MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ben_w | 2025-04-08 08:37:10+00:00
BYD, perhaps. Given the politics, even if BYD build a factory clearly labelled "BYD" in, say, Canada, and did everything above-board with all the components traced to mineral origins having and audited to have never even gone through China at any point in the supply chain, I can believe they'd get such treatment.

I was thinking more like how Amazon has a seemingly endless collection of suppliers you've never heard of with suspicious names whose letters look like they might be attempting to form syllables. I expect those to be harder to keep track of, and to find it easier to fly under the political radar.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-08 08:37:17+00:00
The industry is probably going to have to consider the concept of a "qualification", that is a test you take once and then present to employers rather than have each employer make up a different one.

I worry about the retreat to networks. I think it's an inevitable response to the rise of machine-generated fakes, that people are going to start strongly preferring to be physically next to someone talking to them simply in order to verify that they're real, not one of the billions of apparitions knocking on their virtual door. But it also pushes back to networks of preferred universities and preferred drinking societies within those universities. All of which have the opportunity to be little discriminatory clubs.
by mrweasel | 2025-04-08 08:38:18+00:00
It seems that we have very different types of businesses in mind. I really didn't consider tracking users and displaying ads, but I also don't think this is where these types of tools would be used. Well, they might, but that's as part of some content farm, undesirable bots and downright scams, so nothing of value is really lost if this didn't exist.

If you have a sales funnel, as in you take orders and ship something to a customer, consumer or business, I almost guarantee you that you can request an API, if the company you want to purchase from is large enough. They'll probably give you the API access for free, or as part of a signup fee and give you access to discounts. Sometimes that API might be an email, or a monthly Excel dump, but it's an API.

When we're talking site that purely survive on tracking users and reselling their data, then yes, they aren't going to give you API access. Some sites, like Reddit does offer it I think, but the price is going to be insane, reflecting their unwillingness to interact with users in this way.

> Not "you" 'mrweasel personally

Understood, but thank you :-)
by otterley | 2025-04-08 08:38:25+00:00
The exporter will acquire dollars from a currency trader who will sell dollars to them in exchange for pesos at the current market rate plus some premium. The currency trader will then find a buyer who wants pesos in exchange for some other currency. It’s all market based today, after the fall of Bretton Woods, which came after gold exchange as the basis of international payments for trade.

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

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

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

It might be that what you’re talking about is the balance of trade, which is related to, but not the same as currency exchange. But if that’s what you’re talking about, those are the words you should be using.
by throwaway290 | 2025-04-08 08:39:05+00:00
> Everything you just said also applies to someone who's deaf, blind, or physically impaired.

A blind person is not a good bus driver. A physically impaired person is not a good mover or yoga teacher. A deaf person is not a good session musician. A person who cannot function sitting in a meeting with 3 people for an hour is not a good employee where that is required. What makes the last one special compared to others? They can be a great yoga teacher/bus driver/session musician/mover, I just don't see controversy
by melkaya | 2025-04-08 08:39:16+00:00
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by Arnavion | 2025-04-08 08:39:59+00:00
>It is written as an array of lines, but seems to be running in a single context (local variables, etc.) [...]

It's documented for GH at https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/workflo...

>>The shell command that is run internally executes a temporary file that contains the commands specified in the run keyword.

... and also mentioned in the article submitted here:

>>If the command doesn't already take a single file as input, you need to pass it the special {0} argument, which GitHub replaces with the temporary file that it generates the template-expanded run block into.

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>[...] but also there is some special handling for exit code of each line.

As you can see in the defaults in the first link, the Linux default is to run bash with `-e`
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t | 2025-04-08 08:40:08+00:00
There was this famous guy, which sold custom old Thinkpads, but with newer mainboards and Intel 10th gen chips in it, with custom USB-C adapters and all.

At some point he kind of disappeared and rumors appeared that he is now in mandatory military service, but will come back afterwards. Well, that was pre-COVID.

He also knows a friend that backports coreboot to the new mainboards. No idea how they manage to do that in a 2 person project like this. So yeah, all of the laptops they sell run coreboot in it (including the Thunderbolt EC, which is insane amount of work to implement).

Nonetheless the build quality was insanely good, and lots of folks were amazed by what they essentially bet blindly on when they ordered it. The X2100 would be my dream laptop, but I didn't manage to get one in time.

[1] https://www.xyte.ch/shop/x2100-pricing/
by trod1234 | 2025-04-08 08:40:09+00:00
The article and related survey isn't science based. Its just a voluntary survey.

The selection methods are not disclosed, conflicts of interest are not disclosed, they ignore at least three critical issues.

The main one being, 57% of those surveyed reported at least 1 bullying incident per week. So ongoing mental coercion and compulsion of over half, enabled by device usage.

