MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tavavex | 2025-11-16 06:21:00+00:00
What does that matter for, though? The people in that wealth bracket tend to borrow against their assets (or use more convoluted schemes) rather than use those assets directly, and someone with $300B is still bound to have a lot more borrowing power than someone with $3B. Just because they can't put these hundreds of billions in a pocket right now doesn't mean that the power those assets grant is any less significant. And if someone that rich wanted to sell those assets, it's not like it's impossible to do. Is there anything besides having to stretch out the selling over a longer period of time that would be an inconvenience?
by gucci-on-fleek | 2025-11-16 06:21:38+00:00
The author of ConTeXt (a TeX format similar to LaTeX) has some interesting comments on AsciiMath [0] [1]. Its space handling looks especially problematic; the example given in [0]

o ox x = xo a ax x = xa ooxx=xo aaxx=xa ac+sinx+xsqrtx+sinsqrtx+sinsqrt(x)

produces the following output

o ⊗ x = x o a a x x = x a ∞ × = x o a a × = x a a c + sin x + x √x + sin √x + sin √x

Its handling of commas looks even worse, but it's tricky to demonstrate that in plain text.

[0]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb36-2/tb113hagen.pdf#page=3

[1]: https://github.com/contextgarden/context/blob/e9bd55ec/tex/c...
by themafia | 2025-11-16 06:22:31+00:00
> Americans are responsible for an insane amount of pollution

So does Canada.

> far more per capita than any other people in the history of the world

Not even remotely close to true. Aside from that it's down 20% from it's peak 40 (!) years ago.

> much of which is tied to how easy/cheap it is to order shit we don't need.

The data does not support this conclusion.

> pretty bad if ya care about the next generation.

Speaking of trends.. care to guess which country has doubled it's pollution in the last 10 years?
by overgard | 2025-11-16 06:22:50+00:00
I dunno, the stuff they have now doesn't really need a lot of innovation. Like, my MacBook isn't very different from the one I bought in 2013 (other than massive performance improvements of course), but I don't really need it to be anything other than what it is. Same with my iPhone. I'll probably only replace that when the battery life gets bad. Most of the "innovations" on those lines have been annoying (touch bar, apple AI, etc.)

In contrast, Microsoft has innovated a lot on the desktop since Windows 7 and I hate almost all of it. I'd happily go back to the old experiences.
by nis0s | 2025-11-16 06:22:55+00:00
Thought experiment: do you think he would have won with the same design and messages in California, or Massachusetts? I don’t think so, it’s less about what he’s saying and how he’s saying it, it’s more about what he’s promising to do. People look for the message that resonates with their personal reality, he won on affordability politics. Same for Trump, he won over poor and struggling American counties with a similar message, albeit with different promises.
by musicale | 2025-11-16 06:23:25+00:00
What a difference 20 years makes, I suppose. Apple laptops do seem to have solid hinges now. ;-)

Apple Silicon definitely transformed expectations for laptop performance and battery life, especially in a fanless design like the MacBook Air.

I do wish my M1 MacBook Pro weren't bulkier and heavier than my old intel model. I went all-in on USB-C/Thunderbolt so I would have liked 4 ports (or more). But the battery life and performance are probably worth it. And the MacBook Air 15" is lighter and thinner than the 15" intel models, but still has good battery life.
by axiolite | 2025-11-16 06:25:22+00:00
I expect nearly all foreign sellers have increased their prices to cover the tariffs. However, there are items selling for less than eBay says an individual will be charged in fees, so it's not just a you-pay-or-I-pay thing. Either eBay is exaggerating, or sellers are finding a way to get a better deal.

It's a minefield for eBay buyers who likely won't notice the footnote means their $5 purchase will cost them $20+ in fees. They now have something else to lookout for that doesn't show up in the table of search results. Something only in a small note on the item's product page. Something that might mean significant extra cost if you aren't careful when shopping.
by Merovius | 2025-11-16 06:25:58+00:00
> But, like, this is exactly as easy with every single other language that I can think of.

