skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The universe does not owe us explainability in terms of everyday intuition.

You don't just "find some math that fits the data" the way you would mechanically tune the parameters of a given mathematical model to fit empirical data.

Indeed finding a mathematical formulation that seems to describe a corner of reality with any fidelity is such an extraordinary thing that physicists have always puzzled about why it is even possible!

Now it turns out that these mathematical inventions "work" even when our intuition (built on experiences around human scale) cannot quite grasp them. This is the case both in the realms of the very small (quantum) and very big (relativity).

This doesnt mean that at some point we might not find deeper mathematical abstractions that "work better" (e.g., this was the string theory ambition) but the practical result would still be every bit "shut up and calculate".
Thanks for the detailed description. The idea with different function on hold is interesting. I wonder that you don't have the Tab key. Is it not used on Mac at all?

I also tried different layouts, experimenting about half a year, and in the end found the backspace under right thumb quite convenient (probably bc I still make a lot of typos on EDEZ).
I couldn't possibly have given less of a fuck whether Hassan Nasrallah drew another breath; the point is that Hamas and all the regional forces backing it were drastically compromised and/or reduced to their combustion products in the months that followed their May 27 rejection, and they are in much worse shape today. They should have taken the deal in May.
That’s one of the theories, called Big Crunch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch

There are other (more probable) theories about the end of the universe, and if you’re up to it you can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe

I’m in favor of the Big Chill, since I like the concept of entropy as introduced by the second law of thermodynamics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
If I started claiming that the Welsh are refugees from Atlantis would that make me a leading Celtic scholar?
That's the normal during peace periods, no? Hamas does what hamas does, IDF does what IDF does. Unless there's a permanent solution this conflict will keep getting active. Looking at the state of affairs, there will to be no end to occupation and apartheid from Israel. Feeble PA will not gain more political capital all of a sudden. Hamas made themselves a pariah with October 7 attacks. All parties will race to the bottom it seems. Palestinians and Israelis will keep suffering.
> the last few

There have been over 10 “ceasefires” that ended with Hamas firing rockets into Israel, in the last 20 years.
So either way a non-issue for today.
Hamas is not an Islamic fundamentalist organisation. They are Muslims, but they have not twisted the religion for extremism; they are not ISIS or Al-Qaeda.
Whatever it is, it has nothing to do with the point I made upthread.
There are no shadows or transparent textures and only low poly models, yet I only get maybe 2fps. I've built webgl racing game that did >50fps on a $50 phone [1]. There's something seriously wrong with your tech stack.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okg61OOFUdQ
Great tool! Used to bypass a license in one .NET app where we really had bought a lifetime license but it still expired (we were in a hurry and didn't receive the new one in time).

The authors homepage has a link to crash iPhone. I clicked it with Chrome on Windows and it crashed :D (https://elektrokill.github.io/).
Of course living by a river and powering a waterwheel was vastly preferred to the steam engine here until steam technology caught up through miniaturization and tighter manufacturing tolerances.
Isn't it better for Russia to wait till Trump?
Good timing given computer use was just the other day jailbroken and "succeeded" in ordering an assassination via the dark web.
The further we are from a people, the more we tend to group them into monoliths. As monoliths, both sides are monsters, with the best one can argue being that one side's monstrosity is justified.

Break them down further and you can find the actual monsters--those self-interestedly seeking either their own aims, or, some random aim at any cost, even when the aim is impossible and its costs massive.
See:

Breaking Down Monitor Metrics: PPD, FOV, and More - https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/wixw1h/breaking_d...

On pixels, PPI and PPD - https://zonglongptp.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/on-pixels-ppi-a...
Increasing engineering velocity with trunk-based development
To be fair we now live in a world where Sam Altman is lauded and given billions for doing exactly this.
Trees produce CO2 during respiration and intake it during photosynthesis. The carbon captured during photosynthesis will be offset to some degree by the tree's own need to consume glucose.
Not at all -- it uses volatility in one's favour, by cashing out on temporary peaks and buying in on temporary lows.

What you describe sounds like a kind of momentum/market cap investing, which is favourable in the short term, but suffers a lot when things go bad.

(This is assuming one cannot predict future returns better than the rest of the market. If you do that all the better!)

Seems like there's a lot of confusion on this. I'll see if I can get a fuller article up.
The goal is to eliminate Hamas, or at least prevent them for returning to rule the Gaza strip. That has not been accomplished.
Speed is not fine. It's good enough for a lot of apps, but it doesn't get the job done for anything performance sensitive. An obvious issue is the lack of real machine number types, which makes anything numeric much slower than it could be.

