skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's interesting to hear people side with the artists when in previous discussions on this forum I've gotten significant approval arguing that copyright is far too long.

Well broadly that's because most arguments about copyright(length/scope) are made against corporations attacking individual artists and arguments about copyright(AI/scope) are made against corporations attacking individual artists.
PIX are free for persons.
Companies may* pay for pix services. My bank (that is not a good bank) charges a fixed amount of 4 BRL (aprox 1 USD) per transaction (to send PIX. not to receive)
PIX in "maquininhas" may cost ~1% to the seller.

* may: banks are allowed to charge.
I don't think you've thought that through - fascists and communists both have more control over the institutions of democracy than they do over those companies. The banking companies generally don't want to be involved in anything ideological except moneymaking.
I fundamentally cannot trust a searching system that includes a disclaimer that it can make stuff up (hallucinate) and there's nothing you can do about it.
I’d define this as: we consciously understand the potential and real consequences of our actions.

Ants operate on instinct and are not capable of extrapolating higher order consequences like we are.
Hopefully ECB’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) service will enable the same widespread adoption. With a price of 0.002 euro per transaction it’s guaranteed to become the most convenient solution.
>higher latency for all actions

If your implementation is poor

> all of your computation on the server

You doing weather forecasting? Crypto mining? What "computation" is happening on the client? The only real computation in most web sites is the algorithmic ad presentation - and that's not done on your servers.
Profound metaphor for the "uplink" to civilization which we all ultimately depend on.
What signals are you seeing?

The ones I've seen aren't good. I see some jobs in companies with shitty pay or shitty culture (my bar is not high). It dies look like the past 6 months have been better than the previous year or so. But overall, it looks pretty dim. I'm getting PIP'd soon. I am expecting that I will likely lose my job. If that happens, I'm expecting that I will end up as a Walmart greeter. As someone with a disability, I expect my application will go right in the trash if I answer yes or blank on the disability question. Or get fired if I mark no and then do need accommodations.
Depends how bored I am.
Maybe it's not deliberate, maybe they are just unaware, the 90's is a long time ago now.

It feels like OSI and Open Source advocates spend a lot of time and effort trying to fight people from using "open source" and "free software" in their literal meanings rather than the other way round. The established common use is only really within the communities that use them.
But it's correct though
The closest are Python, Ruby, Perl. IMHO Lua is best as plugin/scripting language operating on some object API. E.g. Nginx (OpenResty) and Roblox use it that way.
The worst is a market facade for a government service. Examples in the US:

- Weather apps: various governments do the (very expensive) computing and provide the data for free. Private companies insert adds, or charge you. I use Yr, which is run by Norway and has no adds or fees. They are just sourcing public data [1].

- Taxes: the government does all the bookkeeping and enforcement, tax prep industry copies and pastes numbers into forms it lobbies to obfuscate.

[1]: https://hjelp.yr.no/hc/en-us/articles/360004008874-Weather-f...
That’s true for the moment, specially because you’d need an agreement between both countries.

But payment processors in Brazil are already offering “international pix”, that Brazilians can use to pay foreign companies. It’s the same experience as pix for the customer but behind the scenes the company deals with the cross border payment.

There are even stores accepting pix in Portugal: https://www.publico.pt/2025/01/23/publico-brasil/noticia/pix...
Can you elaborate on the technicals? Is it a phone app? Does it work through QR codes or NFC? Is there a Pix "card"?
Theortically it would now be possible to implement a similar service in the US using FedNow:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedNow

Of course in practice it is a chicken-egg situation. Few people will use it over established credit based systems unless there are other incentives.

Credit card companies, including PayPal & Co, are essentially rent seeking: They are middle men that technologically aren't needed anymore for instant cashless payments, but they still exist because they can extract enormous amounts of profits via fees. But countries like Brazil and India show that they can be replaced with free or almost free systems based on instant bank transfers.

It's true that credit cards still have the use case of providing a "chargeback" service. But this isn't possible with ordinary cash either. Moreover, most people likely buy online from trustworthy shops like Amazon, so this isn't often a problem in practice. In expectation people spend way more money on credit card fees than they ever save with chargeback. Chargeback is like an overly expensive insurance that hardly anybody needs.
I think the pacing/logic part is in the patch worn on the skin surface. From what I understand the rice grain part converts an optical signal it sends into an evoked potential.
The parking ticket machine might make things deliberately slow because the printer needs to warm up or something.

Maybe it needs up to 5 seconds to warm up if it's in deep sleep, so splitting this into three 2s periods provides the least frustrating user experience.

As soon as you need to deal with real hardware things always start to get complicated.
> IBM’s solution is to reduce data duplication within its caches, and re-use the chip’s massive L2 capacity to create a virtual L3 cache.