I mean, not exactly. Rust (or rather Cargo) requires you to declare binaries in your Cargo.toml, for example. It also, AIUI, requires a specific source layout - binaries need to be named `main.rs` or be in `src/bin`. It's a lot more ceremony and it has actively annoyed me whenever I tried out Rust.

> The second part "Running go install at the root ./.." is actually terrible and risky but, still, trivial with make (a - literally - 50 year old program) or shell or just whatever.

Again, no, it is not trivial. Using make requires you to write a Makefile. Using shell requires you to write a shell script.

I'm not saying any of this is prohibitive - or even that they should convince anyone to use Go - but it is just not true to say that other languages make this just as easy as Go.
by ksec | 2025-11-16 06:26:49+00:00
My Apple Wishlist.

1. Bring back Time Capsule and re-enter the Router market.

2. Work with American Express for Apple Card. There are plenty of Visa and Mastercard for every day common market. Go and dominate the premium section.

3. Apple Pay NFC using Felica offline payment and optimise the heck out of it for all transport, the fight back against QR Code as payment.

4. Bi-Yearly release on macOS. There is no need to have an OS release every year. Nor do I need an OS with so many feature. Last time I checked I could barely count 5 useful features on macOS in the past 10 years.

5. We need more optimisation on all OS, macOS, iOS etc. Computer doesn't feel snappier despite we have 10 - 100x more computer resources. I was hoping Vision OS, the need for VR and AR being latency sensitive would have helped but it doesn't seems that way.

6. 10 years later Safari is still the worst browser of all three, even Chrome haven managed to be memory efficiency and works in heavy tabs environment. I have less rendering problem with Firefox than Safari. It has been getting better especially with Safari 26 but it is still a long road to grind. The Safari team needs more resources.

7. Mac needs to grow its market share. Lower Upgrade pricing for Mac memory and NAND storage, and introduce Mac starting at $799 with edu price at $699. The Mac is making higher margin with Apple Silicon, and will do so even more when WiFi is made by Apple as well. Apple continue to be so focusing on higher margin they forgot about Market Share.

8. Separate the App Store into App and Game Store. Continue to charge your 30% on Games. And start freeing up your App Store Apps to lower percentage. I have been saying this for 12 years and counting.

9. Guarantee Loot box. As much as I want to get rid of this gambling loot box gaming. I dont think it is a realistic option. But Apple should enforce all percentage are guaranteed, i.e 0.01% of item will make its appearance in worst case at the 100th draw. I remember this was suggested a few years ago I am not sure if it is enforced.

10. Stop the whole UI Androidfication of iOS. If I want Android I would have brought one. Start making the iOS simpler. The Home Screen and searching for Apps after 20 years is a bag of hurt.

11. Swift, Swift UI, XCode. It seems doesn't matter whether you are a 300B company or 3 Trillion company they are still the same.

12. Can we bring back Key Travel. Before butterfly, which were great for key stability and less wobble, but key travel were too short along with reliability. Current scissors is only at 1mm while previous scissors were at 1.5mm.

13. Current track pad is way too large and bring false positive. We could either somehow make it zero false positive or we make the track pad a little smaller just like MacBook Pro Pre 2015.

14. If Apple Health connect all the data into one place, surely there could be Apple Finance where all my spending of Apple Pay Credit card can be grouped together for easier tracking?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-16 06:28:32+00:00
> If you haven’t noticed, “the people in DC” right now don’t care about the US outside of red states.

I feel like you're failing to see the symmetry at all. We have direct historical evidence on point that they cared about some New York City skyscrapers, and those were definitely Republicans too. Do you really think they wouldn't care about the same thing today regardless of whether it was a plane or a train?

> And the reason a plane is different because people think it could happen to them if they got on a plane.

But if it happens to a train people don't think it could happen to them if they got on a train? Either that's not true or those people would have such a disconnected relationship to logic that there is no use pandering to them anyway because they wouldn't see the connection between your policies and the results.

> There plenty of ways to get from Manhattan to Queens if the train system went down then to get from California to Florida.

Spoken like someone who hasn't seen the days when it goes down. What happens when you take the 4 million people who ride the subway every day and tell them it isn't there? Impassable gridlock.

