skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well…

First, its not like bees get to negotiate their salaries and seek employment elsewhere.

Secondly, at scale you have to consider large beekeeping operations or even small ones which all have…shareholders.

So either the co-op needs to take into consideration societal and personal needs (ie. crime, health, housing) or your comparison needs to be rooted in basic economics (ie. supply, demand, labor markets).

Which is what the OP meant by “monarchy or communism” because fundamentally bee societies are more akin to government than business.

BUT, lets ask the bees what they think. I’m sure they’d prefer modern Westernized human employment over a labor camp like existence ;)
I'm never sure why projects try to claim themselves as a free alternative to Mathematica. For one, they never seem to reach anywhere near the polish and power of Mathematica. And secondly, is Mathematica really that expensive if you use it in your job/industry?

For hobbyists, Mathematica is free on a Raspberry Pi, which probably runs better than any alternative, and has a pretty reasonable price point if you buy the real thing for personal use.

For students/professors, Mathematica is basically already free at most major universities.
>Multisigs, permissionless lending, decentralized data storage, automated market makers, social protocols, exchangeable token based authentication, digital content ownership, digital rights management, etc. All of these things already exist on the platform.

And all of these either shouldn't exist or can be done better without a blockchain.

It is a solution without a problem.
Multiple serial killers killed a bunch of people there at the same time in the 70's, which gained them the murder capital label. And this was spray-painted on a billboard in Lost Boys which was filmed in Santa Cruz, though of course the cause there was vampires.
The problem is that interest rates have been on a long, slow downward trend for almost 30 years in Canada. Anyone less than 50 years old hasn't be around in a rapidly increasing interest rate environment.

It's very common to always go with a floating variable mortgage and for the past 3 decades it's been the clear winner to locking in a rate for 3-5 years.

It also explains why last year the average sale price of a Canadian house was double that of the US. Let that sink in, in a country with higher taxes, lower wages and variable mortgages...the price is double.

It should be the other way around. You'd expect the US to be the same or maybe a small premium to Canadian home prices.
Only works with Chrome..
I can guarantee you a lot of younger hiphop listeners have never heard of Rick Rubin. Russel Simmons? sure.
Quick Note on My New York Trip
When you say Rubens is more skilled, do you mean he is just more complex? When one programmer solves the problem in 100 lines and another in 1000, we usually consider superior the former.
I'm naturally a pretty anxious person. I can't give you business advice but I can give you advice on stress.

I like to do things that help me control my anxiety. There are two relatively simple things you can do that will noticeably relax you. Sauna use and wim hof breathing. Going to the sauna regularly (I started 1/week but now do 5/week) relaxes me and triggers heat shock proteins that reduce depression[1]. Wim hof breathing centers me and and significantly reduces my anxiety.

I actually like to do 4 things all together; sauna, cold showers, exercise, and wim hof breathing exercises. When I do all 4 my stress is almost non existent. Things can bother me-- I'm not super human-- but I'm able to handle stress much more effectively to the point that it's almost never an issue. If you are willing to, you can try doing it all.

These won't solve all your problems. They are simply tools to use. Ultimately you can't control the world, but you can control how you respond to it.

[1]https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1603014\*
Ask HN: Is it the right question? How do you Stazi operate the American factory
What actions were those? Protesting? Isn't that criticism?
Because corrupting one hunan likely has negible effects.
Corrupting one machine is equivalent to being able to corrupt all similar machines.

Voting machines have attack vectors which can not work on humans.
Winds by stream(https://getstream.io/winds/) is now shut down but I did enjoy using it to manage all my RSS feeds. Good thing it's open source been considering self hosting.
For some reason, any app that only works with a certain browser truly grinds my gears. It is the antithesis of the free web and standards. It is the antithesis of what the web stands for. It is the antithesis of why we have to fight for more than one window into the internet. It just brings the whole game back to square one erasing years of progress.
The article doesn't appear to say what the submission title says. Is it true? If not, what's a better title?
I never used RSS until I tried Readwise's Reader (not affiliated with them, just a paying customer). It really relieved all the stress of constantly shuffling through the email inbox thinking I missed something. I read less, but feel more calm.
Maybe Reddit would be an option? They have some nice writer subreddits.
Especially for an app that claims "no downloads, no gray app" ... dude the arrogance.
TIL: Mathematica is free on Raspberry Pi. https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/
Yeah the article linked above seems like a quick, unattributed personal recollection of this Ira Glass piece.
Sorry, I didn't intend to misrepresent, but yes, there is a fuller story here of course.

