skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the popular outfits are "designed to look good" to a high degree, and then humans are quite bad at fitting the garments on average. Poorly fit suits that don't look good on a male silhouette are absolutely a thing, and I'd posit that an unkempt male wearing a poorly fitting cheap suit looks "lower status" than a fit and well groomed male wearing a stylish t-shirt/jeans combo.

So all we have is the tradition that "high status males" in the traditional power roles wear suits when in public, which is true and valid, but it does not translate into the inherent superiority of this garment.
Smol thread a few months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41649660
Pretty much until 2022, the de facto orthodoxy for AI was "The creative pursuits will forever be outside the reach of computers".

People are pretty quiet about creative pursuits actually being the low hanging fruit on the AI tree.
> This is factually incorrect. Latency is limited by the speed of light and the user's internet connection.

This is a solved problem. It is simple to download content shortly before it is very likely to be needed using plain old HTML. Additionally, all major hypermedia frameworks have mechanisms to download a link on mousedown or when you hover over a link for a specified time.

> If you read one of the links that I'd posted, you'd also know that a lot of users have very bad internet connection.

Your links mortally wounds your argument for js frameworks, because poor latency is linked strongly with poor download speeds. The second link also has screen fulls of text slamming sites who make users download 10-20MBs of data (i.e. the normal js front ends). Additionally, devices in the parts of the world the article mentions, devices are going to be slower and access to power less consistent, all of which are huge marks against client side processing vs. SSR.
Visa has to respect whatever laws apply in the country they operate in. So if the police want Visa info on whoever, provided that a legal framework cover this issue, Visa has to give it. It makes 0 difference if the payment system is government-operated or not. In any democratic country, the police would need the approval of a judge whether the service is public or a private company.
And in dictatorship, the government will get the data or ban you from doing business in the country anyway.
I can't take this article seriously:

1. Uncanny slop "photo" of people installing panels, not even labeled as generated. There is zero excuse for this.

2. No links to sources. Either they are lazy or just making things up.

3. Wild swings in context and sloppy usage of terms like "producing electrons". A sloppy style can be fun to read, but it doesn't work here because it is applied inconsistently.

I'd like to read an article on solar in Pakistan, but this source is no good. The whole site is suspect when this article is tolerated on it.
I think remitly works

https://blog.remitly.com/money-transfer/complete-guide-brazi...
To be fair, "suit up" usually means to put on a uniform rather than to wear a suit. The phrase seems to have originated in sports. T-shirts and hoodies are the uniform of tech.
> Not sure what happened to your cousin... But I'm curious now. Care to share?

My cousin served in the Armed Forces "to protect your freedom" (his words). The fact that he died during training maneuvers, does not detract from that.
Well TIL, thanks. The location I mean is Poland.
> but I'm also really glad that VCS is for most people completely solved, there's nothing besides Git you have to pay attention to, you learn it once and use it your whole career.

From what I hear most current new developers never really learn git, they learn a couple features of some git GUI.

And it's understandable, you're really understating what learning git (one of the messiest and worst documented pieces of software ever) well entails.

I find it a disgrace that we're stuck at git, actually.
A few months ago, the 60-year-old CEO of the previous company I worked for, employing 100,000 people, showed up at our satellite office with other senior executives and EVPs for an official visit.

He was wearing some sort of jeans and polo shirt combination (the same as the other executives) and it looked terrible to me (the proportions were wrong, the jeans were too long--he looked like a clown) and I thought his attire was disrespectful. The people there, who cared about looking presentable given the importance of the event for the 200-person satellite office, looked much better than the power-ups.

In my opinion, this doesn't show that he only cares about the work and not silly, old-fashioned dress codes, but that he's too good for us to take the time to look good.
It's not circular, it's just true in the purest sense. As all mathematical theorems are either tautologies or consequences of assumptions, therefore pure assumptions.

For me survival of the fittest just means that with high probability those genes will survive who have a high probability to survive in an evolutionary setting. Is this trivial? In this wording it is trivial. But it can be useful. (And also it is not that trivial in a different wording. Just like other theorems, e.g. the theorem about the
perpendicular bisectors of a triangle's sides. If a point O is equal distance from A and B and B and C then it is equal distance from A and C. Tautology, circular, assumption, name it what you want, it's math.)
“learn to code” was from the media. whether they deserve to be classified as “creatives” i will leave to the philosophers.
So ... pretty much none

Keep in mind, extensions can update themselves at any time, including when they're bought out by someone else. In fact, I bet that's a huge draw... imagine buying an extension that "can read and modify data on all your websites" and then pushing an update that, oh I dunno, exfiltrates everyone's passwords from their gmail. How would most people even catch that?

