MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by robocat | 2025-05-05 07:42:07+00:00
> foreign ownership of US securities is actually flat

Totally incorrect according to this graph: https://taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/figure1_25.p...

From article: https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-owns-us-stock-foreign...

Can you cite a source for what you've written?
by KingMob | 2025-05-05 07:42:30+00:00
You know all those things would happen without Musk, right?

A funny thing about SpaceX: I used to work around the space coast in Florida, and the scuttlebutt there was how often the employees had to work around Musk.

Apparently he would breeze in, make uninformed suggestions, and the employees developed processes to limit his damage.

Go outside, touch some grass, and contemplate that Musk is just a dude with a lot of money, not some singular genius or the savior of humanity. Once you do that, you can ask yourself if he's even the best billionaire to be running these companies.
by thinkingemote | 2025-05-05 07:43:17+00:00
I'm having some trouble thinking about how this works. I guess it's about who is eligible to be in the process - the "pool of people" or "population".

It reads as if a group of people chooses another group of people from a larger pool to make a smaller pool of people and repeats. Does these pool of peoples change? Can someone be in multiple groups? etc

Are there any more descriptive or animated examples of how this works?
by mturmon | 2025-05-05 07:43:27+00:00
This is incorrect. In his book on LaTeX, Leslie Lamport specifically says that he does not care how you pronounce it. (See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX#Pronouncing_and_writing_...)

Knuth, on the other hand, has a whole rationale on why it’s pronounced “tech”. (“Your keyboard should become slightly moist”, iirc).
by aucisson_masque | 2025-05-05 07:44:07+00:00
Shortcut is one of the main selling point for an iphone vs an Android. There is just nothing comparable.

Yet even then, I know I have particular need, I'm not the average apple customer. Most people never heard about shortcut and wouldn't care if it disappeared.

Working on shortcut must be quite time consuming and benefit something like 1% of apple customer, so I get that it's never really going to be a priority.

They would rather focus on artificial intelligence that the average Joe can use.
by josephg | 2025-05-05 07:44:52+00:00
Its the same reason that Markdown became popular. I want my document to primarily contain content. Not a sea of handwritten tags.

I don't want to manually type (or read past) HTML tags littered around the place. I don't want to manually put <p> tags on my text, or worry about how indentation will affect my rendered output. (For example, <p>foo</p> and <p> foo </p> render differently).

If I'm writing a blog post, I also don't want my post's text to get mixed up with site specific stuff, like meta tags and layout elements.

Are there any good "literate HTML" type tools which first and foremost let me type text, but still let me break into HTML? That I could get behind.
by jessekv | 2025-05-05 07:45:55+00:00
Shortcuts is buggy and difficult to work with, but it is the escape hatch on apple watch that makes the watch usable without also carrying your phone everywhere.

I have a shortcut for captive portals when you want to get on WiFi, a shortcut to dictate a quick search on Kagi (I am working on another for Kagi Assistant) and another to check the trains on the train website. Between these and apple wallet I can leave my phone at home.
by yieldcrv | 2025-05-05 07:46:38+00:00
They’re in the VIP sections at music festivals

One thing that the upwards explosion in ticket prices has done is practically ensured only responsible people can go!

I love what the people I meet are into in professionally, as its pretty top tier professions and investing, and I have pretty much have nothing in common with the people that resent and lament the costs. (Payment plans are somewhat resetting that but the prices are continuing to increase, and there’s just a couple a wooks to spice things up)

Having a drug experience regiment by day is pretty common
by MandieD | 2025-05-05 07:47:58+00:00
We sucked up an extra month's rent to have overlap on our move just across a small metro area to the older house we'd bought, and it was worth every penny - we had time to repaint some walls and refinish the living room floor before our furniture was moved in (local moving services in Germany are quite different from the nightmares I'm hearing about here)
by wunderwuzzi23 | 2025-05-05 07:48:55+00:00
Yeah, the number of ~40 needs a bit more validation. I did observe the list being trimmed around 40, which aligns with the title "recent conversations content".

Put together a first post to try dissecting it all: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/chatgpt-how-does-c...

You can try simple repros like: 'list all "recent conversation content" entries', or 'how many "recent conversation content entries" are there above'...

it has timestamp, summary and then all the messages the user typed if you ask for the details.
by przadka | 2025-05-05 07:49:00+00:00
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by doix | 2025-05-05 07:49:22+00:00
Isn't Tasker[0] the Android equivalent? I have never used an iPhone though, so I can't comment on the differences. I also haven't used Tasker in about 5 years, so I'm not sure if it's gotten more or less powerful over time.