> Is it really that hard to see the difference between a localized transportation system in NYC and a worldwide network of planes?

All of the transportation systems are interconnected. What does the connectedness change? If something happens on a train in New York, does it materially affect San Francisco but not Honolulu because trains connect New York and California but not Hawaii?

Planes are even less affected by this than other things because you can damage train tracks or road bridges that act as a bottleneck but the only infrastructure air travel requires is airports and planes, and airports are widely distributed and planes are easy to move around.

> Especially since airline security doesn’t just affect domestic flights it also affects flights leaving the US.

Which is another reason it's a farce, because it also affects flights entering the US and then it doesn't matter what the TSA does when you can go through airport security in the country of your choosing with the weakest or most bribe-accepting security that lets you get behind the checkpoint on a plane to the US.

> And you think the US pressured England of all places to have higher security?

Your original claim was that all other countries do this. Before 9/11, they didn't, and now you're having to resort to only the countries with the most stringent checks. Obviously Israel where bombings are practically a daily occurrence would need more than countries where that is much less common, but that's kind of the point, isn't it?

> Why would the US care for instance if there were screenings to get on the baby Sansa propellor plane that flies from San Jose Costa Rica to Manual Antonino?

Are you saying that the screenings to get on that plane are the same as the ones imposed by the TSA, or are you now conceding that this is wrong:

> You realize every single country has similar procedures?
by xylophile | 2025-11-16 06:29:22+00:00
It is accomplishing something. When 40 different applicants are equally able to do the job, the only selector you have is "culture fit", which is where bias starts to easily kick in (race, age, whatever), and that is a legal risk.

The leetcode hoops exist to provide a provably objective measure for hiring, even though that measure is unrelated to job performance. It's purely a lawsuit avoidance mechanism.
by ffsm8 | 2025-11-16 06:32:51+00:00
Couldn't you just upgrade yourself in the pre Apple silicone days?

Like within minutes, with no big changes?

I didn't think it's rare that a company refuses to do any work on devices they no longer support. Their employees will no longer be trained to do this work, hence they'd have a nontrivial chance of causing damages. That's exactly why a right to repair is so important, so that other people can pick up their slack
by code_biologist | 2025-11-16 06:34:26+00:00
I have a print out of this on my wall. I also have pretty bad ADHD. It's been on my wall a year and I still haven't done the thing (really a series of small aversive, timeliness and administration heavy things). I oscillate between trying to do the thing, and trying to treat ADHD or at least not regress (sleep (difficult), exercise, nutrition, intoxicants socially only, stay away from digital dopamine sinks (really hard)). Then I have a burst of panic that trying to improve executive function is itself not doing the thing.
by kikkia | 2025-11-16 06:35:15+00:00
Hearing a $5 tier on planetscale was cool and I was thinking about using it for a future project, but those specs are just way too low to be worth it for $5/mo. I think I will just get a $5/mo vps with 32x the CPU (probably more as this is 2 x86 cpu cores vs 1/16 arm) and 8x the ram for the same price. The stats, insights and dashboards are cool, but for hobbyist projects that's too steep for the specs you get in my opinion.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-16 06:36:43+00:00
It's no different from a coffee shop providing an open WiFi, or an ISP providing you with a fiber connection. What people do on it is their problem, not yours. Their web traffic is wrapped in another layer of HTTPS, not in plaintext you can read. Most traffic is not criminal traffic, you're not any more likely to be the exit node for a criminal than you are to purchase something from a criminal in real life. That waitress you just tipped at the restaurant? Might've been a murderer. In either case, you don't know that you've dealt with a criminal. You providing the exit node is like a transaction: you're "paying" for the VPN service by helping run the service.

The point of all this is to make it so that governments can't pin down the IP of any client without expending significant resources. It makes mass surveillance, control, and prosecution prohibitively expensive. Law enforcement would still be able to trace suspects through the hops with their rich arsenal of backdoors, exploits, and clues in the physical world, just not without significant effort and therefore expenses. So they will only be able to pursue criminals in a targeted manner, which is how law enforcement in a free society is supposed to work.

