MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MisterTea | 2025-04-08 12:07:13+00:00
> Convenience store food in Japan is fantastic

Indeed. Spent a few weeks there last year. You can't throw a rock and not hit one of those places - it's absurd how many there are no matter where you are. Though, TBF in NYC the density of convenience stores/bodegas is similar but the consistency lacking. I do miss those gooey chocolate babka things they sell in the 7-11s.

> is probably unironically better than the median restaurant in the U.S.

Eh... I would say they certainly beat out fast food.
by rbanffy | 2025-04-08 12:07:49+00:00
I think that most z17's sold are already planned acquisitions, from either decommissioning older machines, capacity expansion, or workload consolidation (say, a 4-node z13 parallel sysplex moving to a 2-node z17). I don't think anyone in their right mind would run a machine like this (for business-critical apps) for more than the extended warranty.
by oblio | 2025-04-08 12:08:21+00:00
> I don't particularly remember Linus making any push for git to be generally popular.

Outside of giving one of the highest visibility tech talks in history, at Google (back when Google was the mega hip FAANG), declaring Subversion (the then leading SCM) brain dead?

Marketing works in many different ways, as does signaling. Geeks wear suits, too, their suits just aren't composed of suit jackets and suit pants, they're composed of t-shirts and jeans.
by fusionadvocate | 2025-04-08 12:09:01+00:00
Good were the days when you only could get robbed by what you had in your pockets.

Nowadays one goes around with a direct link to his or her entire bank account. And criminals know this in Brazil. They will rob your phone, but what they really want is to use you as an ATM. Private banks are not held accountable to the massive and rampant identity fraud in banking, where criminals will launder criminal transactions.

The private sectors does not care. Somebody who opened an account yesterday receiving R$5000,00 at 2 in the morning in the middle of the street? Nothing suspicious... This same account cashing out at an ATM the same next day? It is OK to me...

Brazilian banks need to be held accountable to 'know your customer' laws ASAP and be held liable for criminal activity undertaken on their systems.
by presentation | 2025-04-08 12:09:23+00:00
The article says it was made by a woman. Regardless I don’t agree we need to hold these people accountable for not making female cards, it’s their prerogative to do what they think makes sense or is appealing to them, and choosing ojisans as a theme makes sense if you have experience with Japanese culture because of the vibe associated with it. Not everything needs to be a gender equality culture battle, and I’m pretty confident nobody is feeling disenfranchised because they chose that theme.
by douglee650 | 2025-04-08 12:09:47+00:00
> That being said, Tailwind that's set up well in coordination with a complex design system really does feel like it's a win. Seeing that in action was an aha moment where I was able to see value that made some of the tradeoffs worth it.

Can you elaborate on this a little bit — was there a lot of Figma tooling, plugins to swap variables between systems, etc?
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-08 12:09:50+00:00
Open AI have both said it's native image generation and autoregressive. It has the signs of it too.

It's probably an implementation of VAR (https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02905) - autoregressive image generation with a small twist. Rather than predict every token at the target resolution directly, start with predicting it at a small resolution, cranking it higher and higher until the desired resolution.
by xrd | 2025-04-08 12:09:58+00:00
The Ghibli fight is the same fight that is being fought in the NASDAQ. That is to say, there was an established set of rules that everyone thought were fixed and now they are being radically disrupted. Both the creative industry and the general business industry are trying to figure out what is life going to be like with a totally different and fluid set of regulations, whether it be copyright law or tariffs.

No wonder sama and Trump are so cozy. They both see the same legacy.
by giantg2 | 2025-04-08 12:10:04+00:00
This was true even a few years after 08/09. I applied to about 250 positions and lowballed my salary. I did get a job after 5 or so months of looking. I will say, that lowball salary is still impacting me today. If you do lowball yourself, you have to do a bit of job hopping when the market gets good to boost it.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-08 12:10:15+00:00
And quite a lot of Western ones like Vipps. And see this long list: https://truelayer.com/reports/alternative-payments/european-...

