MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-08-20 19:47:43+00:00
Yes it is. At least in NYC. I'm including multiple links to the data, lest folks try to claim it's some sort of TDS[0] fueled plot against our beloved and incredibly popular leader.

https://nypost.com/2025/07/25/us-news/foreign-tourism-to-nyc...

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/nyc-will-see-a-17-perce...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/nyregion/nyc-tourism.html

https://vinnews.com/2025/07/25/foreign-tourism-to-nyc-faces-...

https://columbianewsservice.com/2025/06/04/new-york-city-see...

https://tjvnews.com/local/new-york/new-york-city-faces-4-bil...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_derangement_syndrome
by dwaite | 2025-08-20 19:48:00+00:00
1. If the phone is bare. If you have a case (or a magnetic wallet like mine) it is stable. Rumors are they are moving to a camera bar in the next release.

2. There is a filter 'not in an album' which would do what you want. The library view is the equivalent of "All Mail" in Gmail. In newer versions, this is a distinct view - they are moving albums, automatically generated collections and search to be a primary interface.

3. Both WebKit and Mozilla have said they consider the local access variant of that API to be harmful, since they do not have an adequately prominent way to surface and manage that you've given a web application permanent access to sensitive directories and files, potentially in the background via service workers. Both do support the origin private filesystem variant. Are there productivity apps direct filesystem access would be useful for other than IDEs?
by yawnxyz | 2025-08-20 19:48:03+00:00
If you LoRa them you can make them VERY VERY good at a small narrow set of tasks, e.g.:

- reply in a specific way, like a specific JSON schema, or in the voice of a character - be very good at classifying text (e.g. emails, or spam) - be a great summarizer for large amounts of text, e.g. turn emails into short titles or url slugs - adding tags/categories per your pre-defined rules (e.g. for communities, tagging content, marketing) - for detecting spam, or duplicates, or flagging things

You won't be able to write code or prose with these, but they're great for a huge array of very narrow set of use cases

What's neat about "stupid" models like this is that they're less likely to go off and dream up a bunch of irrelevant content, because they don't know much about the world / won't have too much context to pull from
by Lumping6371 | 2025-08-20 19:48:08+00:00
And what's Ruby's maintainability like? As in, once the project gets inherited by a new dev, or your reach a larger than a couple of devs scale?

Not being ironic, genuinely curious. My only parallel is JavaScript and that becomes a pain in the ass quick due to the small bugs that go unnoticed, even working as a lone dev. TypeScript catches a great deal of those and you can get by with less testing and a more readable (imo) codebase, so a win-win for me.
by ofrzeta | 2025-08-20 19:48:42+00:00
The core thesis seems valid " AI bots seem intelligent, because they’ve achieved the ability to seem coherent in their use of language. But that’s different from cognition."

As it happens LLMs work comparatively well with code. Is this because code does not refer (a lot) to the outside world and fits well to the workings of a statistical machine? In that case the LLMs output can also be be verified more easily by inspection through an expert, compiling, typechecking, linting and running. Although there might be hidden bugs that only show up later.
by abetusk | 2025-08-20 19:49:14+00:00
"MIT: non-commercial use" [0]

I have no idea what this means.

> MIT: non-commercial use, Proprietary: commercial use, contact for terms: hello@bizcardz.ai

Then, right under it:

> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions ...

What?

[0] https://github.com/rhodey/bizcardz.ai/blob/master/LICENSE
by bogwog | 2025-08-20 19:49:57+00:00
What are you getting out of this though? Do you think this robot is going to have some kind of positive economic impact? Will you turn it into a business? Do you anticipate it will solve a personal need, like folding your laundry for you? Because a lot of people do robot projects in their free time to learn, but you're doing it without the learning part...so what's the point?
by dismalaf | 2025-08-20 19:50:37+00:00
> Trying to train them to use whatever app Google currently uses for video calls

Everyone I know uses Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp these days. Both of which are cross platform, even web (so can use on a desktop browser).

