MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexjplant | 2025-04-03 03:11:50+00:00
Presumably to crank out multiple features at the same time. After spending some time writing project rules for Cursor I've gotten it to reliably implement end-to-end CRUD operations from a simple description of the fields and functionality. It's pretty neat and surprisingly accurate but it does take time to generate on the order of ~1k LOC so I understand the desire for parallelization. If you have a well-factored codebase with loose coupling, good abstractions, etc. this should be pretty doable without them stepping on each other.
by milch | 2025-04-03 03:12:23+00:00
I just checked mine and I have about 250k emails sitting in my personal laptop's mailbox, no issues there. It might be dependent on the provider - I know at work where we use Exchange I get occasional slowdowns but I'm not sure whether that's due to Mail.app, due to Exchange, due to our dear endpoint security software taking its sweet time checking whatever I'm doing, or any combination of these. I probably have a couple million emails in my work laptop's mailbox though. Often the "Rebuild Mailbox" function fixes any problems for me, at least for a while.

The iPhone one regularly just doesn't search properly for me though. I'll search for the exact subject or contents of a message and just won't be able to find it, then when I go to my laptop and type in the exact same terms it finds it instantly.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-04-03 03:15:09+00:00
There is an enormous and visible difference between “not getting a visa” and “getting a visa, relying on it, moving to a new country, and being told that the legal system of the new country has turned to slime and your visa may or may not still be valid”. I’d be interested in hearing about when other countries have done that, if you know of any.
by pilif | 2025-04-03 03:15:20+00:00
Keep in mind that for many use cases (mobile access, GUI on macOS), this relies on the official Tailscale clients keeping the ability to set the control server.

The moment the inevitable enshitification will start at Tailscale, this feature will go away.

I’m saying this as a currently super happy Tailscale customer who was burned multiple times in the past by other companies being sold or running out of VC money
by 3vidence | 2025-04-03 03:15:38+00:00
I've found in my career so far estimates are very useless but "key dates" can be very useful.

A key date could be an investor demo, marketing launch, actual physical launch if you are in hardware, etc, most importantly something with an audience outside of any of the core team. Find that important date and work backwards from it and find out what is important to finish by then.

This approach has defintiley saved me a lot of sanity compared to arbitrary "estimates" that are destined to be push forever until you run into one of these key dates.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-04-03 03:16:25+00:00
He'll never admit he was wrong or step down. He'll drive Automattic into the ground and Wordpress along with it (until someone forks it, like say...WP Engine, heh. Or Redhat, or IBM, or some huge web design firm, etc.)

He considers Wordpress "his" even though...he took it over from the original author who was abandoning the project.

It reminds me of the rage-bender Jamie and Jim Thompson went on, attacking OPNsense for "stealing" their work and doing a lot of immature things taking over opnsense's domain, their subreddit, etc. via legal actions. And at least one lawsuit. They lost on every front - reddit gave the subreddit back to the opnsense developers, ICANN gave them back their domain name, etc.

Attacking OPNsense for "stealing" pfSense was pretty rich given pfSense's origin; netgate slapped their logo on m0n0wall and started working on their fork. Which is exactly what opnsense did that enraged them...

Especially as pfsense software started getting more user-hostile and shifting functionality into the paid versions, pfsense has rapidly become less and less popular. I almost never see anyone recommend it anymore.
by tonyarkles | 2025-04-03 03:16:59+00:00
Back when I was a wee lad, around 1993 or so I’d guess, my uncle’s work laptop had a trackball that plugged into a special port on the side of it. Even though laptops of the time weren’t particularly good for, well, using on your lap, it was an exceptionally nice way to be able to use a mouse in a limited amount of table space.

Edit: thank you Reddit! https://www.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/s/Lw3QQG9IY8
by xyzzyz | 2025-04-03 03:17:30+00:00
> I don't think they should be able to do so for behavior that would be legally be protected in the jurisdiction a person is trying to enter

This is very much not the current practice. The DS-160 form asks you a bunch of questions about things that are not illegal in US, but will almost certainly result in denial of the visa. Not only that, it asks about your family members, and your answers can and will cause visa denial, even if your family members are not applying for a visa with you. This is good and proper: foreigners have no right to enter our country, and just because something is legal for US citizens doesn’t meant it’s desirable, or that we need to extend this right to noncitizens.

