MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IX-103 | 2025-09-04 00:52:45+00:00
Yep. It's much easier to improve your DEI metrics by doing it illegally than it is by doing it legally.

I had an internship at a place like that and the first disabled woman of color to apply would have been practically guaranteed a job. Needless to say I didn't end up working there after the internship - if they're willing to break labor laws just to improve metrics then what's stopping them from trying to cheat their employees.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-04 00:52:50+00:00
I used the word “property” in quotes because I am just repeating the word the earlier comment used. I’m not suggesting you can sell people. You’re attacking a strawman.

Regardless - my point stands that children belong first to the parents. Using words like “abuse”, which aren’t applicable to this situation at hand, is just a way to appeal to emotion rather than acknowledging that states taking over parental judgment is explicitly authoritarian.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-04 00:54:58+00:00
Plenty of people remember the dictatorship quite fondly. It was a time when Brazil tried pretty hard to develop its own industry and technology. We even tried making our own computers at some point, that bit of history has even been posted here on HN. The Lua programming language was born in the military dictatorship. Their goal was to replace technology imports with national versions.

Before the economic recession and hyperinflation, Brazil enjoyed an economic boom: the so called "brazilian miracle". Many brazilian industries became successful during those times. Including the steel industry my city is built around.

Today Brazil is just the world's soy farm. To put it mildly. The country of wasted potential.
by farai89 | 2025-09-04 00:55:15+00:00
I doubt the whole narrative is true, it may just be hope that we do not need to hire because we will be able to do it with AI. But reality outside of software and tech is very different. I work in an organisation that heavily pushing AI and even with that push, a typical employee is still not utilising it fully, unprepared and expecting training from the employer. There is also a disconnect over connecting org data to these tools and between developers and cyber teams.
by strken | 2025-09-04 00:55:30+00:00
If you rephrase "ending DEI" to "reducing the risk of getting sued when laying off x% of staff", does it make any more sense?

Nobody knows how to actually hire competent staff because it's a constantly changing bar: if you give people leetcode, they start cramming leetcode; if you review their GitHub profile, they start spending disproportionate amounts of time on projects; if you give them take-homes, they spend 5x the recommended time; if you give them real-world problems in a timed interview, that's probably harder to game, but some candidates will send a completely different person along. On top of that, some people just interview really well but aren't good 9 to 5. At a big enough company, you've always got a list of people who you incorrectly hired and want to get rid of.

DEI is a minor barrier to doing that for some cohorts. It's not that you hired incompetent people in XYZ groups to bump up your diversity numbers, it's that you hired incompetent people in every group and now you're unable to get rid of some of the ones in XYZ.

Also, let's not forget that some people are just genuinely sexist and/or racist and/or whateverist, either consciously or unconsciously. What happens when those people aren't held back by HR as strongly?
by kazinator | 2025-09-04 00:55:36+00:00
The standard 6502 assembly is already "weird" in that some operands are rolled into the opcode, but some are arguments.

E.g. various register-register transfer combinations have dedicated mnemonics: TXA, TAX, etc.

LDA (index),Y. has index and Y in the argument space, but the A operand is in the mnemonic. The comma doesn't separate operands but is a displacement operator.

In other words, we really want LD A, (index) + y. Or LD A, (index + x).
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-04 00:55:44+00:00
>The AI route has a good chance of moving us from decades behind ILM to merely “years behind ILM”.

Firstly: we have very accurate models. But not at real time speeds. Games only have some 30,16, or even 11 ms to render a frame. The techniques we have are faking the real physical interactions that render farms can take minutes or hours to pump out per frame.

Secondly: Not at this performance rate. taking 100ms to render a frame is unaccatable in the concept of a game. Games are already so pressed for time budget; unless some hyper JIT happens we can't take all that budget querying an LLM.
by yowlingcat | 2025-09-04 00:56:04+00:00
It's quite a stretch to go from "Gandi is holding my domain hostage" to "my password wasn't great" -- while my heart goes out to you (I personally don't like that we live in a world where just because people can engage in digital thievery it just happens), I don't know if you could reasonably expect Gandi to do anything other than having it work through their fraud department.

