skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credit cards don't just offer chargeback capabilities. They offer pro-active fraud protection. They alert you for all kinds of threats, data breaches, double-charges, etc. They will sometimes lock your card and not let a payment go through, if it is suspicious, unless you perform extra confirmation via email/text/push. They offer virtual cards that you can activate or deactivate with any given vendor, to improve your privacy, security, and control.

Having your card stolen, either physically or virtually, becomes much less scary.

When used responsibly, with rewards programs, the numerous benefits over cash make sense even in the unusual case where cash payments get a discount.

Zelle and debit cards have similar kinds of protections that make it safer than cash, and there's an audit trail. Though, it is more dangerous than credit cards.

And, obviously, credit cards let you borrow money which provides flexibility to allow payments even if your paycheck hasn't yet arrived. And occasionally, going into debt intentionally can be wise, when making an investment.

Government programs could offer these kinds of features, but betting on long-term competence, customer service, and innovation in the public sector is a losing proposition.

Having both public and private options works as an intermediate approach.

But, particularly for lending, the process of determining credit-worthiness is not a government specialty, and making it subject to the political process seems like a losing proposition for taxpayers.

Payments are a more valid area for government involvement, but even then, I'm not sure what it could offer that Zelle doesn't.
I have to say, the results were absolutely worth it in the kit. The PiDP-10 is a beautiful work of art and I am thrilled to have it!
Am I the only one who double checks all of the information presented to me, from any source?
The problem is cost. We used to buy tooling for Acme Multi-Spindle Screw Machines but the Chinese could produce it for a fraction of the cost. You would have the first set made locally, then send the drawings to China, and pay less than the material cost to have them shipped to your door. In competitive markets, customers hammer you for every penny on a machined item that costs 0.12.

These days not many Screw machine shops left, very few in the USA. Material costs were too high, and the Chinese could make it for 1/10th the cost. To bring it all back is very difficult since even the products that the parts were being made for are no longer manufactured in the USA.

On a tangent, watch Ives speak about trying to build the iPhone in America. When you understand what it takes, you quickly figure out it is impossible. The supply chains make it impossible when none of the 1000's of parts from screws to glue to chips are not manufactured in the USA.

It won't hurt if we try to bring it all back, but it will take the same amount of time and sacrifice China put in to take it. Who thinks our Gov has what it takes to do it?
To switch to an European alternative, there has to be a European alternative. What is the EU doing to encourage and facilitate companies building these alternatives?
I recently found this site: https://european-alternatives.eu. I think there are many EU-based alternatives to U.S. tech that are not very well-known.

I have started moving some personal stuff to Codeberg and statichost.eu.
I can think of at least one difference. If the government wants to lie about credit card transactions, Visa has to go along with it.
The “hate” for Elon is strong in Europe.

I seriously doubt there’s any coming back with him at the wheel.

We already had one fascist leader in Europe, and we really don’t want another one, so Elon coming out as a full Nazi did immense damage to his personal and commercial brand.
That’s also at least partly the reason for the strong dislike for the current US administration in Europe.

Trump, Vance and more have openly supported the extreme right, made baseless accusations about censorship, and worse. It’s way beyond a political belief, in Europe it’s personal.
It's disappointing that people kill good things with bots. Reddit is too far gone for it to be your specific fault, you're just adding to the enshittification pile.
great concept and something like this is definitely needed, just unable to get a good search that demonstrates the power. i would keep trying to make this better!

you also might want to check all the links in your footer. all the social links are broken and the blog links to some generic content.
That's not the worst thing. Having more work means you're less bored. You probably won't be payed more though. But being too productive can cause you to have no next task, wich isn't the same thing as having free time.

I think that's part of the reason why devs like working from home and not be spied on.
A very bad programmer can program some cool stuff with the help of libraries, toolkits, frameworks and engines that they barely understand. I think that's pretty cool and makes things otherwise impossible possible, but it doesn't make the very bad programmer better than they really are.