I was kind of fascinated with the original Telum CPUs because of this feature. Do we know if other CPU designers are planning a similar virtual cache feature? Or is this feature implemented as a workaround due to some other deficiency that others don't have?
>Cryptocurrencies don't stand a chance.

They protect against tracking and provide anonimity. That might be valuable.
Gee, you said what I’ve been thinking for years.
Yes. They should look for a job that actually covers their lifestyle instead of crying about AI taking their jobs.

They can always put in more hours and become better. I cant imagine they have a lot of paying customers anyway.
Thanks, this kind of information is very hard to find elsewhere and ... I just find snack food interesting. :)
Of course there is a difference the other way. With a government run payment system only the government knows it. Not the government and some for-profit corporation.
The question was "GitHub CI YAML vs. pipeline.sh", not "GitHub CI YAML vs. other forge’s YAML."

What I’m trying to say is that if you keep your build logic in `pipeline.sh` (and use GitHub CI only for calling into it), then you’re going to have an easier time migrating to another forge’s CI than in the alternative scenario, i.e. if your build logic is coded in GitHub CI YAML.
Yeah, of course their style isn't static, but I was taking Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) as a point where much of their visual style was pretty well-established.
Trump Order Seeks to Tap Coal Power in Quest to Dominate AI
Where did I mention being an amazing programmer? If that's the requirement then why not. The comment was replying specifically about environment where you gotta sit through hour long meetings and that is what I wrote about

maybe there is a company where being an amazing programmer is enough. I worked with capable depressed programmer who never delivers and is too shy to delegate anything, capable psycho programmer who no one wants to work with, bad programmer who works crazy hours, carries the project and interacts nicely with customers when needed. The last one was probably the most valuable
I guess there’s no reason for survival of the fittest to equal more intelligence.

Easy to forget that “fittest” is only relevant to the environment/context you are living in - if intelligence does not make you “fitter” for that then it will probably disappear.
There are other stable conditions: law is not the only possible system of justice. Is it in the best interests for everyone if the law steps in every time one person punches another? Law is helpful when things can't be resolved at an interpersonal level: there are situations where a single punch should be prosecuted, so we can't just make punching legal; but equally, if too many things are illegal, selective policing becomes possible, and that's an abuse we really don't want.

Institutions like the criminal justice system are tools. Some can wield the institutions skilfully (e.g. https://www.loweringthebar.net/2006/07/judge_tells_con.html, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-38021839/speeding-drivers-q...), but often, it's a blunt instrument.
So this sounds just like PayID in Australia or what was payM in the UK (which got shut down a couple of years ago due to lack of use), minus the QR code generation part.

It's used between private people to make it easier to send money to one another without having to type in bank account details, but never really used to pay businesses (except under the table).

How come this is so popular in Brasil for paying businesses vs using a card or your phone to tap and pay (which seems more convenient)?
A sample snippet using ReactJS: https://scriptpad.dev/?id=555ysbnAyK3gc3vUOxmc&o=1&c=2
If the layout hasn’t changed, then there is no flicker that I can tell on Chrome/FF at 144hz.
This is largely a result of tariffs/duties that India imposes on everything. A typical $800 laptop is going to cost $1200-$1500 in India. Combined with the purchasing power parity, a good laptop is out of reach for most people. The repair culture works entirely due to artificial scarcity. Nostalgia for repairs notwithstanding, it is a failure for the country that people can't afford a decent laptop in 2025.
>Can you elaborate on the technicals? Is it a phone app?

Isn't paying with some phone apps the default in China? And I think transferring using phone apps has some success in Africa, too.
It’s always fun to read posts like that: they say “look at this amazing thing it drew”, and the image is utter garbage.
For 0.001% of the population.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43581305
Do you use/recommend any FOSS payment system?

I could not find any VISA foss software.

if there is any payment system that MAY be FOSS in the future, it is PIX. Not apple wallet.
At first glance, the favicon/logo looks like the poop emoji, rather than a bonfire haha
TinyCard Game Maker
Huh. I work in finance related industry and was reading this for insight into the lack of forward movement in important software features—-opposite condition of the OP’s context of gaming.
It just means that you comp it together manually. That's still much better than having to set up some inpainting pipeline or whatever.
I don't disagree with you :)
Except we know certain chemicals are harmful, and we have no idea about the long term effects of many others. We also have a history of using materials we don’t understand and only stopping after it kills or harms enough people.
It’s like some old man who is so invested in “the way we used to do it”.
Can we please have one post regarding a payment system (which works well by most accounts) not be taken over by crypto shills and skeptics whatabouting everything? I've had enough in the past 5 years and I hope it stops soon.