> require ID, zero privacy, usually government sanctioned

Unfortunately systems that don't have those requirements are going to be money laundering channels. I wish it wasn't such a big concern but it's unavoidable.
by watwut | 2025-04-08 12:11:40+00:00
Why would westerners stop buying China goods? Americans can do it if the tariffs make the goods too expensive ... but if they are not, there is about zero motivation to harm yourself.

Canada has consumer boycott against USA. EU is being attacked by USA, not by China. Americans themselves were not attacked by anyone but their own government, so why would they stopped buying Chinese?
by sarchertech | 2025-04-08 12:11:52+00:00
Literally no other industry except for the performing arts interviews like this. No one else expects senior people to perform “work samples” under pressure, they just talk to them and dig into past work.

All of the really damaging hires, I’ve seen in the last couple decades have been engineers with high negative productivity who were great at passing high pressure technical interviews.

Also in a couple decades working everywhere from startups to big tech companies in staff+ roles, I have never experienced anything even remotely similar to a performative technical interview. Even when everything is on fire, it’s not even close to the same thing.
by grues-dinner | 2025-04-08 12:11:53+00:00
With reference to the GP about awkward people, if an adult hiring manager is intimidated by an professional applicant wearing a suit to an interview in good faith (after all, it's widely seen as mark of taking the interview seriously), I think it is perhaps not the applicant who need to learn the social skills.

If an interviewer can't tell the difference between a flex and show of good intent, they probably should go back to jobs where they don't need to make judgements of character.
by lelanthran | 2025-04-08 12:11:56+00:00
You're a much more patient person than I am.

I would've literally opened an editor, wrote a quick parser in JS, bundled it in and be done with the problem without going any further.

This functionality, if I am understanding correctly, is to grab all the classnames from HTML files and then pass that to a tool that includes those, and only those, in a .css file.

I'll burnout in no time if I spend even 20% of my time working on configuring or debugging the environment and the rest on the development activities[1]. I can't imagine roles where time is split 50/50 (or more) between "fiddling with YAML, npm, AWS, etc" and "development".

[1] I include requirements elicitation, debugging, talking to customers, etc as "development activities".
by rbanffy | 2025-04-08 12:12:27+00:00
One cool feature of the z16 was that all cores can be activated during startup, and then all cores that aren't licensed (paid for) shut down and the performance drops to the agreed limit. I do that with my KVM machines on the server under my desk - all are configured with more cores than needed and, when boot finishes, most cores are removed from process scheduling leaving just the amount the VM is supposed to use during normal operation. The result is a significantly faster start up and significantly lower power consumption (and resource contention).
by oblio | 2025-04-08 12:13:16+00:00
0. Make 99% of your setups runnable locally, with Docker if need be. It's the fastest way to test something and nothing else come close. #1 and #2 derive from #0. This is actually a principle for code, too, if you have stuff like Lambda, make sure you have a command line entry point, too and you can also test things locally.

1. Avoid YAML if you can. Either plain configuration files (generated if need be - don't be afraid to do this) or full blown programming languages with all the rigor required (linting/static analysis, tests, etc).

2. Move ALL logic outside of the pipeline tool. Your actions should be ./my-script.sh or ./my-tool.

Source: lots of years of experience in build engineering/release engineering/DevOps/...
by pidgeon_lover | 2025-04-08 12:14:30+00:00
I am interested in ebook production, as I do so for my own personal use, but the copyright issues put me off contributing on the clearnet to legit projects. I have a whole section in my Calibre library of books I've edited or converted from Archive.org scans, but can't share any of them because a) legit channels only accept public domain works, and they're all under copyright, and b) the current main ebook pirate channels don't accept any contributions
by UI_at_80x24 | 2025-04-08 12:14:31+00:00
BSD Now still exists and they now have over 600 episodes. It's no longer with Jupiter Broadcasting though. I've been listening since episode 1. =)

Alan is no longer a host but does appear occasionally though. If you want to hear one of Alans other active Podcasts check out: "2.5 Admins"

https://www.bsdnow.tv/ https://2.5admins.com/
by guax | 2025-04-08 12:15:00+00:00
A lot of governments have that ability for electronic transactions. In Brazils case specifically it was implemented as a payment broker between institutions that participate in the SPI (instantaneous payment system) and works pretty much like any other inter bank transfer system. It is also possible to use the system semi-anonymously by using a "non bank" participant that will broker the transaction for you using random keys. Which would mean not even your bank account no gets exposed, because its not used.