Really large problems, and given the lack of rational recommendations you just have to conclude this is propaganda intended to convince inattentive parents to induct their children into a maoist based re-education camps overlayed onto education on US soil.
by Lutger | 2025-04-08 08:40:52+00:00
Did you ever work with developers? Maybe if you hire for consultants in some industries some of this is relevant (I doubt it), but with social skills + suit part alone will make sure you miss out on a significant pool of talent.

I could even go further and say that NOT hiring anyone who shows up in a suit will give you better results than the other way around. You filter out a lot of career guys who are really poor programmers and will try to end up as mediocre middle management that way.
by trymas | 2025-04-08 08:41:00+00:00
Slight rant, but raise how much?

I wonder what is worse with the current USA administration? The policy itself (e.g. blanket tariffs) or unpredictability of their actions.

Will tariffs for country X in a week will be higher or lower? Will they be paused/cancelled? Nobody knows - even Trump and his cronnies don’t know.

Should I build a factory within USA, which will take 2 years to build and 10years to reach profitability in this political uncertainty?
by ivan_gammel | 2025-04-08 08:42:13+00:00
What are you doing is a classical straw man argument. I‘m not disputing that plumbers, doctors etc should be aware of their professional regulations. However certain regulations aren’t job-specific and work like tax, e.g. if you look at notary costs related to registration of business in Germany. Regulations like GDPR apply to business environment in general and they have to be designed so that the costs of compliance and risks of non-compliance are minimized. They are supposed to be followed by non-professionals, because privacy is not a job of DPO, it’s everyone’s concern. What you fail to understand in my comments is that part. I’m not disputing the usefulness of GDPR. I‘m saying that rather than strangling businesses with high compliance costs and complaining that everyone is choosing to show cookie banner instead of not tracking, we should look at how to avoid this nonsense. As a matter of fact, non-compliance is rife, people do cut corners and take the risk, because DPAs cannot catch or punish everyone. GDPR is suppressing the most egregious behavior, but it certainly not working as expected. It needs some careful reform.
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by Pooge | 2025-04-08 08:44:52+00:00
> If you think sugar added to everything is a Japan phenomenon oh boi, time to travel.

You're not refuting my argument.

> As someone that lived there, frankly your take come off as the typical "English teacher/exchange student that lived in Tokyo and spend too much time on r/japanlife" and think Tokyo represent the average.

That's very condescending of you and again not refuting my claims at all. Do most of your colleagues eat their own dishes? Don't they add a helluva lot sugar and salt to everything? Hell, even Japanese-made Western desserts taste way too sweet.

I think you could be a bit kinder and not resort to personal attacks.

Edit: it's true that I lived in Tokyo, but unfortunately it's a country that contains 4 cities that get more dense by the day at the cost of unpopulated rural areas.
by NikkiA | 2025-04-08 08:45:37+00:00
The fantasy 'dire wolf' and the real 'dire wolf' have close to zero in common, except that the real dire wolf was adapted for eating megafauna and thus had the strongest bite of all canines.

And therein lies the problem, they went extinct because their prey went extinct - unless you bring back the mammoths for them to hunt, they're never going to survive in the wild; and are essentially "a wolf with a bigger appetite" to keep captive.
by roenxi | 2025-04-08 08:46:39+00:00
I'd want to see some actual hard evidence before I believed that. The usual way social cues work is they are devastatingly effective even if people claim they are not. Much like how most interviewers are honestly convinced that their approach is unbiased but in practice they tend to hire people who are like themselves.

My expectation is that turning up in a suit would get better results. The effect is probably smaller in hard-skill roles but I'd assume still present.
by stevekemp | 2025-04-08 08:46:43+00:00
They're very similar to look at, but the chocolate is wrong and the consistency of the "foam" part differs too.

Close, but sadly not close enough! (I enjoy both, but the Tunnock's teacakes, and their caramel logs too, are a clear winner for me. Probably due to my childhood memories and associations as much as anything else. Bias!)
by Propelloni | 2025-04-08 08:47:00+00:00
Sweet gorilla of Manila! Anyway, I only had to deal with an OÜ once, so take it with a grain of salt. And IANAL, too ;) What I took away is that you are sheltered from claims against the company by economic avtivity, ie. outstanding fullfilment, but you are liable for claims against the company from management misconduct, ie. neglecting tax duties or, worst case, bankruptcy.
by thworp | 2025-04-08 08:47:36+00:00
There is Tibet, which had declared independence in 1913 and then decisively split itself from China by expelling all Chinese in 1945. The PRC conquered them because they were part of the Chinese "motherland". You can argue that the communist were the lesser of two evils (I would agree), but you can't argue this wasn't an imperial conquest.

