Digest — 2024-11-22:

the ‘return to office’ lies

Living in the Bible Belt

Ask Ethan: Does the CMB really “prove” the Big Bang?

The mystery at the heart of consciousness

Everyday Philosophy: Can you have a “calling” without a caller?

There’s a Ghost in the Garden: A Subtle and Soulful Illustrated Fable about Memory and Mystery

Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerability: How Birds Fly and Why They Flock in a V Formation

NYT asks, “Is the Northeast Entering Its Wildfire Era?” “It might be...

Tetris Forever is, well, kind of hard to explain. It’s a documentary...

Infinite Content

Josh’s Albums of the Year

Not normal: Lions are climbing trees in Botswana. “It appears that climbing...

Johanna Under the Ice

Foursquare is open-sourcing a database of 100+ million “places of interest”....

“Small patches of wildflowers sown in cities can be a good substitute...

In ancient Mesopotamia, people rarely wrote about preparing food… “Out of hundreds...

According to this chart, I’ve only ever been boomer successful, but for...

Why do the credits at the end of every movie say: “Any...

The language of fascism

Reading RFK Jr so that you don’t have to

LLM chatbots have ~half of the kinds of "consciousness" that humans believe in. Humans should avoid going crazy about that.

A very strange probability paradox

(Salt) Water Gargling as an Antiviral

Secular Solstice Round Up 2024

AI #91: Deep Thinking

Dangerous capability tests should be harder

Epistemic status: poetry (and other poems)

Which things were you surprised to learn are not metaphors?

Built-in Functions Provided by GCC

Nash equilibria in Ballmer’s binary-search interview game

Truly portable C applications

Translating my Grandfather’s biograpy

How some of the world's most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong

Khronos Group Launches Slang Initiative

What are you doing this weekend?

why is mathematica so bad at being a spreadsheet?

Key Transparency and the Right to be Forgotten

New jless(8) FreeBSD Jails List/Manage Tool

Baby's second garbage collector

Naming things

bpftrace: a scriptable magnifying glass with X-ray vision for Linux

What's your go-to WFH setup?

What's coming in Go 1.24

How I Model SwiftUI Views

BreakVer

Self-Hosting Isn't a Solution; It's A Patch

Why am I writing a JavaScript toolchain in Zig?

How decentralized is Bluesky really?

Jainja: a JVM written in Java

Arcan: A deeper dive into the SHMIF IPC system

Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement

What is the "boring technology" solution for running multiple containers on a single host in production in 2024?

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

How an Empty Internet Gave Us Tradwives and Trump

The Once and Future Woods

Can a Comma Solve a Crime?

In Every Nelson He Visits, Jeff Truesdell Finds the Man He Loved

You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Light

Be a little vampire

$2000-$3fff &D (2014)

Bodging GenServers Together

Transposing Tensor Files

Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Linker Script (2021)

Lessons from 15 Years of Indie App Development

Multimodal Interpretability in 2024

AI and the Last Mile 2: Subsidiarity

Shallow sports and deep social hierarchies: pecking orders aren't equal

Reliably Benchmarking Small Changes – Ankush Menat

Ultra-low-latency, batching and concurrent queue for IPC in Java

Psychoacoustic and archeoacoustic nature of ancient Aztec skull whistles

The Nursery of the Mac – Apple Computer factory in Cork, Ireland (1996)

Remembering Cyberia, the first ever cyber cafe

The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

Creating a social photo frame from scratch

What We Learned from Red Teaming Our Top Charities

Iceland Spar

New Comic Book: La BD de L'Avent, Le Lombard Publishing

Poisoning the Day

Monocle: Optics Library for Scala

Chemists Create World's Thinnest Spaghetti

Slouch: Posture panic in modern America

The Case for a High-Level Kernel-Bypass I/O Abstraction (2019)

NASA: Mystery of Life's Handedness Deepens

A short introduction to Interval Tree Clocks (2017)

The remarkable life and astonishing times of Dwight Smith Young

jQuery UI

Spies Jumped from One Network to Another via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack

