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by lucasoshiro | 2025-04-08 16:25:39+00:00
> It was an honest question

Sorry if I misunderstood you, but just as tip, make it clear in your question. Probably the downvotes are from people who are tired of having Brazil being associated with drugs, crime, corruption and sex while it is a giant country with so many things to offer, and with so many hard working people doing their best.

But answering: just like any other country. Cash, jewels, money laundering, etc. Pix is not a replacement (at least so far) for cash, is just a modern option. And I really question if it will be someday a full replacement. Pix is amazing, but for a daily use (in restaurants, physical stores, etc) it is still more practical to pay using cards as Pix takes a little time to grab the phone, opening the bank app, scanning the QR code, typing the PIN and hoping that the internet connection is good enough for that
by josefresco | 2025-04-08 16:25:55+00:00
I don't believe there's anything even remotely competitive in the electric world to Top Fuel dragsters. You could also make the same argument about F1 vs E1

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

> Top Fuel is a type of drag racing whose dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest sanctioned category of drag racing, with the fastest competitors reaching speeds of 338.94 miles per hour (545.5 km/h) and finishing the 1,000 foot (304.8 m) runs in 3.641 seconds.
by jfengel | 2025-04-08 16:26:47+00:00
I really don't think it will help to have more parties.

In the end somebody gets elected President. Everyone else loses.

You can have transferrable votes, but I'm really not convinced that will help as much as you hope. You walk into the chamber, you tick off your favorite candidate (from among hundreds or thousands). Do you throw your second choice as the Democrat/Republican you can tolerate best? If they win, will you really feel like your voice was heard?

I believe the only way to get rid of the core problem is to fundamentally re-think representative democracy, and probably the whole structure of government. Which would be great, but it's not an easy task. You won't get there just by wishing away the two lead parties.
by wortelefant | 2025-04-08 16:26:49+00:00
This is not an adequate way to look at nuclear. If you check the stats of established constructions and not first of a kind prototypes (check Barakah instead Hinkley), the construction time is closer to 10 years, often less.

With transmutation and the option for recycling it altogether, waste is not an issue. Only the low fission parts of the spent fuel is low-grade active for longer than 1000 years, but this is such a low level of radiation, it is comparable to natural uranium formations and not an issue. The high radiation part of the fuel has lost the dangerous level of radiation in less than 1000 years and can be recycled before. The arenic compounds and other substances as byproduct of copper etc production for the mass of renewables have a much longer shelf life of toxitity. Also, you need more of them.
by taeric | 2025-04-08 16:26:50+00:00
I'd also ask if this isn't somewhat accurate for how people would do things? We have specific rules that we have internalized on what side of a road to drive on. But, absent those rules, it isn't uncommon to just drive down the center of the road. Largely expected on many surface streets that don't have brightly painted lanes and large shoulders.

To that end, you could always encode the rule of what side of a window to aim for? Something you probably want to do if you are going to be aiming for bidirectional agents going through them?
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-08 16:26:53+00:00
If I had to compare computers based on one number it would be the amount of RAM. The 360 had a 24 bit address space which could fit 16MB of RAM although only the largest installations, like the one at NASA, were that big. iPhone 16s have 8GB of RAM so you're talking 512 times the memory capacity, never mind that my desktop PCs are all loaded with 4-8x times that of the phone and you can definitely get a big server with a few TB.

An IBM 360/20 on the small side, however, ranged from 4kB to 32kB which was similar to home computers circa 1980, before it is routine to have a complete 64kB address space.

Where the 360 crushed home computers was in mass storage, 9-track tapes could store 80MB contrasted to floppy disks that stored less than 200kB. Large storage compared to memory meant a lot of focus on external memory algorithms, also there was already a culture of data processing on punched cards that translated to the 360 (e.g. terminals have 80 columns because punched cards had 80 columns)
by fjfaase | 2025-04-08 16:27:13+00:00
What would be the reason that birds did not develop language? There are birds that have an amazing range of vocalizations, such as the Lyre Birds, and there are examples of birds that have shown the ability to associate human speech with abstract concepts. So, why did some bird specie develop a language and a culture heritage. The developed in parallel with mammals. Birds too spend some considerable effort in feeding there offspring, just like mammals. There are enough examples of young birds with almost the size of there parents still following their parents around to beg for food.

How would the worlds have looked if some birds would have developed language and being able to transmit knowledge to sibling and children? Or was it the fact that we have hands that we evolved further? It is sometimes argued that language developed as part of mate selection. Bird vocalizations definitely play that role with birds.
by swagmoney69 | 2025-04-08 16:27:17+00:00
Huh. This is making me realize that perhaps my situation is more bizarre and unstable than I realize...