Also, the current Google thing, Meet, doesn't need the person you're calling to have the app. You invite them, they get a link, it opens in their browser, mobile or desktop.
by alistairSH | 2025-08-20 19:50:40+00:00
I have an accent. If ICE stops me at a traffic check (which they run on public streets in DC) and asks for my papers (which I can't provide, as I'm a citizen), am I just supposed to hope and pray they take me at my word? Not a great system. And as much as I'd love to take it to the man, I'm just going to avoid downtown for now.
by whalesalad | 2025-08-20 19:51:30+00:00
When I see words like nestable and infinite, I assumed this would be something where you can draw a diagram and then zoom in or out to see it at different detail levels. IE, draw a CPU diagram and zoom out and it becomes a simple box. Then you construct a motherboard around it. So I can see it as a simple block diagram at motherboard level, but as I zoom in the motherboard disappears and I am in the context of the CPU, seeing things like cache locations, cores, etc.

This is a product I REALLY want. Since I want to be able to diagram entire complex systems without always seeing 10,000 boxes on screen. You could start a presentation at 35,000 feet, showing the entire rough structure, then zoom into different regions where more detail will appear (infinitely)

Nestable feels more like excalidraw, with a folder/file structure?
by jama211 | 2025-08-20 19:51:42+00:00
By this logic a Ferrari should cost less than a Toyota Camry because it has less seats and luggage space.

I.e. you’re conveniently leaving out the _entire_ set of reasons this isn’t the case.

As a side note, computers DO cost more than phones, in general. You can barely get a graphics card for that price these days, so you’re not really comparing apples to apples if your computer is that cheap.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-08-20 19:51:48+00:00
"The door is locked, so instead of suggesting to the end user that they should unlock the door with this key that we know how to give the end user deterministically, we instead tell them to drive across town and back on our toll roads and collect money from it"

This has been a common gotcha for over a decade now: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-aws-managed-nat-gatew...
by maxbrunsfeld | 2025-08-20 19:52:00+00:00
The Zed spirit is definitely to prefer a platform native solution.

You're right that we may be able to get rid of our WGSL implementation, and instead use the HLSL one via SPIR-V. But also, at some point we plan to port Zed to run in a web browser, and will likely build on WebGPU, where WGSL is the native shading language. Honestly, we don't change our graphics primitives that frequently, so the cost of having the three implementations going forward isn't that terrible. We definitely would not use MoltenVK on macOS, vs just using Metal directly.

Good point that we should publish a symbol server.
by ggreer | 2025-08-20 19:52:09+00:00
You can buy a mini on secondary markets. Some are even new in box, though you might need to replace the battery.

Until about a year ago, Apple had 13 minis in their refurb store.[1] That's where I managed to get one. I'm going to hang on to it as long as possible. Previously I had an iPhone SE (the one that looks like an iPhone 5), and I still slightly regret upgrading to the mini. The mini's camera and display are significantly better, but it's a little wide for my hands.

1. https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/iphone
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-20 19:52:23+00:00
When it comes to right-wing VC's you should note Andreessen-Horowitz is in a class by itself.

They always have Marc Andreessen be their front man for discussions of politics because if they sent out Ben Horowitz people might ask "Who is that Horowitz?" and one answer to that is that he's the son of David Horowitz

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

who was a notorious right-wing figure who just passed away a few months ago. Back in the 1990's he would come to Cornell twice a year [1] and rail against the liberal universities with basically the same arguments that Andreessen makes today. I don't know what trajectory Marc has followed, but if his beliefs changed it wasn't just "life happened to him" but that his business partner happened to him. It means his ideas are less fresh than he wants you to think and more stale.

[1] I read his books, attended at least one of his talks, asked him a question
by hylaride | 2025-08-20 19:52:32+00:00
As others have pointed out, this is by design. If VPCs have access to AWS resources (such as S3, DynamoDB, etc), an otherwise locked down VPC can still have data leaks to those services, including to other AWS accounts.

