MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aertmann | 2025-04-08 22:18:07+00:00
Weirdly enough I was able to work around this outage by using their new API endpoint URL api-m.paypal.com / api-m.sandbox.paypal.com instead of api.paypal.com / api.sandbox.paypal.com. No more 403s in the auth endpoint using the new URL that they use in their updated documentation: https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/authentication

This URL change doesn't seem well communicated at all, but some people have gotten an email but there's no such details available officially anywhere publicly as far as I can tell.

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/REST-APIs/Migrating-api-... https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/NVP-SOAP-APIs/will-new-c...
by MBCook | 2025-04-08 22:18:11+00:00
> Even this one CSS directive has already been supported by Chrome for two years

The article says what chrome does is only support the “no super short lines” bit.

So while you won’t end up with one word on its own line at the end of a paragraph, it’s not trying to prevent rivers of text or keep a relatively clean ragged right or anything else.

That’s allowed by spec, but it’s not quite the same thing.
by uselesswords | 2025-04-08 22:18:23+00:00
Granted my response was a bit more hostile than the general tone of responses on this site. The person I was replying to had made a very large claim about passwords and general security that ran counter to what I think we can agree are generally well-understood principles of security and claimed he had philosophical reasons for doing so. The amount of confidence in his response rubbed me the wrong way and probably raised my own arrogance, sure.

> I don't think that closed networks substantially improve security and I don't like the push to require them.

You know what, you're right this is a philosophical stance, as dumb as a stance I might think it to be. My actual issue with his "philosophy" is that he makes a broad generalization when the statement really just applies to his unique use case. I didn't consider it to be a philosophical stance because I didn't think he seriously meant it as a systematic approach for the entire world but honestly re-reading what he wrote I think he does actually.

Honestly I take bigger issue with what he believes is a stance against opiniated technology but all technology is inherently opiniated his opinions are just different.
by ang_cire | 2025-04-08 22:18:39+00:00
How do they know if you're done, if you haven't "turned it in" yet? They're probably not watching your screen constantly.

My last boss told me essentially (paraphrasing), "I budget time for your tasks. If you finish late, I look like I underestimate time required, or you're not up to it. If you finish early, I look like I overestimate. If I give you a week to do something, I don't care if you finish in 5 minutes, don't give it to me until the week is up unless you want something else to do."
by Uzmanali | 2025-04-08 22:20:47+00:00
I looked into this too after hearing about it many times. I read the full study. It was very interesting.

A lot of U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War tried heroin. Many even used it a lot. But when they came home, most of them just stopped. Only a few used it again. And only a tiny number became addicted again.

Why? Because they were back home. Life was different. Their friends and family didn’t like drugs. They had more to do and more to lose. They were not stuck in war anymore.

This shows something important: People don’t use drugs just because the drug is strong. They use it when life is hard or lonely. When life gets better, many stop on their own.

So i think environment matters more than the drug itself. maybe we should stop thinking people who use drugs are always sick or weak. Many just need help, hope, and better places to live.
by Rumudiez | 2025-04-08 22:20:54+00:00
why is the black background a 1.5MB JPG[1]? and it even has a responsive counterpart[2] that's half a megabyte for mobile. surely it could have just been `background: #000`? I didn't go looking for issues, I just noticed the image load in jaggedly (not progressively encoded) and couldn't believe my browser would do that for a solid color fill. did you use AI to make the website?

[1] https://gamenode.app/img/desktop-bg.png

[2] https://gamenode.app/img/mobile-bg.jpg
by jmward01 | 2025-04-08 22:21:14+00:00
I keep seeing people advocating that the idea that we should build everything, and every piece or everything, here is a good one. Why? Is this just an isolationist dream? The reductive, absurd, extreme of this is why don't individual people go out and build all their own stuff like cars and houses. Let's all go out and learn how to mine and refine metal ore so we can get started on building the family sedan! There is an argument for what the right balance is, and likely a good argument that at lest some minor capability should exist so we can keep re-assessing the value of that industry, but the notion that we should have it all in-house will just limit us to much more primitive tech since we can't gain the benefit of world wide innovation and build off of that.
by II2II | 2025-04-08 22:22:30+00:00
I wouldn't do much calling it cherry picking as looking at people who choose something as a career path. For example: a high school student, or even a university student, working in fast food aren't fully supporting themselves with the job (nevermind supporting a family). Farm labourers are also different from farmers. Truck driving is all over the map, but most variants have their own stressors.