As far as I can tell the legal landscape of the solution currently only allow the actual government to look at the data with the standard court orders. I believe not even the 10k report limit is applied to pix atm the same way as the other methods.

Regarding fake transactions, that would be a non concern to me, the system is only centralised in parts, the banks still hold most of the data so they would have to collaborate on this potentially leaving lots of evidence behind. Governments do not need to be subtle to screw you over, see current US deportation news.

Its not that much different than how bank transfers in Europe work in practice. The US is particularly archaic in banking technology available to the public.
by DanielHB | 2025-04-08 12:15:56+00:00
Sweden has had a similar system for several years before PIX in Brazil. It is also integrated with the digital ID system (BankID). The main difference is that the Swedish system is ran through a private organization managed by all the major banks (and the central bank) in conjunction. So the central bank doesn't have direct access to the transaction data technically.

While the Brazilian system is only interacted directly through your bank application, the Swedish application is a separate application tied to your bank account in the backend. Given the... quality of bank apps this is a huge plus. The Swedish Swish app is MUCH easier to use because it only does one thing. My Brazilian mother does not know how to send PIX because her bank app is very confusing and the PIX option is just one of many.

The BankID system of Sweden though is even more impressive than money transactions, pretty much everything government related (including healthcare, taxes, etc) and most private institutions (bank apps, Swish, digital contract signatures) is done through the unified BankID login.

People raised concerns over privacy, but the main problem really is that since these systems cut out the middle man (Visa/Mastercard) and have no fees you also have no fraud protection which is something to keep in mind when using them. Once you send the money it is gone, the banks will not give it back to you even if you got scammed. It creates a whole sort of scam industry in both countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(payment)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankID
by souenzzo | 2025-04-08 12:16:08+00:00
PIX are free for persons. Companies may* pay for pix services. My bank (that is not a good bank) charges a fixed amount of 4 BRL (aprox 1 USD) per transaction (to send PIX. not to receive) PIX in "maquininhas" may cost ~1% to the seller.

* may: banks are allowed to charge.
by giantg2 | 2025-04-08 12:16:37+00:00
What signals are you seeing?

The ones I've seen aren't good. I see some jobs in companies with shitty pay or shitty culture (my bar is not high). It dies look like the past 6 months have been better than the previous year or so. But overall, it looks pretty dim. I'm getting PIP'd soon. I am expecting that I will likely lose my job. If that happens, I'm expecting that I will end up as a Walmart greeter. As someone with a disability, I expect my application will go right in the trash if I answer yes or blank on the disability question. Or get fired if I mark no and then do need accommodations.
by sceptic123 | 2025-04-08 12:16:38+00:00
Maybe it's not deliberate, maybe they are just unaware, the 90's is a long time ago now.

It feels like OSI and Open Source advocates spend a lot of time and effort trying to fight people from using "open source" and "free software" in their literal meanings rather than the other way round. The established common use is only really within the communities that use them.
by dguest | 2025-04-08 12:16:47+00:00
The worst is a market facade for a government service. Examples in the US:

- Weather apps: various governments do the (very expensive) computing and provide the data for free. Private companies insert adds, or charge you. I use Yr, which is run by Norway and has no adds or fees. They are just sourcing public data [1].

- Taxes: the government does all the bookkeeping and enforcement, tax prep industry copies and pastes numbers into forms it lobbies to obfuscate.

[1]: https://hjelp.yr.no/hc/en-us/articles/360004008874-Weather-f...
by miltava | 2025-04-08 12:16:56+00:00
That’s true for the moment, specially because you’d need an agreement between both countries.

