skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite a global move towards a cashless society, 54% of Brazilians now opt for cash withdrawals.¹

2024 has seen a surprising reversal, as cash usage makes an unexpected comeback, defying predictions that the world was moving toward a cashless society. With rising cybersecurity threats, concerns over financial privacy, and economic instability, consumers and businesses are increasingly turning back to physical currency as a preferred transaction method.²

¹) https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/brazils-shift-bac...

²) https://www.adeptswipe.com/cash-makes-a-shocking-comeback-as...
This article is the first I've ever heard of the Hallstatt culture, but wow were they awesome. Check out this amazing bronze bucket from ~600 BC. It has rivets!

https://www.britannica.com/place/Hallstatt-archaeological-si...
Let's say we aren't talking about "hate" as much as "disagree". Some countries have vastly different labor standards so globalization means subsidizing immoral practices. As we all know it means that local industrial base is vulnerable to a supply shock.

You can always wonder what there is left for people to do for a living if there's always someone willing to do it for less and have fewer kids, working longer hours. (with economics they simply say that there should always be something to do in a service based economy, but obviously service based jobs can be hit as well) So if you take it to the conclusion it looks fairly bleak. It raises a lot of existential questions of what group you belong to and how you can meaningfully contribute.
Bitcoin being down 10% in the last week doesn't promise price stability.
It's not that often a find myself being a trendsetter!
Basing regulation purely on partisan lines is some serious North Korea style shit. Regulation should be based on whether reporting is misleading and/or untruthful.

This kind of reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
I work in Swiss banking. We also have such a system for payments. Its very popular and used by most people. I keep saying they should use it as SSO, if you can authenticate payments you damn well can authenticate login requests. It makes no sense to go to an online shop, log-in with your shop account or google, and then when you pay, authenticate the payment with TWINT. And banks could even use it to login to their e-banking. Currently literally every bank has its own 'Access' App, that is almost the same but slightly different. And to my irritatingly they don't consistently encode TWINT information the same way into the normal banking transactions.

Our developer phones have like 40 apps on them to log into different test system, its madding.

In our system the pay system is also 'half' branded so you have to download 'TWINT-<bank>' not just 'TWINT'. Making it unnecessarily confusing and its literally the same app (from a user perspective).

It seems this Bank Id is an even earlier system adopted for modern SSO use-case.
There was no bored back then; you were dying or hunting. Keeps you busy.
An interview is not a regular work day. If only things relevant to the job were required in an interview, no one would be talking about whiteboard exercises.
COBOL? If such time comes, we’d be lucky to even need the abacus.
> some just heavily overcharge for mediocre results

if people are paying, then they aren't "overcharging"
> I think copyright should last maybe five years: in this modern era, monetizing your work doesn't (usually) have to take more than a short time. I

funny how people who say this kind of stuff are never content creators (in the monetization sense).
Why are not the Democrats protesting with all their might against this racial discrimation with tarrifs? The Chinese deserve better from us.
Fun fact, before Pix, every bank was trying out different digital wallet solutions. It was a pain to go to a store and realize they support Bank A's digital wallet, which, not surprisingly, doesn't interoperate with Bank's B.

I went to buy açai at a shop one day and didn't have cash. Only way I could pay was with Itau's iti, but I only had money in my PicPay account.

Pix was a godsend that saved us from the thousands of different, non-interoperable digital wallets the fintechs were creating.
When you use the internet, you are typing words into someone else's computer.
You can detect fraud using non-AI solutions, but this way if it does something racist or shuts off an innocent person's access to money, they can shrug and blame it on the AI, then announce immediate "comprehensive measures" to prevent it in the future.
I migrated from Hg to Git a few years back, only because BitBucket forced my hand and most of the hosted CI tools stared dropping support for Mercurial.
But I still prefer Hg over Git.
Pix is super interesting. I have two questions to which Google wasn't able to provide quick answers:

1. Is there an easy way for a US resident to sign up for a Pix-enabled account (e.g. at a Brazilian bank?)

2. Can Pix be used easily for online payments?

If both are true, it seems like it could be used as a drop-in replacement to crypto for small-value transactions which are currently infeasible in the US due to transaction overhead and fees.
And programmed on BASIC Stamp on some godforsaken discontinued hardware. :)
Show HN: ChatGPT sprite sheet animator (Vibe coded in 2 hours)
I'm pretty sure nobody has successfully made a solution like this before. I searched the web prior. I was able to do it vibe coding in 2 hours.
We won't hire a junior with five years of experience
Heh, my brother got his Xbox original controller fixed for ₹200 which was just misbehaving due to old battery gunk. He could have afforded a new one, sure, but the charm of having the thing get another life, is a separate kick altogether :)
If it's so important, the interview invite should mention that casual wear is expected. Like it or not, most people take interviews seriously, and have been taught that you show you take the interview seriously by wearing a suit.
Show HN: dialectical.dev: Compare and contrast programming languages
Nim is an interesting language. Elixir looks amazing. Zig has some fantastic syntax patterns. Rust has blown up recently. Every few months a new language pops up, and with the adoption of LLM-assisted programming, I'm hoping we start seeing more usage of languages like these in professional settings.