Prince Nico Mbarga’s biggest hit outsold any of The Beatles’ (2017)

Wasp (YC W21) is hiring a framework engineer to build Laravel for JavaScript

Runtime-Extensible SQL Parsers Using Peg

FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine

The Neuroscience Link Between Neuroticism and Social Media Addiction

Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after dam removal project

From string to AST: parsing (2019)

Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser

The Deceptively Asymmetric Unit Sphere

Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic

Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates

Understanding Google's Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough

RGFW: Single-header C99 window abstraction library

Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify

MaXX Interactive Desktop -- the little brother of the great SGI Desktop on IRIX

Phased Array Microphone (2023)

Mechanically strong yet metabolizable plastic breaks down in seawater

Broadcastarr: Stream web content through your Jellyfin instance

Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1

Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object

Autoflow, a Graph RAG based and conversational knowledge base tool

In the Quantum World, Even Points of View Are Uncertain

It's Time to Make Software Accessible

To Save Whales From Ship Strikes, Listen Closely

Further vs. faster

Game design and strategy (Bongo part 3)

Recursion Explained In Simple Terms

[journal] Read the Manual: id

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (November 22, 2024)

PhonePe appoints Manish Sabharwal as independent director, Binny Bansal steps down

[Weekly funding roundup Nov 16-22] Zepto effect boosts VC inflow to 2nd highest for 2024

Healthify slashes net loss by 38% in FY24 as both revenue, employee costs drop

NTPC Green Energy signs pact for projects worth Rs 2 Lakh Cr in Andhra Pradesh

BlackBuck app owner Zinka Logistics closes 7% lower on listing day

Myntra jumps on quick commerce frenzy with M-Now

Govt notifies telecom cyber security rules; sets timelines for telcos to report security incidents

Delhivery approves grant of 4.9 lakh ESOP shares

IIT Bombay incubator to scale startup support, launch Rs 100 Cr VC fund

8i Ventures launches second edition of pre-seed funding programme Origami

Insurtech Onsurity sees 80% revenue growth in FY24, losses widen

Space tech startup Agnikul Cosmos' revenue shoots up 3X in FY24; focus on R&D

Three brothers on a mission to redefine everyday glassware into lifestyle statements

Explained: Distribution woes, inventory correction hit Mamaearth stocks

Simple Energy reports widening losses as expenses rise in FY24

BlackBuck parent Zinka Logistics lists at over 2% premium over IPO price

As invoice discounting gains credence, Amazon-backed M1Xchange aims to double its business

India’s love for short videos; Bounce on path to profitability

Bounce turns EBIT positive in September, to double down on B2B offerings: CEO

The evolution of workspaces: Embracing the ‘hotelification’ trend

Zepto raises additional $350M, its third funding round in 6 months as it expands rapidly

HEALTHY RECIPES | Crispy & Flavorful | Roasted Whole Cauliflower

Vertical AI Agents Could Be 10X Bigger Than SaaS

LieART

The History of Quantum Mechanics

Future of Science and Technology Q&A (November 22, 2024)

Live CEOing Ep 863: Language Design in Wolfram Language [EntityValue[..., "Date"] & More]

How Expensive Can Your Child's School Get in Bengaluru?

Stages Of Breakup Song 💔 #vikkals #shorts

Blastoff! Blue Origin launches 'Space Gal' Emily Calandrelli and 5 others, nails landings

Live Presentation! Ancient Technology Connections at the Cosmic Summit! Vases, Tube Drills and More!

Why Manyavar chose Virat Kohli?

