skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I write HTML/JS, productivity and convenience for me means the ability to easily style and not reinvent:

a) Select dropdowns as feature-rich as select2 (search, style, custom click handlers, custom appearance in box, multiselect, callbacks)

b) Data Tables as feature-rich as jQuery DataTables (search, sort, paginate, w/ server-side data, callbacks)

c) A high-quality, customizable charting library that's interoperable with the components

d) A slider / carousel / swiper that's as feature-rich as swiper.js

e) A sane and typical component library (ideally from one place like Ant)

I don't build libraries, I want to use them to build applications, and I don't want to spend too much time re-inventing them or making them play nice with each other - i.e. figuring out when one of them is done initializing so that I can trigger the "initialize" of the other and so on.

The solutions thus far range from some compilation hellscape where I have to write everything in a custom dialect, which then gets compiled to HTML/CSS/JS and then I have to debug things cryptically because it's generated code.

The other end of the spectrum is something that's lightweight and uses the platform extensively like htmx or what lit appears to be positioned as.

I've written production applications using Angular, React, Vue, Alpine and it seems like the newer the library, the less likely it is to have an easy way to support the large selection of component libraries you could just throw together and they "just worked" in the days of jQuery + something. As a result, I end up having pages that are still jQuery + something because neither my users nor my customers care about these details, and the tradeoff is minor.

As a developer it sure would be nice to have a dx where you didn't have to reinvent these things or work with ancient libraries.
So writing good code is gay?
That's not really a 'card processing fee'. That would be more accurately called a commission on a foreign currency exchange.

Having said that, the overall cost could possibly be a combination of both the foreign exchange fee and a card processing fee.

If you used PayPal, you actually used two or more banking institutions for the one transaction: Paypal takes a commission, your bank charges you a card processing fee, and somewhere or other there's a foreign currency exchange fee.

All jokes aside, it may sometimes be cheaper to use a Travel Agent for foreign airlines. It pays to do your 'due diligence' whatever the transaction might be.

Another thing that you could take into account is which end of the transaction will be cheaper with Foreign Exchange commissions: Is it cheaper to buy (say) US dollars in Australia and send the overseas entity US Dollars, or is it cheaper to send Australian Dollars overseas and get the Currency Conversion done in the States? *

Be especially careful when prices are quoted in "dollars" that you find out which dollars are being talked about. Just a straight rough and ready calculation shows you that one US dollar is about $1.50 Australian, without taking into account any exchange fees, or bank handling fees.

I'll just say that one more time: It pays to do your 'due diligence' whatever the transaction might be.

===

* In cases like this you might find, for instance, that the Australian bank will charge you commission on the conversion and only charge a $6 transfer fee. Or you might send Aussie dollars overseas, the bank doesn't get any conversion commission from you, so charges you a $22 transfer fee. [True example!]
Baranda (derived from varanda) in Bengali means porch too!
let's only let those people that absolutely must leave their homes, everyone else should stay inside under government microphone and camera. Imagine how much safe society would be! The government could save so many people like that and keep crime down!
https://imgur.com/a/5UebhP4

Something about taking a screenshot on a scaled display makes my first image (at 125% scaling) look bigger than it should be; at 80% magnification it looks about the same size as it does in my browser, so edges may not come across quite right. (100/125 = 0.8, so that’s probably not a coincidence.)

I set scaling to 100% for the second image, and that one looks true to life size, so it’s probably the better reference.

Edit: On comparison, it’s not the serifs. Maybe it’s the lighter overall color on the page, or maybe it’s the way that autohinting exaggerates the contrast between thick and thin strokes.
I have yet to hear a single convincing pragmatic argument why fiat currency debasement isn’t theft be counterfeit.

Looking at the purchasing power of any fiat currency in history, they all, without exception tend to zero over time.

A wage earner who works for 40 years in exchange for a fiat currency with 2% annual inflation loses almost 50% of their purchasing power over that time. This is before accounting for taxes.

How is that not theft?
Get out of here with this nonsense. We tell people when we’re a bad option all the time. Do you really think we have a desire (or time) to punish somebody for doing the same?

Also, here’s the long forgotten badge, still with 3 people…
https://community.fly.io/badges/107/aeronaut
>what I gather the leadership at TSMC is terrible

But if leadership is terrible how are they the no. 1 player in the world?
While Oppenheimer's work was an important milestone on the road towards the modern theory of black holes, it should not be forgotten that the existence of black holes had already been predicted by John Michell in November 1784, more than a century and a half before Oppenheimer.