The world is pretty messed up out there. Please use products like haveibeenpwned and a good password manager like 1password (which can help automatically check your passwords for breaches) to structurally ensure you can remediate these situations for the future as well as prevent them from occurring (strong un-reused passwords). If this site is something that your whole life is attached to it deserves your attention to protect it.

Good luck. Hope you get this resolved. It's not your fault but crimes of opportunity rarely are.
by daxfohl | 2025-09-04 00:57:07+00:00
Betting on AI would be "hire some AI engineers and see what they can do", not "get rid of some engineers and see what happens". I think what you mean is "scapegoating AI".

I think there's also a pinch of "we've run out of ideas / high margin projects" or "we're tired of funding 'platform 2.0' projects that end up creating more problems than they solve".

But generally I agree with your assessment. Especially the Musk effect I think gets underplayed.
by lmm | 2025-09-04 00:57:43+00:00
Not really - what's the attack? You could maybe somehow clone a card with a balance on it and spend that balance twice, if you can figure out that a particular terminal is offline (or have a way to take it offline), but how do you turn that into an attack that you can scale enough to cover the fixed costs? You're not getting your own terminal without a contract and due diligence on your company, so you can't really pull off an attack that needs to control both sides.
by rtpg | 2025-09-04 00:58:20+00:00
In some stations now there are some entry points that use "standard" visa touchless payments that can be used now I think.

Your android phone likely doesn't have the right NFC tech that iPhones have (google Felica, it's a separate NFC standard used basically only in Japan. Apple builds it into all of their iPhones, most android phones outside of Japan do not). It's mostly just a case of divergent tech, along with Apple being willing to spend money to avoid SKU differentiation/support people traveling in Japan.
by ivewonyoung | 2025-09-04 00:58:22+00:00
I've seen three major pushers of this narrative. Well 3.5.

1) CEOs of AI and AI adjacent companies, like the Anthropic CEO quoted in the article, Sam Altman(till recently atleast), Perplexity CEO, Microsoft CEO etc. It brings them new VC money, investment, and customers who "don't want to miss out on this big trend".

1.5) Media heavily pushing the above CEOs quotes, probably just for clicks and engagement, brings them money. The angle pushed is that these CEOs would know the next trend, because they're developing better models in secret right now.

2) BlueSky appears to really hate on anything AI to the point of personal attacks, putting AI related tweeters on blocklists and bans etc. Maybe coz artists are overrepresented and AI is having a real or perceived effect on artists?

3) Reddit, especially the antiwork side
by ggm | 2025-09-04 00:58:51+00:00
Jacarandah are lovely, but can be very messy. Figs more so, they drop prolific amounts of seed like dust. Both add a lot to the treescape but I'm struggling they deprecated so many fine native trees. Planting exotics does far less for wildlife.

But yes, Jacarandah and figs are lovely. They do both shed large limbs and get brittle. Not entirely safe in stormy weather.

(Australian experience. Native figs abound here, so I'm applying their foreigner status to California only)
by ausssssie | 2025-09-04 00:59:00+00:00
Yes everywhere. Car parks. Schools. Cafes. Antique shop in a quaint village. The only cash only places are really just trying to evade tax, or are some 50 year old business refusing to keep up out of stubbornness.

And now we rarely have the "it wont connect lets try again it takes 2 minutes" dance of 10 years ago.
by geor9e | 2025-09-04 00:59:14+00:00
Cool but wish it was either a phone case (draw in e-ink on back of phone) or had good sync to my macbook (my letter paper size remarkable table is absolute garbage at sync - very painful process). This isn't convenient enough to warrant existing imo.

Ironically the $2 aliexpress lcd pad I bought gets more use than my remarkable these days (same as https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BBPV4491 )
by whatevertrevor | 2025-09-04 01:00:52+00:00
If your primary use case is to read books off of Kindle, I'd say no, because Remarkable doesn't run on Android, and as such has no Kindle app. You can de-DRM Kindle books to read on it, but then you're adding these steps for no real gain.

