skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or a souped up wrangler that will see the offroad trails maybe once a year if its lucky
A water pump on sophisticated scientific equipment may well have software running it, it depends on the device and the water pump.
Wolfram would like to say that he invented Mathematica all by himself, but in its core, it is basically a lisp: everything is an expression, and mathematics are just transformations of the expressions. Afaik this makes it the best tool (conceptually and practically) for generic symbolic manipulations. For example, `1 + 1` in Mathematica is just syntactic sugar for `Plus[1, 1]`, and `a = 1` is `Set[a, 1]`.

I am a PhD student in theoretical physics and almost everyone in our field has no choice but to use it (I do know one or two people that use maple, but the overwhelming majority chooses mathematica).

Despite its elegant design, many people hate it with a passion, as it has grown to be a huge bloated mess that takes forever to run. Also, due to the closed source nature, it is very hard to debug when something goes wrong. For example, it is quite often for the basic functions like `Simplify` and `Integrate` to get stuck running forever, but there is no way to keep track of the internal transformations that mathematica is doing, since everything is sealed up.
Before you give up, give OrbStack a try: https://orbstack.dev/

It’s significantly faster than Docker and some users in the Discord community have been able to use it to run hand-built Linux x86 VMs on Apple Silicon.

It’s a paid product though, but you can download it for free and try it out before paying.
This is about war with Russia. Look at where they claimed it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_the_Ar...

https://warontherocks.com/2023/10/getting-sporty-in-russias-...
> The best way to do a layoff is to never have one

Sure, in fantasyland. This is unrealistic. What if you have a severe business downturn? No choice, but to layoff. In services, your number one cost is always people (talent).
Maybe they wanted to be at Pixar because it was a successful company with safe jobs, but don't want to be at the new less successful layoff-threatened Pixar anymore? And the "best talent" also tends to have better salaries, and management decisions are often not really well-informed, so IMHO thinking you are immune from layoffs because you're better than average is hubris...
are we starting to see the fall of cloudflare now? i doubt they were fully the product of the 0% environment but are they in a good spot?

all these companies have pretty weird practices though.
He's referring to China which is doing things like constructing artificial islands to make bad faith claims to territory.

The point is that he's trying to portray this work as honest, and part of honesty means acknowledging and adjusting when you're mistaken.
Why would Unity do this?
Dissecting the Bloch Sphere (2022)
The Pharo hackers write Pharo to enable them to make Pharo better. They are a shining manifestation of eating their own dog food.

Outcomes of this effort are powerful version control and package management. I don’t know, but it seems quite clear to me that Pharo folks start with base images, load their package dependencies on top of it, then hack away on their own code. Inevitably they create a new package with a list of dependencies for others to use.

What they don’t appear to be doing is “living” in their images. Rather they create application specific instances from source code.

Emacs users tend to “live” more within it than the SmallTalk/Pharo people do.

In the end they distribute images assembled much like a Docker image is today, made from a deterministic set of sources and then snapshot.
Chinese PLA-linked vessels map the Indian Ocean for submarine warfare
I must have misread the “too” in

> Eh, we got prohibition wrong too. Good learning opportunity

as if you were saying we got both of those things wrong.
This assumes that there's a significant difference between top performers and the next tier down, and that it's important to keep 'the best people'. In most businesses there are plenty of other good people who can step up if the best ones leave. Its also rare that someone is 'the best' at everything; people have a range of skills and you'll only be losing the person who's best at one or two of them.

Most people who think companies have a 'best person' aspire to be seen as that person, and haven't really thought about what it would actually mean.
That makes the name Unity very ironic right now.
He read the article though! A scholar.
Can anyone explain what looks like complete idiocy here? Why would the LGPL be so "radioactive" from Unity's perspective?

Looks like yet another faux pas by a company bent on self-destruction.
Boeing, like many B2B companies, is B2B2C. They may not sell directly to the public, but they have a public brand. (Unlike Spirit AeroSystems.)

And therefore, B2B companies run ads, e.g. to sway public opinion on government policies, or (now) to restore flyer confidence in their product. If US airlines get enough emails and letters from customers saying "I'll never fly a 737 MAX again!", that gives the airlines huge negotiating leverage against Boeing.
> MSFT employee here.

> Cannot say for the entire Microsoft, but in Azure the only way to access customer data is through support flow for cases where customer explicitly gave permissions.

That article notes that Microsoft says Microsoft accesses our data and make it available to 7xx 3rd parties. It is safe to assume that Microsoft has automated process to violate our privacy and not eyeballs and fingers.

So you don't really need to defend Azure tech support because no one is accusing Azure tech support.
Putin's War Is Changing How People Speak in Ukraine
Arguably most people’s jobs don’t let them move countries and being able to do so is largely the preserve of the fortunate. I imagine most people would also find it hard to move any significant internal distance.

