skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like something you'd use for a POST route that served up html instead of JSON (weird for an app to do these days but it still happens). redirect-after-post is as old as the web (or at least the POST verb) and it actually _enhances_ the utility of the back button by removing the annoying prompt about re-posting.
Well I'm thanking the government for saving us from yet another Facebook monopoly thorough first mover advantage and network effects.
> The sino-vietnamese was a ridiculous mistake for the socialist project, that I agree with. But this wasn't an imperial war.

Fair enough, but then you can't claim that the US involvement in Korea was imperial.

> When I mentioned modern China, I referred to the PRC, so after (most of its) national reunification.

Why do you set this as a cut-off? Is an empire no longer imperial once it has conquered all its provinces? Besides that, what happened in Hong Kong? Was that not an Empire aligning its rebellious province by force?

> I fail to see how anti-terrorist repression in Xinjiang is akin to any form of imperialism.

I was mostly referring to the many purges between 1949 and 1976. While most of the millions killed in them were Han Chinese "class enemies", not pro-independence ethnic minorities, it was nonetheless part of the central committee solidifying total control of the country.

Since you mention it though, I'll just ask you: Are the various Uyghur councils and international NGOs just covering for terrorists? Did they fake all those official documents and the satellite pictures? How can you handwave what is happening in Xinjiang, yet be so concerned with Palestine? If you want to engage in some victim blaming, were the daily rocket attacks not terrorism?
You basically didn't say anything. Vague suggestions that I'm uneducated on the "nitty-gritty" (compared to you?), that I'm not reasoning based on "first principles" and am not applying "general best practices", and that my system in particular should be "hardened", despite working like ~every other, are not productive, nor insightful.
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Humans are part of nature but if humans are also growing to have disproportionate impact on the rest of nature it kinda worth thinking about what's going on then
There is virtually no difference with a private entity which can be compelled by the government to do the same, plus has its own profit motive which could also create incentive to do it.

There must be a non-repudiation and integrity check to verify transactions (e.g., in Estonia I sign digitally all my transactions), so the latter problem is easier to mitigate.
This is a bit disingenuous, no? None of these have actually taken off.
I can't really listen to music while I'm working because I concentrate more on the music - however music is great when I'm doing "boring" tasks like gardening, or cleaning.

If I'm working, I'll happily watch world cooking videos - before I was diagnosed with inattentive adhd I'd say that it was to keep the inner child happy and out of the way so the adult brain could do the work.
In college I was interested in DEC alpha, which at the time was one of the only 64bit computers. It had an onboard NIC but wasn't compatible with Red hat Linux, but the 3com add on card was. It annoyed me that it didn't work perfectly and I eventually learned how to build and install the kernel driver for the onboard. It was my first experience in rpm hell. But it was so satisfying when it worked.
Standard workflow in Poland for normal people:

- You buy something and pay the stated price with money, phone/card or "blik" (free cashapp).

- Your taxes are already prefilled by your employer. If you have some "tax relief" items, you add it on webpage and make some clicks to confirm. If no reliefs, you don't need to do anything.
> this is also worrying to know that the government now knows exactly what you bought, where, when, and for how much

As a citizen of a still kind-of-functioning democracy, I'd happily make the trade if that means Apple, Google, Visa or Mastercard don't have the information anymore.
As a Brazilian - Pix was a pleasant surprise, especially in that for once it feels like we're not lagging behind. It's convenient, free, instant transfers across banks. You can also easily create or programmatically generate QR codes or pastable codes with preset receivers and amounts. Great UX all around, and it quickly became the de-facto standard in how people send money.

It's technically quite impressive - it's a large scale thing and it works really well. I can think of maybe one or two times in these years where I saw downtime, and in both cases it was working again after a few minutes. The usual experience with the government building technical solutions is to have something that makes little sense, is slow, and goes down frequently with even the most predictable usage peaks, but with Pix they really seem to have nailed it.

It does feel a bit weird to have so many payments go through the government's systems, and it definitely feels like it puts them in a position of having more information than they should. There's a lot of Orwellian surveillance potential there, as any transfers are necessarily tied to both users' real identities. I don't think there's a realistic way around this, though.

Another concern is that people can expose some of their information without necessarily being aware of it. You can register e.g. emails and phone numbers as Pix "keys", and then anyone can initiate a transfer to those keys and your full name will pop up so you can confirm or cancel the transfer. I've seen some clever advice around this - "When using a carpooling app (often details are arranged off the platform using WhatsApp), put the driver's phone number on Pix. If a name comes up and it doesn't match the name or gender of the driver's profile, something is up". Obviously though there's potential for misuse and I'm sure the vast majority of people don't think about this when registering their Pix keys. You can, however, just use randomly generated uuids as keys as well, a different one for each transaction if you so desire, so this one can be a non-issue with more awareness.

