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> But I'd prefer to have D3 documentation in the form of free, interactive Observable Notebooks rather than to have no documentation at all

This is the core point. Yes of course the existing d3js docs are better than nothing. That isn't the complaint. The complaint is the current docs are significantly worse than older d3js docs that weren't notebook-based.
Good faith would have included

- not lying about tariffs being taxes on other countries that would replace us paying taxes

- not calling trade deficits tariffs and pretending to impose reciprocal tariffs

- negotiating ahead of time like normal people and clearly communicating the path forward
I've done this to build custom RPi images. Way faster than trying to build on a low power ARM platform, and way less fragile than cross compilers.
I'd have said either "kind of everybody" or "a lot of us".

HNers tend to be younger, I think, but I remember newspapers handling the McMartin Day Care case pretty badly. And how about the leadup to Gulf War II?
Or that none of them will ever see any of that money and none of it will ever go towards helping them in any way?
We are far, far wealthier, freer, more everything than the Romans. In their context, they did relatively very well. We are far beyond that.

The Romans worship us, or would if they could have known. There is just no comparison. The worship of them is bizarre.
I still wonder why this was not done instantly by EU.

US has an imbalance on goods that was used to calculate the tariff amount, but it has the opposite imbalance on service from what I've read
An operating system should be self-hosting. You should be able to compile it and reinstall it on the same machine. Obviously, Windows and macOS are closed-source, but I would if I could.
> What I don’t want to do is to test my backup in a non catastrophe situation

Isn't that actually one of the things you want to do to validate the backup process?

Better to figure out in a non disaster scenario where you have alternatives.
Isn't an agent just a system prompt + specific tools? Why not just switch out the system prompt and tools in the same context?
I agree it's classic brinksmanship and the tariff views he has are genuine and long held. But his numerous signals to the Fed to ask to lower interest rates and the commitment to DOGE (which has the effect of lowering yields) is another strand in his thinking. The two are in conflict causing the flip-flop effect in short term policy.
That would be fairer and more honest
If I were to go and try to bench 300lbs, I would absolutely need a spotter to rescue me. Taking on more weight than I can possibly achieve is a setup for failure.

Sure, I should probably practice benching 150lbs. That would be a good challenge for me and I would benefit from that experience. But 300lbs would crush me.
Vegas is fun, but not fun enough to justify having to worry about this stuff. My days of visiting the USA are over.
/s

This is also how this shambling ghoul gets what any actual citizen of earth would consider a third term. It's already done! This is why he said "you'll won't have to vote again."

The president is only 50 days into his term forever; time is stopped. Hell upon us eternal.
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> For example, we assume that arbitrary arithmetic takes constant time.

Arithmetic on fixed-width number types is constant. It's very much not constant on arbitrary precision integers, something that underpins much of cryptography. Indeed, if you try to e.g. use Gaussian elimination (which uses O(n^3) arithmetic operations) to compute the determinant of a large integer matrix, you'll run into trouble, which is why there is another algorithm for this use case: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bareiss_algorithm

(Disclaimer: Also not a researcher)
If your goal is to shield
them from government enforcement it’s not confusing at all.

Trump serves only to serve himself consummately.
Trump tweeted "it's a good time to buy" right before the tariff drop announcement.
I believe they've done more complicated physics in their game bitcraft, but that code hasn't been released yet (no idea if it will be.) But there has been work in the discord recently and 2 member have individually implemented rapier[1] at this point. I can't say anything about the related netcode however as I don't know how much they've focused on it. At the very least work has been done.

The unity tutorial is just to get up and running as fast as possible in the simplest way possible, not to make the perfect decisions for a networked physics based game.

I however do think they should provide an actual reference to prove the claim,

[1] https://github.com/dimforge/rapier
Very cool!

Yup I definitely see confusion in our responses around the product and brand names. We do another pass through an LLM specifically aimed at ‘canonicalizing’ the names, but we’ll need to get more sophisticated to catch most issues.

In that case you mentioned, the brand confusion is what accounts for the top three omission for QBO. Both OpenAI and Perplexity rank it #1, but Anthropic ranks the slightly different “Quickbooks” product as #1. Our overall ranking prioritizes products that appear in all three responses, so both are dropped down.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

We've had to ask you this before.
The real story of Matthew Shepard is more complex than the false story that has been popularized:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/26/the-truth-behi...