You’d be amazed at how many people make use of this freedom in the EU though despite the cultural, linguistic and bureaucratic barriers. It was pretty mind blowing to me when I could just move my life from Scotland to Iceland. Particularly as that’s a significantly different transition than moving from one state in the US to another.
Thank you for the chart!

A bit unfair that you’re getting downvoted, it’s not your fault that the yield curve inversion is unfolding, and that this historically has been a strong leading indicator of a recession.
Guy brought up on gui hates shell, blames whatever is to hand when he feels bad about it.
Which is the point: large companies do not have more control over that than me and you, nor do they interpret them better, which is the same reason hedge funds generally trail index funds.
> "firing without notice": First, not legal in California where most of their highest skilled people work

Can you expand? Doesn't at-will meant that you can be fired without advanced notice?
> In a computer algebra system (CAS) one may enter 5a - 2a

> > (- (* 5 a) (* 2 a))

> The CAS would answer with:

> (* 2 a)

Not sure I'd want to use such a CAS. Hint: 5-2 != 2. ;-)
From the article:

After months of slow back-and-forth over email trying to find a compromise, including offering to exclude LGPL code from the assets, Unity basically told us we were not welcome back to their Store, ever. Even if we were to remove all LGPL code from the Unity package.

Where it gets fun is that there are currently hundreds if not thousands of Unity assets that include LGPL dependencies (such as FFmpeg) in the Store right now. Enforcement is seemingly totally random, unless you get reported by someone, apparently.
Anything derivative or including LGPL code assumes the license. It prohibits commercial use unless you also adopt LGPL.

https://fossa.com/blog/open-source-software-licenses-101-lgp...
That's what credit-card-required donations feel like to me. I didn't need a credit card except for giving americans money, then I applied for one and it was denied seemingly based on not having a credit score (not good, not bad, just none: privacy is suspicious!).

Afaik you can also do wire transfers in other countries but there are some fees involved, so isn't IBAN available to anyone with any bank account if they're okay seeing fees which the payment platform would otherwise hide?
Nope, the personal notes are necessarily personal. For example, confidential communications with recruiters. If I had to distinguish personal from public somehow in this, it would be more work, and decrease the utility to me.

Also, most of it wouldn't be useful to anyone but me.

Maybe doing personal wiki/notes like this is best thought of as an exercise for the person doing it. Rather than thinking of the artifact of that exercise as "content".
best solution no, but it's the best we have right now : it does not produce CO2. if we are cautious, use modern reactors and don't fuck up, it will give us the power we need, no CO2 and can be combined with greener solutions. this is temporary until we get fusion working someday. as soon we have fusion, we will get rid of nuclear power FOREVER. it's not the best, but it's the best we got to produce energy with NO CO2 produced.
I wonder if it would be easier to switch to say a part swappable battery, rather than try and make the whole thing swappable. Something smaller, but with a reasonable range, say 50 miles, might allow for a smaller ejection port on the car and possibly even light enough to handle by a person.
Thanks for a fun bit of insight to a fan base.

For those curious about the Creep cover:

> The most jaw-dropping moment of the night came near the end of the main set when he broke out Radiohead’s “Creep.” He had never played the song in concert before (or any other Radiohead songs for that matter), but across eight glorious minutes, he completely made it his own. It popped up on YouTube the next morning – with shots from many different angles – but the Prince camp is extremely vigilant with the Internet and had them all taken down. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke found this hysterical. “Really? He’s blocked it?” York asked an interviewer. “Surely we should block it. Hang on a moment. Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our song.” It was hard to argue with that, and it remains on YouTube even though most Prince material has been yanked for quite some time.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-prin...

The cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uu5vMLufNA
Because eventually most people remember that getting on a plane, even a 737 MAX, is about the safest part of our day.
Probably overly cautious legal advice from lawyers who don't know how much LGPL stuff is already in the store and used by Unity itself.
True, false and null
It depends on the average deal size for B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products like Cloudflare. Depending on whether a deal is <$5k, which is expected to close in ~1.3 months, to >$100k, which may take ~5.5 months or more.

Source: https://blog.salesflare.com/saas-sales

From my own experience working adjacent to sales for much of my career: Depending on what customer type and industry she is selling to — say, banking or Federal government sales, or sales of ARR >$1m — some sales cycles could even be superannual.

Note that many deals at Cloudflare are >$100k.

Source c. 2020: https://www.saastr.com/5-interesting-learnings-from-cloudfla...

Yet starter packages of Cloudflare can be as low as $20 to $200 / month ($240 to $2400 annually), though those lower tiers are likely all self-service to begin with; she likely wouldn't even be involved except to qualify them for a bigger follow-on deal size.