How uncommon is it for someone with no highschool diploma (GED), or college diploma to get a job as a software engineer at a Fortune 500 company? Am I completely fucked if I ever lose this job? It's my second SE job...

Like OP may have been hinting at, I had a really fucked up family situation and this path was the only one that I could take- should I plan on going back to school just for future job market security?
by nyrikki | 2025-04-08 16:27:26+00:00
It is still rare for a company to explicitly decide to devalue quality and mid/long term costs, and typically it is a side effect of incentives.

Obviously 'fake Agile' is an industry wide problem here. But if teams cannot control their capacity expectations, it will always devolve to this

'slack' was a poor term to use IMHO, but it is here.

In companies that care about med/long term survival and success can fix this over time.

Selling it as derisking on strategic and initiative time scales is one way that can help.
by thawawaycold | 2025-04-08 16:27:45+00:00
> Are they organized enough to have good oversight and fire people who aren't keeping up with their work?

In that there exists a CEO, CTO, and a manager above me who all can get reports from my peers? Yes. Do they care about the project or my role in it? No they have bigger fishes to fry. PM and project leader couldn't care less about my satisfaction but they sure as hell won't like it when they ask my team to provide statements that make no sense or technical decisions which we know are senseless but that will make their life easier. Can we refuse to comply? No.

> Why not? Who's stopping you and what's the consequence of doing this?

PM that asks me to do A in way X is sure as hell not going to like me doing B as Y, and it doesn't matter whether B>A in terms of quality/performance/whatever or Y>X in terms of efficiency/scalability/whatever, because they had A|X in mind and need to check some boxes.

Mind you everyone in my team is aware of that; they simply can't do otherwise, because ownership of these kind of decisions is discouraged and when it isn't, everything is thrown to the gutter for the nth time that PM changes and requirements have to be remade from scratch.
by vl | 2025-04-08 16:27:53+00:00
For CI action: pre-build docker image with dependencies, then run your tests using this image as single GitHub action command. If dependencies change, rebuild image.

Do not rely on gh caching, installs, multiple steps, etc.

Otherwise there will be a moment when tests pass locally, but not on gh, and debugging will be super hard. In this case you just debug in the same image.
I open sourced my side project and no one cared
by sebestindragos | 2025-04-08 16:28:14+00:00
I’ve been running a side project for a bit over 1 year. Shortly after launching I posted a ShowHN thread to showcase it. While the feedback was positive, the main complaint was that the tool is not open source.

For months I was on the edge wether I should open source it or not, my main concern being that someone would “steal” the code and sell it under their own brand.

Eventually I caved and decided to risk it. If someone takes the code and builds a better business out of it so be it.

Super excited about it, I started spreading the word that the tool is going open source and … radio silence. It got some stars and a couple of forks, but I don’t think anyone actually browsed the code or anything.

It made me wonder: this whole “I’m not using this tool unless it’s open source” is nothing more than hypocrisy? Because I don’t think those people actually go through the source code to make sure it’s safe or anything.

For me, the only benefit I see in a tool being open source is that I could build it and run it myself for free. Other than that, I couldn’t care less.
by gandalfian | 2025-04-08 16:28:15+00:00
And yet sometimes I wonder. In the Uk you need most of your energy in the cold dark winter. So if you require enough non solar renewables to get you through the winter with net zero and those renewables are still available in the summer time are large scale solar not a bit redundant? Sunnier countries that have high electricity demand for air conditioning during the sunny periods would seem to have a better match mind.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-08 16:29:20+00:00
Hunter S. Thompson loved it, too, and it shows up in his work:

https://www.vincent-hrd.co.uk/hst.html

> Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1970) > [At the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills, planning to cover the Mint 400 Desert Race in Las Vegas]

---

"Well," he said, "as your attorney I advise you to buy a motorcycle. How else can you cover a thing like this righteously?"

"No way," I said. "Where can we get hold of a Vincent Black Shadow?"

"Whats that?"

"A fantastic bike," I said. "The new model is something like two thousand cubic inches, developing two hundred brake-horsepower at four thousand revolutions per minute on a magnesium frame with two styrofoam seats and a total curb weight of exactly two hundred pounds."

...

"It is," I assured him. "The fucker's not much for turning, but it's pure hell on the straightaway. It'll outrun the F-111 until takeoff."

---
by andrewaylett | 2025-04-08 16:29:28+00:00
That's the original recipe, but not the one that was known as Irn Bru immediately before the sugar tax -- it's got no caffeine in it. I've not tried it.

Any changes made before I started drinking it are merely historical baggage, but any changes made after I started drinking it have a fundamental effect on whether I consider it the same product. See also: "New Coke".