Before 2020, MDN was in a Wiki and editors could use a WYSIWYG interface, which was OK for relatively simple edits although for more involved stuff we often had to resort to the raw HTML source (and even for simple edits, the editor would often not generate the markup you might have expected). Being in a Wiki meant there was no pre-publication review process, and it was very hard to make systematic improvements to the content. You couldn't, for instance, create a single pull request updating dozens of files and review them all together. Whether that was sustainable, or whether overall quality just gradually declined - well, it was certainly really hard to maintain.

At the end of 2020 MDN content moved into GitHub, I think that's enabled us to make large-scale improvements to the content that wouldn't have been practical before, as well as to have a review process to ratchet up overall quality.

But this move also meant the WYSIWYG editor went away, and everyone was faced with editing the raw HTML source, all the time, and I really don't think that was a sustainable situation. We could I suppose have revived something like the WYSIWYG editor, but I think switching to a simpler source format was a better option.
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He sounds perfect to be next Conservative British Prime Minister.
I mean, I can understand the challenge of making sure everything works well across browsers so that should mean that we use standard things and avoid non-standard APIs. Otherwise, we're just feeding the shiny Chrome monster more fodder to engulf this fucking planet.

May be we should just got back to native apps? Hell, native apps that do not connect to the internet. That'd be glorious actually. Problem with browser based apps is that you have zero control over versioning. Server serves, you get the fix. No option to request a particular version of the app. Don't like the new version? Tough luck. Server issues? Go outside.

You know there is something to be said about code/binaries residing on your computer. Call me old fashioned.
> Mathematica is basically already free at most major universities.

As a physicist I can say this is definitely not true
1) Its better to let the fossil fuels burn in a central site to generate energy than to be burned in individual ICE vehicles. Not including renewable energy.

2) SpaceX is not directed to save people in earth, but humanity in general.
There is a need to generate other organizations for save earthlings, but it is not SpaceX.
-But Musk has demonstrated no motives other than profit and infamy-... Sure.
Well his vision so far for Twitter seems to be to turn it into an anti-woke, advertiser shaming, ad supported platform. I'm sure there are a few people excited about that, but I'm not sure it's as visionary and uniting as something like putting people on Mars.
Can it not prove my point as well?
There's a big ego issue. Admitting the CEO failed requires admitting they failed.

The board picked out the CEO in the first place. They decided it was worth spending millions on them. And they likely approved of the CEO's plans whe it was discussed.
> has a steeper learning curve

Does it?

I think Markdown "won" for a variety of reasons (Github? Slack? Pandoc?). I don't think AsciiDoc is so much more complicated than Markdown that people can't learn it quickly.

The reason Markdown is now standard is that people like standardized things. They want to use the same syntax in their chatroom, forum, ad-hoc readme filed, and doc comments in code. And if they're already using one markup language, why learn another? Why not use the same one everywhere?

It's not that AsciiDoc is complicated in general, it's that it's ever so slightly too rigid for "ad-hoc" markup in places like Discord and Hacker News. Thus people end up learning Markdown because it really is the best fit for those platforms, and then people don't want to learn another markup language, and so you get a snowball effect of implementation support and popularity. And thus we are stuck with Markdown everywhere.

This isn't necessarily a bad outcome. But that's how I see it. I still want AsciiDoc to gain more traction in technical writing!
Recently I overheard that our company intends to use markdown for configuration purposes - replacing yaml and stuff. I am not against the idea but it did surprise me because while I am happy with writing documents in MD, it never occurred to me that it could be used for configs.

Not sure what the upsides and downsides are.
> Taste is a manifestation of beauty and beauty in all forms is universal and hypnotic and skill-independent.

Taste can differentiate between different forms of beauty and form subjective preferences. Beauty is both relative and absolute. Your 16th century London building may cross the beauty threshold on some absolute scale, but consider a block that is filled with equally beautiful, but stylistically distinct buildings. It would be in poor taste to build a new building on that block in the 16th century style, even if the new building is objectively beautiful.

I actually mostly agree with you about intuition, but your claims are too extreme for my taste ;)
Timing feels really poor. In the middle of an election while Twitter was about to undergo a change in ownership.

I wonder if it would have seen the light of day if they waited until after the acquisition though.
It is still unlimited. Just at a lower speed
What exactly are you talking about? I use 3 or 4 of their IDEs regularly, and they don't seem to have changed more than incrementally for years.
I haven't checked but considering the display artefacts and latency, it seems like it is actually streamed.
Thank you, I haven't heard about Xanadu, I'll take a look.
And liquid text, is it app for reviewing and annotating PDFs or something else?
> your server needs to be online and ready to accept effectively a webhook from them.

The obvious answer there is "ActivityPub over SMTP". There is literally nothing that could go wrong![1]

(Basically a service which holds "ActivityPub postboxes" which collect events when you're offline and you pick them up in a batch when you're back online. The XMPP people already solved this one, IIRC.)