Source: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/
Maybe if you combine that approach with hiding under your desk when anyone walks by, it will be literally impossible to fire you.
Personally, I always select the correct reason and it does not seem to help. I don’t think “disagree” is a valid reason, I report obvious misinformation/racial hate/threats/gore.
Weird pivot in the middle of the article where all of a sudden they're promoting a product. Is this an ad disguised as a clickbait article?
Can I have formula (the Excel kind of formula that do computation) from everywhere in doc, slide, notebook, form, site, etc.?

It's similar to the demo in the home page of https://patera.io/
If I may suggest am interpretation: different kind of professionals may see different things. E.gm I'm told the market rate for react devs dropped like a brick, which is not the case for other software engineers.
It's the next generation of AMD G desktop processors with significant graphics. (The earlier Zen4 chips have graphics, but not significant graphics)

The last gen of those was Zen3, 5000G series. These are now Zen4 and also RDNA3 instead of Vega. So new generations in cpu and gpu.
It is about $40/month plan in India for 1GB connection. I am also pretty limited by wireless speeds.
Wow, sdf is still around! I wonder how they're doing.
These "puzzled and alarmed" Doctors need to watch the Netflix documentaries: "What the Health" and "Game Changers". There are others too, including 'Forks and Knives".
They will realize what the big pharma and animal products industries are up to.
Facebook bans ads for Votes for Women boardgame, claims "sensitive social issue"
> the concrete model of "she was a million dollars worth of sad"

What case are you citing? Because this rings truer for popular misconception of how law and equity work.
This article is such a gold mine given the current state of the things.
> Git sucks. Reason? It is entirely imperative.

A git repository is a persistent data structure [1]. Operations are typically append-only, requiring --force flags to do any in-place mutation.

> And, well, just like in C, there's no safety pillow - if you screw up a call, something simply goes pear-shaped.

Git is the safety pillow. When you screw up your code, you restore it with git. Article doesn't mention the reflog, which is the second safety pillow hiding under the first.

[1] https://softwaremill.com/persistent-data-structures-in-funct...
With kindness and nonzero envy: Should we expect any less from a man who affixes a laptop to himself so he doesn’t have to stop typing to go for a walk?
have been playing D&D since edition 2. i did try first edition with a few friends, and it was OK but a bit cumbersome compared to edition 2 which I played the most. i totally skipped editions 3 and 4. and i recently bought edition 5. and i really, really love it. i bought those before they started their woke bullshit about orcs (they see racism where there is NONE and want to show signals they are woke - fuck WoC). i bought the first edition printed of those 5th edition rules, and their PDFs. and seeing how WoC is going woke, thus broke soon, i don't care anymore about future editions. i will keep 5th and never move from it, and watch WoC burn and die from their woke stance.
3.4% according to the latest number released in the past 24 hours.
Also known as "the mexican cartel".
I would think that if we made interest non tax deductible (i.e. make it so that interest cannot be paid out of pre tax income) then this hole in regulation would be eliminated.

Is there a reason why this isn’t so?

(I get that there are other reasons why we might not want to do this… I’m curious whether this would fix the issue in the first place.)
5k likes on tiktok is nothing
LGPL is specific to the library. A proprietary application can ship with an LGPL library, as long as the library hasn't shipped with proprietary modifications.
You are right, designing a perfect system is complicated. Of course, you have account for planes that are expected to leave the runway before the next touchdown.
The train equivalent for this is called CBTC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications-based_train_con...

My bigger point here is that there are a bunch of low-hanging fruit that could have prevented this. A system doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.

The tower could have known, that a plane was expected to land in the next 30 seconds. They could have automatically transmitted that to the cost guard plane and this could have sounded an alarm in the cockpit of the taxiing plane.
Most of the good people have left Unity or have been laid off. Whoever remain are likely ill equipped to deal with anything. So I see these kinds of decisions as the death throes of the company.
Canny edge detection is optimal in some settings. Often, though, edge detection is in service of another goal, such as segmentation. Nowadays, computers are big/fast enough (GPUs) that building models that learn edge detection implicitly and do segmentation or the end task directly is feasible.

Still fun to learn about Hough transforms, canny edge detection, and all that 1990s computer vision though!
> court is already to settle dueling theoretical models, and it will still settle them by considering facts and circumstances

No, it starts with the facts and circumstances and then lenses them through the law.

> should be quite exceptional for a crime to depend on the victim's mental state

It is. Emotional damage per se being remediable in law is mostly a myth. This is why we default to actual damages; it largely sidesteps alternate timelines and the unknowable mens rea.
You are confusing GPL with LGPL.
The anti-union pro “I can bargain for myself” nonsense sure came fast.
Explains why tools like Copilot seems to be so hyped, yet I as an old school developer really can't find a place where it would help me.