Shepard was a meth dealer and he was in a sexual relationship with the man who killed him.
This is a neat idea! My first try will be "The Sopranos".
10k downloads, last app store update in November, MMO

Does not feel like it paid off for them. But SpacetimeDB might of course not be the reason for that.
You'll definitely be hit one way or another. The question is whether businesses can predict what their tariff hit will look like next year and plan around it, or can't and need to hold onto their cash until they know which investments are or aren't worth it.
China could also use the US’ dependence on it as leverage to discourage them from intervening in Taiwan. We just saw this play out with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We routinely see Turkey threaten the EU with migrants over the bloc’s reliance on Turkey. We also saw Azerbaijan make a move for Artsakh knowing the EU needed their gas following the invasion of Ukraine. I believe China would prefer being able to extort the US rather than face the possibility of fighting an unbowed US.
Somewhere with a predictable economic policy that doesn't flip flop from week-to-week.
> “This was his strategy all along,” Bessent said at the White House, where officials, including him, had denied for days that the tariffs would be suspended.

And why should we believe them? If it was the strategy, you could have made the tariff announcement into an acrostic or something.
True.

I have not checked this, but I assume that most excess vitamin D, which is stored in the liver, is excreted by the liver together with cholesterol and other cholesterol derivatives, in the biliary secretion, reaching thus the intestine, and not by the kidneys in urine.
Wow, you guys needed a custom ASIC for inference before CNNs were even invented?

What were the use cases like back then?
> This is manufacturing economy 101

What is? You haven't spelled out your theory. And I know economics well, and class 101 is free markets and specialization.

> how the US built and defended it's manufacturing base before the pivot to a "service" economy

Who wants to return to an economy of decades ago? The US was much poorer then. I want to move to the future. Services are much easier on people physically - you don't want to work in a coal mine.
Any action they are taking around deciding whether or not there is a national security interest in managing tariffs is easily covered by everyone's understanding of what is in the presidential duties. As such, it is fully off limits for any review, per last year's immunity ruling. No?

Now, congress can take away that delegation. They could also cancel any declarations. But actions taken by the admin in pursuing this will almost certainly be seen as core duties by the supreme court. As such, I don't see any real opening for review in this?
It is. "We are not in the watch business. We are in the luxury business" - former Rolex CEO.[1]
Rolex was originally a maker of working watches for rugged environments. Pilots and divers might wear one.

Today, the watch of choice for people who need accurate time is the cheap Casio G-Shock.
For about US$100, you can get solar power, WWV corrections, good waterproofing, and resistance to being banged on. It doesn't need any attention. It just works. Popular with military types.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/why-are-rolex-watches-so-exp...
>From the beginning, I’ve believed the executive branch's real goal was to push down the yield on the 10-year Treasury

You're making it seem that there's a plan ... but what if this is just regular incompetence coupled with capricious behavior from a chaos agent?

I'm watching various officials give interviews and all of them are non-committal as it pertains to expectations. Why? Because none of them actually know!!! Trump has arbitrarily and capriciously changed "the plan" many times.
I tried gemini 2.5 just once for coding and it immediately spit out hilariously invalid python, not even clearing the lowest of bars.

What (language/topic) are you coding in that gemini (or even chatgpt) is better than claude? Very surprised to hear this.
15 years UX researcher on product and in agencies here.

Honestly I think for this role the interview should be more a gut check on personality and expectations, after you’ve seen their work and read their case studies.

That said I’d go for a deep dive on the work product from their portfolio that is most analogous to the problems your team is solving.

The best lead/senior designers I’ve worked with share some traits you should look for.

1. They are flexible, not prima donnas— but they DO have standards they’re willing to stand up for.

2. They can fluently explain WHY they made their choices, and recognize and articulate trade-offs.

3. They understand enough about research methodology to be able to internalize research results in their work product.

4. They understand development enough to know what not to do, and when to push the devs to try harder to implement.

5. They’re very quick on the uptake, and can understand the BUSINESS problem at hand, not just the visual or interaction or information problem.

6. They are clear, grammatical, concise writers. Lest you think this is irrelevant, keep in mind it’s often the UXD writing the micro copy.
7. They fully understand design systems, tokens, atomic designs and are HIGHLY organized.

In our world of UIs and complex product interactions, design systems and tokens, it’s much less important that a designer be concerned with aesthetics. The roles of wireframes (typically what I have done in the past as a UXR/generalist) is merging with the design skill. (Personally I think that trend ought to go the other way, but it is what it is.)
We've moved the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43630208, which has the article this one points to, as well as a title that isn't misleading and linkbait. (But I haven't merged the comments that only make sense in the current context.)