[1] Ok, there might be -some- problems.
Urban Dance Squad.
I agree, git made more sense to me after 6 months than svn did in the 5 years prior. The whole conflation of directories, branches and tags made svn an irredeemable monstrosity.
You’re not wrong.

It’s just the idea of “what if I accidentally turn my dream hobby into a success?” and “how do I even call lawyers?” and “is any of this worth investing in, on balance?”
Permanently two weeks from shutting down, zero budget, and worst the sales teams’ laptops weren’t good enough to run the software we were trying to sell. In the end the company was bought out by a large US org; the sudden cash injection was honestly the best thing that could have happened.

Just checked and the product still seems to be around 25 years later, albeit under a different name: https://www.infor.com/products/lx
TikTok makes clear European data can be accessed by China-based employees
There have been lots of new features like Twitter Spaces, tipping, voice tweets, Twitter Blue, Patreon-style subscriptions for content creators, controlling who can reply to your tweets, etc. However, some of the new features like fleets (temporary tweets) were deprecated.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/tag/new-ui/
Update: It used to be possible to set the Display URL field to an arbitrary value, see for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQFR8eJlYxQ&t=100 (2015). Maybe it's still possible somehow.
Why not summarize the leading description from the page…

“This page provides information on the [UK’s National Cyber Security Centre] NCSC’s scanning activities”
Can you assert why this conversation is an exception, and what some of the guidelines of the standard for exceptions would be?
I don't think 'arguments' about Jews is a me-problem. Of course, that is exactly where we disagree. But your framing is dishonest.
Elon claims there are 10 managers for every person coding. I don't believe that.
Very nice. Not sure how I'd use it but looks and works great. Also, kudos for using local storage.
He bought the franchise for $2.7 million and paid the McDonald brothers a percentage of profits. I don't see a difference between Musk and Kroc in this regard. Without Musk, Tesla wouldn't be what it is today just like without Kroc the McDonald brothers' business would have remained regional and small.
We can compare to Bunnie Huang and Jim Keller, both of whom get important, difficult things done and are far on the other side.
+ tipping, voice tweets, Patreon-style subscriptions for content creators, and being able to control who can reply to your tweets.
As someone who worked on software from the 80s to today, I don't know about MS internally, but from the outside it definitely didn't feel like good intentions. It didn't help that interviews or articles with or about Gates or Ballmer were about destroying competitors. They have a trackrecord in those years of doing that at all cost and I believe IE was part of that strategy. I have never seen anything to the contrary, but happy to hear insider info to the contrary.

A bit of time after they won, IE development basically stalled, which I see some people attribute to other things, but, again, where is the documentation this was not malice? Simply: we won, the rest is dead, why spend money on dev for something that doesn't make money? Isn't that the most obvious?

ActiveX (while there was Java, oh boy J++) was another sign that there was no intention of making this open tech but just peddle more windows (granted, there was IE for Mac and Solaris, for a while).

Again, I might be wrong, I had issues with MS in those days because of their behaviour which probably colors my memory, but reading back now, I was not alone in this. Maybe someone can point me in another direction with more documentation and proof instead of memories.
I just spent some time reading about it and visiting the same links while finding some of the same problems. It sounds interesting but I can't figure out what it "should" be used for. I can imagine this replacing existing data stores but it looks like an over complication to me, initially.

If I imagine Facebook backed by Solid pods, well if any social media site is web based, can't they just scrape my data and send it to their server if I plug my pod into their system and allow access? Because they can do that for anyone else that signs up, wouldn't it just be a veneer over me "controlling access to my data"?

The only benefit I can see is having a unified consistent data structure for combining information from different sources, an HTML standard for data.

Ah, I've got it. This is what I was searching for to say.

After reading their site I can't figure out what problem these solid pod solves and I also don't know how it solves it. It looks like neat tech that I would want to play with but that's as far as I can get after about 20 minutes of being introduced to it.
You don’t get 1TB on your cellphone when roaming.

What is “a few” videos. 20 minutes @4k is1gb per visit.

So you’re talking about 1000 videos in 5-10 days. Are you seriously watching 200-400 20 min videos per day?

That’s 4000-8000 minutes per day! Also you have to go through this outside of the nightly window.

That means you’re watching 66 hours of video every 16 hours.

Even if this was the case, then that’s literally the only thing your family does, and you should be happy that that can be covered with only $100 per month lol
tiktok have before promised no data should be sent to china, so much was that worth.
You're denigrating the law requiring social security benefits to increase with inflation as a "republican law." Then you suggest the republicans now want to pass a law with the opposite effect?
The point I'm making is to question whether we should take the Washington Post article more seriously than direct statements from named employees.