Overall though it's a very convenient thing which works surprisingly well, and the downsides are theoretical at this point. IMO it's a rare case of our government nailing something.
Brazil used to have capital controls. It seems like it doesn't any more and is aiming for full convertibility: https://www.ibanet.org/The-new-Brazilian-foreign-exchange-an... , but it's worth thinking about in these systems.
I wonder will the SEPA instant work like this.
> crypto is all proprietary

What?
A more apt description would be it doesn't currently do it, there is no technical limitation. You can send cents across borders just fine with Wise and others without any fuss.
there's a lot of reasons that it won't happen anytime soon. Those countries use euro as their main currency, also culturally and historically connected, which you can call them latins. Why don't you add Denmark to that group ? You can't because it will take ages :)
Alternatives to RepoPrompt for AI-ready code compression?
I've been using RepoPrompt for selecting code to feed into LLMs, but I'm looking for alternatives that might handle certain use cases better.

Specifically, I need something that:

Creates context files that non-technical team members can use

Preserves architectural relationships while removing noise

Works with any AI platform (not tied to a specific model)

Has anyone found other solutions for making codebases AI-readable without overwhelming token limits?

Wondering if there are approaches I haven't considered or features that would be valuable to add.
> Convenience store food in Japan is fantastic

Indeed. Spent a few weeks there last year. You can't throw a rock and not hit one of those places - it's absurd how many there are no matter where you are. Though, TBF in NYC the density of convenience stores/bodegas is similar but the consistency lacking. I do miss those gooey chocolate babka things they sell in the 7-11s.

> is probably unironically better than the median restaurant in the U.S.

Eh... I would say they certainly beat out fast food.
What a horrible headline. The Guardian's headline reads "UK Home Office loses attempt to keep legal battle with Apple secret".
USA equivalent: think Mallomars or Pinwheels, but with better chocolate.
Brazil has an insane level of financial fraud and tax evasion. Pix mitigates some of that, but at the cost of privacy - something that Brazilians do not care too much about.
> Cryptocurrencies don't stand a chance.

...except for inflation.
I think that most z17's sold are already planned acquisitions, from either decommissioning older machines, capacity expansion, or workload consolidation (say, a 4-node z13 parallel sysplex moving to a 2-node z17). I don't think anyone in their right mind would run a machine like this (for business-critical apps) for more than the extended warranty.
You mention crypto; it's not a dominant payment system, but nor is it proprietary; there are open source wallets and the blockchains are open source.
It is something like Polish Blik / Chinese WeChat payment system, I understand?
> I don't particularly remember Linus making any push for git to be generally popular.

Outside of giving one of the highest visibility tech talks in history, at Google (back when Google was the mega hip FAANG), declaring Subversion (the then leading SCM) brain dead?

Marketing works in many different ways, as does signaling. Geeks wear suits, too, their suits just aren't composed of suit jackets and suit pants, they're composed of t-shirts and jeans.
What does "actively choosing" mean? An ant might choose to move the bugs they milk. Do they count?
I think a steelmanned version of their comment is that crypto apps are proprietary, which I think is mostly true. There are open source apps, but most of the big ones are all proprietary.
IMO most of this boils down to understanding if you need SEO or not. There’s no right general answer
Visa/Mastercard report all of that to governments anyway.
Good were the days when you only could get robbed by what you had in your pockets.

Nowadays one goes around with a direct link to his or her entire bank account. And criminals know this in Brazil. They will rob your phone, but what they really want is to use you as an ATM. Private banks are not held accountable to the massive and rampant identity fraud in banking, where criminals will launder criminal transactions.

The private sectors does not care. Somebody who opened an account yesterday receiving R$5000,00 at 2 in the morning in the middle of the street? Nothing suspicious...
This same account cashing out at an ATM the same next day? It is OK to me...

Brazilian banks need to be held accountable to 'know your customer' laws ASAP and be held liable for criminal activity undertaken on their systems.
IBM - mainframe - Zxx CPUs, what decade is this?!
> It is natural to them.

This is where the "inductive biases" from comment 43609692 are hidden in, and this is what AI currently lacks.
EncryptHub's dual life: Cybercriminal vs. Windows bug-bounty researcher
UALink debuts its first AI interconnect spec: run different GPUs on one network
The article says it was made by a woman. Regardless I don’t agree we need to hold these people accountable for not making female cards, it’s their prerogative to do what they think makes sense or is appealing to them, and choosing ojisans as a theme makes sense if you have experience with Japanese culture because of the vibe associated with it. Not everything needs to be a gender equality culture battle, and I’m pretty confident nobody is feeling disenfranchised because they chose that theme.
Brazilian Pix is free though, at least for the time being. IMO the biggest thing is not the money behind it, but the ability to track individual payments. Even that, I prefer the government to have that information, than some shady owner of a private company
Fake it until you brake it
> That being said, Tailwind that's set up well in coordination with a complex design system really does feel like it's a win. Seeing that in action was an aha moment where I was able to see value that made some of the tradeoffs worth it.