I'm not going to pretend that software development is devoid of stress. That said, virtually every job has stress, deadlines, politics, and other such nonsense.
by taeric | 2025-04-08 22:22:33+00:00
I wouldn't try and consider spaces individually, I don't think? Rather, I'd consider the amount of space being considered. We aren't talking about fixed width typesetting, after all. To that end, you will have more space after punctuation and such. Rather than try to enumerate the different options, though, you almost certainly have some model of how much "space" is in a section. Try different model weights for how much to penalize different amounts of connected space and see how well different models optimize.

Or, maybe not? I'll note that the vast majority of "rivers" I've seen in texts coincide with punctuation quite heavily. Even the example in this article has 5/8 lines using a comma to show the river. With the other lines having what seems to be obvious stretched space between words to use more of the line? Maybe enumerating the different reasons for space would be enough?

Granted, this also calls out how dependent you almost certainly are on the font being used, as well?
by EA-3167 | 2025-04-08 22:24:34+00:00
It definitely can be made in the US, the question is how long it would take for that to be feasible, and how much the resulting phone would cost. I suspect the process of adapting to these tariffs would greatly outlive the tariffs themselves, and everyone knows it. At most they can last until after the mid-terms, but even that's probably overstating things.

So no, Apple is going to move manufacturing to the US with all the costs and downsides, for a policy that can't last.
by aertmann | 2025-04-08 22:26:00+00:00
Update: We are continuing to monitor the impact on multiple components in our production environment. We observe mitigation as of Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:42 GMT Our technical teams have identified the External root cause and are actively working with the vendor to mitigate the impact as quickly as possible. We will continue to provide updates as the situation progresses. Affected Regions: Global Apr 8, 21:51 UTC
by taeric | 2025-04-08 22:26:18+00:00
I don't know why you'd expect an ereader to do a full text optimization of a book, though? Pick the starting line and layout to the next screen's breaking point. If needed, consider if you left an orphan for the next page and try to adjust that into the current screen.

Are there ereaders that have to typeset the entire text of what you are reading? What is the advantage of making the task harder?
by thot_experiment | 2025-04-08 22:26:40+00:00
Yeah ngl I have some fake designer stuff I got as a gift and I love it, and I especially love that it's fake. It feel like I'm pulling one over on the tryhards that care about that stuff being real, but I still get to enjoy the wild LV coat I have and ain't nobody checking the stitching on the lining to make sure it's the real thing. I could see myself buying more fakes in the future, but I'd never ever buy the real thing.
by vitorgrs | 2025-04-08 22:26:56+00:00
Yes. As soon as June, Brazilian pix will support "Automatic Pix". Which means, basically, Pix will support subscriptions. So let's say, you authorize Netflix with pix, and then every month they will charge you with Pix automatically.

I find very likely Netflix or Amazon will be one of the first companies to support this in June now.

This was made initially to replace old school automatic debit for phone/electricity/etc bills, but it will support all services.

In Brazil, installments with credit cards are also super common... Basically when you put a credit card on any website or buy on a store, you can just choose to pay in 12x.

Well, they will add in September Pix Installments as well.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-04-08 22:27:17+00:00
"Support" is usually a different org, may be outsourced, may be centered in a different country.

The userbase is different, in a small saas company you will probably get fairly "high signal" complaints, this is not true for mass market products.

Fixing bugs is different, sometimes you need to cross 3 teams in different timezones and have a bunch of meetings to fix a bug. Often the real problem is that a business process or a legacy system is messed up and an individual dev is not going to have the political "swing" to be able to do anything about it.

Big companies are typically structured to limit the agency of ICs.
by morgango | 2025-04-08 22:27:37+00:00
Sorry to hear about this, it stinks and you don't deserve it.

One thing that we don't talk about is how adversity changes us and pushes us forward. Not that it is easy or fun, but it does help us focus on the future.

Let me give my personal example --

I started back in the job market in 1994 after a stint in the US Marines and things were very, very, very bleak (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1990s_recession ). I was planning on getting a college degree and was living at home with my parents and planning on working part time, likely for minimum wage (then $3.25/hour) in a two-bit town in Arizona.

In my job search at the local unemployment office I found a post for a job that paid a whopping $7.25 an hour, doing telephone technical support for a little startup by the name of America Online. I was discouraged from applying as I didn't have the skills and should focus on something like security or food service. To be honest, I had no degree but did have PC skills, although no telephony experience. So, I went out and bought one and started learning as much as I could in a short period of time. I got the interview and the job, and about a year later the company exploded and I got to ride the wave into a degree in math and career in tech.

Now, I am not a boomer saying that "you need to try harder." I am also not saying that you just need to find the next hot startup and everything will be fine. Neither of these are true and it sucks that you are in this crisis. I was insanely lucky multiple times.

