the hype limelight but it will come again, just like AI has had some false starts itself.
by jameskilton | 2025-07-21 19:41:36+00:00
The original "Luddites" had very valid concerns about the impending reduction of quality of the clothing they were making and subsequent working conditions with the advent of automated looms.

Likewise many people today, myself included, have very valid concerns about the actual use of AI, where it's going, and how it can and will be misused.

We would love to have these discussions, but calling us "Luddites" and then referencing a situation where a robot literally killed a child to prove a point is not how to start that.
by Arubis | 2025-07-21 19:41:42+00:00
100% true.

If you work your tail off at a bigco, your upside is golden handcuffs, not actual freedom. You'll perpetually have a net worth on paper that drops precipitously if you leave your job and let your options, RSUs, or whatever expire/die unvested. In the meantime, your base comp may look enormous, but if you break it down to an hourly rate and you're busting your ass for 70+ hours a week, you're just getting paid market rate and working a lot more.

If you want to reach escape velocity by sheer wealth accumulation, you need to own the value of your output.

IMHO the best option is to adjust your expectations and find something more rewarding that loves you back.

At length: https://dylanfitzgerald.net/blog/comfortable-satisfaction-pa...
by chasil | 2025-07-21 19:41:48+00:00
Global Foundries just bought MIPS, so perhaps there is life in the old architecture yet.

https://gf.com/gf-press-release/globalfoundries-to-acquire-m...

Edit: the article starts with the above press release.

It spends substantial time on the Nintendo 64, but not much on the "Emotion Engine" of the Sony PS2 (which was a more advanced MIPS CPU).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_Engine

There was some design oddness that plagued early MIPS and SPARC that future architectures avoided.

https://www.jwhitham.org/2016/02/risc-instruction-sets-i-hav...

One place where everyone saw the work of MIPS was the original movie Jurassic Park, on an SGI Crimson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Crimson
by tomcam | 2025-07-21 19:41:52+00:00
>> we are in a place with an order of magnitude less trouble building a business.

> What is this claim based on?

Blog posts I've read from I've read, largely in HN. Personal interviews in those countries.

> Is there 10x as much stress among French business owners? Are entrepreneurs working 10x as hard in China? Are there 10x fewer businesses in England?

No clue. I've run many businesses and it's all stressful.

> And, stepping back a bit: To the extent that running a business is easier in America, how much of that is because the US exploits and bullies the rest of the world?

The US definitely exploits and bullies the rest of the world. Very often it's shameful and I hate it. All countries exploit other countries in their best interest. You may also be forgetting that for centuries the US has policed the world's waterways mostly in its own interest but, from about 1945-2020, for the rest of the world too, all at its own expense. We've been the leaders in anti-pirate forces since Jefferson.

> How much is because it's a huge country with vast resources

A lot. We are the luckiest country on Earth by a country mile. But also because of somewhat free markets, rule of law, somewhat free press, property rights, and constitutional belief in the individual. Japan doesn't have a huge country with vast resources but still does well. Canada and many countries in Africa have vast resources they could exploit responsibly but don't.

> (that were stolen from its murdered inhabitants)?

All countries are stolen from murdered inhabitants. All of them. Look at the Comanche, the Huns, the Houthis, the Japanese in WWII, the Goths, the Chinese, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Dutch, and Luxembourg.

OK I'm kidding about Luxembourg.

> How much is because the lack of regulations allows for rampant externalization of costs?

Super complex question and a good one. Impossible to deal with in a comment.

> How much is because businesses are more 'free' to exploit their own workers?

Zero. No one forces you to work here, unless you're one of the hundred of thousands of trafficked workers here. Those traffickers should be hunted down and shot.

> How much is because most of the mechanisms for basic accountability are broken?

Don't know. We have huge corrupt corporations and a huge corrupt government working hand in hand against the citizens, but we also have tons of regulations and a justice system that can still help the little guy sometimes. You are absolutely on the right track, but we might have different definitions for accountability.

However since we're comparing the USA to others Mexico and China are shot through with corruption, China more perhaps than any other country on earth. Though we give them a run for their money.

> These aren't "gotcha" questions. They're fundamentally important to our future, because none of that is sustainable.

I sort of think you played your hand. The term "none of that is sustainable" suggests to me you've already decided on answers to all these non-gotcha questions. But I tried to answer them in the best light.
by int_19h | 2025-07-21 19:41:57+00:00
Using XML to declaratively define UI trees is an idea so obvious that many developers back in late 90s - early 00s had their own bespoke frameworks for that.

And you know what? It worked great. WPF with XAML - from 2006 originally! - is still, to this day, by far the easiest way to write a desktop Windows app with adaptive layout etc.
by eastbound | 2025-07-21 19:42:08+00:00
Some people are just socially inept. As far as I remember, groups have turned against me for no reasonable reason. Saw therapists for years, the best one I kept a dozen years but she grew irritated.

Some people are just born to bring taxes in.