Can you elaborate on this a little bit — was there a lot of Figma tooling, plugins to swap variables between systems, etc?
Open AI have both said it's native image generation and autoregressive. It has the signs of it too.

It's probably an implementation of VAR (https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02905) - autoregressive image generation with a small twist. Rather than predict every token at the target resolution directly, start with predicting it at a small resolution, cranking it higher and higher until the desired resolution.
If you don't like yoga instructor just replace it with crossfit trainer or olympic athlete or tree surgeon or personal bodyguard

Edit: replaced "triggered" with "don't like"
it's not about technical expertise but more about being a global power.
The Ghibli fight is the same fight that is being fought in the NASDAQ. That is to say, there was an established set of rules that everyone thought were fixed and now they are being radically disrupted. Both the creative industry and the general business industry are trying to figure out what is life going to be like with a totally different and fluid set of regulations, whether it be copyright law or tariffs.

No wonder sama and Trump are so cozy. They both see the same legacy.
This was true even a few years after 08/09. I applied to about 250 positions and lowballed my salary. I did get a job after 5 or so months of looking. I will say, that lowball salary is still impacting me today. If you do lowball yourself, you have to do a bit of job hopping when the market gets good to boost it.
And quite a lot of Western ones like Vipps. And see this long list: https://truelayer.com/reports/alternative-payments/european-...

> require ID, zero privacy, usually government sanctioned

Unfortunately systems that don't have those requirements are going to be money laundering channels. I wish it wasn't such a big concern but it's unavoidable.
One's vote physically being counted is not the same as having any representation in Parliament, let alone government. It's a system of artificial consensus. Managed democracy, in other words. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but it's very arbitrary.
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All Eurozone countries, all bu one an EU member (and that one is very small has a very close trade deal with the EU) so not really cross border except from a certain legalistic angle.

The practicalities are very different from transferring between say Brazil and the US.
Can you describe this alleged “targeting” and how it’s distinct from normal law enforcement? A key part of the rule of law is thar it be applied to everyone who breaks it so be sure to include examples of other people who did the same thing being treated differently.
There’s pretty much no practical difference between Visa knowing all this stuff and the government knowing it. All Visa’s data is at most one subpoena away and that’s the optimistic scenario.
Iamb: A TUI Matrix client for Vim enthusiasts, written in Rust
Why would westerners stop buying China goods? Americans can do it if the tariffs make the goods too expensive ... but if they are not, there is about zero motivation to harm yourself.

Canada has consumer boycott against USA. EU is being attacked by USA, not by China. Americans themselves were not attacked by anyone but their own government, so why would they stopped buying Chinese?
It's denominated in the Brazilian real rather than USD?
Literally no other industry except for the performing arts interviews like this. No one else expects senior people to perform “work samples” under pressure, they just talk to them and dig into past work.

All of the really damaging hires, I’ve seen in the last couple decades have been engineers with high negative productivity who were great at passing high pressure technical interviews.

Also in a couple decades working everywhere from startups to big tech companies in staff+ roles, I have never experienced anything even remotely similar to a performative technical interview. Even when everything is on fire, it’s not even close to the same thing.
With reference to the GP about awkward people, if an adult hiring manager is intimidated by an professional applicant wearing a suit to an interview in good faith (after all, it's widely seen as mark of taking the interview seriously), I think it is perhaps not the applicant who need to learn the social skills.

If an interviewer can't tell the difference between a flex and show of good intent, they probably should go back to jobs where they don't need to make judgements of character.
You're a much more patient person than I am.

I would've literally opened an editor, wrote a quick parser in JS, bundled it in and be done with the problem without going any further.

This functionality, if I am understanding correctly, is to grab all the classnames from HTML files and then pass that to a tool that includes those, and only those, in a .css file.

I'll burnout in no time if I spend even 20% of my time working on configuring or debugging the environment and the rest on the development activities[1]. I can't imagine roles where time is split 50/50 (or more) between "fiddling with YAML, npm, AWS, etc" and "development".

[1] I include requirements elicitation, debugging, talking to customers, etc as "development activities".
Because an autistic person can be an amazing programmer? As could a blind person, a deaf person, etc...