It's a convenience VS security argument, though the documentation could be better (including via AWS recommended settings if it sees you using S3).
by vunderba | 2025-08-20 19:52:46+00:00
No, it's not odd, I like this take a lot. They almost need a dropdown menu indicating where you'd like your money to go to (editor, LSP, etc).

I'd also much rather have a means of paying a single flat fee to indicate my support than yet another subscription which is misleading because I have zero interest in the AI components of Zed.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-20 19:53:26+00:00
IMO, the AI bits are the least interesting parts of Zed. I hardly use them. For me, Zed is a blazing fast, lightweight editor with a large community supporting plugins and themes and all that. It's not exactly Sublime Text, but to me it's the nearest spiritual successor while being fully GPL'ed Free Software.

I don't mind the AI stuff. It's been nice when I used it, but I have a different workflow for those things right now. But all the stuff besides AI? It's freaking great.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-20 19:53:31+00:00
"You're doing business with someone whose views I dislike" is not harassment, nor do I believe that the person who opened the issue is arguing in good faith. The world is full of people with whom I disagree (often strongly) on matters of core values, and I work with them civilly because that is what a mature person does. Unless the VC firm starts pushing Zed to insert anti-Muslim propaganda into their product, or harassing the community, there is no reasonable grounds to complain about the CoC.
by toephu2 | 2025-08-20 19:53:58+00:00
> I back everything up to my NAS via an iCloud docker shim

As someone who refuses to pay extra for iCloud storage, can you tell me how to do this? I haven't figured out a good (read: easy) way to backup photos from my iPhone to computer/external storage (I don't want to use iTunes software cause I don't need everything syncing both ways).
by tastyface | 2025-08-20 19:54:20+00:00
I believe this was previously flagged and has now been unflagged by the mods.

I wonder why they chose to unflag this and not, for instance, “Brennan Center for Justice Report: The Campaign to Undermine the Next Election,” which is far better journalism and had a lot more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816165

They say they don’t make moderation decisions for political reasons, but I am finding it harder and harder to see.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-20 19:54:35+00:00
You don't even need to remember any OpenSSL commands. I manage all of my home certificates using XCA GUI.

When creating your CA certificate you can hop into the Advanced tab and add the following line to constrain it to specific domains. This eliminates the risk of your likely-poorly-secured CA being abused to MITM all of your communications:

nameConstraints=critical,permitted;DNS:.home.internal

This will only allow CA to sign certificates for *.home.internal. I think browser support for nameConstraints is pretty good these days but some clients might not be compatible and you can always install a CA certificate without this extension on devices that don't support it.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-20 19:54:36+00:00
Sorry, I don't know how to put it more politely, because I ran out of words. You sound like someone who refuses to believe that vitamins are healthy for the body, because the pills smell funny.

What you said is true though. I also spend some time not writing or typing anything but thinking, but I know where I want to arrive and trying to find a polite and concise path from where I am to the point I'm trying to arrive.

When I'm using pen and paper generally that arrival point is non-existent. IOW, I'm working on much harder problems and hacking a mental path towards somewhere I don't know, so I need to slow down, and chip away a problem step by step.

Some programmers go to a whiteboard, some talk with rubber duckies or their colleagues, to add an external speed brake to the process, because when you tend to think hard, the brain's speed brakes wear down. This is not myth, it's neuroscience. Adderall and Ritalin is used to add these speed brakes to people who born without them. This is a thing. Don't ask me how I know.

"Your first draft will be shit, edit until it makes sense" is the 0th rule of writing anything. What I do is writing that draft on paper, and editing in my mind. Then write the 5th or so draft to the computer.

This allows me to create what I want in less iterations in less time.