If you're reading comics, then maybe, because this device is expensive precisely for the colored-e-ink screen. But even then better alternatives for that usecase probably exist, as the e-ink space is filled with Android based devices with better format compatibility.
by reasonableklout | 2025-09-04 01:00:53+00:00
One example: when we want to increase performance on a task which can be automatically verified, we can often generate synthetic training data by having the current, imperfect models attempt the task lots of times, then pick out the first attempt that works. For instance, given a programming problem, we might write a program skeleton and unit tests for the expected behavior. GPT-5 might take 100 attempts to produce a working program; the hope is that GPT-6 would train on the working attempt and therefore take much less attempts to solve similar problems.

As you suggest, this costs lots of time and compute. But it's produced breakthroughs in the past (see AlphaGo Zero self-play) and is now supposedly a standard part of model post-training at the big labs.
Show HN: Mock PSP API – simulate payments and webhooks
by d_sai | 2025-09-04 01:01:11+00:00
I’ve been tinkering on a side project: a mock PSP (Payment Service Provider) API.

It’s meant for developers who want to:

- test payment workflows without touching Stripe/Adyen/etc. - quickly simulate authorise / decline / capture states - practice handling webhook events in their apps

No signup needed — you can grab an API key in the console and start calling endpoints. Free tier: 100 requests/day.

Live console: https://paylab-ui.vercel.app/ Docs: https://paylab-ui.vercel.app/dashboard/docs

Right now MVP supports:

- POST /payment-intents - POST /payment-intents/:id/payments (supported payment statuses: initiated, authorising, authorised, declined, capturing, expired, captured, capture_failed) - GET /payment-intents/:id - Webhook subscription + delivery history

Would love your feedback!

What’s missing for it to be useful in your dev/test workflow? Should I add another API that you find more useful, or continue developing mock PSP API first?

Thanks!
by Balgair | 2025-09-04 01:01:26+00:00
Depends on your assumptions. Measles requires 92-95% immunity for hers immunity.

Here's a likely scenario for a K-5 school of 600 children, 100 per class, assume incoming post requirement drop is 1/5 students:

Year 0: 96% immune (Typical from what I can glean online)

Year 1: 80% of Ks now immunity from vaccination. 96% of 1-5 immune as normal. Non immune =20 +5*(4) = 40 out of 600, or 7% of 600 kiddos. So 93% rate of immunity. Right on the bubble in a year's time.

Tweak numbers as you'd like, but with even modest decreases (16% loss, or and additional one in 6 hesitancy) in vaccination, Measles herd immunity is tettering in a year and lost in the second year, by a large margin
by stirfish | 2025-09-04 01:01:38+00:00
>Are you getting this from ChatGPT or something?

Woah hey, take that back. But I concede both that I kinda went off on what I am interested in, and you might know more about this than I do. And that I was half replying to you, and half explaining why lead is used (neither very well).

I don't actually remember what was at the center of the copper pellets, but I remember concluding that whatever it was, it was harder and lighter than lead and the copper wasn't enough to make it grab the rifling properly. I've also tried zinc tipped pellets with a plastic base. The main concern with air rifles internally is grabbing the rifling, which is what lead excels at. A secondary concern is the resulting lead dust eventually fouling up any mechanisms is uses for repeating. A third, I guess, would be the pellet deforming, which is a case against lead.

I assumed (incorrectly) that the same would apply to most firearms
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-04 01:02:13+00:00
For recommendation you can't do that much better because the oracle is fickle. TikTok claims to get 0.83 or so. A better recommender practically has more objectives like diversity. If your recommender shows you just arXiv articles about recommeNeeds pretty soon articles about crypto or soccer or oncology start looking good! I have some ideas of what 'better' is but can't cook them down to one number to optimize.

