skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For students/professors, Mathematica is basically already free at most major universities.

When I was still in academia I avoided close source because I want my research to be accessible. It does make a difference if you need to go through some strange license portal to activate your university license or if you can just install it in one line.

For me that meant that my scripts run in octave as good as in matlab, if this was feasible (and of course many packages exist only for matlab).
Talk to your manager. Say you’re uncomfortable & feel excluded. Say you’d like to be moved to a different team if the situation persists.
what could possibly go wrong ? lol, rip mankind
What were the issues you saw on usability and maintenance?

Things like jupyter notebooks and observablehq.com seem to be bringing in a breath of fresh air to literate programming.
1. Little to gain for most tech CEOs, and a lot to lose; a much less dramatic environment than twitter, but one where missteps or embarrassment could have more serious consequences.

2. I hate the UI but the API is pretty dope
> which cities did they burn down?

Is it conceivable that perhaps the statement employed hyperbole to make a point and was not literal?

Your hairsplitting between "burning cities down" and arson misses the point completely.

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

https://www.yahoo.com/video/rioters-set-fire-federal-courtho...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_controversies_dur...
Unless you're so beyond caring and vindictive that you're willing to do that just to screw over the shareholders who forced you to buy the company.
Clue in Mark Ztelburg. Or spin the die to change teams.
Baby Boomer running out of other people to blame is so hilarious to watch in real time.

No wonder it’s so easy to spot - they still listen to The Rolling Stones
Same problem. I have multiple groups on WhatsApp that I don’t want to leave, but don’t believe they’ll migrate. Three family groups, close friends, school parents, son’s football club.

A lot of these people were the last to migrate to WhatsApp from email and SMS, and will now be the last to migrate away from it. And they’re a huge majority compared to the early adopter crowd we see on HN.
keep in mind author is Simon Willison, who cocreated Django and whose blog goes back to 2002.
"if everyone did X" should automatically evaluate to "false".
Tried to see them twice in the UK, which they have cancelled.

Hopefully, they will one day make it.
I’ve been living in Asia for 11 years now. I think. Not quite sure.

There’s something about picking up food with chop sticks and not crushing or mixing food together like with a fork, and being able to dip it or turn it. It makes eating food here more enjoyable to the point that I agree.

Somehow it just makes food taste better.
Tired: Legs!

Wired: Kicking your customers
"Conquest of Bread" had a huge impact on my politics. It cut through the capitalist realist narrative that we're all in economic competition and that capitalism is the only sane solution. It made me feel like another world is possible. I changed my life to pursue these other possibilities ever since.
Why would one be concerned with being wrong at all? Being wrong, thus being able to learn, is the whole reason for having discussions with others.

Once you’re confident that you can’t be wrong, you’re not going to care about the topic anymore. There is good reason why we don’t sit around talking about how 1+1=2 all day.
In any case, all this nonsense and political stuff would make it very difficult for talented people to accept offers with Twitter. Even if they did, they would need to be compensated for all the extra risk. This is no way to run a tech company.
There are a lot of fun things you find when you start working on this. Virtually nobody else is doing it because they all think it's wrong without realizing it's the right thing to do.

For example, you could reverse engineer automod configurations by scraping user pages with a headless browser, storing all of the auto-removed comments, and then looking for the most common n-grams in a given subreddit. Alternatively you could make the code work "server-side" so some sort of json is returnable, though that would take more work.

And I haven't even mentioned the history pages, which may indicate where users and moderators have disagreed the most:

https://www.reveddit.com/v/worldnews/history/

Plus, this is only one social media site. Every site does this, and there's probably a way to reveal the shenanigans going on in a lot more places.
Mate, they are phasing out their classic IDE. https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/06/addressing-the-new-u...
Twitter is dead dude.

It is Friendster.

It is MySpace.

You just don't realise it yet.

(Disclaimer I have a Twitter account that I use to post stuff)
the NYTimes at this time has 4.sth Mio subscribers and 10k videos, indeed:

https://youtube.com/c/nytimes
> My wife had eaten almost exclusively with chopsticks when we got together, and myself almost exclusively with a fork. At this point I'm much more competent with chopsticks than she is with a fork.

I can attest to this. Sometimes my wife struggles to get food out of the hot pot so I get it out using chop sticks for her.
Is it based off of a Soviet or Nato helo or is a clean drawing board product?
For maximum enjoyment (and I do mean maximum), please follow this order in reading/listening and do not skip/surf any of them. It all builds.

Please read this academic paper first:

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1811/1811.02035.pdf

Then read this (this will remind you what you should be focusing on in the above academic paper):

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190919-the-maze-puzzle-...

Then, listen to this:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/segments/u...