The situation in the rest of China is a lot more complex. Most of warlords joined the PRC (sometimes through negotiation, mostly through surrender) when it was clear that the ROC - the competing but less centralized imperial power - had lost. The program of Han settlement, Sinicization and ethnic repression that occured in multiple waves (most acute in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and some areas of SW China) was an imperial project.

Externally, there is the Sino-Vietnamese war of 1979. While the reasons for the conflict were multi-faceted, one of them was that Vietnam had broken Cambodia out of the Chinese sphere by deposing the Khmer Rouge.

Recently China has been building bases and shaping countries' economies and political systems around the world. Arguably they have already made the Solomon Islands a protectorate and a few African countries are also moving in that direction.
by piokoch | 2025-04-08 08:49:12+00:00
I am surprised that String Theory is still alive, as it is a complicated mathematical structure (even quite elegant), but it is not clear how to verify it experimentally.

For long year Particle Physics is hunted by the search of the "new physics", but it does not want to show up, my gut feeling is that if something interesting will be found, it will be coming from the space, as over there we have still unsolved mysteries, like "dark matter", which is observed, but does not have a good theoretical explanation.
Show HN: One-click file sharing. No waiting for upload
by hwovh | 2025-04-08 08:49:56+00:00
Simple file transfer for use as a context menu (right-click menu) in the file explorer.

Only two steps in 5 seconds - any file size

1. Right-click on the file you want to send and select the menu 2. Paste (in the body of an email or in a dialog)
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-08 08:50:36+00:00
> So if I return the fridge for recycling after a couple of years

Here in Norway consumers enjoy a 5 year warranty on products that are meant to last, and 2 years on other non-consumables.

So if my fridge dies due to a manufacturing flaw within 5 years, the store I purchased it on has to repair free of charge, replace it with an equal or better product, or give a full refund. If the product keeps breaking in the same way, the customer can demand a full refund.

And it's up to the store to convincingly argue it's not a manufacturing flaw if they don't want to do that.

This provides similar disincentive to import crappy goods.
by davedx | 2025-04-08 08:51:34+00:00
I feel for the author, and influencers have a lot to answer for. Through a lot of this article I was thinking about next.js, another tech you almost have to know to get hired these days, and how much I dislike it for a myriad of reasons, and despite my dislike, Vercel just absolutely dominates at marketing and devrel so here we are, with every startup and even bigger companies using it.

Unfortunately that's the world we live in now.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-04-08 08:52:45+00:00
TLDR; lots of software now relies on AVX2 instructions which aren't present in older x86 hardware. This prevented author from running some web development stuff.

Recompiling the (open source) code should have offered a solution but OP could not make this work.

On some platforms you can emulate the missing AVX2 instructions with intel SDE but not apple.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-04-08 08:53:20+00:00
If you start looking for justice in the world economy, you've already lost the game. The only thing that matters is money. You can stick tariffs on left, right and centre, and all you'll end up doing is pushing goods out of the hands of your consumers.

You can try to 'hurt' another country's producers, but they're likely to just go and find another market for their goods.
by tatjam | 2025-04-08 08:54:22+00:00
I've access to the article, this snippet explains it (taken directly from the article, but formatted for HN).

"The device exploits a self-powered mechanism, where the battery electrodes are the pacing electrodes. Specifically, an active, bioresorbable magnesium (Mg) alloy AZ31(Mg 96 Al 3 Zn 1) foil or a zinc (Zn) composite (1.6 mm × 1.6 mm) serves as the anode, and a more electropositive bioresorbable molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) composite (1.6 mm × 1.6 mm) serves as the cathode 18–20.

The cardiac tissue and associated biofluids act as the electrolyte to form a galvanic cell/battery (Mg–MoO3 or Zn–MoO 3). As a demonstration, the pacemaker utilizes the Mg–MoO3 pair if not otherwise specified. The two electrodes electrically interconnect through a silicon (Si) bipolar junction phototransistor (Supplementary Figs. 1 and 2), designed to respond at tissue-penetrating wavelengths in the near-infrared (NIR) range. This component provides an optical mechanism to control the operation of the device with an external light source. In particular, the anode and cathode connect to the emitter and the collector terminals of the phototransistor, respectively, using a biodegradable conductive paste (Candelilla wax/tungsten (W) powder)21. A bioresorbable formulation of polyanhydride 22 or wax 21 encapsulates the entire structure, leaving regions of the electrodes exposed to the interface with the cardiac tissue. These unusual materials, components, and operating mechanisms serve as the basis for the pacing technology"

Indeed there's no comment about the "bioresorbability" of silicon, possibly it's such an small quantity it doesn't matter.
by cess11 | 2025-04-08 08:55:28+00:00
I think most people have experience with situations where someone else has tried to hide their true feelings and still been able to figure it out due to involuntary cues. If you were to ever look at some popular television shows you'll find that this is a common basis for both drama and comedy and widely understood by people all over the world.