(And before you bring up the smug: Did plenty of sports, windsurf, judo, snowboarding, racketball, plenty of travels, lived abroad, tried both genders, had all sorts of friends. Sometimes you just don’t get how to do social. I just work to forget. It’s so extremely irritating, I used to want to take revenge, humans are just… Nazis would be proud).

So yeah, don’t be smug about people who just work. Sometimes that’s just where they are the least “toxic” according to their environment.
by jerf | 2025-07-21 19:42:40+00:00
I will say that for all I'm singing the praises of XPath, the online tutorials and documentation are atrocious. Possibly the worst ratio of quality to library power I've seen. I recently came back to it after a couple of years and couldn't hardly do anything either because I couldn't even reconstruct my previous understanding off of the documentation, but then I consulted my own notes and docs about it and it all came back quickly.

There are two problems. First, everyone is obsessed with trying to label it "declarative" when it is waaaaay better understood as a library for driving around a multicursor imperatively. Call it declarative if you like but I've had way more success driving it effectively imperatively.

Second, each XPath clause has three parts: The "axes", which is the "direction" you want to drive the cursor, the "node selection" which selects which nodes you are talking about (usually the tag name), and then optional filters in [], which can then itself recurse in some ways into further XPath specifications, as well as using some functions and predicates to filter. Fortunately for your convenience, there's a default axis, selecting nodes by tag name is easy, and the filters are indeed optional. Unfortunately for your understanding, there's other defaults and shortcuts and all the "tutorials" and "cheat sheets" and all that jazz teach only the shortcuts, but if you learn only the shortcuts the whole language feels random and very difficult to understand. You really need to learn the full version of the selector clause first, practice by writing it out fully a few times, and then starting to use the shortcuts.

(You can even see the "node selection" as just a type of filter that looks at the tag name most of the time, in which case there are two parts. But it's really confusing when tutorials don't distinguish very well between those two things and mangle it all up into one undifferentiated ball.)

It's not that hard if you are taught it correctly, but I have yet to find something that teaches it correctly online.
by game_the0ry | 2025-07-21 19:42:40+00:00
When quality goes down, most of the time, its bc a corporation is trying to cut costs.

I have 2022 Toyota 4runner. The frame is already getting surface rust. I have been noticing new Toyotas have been needing new engines, other major problems. even Toyota is riding hi on a reputation from the past.

When that happens, you should take your dollars elsewhere, so I bought another car.
by commandar | 2025-07-21 19:42:52+00:00
A decade ago, I was really interested in the idea of using a crypto like what Doge was at the time for this specific use case. Back then, a dogecoin was a fraction of a cent so it was a better fit than its current valuations.

Any individual page impression is only worth a few cents to the publisher anyway. I still think there's a lot of potential value in something similar as infrastructure for facilitating ultra-microtransactions on that scale that don't get completely consumed by credit card processors, etc.

I'm not going to maintain subscriptions to every news source out there, but I'd be more than happy to toss something in the tip jar from a fund I could top-up on a regular basis.
by Norcim133 | 2025-07-21 19:42:59+00:00
The site was solid and the images, when you look closely, are great. Polling my emotions I found the premise enticing but also felt a knee-jerk skepticism. It's because viral is such a high bar given most clip generation plays still struggle with the much lower bar of "quality".

Therefore, if you can provide viral content, make that your "social proof" area... a "testable credentials" area... like a "today's creations" section that shows legit viral creations each week that can't have been pre-curated.
by VirusNewbie | 2025-07-21 19:43:15+00:00
No, but it might be enough to COASTFire, or get a dream house and not stress about the payments, or set up a nest egg, or just lower stress about quitting any future jobs.

It's not black and white, front loading some stress in early career can really change life trajectories, even if it's not a long term lifestyle thing.

I am working a high stress job (that I quite enjoy) at a FAANG company, and i've made enough money here that I could take a much lower paying job at any point and not need to worry about saving for retirement or paying for kids colleges. It's not retire now rich by any means, but it's definitely alleviating some financial worries I used to have.
by cardamomo | 2025-07-21 19:43:37+00:00
I think immibis's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44639370) has a couple great examples of what I'm talking about. To add on, the Court has also allowed the executive branch to essentially shutter federal departments that were created by Congress, such as the Department of Education. They also ruled that lower federal courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions to stop executive action, thereby ending a check on presidential power that has vexed both parties when in office.
Poll: How many hours do you work in a week?
by m_a_g | 2025-07-21 19:44:07+00:00
Inspired by this post[0] about how work-life balance can slow down career growth, and the discussion in the comments, I wanted to create this poll to get a sense of how many hours the HN crowd typically works.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44638397
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-21 19:44:24+00:00
Geographically, yes. But they've made it clear they don't want anything to do with us. Also, the 3-year period after brexit with all the whining about their 'deal' (knowing that what they wanted was legally impossible) was so annoying I'm kinda done with them. Too much drama for too long.