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If you want to have a close-up look at wristwatch movements, including Rolex's, I enjoy Wristwatch Revival on YouTube[1]

He's a gifted amateur, and it looks like a very soothing hobby (until you manage to lose one of the springs).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/WristwatchRevival
Tesla's factories have a ton of automation, but the factory here in Austin employs 22K+ people. Automation will no doubt increase, but that just means the value humans provide is higher level and managing, maintaining, and redesigning the assembly lines as market demands and product categories shift. Datacenters are nothing like factories.

Meanwhile, if it ever gets to the point that automation has truly replaced humans, why not have the machines here at home? There's no good argument against it and plenty of arguments for it.
it's like $40 to take a car vs like $15 on Bart into the city.
All passed me by, sad to say, hence the guessing. For what I had to start with I've done pretty well, and I think no one ever really sees their each and every last hope come true. Maybe next time.
Bit of a related shower thought here.. but solutions that require NVidias high end hardware are always going to be the solutions NVidia promotes right?

If hypothetically someone figured out some magical algorithm to do ray tracing at RTX levels of performance on a CPU, it would severely hurt them right? (Hurt them in terms of GPU market, probably a non issue now AI most of their market.)
Like wanting EU to drop VAT for US import sales or forcing EU to buy oil/gas/coal. None of that is happening.
You might as well start from educating peasant farmers even at that.
Surge pricing? I'm not sure if my remark is sarcasm or a prediction on the future.
I still wouldn’t want to buy food that is packaged with the intent to trick people, even if the tricksters were German. (I think Germany is a pretty trustworthy and transparent country but that doesn’t apply to every single individual there).
Exactly. I would be surprised if most kings and prime ministers haven't hired a Trump expert by now. If there's one skill democratic leaders are good at, it's figuring out what the other party wants. It probably just plays out like a game of checkers.
I cancelled my OpenAI plan. Gemini 2.5 Pro is extremely good compared to OpenAI and Anthropic models. Unless things change, I don't see why I need to pay those subscription fees?
The thread was kind of hand wavy over the "$24* discount" for Footlocker? From the linked article...

>Footlocker’s purchase price (read footnote #3) for every sale of $100 shows up as $66 in their financial reports, and not $50. In plain terms, Footlocker sells its merchandise for a 24% discount on the average.

So $100 was never the sale price, just some made up, hoped for number that only appears on the shoe box, and not on anyone's financial statements. Really this should be Footlocker makes $6 on selling a $66 sneaker, for a margin of ~9%.

BTW, both Footlocker and Dick's have gross margins ~30% but Dick's has an operating margin around 12% while FL is 1-2%. Clearly FL is an inferior retailer.

And the linked article does cover Nike selling directly...

>And what happens if brands skip the retailers and operate their own stores? adidas and Nike already have their own shops, but direct-to-customer retail comes with its set of challenges. Brands will incur costs otherwise absent in the wholesale business model; spends like leasing+manpower+operational costs, store set-up and periodic re-modelling cost, the entire risk of inventory, and costs associated with warehousing and distribution. That’s only at the store level, there will be additional off-site resources needed in the back-end to support retail operations. The brands will make some extra margin selling out of their own stores, but the best case scenario will be an additional 10%, which is slightly above what a highly evolved retailer like Footlocker makes annually after taxes.

I would argue that a great deal of selling today is direct, no stores involved at all.
Can you point to a single example of CF doing this to a legitimate entity that wasn't obviously abusing their plan? Every time this comes up it's always some shady website that's getting the limited treatment.

And it's not "unlimited bandwidth", it's "unlimited bandwidth with restrictions". That's an important and critical distinction. I'm not sure I understand the position that somehow CF needs to subsidize every customer.
> Bottom line: If you're Vit D deficient then it may be a good idea to supplement a little Vit D which is cheap, easy and extremely low risk (Note: nothing is ever zero risk across a large enough population but supplementing a small amount of Vit D is about as safe as these things ever get).

Too much vitamin D can cause pretty serious symptoms, including neurological symptoms. This condition has been getting more common since so many people are supplementing.
Cool photos! My workplace is an old machiya [1] in Kyoto that's more than a hundred years old, so I kinda live like the people in these photos (not really of course - no konbini back then).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiya
I agree, which is why I used "wealth" and not "money", since power/status/fame is just another form of wealth. Trump seems to be a special mix of rich kid who didn't get hugged enough as a child.
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I don’t get this take. We already negotiated trade agreements. That’s what got ripped up with all this tariff nonsense. Why would anyone expect the US to respect the next negotiation? The damage here was reputational. That can only be repaired with time. It can’t be negotiated.
> Neither the claimant nor the respondent has confirmed or denied that the media reporting is accurate.