Simple accommodations can be made if needed and then there's no need to exclude people on old-fashioned prejudice.
Yes, there's HiDream which yields even better results than 01.

https://github.com/HiDream-ai/HiDream-I1
Pretty much. I can't tell you how many times I interview these "framework developers" and they cant tell me how a regular HTML form submission works. Boggles my mind.
"Expect that you will meet many people younger than you who will be at your financial level because they graduated post-recovery."

Yep, the people who graduated about 3-4 years ago are all making more than I do after more than a decade. It seems like that's just how it works.
One cool feature of the z16 was that all cores can be activated during startup, and then all cores that aren't licensed (paid for) shut down and the performance drops to the agreed limit. I do that with my KVM machines on the server under my desk - all are configured with more cores than needed and, when boot finishes, most cores are removed from process scheduling leaving just the amount the VM is supposed to use during normal operation. The result is a significantly faster start up and significantly lower power consumption (and resource contention).
That’s a pretty sweeping generalization about 200M+ people!
One where no other company has pushed out a processor that can borrow cache from neighbors.
0. Make 99% of your setups runnable locally, with Docker if need be. It's the fastest way to test something and nothing else come close. #1 and #2 derive from #0. This is actually a principle for code, too, if you have stuff like Lambda, make sure you have a command line entry point, too and you can also test things locally.

1. Avoid YAML if you can. Either plain configuration files (generated if need be - don't be afraid to do this) or full blown programming languages with all the rigor required (linting/static analysis, tests, etc).

2. Move ALL logic outside of the pipeline tool. Your actions should be ./my-script.sh or ./my-tool.

Source: lots of years of experience in build engineering/release engineering/DevOps/...
Awesome AI
HiDream-I1: new open-source image generation model
And a government who would resort to creating fake transactions, probably wouldn't bother with creating fake transactions at all. So that argument sounds quite out of touch.
I am interested in ebook production, as I do so for my own personal use, but the copyright issues put me off contributing on the clearnet to legit projects. I have a whole section in my Calibre library of books I've edited or converted from Archive.org scans, but can't share any of them because a) legit channels only accept public domain works, and they're all under copyright, and b) the current main ebook pirate channels don't accept any contributions
BSD Now still exists and they now have over 600 episodes.
It's no longer with Jupiter Broadcasting though. I've been listening since episode 1. =)

Alan is no longer a host but does appear occasionally though.
If you want to hear one of Alans other active Podcasts check out: "2.5 Admins"

https://www.bsdnow.tv/
https://2.5admins.com/
If you want to get into electric small-batch performance cars, BYD has you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangwang_U9
The "market" consists of human investors, who get taken in by liars all the time. Sometimes the herd stampedes for years and years.
A lot of governments have that ability for electronic transactions. In Brazils case specifically it was implemented as a payment broker between institutions that participate in the SPI (instantaneous payment system) and works pretty much like any other inter bank transfer system. It is also possible to use the system semi-anonymously by using a "non bank" participant that will broker the transaction for you using random keys. Which would mean not even your bank account no gets exposed, because its not used.

As far as I can tell the legal landscape of the solution currently only allow the actual government to look at the data with the standard court orders. I believe not even the 10k report limit is applied to pix atm the same way as the other methods.

Regarding fake transactions, that would be a non concern to me, the system is only centralised in parts, the banks still hold most of the data so they would have to collaborate on this potentially leaving lots of evidence behind. Governments do not need to be subtle to screw you over, see current US deportation news.

Its not that much different than how bank transfers in Europe work in practice. The US is particularly archaic in banking technology available to the public.
What are we missing?
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It's a question of national security not to let Meta eat that cake, and Brasil made the right choice.

Tangentially related, I've heard talk of EU alternative to VISA and Mastercard, which I also believe is the right direction.
Sweden has had a similar system for several years before PIX in Brazil. It is also integrated with the digital ID system (BankID). The main difference is that the Swedish system is ran through a private organization managed by all the major banks (and the central bank) in conjunction. So the central bank doesn't have direct access to the transaction data technically.

While the Brazilian system is only interacted directly through your bank application, the Swedish application is a separate application tied to your bank account in the backend. Given the... quality of bank apps this is a huge plus. The Swedish Swish app is MUCH easier to use because it only does one thing. My Brazilian mother does not know how to send PIX because her bank app is very confusing and the PIX option is just one of many.

The BankID system of Sweden though is even more impressive than money transactions, pretty much everything government related (including healthcare, taxes, etc) and most private institutions (bank apps, Swish, digital contract signatures) is done through the unified BankID login.

People raised concerns over privacy, but the main problem really is that since these systems cut out the middle man (Visa/Mastercard) and have no fees you also have no fraud protection which is something to keep in mind when using them. Once you send the money it is gone, the banks will not give it back to you even if you got scammed. It creates a whole sort of scam industry in both countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(payment)

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