But payment processors in Brazil are already offering “international pix”, that Brazilians can use to pay foreign companies. It’s the same experience as pix for the customer but behind the scenes the company deals with the cross border payment.

There are even stores accepting pix in Portugal: https://www.publico.pt/2025/01/23/publico-brasil/noticia/pix...
by cubefox | 2025-04-08 12:17:00+00:00
Theortically it would now be possible to implement a similar service in the US using FedNow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedNow

Of course in practice it is a chicken-egg situation. Few people will use it over established credit based systems unless there are other incentives.

Credit card companies, including PayPal & Co, are essentially rent seeking: They are middle men that technologically aren't needed anymore for instant cashless payments, but they still exist because they can extract enormous amounts of profits via fees. But countries like Brazil and India show that they can be replaced with free or almost free systems based on instant bank transfers.

It's true that credit cards still have the use case of providing a "chargeback" service. But this isn't possible with ordinary cash either. Moreover, most people likely buy online from trustworthy shops like Amazon, so this isn't often a problem in practice. In expectation people spend way more money on credit card fees than they ever save with chargeback. Chargeback is like an overly expensive insurance that hardly anybody needs.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-04-08 12:17:17+00:00
> IBM’s solution is to reduce data duplication within its caches, and re-use the chip’s massive L2 capacity to create a virtual L3 cache.

I was kind of fascinated with the original Telum CPUs because of this feature. Do we know if other CPU designers are planning a similar virtual cache feature? Or is this feature implemented as a workaround due to some other deficiency that others don't have?
by Hackbraten | 2025-04-08 12:18:17+00:00
The question was "GitHub CI YAML vs. pipeline.sh", not "GitHub CI YAML vs. other forge’s YAML."

What I’m trying to say is that if you keep your build logic in `pipeline.sh` (and use GitHub CI only for calling into it), then you’re going to have an easier time migrating to another forge’s CI than in the alternative scenario, i.e. if your build logic is coded in GitHub CI YAML.
by throwaway290 | 2025-04-08 12:18:59+00:00
Where did I mention being an amazing programmer? If that's the requirement then why not. The comment was replying specifically about environment where you gotta sit through hour long meetings and that is what I wrote about

maybe there is a company where being an amazing programmer is enough. I worked with capable depressed programmer who never delivers and is too shy to delegate anything, capable psycho programmer who no one wants to work with, bad programmer who works crazy hours, carries the project and interacts nicely with customers when needed. The last one was probably the most valuable
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-04-08 12:19:03+00:00
There are other stable conditions: law is not the only possible system of justice. Is it in the best interests for everyone if the law steps in every time one person punches another? Law is helpful when things can't be resolved at an interpersonal level: there are situations where a single punch should be prosecuted, so we can't just make punching legal; but equally, if too many things are illegal, selective policing becomes possible, and that's an abuse we really don't want.

Institutions like the criminal justice system are tools. Some can wield the institutions skilfully (e.g. https://www.loweringthebar.net/2006/07/judge_tells_con.html, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-38021839/speeding-drivers-q...), but often, it's a blunt instrument.
by koyote | 2025-04-08 12:19:25+00:00
So this sounds just like PayID in Australia or what was payM in the UK (which got shut down a couple of years ago due to lack of use), minus the QR code generation part.

It's used between private people to make it easier to send money to one another without having to type in bank account details, but never really used to pay businesses (except under the table).

How come this is so popular in Brasil for paying businesses vs using a card or your phone to tap and pay (which seems more convenient)?
by bubblethink | 2025-04-08 12:19:50+00:00
This is largely a result of tariffs/duties that India imposes on everything. A typical $800 laptop is going to cost $1200-$1500 in India. Combined with the purchasing power parity, a good laptop is out of reach for most people. The repair culture works entirely due to artificial scarcity. Nostalgia for repairs notwithstanding, it is a failure for the country that people can't afford a decent laptop in 2025.
by sometimes_all | 2025-04-08 12:20:59+00:00
Can we please have one post regarding a payment system (which works well by most accounts) not be taken over by crypto shills and skeptics whatabouting everything? I've had enough in the past 5 years and I hope it stops soon.