It might come as a surprise, but everything you've ever experienced is just shadows on the cave wall that is your cerebral cortex. You've never ever been outside of that cave and have always been at the mercy of a mammal brain preparing and projecting those shadows for you.
by sethammons | 2025-04-08 08:56:17+00:00
The general rule is to dress one step up from those in the role. Everyone in hoodie and shorts? Wear pants. Everyone in collared polos? Go business casual with maybe a blazer. Showing up a level lower makes you look unprepared. Showing up some levels higher, like in a suit to a hoodie shop, shows lack of research and reading a room.

In start ups, I have seen candidates nearly rejected just on a suit alone. Def started them on the wrong foot impression wise.
by robin_reala | 2025-04-08 08:57:00+00:00
Not the same thing as this article, but I was impressed with the Chinese trend of “fixing” 2015-era MacBook Pros with broken screens by deleting the screen and installing a blanking plate, leaving the machine as a sort of C64/Amiga/ST/Acorn style keyboard-and-CPU single unit that could be plugged into an HDMI screen. https://ioshacker.com/news/people-in-china-are-using-macbook...
by sfn42 | 2025-04-08 08:58:23+00:00
Not really sure what you guys are talking about. I've been using Rider for years and it's been great. I'm using the new UI and I have no problems with commits or anything else.

Recently joined a new team where I have to use VS because we have to work through a remote desktop where I can't install new stuff without a lengthy process, and having used VS for a while now it's so much worse. I miss Rider practically every second I'm writing code. There is nothing that I need that VS does better, it's either the same or usually worse for everything I do.

I hope I'll get a bit more used to it over time but so far I hate it. Feels like it's significantly reducing my velocity compared to Rider.
by pbiggar | 2025-04-08 08:58:31+00:00
Israel has long used torture against Palestinian civilians. Some examples.

"Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests": https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-ho...

"Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured": https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/26/israel-palestinian-healt...

"Israel’s escalating use of torture against Palestinians in custody a preventable crime against humanity: UN experts": https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/08/israels-esca...
by ggordonhall | 2025-04-08 08:58:48+00:00
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by fifticon | 2025-04-08 08:59:11+00:00
Part of the appeal of refurbished computers is that currently, fresh new laptops and tablets have reached a horrible minimum-quality. I have chewed myself and our household through a possibly obscene number of laptops, tablets and smartphones over the last 15 years or so. One of the villains in this story is Asus.

An ugly pattern emerges. In my country, there is mandatory 2year warranty on bought electronics - if it breaks before 24 months, the retailer owes you a working specimen. Well, what do you know.. I see a pattern of a lot of these items breaking before 3 years have passed. It is almost as if some hierarchy of managers have dictated "can you make this thing last for 25 months, but no further than that?"

- 1 the non-replacable battery will die, leaving the device a brick.

- 2 the power management IC will die, so the system refuses to light up or receive electrical current.

- 3 often, when (2) happens, the motherboard will be toasted as a by-product, leaving you to pay 600 DKK to have the retailer inform you "we have looked at your device, unfortunately the motherboard died, so repairing it will cost you same price as brand new. Thank you for the 600 you paid to have us tell you that".

Within the last year, I have had two separate Asus VivoBooks die on me, both after about 24 months of use - but critically, ">24", so no repair/warranty. One of them a DKK-10.000 purchase, the other a DKK-6.500 purchase. Neither of them have seen particular abuse, they were used by me, as "household pets" - so laptops that never left the couch.

I have taken a long time to learn this, but my learned lesson is that I have stopped buying these "10k DKK for 24 months of laptop" devices.

I am a pathological computer hoarder, and I have plenty of desktop PCs that are still alive and kicking after 10+ years (in which I may understandably have to replace PSUs).

The scam/grift that suppliers like Asus are operating on comsumer devices, is that the PMIC is designed to fail, is soldered into the motherboard, and that they love whenever the failing PMIC kills the motherboard during its death throes.
by tkcranny | 2025-04-08 09:01:34+00:00
The Economist wrote about this recently too [1]. The most fascinating part is how they’re evolving to spread faster and faster:

Attempts to control the toads have been going on for decades, yet their advance has accelerated. In the tropics, they now travel up to 70km westward every wet season, compared with 10km when they first arrived. They are thus poised to enter some of Western Australia’s most treasured ecological areas.

Toad biologists call this acceleration the Olympic Village effect. It is a superb example of evolution in action. Only the most athletic toads make it to the invasion front, where they breed. Over the generations, toads on the front have thus developed larger size, longer legs and even an urge to travel in a single direction.

[1] https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/01/22/gene...