MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-06 00:51:08+00:00
"Another big customer, DolarApp, is providing banking services to customers in Latin America."

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasonmikula_fintech-partner-a...

When this bank employee expressed skepticism of "DolarApp" he was faced retaliation:

https://ia800508.us.archive.org/28/items/gov.uscourts.flmd.4...

"10. In and around the spring of 2023, Mr. Ibrahim became uncomfortable with certain practices and activities in which the Bank began to become involved. These included practices that, in Mr. Ibrahims opinion, jeopardized the Banks compliance with anti-money laundering laws, federal safety and soundness requirements for depository institutions, and compliance with specific OCC regulations and requirements that were particularly imperative due to the fact that the Bank was already considered a Troubled Institution

14. Mr. Ibrahim further objected to Axioms initiation of new business programs, without first obtaining non-objection letters from the OCC and without review by the Banks internal New Product Risk Committee, as required by written policies. One such project, DolarApp, was of particular concern to Mr. Ibrahim as it entailed cross-border movement of funds, which triggered significant concerns as to whether the Banks BSA/AML controls are sufficient, among other things.

15. But when Ibrahim raised these concerns with the CEO, Ross Breunig, he told Ibrahim to the effect that he did not want to hear it and shut down the conversation.

18. Almost immediately after Mr. Ibrahim objected to these practices, Axiom and Mr. Breunig began a pattern of retaliation. After the April 2023 leadership meeting where Mr. Ibrahim raised concerns relating to CSI and the DolarApp, Mr. Breunig began canceling Executive Board of Director meetings that Mr. Ibrahim attended.

19. Following a leadership meeting in May 2023, where again Mr. Ibrahim raised concerns about CSI, DolarApp and the overdraft positions, Mr. Ibrahim began receiving email cancellations to multiple committees and Board meetings.

20. Upon inquiry, Mr. Ibrahim learned the meetings were not being canceled, but rather he was being uninvited without explanation. Mr. Breunigs hostility with Mr. Ibrahim also became noticeably apparent during this time."

Of course Stripe, Inc. is neither a Troubled Bank nor an untroubled one

Anyway, it sounds like DolarApp could be useful for evading anti-money laundering and bank secrecy laws

"Importantly, none of these businesses are using crypto because it's crypto or for any speculative benefit."

That's only one of the many reasons people might be skeptical of crypto. See above

"They're performing real-world financial activity, and they've found that crypto (via stablecoins) is easier/faster/better than the status quo ante."

How much of this "real world financial activity" is not criminally culpable

100% no doubt
by switchbak | 2025-09-06 00:52:12+00:00
As an entity looking to replace your existing, working devices you have a social contract to not break things and force me to do yet another round of research to replace your device.

One device is a pain. When you have a smart fridge, dishwasher, sonos, doorbell, smart lock, etc: the mean time to corporate abandonment gets very short.

I have an Ecobee, and for sure I’m looking to get off of that ecosystem once I’m forced to.

It also feels like Ecobee is an abandoned project at this stage: I get a 500 error trying to get a dev token, and portions of the app have been broken the entire time I’ve had one (9 years, 2 devices).
by chrislattner | 2025-09-06 00:52:40+00:00
Thank you, that's not entirely wrongbut not the full picture. Our initial explanation had two problems actually,

1) we were "ambitiously optimistic" (different way of saying "ego-driven naïveté" perhaps :) ) and 2) the internet misread our long-term ambitions as being short-term goals.

We've learned that the world really really wants a better Python and the general attention spans of clickbait are very short - we've intentionally dialed back to very conservative claims to avoid the perception of us overselling.

We're still just as ambitious though!

-Chris
by jacquesm | 2025-09-06 00:53:39+00:00
> Most humans that claim they could could.

> My anecdata suggests that Waymo is significantly better than random ridesharing drivers in the US, nowadays.