At this point, you have hit the peak ... this last paper is the wrap-up which isn't all that much "fun" but does tie up loose ends:

https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue59/3/index.html
I use it quite a lot, even with people who doesn’t work in tech. I still use Whatsapp though.
> HN-tyke

Not sure if on purpose or just serendipitous misspell.

I use whatsapp because my clients use whatsapp. Which means the team uses whatsapp. Friends are spread on several apps.
It was a leveraged buyout
Yes, but it is frustrating to limit yourselves and your users because Safari or Firefox does not support some Canvas features, some voice recognition ones, bluetooth or localhost interactions for example.

I really don't like the idea and the practice of helping a Google monopoly, and I am guilty of it at times. But on the other hand, using such features is a way to encourage Apple to upgrade their browser... which they have little incentive because they want apps.
Or a man, or a cat, or a person who identify itself as a cupboard. :)
KillTheNewsletter is essential to my Inoreader set-up, which has hundreds of feeds to fuel my writing. It's an incredible service!
So this scan should set off the security alarms and sys admins should patch their servers, right?
And most disposable are made from bamboo which is substainable.
Completely agree, especially with the evil part.

Unfortunately you can't pick and choose what copilot is being used for.

For example, it is a wonderful tool in cutting down the time needed to generate/write tests in TDD but how do you differentiate that between large chunks of proprietary code that it may spit out.

It has some benefits, but far more downsides, and Microsoft and its people in management have a history of being very evil in the truest sense of the word.

A lot of people see that as a trigger word instead and can't recognize it for what it is. What's that say about society when a majority can't recognize evil...
It's possible that it's just the broadcasting format that makes things suck, rather than Twitter's specific content/moderation policies. It's like handing a ton of people in a room all megaphones to talk to each other; the incentive is always going to be that you should be 'louder' to get more attention over everyone else.
Well my call to waka kotahi cost me 90 euros last week. 30 minute wait time and 6 minute convo. Turns out calls outside EU while roaming is priced at a whopping 2.5 eur a minute.
Actually this isn't the whole truth. There is a substantial body of literature around the effect of merging both positions or not and it is not really conclusive in any direction.

You mention Europe but for instance in France it has been a corporate tradition too have both merged and separation has statistically lead to a significant underperformance.

FYI it is called the agency vs stewardship theories and currently it seems like a academically the stewardship is slightly favored.
I played with mdn-cli which was a neat cli that queries duckduckgo for the first mdn result and parses it to markdown. I then passed that through a parser to make it pretty, and then integrated it with my editor for getting fast documentation without too much context switching.

My biggest gripe was the lag to request ddg and then mdn and then parse it and pipe it. I wanted something simpler like `man` for mdn. Now i imagine having the documentation already in md and keeping it local, i'm a step closer and it'll be more powerful with tools like fzf, ripgrep, and mdcat.

Gotta check if there's already a search tool for MD that weighs heading levels, or code blocks, bold text, etc
You gotta do your own research, look into Pepe Silvia
Check out https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib . Sure, it's not really a CAS but CAS algorithms could be added to it where applicable, since Lean is a constructive system and can thus express formally verified computations.
Show me where in your charter it says the FAA owns the sky - it ain’t fucking there so stop writing.
Yeah but you don't have to follow them. I'm sure some terrible people use email, but email is still good.
I’d guess the end state is: tablet, stylus and convert scrawls into print-worthy output. Many pitfalls along the way I’m sure but nothing will beat just drawing what you mean.
Isn't that `realloc`? At the allocator level rather than OS level, but still.
I hate this trend of where you go to some product's website and, after visiting it, you still don't know what it does and what it's for.
All of my family and tech-based co-workers/associates. It's half my chat traffic and growing.
American banking system never ceases to disappoint me. Overdraft fees! What kind of mustache twirling Disney villain came up with that?

And to have the gall of touting "overdraft protection" as though it were some sort of feature and not the solution to the problem they themselves invented
If history has taught me anything, it will be that any advertising boycott will be silently dropped and not reported on.

Might be a couple of weeks, or a couple of months but it rarely lasts.
Elon clearly never admits mistakes involving his ego. Same with the discussion now with Kasparov where Elon clearly didn't know he was fighting the Putin regime for a long time, but still doubles down on his mistake.

This character trait will cost him a lot.
My money's on Musk.

As much as I dislike his methods, I credit him with more intelligence than Liz Truss.
> For students/professors, Mathematica is basically already free at most major universities.

Just because someone else is writing the check doesn't mean it's free. Case in point, the pricing for an individual Mathematica license for use at a college or university ranges from $722/yr to $9k[1], with the customary confusion about what is actually included.