> I do not think the US should be able to deny visa applications for speech critical of the US government or Israel.

How about for being a fan of Hitler, glorifying Holocaust, and advocating for changes in US constitution to allow wholesale genocide of Jews and Muslims? None of this is illegal. You are saying that we should we not be able to keep this freak out of our country, right?

> Once a person is in the country I would absolutely want for a judicial fact finding exercise to determine whether a person has violated the terms of their admittance.

When you enter US through a port of entry, a random CBP employee is fully empowered to deny you entry if he decides you violate the terms of your visa, or some other entry denial reason applies. Importantly, you have no right to judicial review of this denial. You can make an administrative appeal, but you are not entitled in any way to have a judge hear your complaint. You are saying now that the second you get admitted into the country, the same process that was due to you before the entry is now insufficient to adjudicate your rights. I don’t buy it, and neither does the law.

> Furthermore, it is repugnant to think that visas can be revoked for nothing but constitutionally protected activities, such as writing opinion pieces for a newspaper.

Why? You can very much be denied the visa for constitutionally protected activities. Happens all the time, in fact. It would be ridiculous if we could deny entry people who glorify Holocaust, but couldn’t kick them out if we find out they do so only after we let them in. First amendment doesn’t prevent us from denying entry to foreigners based on their speech. This is settled law. If we can refuse their entry, I don’t see why it should prevent us from removing them too.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-04-03 03:18:25+00:00
Citizens aren't far off. I give it until election season.

JD Vance wrote a cover blurb for a book arguing to the MAGA base that all the milquetoast liberals they know are actually "secret communist revolutionaries" who must be "crushed" by any means necessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhumans
by _heimdall | 2025-04-03 03:18:36+00:00
What you're describing is the erosion of engineering and computer science in software development.

We've turned what can be an engineering discipline into code slinging. I'll say my opinion is more focused on web development ad that's been my focus for the last 8 or so years, but I don't think that's unique to web either.

I don't use LLMs to help with coding, for many reasons that likely aren't important to go into here. I ship more code than most of my colleagues and I end up chasing down fewer bugs and production regressions along the way.

I don't have any problem with devs using LLMs if it makes them more productive, though that depends entirely on how one defines productive. As you said today it generally means shipping more code and has almost nothing to do with quality, which I'm just not willing to waste my time chasing. I'll ship quality code that I understand, and its either valued by my employer or it isn't.
by CursedSilicon | 2025-04-03 03:18:55+00:00
I wish that Framework could attain the same lofty levels of "second hand market success" that ThinkPads enjoy. A lot of the "Thinkpad fans" I've talked to genuinely want them, or respect them for similar reasons they enjoy the ThinkPad legacy.

ThinkPads are durable but every day they get older, slower and more difficult to source parts for as collectors entrench themselves and the requirements of operating systems (and the "modern web") worsen

Framework laptops are wonderful, modern and (arguably?) cheaper to own in the long-term thanks to being able to replace components, particularly the entire mainboard as time progresses.

*But* they're a tiny boutique manufacturer. Their barrier to entry is that of a pretty hefty modern laptop, versus buying a T420 for practically pennies and performing all kinds of aftermarket "mods" to it. 51nb's "FrankenPads" especially breathe incredible new life into old IBM and Lenovo stock.

Combine this with the fact that being the "defacto business laptop" for nearly three decades (along with perhaps Dell) means there's enough Thinkpads on Earth to probably stretch end-to-end around the moon and back
by HEmanZ | 2025-04-03 03:19:20+00:00
I don’t think your hypothetical is crazy at all. I learned this weekend that much of my close family, who were pretty normal conservatives just a couple of years ago, now believe that all legal and illegal immigrants have been let into the country by jws to eliminate the white race. And that’s not an exaggeration at all. Like I’m mincing words to make them look less bad.