DO NOT have any extensions running by default except "on click".

There should be at least some kind of static checker of extensions for their calls to fetch or other network APIs. The Web is just too permissive with updating code, you've got eval and much more. It would be great if browsers had only a narrow bottleneck through which code could be updated, and would ask the user first.

(That wouldn't really solve everything since there can be sleeper code that is "switched on" with certain data coming over the wire, but better than what we have now.)
A state of mutual trust can be established, similar to driver’s licenses and passports: country A trusts you, they did all the legwork, we certify their endorsement, you’re fine. It won’t necessarily be possible between all pairs, but, SEPA and Interac should be theoretically interoperable; dozens of other friendly-country pairs can be thought of.
I used Claude: https://claude.ai/share/6da6ec5a-b8b3-4572-ab1b-141bb37ef70b

One of the prompts was: "make the comments even shorter, and have everyone involved be a pelican (a bit subtle though)"

See also my notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/8/llm-hacker-news/
... you do realize that India is in Asia, right?
They can physically search a device (like silk road) put malware on a device, use encrypted metadata on who's calling who and so on.

If you really want to catch serious criminals like mafia you have to do something they are not really expecting.
It’s super hard to make menubar show just the stuff I care about.

Tons of apps like Bartender or Ice can hide icons, but adding the ones I actually want? That’s what Badgeify do.
> which should tell you that they are pretty slow for the money.

It depends. Some years ago, the memory was working at half the bus speed.
Thanks, maybe someday I will finally be promoted to Internet Shill First Class.

But seriously, it would still be a monopoly on the UPI-like segment. Visa and Mastercard charge fees that make them less attractive to some users and make it harder on some users. There are good reasons Pix replaced much of physical cash use that cards didn't. And Visa and Mastercard are also American companies. Don't they sell transaction data?

And meh, at least I can vote for my president, but not even the Facebook shareholders can vote Zuckerberg out IIRC. Although Zuck can't arrest me so I don't know.
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Synthetic wine is the name for people who are trying to create wine from its chemical ingredients rather than from the natural process of fermentation.

There was an article several years back about one of these groups trying to get regulatory approval to sell their product, and the stumbling block was the use of things that weren't approved additives. (I want to say it was tannins, since that's the most overtly problematic chemical in wine, but it has been several years since I've seen the article, so I could be mixing it up for one of the other carcinogens involved).
That second link is completely wrong about Brazil though. Not uninformed, just every time Brazil is mentioned, it says the complete opposite of the reality.

And the claim in the first article is about using cash at any time. And it's by a ridiculous small margin. So in fact it's claiming that almost half of the population doesn't use cash at all.
> - no NFC (so works with any crappy phone)

It is possible to pay using NFC now
Pix is basically a commercial name for two services:

- SPI: responsible for the payments

- DICT: responsible for mapping keys to accounts

The API documentation of those services are available, but only banks can use them. When a person wants to send money to another, there's an option in the bank app for sending through Pix.

Then you have many options to define to whom you'll send that money:

- typing the bank account information

- using the Pix key (which can be an phone, email, CPF/CNPJ (brazillian documents) or a generated key)

- scanning a QR code

Note that the two latter options don't require the account information. That resolution is done by DICT.

After that, you type how much you'll send (sometimes the QR code already contains this information). Then it'll send through SPI.

And yeah, it's really, really fast.
I've used stock photo sites occasionally but I use vector art and icon sites multiple times a week. Even today, I used an few different sites while designing some stuff on Canva.

The reason I don't use AI is because it gives me far less reliable and impossible to specify results than just searching through the limited lists of human made art.

Today, for undisclosed reasons, I needed vector art of peanuts. I found imperfect but usable human made art within seconds from a search engine. I then spent around 15 - 25 minutes trying to get something closer to my vision using ChatGPT, and using the imperfect art I'd found as a style guide. I got lots of "huh that's cool what AI can do" but nothing useful. Nothing closer to my vision than what I started with.

By coincidence it's the first time I'vr tried making art with AI in about a year, but back then I bought a Midjourney account and spent a month making loads of art, then installed SD on my laptop and spent another couple of weeks playing around with that. So it's not like I'm lacking experience. What I've found so far is that AI art generators are great for generating articles like this one. And they do make some genuinely cool pictures, it blows my mind that computers can do this now.

It's just when I sit down with a real world task that has specific, concrete requirements... I find them useless.
How do people pay for illicit drugs, prostitution, bribes, etc.?
I don't think there needs to be this hard distinction between saying a given thing won't work, and proposing specifically what I think will happen instead. On this topic I generally avoid saying what I think the overarching dynamics are, because being specific generally gets written off as a crazy-sounding straw man.