However, what I will say is that when the current economic model isn't working you have the rare opportunity to take a risk and move towards the future. Desperation doesn't feel good, that is why it is such a good motivator. Take advantage of it.

All the advice around here about networking are spot on. What you need is a job or a degree program that will keep you pointed in the right direction. I don't know if you are an international student or not, but if you are then the only thing that matters is getting a work or study visa. If you are lucky enough to be authorized to work in the US then any job that will keep you fed and in a single room in someone else's apartment in Boston is great. Or, find ANY graduate program ANYWHERE in the country that is vaguely palatable to you. Don't go back to a place where you don't want to be.

Again, this sucks, and I am so sorry that you are caught up in this. Your feelings are justified and valid. But you are caught up in this need to accept where you are and move forward. You will have an Engineering Degree from MIT, and that means you are smart and motivated. This is the definition of "grit", and it will be the next step into your future. You don't have anything to lose.
by c7b | 2025-04-08 22:28:03+00:00
There's a difference between what you call DPI (which I called payment system) and central bank money. A CBDC is both, Pix and UPI are only DPI sans central bank money (so neither is a CBDC). My point is that you can get all of the benefits of having DPI without needing to incur any of the headaches that come with central bank money (financial stability risks, holding limits, private sector opposition,...). I'm all for DPI, I'm just questioning the bundling with central bank money.
by histriosum | 2025-04-08 22:28:28+00:00
Let me get this straight…

> That’s part of the intention. Europe specifically is underproductive and the hope is that these tariffs and the change of tone for defense agreements will bolster Europes domestic industrial and defensive capabilities

So, rather than sell Europe weapons that we create in the United States, part of the “intention” of this policy is to cut off the European demand for our weapons systems and cause them to manufacture their own? How is that helpful to the United States and our bottom line? How is that at all in the US interests?

I agree that’s what is going to happen, but I see no evidence that it was part of the intention.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-08 22:28:44+00:00
As pointed out somewhere else, coal adds around $20 billion to the United States' economy. Broadway adds around $15 billion to New York's economy. Snowsport tourism about $20 billion. Massage therapy around the same. Crazy how much focused attention coal and coal jobs get from the United States government when all of the above are at the same level and provide way safer jobs with much lower long term health costs (both to workers and the US government).
by ggm | 2025-04-08 22:29:22+00:00
Domestically, neither China nor the US leadership can afford to be seen to have lost. In part, this is why win-win outcomes are so fantastically useful in trade negotiations, because they respect the difference between each states presentation of the outcome to its voters. "we won" is a better message than "we lost" for everyone.

You would think the author of "the art of the deal" would understand when the best option is to give your opponent the appearance of a victory to sell to their community. You would think they would recognize when you also needed the same outcome.

(since we know he didn't write the book, this is a rhetorical device)
by toasterlovin | 2025-04-08 22:29:25+00:00
Clearly the energetic cost of having large brains was worth it for humans from an evolutionary perspective, or else we wouldn't have them. But 20% of your energy budget is still a very large cost, so if there's a way to accomplish the same brain stuff for, say, half the cost, you would expect that to be very strongly selected for (caloric scarcity being the norm throughout human evolutionary history).
by AI_beffr | 2025-04-08 22:29:31+00:00
i have an idea for a game but i really dont have enough time to implement myself. it would be a MMORPG but with discreet time steps, so every hour or so all the players would get a message that contains a picture depicting the point of view of their player character and a list of actions/options that they can take. rendering the game out of real time would allow hyper-realistic graphics and also physics simulation or environment destruction/modification. it would also allow for many, many more concurrent players in the same game world than other games and would allow for a much larger game world. and taking one "turn" only once every 30 minutes/hour would lend the game a special character that might be highly appreciated by some people in the context of todays popular games. my vision for the game is being able to peer into a vast, photo-realistic world, buzzing with a hundred thousand people trading, mining and fighting, one picture at a time.
by ang_cire | 2025-04-08 22:29:40+00:00
This assumes a level of both rationality and omniscience that don't exist in the real world.

If a company fails to compete in the market and dies, there is no "autopsy" that goes in and realizes that it failed because of a chain-reaction of factors stemming from bad AI-slop code. And execs are so far removed from the code level, they don't know either, and their next company will do the same thing.

What you're likely to end up with is project managers and developers who do know the AI code sucks, and they'll be heeded by execs just as much they are now, which is to say not at all.