Furthermore, JS semantics are limiting in other respects. E.g. there are people looking at tail calls and continuations in WebAssembly, which I can't see ever coming to JS.
From an engineering point of view it is VPN companies that need to be bracing for 1000x spikes.
All the different configuration you need for Webpack is built-in to Vite. This includes built-in support for a lot of stuff that would come as separate plugins in Webpack (CSS loading, Typescript support, asset bundling, minification, autoprefix/browserslist-based downleveling, env replacement, etc). But more importantly, it includes fairly optimal configuration.

There's usually an optimal way to bundle your code, and one of the issues with Webpack was that finding that optimal way through a maze of documentation and third-party plugins. Vite does that work for you, because it's mostly a solved problem and it's not that hard. For example, rather than having a number of different CSS plugins that you need to enable and disable in different configurations — just use Vite, which will do hot-reloading of CSS in development and link to the CSS files as external files in production.

In my experience, there are typically two types of Webpack configurations: fairly basic ones that include some essentials but are fairly unoptimised (either while developing or in production), or complex ones that include everything but are brittle and painful to update. Vite gives you the power and optimisation of the latter with the configuration ease of the former.

Also, to be clear, I'm not trying to hype Vite up. There are other similar tools out there, and Vite isn't even the first tool to work like this — Parcel is older and also pretty good at doing zero/minimal-config builds that work how you expect out-of-the-box. Any of these tools are good, although Vite seems to be the most popular right now and so has the most support/documentation/information. But I would generally encourage any project using Webpack to migrate away from that where possible (and where time allows), because these low-config tools are such a timesaver in the long-run.
My TikTok For You Page is almost entirely made up of Veritasium videos, sci-fi authors, some standup, lock picking lawyer and "how is it made" style videos. I don't get any of that brain-rot slop. If I did, I wouldn't use it. Which would be a slight improvement to my life. Although I'm not negatively impacted by the current level of my TikTok use, I can definitely see it takes an extra level of willpower to stop (i.e. close the app, put down the phone) than almost any other of my extra curriculars. From enjoyable hobbies to other fun time wasting activities such as gaming. Barring Factorio which is the biggest time warp I've ever encountered, with an almost perfect dopamine extracting game loop.

The algorithm is good. It's too good, and that's why it's dangerous.
Tobiko (creators of sqlmesh) acquires Quary
Yes exactly. No matter how you ideologically relate to Yarvin, he is very good on history: he is deeply erudite and can draw on and vast amount of knowledge, and use this to draw logically rigorous conclusions.
One way to send and receive email from your vanity domain in the free version of gmail:

# Use Cloudflare Email Routing.

* Point your MX records at their MX.

* Cloudflare forwards email to your gmail.com address.

# Use AWS SES or some other transactional mail provider.

* In Gmail Settings: "Add another email address".

* Add your SMTP settings in the new account.

* There is no need to configure IMAP or POP3.
I wish I had billions of sheer force of will.
They were being thrown away/deleted so some researches from the university decided to save them. I much prefer this to losing this information/history fully.
I'm not sure which European country you're thinking about, but we had lockers, individual backpacks and heavy textbooks. I never used my locker because we didn't have enough time between lessons, so I just carried all my heavy textbooks for the day as did most people.
In my city they started turning off all streetlights at midnight outside of major driving lanes and active center areas.

It's weird and somewhat unnerving at first but brilliant. I'd argue road-wise it is possibly even safer because headlights work so much better when it's pitch black by virtue of the human eye having so much dynamic range.

Pedestrians can't miss cars as they're blasting light through the dark; cars can't miss bikes because even passive reflectors are blaring in the surrounding darkness; even pedestrians end up being more visible because of the higher contrast, cast shadows, and movement that conspire to make them plainly pop out like cardboard props or Doom 3 flashlight jumpscares.

And when you go out of the dark zone into a major axis that's bathed in light that feels warm and safe it's like everything is suddenly muted and flattened as if reality went through a low contrast sepia-tinted desaturation filter. You feel like you see better but everything is muddled together in the sameness of uniform lighting.

The experience is highly cognitively dissonant and counterintuitive.
Interesting to see how the data transformation space evolves.

This week dbt acquired SDF (conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42697764), and now Tobiko acquires Quary, another data tool built in Rust.

Excited to see how this will impact the compile times (and developer experience in general) of sqlmesh
>I much prefer this to losing this information/history fully.

Edit: Fair enough but I Still maintain my option on the site's poor design.
> One of them had to miss an entire quarter because Israel just wouldn't allow him to leave

Terrible.

Even in the current ceasefire terms, there's an explicit provision to have Israel agree to let the injured leave for treatment to neighbouring countries and be allowed to come back to the Strip.

Despite arguments to contrary, I can see why some claim it is an open-air prison.
> effectiveness of strategic bombing is of course debatable

Strategic bombing doesn't work [1]. (By and large, it hardens the opposition.)