How to teach business to kids

How @TechBurner sold 3.5 cr worth of Watches in 24 hrs? ft. Shlok and my brother Neel ❤️

'We seek strategic autonomy and support inclusive development,' says PM Modi in Guyana

Shahi Jama Masjid survey: SP MP Zia Ur Rehman offers namaz in the premise.Questions timing of survey

How India can sustain October’s surge in exports

How US indictment has opened path for SEBI to take action against Adani

Parents in Delhi slums want children back in school, 'pollution isn't a problem', they say

Why Trump,even after he takes charge as US President,can do little about Adani alleged bribery case

How a corrupt prince, a Saudi arms dealer, & a Banana empire set the stage Adani's US indictment

Amid Adani's US indictment, a look at the group’s key global business projects

When Pakistan complains of cross-border terror: rash of big attacks, war in social media

‘Extradition, arrest, large fines— all options are on the cards for Adani in bribery case in US’

‘Ambedkar would’ve been called rightist now’—Opening remarks at launch of book on Indian Right

'J-35A tells the world China is a formidable challenger now, national pride surges'

'The antisemitic decision of ICC…’- What Israel PM Netanyahu said on arrest warrant against him

'Important everyone abides by international law':Justin Trudeau on ICC's arrest warrant on Netanyahu

The NEW Rust Trademark Policy

Gautam Adani Failed to Inform SEBI of FBI Raid & US Investigation, Lied When He Denied They Happened

Adani's Downfall? The $2 Billion Solar Scheme That Went Wrong

ICC Issues Arrest Warrant Against Israel's Prime Minister

अडानी पर अमेरिकी अभियोग: विपक्षी दलों ने केंद्रीय जांच एजेंसियों से जांच कराने की मांग की

Why Most Start-Ups Don't Succeed

Chris McCausland & Nicole Kidman: Together At Last | The Graham Norton Show

Assisted dying: why Britain should back a change

Why Trump’s defence secretary pick is controversial

How AI is revolutionising science

Dog Found Paralyzed In A Field Reunites With Rescuer A Year Later | The Dodo

Cat Runs To Greet Her Lizard Brother | The Dodo

Scared Shelter Pittie Kept Wagging Her Tail | The Dodo

Scared Shelter Pittie Kept Wagging Her Tail | The Dodo

Man Frees Fox Trapped For Four Hours | The Dodo

Renter Friendly Gallery Wall Idea | The Pack

Wild Turkey Hates Cars | The Dodo

Putin’s Shocking New ‘Nuclear Doctrine’ | Is Biden Triggering A Bigger Conflict? | Akash Banerjee

How Gautam Adani Plans To Overcome His US Indictment | Biggest Setback Yet | Akash Banerjee

Brittany Howard Performs “To Be Still” | The Daily Show

Trump’s cabinet may not be qualified, but it is Emmy-nominated. Enter Dr. Oz! #dailyshow #DrOz

Pour out a little Capri Sun for Matt Gaetz #dailyshow #MattGaetz

Thanksgiving Turkeys: Delicious Centerpiece or Government Mind Control? | The Daily Show

Nancy Mace is Congress's very own transphobic Cruella de Vil

Desi Lydic has a hard time believing Nancy Mace wants to "protect women and girls"

Gaetz Drops AG Bid & Nancy Mace Wages Transphobic Attack on Sarah McBride | The Daily Show

Brittany Howard - “What Now” & Genre Defying Music | The Daily Show

Can Europe Win the Age of AI? | Thomas Dohmke | TED

Stripper vs. Hoe-Chocolate and Cheeks

Bri Finds Jesus

Cuckold Couple-Sarai and Dakota

The Ancient Cure To Modern Suffering

be your own best friend

These are the Places on Earth You Can't Visit

Asking my husband if he could change one thing about me what it would be

Your Gorgeous Hair Evolved From Frog Toes

Jimmy Chamberlin on The Smashing Pumpkins “Silverf*ck” #drums #drummer #thesmashingpumpkins #shorts

How colonialism changed tribal warfare

நல்லது சொன்னா எங்க கேக்குறீங்க😂 | Parithabangal #shorts

Decoding Maharashtra & Jharkhand assembly elections mandate | LIVE

How I DIYed My Apartment On A $20K Budget 🙌 #nevertoosmall #shorts

NTS: Creative DIY Renovation of a Small Melbourne Apartment

This Artist’s Talent Will Leave You in Awe 😯 | MFPA| Giulio Volpin.

The Chart Missing From ALL Spreadsheet Software

Clips from MadRasana Festival | Abhishek Raghuram

Can police issue LOC in the absence of complaint or FIR?

