MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orochimaaru | 2025-04-03 02:57:48+00:00
I'm not sure. The media is pointing out specific cases but the question is what % of travelers on visa made it in/out without trouble. There is heightened focus on enforcement. They may have trained their software to have a lower threshold of social media posts for entry. So, I do believe that you're at risk if you've made controversial statements not in line with what US considers as friendly behavior.
by dccoolgai | 2025-04-03 02:58:15+00:00
It's also the "lawyer/MBA's fantasy" that you can move the physical "making of things" to place B while the "good innovation jobs" stay in place A. It might work for a _short while_ but eventually the real innovation will happen with iteration in the factory floor in Shenzhen. All the Chinese leaders of the last 30 years were engineers and all of ours were lawyers and MBAs. Go figure.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-03 02:58:15+00:00
This tariff was a change that was inevitable irrespective of party. I have qualms with it's messaging and rollout, but it's something that both parties were increasingly aligning towards.

Anyhow, what's done is done, and now it's cheaper to purchase intermediate parts like PLCs from Germany (20% overall tariff) or Japan (24% overall tariff) than it is from China (54% overall tariff) or an iPhone assembled in Mexico (NAFTA has been exempted from these tariffs thanks to Congress) or a Nike shoe assembled in Philippines (17% overall tariff) than in Vietnam (49% overall tariff).

Those jobs weren't coming back to the US, and if they were they would be anyhow be automated, but at least we can reduce some dependency on China, and give breathing room to either us or our allies to build some capacity.

> Kleptocracy

Not yet using the formal definition, but absolutely autarkic now like before the 1990s
by 74848732648 | 2025-04-03 02:58:18+00:00
Eh... Discord's enshittified client is still a hundred times more usable than Element — for all its faults, at least Discord is able to deliver and display messages reliably ("unable to decrypt message", anyone?). And for the more technologically oriented, client mods do a lot to improve the Discord UX.

Element X is supposed to improve things, but it's stuck on Android and iOS for the foreseeable future.
by linsomniac | 2025-04-03 02:58:28+00:00
I can't exactly recall if we called it "e-mail" at the time or "mail". I do recall emailing in probably 1985; I recall distinctly setting up a cute multi-line graphic "you have mail" shell notifier when I was primarily dialing in on an HP-110 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_110 ) with the 16 line display, it was a loaner because the 24 line Plus model was out in 1985 and everyone wanted that one.

It was a lot of bang paths, where you'd list your e-mail address from a pretty well known location, like "hpfcla!hpilsb!linsomniac" and the sender would have to know or use trial and error to say "I bet ihnp4 can reach hpfcla.

You know those viral videos of kids tossing a ball the hits a pot that bounces over to a pan that bounces to another pot then to a kettle then into a cup? That's what sending e-mail was like back then. At least via UUCP.
by Frost1x | 2025-04-03 02:59:50+00:00
Repping to failure has potential ethical implications?

Reps to failure can be done pretty darn safely with machines and incredibly low risk of injury if done on the higher rep ranges (say 20 per set). You’re not going to get rid or risk of injury but in order to even do this study, my opinion is you have to be at a normal level of injury risk or the study is pretty much flawed by design.
by ianburrell | 2025-04-03 03:00:01+00:00
There isn't a date but clues indicate that the crossing was decade or more ago. The Garmin 12XL was released in 1996. It is possible that was using GPS and none of the equipment available now, but more likely that didn't exist.

Solar panels weren't as available back then. Satellite messengers weren't available. Both are popular with sailors now.

Edit: It mentions other GPS units so could be more recent.
by p_ing | 2025-04-03 03:01:12+00:00
A 17 year old ThinkPad is going to have extremely limited utility for today's applications. You can browse the web****, sure. You can replace parts, yes. But it still performs like dogshit for today's applications.

That said, I maintain a G4 Cube running an outdated OS to play Sim City and Sim Tower. And it's "upgraded" as much as possible.