Part of it is that 'show me an article I'll like' isn't the right question at this point in time when I like almost everything that it shows me, particularly in times like this one when I'm taking photos and developing them and playing Arknights a lot so the ratio of articles it shows me to what it ingests is low. I've been told I'd do better thinking about it from the viewpoint of 'show me the best articles you can given a limited number you can show me' and the right data set for that would be a pairwise comparison, yet the thumbs up/thumbs down task is one that's natural to do for putting articles into a pipeline that I save and/or post to my socials.

I am thinking of how to build a general text classifier which is more state of the art but I'll need to make a test suite of hard but fair problems.
by rufo | 2025-09-04 01:02:29+00:00
> One of the facts established in the verdict was that Google had been slipping Apple more than $20b/year...

While the payments were public knowledge and there was speculation about the amount being somewhere between $8B and $12B, the number had never been confirmed until unsealed in the case, was more than the previous speculation, and was something both Google and Apple wanted to keep under wraps: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147007/google-paid-apple...

Thus, it's a fact that was established in the verdict. "Slipping" is possibly a stretch, given the deal itself was at least publicly known? - though the fact both parties wanted to avoid discussion of the deal since its inception makes it feel at least somewhat evasive, so I can see what the word choice gestures towards.

> ...in exchange for which, Apple forbore from making a competing search engine.

From https://www.justice.gov/atr/media/1402141/dl?inline=:

> Cutting off all search-related payments from Google to Apple would strongly alter Apple’s incentives. Rem. Tr. 3825:7–3829:2 (Cue (Apple)) (Apple’s SVP of Services “can’t say [he] would disagree” that “it was a disincentive for us to do a search engine based on the payments that we were receiving from Google”)

> forbear: politely or patiently restrain an impulse to do something; refrain

That seems like a reasonable description of what Eddy Cue stated to me. It certainly wasn't part of the wording of the deal, but if I were Eddy, I'd probably refrain from building a search engine in his shoes.
by arscan | 2025-09-04 01:02:32+00:00
I also think it’s fashionable to have a smaller headcount these days. Historically, the dynamics of businesses encouraged rising headcounts, as ICs weren’t as valued as managers (salary caps basically, as impact for ICs is hard to measure unless you are in sales), and managers generally view headcount as a metric to career and salary growth.

So there was just this general pressure from the middle up to grow instead of paying more to existing staff or finding some other way to spend the money. After all, investors generally want you to spend the money you have access to, otherwise they’ll put it to use elsewhere.

It seems that there is external pressure right now from investors, and on to executives, to push headcounts down as there is a general feeling that good companies should be able to leverage AI to become much more efficient, and higher headcounts just burn money and bog things down. Whether or not that’s true is another question, but the perception exists.

I’m not sure if this is a fundamental change in the dynamic, or just a temporary push against it that will eventually lose steam.
by spankalee | 2025-09-04 01:02:51+00:00
The article and none of the comments mention rewards yet, which are the biggest reason to use cards!

Credit card processors charge large fees on transactions, which is a huge tax on just about... everything.

You can make a lot of that tax back via rewards. And not every card user has a good rewards-paying card - it's usually the more rich that do - so rewards function as a wealth transfer from the less rich to the more rich.

Very few stores have lower prices for cash, and processors try to ban that via their contracts when they can. If you pay with cash you pay the higher price to cover the credit card fees anyway, so you're just subsidizing the rewards earners. Might as well recoup some of that yourself.
by IX-103 | 2025-09-04 01:02:52+00:00
It's only a matter of time before AI becomes a commodity. The open source models are just a generation behind the proprietary ones and they're almost good enough for most users. Even if we're somehow limited to using proprietary models, since all of these "AIs" are based on natural language so you can practically hot swap the LLMs. Any company banking on selling any service other than AI hosting is going to be incredibly disappointed.

The only thing that could stop this commodification is some sort of vendor lock-in, but that looks to be technically challenging.
by rtpg | 2025-09-04 01:03:06+00:00
My understanding here is that there's less risk of double spends here because of the extreme difficulty of cloning the smartcards involved.