Most people are simple, they want to pay, and get paid, in their local currency. There's a homegrown software which enables them to easily do just that. That's a great technological and social achievement, it would be great if we could discuss that, and not crypto, which is not the main subject here.
Experts dispute claims dire wolf brought back from extinction
It's a red flag? Come on, if I wear a suit it's because I want too and has no impact on my skills as a software engineer.

Being hyper judgemental about the clothes people wear isn't productive
> The Rotating Door of Ownership

It’s this one. And it happens in every industry. Things fall through the cracks because no one wants to take responsibility for covering the cracks. And that’s because it’s generally a thankless job. The company Swiss Army knife / fixer / keeper of institutional knowledge is quietly holding things together while the upwardly mobile types ensure the spotlight stays on them.
I used to do a lot of hiring interviews long before ai and this exact situation has happened many times. People have been added to some project doing x haven’t really done much or engaged in it. They then see you need someone doing x then they add it to their resume.
However, I do agree not being able to fully talk about a thing you have been working on and worse misrepresenting the extend of your involvement are red flags.
Has nothing to do with AI though. Also sounds a bit like they wanted to say: “Ai encouraged me to exaggerate a bit” which again just means they wanted to shift the blame which is another red flag.
If your house burns down, your couch, photo albums, home server, and cats “change” into piles of ash. As amazing as piles of ash are, your previous belongings were unique and had value to you, and would be much more difficult to replace than the ash would be.

Large mammals take 10s of millions of years to evolve. Their extinction due to “change” by humans is irreplaceable, for all intents and purposes. This idea that all changes are somehow neutral and so don’t matter is ridiculous.
> “They should have first gone and made their grievances known in a private way to the appropriate people.”

Why did you automatically assume they didn’t? Do you have special knowledge of the situation or did you just assume that was the case solely on the words of a company press release? Clearly the company would have no reason to use the same tired recycled excuses in press releases of “you should have talked to us privately” every company claims after a protest (which often get proved out as false in later employment lawsuits).

It seems odd that someone would write, “this is especially true when I've witnessed how Microsoft has tried to quell and suppress any dissent from my coworkers who tried to raise this issue” if the issue had never been raised or discussed prior.

Do they deserve to be fired? Sure. Does that mean protesting and disrupting a celebration was wrong after many people had tried to voice opposition of their use of AI this way, I don’t know that I can agree.

If you have ever worked at a Fortune 500 company, you would know that you might as well scream into a void if you think a company is going to reverse their decision to make more profit because of some whiney employees who don’t want to “just do your job”. Sometimes disruptive actions are the only way to bring attention to the things companies do, as can be seen by this being covered in the press , which means more attention has been brought to the issue, which was exactly the goal was it not?
Doge using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
Yeah you are right. I can't reproduce it at the moment. Maybe I am thinking of a couple of years ago when the browser did in fact flash for the same.
Pix does not substantially changes the tax evasion problem as that is mostly a problem with higher earners and small/medium business who evade tax using cash payment, convoluted setups of companies and "laranjas" (our slang for someone borrowing the name to do something for someone else, the scapegoat) as well as "non cash" transactions.

Pix mostly replaces and eats on credit card transactions that were done for the convenience aspect and no the credit aspect. As well as allow a whole new part of the country to accept electronic payments, and although that would increase tax revenue from business it also substantially increase their revenue since there is no x% from card processors and don't require special rented/bought equipment.
I still don't really get this. Do you mean that frent-ends have proprietary code?

Contracts on-chain can be slightly inscrutable in their bytecode format, but it's pretty uncommon for smart contracts to not be published with source code and a verifiable build.

Example, picked randomly from a transaction in a recent block: https://etherscan.io/address/0x388c818ca8b9251b393131c08a736...
Not when the argument is that they have bad motives. Then it's simply evidence supporting the argument.
With a few trusted classmates, do a market analysis on a need and build an mvp for it. Post it on here and say you’re looking for investors.
It's funny but also worrying how much Americans underestimate the impact a centralized government can have on people's lives. That probably means that eventually it will happen there.

A centralized – often socialist – government is the _definition_ of monopoly, you can't escape from it without risking jail or worse. No U.S. monopoly, no matter how much you hate it, will get close to this, and you think it does, you are sincerely naive at least.
Exactly. The crackle from a speaker after a week or building and rebuilding all the necessary parts to make it work was music to my ears.
The iPhone. Here's the iPhone with Tariffs
>> 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.

There same requirements also make the likelihood of these systems scaling beyong one jurisdiction very unlikely. Tourists don't want to set up a payment account for every country they visit. Or other way around, banks don't want to KYC and set up an account for every foreign tourist.