My family is not the down and out, they never supported these things because they have financial stressors. If anything the economy of the last 20 years has been too good to them. They are relatively wealthy and have stable lives and good jobs. They listen to too many alt right podcasts and are too deep down the Facebook hole.

Two weeks ago I was relatively optimistic. Now I’m really scared, how do you cope with loved one’s who believe these things? We’re off to a really dark place.
by ok_dad | 2025-04-03 03:19:37+00:00
> What happens if and when ICE starts rounding visa holders up to deport?

Read the news, it's already happening. One video I saw showed a woman (a PhD student in a legal visa) being surrounded by plainclothes officers with neck gaiters over their faces and they took her away in an unmarked car. Her family hired a lawyer who still hasn't contacted her though they claim she's in a specific facility in Mississippi. Her crime? Speaking out against Israel. If the first amendment is dead, hopefully the second can save us.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/us/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-unive...
by cheeseomlit | 2025-04-03 03:20:10+00:00
I'm sure the answer could be found in this repo somewhere but its above my head- does aoe2 DE rely mostly on p2p for multiplayer? I assume it does and the regional servers are just used for matchmaking, and all the actual game logic is running on the clients. I base that on the fact that map hacks are possible and that one player lagging lags the game for everyone, but there are often conflicting claims when it's brought up on aoe forums
by al_borland | 2025-04-03 03:22:33+00:00
Framework is still very new. It takes time to build a brand. I hope their new Framework 12 hits it big with the mainstream. It sounds like it’s targeted as the school/chromebook market, but as an adult I’m also interested. I’m hoping when the pre-orders go up next week it’s priced in a way that makes it an impulse buy. I really don’t need it, but I want to support the company and their mission.
by tgma | 2025-04-03 03:22:50+00:00
The system is actually quite resilient. What you are describing is a specific impact the system might have on someone's situation. That makes a specific situation non-resilient, not the system. Everyone in the whole world who is on a visa knows that is not the most resilient situation, by definition.

Also, it is well-settled that visa is a discretionary benefit. Green card is more nuanced, but still not a panacea. Some of the "scholars" that debate these things know full well what the case law is but they want to stir the pot in the media.
by JasmineChzI | 2025-04-03 03:22:53+00:00
The convergence of generative AI and omnichannel strategies is redefining commerce, with 87% of enterprisesintegrating AI-driven workflows to optimize content production, demand forecasting, and customer engagement. This transformation transcends automation—it represents a systemic overhaul of marketing’s technical and creative foundations.

Three Pillars of AI-Driven Commerce 1. Hyper-Personalized Content Ecosystems Netflix's regional content adaptation (e.g., Bollywood-style edits for India) demonstrates how AI decodes cultural semantics, driving 67% non-English content consumption growth. Similar frameworks now empower e-commerce platforms to auto-generate localized product visuals and multilingual SEO descriptions, with tools like PhotoG—the world's first AI marketing agent—enabling end-to-end campaign generation from a single product image.

2. Predictive Supply Chain Intelligence Amazon's AI demand forecasting (3% error margin) enables suppliers to synchronize production with global trends. During 2024's Black Friday, Southeast Asian manufacturers reduced costs by 45% through AI-optimized inventory alignment.

3. Omnichannel Experience Engineering TikTok Shop's Ramadan campaign achieved 70% GMV growth via AI-calibrated product displays and culturally sensitive scripts, highlighting AI's role in bridging global consumer preferences.

Strategic Insights for Enterprises 1. Unified AI Pipelines Leading platforms integrate physics-based rendering (PBR) and NLP to generate marketing packages (images/SEO content) in seconds, eliminating fragmented workflows.

2. Ethical-AI Governance With GDPR fines escalating, tools now embed compliance safeguards like end-to-end encryption and bias detection for 18 languages.

3. Human-AI Synergy Brands like BMW use cultural engagement AI to detect regional art preferences, boosting campaign relevance by 40% while maintaining human oversight for brand alignment.