I believe AI is a variation of this, except a library at least has a license.
This is what they said and I quote:

> my cardiologist said that everyone who trains hard for a marathon has some level of heart damage from the excessive training
Better typography with text-wrap pretty
I was under the impression that residents in many (if not most?) EU countries generally use Visa/Mastercard debit cards for electronic physical and online payments.

There is also Maestro (owned by Mastercard), but most banks have already switched away to Visa/Mastercard.
Show HN: Any-agent – a single interface to different agent frameworks
After working on agent evaluation the last weeks, we started to accumulate code to make trying different agent frameworks easier.

From that code, we have built and just released a small library called `any-agent`.
Might there be a Control Group - of top-tier Tech CEO's who did not bother $pending big to court Trump - which we could compare to?
There are many alternatives. Check out https://european-alternatives.eu
It was YAML but I actually really liked Drone CI's "In this container, run these commands" it was much more sane than GitHub Actions "Here's an environment we pre-installed a bunch of crap in, you can install the stuff you want every single time you run a workflow".
As an ex-IBMer, I miss the IBM of old. So much innovation. Now they are just a consulting company. So sad to see it go that way.
Great read!Its easy to forget how important the little things are, especially when you're shipping fast.

> Always assume positive intent.

My favorite part!
Can Linux have "transfer data structures to new kernel" rebooting like Minix?
Or would that go against the monolithic kernel paradigm of the Linux kernel?

Edit: There's this flag in kexec: "--load-preserve-context Load the new kernel and preserve context of current kernel during kexec."
I guess we have to wait until we totally understand genes before diving into the dark?
> I would really appreciate an agnostic templating language for this so these workflows can be modelled generically and have different executors, so you could port them to run them locally or across different products. Maybe there is an answer to this that I’ve just not bothered to look for yet.

Terraform? You can use it for more than just "cloud"
Oh well! Good to know! Next time I'll use DWD instead of using those weird apps. Thanks!
The "How to build a boardgame" infographic looks like half my linkedin "feed" now, but a boardgame instead of random basic programming / recruimentment / sales topic.

Feed is in quotes because my feed seems to be 90% suggested posts.
Well, let's see you do it! Can you deblur something like the first 2-3 letters of a name?
So renting, but with only the negative parts for the company
I love this! I'm reading through the criticism in the comments and I can't help but imagine all of the articles out there complaining about how the interview process is broken - sure enough even one tool that is slightly different than the standard interview process and what do people do? complain about its short comings.

Keep it up and iterate! This is a good direction, and it certainly is going to be useful for some teams :)
Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic
I posted Bracket City to HN on February 24th and the game went live yesterday on The Atlantic (!)

The game will stay free to play (and not require logging in). Also, I'm still making all the puzzles!

HN provided the first real infusion of players that weren't my mom's friends. So thanks everyone.

FWIW The Atlantic's team is amazing and got this live exactly 2 weeks from when we signed the deal.

This happened quick and I feel very lucky. The HN community of solvers keeps me honest with much helpful technical and editorial feedback. I love it all -- here or at mayor@bracket.city

T[Tom who befriended a volleyball] HN

PS my original post! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160542
Why so much hand-wringing? If you are an anti-AI developer and you are able to develop better code faster than someone using AI, good for you. If AI-using developers will end up ruining their codebase in months like many here are saying, then things will take care of themselves.
Exactly. This is the problem with throwing all the money into “hot spots”. Growing the heck out of a few hot industries virtually ensures established ones will decline.
Naah, even that hack Brian Greene is distancing himself from String theory.
i think it more has to do with wanting to cut the deficit in preparation for tax cut extension + NOAA and other science agencies are politically vulnerable in a way that medicare/ss are not
This whole thing is very cool and worth reading.

BUT. I worked at a place that used IBM 360s. We ran stuff for engineers, a lot of Fortran along with assembly code. We had so much stuff going on we could not code up and run things fast enough. The engineer/scientist got frustrated.