(Also, I can taste Aspartame -- so while many people might say that the low sugar variant is sufficiently similar in taste, I really don't enjoy it. Although, as I posted above, this is probably a good thing.)
by wongarsu | 2025-04-08 16:29:33+00:00
Putting solar panels over a grassland is a lot better for the environment than using the same area for agriculture. It's not like we have a lot of meadows just lying around unused that are used for solar projects. It's also a lot cheaper than installing panels on roofs.

However we should normalize panels over parking lots. Parking lots are just concrete wastelands, and while lifting the panels up over the cars requires a bit more material it is otherwise basically free real estate in areas with high electricity use (great to minimize grid losses)
by crmass | 2025-04-08 16:29:49+00:00
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by cbeach | 2025-04-08 16:30:28+00:00
In the UK (and broadly under the UK GDPR and PECR – the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations), yes, you generally do need to get consent before setting non-essential cookies, even if it's just for rudimentary analytics like a unique visitor count.

Here's the key distinction:

Strictly necessary cookies: No consent needed. These are required for the site to function properly (e.g., shopping cart cookies, login sessions).

Analytics cookies (including the case with a unique ID for tracking visitors): Not strictly necessary, so consent is required.

Even if the data is anonymous or pseudonymous (like a randomly generated unique ID), if the purpose is analytics and it involves storing or accessing data on the user’s device (like setting a cookie), you must ask for consent.
by cbeach | 2025-04-08 16:31:20+00:00
In the UK (and broadly under the UK GDPR and PECR – the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations), yes, you generally do need to get consent before setting non-essential cookies, even if it's just for rudimentary analytics like a unique visitor count.

Here's the key distinction: Strictly necessary cookies: No consent needed. These are required for the site to function properly (e.g., shopping cart cookies, login sessions).

Analytics cookies (including the case with a unique ID for tracking visitors): Not strictly necessary, so consent is required.

Even if the data is anonymous or pseudonymous (like a randomly generated unique ID), if the purpose is analytics and it involves storing or accessing data on the user’s device (like setting a cookie), you must ask for consent.
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-04-08 16:31:26+00:00
> I don't want politics discussed at work, it's annoying and a distraction

This would be a ridiculous expectation if you were working for the federal government. Politics affect your work to an extreme level there. Not discussing politics at all is not discussing your job.

> I don't want people badmouthing their job or work or company. All of these behaviors are toxic and I would guess 80% of people are like me.

If your company was involved in something really bad, you'd rather just not know? If you worked for Theranos, Nikola, or Enron, you'd rather be able to continue on with your nose down than know what's going on?

I want to know the truth about my company. I don't want to be complicit in crimes or things that I consider unconscionable, and I don't consider willing ignorance a good excuse for partaking in unethical or illegal activity.
by mentalgear | 2025-04-08 16:31:32+00:00
- Even if 'only' 10 years construction time: How much solar energy can be build in that time at a fraction of the cost?

- So we need to find secure expensive, leak-free storage only for 1000 years? Most countries cant even plan 5 years ahead.

- No words on generated Energy produced per Dollar.

Your rebuttal is not as significant as you might think.
by andrewlgood | 2025-04-08 16:31:56+00:00
Sorry to hear the distress. As an MIT alum, I can say the most important thing I learned was not the material for major, but how to think - how to approach problems, break them down, and develop creative solutions. These skills will serve you well for the rest of your life. When I changed jobs in my mid-40s (at the C-level) the number one thing board members brought up in my interviews was that I had graduated from MIT. I know this sounds elitist, but I am simply describing my experience.

Most of the comments highlight that you will likely be several years behind the curve of cohorts before you just because of when you were born and went to school. I agree with that. However, it can be overcome, you will simply have to work harder at it. You will likely have to change jobs more often, ideally within the same company. This means you will have less comfort and calm in your early days, but it can help catch you up to where you expected to be.

Good luck. You have to stay positive to succeeed at this.
by joijoj | 2025-04-08 16:32:37+00:00
Does it matter that much? If you need 1:1 private comms, personal SSL certs and a Dockerized chat client are available?

Email only persists due to nostalgia. We have literally dozens of other methods to sync state between two machines.

Private git repo? Private IRC?

Note how providers are not blocking other options. Email is inherently insecure due to the header structure, and open to the world by default is an invitation to be misused by spam.

Sorry everyone but an "open world" has revealed we're all just biological meat suits everywhere doing human shit, hallucinating there's some culture binding us (which just translates to "practice of a cult").