My initial point is that you answered someone's "why EU would tariff China just because they need export" with saying that the US would "ask" the EU to do this - implying that the EU would want to cooperate or is otherwise beholden to the US. That's thinking from within the fictional universe, which is what I called out.

Since you asked, what specifically I think will actually happen is that Trump will continue to alienate our allies, keeping them at the realization they have to go their own way rather than being able to rely on our military backstopping them. To the extent there is leverage Trump can force Europe to put tariffs on China, Europe will only do that as much and as long is required to decrease that leverage. About the only saving grace here is that the EU isn't the type of place that will agree to something de jure and then de facto allow those rules to be skirted.

I think a different administration that was open and friendly to Europe and other allies, reassured our commitment to NATO, increased support for Ukraine rather than turning tail, etc, might have been able to make the case for coordinated international action being necessary to maintain the military advantage enjoyed by the US and its allies. But a savvy administration wouldn't have started with the ham-fisted unilateral blanket tariffs either.
If I had a son I would buy his lemonade stand, buy every lemon in town, and double the price of lemonade...
This has been undeniably intentional. I think most agree but the reason isn't clear.

Is this a 'bread and circuses' type thing where they intend to distract us? Revolt against government being prevented?

Is this an 'attention economy' thing? Meta and friends have designed the perfect human trap and nobody like reality anymore?

My personal guess, this is about the next golden age. Automation is going to eliminate factory work. Optimus or boston dynamics will produce the goods. You need an army of bored people to produce the next economy.
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Its almost at the point where I move off open ai. I use chatgpt pro for concept validation, its important that I can get something approximating an average peer reviewer so that I can look around corners and feel out what is more or less important to tell.

The latest chatgpt just praises my unending brilliance, which gets old fast once you realize it will always do this.
Yes and no – nearly half federal government's actual workforce is contractors, and contracts have been cancelled en masse. Here is data from 2017 -- the percentage is nearly 40%.

https://www.pogo.org/analysis/contractors-and-true-size-of-g...
It demonstrably can't detect all moves, Torvalds' theory that you didn't need moves tracking was bulls*it.
It surfaces accounts because they've forked repos and done nothing or pushed demo applications from tutorials.
There is a supporting history. Over the last millennium, Jewish people’s presence has aggravated their host country or they’ve been scapegoated many times. Resulting in a need for their swift exodus.

It is very recent that the West was favorable to Jewish people at all, on a country by country basis. With the most inroads occurring after some sects of Christianity latched on to the recreation of Israel as being part of their own prophecy.

So there is an understanding that even this is thin acceptance and symbiotic where both groups are pawns to the other without much care for understanding each other.

But there are people that question the government policies of Israel without questioning its right to be a government at all.

I can see why it’s ambiguous to distinguish, and the best defense is to invalidate opinion. Its just disingenuous when the stated opinions they are invalidating are the same opinions they and others hold within Israel and some Jewish communities: The military campaign is unpopular. The coalition government has no coherent way to meet its goals. Every choice the IDF makes isn’t “Hamas’ fault”.
Interestingly enough Brazil also has a system to use Bank login to authenticate on government systems.
As soon as we drop the line rates back down to 1200, sure. Actually there are a lot of spiral cables readily available on the market because clicky keyboard guys resurrected the category but they only support the lowest and most ancient USB protocols.
It's only tax evasion if the activity results reportable income. Just assuming everyone, who does not use your favourite cashless platform, is a criminal, is bad marketing.
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But for similar application, you could use MobilePay (Vipps?). That works across Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

So although only Finland uses Euro (and rest have their own currency), you can easily transfer money between persons using just their mobile number as an example.
I imagine anything that actually is used in a factory environment to not look as humanoid as the press photos (especially the head there's no point in having that top appendage which does nothing but remind the reader of star wars) and also have a beefy power-cable suspended from the ceiling.
I don't buy that. I've met uk politicians and they are not really like that. However it may be more about being able to say to the voters that we are taking action against terror and paedos than actually catching any.
Bolsonaro didn't even know what Pix was:

https://exame.com/economia/questionado-por-apoiador-bolsonar...
If Visa has it, the government simply needs to ask for it. There's a difference, but it's not much of one.
I am not! Bought the program about a month ago and it’s really buggy on MacOS 15. You can clearly tell that it was developed for some previous MacOS version and has been since then forgotten.
I feel bad for him and you all.

But personally when I look the US' history of military interventions then I sadly have to conclude he was made to believe he did it for "our freedom". A good facade for a dirty business. In fact he did it for corporate and Israel's interests. And probably he personally did it for the money and "cool job status" too.
The vast majority of people wouldn't notice any of that in most contexts in which such an image would be used.
What's there to gain? What do they care about biomass? They're still in the business of selling products, until the economy explodes. I find this to be circular because you could say the same thing about right now, "why don't they dispose of the welfare class" etc.