I put together this project that lets you compare the same concept across multiple languages - like how do type annotations work in Typescript versus Zig, or how do lambdas or anonymous functions work in Nim versus Python, and so on. I've included Kotlin, Typescript, Zig, Nim, Elixir, Gleam, Python, Go, and Rust, but on the lookout for more languages.

I always learn better when I can compare something I want to know against something I already know.
Where x is the final hidden layer of the base model, the idea here is to steer outputs in some direction by adding a vector y. More specifically, y is an exponential moving average over a sequence of vectors W(z_t), where z_t are some sort of context vectors and W is a linear map.

Except, the linear map W is just set to a random initialization, so it won't work for obvious reasons in its current form. (I guess this is why there is no example of its output. I'm guessing it was vibe-coded?) Also, since the intervention is only happening at the last hidden layer, I can't imagine this would really change how the model "thinks" in an interesting way. Like, yeah, you can absolutely make a model talk about dogs by adding in control vector for "dogness" somewhere.

Basically, this method is "inspired by graffiti art of tagging and the neuroplastic nature of living brains" in the same way that taking an exponential moving average of a time series would be "informed by state-space dynamics techniques utilized in deep learning, reservoir computing, and quantum mechanics." Really tired of the amount of insincere/pointless language in deep learning nowadays.
The "Game Design Otter" action figure seems to come with a pair of flashlights. I bet that's a residue from the previous prompt about illuminating the tablet with a flashlight.
Because while you might agree with the current regime, laws, etc, and they may not be abusing their all knowing powers, allowing government (or any corporation) such power means they can change the rules, for example in an authoritarian direction, and you have 0 recourse, power, or leverage in the situation.
As someone who is adept at electronic repair, I am absolutely certain that it's overwhelmingly because of high labour costs. I fix my own stuff for the fun of it, but there's no way I'd do it for a living because there are just much better uses of those skills in the modern economy. Just look at the prices for old electronics on eBay or Facebook Marketplace - unless the item is very recent, repair doesn't offer good value to the owner or a viable margin for a recycler.

People used to darn holes in their socks, but that's an eccentric hobby in a world where you can buy perfectly good socks for less than $1 a pair.

It's still a factor in the developing world. Those awful scenes of e-waste being melted down for scrap in open pits are symptomatic of the fact that a lot of devices just aren't worth fixing or dismantling for spare parts, even at third-world labour rates.

Manufacturing is heavily automated, which is the reason why you can buy a toaster or a clock radio for less than $10; without massive advances in robotics and AI, the only similarly automated end-of-life solution for those items involves a shredder and a furnace. Here in the EU, the manufacturer is responsible for bearing the end-of-life costs for electronic devices, but it doesn't really change the economics.
The pix revolution is for very small business: food stalls, mom and pop shops, seasonal sellers, street vendors, independent and informal professionals (plumbers, electricians, etc).

Brazil adopted banking cards very fast and I remember using them virtually everywhere in debit or credit mode as early as my first card in 2008, I never had to carry money around. But they require two things that are a problem in a Brazil sized country with a Brazil density and infra structure: cell coverage and equipment. So small towns, small shops, independent professionals, etc would not have them or even be able to use them sometimes. Even today there are lots of places with internet but not cell coverage (radio, fiberglass or other infra but no cell tower).

This was changing on its own recently, many companies launched new machines that are cheaper and allow more small vendors to accept cards (+ working over the internet). This is still worse than the free approach of pix (for normal people) and a potentially lower fee for companies. Plus it allows people to buy with something they will have on them way more than their wallet, their phones.

I was in Brazil last week and I had to use pix only a few times to pay: parking (beach lot), tire fix (very small shop on the road) and thats it, everywhere else I used my credit card. Even though they accept pix, its not that huge of a difference for traditional business as far as I can tell, the payment terminal will also facilite pix transactions.

ps. you can tap and pay with pix too! https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/14615541
Aren't you referring to Docker multiarch?
Contactless pix will (has? It’s been a bit since I had to worry about payment rails) allow pix integration with Apple Wallet.
Because ofcourse they do... But really, what is the way to be biggest AI company ever, eclipsing palantir and openai? Yeah, make sure the US and other govs believing they cannot function without anymore. I see where Musk is going, but like his self driving cars, he is always just not quite there yet. And this is even more dangerous than self driving cars that suck.