Breaking Bad ended 10 years ago. Star Wars was decades ago. Email is terrible in many ways. Move along.
by th0ma5 | 2025-04-08 16:32:54+00:00
You have to take Simon with a grain of salt he confuses demonstrations with solutions. I was just looking at some other code he generated using vibe techniques and it's generally not suitable for anything remotely robust and for some reason the models still think markup languages are regular and can be handled with regular expressions, among many other foot guns present in just about everything. But don't worry! It is us sane people who don't get the joke they'll say and that it is "good enough" lol. I have a really hard time with LLM people who still consider telling people who dissent to go fuck themselves when their work is so insulting and ignorant.
by amiga386 | 2025-04-08 16:32:55+00:00
> Apple seems content to let UK Apple computer owners mistakenly believe they can trust the company's promises of "privacy"

Not as far as I see. To me, Apple have been very clear that their "normal" protection can be accessed by governments, and they have withdrawn ADP completely from the UK (users not already using it: now. users still using it: at some time in future) - to let its UK customers know they have no expectation of privacy from their government.

Apple can't stop the government demanding the removal of user privacy. But it can, and did, let all its users know this is happening.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

> Data with standard encryption is accessible by Apple and shareable with law enforcement, if they have a warrant.

> In a statement Apple said it was "gravely disappointed" that the security feature would no longer be available to British customers. "As we have said many times before, we have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products, and we never will," it continued.

> Existing users' access will be disabled at a later date.
by InkCanon | 2025-04-08 16:33:01+00:00
Hi, I write as a hobby and really like Sudowrite. There's a huge gap between it and virtually every other AI writing tool I know of. The insight that writers:

A) Largely only want AI when they are blocked, and not all the time B) Want to consider options (which is how writing happens all the time, IMO)

Is really what sets your product apart. So I'm curious, how did you get these insights? Were you a writer and instinctively knew of these, and so you dogfooded your own product? Or did you do a YC style feedeback loop to writers to find this differentiator?
by aae42 | 2025-04-08 16:33:15+00:00
I still use it for that. Built a really nice packer based process that pulls in Chef cookbooks and applies them in zero mode. Even have an integration test of the resulting AMI in later stages using test kitchen (Chef's "killer app" imo) with the EC2 driver to spin up an instance with the AMI and run Inspec tests on it.
by mjr00 | 2025-04-08 16:33:22+00:00
That question has been answered; cloud has been unambiguously a huge win. There are a select few companies where their business makes more sense to use on-prem rather than cloud, but those are the exception. For most, it's outsourcing a non-core business function at a fraction of the cost.

If there were a tariff-induced mass migration off AWS/GCP/Azure by enterprises, it would be to a competing cloud vendor, not back to on-prem.
by abecedarius | 2025-04-08 16:33:37+00:00
IME both ChatGPT and Claude had a sycophancy problem, but I'm surprised by the claim it's more of a Claude thing. Is that the general opinion of people who keep up with both?

(I unsubbed from OpenAI after Altman's coup. ChatGPT was annoyingly sycophantic up to then at least.)
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-08 16:33:44+00:00
The UK plans are mostly wind e.g. from the latest carbon budget:

> Low-carbon supply: by 2040, our Balanced Pathway sees offshore wind grow six-fold from 15 GW of capacity in 2023 to 88 GW by 2040. Onshore wind capacity doubles to 32 GW by 2040 and solar capacity increases to 82 GW

And once you multiply by capacity factor the solar and onshore wind are about equal so solar will be less than a third of modern renewables.

Plus UK wind peaks in the winter.
by yojo | 2025-04-08 16:34:10+00:00
To be clear, I’m not saying your or anyone else’s life is “nice.” I’m saying that however nice (or not) your life currently is, it will be worse. Those goods at Walmart will cost 30% more and still be equally threadbare. You’re mixing two things together, the declining quality of goods, and the places those goods are made.

Did you know you can buy premium clothes made in China? You can. Check out producers like Bob Dong or Bronson. Ironically, they make a lot of thick, quality clothes inspired by vintage US work-wear. The reason you probably never heard of them is buyers have to pay extra for that quality, and the appetite isn’t there.

The fact that everything you buy is cheaply constructed of cheap materials is entirely due to that being what sells. Most consumers won’t pay a premium for quality, so you have to go out of your way to look for it. Moving mass-market garment manufacturing back to America won’t change that.

If you just want to pay fistfuls of dollars for quality American-made clothing, you can do that today. Go buy yourself a $70 t-shirt from Lady in White. I’m sure we’ll be able to make shittier clothing cheaper, but it’s still going to be a lot more than shoppers are used to paying. You’re never going to get any American-made shirt for $4.98.

As to why tariffs constitute withdrawing: other countries can and will retaliate. China is not going to buy our expensive American-made commodity products, especially when they’ve got a 55% import duty on them, when they can buy equal or better quality things made at home or in SE Asia for half the price.

Even if successful, tariffs will make goods expensive. There’s no way around that. There is 0 reason to believe they will make goods any better. With reduced competitive pressure, quality is more likely to drop, if anything.