Hmm
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Well, I'm not a professional gamedev, nor did I ever do much multiplayer code, but:

1) AFAIR, the ECS patterns family[0] originally came from MMORPG world, and boiled down to designing your game state to work well with relational databases;

2) Around 6 years ago, while toying with yet another (see [0]) take on ECS for a simple game, and wondering how to query stuff efficiently, it dawned on me that the code I'm writing is basically implementing spacial indices and other such concepts from relational DB world. At that point, I thought to myself, "why continue wasting time Greenspunning[1] a database for the internal state, when I could use a real one?", and followed by "you know what I really need next? An in-memory SQLite database to store all my runtime game state!".

I didn't get very far with my experiment due to constraints of adult life, but I did prove that I can build a basic Roguelike skeleton (2D tile map, entities, walls, collisions) while storing all state in SQLite, and have it run at 60 FPS with half of the frame time to spare for other things, on moderately powerful machine (as of 6 years ago), all without too much optimization (Common Lisp with FFI bindings to libsqlite3 + a simple RLU cache in front of queries).

So it's not at all a stupid idea, IMO :). I would test it further if I had the time.

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[0] - The term means different things to different people. I've seen at least three distinct gamedev design patterns claiming the name ECS for themselves, all conceptually incompatible with each other. More, if you also consider "whatever Unity/Unreal/Godot/... calls ECS".
Bot? I’ve been manually backing up my emails to cassette since ’98. If I was a bot, my tapes wouldn’t squeal during thunderstorms.
James Carville in the 90s: “I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”
Genuinely wondering why so many people are still giving the Trump administration this much benefit of the doubt that their moves are strategically sound? We're really still doing the whole "3D chess" thing with this guy after he has shown over and over again that he mostly just acts on impulse and the primary qualification for his advisors is loyalty over any type of intelligence or expertise?
I feel like you're arguing against something I didn't say. I agree there's a good chance the president will make up new tariffs or fail to negotiate some of the current ones. If that happens then trade deals with Asian allies won't reassure anyone. That's why I'm still preparing for a recession.
This is a money grab. Someone or a bunch made a lot of money
Trump has been talking about tariffs since the eighties.
Well yes, it's complicated. That's part of what I meant by the "media environment." In the post-war period, broadcast media was mostly dominant, but it was both regulated and subject to the fairness doctrine, but also limited. There were only a few channels per metro area. News was only on an hour or two per day, and it wasn't that popular, so it lost money, but it was required by law as public interest programming in order to retain the FCC broadcast license.

The lower production costs, higher reach, and nonexistent regulation of wide bandwidth cable TV created the space for Fox, and then also to a lesser extent, MSNBC.

In my opinion, the distorted information propagated by these outlets had a synergistic effect with the changes in the emphasis of the educational system in the late 80s-early 90s to deemphasize honesty as a core American value.
Yeah this is arguably the tail wagging the dog - Trump is a reaction to the end of US hegemony, not the cause
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While also saying they were going to be a replacement for the IRS and to stop illegal immigrantion and drugs and force Canada to become the 51st state.

Full on grandmas off her meds level nonsense.
is it rational that they didn't do their homework to find out that the quota wasnt going to be removed once they'd left the EU?
Could someone explain why the parent comment would (currently) be downvoted?

It has an interesting conjecture, and sounds like it was written in good faith.
Because China doesn't share the same goals, desires, or policies we do. They will have the power and cards to dictate world policy if you roll over and let them dominate. Realpolitik matters here. You either dominate the future (or at least stay competitive) or you become a vassal state.
If your headphone has already been measured, https://autoeq.app is your friend.
"Everyone needs a fixed percentage to make money"

I get they WANT to, and it's what a shoe retail strives for, but this isn't accurate.

Cars for example aren't 100% marked up. That would be insanity.
(This was originally posted as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43634582, but it's a substantive comment so I've merged it along with the others.)
This makes some sense... but they didn't pause the tariffs. There's still a 10% tariff on everybody (including on top of Mexico and Canada, who were previously exempted from the tariffs announced last week) and the tariff on China continues to rise to preposterous proportions.
Unreal (and C++) support is coming!
Also note that they could also impeach Trump at any time. The sort of crimes that justify impeachment are pretty easily demonstrable at this point so all they need are the votes. They'll have just under half in the House and Senate from the Democrats, so they only need a handful of Rs in the House and (the hard part) a bit over 1/3rd of the Rs in the Senate.

So if they can find like 20 R senators who realize that they no longer support a Mad King, they're all set.
I wouldn't go that far (there's still the possibility that things change for the better for whatever reason), but those 60%-70% of the US in global stock indices really do look like single country risk now.