I guess most people really benefit from a tool to autogenerate an Erathostenes sieve in Python or a fizzbuzz function in Prolog or yet another React Router boilerplate.

EDIT: a more nuanced version of this comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38965283
It's pronounced "Go" and written "Go" in prose.

It's searched as "Golang" and thus written as "Golang" in places necessary to make search work (titles, keywords, ....)

Not all that different from the various fucked up ways English spelling works
IME 5G and 5GHz is fast in perfect location and crap outside the blessed areas. I blame it on higher frequencies attenuation. Does Wifi 7 buck the trend?
The process requires people to be aware of the offer and contact support. A few months down the road, nobody will remember this exists, so most migrations won't actually make use of it.
Why make it a worm that spread all over the world if they had access to the water pumps directly, doesn't make any sense. Now that it's so long ago, I guess a lot of people want their name on Stuxnet because of how sophisticated the attack was.
> just buy a Jetson nano and throw Linux on it

I've been writing gstreamer-based inference pipelines for a couple years on Jetsons and in my experience there is never a "just" with any of the these, sadly. It is such a painful platform to deal with at a software level... I wish NVidia had more competition.
You can still tinker with software as you please.

Things got a lot more complex these days. When I was a kid I was able to hold in my mind how DOS works, how x86 works and was able to learn a bit of C and assembler to do about anything. Hack software, build my own, have fun.

Doing small games was pretty easy if you knew some graphic modes and had some undocumented source codes for drivers for various 2D graphics cards. Trying now to learn modern DirectX, Vulkan, shaders and graphics stacks is more complex.

Nobody can now hold in their heads all the important details of how operating systems work, how networks work, how graphics woks, how web apps work, how mobile apps work, how backend works, how desktop apps work, how ML and AI works.

You have to specialize in something. Get an Arduino and learn how to flip a led. Right click a popular website, paste the source code in Notepad and try to modify it.

It's not less fun tinkering, but it's going to be specialized fun if you ever want to learn something and get good at it.
But Unity can’t do that because it transpiles code on build… simply linking using LD wouldn’t make you have to adopt. Any modifications would, and would have to be published in source code form.

This is why, in Unity, LGPL is the black plague.
Not, but I don’t do much typing on my lap anyways, typing is usually on a desk or table, when using an iPad on my lap it’s mostly for media consumption, better without a keyboard.
In that link it says they are required to pay all restaurant workers $20 an hour due to new laws. From my understanding that job gets a lot of tips in America so they don't want to cough up $20 an hour.

the idea of having in-house delivery people for any place is outdated compared to gig apps probably. You only lose a bit of money by not having your own people.
US debt to GDP ratio is >120%. By IMF definition that's an economic death spiral. The death spiral becomes irreversible by 2028 because by then the interest on the loans for all that money we've been printing for decades to prop up the fake economy will only cover the interest, no longer the principal, which will continue to accrue interest, meaning it can never be paid down and the US will be insolvent (cease to exist) by 2042. That road we've been kicking the can down for decades -- this is the end of it. Social Security will be insolvent in a decade. Medicare -- don't ask. Historically about this time 1 or all of 3 things happen: 1) Global Depression/Massive Austerity 2) World War 3) A new monetary system and all the things that go with that, most notably a new world order and loss of civil liberties and rights in exchange for security, housing, food (indentured servitude). The economy is quantifiably worse than it has ever been. Money in the economy is contracting (disappearing) at the highest rate in history (look up the M2 Real.) It just takes a while for the trickle of trickle down economics to make it all the way back to the spout. All those jobs they keep revising down after the fact turned out to be government jobs, so the only thing growing is actually the government, and the only economic growth is coming from fiscal (government) spending that has been slowly making it's way into the economy after years. It's pretty nuts. We're literally borrowing money from China to send to Ukraine and Gaza. Those illegal immigrants--I mean "refugees" are costing each taxpayer over $9,000 a year. Kids are born today owing the government over $100,000. Their kids, right now it'll be $250,000. Dark Age onset type stuff we're witnessing if you've ever read a book about how the Dark Ages (Bronze age, Fall of the Roman Empire) happened. You know that "This is Fine" meme. Yeah, that. Even Apple's growth rate is the slowest it's been in 5 years. Wall Street and Big Tech have been hoarding money and are pouring it all into the AI revolution so the robots can take over and restore order when the Technological Singularity happens by 2028 thanks to the billionaires Accelerationism plans. Good times if you like dystopian sci-fi movies. Next 20 years are going be a real hoot. I've always wanted a battle van. And thank Elon we'll finally have one that can be solar powered. Eat your heart out Mad Max. See you in the wasteland, cowboys.