It's debatable, but pretty much only as a theoretical concern as the history of pure (conventional) strategic bombing is a set of straight failures.

> population of the Warsaw Ghetto had no such option. Therefore anything they could do to harm the Germany state would be fully justifiable

If they had the option to bomb Berlin--particularly repeatedly--they probably also had a way out. (Not necessarily literally. But if you're able to manaeuvre in the enemy's capital, you have resources and thus options at your disposal.)

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower...
No one likes a show off. The website does the job and does it well. It got me exploring and clicking to find out more.
The timing of their acceptance of a 42-day ceasefire - whether now or eight months prior - bears little significance for the long-term outlook of Hamas or the civilian death toll in Gaza. Strange analysis to hang your hat on, Thomas.
Why can't India have its own OpenAI?
Real prices, which account for inflation, do not show the Nixon shock. Maybe you think the nominal prices should be adjusted some other way to show the Nixon shock?
DevOps: How to Use Kubernetes Ingress for Hybrid Public Access
Trading fees are at or near zero in the US now unless you mean capital gains.
Western Europe went through ~200 years of brutal religious wars from the advent of Protestantism. The same is going on in the Mideast, it just started only 100 years ago with the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
My instinctive, gut reaction is to hate this article, because I suspect its written by the kind of person who thinks they are better than everyone else.

But on deeper reflection I think they are actually right. Our civilisation became great because people took pride in their work - and not just at the crop level: the average poor tailor or cobbler would take 100x more pride in their work than the average government employee today. This is a problem — I suspect largely caused by the internet and technology warping people’s reward mechanisms - and it needs addressing.
Dude, I already I said I find what's happening in Gaza horrible.

The point is you are going lengths to try and prove what exactly? That Hamas only killed 800 people and took another 200 hostage as opposed to 1200? Does it matter? And will you also do the same to investigate and see how many Gazans did Hamas kill with failed rockets and explosives?

What are you trying to achieve here?

I'll say it again, you lost the plot.
Super exciting and well thought out! The team looks amazing, can’t wait to follow your progress!
True, but Israel could be seen as just the latest Crusade.
> of course absolutely out of the blue and without any context

LOL
Cancer: Microscopic beams of radiation could be a better way to treat tumours
> it's all Israel's fault, after the 1200 people slaughtered on October 7

This did not start on oct 7th. I too was ignorant about the situation in palestine but its obvious after just a bit of research that israel isn't a good faith actor here.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MknerYjob0w&t=37s&ab_channel...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoFjbnvkmQ0&ab_channel=Amnes...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYgwKhzHeGc&t=569s&ab_channe...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2unZIzIwp0&ab_channel=AlJaz...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMYEHhCkedo&ab_channel=TheGu...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhXIYns7ZeM&ab_channel=AlJaz...

PS: yes I know I'll be flagged for this but truth is important.
> One thing that depresses me is how ugly our cities have become. Buildings that go up are designed with a total lack of aesthetic intention. In Seattle, ostensibly there is a design review committee for multifamily and commercial buildings, but it doesn't appear to have made the city look any better, and their 2025 goals include "streamlining the Design Review process to be quicker and less costly for applicants, and reducing the number of projects that are required to go through Design Review."

> This is the committee that's supposed to care about this, and they don't. And the architects don't because they're not being paid to make a beautiful façade. And the developers don't because they want to finish construction as quickly and cheaply as possible. And the residents of the city don't care because they're apathetic about living in a beautiful environment.

There is a tradeoff between affordability and aesthetics. Lengthy review processes make housing more expensive. Seattle cares, but it cares more about affordability. With the cost of housing right now I think that's the right call. Who cares how beautiful grand buildings appear when you have people living in the street?
Adding button loader to Turbo-powered forms
Just to highlight what's in the first paragraph of that link - a Palestinian prisoner died due to a hunger strike, which caused Palestinian Jihad to fire 100 rockets at Israel. This is what caused Israel to bomb Gaza.

I'm not sure if this is evidence of Israel "not obeying a ceasefire".
I was talking to my ten-year-old about some recent event and came to ask him how he'd learned about it. "Oh, I often check the news in school at the the beginning of class". I hadn't realized just how far the use of laptops had reached in his school. Putting distractions like that between a young child and the things we want them to study is insane, if you ask me.
Fact-Check: Is Donald Trump Buying TikTok? What We Know as Ban Looms
I count myself fortunate for missing the references to US politics, but seeing oppression and war discussed with a framing of "who should win" as a dispute of claims, history and ethnicity rather than as a tragedy of money, military power and cruelty (what is the problem that is solved by bombing children?) is very disheartening.
If I ever get to know you, remind me not to recommend you books I think you’ll like.
You said tomorrow they will win and be called freedom fighters. I don’t follow. Does it look to you like Hamas won?
These are not pulled from some random website. These are actual internal archives donated from Nokia (well Microsoft Mobile Oy these days)

https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/about.html

> The Nokia Design Archive is a graphic and interactive portal designed by researchers from Aalto University in Finland. It currently hosts over 700 entries, curated from thousands of items donated by Microsoft Mobile Oy and representing over 20 years of Nokia’s design history — both seen and unseen. You can freely explore the archive, learn about designers’ experiences working in Nokia and discover interesting topics surrounding design and mobile technologies.