Also, a quick search shows Automation[1] as an open source alternative. No personal experience with this one, but will probably try it out soon.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch....

[1] https://server47.de/automation/
by baalimago | 2025-05-05 07:49:34+00:00
The problem isn't LLM, it's how universities are designed. With short terms and high pressure, students develop 'knowledge bulimia' (in lack of a better term). They have to study highly complex fields in short amounts of time, then move on to often unrelated fields quickly thereafter with no emphasize on persistent learning: the knowledge learned in previous exam can be mostly discarded. They may need to 're-learn' it for another exam, but that's fine, they are very good at learning new things which later on can get discarded.

Using LLMs to achieve this is just another step in the evolution of a broken education system. The fix? IMO, make the exams for the courses delayed by one semester. So during the exam study-period, the students have to 'catch up' on the lectures they had a few months ago.
by const_cast | 2025-05-05 07:50:02+00:00
Those students do exist, but there are an exceedingly small minority. Of course, they won't tell you this, because everyone likes to believe they're self-motivated. Most people just aren't.

The simple question to ask is, when you go home, what do you do? If the answer is learn how to sew or work on your project car you've had for 10 months, you can probably learn on your own. If your answer is watch TV, play video games, go on a walk - then you can't, and you should go to university. Some people have told me this question is unfair. I mean, they're so tired from work, of course they want to relax. Well, guess what - your life doesn't stop if you're learning how to code on your own or whatever. If that's all it takes for you to not do it, then you don't have what it takes.

How often are people picking up new and complex skills that takes years to get the hang of? Almost never. So there you go, most people require a formal, structured education to pull that off.
by raffraffraff | 2025-05-05 07:50:22+00:00
Great answer. I managed metrics systems way back (cacti, nagios, graphite, kairosdb) and one thing that always sucked about push based metrics was coping with variable volume of data coming from an uncontrollable number of sources. Scaling was a massive headache. "Scraping" helps to solve this through splitting duty across a number of "scrapers" that autodiscover sources. And by placing limits on how much it will scrape from any given metrics source, you can effectively protect the system from overload. Obviously this comes at the expense of dropping metrics from noisy sources, but as the metrics owner I say "too bad, your fault, fix your metrics". Back in the old days you had to accept whatever came in through the fire hose.
by anougaret | 2025-05-05 07:50:24+00:00
yeah it is still truly hard and rewarding to do deep, innovative software but everyone is regressing to the mean, rushing to low hanging fruits, and just plugging old A with new B in the hopes it makes them VC money or something

real, quality AI breakthrough in software creation & maintenance will require deep rework of many layers in the software stack, low and high level.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-05-05 07:51:07+00:00
>If you try to round up everyone that committed a crime, you're going to make mistakes. You'll get people that did not commit that crime. So no, there's no contradiction in that sentence.

Yeah there is contradiction. They either committed the crime or they did not. Which is it? Do they have valid immigration papers or not. That IS the due process. Where do you see the potential mistakes? It's very binary. When you enter the movie theater, you either have a ticket or you don't.

And mistakes happen with all the due process in the world. Jails everywhere have people who are there even if they did not commit the crime simply because the prosecution was stronger than the defense.
by Yoric | 2025-05-05 07:51:25+00:00
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I have experience with desktop code, distributed code, backend code, some frontend, protocols, but also with setting up teams, working alongside management, product, marketing, legal. I've been involved in open-source forever, interacting with communities, presenting at conferences, writing technical and non-technical papers and blog entries, mentoring external contributors, ...

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by cess11 | 2025-05-05 07:52:55+00:00
It's easier and good enough to just use LyX, a graphical document editor with a bunch of backends and templates, and if you really need to do something special you can still drop down to LaTeX and do your own templating.

https://www.lyx.org/

It's published under GPL so relatively protected from corporate nuisances. Takes five minutes to teach someone how to mark headlines, add content listing and change document type, then a little more to teach how to add tables and images.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-05 07:53:34+00:00
I won't say there are exactly zero self-taught professionals in classical music because I don't know for sure. But I will say I've never heard of one. If they exist at all they're exceptionally rare.

The music industry is built on the back of people with music degrees. They don't get the name recognition of headliners. But song writers, arrangers, and session musicians are all very likely to have formal training in theory and maybe performance.