There's also the fact that "they" aren't all one and the same persons with the exact same worldview and interests.
If a 1000W panel is 4 square meter, that is cracy amount of square kilometers.
> Is there a way to "eugenics" (I know it's a bad word) birds on intelligence?

Of course there is. Develop an intelligence test and remove the bottom x percentile from the breeding pool. Alternatively develop an environment that gives a competitive advantage to intelligence.
Wow, just about to be shipped, too! Now if only I had a cool $1299++ :(
hence why unpoly targets the <main> element by default: https://unpoly.com/up.fragment.config
Revolut is simplifying this, also in Switzerland. You checkout with the "Pay with Revolut" option. It's instant, magic and safe. You don't need to copy card details, just authorise the push notification.

I have also used it on airline websites, Aer Lingus and Wizz Air.
Brazilian banking system is quite well developed for a long time. Let's see if Pix being ubiquitous can help the country better develop economically, with better wealth distribution, innovation and high-paying jobs
One contributes to GH is more-often tech or projects you're interest in, whilst a resume is going to be the alphabet soup of all tech you know.

HN is doing a good job of complaining about all the edge cases where this won't work because most of us don't contribute high-quality, novel work to GH. For example, for me, my recent GH contributions are for an ancient video game in a niche language I've never used elsewhere and my location isn't even exposed. So I won't show up. Boo hoo.

It's still a neat idea.
On #1, Bank of America operates in Brazil so maybe they offer it.
There was a news article few months ago, about waiting times for healthcare (in the UK, if I remember correctly). One govt official commented something like older people having to wait longer to see physicians is "not a priority". I was stunned reading it, didn't even know how to react.

It is nice to read articles like this. I wish more humans looked at other humans beyond their youth, looks and their net worth
Plus, it can stay quiet and only show icons when there’s a message, so it’s not in your face all the time.
Market is based on feelings in the short term, and fundamentals in the long term.
love the tool! it needs a moment to set up initially, but the daily briefs are worth it
The main reason for this is the exhorbitant cost of Energy in the country - apart from the constant 6-8 hrs powercut even in the urban centers.

I have seen videos where a layman, who earns around 20-30k a month is slapped with a 32k electricity bill. I am not sure if a layman with means of this level is adopting Solar, but surely anyone else with the money to afford it will. Mostly because it makes economic sense.
Reading your comments, I suddenly realized that Win NT comes from PRISM which come from VMS so it also derived from minicomputer era. Interesting, never thought about that.

I think MS-DOS comes from CP/M which was also sort of rooted in the minicomputer era.
When I search for "City, Country," I can find my profile, but searching for just "Country" doesn't work.

This is a good idea, but it needs more work on how to tokenize and index the profiles. Are you just using the API? or storing the profiles? because API for exact matches misses a lot of profiles. The location field in GitHub has been always been inconsistent, some people use country flag emojis instead of names, or just abbreviations like AR, BO, or USA, etc
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Our common ancestor is a group of small lizards [0] that are mostly known for being found inside moss "trees" where they seemingly starved to death, and many of their other descendents aren't especially intelligent either.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylonomus
Why? Your own government can do a whole lot more to you than a foreign corporation.
If that were the case in this particular instance, it would be dang/Ycom putting in the request.
In a lot of places you'll get in trouble for digging things up because a huge part of the archeology is the objects location , context etc.
I had chatgpt generate a flow chart with mermaid js for something at work and then write a scott mccloud style comic book explaining it in detail and it looked so convincing, even though it got some of the details a bit wrong. It's _so close_ to making completely usable graphics out of the box.
As you can see even the basic documentation is compromised at this point:

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/behavior-belongs-in-h...

<button onclick="alert('I was clicked!')">Click me</button>

,,You can find HTML attribute equivalents for many of the event handler properties; however, you shouldn't use these — they are considered bad practice. It might seem easy to use an event handler attribute if you are doing something really quick, but they quickly become unmanageable and inefficient.''

,,You should never use the HTML event handler attributes — those are outdated, and using them is bad practice.''

And then proceeds to suggest this:

<button>Click me</button>

<script>
const btn = document.querySelector("button")

btn.addEventListener("click", () => {
alert('I was clicked!')
})
</script>

After this, next step would be putting javascript to a separate file, and on a slow mobile connection in a random airport with thousands of people using the same wifi, a simple working code gets timeouts.

20 years ago all I needed to know was this, and it worked great:

<button onclick="alert('I was clicked!')">Click me</button>