You can look at the uncurated collection at aalto university repo https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8... (not sure if all of the materials digitized/online though)
I'd really recommend Matt Levine's various columns on this. Here's one [0] - it's paywalled, but if you sub to the newsletter you get the full texts for free. Not sure if you can get historical ones, but I'm guessing he'll talk about it again in the next issue this or next week. I added the excerpt here [1] too. Very entertaining and informative take on most things finance.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-02/people...
[1] https://telegra.ph/Hindenburg-01-16
https://youtu.be/-evIyrrjTTY
Do you think New York and Florence have those beautiful buildings because their local design review committees had high standards? I don't.

I think aesthetics should nearly always come second to other concerns, except in very specialised cases. For a start, it's largely a matter of personal taste. "Streamlining the design review process" is something I wish was more of a priority where I live. Those rates (local property tax) dollars are much better spent on almost anything else in my opinion.
a.k.a Babel Fish :)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/babelfish.shtml
What is the best way to read CDs, DVDs, etc?
Webcast of the launch @ T-20 seconds - https://youtu.be/KXysNxbGdCg?t=6859
For this particular example, I feel like a combination of both human input + algo could work. Something like:

* Have graphviz or some other solver output the [x;y] pairs for each vertex.

* Use the initial positions to create, with a physics engine, a construct where vertices are masses connected by springs following the DAG.

* Add a resizable bounding box constraint around the whole thing.

* Push and pull the boundaries and masses until you get something nice.

What you say still applies: you may want to give the user the ability to resize the masses and re-run the layout algorithm, etc.
This is like saying that words have different meaning if you talk to someone in english or french. Most tools have a switch to inform them that you're going to talk in english (perl-compatible regular expressions).
Stay in the land that was allotted in 1967 (or 1948), don’t create settlements, allow the Palestinians territories to self govern and have open borders. Obviously that won’t stop bad faith actors like Hamas but that’s not going to stop with a war either. Bibi majorly screwed up by ignoring Gaza and allocating troops to guard West Bank settlements. Not claiming this will be a panacea, but I don’t see how Israel’s current plan will accomplish anything more than perpetual conflict and an increasingly radicalized population on both sides. Oh and kick out Itamar Ben-Gvir and the rest of the ultra right wing.
Dupe of / More details & discussion here,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42721882 ("Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-1 (video) (blueorigin.com)", 55 comments)
I feel like the obligatory comment about Dropbox is coming your way
This is the answer. It's not just government bureaucracy, large corporations are intentionally built to diffuse responsibility in order to allow the corporation to do things any single person would find abhorrent. This means that if you see something you want to fix, you most likely can't, because nobody is really fully responsible for that thing or can directly do anything about it.

So you just hit your head against wall after wall after wall until you burn out, and that's how you learn to just do your job instead.
I understand unlimited PTO as no lower limit, as in, there is no limit on how few PTO days you can take.

If you have an actual number, the idea is that you must take them, or at least, you get paid extra if you don't.
My dad used to do that, I don't speak with him much anymore.
You still need to be invested in equities at retirement otherwise inflation just eats away at the value of the cash
If something becomes important and useful you’ll hear it somewhere else too. Just like you don’t have to be a completionist on the HN New page…just wait until it bubbles up to the main page.
Same in the UK. Isn’t waiting for others to get off before you get on just basic courtesy? There are definitely individuals who don’t do this, but most do. Same in lifts.

Other than that, I completely agree that people in Japan seem to care and take their jobs more seriously than elsewhere. Though my Japanese friends would probably tell me that it’s not because they deeply care — really they’re just terrified of standing out. Still, perhaps the resulting society is worth it! High trust is great.
As I understand it, those were gross payments -- ~"for John Hawkwood and his company of merrie men" -- and he paid his men out of that.

But some of their compensation probably also came from whatever they were allowed to loot when they took a city -- which of course gave commanders an incentive to let their men loot a lot, so they'd be happy with that and not demand as much regular pay out of the commander's gross fee from his employer.
Khronos has a glb optimizer here btw:
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Compressor

This tool is good too:
https://meshoptimizer.org/gltf/