Producers and engineers less so. Those are more of a track record who-you've-worked-with occupation.
by const_cast | 2025-05-05 07:54:15+00:00
It's counter to this specific thread. It's not counter to the world at large or, as you say, "reality".

Critical race theory is a real area of study and there are multiple studies backing this up. The systemic advantage white people face is so painfully real and obvious that, if you deny it, you are delusional.

> Your shahada is not shared by everyone else.

It's not "shahada", it's science. Just because it makes you feel slightly uncomfortable doesn't mean it's not real. I encourage you to find a box of tissues, and get over it.
by ehnto | 2025-05-05 07:54:39+00:00
I think you hit the nail on the head, especially for deeply embedded enterprise software. The long action chains/time taken to set up debugging scenarios is what makes debugging time consuming. Solving the inference side of things would be great, but I feel it takes too much knowledge not in the codebase OR the LLM to actually make an LLM useful once you are set up with a debugging state.

Like you said, running over a stream of events, states and data for that debugging scenario is probably way more helpful. It would also be great to prime the context with business rules and history for the company. Otherwise LLMs will make the same mistake devs make, not knowing the "why" something is and thinking the "what" is most important.
Show HN: I kept forgetting names and contacts so I built Cardio
by clement_ckw | 2025-05-05 07:55:10+00:00
I kept forgetting names and contacts… so I built Cardio.

So I built Cardio: a digital card/profile you can share with just a QR code or link. It saves directly into your contact, so no more “Who was this again?” moments.

- Built with Next.js, Adobe, and Stripe - Uses AI tools (Cursor, ChatGPT) to accelerate development - No app install needed: just tap, scan, or share

I’m a solo builder from a non-dev background, and this is my first product. I launched it 10 days ago and made my first sales.

Would love any feedback! performance, UI clarity, growth ideas or anything. Thanks HN!
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-05-05 07:55:17+00:00
"One of William F. Buckley‘s most famous quotes goes something like this: “I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”

Source: https://www.johnlocke.org/what-was-it-that-buckley-said-abou...
by LeonM | 2025-05-05 07:56:09+00:00
My post is being downvoted, but it was serious advice though.

Especially in RF hardware design, you will have to plan for the hardware revision to inevitably have problems. And in hardware design, a new revision will take at least another week for a new prototype to arrive.

OP is on rev 5, so I'm assuming that the schematics itself will have been validated already, if the schematics haven't changed between v4 and v5 then it's not unrealistic to subtract the schematic validation part from the planning.

However, OP does also mention having made many routing / placement changes, and trying to move components under a heatsink and such. This is where all sorts of unforseen problems can arise. Especially with high-speed, RF, impedance matched design you can run into so many unforeseen RF black-magic problems. Trust me, I've been there.

In hardware, especially when RF is involved, it's not about how long the testing/validation itself takes, but the turnaround time to get a new prototype produced.
by jfernandezr | 2025-05-05 07:56:43+00:00
I only have configured a task in Shortcuts that I find useful. I'm a freelance, and sometimes I have to use my personal car to do some work. So, I did a task that I voice activate on CarPlay in order to record the current mileage into a Notes note, storing the current date and the voice transcribed mileage.

I could not find another use for Shortcuts because there aren't enough integrated apps.
by hedgehog | 2025-05-05 07:57:41+00:00
SPECULATION ALERT! I think there's reasonable motivation though. In the last few years there has been a steady drip of papers in the general area, at least insofar as they use vision transformers and image pyramids, and work on applying RL to object detection goes back before that. IoU and the general way SSD and YOLO descendants are set up is kind of wacky so I don't think it's much of a stretch to try to both 1) avoid attending to or materializing most of the pyramid, and 2) go directly to feature proposals without worrying about box anchors or grid cells or any of that. Now with that context if you still think it's a terrible idea, well, you're probably more current than I am.
by skerit | 2025-05-05 07:59:05+00:00
> You only have to read one or two of these answers to know exactly what’s up: the students just copy-pasted the output from a large language model.

I don't understand this either. I use it a lot, but I never just use what an LLM says verbatim. It's so incredibly obvious it's not written by a human. Most of the time I write an initial draft, ask Claude to check it and improve it, and then I might touch up a few sentences here and there.

> Vibe coding; that is, writing programs almost exclusively by language-model generation; produces an artifact with no theory behind it. The result is simple: with no theory, the produced code is practically useless.