Then one day an engineer brought in an Apple II from home and ran the programs on that.

The earth shook. The very ground beneath us moved. Tectonic plates shifted. The world was never the same again! I think it was Visicalc.

Later there were other things. Soul Of A New Machine. The Mac.

I wonder how the compute power of a current high end smart phone compares with and IBM 360? I know the graphics chip is better.
I'd be more in favour of parcour/shoot a tv/run away, then celebrate with beer after.
In response to the final sentence, you can work around this by breaking your problem or question down into smaller pieces. Essentially forcing it to reason, manually.
This is a silly rant.

Politicians were also responsible for initially subsidizing solar to usher in the current boom.

Corporations invested heavily in solar production to create the cheap panels that are being installed rapidly.

Just because some politicians and corporations do things we don’t like doesn’t make them in general “the biggest enemy of humanity.”
The only way to "solve" this is to reduce US output of valuable goods so that people are attracted to jobs that pay less and make less valuable goods. I don't understand why everyone's so enamored with the prospect of making $50k working a lathe in a world where engineering jobs have been made rarer artificially. It won't even be a job in a factory that makes something cool like rockets or lithography machines, without the ability to buy stuff from overseas those people will all have to quit to work on final assembly for digital wristwatches.

They're right that they've been alienated from labor, they're so alienated they don't know that Fred Flintstone spent all day scheming to get promoted into working behind a desk.
Justice Department Overhauls Cryptocurrency Enforcement
I can say the same for Deutsche Bahn and Deutsche Post. Not everything, but quite some things are running on AWS there. Hard to believe, but reality.
> In the Western world, for a long time, at least 100 years, a suit was considered the proper attire for men.

Traditionally, it was a suit and hat. Going suit alone was already "dressing down". It is funny that we now consider that to be the paragon of male fashion.

> Maybe in a few years, you'll go and talk to your lawyer [...] in a tracksuit and it'll be perfectly fine, you'll even find the attire aesthetically pleasing.

It seems we'll question why he isn't wearing jeans and a t-shirt like a dignified man.
> increased cross-generational interaction

cross-class interaction too.

in ~2012 i was in Tokyo, and by chance was (also) invited to someone's birthday.. The guy was working as pizzeria-waiter, and has invited.. all his usual clients to his birthday - in his small apartment, with "everyone brings some food they made" instead of gifts. My friend was a client.. so i landed there too. That was the most bizarre mix of people there. Some were just mom-and-pop. Some were millionaires. And everything in between. Most were japanese, but also from about 3-4 diff. countries. And everyone talking with everyone else as equal..

a very interesting cross-section - and should i say glimpse-of-future - of society.
They insist on feeding me AI generated videos about "HOA Karens" for some odd reason.

True, I do enjoy watching the LawTubers and sometimes they talk about HOAs but that is a far stretch from someone taking a reddit post and laundering it through the robots.
> The umbrella interoperability initiative that includes Bizum is Swiss (neither EU nor Eurozone).

and yet Switzerland is not one of the countries where Bizum can be used?

The UN does not have a common currency or a parliament etc.
Compressed - cold - pure oxygen, that is.

Held in a lightweight composite thermic bottle.
I would like a book recommendation for the things I don’t know please (Sarcasm but seriously)…

A senior dev mentioned a “class invariant” the other day And I just had no idea what that was because I’ve never been exposed to it… So I suppose the question I have is what should I be exposed to in order to know that? What else is there that I need to learn about software engineering that I don’t know that is similarly going to be embarrassing on the job if I don’t know it? I’ve got books like cracking the coding interview and software engineering at Google… But I am missing a huge gap because I was unable to finish my masters and computer science :-(
I agree with you somewhat, but still applaud them for looking for promising future developers and paying them an amount that will attract them.