What you already said is also true. Humans are not LLMs. We're not copies of machines, or copies of each other, for that matter.
by mrcwinn | 2025-08-20 19:54:48+00:00
I really like their AI strategy. It’s much stronger than Apple’s, which seems to be nonexistent. The problem I have is I really like my Apple Watch Ultra. There is nothing like it in the android space and I can’t rely on Google. Actually caring about building a great product the way Apple does. Googles hardware products always seem to be some strategic wedge play to keep the ecosystem in check. They don’t seem to exist because they really care about building the very best watch, or phone, or whatever and at any point they might just cancel the effort.
by avidiax | 2025-08-20 19:55:20+00:00
Smaller phones tend to have a lower price point.

If they don't offer a smaller phone, you'll eventually buy a bigger phone. Once you are in camp big phone, you'll probably be back on the 2-5 year device treadmill. And you'll be spending more on the big phones.

Apple is in a continuous state of not giving their customers what they want.

A convertible Macbook with a touch screen and dual MacOS/IOS personalities would sell out. They will never make it because no one will ever buy an iPad again.

A high quality TV with Apple TV built in at a premium but reasonable price would sell like hotcakes. It would compete with Apple Cinema displays, however.

A basic "good enough" 5 inch phone for $499 would also sell fast.

Apple won't do these things because you'd be happier but spend less.
by dwaite | 2025-08-20 19:55:21+00:00
I maintain that if the Touch Bar had been made full height and had an affordance (like slightly more distance) to prevent accidental touches, it would have been way more practical.

Apple tends to have products on a design refresh schedule, and for the Mac is it about five years. I think the combination of user dislike of the initial implementation and limited developer integration caused the physical Touch Bar to be eliminated in the M1 design.
by m463 | 2025-08-20 19:55:48+00:00
security = 1/convenience

I think docker is equal parts wonderful and annoying

That said, the docker folks deliberately designed docker to be promiscuously unsafe to keep themselves in control:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33054369/how-to-change-t...

I believe redhat didn't design this limitation into (docker compatible) podman
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-20 19:55:57+00:00
There’s still an element of subjective preference, as much as many like to say otherwise. To me, Android animations and gestures have always felt less polished and natural and more rough “forever prototype” and mechanistic, for example.

In terms of “just working,” a big weak point of Android that stands out to me is just how clunky it is if you’re not neck-deep in the Google ecosystem and use more standardized service providers like FastMail. iOS stock apps work great with IMAP, CardDAV, CalDAV, etc but on Android you have to hunt down third party service agnostic apps for everything, few of which are designed to work with each other. To be fair though, Windows also suffers this issue.
by em-bee | 2025-08-20 19:55:58+00:00
wow, thank you. your first example is actually what i have been trying to do but i could not get it to work. i did search for examples or explanations for hours (spread over a week or so). i found the documentation of each of the parts and directives used, but i just could not figure out how to pull it together.

your last example is what i started out with, including the pass through template. you may remember this message from almost two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44398626

one comment for the xslt 3 example: href="" doesn't disable the link. it's just turns into a link to self (which it would be anyways if the value was present). the href attribute needs to be gone completely to disable the link.
by pm90 | 2025-08-20 19:56:02+00:00
Theoretically, yes, if AWS were really focused on they could probably deliver something like databricks; all the components are off the shelf, and a significant number of databricks clusters are on aws anyway. The question though is why; they’re already driving a lot of traffic to AWS and managing all the end customer stuff. The benefit of killing databricks is less than letting it live and grow and buy more from AWS.
by lubujackson | 2025-08-20 19:56:16+00:00
> "a large amount of money per month (between $333 and $1,000)"

A substansive amount, but does this really change the class of problems facing anyone in the U.S., aside from acute hunger? Does this remove any risk of debt hell or structural issues around the types of issues people around the poverty line face?

I am not really surprised by the results. Capable, poor people tend to use all the tools they have available from federal assistance to leaning on their community. Helicoptering money might invalidate them from certain aid. A chunk of it goes back to taxes. Certainly the money was appreciated and used, but no surprise it didn't "solve poverty".