Maybe I still don't know what vibe coding is, but for the few times when I _can_ use an LLM to write code for me, I write a pretty elaborate instruction on what I want, how it should be written, ... Most of the time I use it for writing things I know it can do and seem tedious to me.
by const_cast | 2025-05-05 07:59:37+00:00
In my experience it's just exceedingly rare to require this. My insurance company website has a notification thing, and it's actually static. You need to refresh the page, and considering how few and far between notifications are, and how common refreshes are, it works fine.

There's an entire domain of apps where you truly need a front-end. Any desktop-like application. Like Google Sheets, or Figma. Where the user feedback loop is incredibly tight for most operations.
by darawk | 2025-05-05 07:59:54+00:00
This particular person seems to be using LLMs for code review, not generation. I agree that the problem is compounded if you use an LLM (esp. the same model) on both sides. However, it seems reasonable and useful to use it as an adjunct to other forms of testing, though not necessarily a replacement for them. Though again, the degree to which it can be a replacement is a function of the level of the technology, and it is currently at the level where it can probably replace some traditional testing methods, though it's hard to know which, ex-ante.

edit: of course, maybe that means we need a meta-suite, that uses a different LLM to tell you which tests you should write yourself and which tests you can safely leave to LLM review.
by robocat | 2025-05-05 08:01:30+00:00
> I would love more foreign ownership of Italian businesses, that would not only bring capital

Capital investments are like credit card spending, feels good for a while, but ultimately outwards-capital value should always exceed inwards-capital value (that's why somebody makes an investment).

Sometimes everybody is better off (the ideal founder story with VC investment) but all too often the investment money is stolen or misused (but the debt remains for the country to repay).

The 1MDB investments didn't help Malaysia:

US investment bank Goldman Sachs helps 1MDB sell bonds worth $3.5bn... Goldman Sachs helps 1MDB raise a further $3bn in an additional bond sale, this time to cover “new strategic economic initiatives” between Malaysia and Abu Dhabi

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/7/28/timeline-how-malays...
by notahacker | 2025-05-05 08:02:15+00:00
> The reason we have elections and not issue polls is because voters balance the totality of the circumstances in reaching their decisions

No, the reason the United States places issues in the hands of a small elite of people elected for fixed terms and some of it in a single individual is a practical feature of the design of a republic which is obviously less democratic than alternatives, like having ballots on most issues or absolutely every implementation detail. It's also a feature designed for practical implementation and less disruptive governance, but so is the separation of powers and rule of law (the "anti-democratic" separation of powers and rule of law having much stronger and more enduring support than actions of any individual president suggests that wasn't a decision the Founding Fathers got wrong...). A rule based on letting the public decide exactly who got to stay in the country and who won each court case would obviously be more democratic than delegating that power to judges, but it would not function particularly well. A rule based on letting ICE elites rather than the judiciary rule on the rights and wrongs of particular immigration cases and giving the president the right to ignore people's constitutional right to due process if they found it inconvenient would not be more democratic and would, I suspect, also not function very well. And suffice to say migration policy is not the only area where Trump is or was arguing that rules shouldn't apply to him or that he should have more power.

Again, the difference between popular sovereignty and populism is quite well illustrated by your argument that if Trump's deportation policy is underwater even in the poll you picked showing him with neutral favourability overall, the "totality of the circumstances" means that deportation decisions he approves and laws he chooses not to follow must be him enacting the will of the people, cheerfully disregarding details like the people explicitly wanting him to do something else and overwhelmingly endorsing the right of institutions ordering him to do something else to make those orders. The belief that the people should have some say in the decision making process is quite different from the belief that the people's will is manifest in every action of some guy they elected on some issue that seemed salient.
by namdnay | 2025-05-05 08:02:22+00:00
It's not just the US gov - TeleMessage/Smarsh sell to everyone: banks, corporations etc. Their USP is that your employees get to "keep using their apps" but still comply with all the boring data retention stuff - instead of using a dedicated corporate chat app

What's interesting is that they also sell a hacked version of WhatsApp, and the Meta legal team haven't steamrolled them yet
by josephg | 2025-05-05 08:02:31+00:00
MDX advertises itself as "markdown + components", but its not commonmark compatible. I tried using it a few years ago. In the process, I migrated over some regular markdown documents and they render incorrectly using MDX.

I filed a bug (this was a few years ago) and I was told commonmark compatibility was an explicit non goal for the project. Meh.