Those two aren't really related are they? That's one locality and a specific kind of driver. If you picked a random road there is a pretty small chance that road would be one like the one where Waymo is currently rolled out, and where your ridesharing drivers are representative of the general public, they likely are not.
by okanat | 2025-09-06 00:53:59+00:00
The West can end the endless pain and legal hurdles to innovation by limiting the copyright. They can do it if there is will to open up the gates of information to everyone. The duration of 70 years after death of the author or 90 years for companies is excessively long. It should be ~25 years. For software it should be 10 years.

And if AI companies want recent stuff, they need to pay the owners.

However, the West wants to infinitely enrich the lucky old people and companies who benefited from the lax regulations at the start of 20th century. Their people chose to not let the current generations to acquire equivalent wealth, at least not without the old hags get their cut too.
by zdragnar | 2025-09-06 00:54:35+00:00
The ol all requirements up front -> design -> implement that people classically associate with waterfall came from an infographic on how not to do waterfall.

Actual waterfall looks very much like actual agile, in that it is designed around iteration loops. The primary difference is that waterfall prescribed steps in the iteration process, and agile is just a set of principles in a manifesto.

Edit: reference: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/waterfall.html

TLDR: the original impetus for waterfall is basically what we call agile today.

Someone copy-pasted a random chart from a paper (one the paper specifically said was too problematic) into a DOD process spec, that turned into a standard because the DOD loves to standardize everything, and big companies all adopted the fundamentally flawed approach and called it waterfall.
by defrost | 2025-09-06 00:54:52+00:00
I read the study and TBH it's more or less expected that a correlation would exist between increased NDD diagnoses and prescriptions common to pregnant women in regions with increased NDD diagnoses.

Being afforded better care during pregnancy should correlate with better attention (and diagnosis of conditions) to offspring.

If one were cynical one might say this was a good call by Andrea Baccarelli, the Dean of the Faculty, to commission a meta study looking for correlations between common treatments and NDD diagnoses in the current climate of funding going toward whomever can put forward a thread to follow in pursuit of autism.
by stryan | 2025-09-06 00:55:48+00:00
The Podman reference section, which is what OP linked to, is a direct web version of the man pages. The main method of accessing it, the man pages, has not changed.

It's a different style of documentation organization: if you want to link to a specific version you should link to the specific version not latest. I won't argue it's necessarily a better way of doing things than Docker, but knowing it's the same thing as what's with the package is nice.
by bdangubic | 2025-09-06 00:56:30+00:00
I would not trust a company which has been saying they can get a car to go by itself from here to there for the last 13 years to make a humanoid robot cook :) first time there is any grease or dirt that robot gonna suffocate and die!

people will eat this shit up though, next 11 years every earnings report will say robots will be cooking at michelin star restaurants “soon”
by utyop22 | 2025-09-06 00:56:45+00:00
"Can you call Meta diversified given most of its forward looking revenue comes from IG? Lol."

Meta's long term value, as it stands, seemingly comes predominantly from IG given that the probability of success of those things you mentioned are very low and FB is on its last legs in the developed world.

Meta is highly concentrated on IG. And how do we know this? Well Meta's revenues were beat recently by Bytedance. What is Bytedances premier App?

Tiktok.
by fn-mote | 2025-09-06 00:56:49+00:00
> which in my opionion is exactly what is wrong with practices like these.

What's actually wrong with this?

They paid $1.5B for a bunch of pirated books. Seems like a fair price to me, but what do I know.

The settlement should reflect society's belief of the cost or deterrent, I'm not sure which (maybe both).

This might be controversial, but I think a free society needs to let people break the rules if they are willing to pay the cost. Imagine if you couldn't speed in a car. Imagine if you couldn't choose to be jailed for nonviolent protest.

This isn't some case where they destroyed a billion dollars worth of pristine wilderness and got off with a slap on the wrist.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-09-06 00:57:10+00:00
I would guess "big conservative companies" with waterfall are by far the overwhelming number of programmers, even if agile startups may (may) win be market valuation.