I am a bit like him; when I make something, I see the end goal clearly and tell people like it's already there, almost, but it doesn't exist yet and takes years to do. Difference is, I sit in my garden in my underpants, he stands ranting in the white house.
This is presented as problematic, but I don’t think it’s a negative thing.

You wouldn’t want a foreign company with billions of dollars in their war chest in charge of your countries payment system.
is it bad form to just like, ask your HR screener what the general dress code/vibe is like?
> payM in the UK (which got shut down a couple of years ago due to lack of use)

I'd never even heard of this! Certainly never seen anyone offering it. Guess it got run over by lack of state capacity during Brexit etc.

> paying businesses vs using a card or your phone to tap and pay

These schemes (izettle etc) have higher costs. The poorer the country the more significant a low-cost business TX option is.
>For decades the American people have been told that anything the government touches will be expensive, inefficient, and lead to a more taxes. Private sector knows best, and all that.

Do you have some counter arguments?
I think scroll position is the one that is not preserved.
is the issue surveillance, or AI?
It's one thing to argue that copyright terms should be shortened, and another to accept that a handful of corporations should be able to forcefully shorten it for certain actors entirely on their own terms.
You can use CSS modules with your bundler to isolate things to the file they're imported in:

https://vite.dev/guide/features#css-modules
Many government policies around multiculturalism and immigration have gotten to a stage where criticism against it can be seen as incitement to violence / disturbing the peace. Protected class communities have a hecklers veto whereby responding to even mild criticism with violence they’re able to send those who criticize them to jail, often more so than the jail term for violence. States care more about criticism than the violence.

This has an effect of making criticism of government policy a heavily punished crime. A situation the government has fostered.

Multiculturalism is incompatible with free speech and since multiculturalism is government policy free speech has to be sacrificed.

It’s a slippery slope and it’s been going on for some time so very little can be done about it.
Theoretically you could, but I guess the "User Agreements" on websites like Hackernews tell that all your copyrights for the content you enter belong to them, so it's really up to them afterwards
It is interesting that I did no see in the comments the costs of using Mastercard & Visa as a reason for governments to find alternatives for their economies.

Both Visa and MC are US companies so there is where the profits go ....

From US Senate hearing : "This is classic, classic monopolistic behavior. Yet you're testimony...is you don't want any competition...I'm having a hard time finding that position defensible, let alone sympathetic...it's unbelievable the amount of money you're making."

Margin 50% ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks3wP1nlg6U
It’s because medicine, with its residencies and HN-mocked credentialism, is closer to traditional craftsmanship and the progression of apprentice-journeyman-master than the “every hacker for themselves” world of modern tech.
I can't find the details of the UK system, but it's not "monopolized" in Brazil. Perhaps due to the fact that the infra is provided by the Central Bank, and banks choosing to implement Pix support must implement the Pix APIs in their system.
It's not unusual in Europe - but then Europeans tend to dress smarter than Americans in general too.
Financial surveillance would happen either way.
It’s either from your government or to a foreign company, bundled and sold en mass.
Part of the reason is the decline of the semicolon and em-dash. At least anecdotally, I feel that they were far more common in pre-20th century fiction.

Consider the opening of Poe's "Descent into the Maelstrom":

> “Not long ago,” said he at length, “and I could have guided you on this route as well as the youngest of my sons; but, about three years past, there happened to me an event such as never happened before to mortal man — or at least such as no man ever survived to tell of — and the six hours of deadly terror which I then endured have broken me up body and soul.”

I think that every modern writer would replace the semicolon with a period. Many of them would also get rid of the dashes and the little digression they contain. So, for e.g.:

> “Not long ago,” said he at length, “and I could have guided you on this route as well as the youngest of my sons. Then, about three years past, there happened to me an event such as never happened before to mortal man, and the six hours of deadly terror which I then endured have broken me up body and soul.”
You make the assumption that maintaining the status quo is the norm. In reality, change is the norm - sometimes slow, sometimes fast.

I make this point because I strongly suspect humans become unhappy when their expectations divert from reality in a way that feels costly to them. If our expectation was environmental change, rather than equilibrium, this might change our opportunity set for managing, for example, environmental and climate change. And make us a lot less unhappy.
>I think this might change in the future when men realize the social contract reward for it has been reduced to rubble.