How difficult is it to travel abroad once a complaint/FIR has been registered against you?

Networking with other Lawyers

Last Week Tonight Library: Season 7, coming 11/24!

Psychological memories | Krishnamurti #shorts

The relationship between teacher and student | Krishnamurti #shorts

Main Title And First Victim (From "Jaws" Soundtrack)

MLAs or Money Bags Will decide Next Maharashtra Govt | Jist

Jail Se Bahar Aane Ke Baad Satyendar Jain Ka Sabse Bada Khulasa ft. Anil | Jist

I Tested 5 New Cat Toys…And One is Actually DANGEROUS!🙀

Jokes At The Expense Of My Mother | Jack Whitehall

Thomas Friedman on the Future of America and the World: The Post-Election Dissection (Part 1)

Pt. Sadanand Naimpalli Ji ❣️✨ #icmtabla #classicalimusic #shorts

Anoushka Shankar & Musicians Part-2🙏✨ #sitar #classicalimusic #icmtabla #shorts

Mere Dholna Saragam Sitar Flute Jugalbandi 🔥✨#sitar #flute #classicalimusic #icmtabla #shorts

Sitar Recital By Rishabh Rikhirim Sharma ❣️✨#sitar #classicalimusic #icmtabla #shorts

i might have lied to AMD about being a legit tech reviewer.. #pc #ryzen9000

No Time To Die Suite: Part 1

No Time To Die Suite: Part 2, Final Ascent

Serverless Development on AWS • Sheen Brisals, Luke Hedger & Khawaja Shams

To the Moon • Russ Olsen • GOTO 2024

97 Things Every Java Prog. Should Know • Trisha Gee & Kevlin Henney ft. Emily & Holly • GOTO 2024

Would you want robotic walls?

Automating a coffee shop chain using self-taught coding skills with Eamonn Cottrell [Interview #151]

Did you know hundreds of asteroids might have tiny moons? ☄️ #shorts

Journey to the center of the Earth | DW Documentary

The misuse of last resort life-saving antibiotics in hospitals is alarming |Dr. SK Sarin

Developed nations copout of COP29 | Climate Finance disappointment | Baku Azerbaijan

COP29: Nations Voice Disappointment Over Slow Progress in NCQG and Mitigation Work Programme

This #kerala couple has replaced conventional refrigerator with a natural cooler | CoP29 Baku

Not-in-kind (NIK) #cooling methods in modern #buildings | #cop29 #baku #azerbaijan

The Dinosaur Extinction Mystery! | Mystery Hunter | Promo | Discovery Channel

Uncovering the Dinosaur Extinction Mystery | Mystery Hunter | Promo | Discovery Channel

White Dwarf’s Mysterious Activity That Shocked NASA! | Nasa’s Unexplained Files | Discovery Channel

Shahana Kanada | Roopa Panesar| Music of India

We ALL Need to Talk | Tiger Fire Show | Ft. Aravind SA | Ep 13 | Aathitiyan

Chicken Vengaya Pakoda😍 Side Dish bro is back with a recipe that you can enjoy with your kulirbanam

Jayaram Superhit Comedy Horror Movie Climax Scene - Naina | Bhanupriya | Vadivelu | CMM

Carlsen's King slips away from Caruana | Freestyle Chess

How Magnus Carlsen analyzes alone on a chess board | Freestyle Chess

Sweetest Moment of Magnus Carlsen ❤️ #magnuscarlsen #chess

Making chess look cooler - Freestyle Chess in Singapore!

Aronian’s Gold & Carlsen’s Miss: Gerhard on Cadet Chess History

Karpov's Coach Mikhalchishin on Ding vs. Gukesh and the Kasparov Chess Foundation

3-year-old Anish Sarkar plays Major Piece Endgame like an adult

Elzyata vs. Xin Stella: One Pawn Push Could Decide the Game!