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

Until the first experimental evidence for black holes, none of the continuously improving theories about them were taken seriously, because they were based on extrapolations of the known physics laws outside their known domain of validity, and in physics extrapolations may always fail.
it isn't murky, it's obvious that it should require a warrant for the government to tap into any conversation that people have a reasonable desire to keep private. The police should be there to serve us and not the other way around.
>This is our public site, for people who don't have support plans with us

To be honest, that's enough for me. Sorry I didn't pick up on that.
I think he means dual monitors in the sense of laptop+external monitor.
That's the one feature we don't care about at all.

We specifically avoid features like that (e.g. in PostHog) because it would be hard to explain to our customers why we're doing it.

Capturing session logs? Now we're talking, that matters. We're doing it in-house by relaying logs from our apps after a certain amount has been collected.
The best instant noodle brand is Mama. Trust me and try it out.
Yeah, I'm always wondering why are people so concerned about what they eat while they are breathing in particulate poisons that have direct access to their blood.
There's a show about that exact scenario! For All Mankind.
> Would IT Take to Power the U.S.?

IT has usually a low budget so i don't think they will be able to power anything. The budget is barely enough for their work. /s
No, the battle was an economic one, never a science one. Let’s face it: both the US and Soviet Union had extremely capable scientists.

But the entire Cold War was about which economic system was the “best” and in the end, the Soviet Union frankly ran out of money and could not even test their Buran spacecraft before launching it to see it crash.

Running out of money is how you lose this battle.
It might be surprising, but your own opinions aren't the same as facts.
Running times? Are they confusing Turing with Roger Bannister, the guy who first broke the four minute mile? Track surfaces, shoes, nutrition and training methods were quite different then. Someone gave a Ted Talk in which they factored out all the technological advantages that modern sprinters have over Jesse Owens, and Owens comes in at 0.1 seconds beyond Usain Bolt in one of Bolt's Olympic 100 meter races. Which means that there great athletes in the past who would be very competitive today. Wilt Chamberlain in basketball being another example.
With the help from German rocket scientists..
When it comes to small risks adding up, intuition is massively massively overrated. People are awful at estimating it.
TokenFlow: Consistent Diffusion Features for Consistent Video Editing
It’s the first link in the video description: https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-w...
That's not true, people have stepped aside for 10s of thousands of years to have private conversations they didn't want other people to hear. why does the medium matter, whether is pressure waves from mouth to ears or electron/light communications. Why does anyone have a right to listen in?
do you mean flat shapes?
do you have any recommendation for learning resources using this method of contour drawing?

I wasted years trying constructional drawing (3d boxes etc) without results.
Because life is short term. And it will end soon enough in one gruesome way or the other regardless. If you can keep yourself from falling apart too rapidly till then it's all good.
I think "You are good, even though you are no Einstein" or just "You are no Einstein" is complement enough.
You know you can actually bring fuel to a plane and refuel it wherever it is? And that’s probably the answer to the first question, it can be done but you you have to have someone who knows what he’s doing think outside the box a little.
Because it can also be true but the comment implies it's only used as an attack.
The person to whom you are replying clearly meant (IMO) that you shouldn’t ask for more compensation or you will make people act defensive. Frankly, your reply reads a little defensive so maybe that’s not awful advice?

It also seems like this was a spontaneous initial conversation and not part of the process, so I’m not sure why you are suggesting that they made it up.
Only after Einstein told him what he had been working on.
> Mail and Telephones were never at any point perfectly private

In principle they were not private but in practice they were because in most places the police had to realize that there was a conversation of interest, get a warrant, and use scarce resources.

Now the authorities are able to use machines to monitor traffic patterns for almost all communication the cost of interception is much lower.
>As far as photos from iCloud to Google, just download Google Photos on your iPhone and sync your photos.

That's not a direct transfer, it's a workaround which requires you to have free storage on your phone greater than the amount of photos you have.
Oracle MySQL Heatwave Lakehouse goes GA to query data
Funny story, when I started my current role I researched our hosting provider. I couldn't find the matching invoices in the accounting system. So I called the vendor, a local company. They'd not set our account up correctly, billing was not enabled. Since then we've been billed. I'm glad we sorted it but it wasn't a good look to start my role by increasing our spending.
> clippy is used a linter

Nice evolution from an annoying dialogue in MS Office. /s
It takes a master to recognize a master's work.
Know that you have made their work easy even if they don't realize it.
The goal was to prevent the streets of Visby from looking like the streets of Bucha.
This sounds nice but I don’t want to manage my house, maybe I’m just getting old.
I assume by "leadership is terrible" they mean how it impacts working there, not the business results.
Sounds like my kind of community as I'm also extremely anti-tooling.

I want to feel like I'm working with native browser features as much as possible.
Personally, I would even consider doing a project with plain HTMLElement. If I found that I absolutely needed the convenience of state reactivity, only then I would use Lit.
Ask HN: Share Jr. Developers Resume
Could all Jr. Developers share their resume here please.