Most people are simple, they want to pay, and get paid, in their local currency. There's a homegrown software which enables them to easily do just that. That's a great technological and social achievement, it would be great if we could discuss that, and not crypto, which is not the main subject here.
by cainxinth | 2025-04-08 12:21:15+00:00
> The Rotating Door of Ownership

It’s this one. And it happens in every industry. Things fall through the cracks because no one wants to take responsibility for covering the cracks. And that’s because it’s generally a thankless job. The company Swiss Army knife / fixer / keeper of institutional knowledge is quietly holding things together while the upwardly mobile types ensure the spotlight stays on them.
by lysecret | 2025-04-08 12:21:29+00:00
I used to do a lot of hiring interviews long before ai and this exact situation has happened many times. People have been added to some project doing x haven’t really done much or engaged in it. They then see you need someone doing x then they add it to their resume. However, I do agree not being able to fully talk about a thing you have been working on and worse misrepresenting the extend of your involvement are red flags. Has nothing to do with AI though. Also sounds a bit like they wanted to say: “Ai encouraged me to exaggerate a bit” which again just means they wanted to shift the blame which is another red flag.
by 542354234235 | 2025-04-08 12:21:32+00:00
If your house burns down, your couch, photo albums, home server, and cats “change” into piles of ash. As amazing as piles of ash are, your previous belongings were unique and had value to you, and would be much more difficult to replace than the ash would be.

Large mammals take 10s of millions of years to evolve. Their extinction due to “change” by humans is irreplaceable, for all intents and purposes. This idea that all changes are somehow neutral and so don’t matter is ridiculous.
by therealpygon | 2025-04-08 12:21:48+00:00
> “They should have first gone and made their grievances known in a private way to the appropriate people.”

Why did you automatically assume they didn’t? Do you have special knowledge of the situation or did you just assume that was the case solely on the words of a company press release? Clearly the company would have no reason to use the same tired recycled excuses in press releases of “you should have talked to us privately” every company claims after a protest (which often get proved out as false in later employment lawsuits).

It seems odd that someone would write, “this is especially true when I've witnessed how Microsoft has tried to quell and suppress any dissent from my coworkers who tried to raise this issue” if the issue had never been raised or discussed prior.

Do they deserve to be fired? Sure. Does that mean protesting and disrupting a celebration was wrong after many people had tried to voice opposition of their use of AI this way, I don’t know that I can agree.

If you have ever worked at a Fortune 500 company, you would know that you might as well scream into a void if you think a company is going to reverse their decision to make more profit because of some whiney employees who don’t want to “just do your job”. Sometimes disruptive actions are the only way to bring attention to the things companies do, as can be seen by this being covered in the press , which means more attention has been brought to the issue, which was exactly the goal was it not?
by guax | 2025-04-08 12:22:12+00:00
Pix does not substantially changes the tax evasion problem as that is mostly a problem with higher earners and small/medium business who evade tax using cash payment, convoluted setups of companies and "laranjas" (our slang for someone borrowing the name to do something for someone else, the scapegoat) as well as "non cash" transactions.

Pix mostly replaces and eats on credit card transactions that were done for the convenience aspect and no the credit aspect. As well as allow a whole new part of the country to accept electronic payments, and although that would increase tax revenue from business it also substantially increase their revenue since there is no x% from card processors and don't require special rented/bought equipment.
by NiloCK | 2025-04-08 12:22:16+00:00
I still don't really get this. Do you mean that frent-ends have proprietary code?

Contracts on-chain can be slightly inscrutable in their bytecode format, but it's pretty uncommon for smart contracts to not be published with source code and a verifiable build.

Example, picked randomly from a transaction in a recent block: https://etherscan.io/address/0x388c818ca8b9251b393131c08a736...