Then there's the definition - like, is SAFE really agile plus so many other hybrid approaches that have veneer of agile as long as we get all requirements up front and have detailed plan.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-06 00:58:00+00:00
"Germany, Italy, India "

That's experience and you learned and survived to tell the tale. Its almost as though you are capable of learning how to deal with an unfamiliar environment, and fail safe!

I'm a Brit and have driven across most of Europe, US/CA and a few other places.

Southern Italy eg around Napoli is pretty fraught - around there I find that you need to treat your entire car as an indicator: if you can wedge your car into a traffic stream, you will be let in, mostly without horns blaring. If you sit and wait, you will go grey haired eventually.

In Germania, speed is king. I lived there in the 70s-90s as well as being a visitor recently. The autobahns are insane if you stray out of lane one, the rest of the road system is civilised.

France - mostly like driving around the UK apart from their weird right hand side of the road thing! La Perifique is just as funky as the M25 and La Place du Concorde is a right old laugh. The rest of the country that I have driven is very civilised.

Europe to the right of Italy is pretty safe too. I have to say that across the entirety of Europe, that road signage is very good. The one sign that might confuse any non-European is the white and yellow diamond (we don't have them in the UK). It means that you have priority over an implied "priority to the right". See https://driveeurope.co.uk/2013/02/27/priority-to-the-right/ for a decent explanation.

Roundabouts were invented in the US. In the UK when you are actually on a roundabout you have right of way. However, everyone will behave as though "priorite a la doite" and there will often be a stand off - its hilarious!

In the UK, when someone flashes their headlights at you it generally means "I have seen you and will let you in". That generally surprises foreigners (I once gave a lift to a prospective employee candidate from Poland and he was absolutely aghast at how polite our roads seemed to be). Don't always assume that you will be given space but we are pretty good at "after you".
by anonymars | 2025-09-06 00:58:13+00:00
I also wonder if this is written from a statically-typed perspective. In dynamic-typing land there are so many more stupid little things that can break that the compiler would otherwise catch for you

Either that or tracing/logging/debugging, but other than specific niches like parsing (of specific bug repros) I think integration tests are generally a lot more bang for the buck.

Anyway, if you want to go down a related-but-unrelated rabbit hole, J.R. Thompson's lecture on the Space Shuttle Main Engines is a good one. You can probably watch it at higher speed to smooth out the many, many "uh"s (believe me, it's bad):

Integrated testing: https://youtu.be/uow6v1EuybE?t=1292

Test to failure: https://youtu.be/uow6v1EuybE?t=3135

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/16-885j-aircraft-systems-enginee...

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There's this more-modern link but in true modern fashion you can't really link to specific things presumably because it's all javascript muck: https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITx+1...
by dehrmann | 2025-09-06 00:59:01+00:00
Socal says "The 101" because its a holdover from names like the Hollywood Freeway, before freeways were numbered. No idea why Norcal didn't do the same; you still hear "The Bayshore Freeway" or "The Nimitz Freeway" sometimes. My theory is the rest of the country picked up on what Socal does through media and assumed it's a California thing.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-09-06 00:59:14+00:00
Minus the short hand you can do there. Also unlike pinyin, there is no standard transliteration of Arabic into Latin characters nor vice verse, which makes reading transliterated Arabic very painful. Everyone just makes up what sounds right to them. You frequently don’t know if you’re reading MSA, Levantine, Egyptian, Gulf, Iraqi, Meghrebi, or Libyan (and that’s not even close to most of them).
by 01100011 | 2025-09-06 00:59:59+00:00
IIRC my 2019 Bolt had android auto but required the USB cable be plugged-in. My aftermarket, China-special head unit in the old car I've been driving lately has wireless Android Auto and while it's cool, it's still effectively wired due to how quickly it drains my Pixel 8 Pro's battery.
by electriclove | 2025-09-06 01:01:49+00:00
I would like to understand what population feels they were fleeced. The FSD available on their cars with HW3 (some as old as 2017?) is quite impressive when you consider what the capabilities were back then. Sure, it won’t be as good as a 2025 Juniper Model Y. But who are the people that bought FSD in the early days and are unhappy and how big of a population is that? Is this the main thing people are upset about?