****JavaScript not included
by ranger_danger | 2025-04-03 03:01:12+00:00
This does not help against real DDoS attacks (that don't even speak HTTP most of the time) or full-browser headless bots, besides warming the planet more. It also only looks at Mozilla user agents (despite one of the reasons given for its development was bots changing user agents), so it's extremely easy to bypass. But solutions like CF's or similar are better tailored for anti-DDoS purposes where the threat is from massive amounts of bandwidth, not well-behaved AI crawler bots clogging up your logs.

And if your argument is that it helps DDoS by being a frontend proxy, well, you still need more bandwidth than the DDoS uses, in which case you could do this with a simple "click here" page just as easily.

But please prove me wrong if I've misunderstood something.
by tomohelix | 2025-04-03 03:01:45+00:00
Wait until they declare nonresidents are not entitled to properties in the US and seize all bank accounts and 401k, USSR style.

The scariest thing, and most absurd to me, is that even though I made that joke just 1 minute ago, now that I think about it, it is not completely impossible in this current political climate...

I dread to think about what the US will be 10 years from now. Trump is not the problem. He is a solution, or claimed to be, to the ailments that plague the US. The people here want change, they know something is rotten but they don't even know what is the problem with so many lies and misdirection and days to days burdens they have to bear. So Trump become their cry for help. It is just sad and tragic. Truly something for the history book, if we ever get there.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-03 03:02:31+00:00
If a politician tells an obvious lie, it's not enough to call it a lie.

There has to also be a competing vision.

The Democrats have been stuck in a "That's a lie!" + {crickets} rut for too long.

What is the competing vision? (And no, general platitudes about freedom, democracy, and apple pie aren't enough)
by majormajor | 2025-04-03 03:03:15+00:00
The biggest mistake those employees make on their way to getting overlooked is assuming their boss knows.

Everyone needs to advocate for themselves.

A good boss will be getting feedback from everyone and staying on top of things. A mediocre boss will merely see "obvious" things like "who closed the most tickets." A bad boss may just play favorites and game the system on their own.

If you've got a bad boss who doesn't like you, you're likely screwed regardless. But most bosses are mediocre, not actively bad.

And in that case, the person who consistently helps unblock everyone needs to be advertising that to their manager. The person who's work doesn't need revisiting, who doesn't cause incidents needs to be hammering that home to their manager. You can do that without throwing your teammates under the bus, but you can't assume omnipotence or omniscience. And you can't wait until the performance review cycle to do it, you have to demonstrate it as an ongoing thing.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-04-03 03:03:28+00:00
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Howdy, I'm looking for our next Software Development Team Lead. We have a beautiful (mostly empty) office in Calgary but are remote-first. Your team members are located from Vancouver to Quebec - for now; we're growing so maybe NFLD soon?

This person will lead our growing AI/ML team, but they are first an experienced team lead (you have managed people before) with significant python development experience. You can be creative with how you demonstrate your skills, experience and passion for AI/ML, and you'll get a chance to grow in these areas working with our strong technical team.

if you're interested check out the posting, and if you apply I'd appreciate mentioning you found out about this on HN (long-time participant but first time as a hiring manager in this pool of talent). Thanks for your interest!

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by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-03 03:03:32+00:00
You're drawing a false dichotomy between believing things with no evidence (what you dishonestly call "deduction") and simply waiting for the accused to produce evidence.

I know this is mighty convenient framing to justify the conclusion you've already reached, but back here in reality there's actually no shortage of people with access to all sorts of records who are extremely motivated to find and publish such evidence. They haven't yet and they almost certainly never will.

P.S. To deduce that Biden ordered these investigations, you'd have to disprove alternative explanations including "the defendant himself and his own legal team publicly provided ample evidence of his criminality to justify investigation."

You're making shit up, not deducing, lol.
by owenversteeg | 2025-04-03 03:03:37+00:00
I agree with the author's point, which basically boils down to "pay peanuts, get monkeys."