And when the bad AI-code-using devs apply to the next business whose execs are pro-AI because they're clueless, guess who they'll hire?
by slicktux | 2025-04-08 22:29:42+00:00
That is a pretty hyperbolic paragraph only to imply that we as a nation would loose out on innovation by doing so; nowhere do we want to isolate as a country. Look at all the jobless Americans in once thriving industrial cities. Generations left without pensions or skills all because we outsource our workers to other countries. That’s one of the many problems that need to be solved and by manufacturing here in the USA it may help resolve or alleviate that problem.
by hbn | 2025-04-08 22:29:52+00:00
Unless we're just waiting on someone to figure out another genius workaround, that's the case, yes. Macs are not Linux, for better and for worse.

To be honest it seems crazy at this point an overflow for menu bar items isn't built into macOS, especially now that all their laptops have this notch that can hide menu bar items if you have too many. Plus it competes with space with the dropdown menu items on the left since if an app has too many they'll wrap to the other side of the notch.
by madjidbr | 2025-04-08 22:30:37+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve always found it annoying to jump between exchanges just to check live cryptocurrency prices—especially when I just want a fast, clean view of the top coins without distractions.

So I spent a few hours building a minimalist site that shows real-time crypto rates with no fluff, popups, or login walls: https://CryptoRates.info

It pulls data live and focuses on simplicity (no ads, no widgets, just raw numbers). The idea is to have something you can keep open in a tab and glance at throughout the day, or even use as a lightweight reference when building something crypto-related.

Would love feedback if anyone finds it useful or has suggestions!
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-08 22:30:38+00:00
> More likely trade secrets, NDAs, non-competes, and increasingly invasive DRM.

These are all also creatures of the law. If there was no copyright there would be no Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In many cases they can't work, e.g. because of the analog hole or because the mechanism of operation is observable to anyone who buys the product.

The incentives to uncover those things are also much stronger in modern day because of the connectedness of the world. If there were two wheelwrights in your town and one of them had a secret process, no one but the other would have any use for it and if they found out they wouldn't even have any else to tell it to.

If someone had a secret video encoding strategy today, some hobbyists would reverse engineer it and post it on the internet.

> Patents, for example, ensure that at least some minimal description of the process gets published for others to take inspiration from.

Have you read a modern patent? They're inscrutable, and to the fullest extent allowable attempt to claim the overall concept of doing something rather than describing a specific implementation.
by maccard | 2025-04-08 22:30:38+00:00
It also “can” also do absolutely nothing, or “can” introduce false sharing in multithreaded code.

Lots of things are possible - but speculating on every possibility as though they’re equally probable doesn’t provide any value. Actors in unreal are a fairly low level item, but most games aren’t going to have 25k actors in a world, and if they do, 10MB of memory usage fragmented across actors is likely the least of their worries.
by jacobr1 | 2025-04-08 22:30:51+00:00
And the LLM won't be necessary either for the common search case of "dc plane crash" or whatever, but increasingly that will be asked of general assistance agent, and it will dispatch an internet search of some kind, and return the result. Even if it provides 0 additional benefit over google, switching the default search location might still occur, especially if it does provide some benefits (such as summarization)
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-04-08 22:31:44+00:00
>> Fold clothes -> clothes are folded.

>> Take children to school -> they safely arrive on time.

>> Autonomous driving -> arrive at destination without crashing.

>> Call centre -> customers are happy.

Define a) "folded", b) "safely", c) "destination", d) "happy".

Also define the reward functions for each of the four objectives above.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-08 22:32:35+00:00
I agree with your skepticism about CBDC, but it takes little to no effort to implement your own CBDC, and in the small chance that they did somehow take off, then you have a platform you can export to other countries.

> I'm just questioning the bundling with central bank money

In most countries excluding the US, EU, UK, and Canada, the Central Bank also sets financial regulations and provides the infra backbone for fintech, and in some cases still own commercial banks.

By having central banks attached to these projects, it helps build a testbed so private sector players can then extend on.

Most countries aren't like the US where private sector investors are open to investing in innovations, so it would fall to the Central Bank to begin testing and implementing these products.
by transpute | 2025-04-08 22:32:43+00:00
It's both, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking

> NDN has its roots in an earlier project, Content-Centric Networking (CCN), which Van Jacobson first publicly presented in 2006.. NDN applications name data and data names will directly be used in network packet forwarding.. Its premise is that the Internet is primarily used as an information distribution network, which is not a good match for IP, and that the future Internet's "thin waist" should be based on named data rather than numerically addressed hosts.

NDN talk by Van Jacobson at Google (2006): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM
by ang_cire | 2025-04-08 22:32:53+00:00
> The net benefit for humanity may turn out to be positive or negative - it's too early to tell.

It's just a tool, but it is unfortunately a tool that is currently dominated by large-sized corporations, to serve Capitalism. So it's definitely going to be a net-negative.

Contrast that to something like 3D printing, which has most visibly benefited small companies and individual users.