[1] https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/pricing/colleges-univers...
Or anyone who has tried to re-run R code that was written more 6 months ago.
Hippie CEO Life #30 – Be Kind
We in Ukraine also have this kind of security theater. The air siren is crawling almost every day even in very peaceful areas, and nobody afraids of it. Somebody used to hide every time when hearing siren, but even the most chicken-hearted people stopped to do it because eventually our sirens means nothing for anybody. Of course, military guys love their sirens, maybe sirens are needed for their self-affirmation.
No, the abstraction of a container involves not only namespace isolation, but also access to a certain quantity of resources to process and exchange information within and across namespaces.

So, pointing out “extra tools” (kuztomize) to ease difficulties with yet a new abstraction (k8s) is not really the way. You are just convincing yourself that your tool of choice can really solve everything.

Ideally, standard builtin tools should be easier to use, understand, and be less buggy by means of better opiniated solutions, just like some programming languages work for people who never coded before.
The author quit Twitter primarily because the entire accessibility team was sacked. Understandable... if you know nothing about Elon Musk.

I am not a fanboy in the least. But one thing he obviously does frequently is fix broken shit, then try again if that fails. He does these things in public and listens to feedback. He clearly keeps a sense of humor about things, which rattles a lot of people understandably.

I know nothing about the accessibility team there, but for all we know he has a better team lined up. The author and I both agree the reverse may also be true. Could be they get replaced by something worse. To assume Elon has simply discarded the issue of accessibility altogether is to me the least likely assumption.
Sure, that’s a reasonable reason to dislike them. But I think people get a bit dishonest with the drone shows. They try to promote them as better than fireworks when they just aren’t. We can admit that we are compromising
> The main problem I have with it is that the "don't require a password for ___ seconds" timeout is unconfigurable as far as I'm aware.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Doas#doas_persist_feature

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Doas

With the persist keyword doas can remember an authenticated user and will not require confirmation by password for five minutes.
My bad, fixed.

Have you tried a WhatsApp-bridge with element/matrix? You could use matrix internally while being available to clients via WA. I would strongly discourage any company to use meta-clients internally.
> except they isolate you with nobody but them and browbeat you into not having friends outside of their depraved circle.

I don’t see how that’s possible in online community.
“The Try Guys” Ned Fulmer Drama
They're quite the opposite of L.S Lowry aren't they.

Hopper's figures are surrounded by space, like mis-sized players in an
oversized 3D game map. And they stare away into the distance. Lowry
depicts what some would call "urban alienation" - grim northern
factories - but they're packed together, with intimacy, proximity and
movement.
You are right about dsp. Measurements (in russian) [0] https://www.dastereo.ru/t/subpac-m2-technical-review-dr-wehr...
Elon hate is getting quite delusional.
It's a library and not a framework. Besides the inherent superiority of libraries vs hollywood-principle frameworks, this lets you just import "from selenium import webdriver" in your code and have a programmable browser that you can use in various ways.

For example here's how to use it to

- download files with a browser: https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/faq.html#how-to-auto-...

- grab screenshot of a site: https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/faq.html#how-to-take-...
It's the typical anti-<whatever> hate waves that happen in HN. Outside of this bubble, people don't really lose sleep over it.

Signal is a very good example because WhatsApp is getting more popular as the days go by as opposed to what one could possibly infer from the waves of posts that appeared not long ago here about it.

It's just so important to separate this otherwise insignificant group of minds vs the many other several millions that aren't here and don't share the views - or perhaps (some) do but then it comes down to the network effect once again which has always been a present issue in every alternative among other factors. This time won't be different I'm afraid.
You clearly have a very skewed idea of what socialism is. Would you consider parks or public schools socialist too as they also contribute to the common good of society.
It's a pretty cool aircraft. Hope it serves well.
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce

Further context: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1588673608037314561
I'm not even mad, it's just funny.

It's just another salvo in the culture war - from this point of view, a management change in a major SM platform is pretty significant, especially when that platform was openly biased in one direction. So you have the usual noise, which has absolutely nothing to do with Twitter as a product or company.
The dead horse has been beat
There's only two months out of the year, October and April, where the weather across the straight is calm enough to support an actual amphibious invasion. Meaning, we'll probably know ahead of time if they're going to do it.

But, I agree with you.
> The people who got exercise, slept well and kept meaning in their life avoided falling down the hole. They aren't in the study in the first place.

The people who kept up with a well planned exercise routine, slept well instead of trying to catch up with work at 2am in a mad rush, and had meaning in their life because they didn't push their friends away with uncontrolled emotional outbursts? Perhaps they aren't in the study because they don't have ADHD?
I just checked how much a license of Mathematica for Home & Hobby costs.

It's €447 one time purchase, or a €224/year subscription.

The one time purchase does not include updates, so if something breaks with next years macOS update I will probably have to pay for an upgrade again.