But I think another large issue is a deep lack of respect at these jobs, in every way. They are impersonal, they are short-term, you are a cog in a machine, they don't know your name, the customers don't know your name, they don't care about you, you are replaceable, you don't care about the work, why would you?
by johnnydevriese | 2025-04-03 03:04:25+00:00
Location: Boise, ID

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Python, Javascript, Rust, PostgreSQL

Resume: https://gist.github.com/johnnydevriese/8463d1f60443d5abda51d...

email: johnnydevriese@proton.me
Show HN: All Books, All Languages (ABAL)
by Falimonda | 2025-04-03 03:04:36+00:00
"All Books, All Languages", or ABAL for short, is a modern, web-based, parallel text language-learning application that I've been working on as a side project for about a year.

I've already received a lot of great feedback about the application among language learners. In addition to what I hope is an intuitive UI/UX, one of the unique things about ABAL is the way that pronunciations are customized to a user's native and target languages.

Systems like IPA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...) don't make pronunciation any easier to get right for a majority of - if not all - language learners. ABAL solves this by showing phonetic hints that are written in the user's native language script and are meant to be pronounced in the native language's voice.

The name All Books, All Languages is intentionally quixotic, as it serves to set the ambitious and unreachable goal of hosting all of humanity's written works while making them available to all language learners and readers across the globe!

Today, it hosts a number of generated short stories categorized by subject and CEFR level. I'm currently working on supporting (private) self-uploaded files, and works in the public domain. Work is also going into adding support for more languages, while evaluating and optimizing for cross-language translations accuracy.

It currently supports 56 languages (including Klingon and Latin!) - which comes out to 3080 permutations - or 3080 unique user profiles as I like to think of it. Both the marketing and application sites are fully internationalized - even response messages in 4xx responses use i18n. Quite a bit of work went into automating the i18n diff generation system to make sure I can release UI/UX changes quickly.

I hope you'll find it useful if you're learning a new language or need to practice one you already know. If you're not learning a new language, but wish you could read classics in a language you're fluent in, stay tuned!

Marketing site: https://www.abal.ai Application site: https://read.abal.ai X for updates: @abal_ai
by csense | 2025-04-03 03:04:40+00:00
If so many companies are such a disaster, why isn't someone founding a startup that says "We won't do any of that crap here" and eats said companies' lunch?

Might be such startups are unstable, because once the lunch starts getting eaten, the founders are instantly offered "F-you money" to sell their company, at which point it gets rolled into a disaster company. Or it loses its incentives past a certain size.

Rare indeed is a company whose founder(s) both (a) refuses to sell for a generous valuation and (b) actively put the brakes on aggressive growth out of wariness it will destroy the company yet (c) still sees the company to success.
by DidYaWipe | 2025-04-03 03:06:07+00:00
Thanks for the reply.

But I really detest the ever-growing universe of unnecessarily obscure slang. It's not clever and not informative. Good slang is akin to a word that you can figure out from its Latin origins; it makes sense, might be clever, and you can figure it out if you think about it.

This is just douchey.
by BrenBarn | 2025-04-03 03:06:16+00:00
> The law is unfortunately very vague and thus open to interpretation (which is ultimately subject to the commander in chief, the current clown)

That is it exactly. The US legal/governmental system is a house of cards that has been running for at least 150 years on a bunch of wink-wink-nudge-nudge assumptions that both sides were too scared to test or even acknowledge. An ounce of prevention might have been worth a pound of cure, but now we'll need the cure, and it's probably going to be painful.
by dredmorbius | 2025-04-03 03:06:25+00:00
The article brings to mind a 1983 SF short story, "Rogueworld" (Charles Sheffield, published in *Fantasy & Science Fiction) <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?49095+2>), in which a rogue planet enters the Solar System and rapidly evolves from an apparently dead static body to one of immense turmoil due to accumulated stresses, both physical and electromagnetic.

The idea that static electricity could similarly serve as an initiating factor in the formation of smaller macroscopic bodies (dust -> pebbles -> boulders -> asteroids -> planets) is of the "why didn't I think of that before" plausibility. Transition points between static-electric effects, chemical bonding, and gravitational cohesion would be interesting to model.

Some further reading on the topic:

"How do stars and planets form and evolve?"