The decentralized VPN service can only work if clients are also servers, otherwise there will be too many people who use the service without contributing to it, resulting in a tragedy of the commons.
by energy123 | 2025-11-16 06:37:39+00:00
Black-Litterman model is an example of how to address the shortcoming of unreliable empirical inputs.

You'll also see more ad hoc approaches, such as simulating hypothetical scenarios to determine worst case scenarios.

It's not math heavy. Math heavy is a smell. Expect to see fairly simple monte carlo simulations, but with significant thought put into the assumptions.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-16 06:38:46+00:00
I think the "problem" of sending data is a lot harder without some concept of payloads and signaling. HTTP just happens to be the way that people do that but many RPCs like zeromsg/nng, gRPC, Avro, Thrift, etc work just fine. Plenty of tech companies use those internally.

Some of this is hurt by the fact that v8, Node's runtime, has had first class JSON parsing support in but no support for binary protocol parsing. So writing Javascript to parse binary protocols is a lot slower than parsing JSON.
by pear01 | 2025-11-16 06:40:27+00:00
Is this some parody of bad social critique? You know not every trope applies in all cases, right? A greedy CEO not using his own product doesn't readily apply the higher in the value chain you get. You replied to a comment mentioning how it's obviously silly to think Tim Cook uses a Samsung Galaxy. Yet it seems like maybe you missed the point... or do you also think decision makers at Apple are using Samsung Galaxy or Google Pixel phones? Or Windows surfaces or Dell laptops instead of MacBooks? Or maybe there is some designer bespoke OS or Ferrari level brand equivalent you are privy to that I'm missing? Or is your theory that he is so wealthy his use of personal butlers and subordinates ensures he never does any computing himself? He never sends a text or gets a personal phone call, or if he does some man-servant picks it up so he doesn't have to deal with the iOS interface that has been clearly designed for "poor people"?

Then the ending comment that again can't seem to distinguish a generalized slogan re a broad social grievance with a specific claim or discussion. And the sense of personal victimization. Because something is annoying you, well clearly you are being taken advantage of. You didn't even contribute anything pertinent to the discussion except to complain about a wholly unrelated UX experience, only to limply tie it together by doing nothing more than conclude that obviously both CEOs are richer than you are.
by nowittyusername | 2025-11-16 06:40:45+00:00
Yes, holy shit yes.... This has been my sentiment for a while now. I see lots of people everywhere especially on social media talking about the thing and no one actually did the thing or is even attempting to do the thing. Honestly thats why i dont have youtube channels or write blogs or anything past casual posts here or reddit... i always think to myself why waste time talking about the thing when i could be doing it now... anyways ima go back to doing the thing. cheers. !
by m463 | 2025-11-16 06:41:09+00:00
"vision" would be to do things for the customer

- actually allow privacy, even from apple itself. Like turn off telemetry, not just anonymize it. and opt-in, not opt-out.

- install apps without asking permission

- allow access to your data, for example to export your imessages

Just in general be respectful and polite
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-11-16 06:41:53+00:00
>for an obscure reason known only to its author

It's, in project's words, simple calculator-style syntax (can also call it simplified LaTeX subset or that ad hoc math syntax used in emails but standardized) made to easily embed math on web pages by converting to MathML, with its existence predating MathJax by few years (and even MathJax's predecessor, jsMath). It was never meant to be LaTeX competitor.

With last point, have noticed people most often use this xkcd strip opposite to what it means. It's about when, for a particular use case, one standard/tech/whatever tries to replace all others rather when one standard/tech/whatever attempts to fulfill a distinct use case.
by card_zero | 2025-11-16 06:43:25+00:00
If they feel like it, outdoor cats are quite free to adopt secondary or tertiary owners, or set up residence in a rail station or at a grocery store, and I'm certain I could find you 20 BBC local news stories about these kind of shenanigans, "well-loved cat famous in town" sort of thing. Or "incredible journey", also common.
Show HN: Helping Aussies compare their body corporate fees
by justinos | 2025-11-16 06:44:49+00:00
I came across too many people trying to understand if they are getting value for their body corporate fees in Aust. My site allows users to upload their body corporate statements. Once suburbs hit a certain number of uploads, we'll send them a comparison. I plan to monetise later with more detailed reports/insights. Any feedback welcomed.
by rolph | 2025-11-16 06:46:07+00:00
no thats wrong.