So to execute the double spend you would have to find an authorized card provider, convince them to load and sign your double spend-capable program onto the smartcard (with their signature!), and then be found out within a week when reconciliation is off.

So doing a double spend will be found out, and not only will you be on a bunch of cameras doing the thing, whoever made your card will also have been compromised.

I think that in practice the "eventual" reconciliation is fairly quick nowadays. Just that the offline spend can happen quickly, and then the packet gets sent over the wire maybe a minute later rather than before the spend is approved.
by Shank | 2025-09-04 01:03:20+00:00
I would personally argue that 20,000 yen is not a low maximum balance for day-to-day purchases like food, because you can recharge so easily.

Before Suica (and a bit concurrently), JNR and later JR issued "orange cards" that included both high value formats and lower value formats. The "high value" cards were 5,000 yen and 10,000 yen respectively, so the new maximum is 2x the previous "high value" orange cards that they abolished.

The real win with e-money is not getting change, in my opinion. Carrying 20,000 yen in cash is easy when it's 2x 10,000 notes, but when it's a mix including coins, it's a pain.
by anon-3988 | 2025-09-04 01:03:21+00:00
If you are a secular person, it should follow that you are a non-dualist. Yet that is not so common. There's no "whats its like to be a bat". Because that invokes a sense of a "soul" or "spirit" or "self" being transferred from one being to another.

There is only is and its content. That's it. The easiest way to see or get a sense of this is to replace any "I am ..." with "There is a ....". For example, instead of "I am thinking of writing of using stable sort", replace it with "This person have a thought of using stable sort".

This is much closer to the actual reality underneath. Even attachment itself can be put in this term. "There's a feeling that this person own this" or "There's a sense of I".

After doing, perhaps this is mental illness, I already see glimpse of the sense that everything is everything at the same time. As there are no real difference between this rock and the other rock behind the mountain that I can't see. There should be no difference between my thoughts, senses, feelings, emotions etc and that of other people. Now your sense of self captures the entirety of the universe. If you die, the universe dies for all you know. I think this is what the ancient books have been talking about by rising and being a God.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-04 01:03:25+00:00
>Hardware requirements for games today keep growing, and yet every character still has that awful "plastic skin", among all the other issues

That's because the number of pixels to render onto keep growing. Instead of focusing on physically based animations and reactions, we chose to leap from 480p to 720p overnight, and then to 1080p in a few more years. Now we quadrupled that and want things with more fidelity with 4x the resolution of last generation.

> images created by image models today look fully realistic.

Because they aren't made in real time (I'll give the BOTD for now and say theya are "fully realistic". Even this sample here claims 100ms. Rendering at 6-7 seconds per frame isn't going to work for any consumer product at any point in gaming history.

>Even if realism is not what you're aiming for, I think it's easy to imagine how this might change the game.

not in real time rendering. I am interested to see if this can help with offline stuff, but we're already so strapped for performance withoout needing to query an "oracle" between frames.

as of now, I'm not even that convinced by the Nvidia 5X series of frame interpolation (which would only be doable by hardware manufactureres).
by squigz | 2025-09-04 01:03:36+00:00
Yes, nobody is denying that "every feature is an eternal maintenance price"

But the maintenance price of such basic features is absurdly low. Seriously, we're talking about a basic dictionary lookup. We're not talking about massive, expansive features that will require many hours of maintenance.

Anyway, if you don't use a dictionary at all, even while reading - and you think a "handful of users" use them - then this conversation probably is not going to go anywhere.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-04 01:04:02+00:00
I remember the day I took someone on a date, only to run into a state-wide power outage.

We found a restaurant that had gas grills. They couldn't make french fries, because their fry machine was electric. They couldn't make shakes. They were pouring soda from bottles they had bought at a grocery store. They were working by candlelight and adding up the bill on a hand calculator, but they were doing business like crazy. I think they were not doing credit cards, but it was long enough ago that they might have been taking imprints. Certainly today they would not be able to take cards, unless they had battery backup or a generator, since many cards don't have the raised digits any more.