That's a great point but I don't think it ever will. Said social contracts are dictated by our underlying biology and whilst we may adjust or tweak them over time the fundamentals of them will stay the same. But who knows, maybe I'll be surprised and the higher order social rules will completely overcome the lower order animal rules.
.. so you put them on a globally visible blockchain?
Doesn't pretty much every country in Europe already have such a service?
The 'cheap' angle is something I wonder about, especially for the coming year with tariffs, and especially when Microsoft is trying to tell a lot of people that they need to buy new PCs to get off win10 and I doubt a huge proportion will be able/willing to do the remaining bypasses or learn another OS. It seems like a perfect storm if you're trying to be frugal, so I assume 'frugal' is going to translate into a lot of people on unsupported systems.
So do most Brazilians, as today that choice is available. It's interesting how being the first to launch contributed to that preference, regardless of the widespread usage of WhatsApp. There are other interesting factors to consider. For example, a lot of people had WhatsApp but no bank account. As mentioned in The Economist's article there have been changes to the banking sector brought by Pix as well. Anyway, an interesting case study, and that's why I mentioned it.
Reddit history in the mobile website is terrible
The house of cards is build with far more than just libs.
And everything you just mentioned came at a price.
While it's sad the devastation we've had on native species, this also feels like a testament to the ideas of permaculture. The article says the new ecosystem is full of cinnamon and guava. With just enough management to allow sustainable harvesting, such an ecosystem can be beneficial to the environment and people. It'd be better if our farms were freakosystems instead of ecological dead zones.
react and htmx both trade off dx and ux, and react shits on the user way more aggressively
It's a framework laid out by Central Bank and mandatory for medium and large-sized banks and payment companies. (For small ones, it's optional.)

Pix has several rules that makes up for a nice UX, such as being free for personal use and a 10-second limit to get a response after a transaction.

Pix is an open source specification, btw: https://github.com/bacen/pix-api
chuckles while seeing this posted on Hacker News, meanwhile a "Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!" message appears at the bottom

in any case, ads are speech, and speech is protected. funny seeing this litigated over and over again here. it's actually concerning how many people on here want to ban speech because it's paid for.
> "[...] the redirected url will still be in the history unless you manually redirect with a bare component. Hence whenever someone used back, the redirect pushed them back to the route they just left."

I know this isn't technically a browser bug, but ever since this first became a problem that's somewhat common to find on various websites, a decade or so ago, I've wondered if browsers couldn't provide the solution nonetheless..

At the very least, detect the user behaviour that screams this problem is happening (multiple clicks of the back button, which each time lead to the user being redirected to the URL they were on when they clicked it - but maybe it would be OK to detect that on the first attempt too?), and then either automatically solve it by taking them back by two URLs rather than just to the previous one (while looking out for possibility of stacked redirects that might need to skip more than one redirecting URL), or provide an alert that this potential problem has been detected and giving the user a single click solution to use or ignore.

I feel like the automatic solution should work well, but I've not put much thought into this beyond what I've just written, so maybe somebody will point out why doing it automatically would be a problem - either because of difficulty in the browser being accurate in recognising when this problem needs a bypass solution, or because even when it has correctly spotted it there are scenarios I haven't thought of where the user wouldn't want the back button's default behaviour to change?

I know very little about web browser (or even general software) development, any chance somebody reading this could chime in on whether this feature would be hard to code, whether it might have any / too much of an impact on performance, and generally whether or not you think it's a good idea?

(And happy of course to hear answers to the "good idea?" question from anyone who's had this problem in a web browser, not just developers.)
If you’re going to play the “actually” game, at least check Wikipedia first. That quote is about Oahu and it’s correct:

> Like all other Hawaiian Islands, Oʻahu was formed from the volcanism associated with the Hawaii hotspot; it started to grow from the sea floor 4 million years ago

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

Your broader use of “few” is also dubious since 28 is not normally considered small enough to include in that number:

> From this study and others,[14][15] it is estimated that the northwesternmost island, Kure Atoll, is the oldest at approximately 28 million years (Ma); while the southeasternmost island, Hawaiʻi, is approximately 0.4 Ma (400,000 years).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Islands
More likely it was written by some cheap interns and requires getting unique ticket id from server for "controlling" purposes. Then there is one part time employee (met him, small talked a little) who goes from car to car with terminal and checks if those tickets are valid. I have some experience with gprs systems here, so probable flow:

- press button

- gprs roundtrip about button press with "no payment, free ticket" (2s)

- machine shows "printing ticket", asks server what to print (aka the idiotic unnecessary step)

- gprs roundtrip (2s)

- printer warmup? (?s)

- prints ticket

> to save power (and possibly SIM cost)

Nope, costs per sim are monthly per card, until you hit the data limit, then per MB. Those machines typically have enough power to keep connection alive.
Is it? No other animal seems obsessed with getting off this beautiful rock.
there is a world of difference between interacting with three people you don't know for an hour for the explicit purpose of stress testing your experience and knowledge and interacting with three people that you talk to every day talking about a project that is well familiar to you.
> Reuters could not establish exactly how Grok was being used.

> If they’re using Signal and not backing up every message to federal files, then they are acting unlawfully

So, this article is a "we don't actually know" and a "they could be doing something but, but again we don't know".

0/10 Reuters