So I've stopped buying UK products and services (eg raspberry pi) and don't consider traveling there anymore. Just like I'm doing now with the US although the latter is more difficult to do.
by evilduck | 2025-07-21 19:45:03+00:00
Ostensibly the CIA continues to exist through your elected congressional leadership as an agency created by the National Security Act of 1947. Voters don't have to vote consistently and can choose to have one branch of government ideologically at odds with the others. This would be the CIA working for the people but without it being aligned with the President.

If Congress decided to end the CIA then they could pass a law abolishing the agency or pass laws that refine the things they can or cannot do, but they're not inherently beholden to the President. The legislative branch being at odds with an executive branch representative isn't inherently problematic unless you think the President should be king.
by wat10000 | 2025-07-21 19:45:37+00:00
"What’s fascinating–and a lot of fun, for some–is that by comparing these scattered landmarks, called SNPs or “snips,” you can get a very accurate picture of how closely related two people are."

This directly contradicts the claim that these samples reveal nothing about your health or disease risk. Maybe it doesn't reveal anything in isolation, but if you know some medical history about some of my relatives and you have their DNA info, then that gives you some significant info about me too.
by happytoexplain | 2025-07-21 19:45:47+00:00
Calling people who have legitimate grievances over a new technology "Luddites", as if the Luddites were stupid assholes, makes me absolutely sick with sadness for the impact on people in my society. It's a lazy, tremendously over-used metaphor, and you can disagree with an opinion without this low-effort inhumanity.
by sweezyjeezy | 2025-07-21 19:45:57+00:00
100% o3 has a strong bias towards "write something that looks like a formal argument that appears to answer the question" over writing something sound.

I gave it a bunch of recent, answered MathOverflow questions - graduate level maths queries. Sometimes it would get demonstrably the wrong answer, but it not be easy to see where it had gone wrong (e.g. some mistake in a morass of algebra). A wrong but convincing argument is the last thing you want!
Show HN: Another GPT wrapper. A boring tool that writes your resignation letter
by sotoplatero | 2025-07-21 19:46:05+00:00
I made ResignationDesk after noticing that “resignation letter” and related terms have solid search volume. It’s a simple tool: pick a tone, who you're writing to, and it uses ChatGPT to generate a clean letter.

Yes, anyone with ChatGPT could do the same—that’s the point. It’s not about the prompt, it’s about removing friction. No login, no fluff. Just faster.

This was mostly an SEO experiment to see how far a small, focused AI wrapper can go. So far, people are using it. Curious what others think.
by slwvx | 2025-07-21 19:46:23+00:00
> What’s true at the personal level is true at the national level. Americans enjoy greater prosperity than Europeans due largely to longer work hours.

So there are tradeoffs at the individual level and for countries. The author of the article is in favor of less family time and more work, but acknowledges the tradeoff. Even so, I'm not so convinced that it's quite such a straightforward tradeoff as described in the article and elsewhere in the comments here. I think that going more towards the European model would result in better social stability, better mental health of families and workers, and lower economic inequality. I.e. the American style of gung-ho work ignores many externalities that are implicitly included in the European model (however poorly-defied the "European model" is).
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-21 19:46:46+00:00
But that's true of every term. "Computer programmer", say. People hear that term and automatically think certain things. " Few will think about a person they don't know, complete with vices and virtues they may or may not agree with." It "makes you think of a concept of a person rather than a person."

So I think that dynamic is present in every term we use to refer to humans as something other than "human". I don't need people to refer to me as "human who programs computers" so that I'm not dehumanized. (In fact, once "human that programs computers" becomes the accepted term, that term would also have the dynamic of dehumanizing those it covers. Having the word "human" in it wouldn't save it once it became a recognized term.)
by tantalor | 2025-07-21 19:47:03+00:00
> But they do make categorization mistakes, which is a common source of errors.

> Claude misclassifies a hosting cost (which counts as COGS) as a software subscription.

This is simply asking too much of the agent. Your accountant is not responsible for knowing all the intimate details of your business. You need to tell them!

> What's Vercel?

>> That's a hosting service.

> Ah, so it goes to Cost of Goods Sold?

>> Yeah, I guess.

The mistake here was on the operator, allowing the agent just make up categories as it liked.

From the prompt:

> (1) You have properly categorized every transaction, and all journal entries are sitting in the correct accounts. It is better to take longer than to mis-categorize a transaction.

This is insane! How is it supposed to know?
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-07-21 19:47:14+00:00
There is also something to be said for getting a running start. I started in car sales because I mostly wasted my mechanical engineering degree. I worked 2 years straight, only taking two days off a year because they closed the building for Thanksgiving and Christmas day. I became top 0.1% nationwide basically within 9 months. I made enough to pay off my house at 28 years old. I had an amazing reputation and executives of the public corporation I worked for would come talk to me when they were in town. Being that good so quickly (the few people ahead of me in the United States had been selling for a decade plus and operating off repeat customers, so by some metrics I was easily #1 in the United States), gives you many advantages that come from recognition and reputation. Would I do that at 40+ with kids? No. But I also wouldn't need to if I had done it as described from 24-30 years old.