there is a claim that epigenetic mechanisms in bacteria provide weak support for such in humans, not true it was the basis for realizing that epigenetic mechanisms exist, and was central to understanding regulaion of expression.

there is a claim that meiosis resets the genome and that is absolutely untrue. regulation would be impossible if epigenetic state was wiped out, the result is most often cancer, or lethal dose effects at the cellular stage of development.

you say you are not a geneticist yet you are criticizing geneticists for presentation of hypotheses while lacking the background.

timing of binding and procession reative to halflife of the expression complex is a critical part of regulation of genetic activity.

i am a scientist as well, molecular geneticist; organic chemist, nuclear physicist. i am a true polymath, this is not a meme, i contract for a body of government agencies, as a science officer, thus my ID and fine details of my work are not up for discussion, nor is any of my work for the last 10 years.

i would however be fine discussing generalities of expression regulation systems if you like.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-11-16 06:46:18+00:00
None of that will help, it has to be able to do something people want to do. Only us on tech forums care about the actual specs and how cool the tech is.

What can a person do in a Vision Pro that they're willing to spend $1000+ on that they can't do in a $300-$500 Quest?

It can't replace TVs and monitors because only one person can use it at a time
by axiolite | 2025-11-16 06:47:53+00:00
Just price, I'd say. AMD / Intel are used to a certain margin on their products, and the low barrier to entry to create ARM CPUs, and fierce competition from giants like Broadcom, keeps margins very thin in this market.

The original smart phones like the Nokia Communicator 9110i were x86 based.

AMD previously had very impressive low-power CPUs, like the Geode, running under 1-watt.

Intel took another run at it with Atom, and were able to manage x86 phones (eg: Asus Zenphone) slightly better than contemporary ARM based devices, but the price for their silicon was quite a bit higher than ARM competitors. And Intel had to sink so much money into Atom, in an attempt to dominate the phone/tablet market, that they couldn't be happy just eeking out a small sliver of the market by only being slightly better at a significantly premium price.
by sota_pop | 2025-11-16 06:49:09+00:00
The point is that next-token prediction produces output by sampling from distributions assembled by text it has seen previously (hence stochastic). The “ding” or claim is that - like a parrot - LLMs can’t produce responses which are truly novel in concept or make logical out-of-sample leaps, only repeat from words they’ve been taught explicitly in the past.
by fithisux | 2025-11-16 06:50:12+00:00
I initially saw all these maths in books about string theory and was scammed that these people are so clever and found something that it is hard for me to grasp.

I did my MSc and diploma work in pure mathematics inspired by this. then I saw the light and did my PhD in electrical engineering because I felt I was getting a rabbit hole that did not worth it and could ruin my life financially.

Still was convinced that with money and time there was something there. Thanks to all these people that eventually uncovered the scam and gave evidence to see that string theory is indeed a conspiracy theory.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-16 06:50:23+00:00
> you can't have a writeable reference to both A and B at the same time > but you spend a lot of time in Rust getting the ownership plumbing right to

I think you maybe meant to say something different because here's the most obvious thing:

impl A { fn simultaneously_writeable(&mut self) -> (&mut str, &mut str) { (&mut self.name, &mut self.owned.name) } }

Now it may take you a while to figure out if you've never done Rust before, but this is trivial.

Did you perhaps mean simultaneous partial field borrows where you have two separate functions that return the name fields mutably and you want to use the references returned by those functions separately simultaneously? That's hopefully going to be solved at some point, but in practice I've only seen the problem rarely so you may be overstating the true difficulty of this problem in practice.

Also, even in a more complicated example you could use RefCell to ensure that you really are grabbing the references safely at runtime while side-stepping the compile time borrow checking rules.