<https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/big-questions/how-do-stars-and-p...>

"How Do Planets Form?"

<https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/how-do-planets-form/>
by KennyBlanken | 2025-04-03 03:06:50+00:00
That's a lot of words from someone who doesn't know what's been going on for ~6 months or so that is relevant.

Mullenweg lost his mind and attacked a competitor to Wordpress hosting (WP Engine) and kept doubling down and only served to demonstrate how much of an unhinged asshole he was.

Along the way he pissed off the Wordpress community - the worry was that if anyone else pissed him off (which could include he'd accuse them of using the Wordpress name or even "WP", even if it was descriptive (which is entirely permitted use of a trademarked name) and run up a bunch of legal expenses for them.

Angry-at-the-world blog post after blog post doubling down over and over. Taunting people as he banned them from the Wordpress slack, that sort of stuff. Then he blocked WP Engine from accessing the Wordpress.org plugin and theme registries which meant a huge number of sites couldn't update plugins or themes.

Then he announced Automattic was going to cut back engineering hours to (if I remember right) one full time staffer. One person to keep up with security updates and bugfixes of a very complicated piece of software used by a lot of organization.

Incredibly childish and thoroughly demonstrated to the world that he was unsuited for leading a company and being the sole person almost completely in charge of a piece of software used by a 20-30% of the websites in the world.

This was absolutely foreseeable, especially when he cut back Automattic's engineering to 40hr/week.

I advised a client a few weeks into the drama to at least keep in the back of their minds that they might have to migrate at some point as "the CEO of the company is off his rocker, they probably will start to struggle with security updates, and the company may go out of business."
by jgord | 2025-04-03 03:07:07+00:00
.. "we will need writers who remember freedom" Ursula Le Guin

Both of our best ways at getting to the truth - Journalism and Science - rely on entertaining and following all sorts of contradictory ideas and then comparing them with observed reality.

Universities in particular need to be physically safe spaces, where ideas of every kind can be mercilessly attacked.

We are losing what took so long to build.
by facile3232 | 2025-04-03 03:09:05+00:00
Give me a way to filter out results with ads on them please.

Edit (hn doesn’t let me post this fast): is finding places to buy shit really an issue? How many times in your life have you thought “damn I know what I want to buy, I just don’t know from which site to buy it”? That’s hard to imagine of anyone. This user story just seems like a problem made up by search indexes to court capital.

Edit2: Kagi is great. I'm a full subscriber.
by rzwitserloot | 2025-04-03 03:10:07+00:00
I pay sales tax when I buy something with money I have. That was already taxed.

Huffing and Puffing about paying taxes when you do a thing _just_ because the thing you are doing, you do with money you already paid taxes on - is a crazy idea. So crazy, nobody does it even though that happens all the time. Except, apparently, inheritance tax.

You must really hate taxes on fuel or cigarettes too, and sales tax of course.

Similarly, this:

> but you decide that you have more of a right to direct those assets for them.

Is quite the statement. That is what governments do all the time. You want to do a thing, they tell you: No, you cannot do that. If you fail to comply, we will punish you. For some countries, all the way up to and including murdering you.

Government dictates and you agree. That whole 'monopoly on violence' thing.

In this case, government has some thoughts on how you should spend your money as you are shuffling off your mortal coil. It suggests you spend some of that on general things the country as a whole wants funded. It very strongly suggests it. Insists, really. Kinda like how it insists you wear a seatbelt.
by ryanckulp | 2025-04-03 03:10:14+00:00
jumping in to defend myself (thanks f5bot). you are not a serious person.