Thank you.
The heat index has been 110F in Austin for the past 3 weeks and I see construction workers leaving job sites every weekday about 4 pm. I'm wondering how they manage their physical condition in extreme heat without cooling and not having a heart attack. I'll have to remember to ask about how often they grab something to drink or take a break during such extreme heat.
Companies can't arrest me and throw me in jail.
Brain2Music: Reconstructing Music from Human Brain Activity
Depending on your exact wants, I think there was an LTT video recently on how you can purchase older server blades for very reasonable prices, and upgrade them using also reasonably priced used server-grade CPUs and RAM. Obviously you won’t have the bang of new hardware, but if what you want to do is play around with enterprise-class systems…
As noted, Aussie Rules isn't rugby by a long shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMZYZcoAcU0

I'm saying I believe that Australian settlers were heavily influenced by many things that indigenous people did; what to eat, where to find good water, how to manage land, but they rarely acknowledged that influence.

The original version of AFL played by English settlers was a great deal more like original Marn grook than 'modern' codified AFL - the playing area was larger and effectively unbounded (save by the need to score through designated goal areas, etc).

Indigenous influence on AFL creation confirmed by historical transcripts, historian says

Monash University historian Professor Jenny Hocking found transcripts placing Indigenous football, commonly known today as Marngrook, firmly in the Western district of Victoria where Australian rules founder Tom Wills grew up.

"We found in the State Library of Victoria records of a transcription of an interview with [Mukjarrawaint man] Johnny Connolly, who describes actually playing the game in the Grampians region as a child in the 1830s to 40s,"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-13/historian-reveals-mar...

> It doesn't seem likely.

You're entitled to your opinion but I'd hazard a guess you never grew up playing barefoot football on stony ground with aboriginal teams whereas I did (40 years ago).

Everybody seems to wear shoes now and many of the remote fields have grass now, with a few exceptions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UqL_M6_muU

I don't put much stock in your opinion.
I would use Fly for hosting servers, but never databases.

For this very reason.
1. Chimps also kill to dominate, is that now an acceptable behavior for people?

We aren't animals.

2. If you don't like foreigners you're a bigot and terrible person.

Hating someone because of where they are from is illogical because not all people from a specific location act and think the same. Therefore your hatred has no specific valid target.
So you converted the RGB to CMYK to get a subtractive color space for colored pencils?
Newton was more important I think. He basically invented physics as we know it. He didn't have the 200 years or so of work in the field that Einstein had to build on. He was effectively starting from scratch. He's the point at which the modern world starts, when humanity started to understand the world around them instead of letting themselves be subjects of superstition.
Mink farming poses risks for future viral pandemics
Ranking scientific achievement is a very dodgy pursuit and physics is no exception.

There is a path dependence that makes it almost impossible to compare individuals that worked in different eras. This is hinted at by the famous "standing on shoulders of giants" quote of Newton and is further complemented by something I believe Lev Landau has expressed using the phrase "all the brides are taken" (he felt there weren't big enough problems for him to have a chance to measure against the "greats)"

There is one and only Universe, the understanding of which by humans is a single historical trajectory. There is no possibility to control for any variable and repeat the experiment.

Would the absence of the specific "Newton" individual delay the process of understanding the physical works? by how much? A few years, decades, centuries? Taking into account that ideas and possibilities tend to "float" in the environment of a particular era but also the presence of non-linear loops such as: influential scientists that get recognized early on can stall further development during their own lifetime!

Making the best of a risky task would require that we only compare apples with apples, individuals of a particular era and operating in the same information environment. So in this instance, ranking Oppenheimer against individuals of his generation only.

Having said all that, imho there is really nobody like Einstein. Ever since the 18th century most physics is in a sense "programmatic". There is a defined mental framework that people apply repeatedly to an ever growing range of accessible or relevant domains. Einstein's journey created an entire new paradigm (the fabric on which physics plays out is itself physics) and one we still have not fully understood.

The most exciting possibility is that somebody might be able to piece together that growing observational hints from cosmology and the various puzzles of black holes to take that paradigm to the next stage.
Conspiratorial or not that's enough for me to never use it. God forbid someone recommends another platform that handles your clear shortcomings.
Rumi talks a lot about the pain of unattainable beauty, in both men (as desire) and women (as envy or desire to be desired). That brand of Sufism really breaks down, both philosophically and psychologically, the "meaning" of painful beauty. For Rumi, the beauty that drives people insane is an infinitesimal ray of God's beatific manifestation. Witnessing unattainable beauty is supposed be painful, and the pain is there for a reason, to draw one to what is Higher, and eventually drawing one to the Source of beauty to find that within oneself.

> Since tresses and cheeks show a sign of that drop, kings keep licking the ground.