Or are people upset about the current state of autonomous vehicles like Waymo (which has been working for Years!) and the limited launch of Robotaxi?
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-06 01:02:45+00:00
At least in the US, there is a systematic separation of concerns and quite a few authorization interlocks. These are intentionally designed to make it nearly impossible for a rogue unit to operate with legal cover. Everybody who is a part of that legal process takes their bit very seriously and it isn’t just a bunch of political appointees.

Some types of operations require explicit and direct sign-off by the President, which provides legal sanction for people doing the work. Even in these cases, the operational details are left to the career professionals.

That isn’t to say that organizations can’t leave the reservation (see: FBI under Hoover) but that over time they’ve built up a lot of internal structure to limit it with varying degrees of effectiveness. It is useful to note that almost all of this was invented out of whole cloth after WW2, so the US has had to learn a lot of lessons the hard way.
by thayne | 2025-09-06 01:02:52+00:00
> They use different architectural principles—isolation, explicit interfaces, and time-aware design—that make their systems naturally more robust and understandable.

But type safety is really just defining an explicit interface, and enforcing that both sides maintain that interface. And it allows you to isolate components in functions or classes, because you don't need to know how the implementation works, just the types of the inputs and outputs, and what the function is supposed to do (sans bugs).

I don't know a lot about electrical engineering, but it would surprise me if they don't have tools to make sure you don't do something like send a 120V AC current into a component that expects 5V DC.
by yupyupyups | 2025-09-06 01:04:20+00:00
I can't say I have any sympathy when all they did was hammering Libgen and other community driven projects with requests, likely causing them financial losses, for profit.

You can't host a public website online without feeling the traffic from these scrapers. It's more hostile traffic on top of the Chinese and Russian cybercriminals we had before the AI boom.
by IHLayman | 2025-09-06 01:04:25+00:00
> "Smart Local Control" home devices work as expected until the electronics fail

Recently one of my Zigbee-controlled thermostats started pumping cold air constantly. To fix it, all I had to do was open and examine the board; one of the varistors got some battery acid on it when I had an alkaline battery burst in the unit. Because it was a no-name with an actual PCB, I was able to solder a new varistor in place, and it works good as new.

So I would say that "Smart Local Control" isn't the problem, but rather the ability to repair the thing. Also, the thermostat was $45 when I purchased it 5 years ago, so it was a good investment IMO. I think that's why everyone is upset about the Nest gen 1 and 2 sunsetting; there should be no reason that these devices should be breaking now (no failing electronics) but they die anyway because the company is too cheap to keep an extra endpoint running.
by techpineapple | 2025-09-06 01:05:07+00:00
“A good encyclopedia doesn’t push an ideological agenda”

But this is the no true Scotsman fallacy, encyclopedia’s are inherently biased. A good _______ doesn’t push an ideological agenda but they all do. I think I would argue Wikipedia less and more transparently than most. They just cover a lot more and are the main one so you see it a lot more.

This article suggests for instance that though Wikipedia’s does indeed have much more bias than británica, that bias may mostly be a factor if it’s length:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2015/01/20/...

“ What’s more, much of Wikipedia’s bias seems to be due to the longer article length of the online publication, where word count is less of an issue than the historically printed Britannica. When compared word to word, most (though not all) of Wikipedia‘s left-leaning proclivities come out in the wash. In other words, for articles of the same length, Wikipedia is as middle-of-the-road as Britannica.

“If you read 100 words of a Wikipedia article, and 100 words of a Britannica [article], you will find no significant difference in bias,” says Zhu. “Longer articles are much more likely to include these code words.”