Industry Outlook "AI is no longer a differentiator but a baseline for survival in global commerce." - World Economic Forum 2025 Verified ROI: Early adopters report 2x higher revenue growth versus peers.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-03 03:23:14+00:00
I don't give a crap about support of positions. A person can't be 'illegal'. They can be violating the law, but they are not illegal, unless we go back to Japanese internment camp style thinking, where the person themselves is the thing requiring incarceration.

Back when I was a libertarian they were pretty big on this argument, not progressives, as libertarians were the open borders people and progressives were off on some other cause.
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-04-03 03:24:25+00:00
The half blue / half green image still looks better with LQIP than BlurHash. I was getting ready to use BlurHash in my app, might try this instead!

In fact, LQIP looks better than most of the BlurHash examples in the gallery (https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/gallery/); not sure if these were cherry picked or what.
by noosphr | 2025-04-03 03:25:16+00:00
>The best chemical engineer isn't the one that knows the pressure at which chlorine tanks fail, they are the one that knows chlorine gas can be stored in a garage in coke bottles.

I look forward to the day that software 'engineers' are held accountable to the same degree that all other engineers are.

I've written software for industrial machinery that can kill people if it went wrong. It's amazing how much your views on software change when you realize that your accountability starts at manslaughter and goes up from there.

A human life is valued at around $10m in the developed world, incidentally my first real job was fixing an excel spreadsheet that caused $10m in trade losses after the API it called for exchange rates went stale.

I'm not saying that we arrest everyone who writes a spreadsheet to help them with their job. But _someone_ should have their head on the line when it becomes a business process without oversight that can cause millions in losses, damages or bills.
by MPSFounder | 2025-04-03 03:25:54+00:00
The truth is much of it could have been prevented (court packing was one idea that might have been unpopular, but there are many other ideas that could have been acted upon). We live with consequences of failures of the Democratic party for the last decade. Had Ruth Ginsberg been pressured to retire after her numerous health issues, Roe v Wade would never have been overturned (it was a 1 vote swing). Had primaries occurred, I believe the current guy (a felon) would have lost. There were many mistakes, which had they been addressed through any action (literally anything), could most certainly have been prevented. And this time around, it seems actual executive orders are shaping a very different America (that will require generations to undo). Early this week, a college program I am involved in (for STEM high school students over the summer) was cut. It was heartbreaking getting an email inquiring on why it is no longer on our website. Also it is the same song (the guy had travel bans his first admin, and is doing it again in different forms and to a wider range of individuals. We had four years to make these things difficult, but we did nothing). Holding paddles at state of unions seems to be widely believed among Democratic leadership to be effective, and there lies the issue.
by an0malous | 2025-04-03 03:26:31+00:00
Everything is because of increasing wealth inequality, it is the root cause of almost every societal problem. It was easier to have non-threatening debates because everyone felt more secure. When people are stressed and afraid, the debates aren’t just intellectual exercises but things that could mean the loss of real opportunities in their lives. This is a trend that has been going on for a very long time, Pikkety showed mathematically that it’s easier to make money when you already have money and this runaway process is nearing an extreme.

I firmly believe that if wealth distribution today was the same as it was in the 70s-90s, the culture wars would be significantly dampened or non existent. If people could still buy homes, afford to have kids and healthcare, we would all be able to talk about religion, sex, and politics without this extreme tribalism. It’s happening because there are way more “losers” in the economic game now, it’s become a life or death issue, and people are looking for who to blame.
by mfkhalil | 2025-04-03 03:26:32+00:00
I actually completely agree with this. Search is a good example, but in general it seems that general consensus has become that consumers don't know what they want, which is pretty frustrating, and probably a product of the success of the TikTok algorithm and similar software.

I'm hoping that as LLMs become more mainstream more functionality is built into tech that doesn't treat consumers as idiots. This is one stab at it, but there's so many other opportunities imo.
by tgma | 2025-04-03 03:28:09+00:00
There's a huge difference between not being able to buy properties and seizing them.