> Delicate earth has received a drop of Beauty, so you kiss it night and day with a hundred hearts.

> Though mixed with earth, a single drop can drive you mad—what then will that wine do to you when pure?

(Rumi M V 372-375)

Note "earth" here is a reference to human beings, as Muslims believe humans were created from earthly clay.
The Tallest Atrium (2019)
I think their proxy could have been written from scratch. Some management, billing, API etc too but under the hood, it's all standard open source stuff like kvm, firecracker and such?
> If the gangs wanted to make a stand against the state, they could. They would need to take and defend their territory while increasing their numbers, likely via kidnapping and child recruitment.

That is a pure fantasy. You know how I know? Because gangs historically and worldwide occasionally tried. This fails all the time.
I never likes the microwave idea of heating the food actually, bombarding atomic particles on water particles? to give them more spin and make them crazy !

my gut feeling tells me this out of order state of particles must be causing some problem along with plastic. I never use microwave for more than 20 seconds even on ceramic plates, albeit never on plastic. I still can have cancer from other sources that i have not identified yet :)
Poland has BLIK, which links your bank account number to your phone number. Then, just send a transfer to the phone number instead of punching in the 26 digits of the account number.
And if you don't want to share your phone number, you can use a temporary six digit code instead.
> American hyper compettyness is well known, despite it leading nowhere worth visiting.

And you're saying this on the Internet.

I'd be amazed, but I suppose Twitter seeps in even here.
Lit is there to help you write web components, so if you don't want to write components it's not a big help, and that's ok.

The flip side is that you should ideally be able to find pre-made web components that fit your need, like I think you're asking for. There are a lot of components out there, which you can hopefully find with enough diligence. What's missing is a great comprehensive catalog of components. Something I've tried to work on, but it's hard to find enough time or funding to complete.
There isn't really secret sauce to it in 2023. The techniques, processes, and etc have pretty much been documented over the past 20 years.

But if you are wondering how AWS manages to be so good at it at such scale? Hosting infrastructure is incredibly complicated and AWS employs something like 100k people. Seemingly small AWS services employ more engineers than Fly.io.

That being said my take is that what's happening at Fly.io is a lack of leadership. There are not the right people in the right positions clearly. I've worked infra at companies from 5 people to, well Rackspace, and I'm having a hard time imagining so much time passing with.. Essentially a piece of infra MIA and impacting users.
Don’t forget this can be trained as well. Mental imagery can become a lot sharper if you want it to be.

I think mental imagery is always sharp, it’s just your perception and/or your memory of it that sucks. Perhaps a bit like dreams.

I’m somewhat of a lucid dreamer and those are incredibly realistic, way, way beyond what I can conjure up consciously. It opened me up to the idea that your mind might be capable of more than you have conscious control over and the role memory plays in this.
50k is nothing. That’s not even the salary for one person in a year.

If you can’t scrounge together $50k to start a banking business, you probably should not be starting a banking business.

Bruh, I could get $50k right now if I go through a line of credit for small businesses as a regular person.
It is very true. Most of us who are not designers just want a very good looking default style. We can change if we want to later. It is a pain that react doesn't come with default style.
Llama2 + Haystack on Colab
I recently conducted some experiments with Llama2 and Haystack (https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack), the NLP/LLM framework.

The notebook can be helpful for those trying to load Llama2 on Colab.

1) Installed Transformers from the main branch (and other libraries)

2) Loaded Llama-2-13b-chat-hf on Colab using 4-bit quantizazion, thanks to the material shared by Younes Belkada

3) Disabled Tensor Parallelism, which caused some issues

4) Installed a minimal version of Haystack

5) Found a hacky way to load the model in Haystack's PromptNode

6) Had a fun chat session with the model, discussing everything from David Guetta to Don Matteo (an Italian TV series)!
It's really past time to stop putting more money in the overstuffed pockets of oil companies. Biocompatible plastic alternatives, should have long been an option. More people need to use glass containers, particularly for food or drinks, when viable. Constantly consuming microplastics, is clearly a health disaster.
Won a popularity contest in the past because Bohr was very influential among his peers. But it always left enough physicists dissatisfied to motivate investigation into alternative interpretations, and Many Worlds is one of the interpretations which seems to be gaining followers.
yea, it's just another one to add to a list of expressions that are unnecessarily aggressive, and for which there are better alternatives
I use both and am very satisfied, especially by Hetzner.
Well, it's a webapp, so everything there is designed with web technologies.
Mental images are like a movie set. They only build the parts that are going to be on screen, and even then accuracy and level of detail is only a concern for the parts that are relevant to the plot. Everything else is just shoddily constructed disposable background, often reused in multiple different movies as though filler detail is provided by a common prop manager. At least there's no product placement.