This license is pretty pricy for something I just buy for fun, but arguably worth it if you use it often. But I am not allowed to use it for any professional purposes at all. If I just wanted to use it to graph the sales numbers of my side projects (probably not the best tool for the job, but why learn another tool if you have one that does the job?), I would need a professional license which is 10x the price.

Being able to run it on the Raspberry Pi for free is nice, but I assume it is also limited to "personal use".

Mathematica is ridiculously expensive. It's expensive because it's professional software, and there are few alternatives. If you use it daily as part of your job, the price is absolutely worth it, but if you don't, it's just way overpriced.

When I left university, I would have loved to keep using Mathematica, but it was just way too expensive to run it on my laptop, for an app that I would just use a few times per year. And logging into a Raspberry Pi just to use an even slower version of an app that isn't known for being particularly responsive in the first place just isn't something that I care about.
NY Fed: Improving Cross-Border Payments with Blockchain Technology
Musk also isn’t elected.
Large mesh laundry bags. Different colours. Split your dirty smalls, t-shirts, bedding etc. between them then just zip them and throw one in the wash each day at some set time. You still have to remember to take them out again.

I've seriously considered installing some kind of soundproofed/vibration-isolated cupboard inside my walk in wardrobe to just keep everything in the same place, but my wife is less than keen. A laundry chute, however, surprisingly, still on the cards.
TL;DR - "Project Cedar showed that blockchain-enabled cross-border payments can be faster, simultaneous, and safer"
Comment sections should have their own feed. Just like sub forums, users and search queries. Each comment could have its own feed of replies.

Sometimes an uninteresting website has a very interesting article. This is specially great for supper niche stuff. An empty feed should not draw much attention in a reader. The single comment posted years later could be really useful.

There is also <comment> https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html#ltcommentsgtSub...
One persons view on Silicon Valley and the slowdown
The article mentions her sister Lili, who most people have never heard of. Here are two beautiful short compositions she wrote at age 18 and 22. She died at 24. What a loss!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ifMZotkh4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jguzDNqTX7s
I played basketball as a teenager. One year, I was in the starting lineup. The coach believed in me and was vocal about it. He gave me clear feedback, both positive and negative. Overall, I played well and was improving quickly.

Next year, the coach got replaced. The new coach benched me and gave me no feedback. Though he didn’t say it, it was obvious he didn’t believe in me, for whatever reason, justified or not. I started playing worse, which only reinforced his view, and then my minutes went down, which gave me less opportunity to improve, which reinforced his view further, etc. I was still on the same team but I wasn’t the same player. I was but a shadow of the player from last year.

Whether the new coach was right about me or not, I will never know. Was I falling behind because others were improving faster or because I internalised his lack of trust? Maybe I wasn’t as promising as I had thought and he merely saw it or maybe he was unjust. Whatever the reason, he ended my basketball career that year (though it would take a few more years for me to realise it).

As a young basketball player, your window of opportunity to develop is small and, if you miss it, you’re basically done. As a young software engineer, you have more than enough opportunity to find a better team and, more importantly, a better coach.
I also don't need to follow toxic people on Twitter, so I really don't know why I would use a badly programmed and infinitely smaller social network
Very interested in the supply chain for this. Where do the engines come from?
i'm favoriting this so i can come back to it, like that dropbox comment.
The greatest threat to an already established project is not an earthquake, but the unperturbed erosion of time that causes it to fall into insignificance. Trying to ignore all this attention given to Twitter, let's see a year from now....
Neither on Twitter? I enjoy Twitter, I’m highly selective and I don’t see politics at all

If someone moves to Mastodon because there are so much politics on Twitter then they are in for a surprise
>And secondly, is Mathematica really that expensive if you use it in your job/industry?

If you live in a developing country where the average salary is $50-$300/month and your company's revenue is similarly thin, yes it is really expensive.

I tried to discuss pricing with Mathematica on behalf of one of these companies and after a few initial exchanges to assess our needs, the sales representatives did not even bother getting back to us and started ghosting us.

The world is not limited to wealthy western countries, countries in Africa, Asia and other regions of the world are increasingly aspiring to develop their technology sector by building an ecosystem of engineering companies.

Mathics and similar initiatives are therefore more than welcome. Even in a developed country, there are many reasons not to want to tie yourself to a proprietary tech so central to your operations, especially in today's world. For example, what about if you are a Chinese company and the US treasury decides to blacklist your company or country?
> Can you offer pointers to the things you think are delivering real benefits to anyone whose primary goal isn't finding buyers for random hashes?

I prepared this post summarizing the real world usage of Bitcoin just for people like you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32406095

Another news from the last couple of days: https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/nyic/project-cedar [submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33479015]
The takeaway for me was that the gravity of bureaucracy was finally gotten strong enough to overcome the tech-startup rockets.