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atlintots··on TeX Live 2025 Released
It doesn't, which IMO was a stupid decision. TeX math notation isn't even that bad, and making Typst compatible with it would've gone a long way towards adoption. It's currently unusable for me because in order to actually use it for something I need to first find time to re-learn everything.
atlintots··on Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation
It helped me, I was looking exactly for their comment.
atlintots··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
I'm happy to learn that.
atlintots··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
I think they are brutal for America in particular, but not so much for the developing world. Happy to be wrong about this.

But I do believe that is why Americans are so frightened of a multipolar world (or really, any world where the US isn't the singular superpower).

atlintots··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
I'm not sure how whatever the vast majority of Americans are interested in has anything to do with my point, but...

> The Chinese are not stupid enough to send their kids to die in war

I see you already understand why China would be a better world leader than America!

atlintots··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Perhaps it's justice that Canada experience the very thing they supported the US for in Iraq.
atlintots··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
I'm assuming you're on platforms dominated by Americans and Westerners so you're not seeing it much, but I can assure large portions of the world are quite happy to see America's downfall in real-time.

Personally, I hope to see China fill the void America will leave behind; the world will be better for it.

atlintots··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
But it has always been like this, and people from the global south and former USSR republics have always recognized this. It's only now starting to become apparent to naive and propagandized Americans/Westerners.
atlintots··on 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised
Go on, then. Elaborate.
atlintots··on Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers
What? That makes no sense -- scrollbars are there so you can drag them around and scroll, not just to indicate scrollable content. Not at all analogous in this case. The site looks nice overall, but the explicit indicator is bad design regardless.
atlintots··on BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free
Yes, and this discussion is about electric vehicles in particular:

> Electric vehicles imported from China will see their tariffs more than quadrupled from 27.5% to 100%

atlintots··on BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free
Well, I'm not living in China, so I don't know what your point is.
atlintots··on BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free
In fact, the tariffs on BYD cars were imposed by the Biden administration.
atlintots··on Firing programmers for AI will destroy everything
Except juniors are not going to be the competent people you're looking for to unwind those systems. Personally, no matter how it plays out, I feel like the entry-level market in this field is going to take a hit. It will become much more difficult and competitive.
atlintots··on I Conditioned Myself to Fail
how has a diagnosis helped you?
atlintots··on I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
Like you said, atom is slightly better, and based on RSS (hence why everyone just uses 'RSS'). It should be fine to say "Subscribe via RSS" and point to an atom feed instead, almost any tooling will be able to handle both. You can also say "Subscribe to atom feed" to be more explicit.
atlintots··on Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation
Pakistan mentioned! Let's go!!
atlintots··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
If that is truly your primary concern, you should be more worried about Instagram. TikTok is much better in that regard. It has parental controls, a restricted mode, screen time limits, etc.
atlintots··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
But Trump started the ban.
atlintots··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
What do you mean? YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are very similar.
atlintots··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
Per the article, those shares are not in TikTok:

> The ByteDance unit that sold golden shares to China's government holds the licenses of Toutiao and Douyin to operate under local law.

So those shares don't mean much as far as TikTok's operations are concerned.

atlintots··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
Pakistan mentioned! Let's go!!
atlintots··on The Shepherd 1.0.0 released
i don't have access to an ethernet cable
atlintots··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
I would suggest you please take a look at the HN guidelines [1]. In particular:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

atlintots··on The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
If time and money weren't concerns, I would love to do mathematics research!

I hope you achieve good things, and have fun while at it!

atlintots··on Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?
Because I'm stupid!
atlintots··on Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?
Do NOT use an uncommon TLD. I was using .lol recently and missed a job interview because the employer wasn't receiving any of my emails -- they kept getting rejected by their email servers! And I was only informed by Thunderbird weeks later when it was too late. Ever since then, I've just been using gmail for everything.
atlintots··on Ask HN: Where can I find human-generated content now that I've quit Reddit?
There are some free ([1], [2]) and paid ([3]) search engines targeting smaller/indie websites. You might also enjoy [4], though it's not a search engine.

[1]: https://search.marginalia.nu/

[2]: https://wiby.me/

[3]: https://kagi.com/

[4]: https://bearblog.dev/discover/

atlintots··on Jimmy Carter has died
You can be a small country by landmass and still be expansionist. Israel's map has only grown in size from 1949 until today.
atlintots··on Toronto man creates tiny mobile homes to help unhoused people escape the cold
With the state of the housing market, no one bothers investing in anything else -- it's just not "worth it" when housing is already such a good investment. Not to mention the issue of monopolies.
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