I don't understand blindly throwing money at lots of people and asking them to do a survey and calling it science. Most people who win the lottery end up equally or more unhappy. Does that mean if you give everyone a million dollars, there would be no increase in leisure or happiness? Too little thought is given to wider societal changes in favor of individual impact, but were are very much the result of our environment.

People are not islands, and people with little money are likely more entwined with their communities. If you want to affect change you either raise the community or transplant an individual from a community. Studies like this completely ignore the social and emotion aspect of humans but then ONLY look at those factors (are you happier?) to judge effectiveness... with expected results.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-08-20 19:56:32+00:00
Comically unreliable? From an intel perspective? This is not the least bit true.

Economically, yes. Militarily, not really but yes NATO will need to meet their obligations, which I can see they're not used to doing.

But Intel, I don't think any of us are privy to any changes to Five Eyes, etc.
by criddell | 2025-08-20 19:56:37+00:00
I have an iPhone because at the time I bought it I liked the size (Mini 13) and it's fine. Before that I had some Android phone and it was fine too.

I've never understood the strong emotions people have attached to these things.

About the only thing I'm looking forward to when I upgrade my phone in a couple of years is getting a better camera. Phones were pretty exciting for a while, but now? It feels like a mature segment and not much is changing anymore.
by aozgaa | 2025-08-20 19:57:34+00:00
Agreed.

LLM’s are fundamentally text generators, not verifiers.

They might spot some typos and stylistic discrepancies based on their corpus, but they do not reason. It’s just not what the basic building blocks of the architecture do.

In my experience you need to do a lot of coaxing and setting up guardrails to keep them even roughly on track. (And maybe the LLM companies will build this into the products they sell, but it’s demonstrably not there today)
by dmix | 2025-08-20 19:57:42+00:00
deltadb sounds interesting. AI editors should look into letting you operate on multiple git branches simultaneously, like isolated browser tabs where the AI gen doesn't contaminate the other.

One of the reasons I find LLMs don't increase productivity much is that I can't switch branches to multitask while it's processing. Context switching isn't always useful but there's still lots of opportunities for rapidly experimenting or ticking off a couple small bugs quickly while AI takes the first pass on something more complicated.

Each "branch tab" could have a sort of TODO list or plan.
by scoofy | 2025-08-20 19:57:45+00:00
I am trying to build a Wikipedia for golf course architecture. Free shared info, genuinely about showing pride in your home club, printable yardage books if people make them…

The biggest response I get is “yea but the info on my course is blank, this sucks.”

I suspect there are only like 10% of folks who are remotely altruistic, and maybe 0.1% that would bother to even quickly edit Wikipedia if they found an error.

The vast majority of social media is carried by a few folks who genuinely want to connect and share things they love. After that the follow along is people critiquing, which is fine (I’m doing it now) but it doesn’t actually build anything.
by ethersteeds | 2025-08-20 19:58:14+00:00
> You can't just look at hamburger sales to judge hamburger demand. You have to consider an alternate universe where hamburgers aren't on the menu, then subtract all the people who would have ordered something else for lunch vs going hungry.

I know this probably is how the decisions get made. Especially if the alternative has a higher profit margin. I just have to say I think the world is worse for it.
by blibble | 2025-08-20 19:58:34+00:00
they seem to be written by either idiots and/or people that don't give a shit about being good internet citizens

either way the result is the same: they induce massive load

well written crawlers will:

- not hit a specific ip/host more frequently than say 1 req/5s - put newly discovered URLs at the end of a distributed queue (NOT do DFS per domain) - limit crawling depth based on crawled page quality and/or response time - respect robots.txt - make it easy to block them
by alistairSH | 2025-08-20 19:58:40+00:00
Ah, I misread (but can't edit any more)... lots of online content describing CBP/ICE operations near major international airports, which I took to mean those airports were considered borders that start a "new" 100 mile zone.

That's incorrect (per the ACLU post in the sibling comment) - it just happens that many major airports are within the 100 mile zone, so CBP/ICE can run operations there (beyond what they might run at an airport well inside the heartland).