However, there are many promising junior developers that aren’t interested in the money as much as they’re interested in the challenge/fun. Sometimes high pay implies high expectations/stress and very little time to experiment/learn.

ex. I don’t want to work for a bank on fraud detection. I’d love working on AVL and in-vehicle remote monitoring systems though.
As someone on the Networks side, I had the pleasure to write multiple Excel files with all the dependencies of our product listing all the relevant facts for every single jar file.
Dude, if you don’t think that “keeping your head down and doing as you are told” is not just a “part” but a key part of how mega-companies like Microsoft (and Apple, Meta, Google, …) work, I don’t know what to tell you.

US companies (in almost all states) have the power to hire and fire for any non-protected reason on a whim, without notice unlike most other western countries. There is little-to-no social support if you lose your job in the USA, and the market for finding another diminishes when you say “oh yeah, I publicly embarrassed my last company”. That is a recipe for living in a state of fear. That is the reality of the USA, today, whether it makes pleasant reading or not.
> what is one to do

Find roles where your skills match the required skills ?
A study by the SEC in 2014 stated that very high trading frequency is "unnecessary" (below 0.2s), but failed to identify clear downsides or damages to the markets.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2363114
I remember an old interview with Musk where he said that when he just got into manufacturing, he would try to automate all the things, but then found that it makes the assembly line overly rigid and difficult to improve, especially when they're still learning about a new assembly process. So he switched to only automating only the obvious parts at start, keeping humans in the loop for every step where it's not entirely clear how best to perform it, and then automate these other steps gradually as they learn.

So I assume that the idea is that humanoid robots could fully replace some of these temporary roles (or allow a single human to operate several robots), maintaining flexibility while a new production line is optimized, and then easily moved off to another.
> Manufacturing takes time and money to setup.

Trump has 4 years if he survives that long. He's an old man. The trade war can't possibly last long enough for manufacturing to be forced to restart domestically. Even if this was his first term and he got a second, by the time the second rolls around everyone would just hope to wait it out until the Democrats retook the White House and they could import everything from China again. But now no one can even make the argument and be taken seriously that we need this, because if Trump's doing trade wars then it must be a bad idea.
$750 before tax
This makes a lot of sense to me. The stats basically say that "if you start out underemployed, you stay underemployed for a long time", but my guess is the causation isn't necessarily as it's implied (or, indeed, as I implied it in my first comment).

That is, I think it's likely that a lot of people who start out unemployed are just comparatively less motivated, less aggressive, "go-with-the-flow"-type people. These folks do better when the market is good and worse when it's bad. But, as you put it, someone with a lot of drive and the skillset is not necessarily doomed to be held back for years if their first job sucks, as long as they set their sights on getting ahead quickly and don't let their stagnant environment rub off on them.
Not everyone can be a SW engineer. Same how not everyone can be a doctor. Or a lawyer. For a lot of people, bolting bumpers to Fords is as good as it gets in terms of job prospects.
What a weird headline. Good? Corruption is bad? Donations to political candidates should not "pay off"
I love using LLMs to generate pictures. I'd call myself rather creative, but absolutely useless in any artistic craft. Now, I can just describe any image I can imagine and get 90% accurate results, which is good enough for the presentations I hold, online pet projects (created a squirrel-themed online math-learning game for which I previously would have needed a designer to create squirrel highschool themed imagery) and memes. For many, many websites this is going to be good enough.
“Appreciate how good you have it” doesn’t help the exploited be any less exploited. Instead it serves to nudge the comparatively-less-exploited to feel guilty enough to stay quiet.
Neuroscience suffers from a rigor problem[0] Sure, you can make observations, even good observations, but these can be lodged within a mushy, interpretive bed of sloppy speculation, bad philosophy, and unexamined assumptions.

For starters, what is intelligence? Because defined one way, you could attribute it to virtually anything that responds to the environment in some way. Against mechanistic presuppositions, you'll be stuck with the impossible Sisyphean task of defining it at all (good luck weaving intentionality into mechanistic metaphysics; it is no accident that Descartes believed that non-human animals lack consciousness - he viewed them in mechanistic terms!).