The article is making assertions based on claims made by anonymous people who claim to be Twitter employees, and that either through malice or stupidity or "telephone" style information loss, there are countless ways that this article can end up being wrong. And precisely to your earlier point, the article encourages the reader to fill in the blanks about what various departments existed, what their roles are, whether they have direct, indirect, or no effects on the material on Twitter. There is nothing accurate nor verified about any of that.

It's all intentionally hazy, and contributes to the article's overt desire to push a specific narrative rather than provide clarity.
Yep, this is why no other software can compete. People don’t realise that mathematica consists of huge lists of hard coded cases for different mathematical problems. It’s not like they managed to find the general formula for everything. And there are functions that I rely on that literally no other software has, that I haven’t even managed to find any papers that would even hint at their implementation, that magically work for almost any input. For example, MinimalStateSpace seems to be able to find the minimum required form for basically any input state space, which is highly non trivial. It’s a huge amount of work going into niche mathematical problems that even most people in STEM won’t have heard of. I don’t see how others can compete
The lawsuit doesn't argue that Facebook actions hurt specific portfolios from their shareholders.

It claims that it hurt a typical diversified portfolio. One that FB shareholders should have, according to the Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). It notes that the MPT is not only commonly accepted, it is in fact used to write laws and regulations: "Before the advent of MPT, “legal lists” prohibited many fiduciaries from owning common stock".

So if the MPT is indeed a cornerstone of modern economics, and modern laws, the natural conclusion is that it should be considered when looking at the fiduciary consequences of a company decision.

Facebook case shows the problem very clearly, because both of the scale of the impact of the company on the World in general, and the structure of its governance, where the majority vote holder interests are not diversified, which makes them diverge significantly from all the other shareholders interests.

As I understand it, it's a bit of legal jiu-jitsu: it takes the MPT, which so far has been used to allow more actors to invest in stocks, and so accepted readily by business and legal actors. It then uses it to extend the responsibility of companies to some externalities.

It may or may not succeed, but it doesn't seem completely insane. At the very least the discovery process could be used to show to which extend Facebook knows about features that have a clearly negative effect on society in general, and chooses to implement them anyway.
Maybe he will bring balance to the force?
Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines in the world. Grumbling about the legacy of its ancient history as ‘gatekeeping’ is puerile.
Whatever happened to your brain is tragic.
I've consider myself fairly proficient with chopsticks, but this got me thinking: would reverse pincers be an improvement? Ones that have a spring to hold closed, versus holding open. My one beef with chopsticks is that it requires somewhat more holding strength to retain something between the two ends than a fork.
Arrogance? I mean, I agree that things should work in all browsers, but... Someone created this thing and put a ton of work into it, and you're saying that their failure to cater to every possible browser is arrogance? That's definitely not the word.
My favourite quote (among many) from her is "write exactly what you hear and never strain to avoid the obvious". I think this is such an amazing principle to follow including in software design. So often I see systems where there is an obvious solution which would be simple and clean and just work and people go out of their way to avoid it so they can follow some pattern or received wisdom about how things should go.

Never strain to avoid the obvious.
Yea, it's a pretty awesome thing, in my opinion. It ran a bit slow on the old Raspberry Pis, but the Raspberry Pi 4 is obviously much more powerful.
Wow, great. Of course I'm getting shadow censored left and right on reddit, but I always knew it was the case.

I'm not using reddit anymore anyway. Too many hidden rules, not even as a simple user, but as a sub creator, where you can't tell your own sub redditors why their comment were removed, per reddit admin rules, that's absolutely crazy, and if you disclose the hidden rules, your sub is banned.
Two L's in his name. You've carefully crafted a slight and it looks worse on you, especially considering your post is about correcting facts.
I disagree and I hope I'm right. Taiwan has been preparing for an invasion for decades. China will be observing Russia / Ukraine and although they may suffer less from corruption and military rot, they will be aware of the power of an enemy fighting for survival and freedom against a tyrannical invader.
My problem with this comment is that the other argument is well demonstrated with a litany of scientific literature - whereas this argument is at best interpretation unprovable.
The thing is, I generally trust established media organizations to fact-check because their integrity and reputation depends on it. Facts are often cross-checked and verified prior to publishing. Journalists have a vested interest in preventing their publications from 'he-said-she-said' rags.

Do I trust a twitter figurehead, who clearly has tweeted this for Elon's sake, more than a journalistic enterprise? No, actually. I think there's a lot to read between the lines. My questions actually came FROM the twitter thread. The article filled in more holes that the twitter thread left open.
Gives me whole new perspective on Tommy Boy now…going to have to re watch!
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Soon you’ll need YouTube premium for 4k anyway