Magnus Carlsen Poses With The World's Costliest Chess Set Up | Freestyle Chess Singapore

Magnus Carlsen vs Fabiano Caruana | Fabi in a must-win | Freestyle Chess Game 2

Raw behind the scenes moment of Carlsen and Tania vs Caruana and Maurice | Freestyle Chess 2024

The man who helps World no.2 Fabiano Caruana to be physically fit | ft. Eric Beisel

Magnus Carlsen's majestic chess understanding | Carlsen vs Caruana | Freestyle Chess Singapore

Magnus & Fabi play Chess in Water 😱 #magnuscarlsen #chess

YOUNGEST RATED PLAYER Anish is PLAYING CHESS in the TOURNAMENT

WORLD NO. 1 Faces WORLD NO. 2 in FREESTYLE CHESS

WORLD CHAMPION Gets EMOTIONAL AFTER WINNING THE WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

New Jaime Jaquez Jr. Bot is Here!

You can MEET Magnus Carlsen and WATCH the GAMES On-Site in Oslo

POV: Smothered Mate

Chess in 4K:

Anish: "Vidit, OLYMPIC TEAM GOLD with INDIA or INDIVIDUAL GOLD MEDAL?" | Lie Detector

Kashmiri Chicken | कश्मीर की spl खुबानी चिकन करी | Khubani Chicken | Chef Ranveer & Chef Yaseen

Strengthen Your Rotator Cuff to Treat Shoulder Impingement #rotatorcuff #holidaywithyoutube

Best Knee Pain Tips (+ 2 Key Mistakes to Avoid)

Science is shattering our intuitions about consciousness | Annaka Harris

The aftermath of the Munich Olympic attack

John F. Kennedy - The Making of a President

The Mystery of Da Vinci's Lost Works

Sixth foreign tourist dies of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos | BBC News

Denmark introduces world's first 'fart tax'. #Denmark #Fart #Cows #BBCNews

Man clinging to cliff in US is rescued. #Rescue #SanFrancisco #BBCNews

Vladimir Putin warns West as Russia hits Ukraine with new missile | BBC News

Could AI help to save Germany’s economy? | BBC News

Woman who accused Conor McGregor of rape wins civil case in Ireland | BBC News

Man who called 911 for help killed by police in his home. #US #Police #BBCNews

COP29 $250bn climate cash offer criticised as 'deeply disappointing' by poorer countries | BBC News

Lava engulfs Iceland's Blue Lagoon car park. #Iceland #BBCNews

Chinese sinkholes unearth 'new wonders' | BBC News

Warning to tourists as sixth traveller dies in Laos from methanol poisoning | BBC News

What hurdles does Donald Trump face in his transition to power? | BBC News

Trump nominates Pam Bondi for attorney general after Matt Gaetz withdraws | BBC News

awkward... 👀 #BBCEarthAsia #Shorts #Funny

Infiltrating Animal Families With Spy Cameras | 4K UHD | Spy in the Wild | BBC Earth

Transylvania 1887 (From "Van Helsing" Soundtrack)

Just An Oasis (From "The Mummy Returns" Soundtrack)

When your boyfriend is CHILDISH LIKE HIS SIBLING

Boyfriend ranks OTHER MENS GIFTS to me

And that's Why He Is Magnus Carlsen!

"Jaws of Victory" || Caruana vs Carlsen || Freestyle Chess Match 2024

The Physics That Doomed Amelia Earhart

The Indian Cricketer Who Risked Everything to Save His Muslim Friend

Why Do We Still Use 'Knots'?

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Terry Crews Answer Your Questions

Greek Philosophy in Madurai ll மதுரையில் கிரேக்க தத்துவ வகுப்புகள் ll பேரா. இரா.முரளி

We did it! Levitation is REAL

Can Space Time Remember?

How Mossad's Greatest Spy Deceived Everyone

Duftugo Jari Hai 😂🤭 Moin Akhtar | Loose Talk

Javier Milei: President of Argentina - Freedom, Economics, and Corruption | Lex Fridman Podcast #453

Why does Fermilab need accelerators?

Are We Again Facing a Bipolar World - Dr Shashi Tharoor

Creating Your Own Programming Language - Computerphile

Zooongash : An Ode to Kashmiri Architecture and Craftsmanship.

The scale of training LLMs