Or consider...

'they could help us step “away from the idea that we are the best creatures in the world"'

'“We are not this optimal solution to intelligence.”'

What is meant by "best" and "optimal"? Without telos, you cannot speak about anything being best or optimal. There is no ordering measure. These are defined with respect to how well something attains an end. Is pencil A better than pencil B? You can answer that once you define what it means to be a pencil, because then you can define what it means to be a good pencil. But is a pencil better than an eraser? Meaningless question w.r.t. what is intrinsic and essential to each, as they are two different kinds of things with two different ends. Measured against human purposes, i.e., purposes extrinsic to the things themselves? You could say that the pencil is superior, as it more directly and fully contributes to the human end of communication or drawing or whatever, while the eraser plays a supportive role. Or consider perhaps some kind of absolute ontic hierarchy (at the very least, human beings can do whatever any other animal can through technology, something that permits the extension and determination of the human power to act).

"What are the building blocks of a brain that can think critically, use tools or form abstract ideas?"

What is an "abstract idea"? How does it differ from a concrete image? For example, let's say that after a squirrel perceives a tree in its senses, it remembers this perception. Is this an abstract idea? What if this squirrel sees another tree and, through its squirrel brain, is moved to behave with respect to it in a manner similar to the first tree. Does that involve abstraction? Does similarity of image entail abstract ideas? If the abstract idea of "Tree" is not an image, not a similarity between images, and therefore not particular but a universal predicate, for instance, and the brain itself is concrete, then how can brains entertain abstract ideas that escape concreteness and particularity?

Some will no doubt claim that answering these questions is precisely what neuroscience seeks to do, but this is confused. Yes, neuroscience can shed light on certain neurological phenomena, and that's great. But neuroscience also operates within "meta-neuroscientific" parameters and makes use of its (often hazy) notions in a way that undermine its coherence. These require philosophical chops to untangle and analyze.

[0] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/01/against-neurobabble...
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Single Thread Efficiency (Oryon Mobile)- Bilbili

There seems to a reviewer on bilbili (S White Database) who reviewed Single Thread power consumption/efficiency for the Qualcomm Oryon core using Geekbench 6.

https://imgur.com/a/vqtIWz0

The Oryon core scores 3261 while consuming 7.6W of power.

Dimensity scores 2901 while consuming 7.9W of power.

A18 pro scores 3568 while consuming 6.6W of power.

Looking at the graph, it seems that at an iso power of 7.6W, Oryon has a ~15% performance advantage over the Cortex X925.

At iso performance, Oryon matches Dimensity’s score while using ~2.5-3 less watts of power.

Compared to the A18 pro, Apple seems to retain a sizable P/W lead. 540.6 points/W (A18 Pro) compared to 429.07 points/W (Oryon). Translates to a 25% P/W advantage.

Looking at iso power however, the gap closes, Apple retains a 15% lead over the Oryon core.

Unable to compare iso performance since A18 pro has a single data point, but considering the lead over Dimensity is similar, it is likely Apple is similarly 30-40% more efficient at iso performance.

Impressive showing by Qualcomm.

Metric D9400 8 Elite A18 Pro

Geekbench 6 ST 2901 3261 3568

Clock speed 3.63 GHz 4.32 GHz 4.04 GHz

Power consumption 7.9W 7.6W 6.6W

P-core Area 3.2 mm² 2.2 mm² 2.9 mm²

Performance-per-clock 799 770 883

Performance-per-watt 367 429 540

Performance-per-area 906 1482 1230

PPC : Apple > Mediatek > Qualcomm.

PPW : Apple > Qualcomm > Mediatek.

PPA : Qualcomm > Apple > Mediatek.

Apple and Qualcomm only includes L1 as L2 are shared.

Mediatek includes L2.
I think they will more or less add some jobs at least, which is fine. But I don't think there is going to be any political will unless the necessity pushes people to demand it.