1. i'm very proud of Fomo. for 6 years we fought against fake data. i said "no" to many lucrative opportunities that were not ethical. our vision was "to given entrepreneurs the credit they deserve," and our mission was "to help consumers make better buying decisions online." your comment is libelous. [1, 2]

2. as of yesterday, all 11 of my courses are free. i've helped over 10,000 people learn to code and learn to sell. [3]

3. on the side i do a bit of pen-testing. i help stop* scammers, and i help non technical folks protect their brand. that's why Bubble added me to their home pages and dozens of cash bounties have been sent my way. [4, 5, 6]

[1] https://blog.fomo.com/having-a-vision-works/ [2] https://blog.fomo.com/introducing-honest-marketer/ [3] https://x.com/ryanckulp/status/1907099032616378815 [4] https://www.ryanckulp.com/hustlewing-is-a-scam-so-i-hacked-i... [5] https://bubble.io/security_acknowledgements [6] https://bubblesecurity.gumroad.com/l/unhackable-101
by majormajor | 2025-04-03 03:10:41+00:00
What if it doesn't survive and 70% of the people who were in the Kingdom end up in worse, arbitrarily-ruled, small despotic fiefdoms instead? And only 10% end up being better off by being lucky enough to have landed in the high-trust+high-competence small group?

Or, switching to consumer products vs company revenue/profit or kingdoms, and grounding in a specific example: people love to hate Windows, but how many of them would actually be better off if the options were just Mac (still expensive, still niche) or Linux? And "well they could just learn how to [code or configure text files or whatever]" for these purposes counts as worse off, IMO - more time spent on something that used to kinda-sorta-at-least-work-predictably for them.
by acosmism | 2025-04-03 03:10:58+00:00
I still use my t440s all the time to this day. it is durable, versatile, does exactly what it does and does it well. not tied down to its firmware, software - i can't think of the analogy off the bat but its like several other things that "just work" (maybe indoor plumbing or something) so well you forget about them
by saghm | 2025-04-03 03:11:34+00:00
> The issue was interest rates. Money was free in Feb 2022; the interest rate was literally 0%, and so any cash-generating investment at all is profitable. Fed started raising rates in Apr 2022, at which point leaders started freaking out because they know what higher rates mean, and by Jun 2022 the Fed was raising them in 0.75% increments, which was unheard of in modern economics. By Jan 2023 the rate was 4.5%, which meant that every investment that generates an internal rate of return between 0% and 4.5% is unprofitable.

"Unheard of in modern economics" is carrying quite a lot of weight there. The last time the rates were increased by 0.75% was 1994, and while that's not recent, it's pretty silly to imply that CEOs should be making long-term investments assuming that it would be literally unprecedented for that to happen. Interest rates have changed only a few dozen times _at all_ since then, so yes, they haven't been increased by that much recently, but there's never going to be enough of a sample size over a period of a couple decades that it would be reasonable to assume a precedent that will never be broken.

The crux of your argument seems to be that because the interest rates happen to be set a certain way at a certain time, it would be irrational not to make decisions based on how profitable they'd be at that exact moment in time. The problem with this line of thinking is that plenty of investments are only realized over long enough period of time that by your own admission, people can't possibly react fast enough to avoid those turning into a loss. My question is, why put yourself in a position where you can't adapt fast enough in the first place? The way interest rates are set should not be news to the people making these decisions in companies, so it's not crazy to expect that maybe the people who are betting their company's success on something from less than three decades before being "unprecedented in modern economics" could think at least _a little_ longer term than "literally anything is profitable in this exact moment, so there's no need to think about what might come next".
by naikrovek | 2025-04-03 03:11:49+00:00
rsc, rob pike, and bradfitz are three people I could talk to for hours, completely wasting their time, especially about Plan9.

That OS fascinates me.

I remember early in my career when an expert I worked with could sit with me and patiently show me how to do something and let me ask questions for however long it took me to understand well enough what to do and how to swim if I fell in the deep end of whatever they wanted me to do. It was some of the fastest upskilling that I have ever done in my career, like getting a bachelors degree worth of very specific knowledge in three hours.

I don’t know C and I don’t know enough about Plan 9 to use it productively for anything, but it has some extremely cool and useful features that I want to know more about and learn how to use, even if it is only so that I can lament the non-existence of those features in the big three operating systems today.

If I had the money I would probably pay to get face time with all three of those folks for expanding my Go knowledge and rsc and rob pike for the plan 9 understanding that I have always wanted, but have never been able to give myself.