As Visa and MC work globally, I'm betting that the dominance from those will continue. Cryptocurrencies might have some change of becoming the "global" transaction method as well.
> reading that really makes me wish there were a compiled-to-static-binary language with a reasonably easy migration path from javascript

I'm working on it ;-)
Making in-person tests the only thing that counts toward your grade seems to be a step in the right direction. If students use AI to do their homework, it will only hurt them in the long run.
Wouldn't be surprised if the whole post was actually written up by AI as a "subtle" way of promoting the company, fueled by riding out the outrage from hiring managers on linkedin
> When he drops massive tariffs on everyone at once, it’s intended to force people to the table to negotiate with an uncomfortable starting position for them.

It might be the intent, though there is no proof of it, just like there's no proof for any of the other 4D chess fanfic. But if it's the intent, the means are obviously a horrible way to achieve that goal.

If you want to force people to negotiate from an uncomfortable position while having all the leverage (rather than negotiating a mutually beneficial deal), you want to isolate them from support, you need a threat that hurts them worse than it'll hurt you, and you need them to believe that you won't back down such that their only option is to accept a bad deal.

None of this is the case. By issuing the tariffs against ~all countries at the same time, the outcome of failed negotiations is going to be far worse for the US than for any other country (affecting a larger slice of their economy). These measures are intensely unpopular in the US, and opposing them is as popular abroad, so the public opinion is working toward a return to the status quo on both sides.

Even if Trump himself doesn't care about public opinion, the Republican Senators and Representatives do, and they have the power to stop this. How long will it take for them to start fearing the general electorate more than the primary electorate? A couple of weeks?

> If a few major countries capitulate in the next couple of weeks I think the market will probably catch its breath.

How would they capitulate? The US itself has no idea of what its demands are. Again, something that you'd really want to line up in advance if this was all some galaxy brain negotiation play like you suggest.
There are alternatives to both inefficient government-run monopolies and US tech giant monopolies.

Even a small country like Denmark has multiple software and finance companies doing apps and software in the digital payments and banking field.
With BRICS, other currencies may be integrated.

China also have a pix-like wechat
Russia has a pix-like "BRICS Pay"

And those systems can be integrated.

PIX QRCode protocol already have a "currency" field, that currently only support the constant value of "BRL"

USA probably will continue to use check and printed money like the ancients do.
https://archive.is/tcHcb
What is wrong with the advice? You are saying nobody was wearing a suit. I said dress a step up (for the interview). Sr. Management in graphic tees? Wear a polo shirt. Or sport your best conversation-starter graphic tee. And if the CEO wears a tee-shirt and all the rest are in some other category of dress, base your interview attire based on everyone else.
[in NYC accent] What, you think you're better than us
I agree. I'm still feeling the effects of lowballing myself to get any job.
> How to measure "lack of crime" if depends mostly on people responsibility than policing?

The thing is, a holistic approach to policing is key, and it's not just about putting bobbies on the street, it's far far FAR more what's needed to create a healthy society.

You need a social safety net for the unemployed, decent housing to prevent homelessness and its associated side effects (such as people taking dumps on the sidewalk), an accessible and affordable system of physical and mental health care, accessible options for education (not just of children but also for adults who need to switch careers for whatever reason), assistance programs for released convicts to find stable employment and a place to live, "third places" for the needs of all generations from young to old...

Police as an institution is absolutely needed, but in a healthy society it should be a matter of last resort, not a routine tool that kills or otherwise hurts people. When you as a government have to resort to hiring ever more (and ever more dumb, because the supply of smart people is limited) police to keep the peace, something has gone very wrong at the foundations of the stack that we call society.
This is just a diffusion text-to-image model like many others, completely different than a LLM with a native image support.
I wish we could make a comparison with Indian payment system calld UPI. I feel both are similar and I wish if we could know and compre all such govt run initiatives. UPI is Indian govt initiative and very reliable
yes! Nice to know that polish also have one!
Is there somehow a preprocessor invoked through the link-element? Or is this about some optional stuff to produce custom Tailwind style CSS files?
In theory, yes. In practice, doubtful. A system is only as strong as its weakest link.
What about the half of the remaining artists that are below the new median?
These systems are not a direct alternative to Visa/Mastercard. They offer no credit and give no fraud protection and no way to revert transactions (ie you can never get your money back once you send it).

Although they can replace a lot (most?) of existing transactions that are currently done through credit cards, there is still a place for them.
> so not really cross border except from a certain legalistic angle

Is this a joke? Of course it's cross-border, it crosses international borders. It works because the countries involved put in the work to make it easy. The fact that you can't use Pix in the US has no bearing.
To be fair, you don't know when you might need this. Crypto's useful in authoritarian countries as a means of financing activities the dictator doesn't want you to partake in, like independent media funding, or to move savings to another country in case of a "sudden" foreign currency operation restrictions.