The former is already in place to some degree in various forms including anti-money-laundry and sanction-prevention pretexts: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/texas-legislature...

The latter is far more overreach but US already practices Civil Asset Forfeiture in other contexts, even for US Citizens, nothing new.
by joseda-hg | 2025-04-03 03:28:17+00:00
As someone that had been thinking on buying both a tablet and some sort of chromebook for light web based workflows on the go, they 100% have my attention

I will say, it has weirded me out that they have been so cagey about the pricing in particular, which AFAICT, is the only thing not public about the laptop before the pre order date
by ListeningPie | 2025-04-03 03:28:34+00:00
I’m not I the states and only see America through the media and social media like this.

You ask why did they need hope, do you have an answer why did they need hope? What’s so bad in America that people could be manipulated as you put it.

It feels a like a repeat of Brexit, where people vote against there own material gains to punish others because that’s the quickest high they can get https://youtu.be/GPgatTnVvVY
by dpedu | 2025-04-03 03:29:12+00:00
> A [macbook] battery replacement involves carefully prying out a glued component.

Can't speak to every model, but it's not always like this. I just swapped the battery on my 2020 M1 Macbook Air, and it's much easier now. The battery is glued to a metal tray that unscrews and lifts out of the laptop. It is discarded with the old battery. The tray is also held down with pull-tab adhesive strips, but they are trivial to remove - similar to what "command hooks" have.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Air+13-Inch+Late+2020+B...

I've also done a battery swap on a 2015 Macbook Pro 15" - much harder. Each individual battery cell is glued directly to the chassis, and removing each one involves a lot of prying and praying it doesn't puncture or decide to detonate.

Back to the macbook air, I've also replaced the screen and USB-C ports. It's not that bad.
by jmye | 2025-04-03 03:30:21+00:00
> both sides were too scared to test or even acknowledge

I think that’s harsh. I think the folks in government generally believed that the opposition was there in good faith and with the intent of strengthening the nation, even if they disagreed on how.

I don’t think that’s the case any longer and institutions based on good faith don’t work when the group in power is willing to light everything on fire.
by Marsymars | 2025-04-03 03:31:54+00:00
> Tariffs should be expansive enough to take things like cheap labor in foreign countries

But why? Monaco has 39k people and a GDP per capita of $240k. Would they be better off if they instituted auto tariffs so that the cheapest option for selling cars to Monégasques was to build the world's least efficient auto factory? On the world stage, the US is basically a big version of Monaco.
by pests | 2025-04-03 03:31:57+00:00
I have a friend who purchased some sketchy IPTV service for $100/year. Basically all the cable and premium channels from around the world. Navigating the channels are difficult as there are many duplicates or all the local channels around the country. Interesting to watch the news in different areas and sometimes a little unreliable and probably illegal but it was a TIL for me too.
by jasonjayr | 2025-04-03 03:32:35+00:00
Sure it's discretionary.

But to (a) Revoke it with no warning (b) Instantly making your presense illegal, and you a criminal, and due to your new criminal status(c) immediatly abducting you by masked, unidentified "officers" in an official capacity and sending you on a plane anywhere but here, seems to, I don't know? "stir the pot" as you say?

These revocations could be done far more graciously than they are. It certanly reveals how the people in charge feel about their fellow humans. It's being done this way NOT to be efficent. They're doing it to send a message.

"See how quickly we can disappear you for dissent."
by tlogan | 2025-04-03 03:32:38+00:00
Excellent post.

It wasn’t always like this. I remember when you could be pro-gun and pro-environment—and still have thoughtful, respectful conversations with people who held different beliefs.

Today, if you’re not fully aligned with every talking point of a political party, you’re instantly labeled either a fascist or a communist. And sometimes it borders on absurd: the moment party leadership shifts its stance, the whole tribe flips with it. It wasn’t that long ago that Republicans staunchly opposed tariffs. Now? They’re all in.

My question is: What changed? When did we become so tribal—and why?