So again my point would be, your criticism seems nihilistic, why try to have a thing that may, like all things, be inherently flawed, how can something fail in its mission if all of its failures are normal human fallibilities.
by adam_arthur | 2025-09-06 01:05:32+00:00
It's irrelevant whether change in policy is due to losing a war, revolution, or democratic election.

If the numbers swing 5%, the US may suddenly have a radical change in foreign policy and governorship.

Seen as recently as the 2024 election.

Regardless, I'm discussing the opinion of the populace, not the political leadership.

You can't endear a country's people to you by installing a puppet government
by jacquesm | 2025-09-06 01:06:01+00:00
A temporary powerline was installed to keep a small industrial area in Amsterdam powered up while there was a new substation built. Step up and step down transformers on either side of the link took care of not having to use a massive diameter cable which amongst other obstacles had to be strung underneath a bridge. After a week or so the power failed. A hacksaw blade was found embedded in the cable. The police declined to investigate because the people from the power company told them that whoever did that had already been punished sufficiently.
by jopsen | 2025-09-06 01:06:02+00:00
Stayed at my parents for a week where we had to use public chargers.

It wasn't great, even if we had no queues and fast chargers 5 minutes away. In some parts of Denmark I suspect charging infrastructure is overbuilt.

But even with good infrastructure, having to drive to a charger and wait 10-15 minutes is a hassle.

Charging at home is the killer feature. You just always have 80% charge by default.
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by wangmao | 2025-09-06 01:07:47+00:00
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by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-06 01:07:55+00:00
Voting hasn't done much good for this country. In fact voting is probably one of the most ineffective things for change in existence.

I'm not complaining to a void. All the readers of HN have heard me and other people complaining hear will be heard too. In aggregate many people complaining on many different venues creates an aggregate sentiment that hopefully will motivate the right people.

Cancel culture on social media has made big changes to this country and not everything necessarily good. But one thing is clear, it makes change effectively. Why not use it for the right thing?

Either way, I'm not complaining here because because I need some platform to say my piece. Bart IS categorically fucking garbage, that's less of a complaint and more of a statement. I'm just stating facts.
by lairv | 2025-09-06 01:08:17+00:00
I tried to statically link DuckDB to one of my C++ project earlier this year and it took me 3 days to have something working on Windows/Linux/MacOS (just to be able to use the dependency)

While I'm not a C++ expert, doing the same in Python is just one pip install away, so yeah both "richness" and "ease of use" of the ecosystem matters
by seabrookmx | 2025-09-06 01:09:08+00:00
The mojo faq talks about the language as if it's a strict superset (or aiming to be) of Python. Or that mojo "is" Python.

Yet the roadmap says:

> As Mojo matures through phase 3, we believe Mojo will become increasingly compatible with Python code and deeply familiar to Python users, except more efficient, powerful, coherent, and safe. Mojo may or may not evolve into a full superset of Python, and it's okay if it doesn't.

This is incredibly confusing. If it's _not_ aiming for Python compatibility, why are we talking about Python at all?

Also, is anyone actually considering using an emoji as a file extension?
by CharlesW | 2025-09-06 01:11:24+00:00
Because that stance has been very beneficial for him financially and politically, ever since his pivot from legitimate and respected environmental lawyer to anti-vaxxer. He transitioned after receiving incredibly positive feedback for amplifying conspiratorial narratives while riding the coattails of the infamous "thimerosal causes autism" panic of the 2000s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Immunity
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-06 01:12:51+00:00
Most companies I've seen recently, including a lot of startups, are operating in a waterfall that they then window-dress every 2 weeks in the form of SCRUM-ish rituals and ceremonies as if it's agile because it has iterations and story points or whatever.

Behind the scenes the PMs are making Gantt charts and deciding what's in and what's out and who is going to do it, without the team having any input or really getting to cost it out.

XP and agile generally was supposed to about shortening the communication and iteration gap between customer and maker. I almost never really see that.