MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CreepGin | 2025-05-17 20:33:52+00:00
Sure, for a quick run down:

1) Use Electron if stability and having chromium and v8 is important to you (i.e. for WebGPU, etc.). It has the biggest community and set of existing apps made with it. Largest base app size (~100MB). But should be acceptable for most desktop apps unless you are making small utility apps.

2) Use Tauri if app size is important to you. It's like Electron but with a slimmer runtime and a Rust backend. Still uses IPC.

3) Use Dioxus if you already think in Rust and don't need any JS framework. Everything is in one Rust process. No IPC. Smallest app size (~5MB). It's still very new though. Tooling is less mature (still uses a lot of other 3rdparty stuff for packaging, etc). Community is smaller.

4) Flutter has the best mobile DevEx. Uses Dart.

5) Wails is great all-around. Best tooling and JS bridge, IMO. I'd recommend going for it if you already know Go.

* Tauri, Dioxus, and Wails all default to using OS's webview.
by landl0rd | 2025-05-17 20:34:17+00:00
The fluoride cause probably isn't as big a deal as it's made out to be. But it's also true that systemic administration is a Bad Thing generally. Another good example is antiandrogens for baldness. Most people should be moving to topicals. Or anti-inflammatories. Most people should be using creams not oral ingestion.

It is very hard to alter homeostasis without consequence. The way to reduce that consequence is 1. do it smarter and 2. do it in a smaller area.

I fail to see why high-fluoride toothpaste with rinsing is inferior.
by ta12653421 | 2025-05-17 20:34:34+00:00
i can just say:

being now older (40+ ;-), i would suggest to just use the tool that gets the job done.

in todays world, this is Java or C# - while im highly advocating for the latter, because the eco system feels much more tightly integrated: i can spin up whatever application for every usecase with C# in 1 minute; also the language still evolves massivly, there is enough HR-power on the market, also .NET is now crossplatform.

the language is just elegant and very efficient, it makes the job much easier
by austin-cheney | 2025-05-17 20:35:20+00:00
You know, some common sense goes a long way. I wouldn’t drink bleach even after contracting an Ebola-rabies-cordyceps combination.

Trial and error also helps. I found that I will lose weight at a constant rate of 2.5 pounds a week by going extremely low carb. No drugs, fasting, or reduced volume were needed to drop 30 pounds in less than 3 months.
by AlecBG | 2025-05-17 20:35:50+00:00
well he certainly mentions a result where if there is an everywhere timelike Killing vector field (+ some other assumptions) you can prove that Hawking radiation doesn't occur and that does not include for example the Schwarzschild solution because the Killing vector field partial/partial t becomes non-timelike on the horizon.

So for example if you take a dead star in a vacuum with nothing else in the universe (and make certain technical assumptions) then you can prove that the star does not emit Hawking radiation. That's quite a strong result, and certainly does make the result seem shocking.
by ckcheng | 2025-05-17 20:36:04+00:00
> Did the University of California take out E&O on the Manhattan Project?

Interestingly, see [1] for

“a teletype from General Groves to Oppenheimer from February 1944, instructing the latter as to what to tell Underhill [UC’s secretary and finance officer] about the hazards to be insured against at an unspecified site”

[1]: https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/03/28/weekly-document-i...
by asveikau | 2025-05-17 20:36:21+00:00
> I unfortunately had to upgrade my phone, because to drive the glasses you need to have DisplayPort Alt mode. My very cheap, very crappy old phone did not.

I also run a low spec android phone, and I tried the same brand of glasses with it. My workaround was a screencast to HDMI adapter, paired with an HDMI to to DP over USB-C. Both are cheap.

Occasionally the screencast flakes out. But when the network is working well it's pretty good.
by bmink | 2025-05-17 20:36:44+00:00
> I discovered interesting music like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Portishead, Tricky, Orbital, Takako Minekawa, Hooverphonic, Poe, Veruca Salt all from sporadically listening to one college radio station in my hometown and, once a week, watching one music program on MTV (usually 120 Minutes or AMP). Then, once a month, I would sometimes flip through a music magazine while at the hair salon (usually Rolling Stone or Spin). And that was literally it.

This section contains two types of curation that have to be separated: college radio is good curation, it is nonprofit, done by people for the love of the medium and will help you broaden your horizon. Rolling Stone et. al. is bad curation, a form of gatekeeping really, very commercial, requiring lots of connections and resources to get featured in.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-05-17 20:37:23+00:00
china vs north america AND europe

+

chinese proxy war in ukraine, russia is just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-access/area_denial

essentially USA needs Taiwan to not be invaded by china, with taiwan in chinese hands, even korea will have to do very hard thinking about western direction. which will be disastrous for USA, EU.

Taiwan ramped up production of shells. Czech republic is buying shells from them to send to ukraine ( "czech ammunitions initiative" ) so taiwan is able sustain expanded manufacturing capability needed for china taiwan conflict.

so czechs are praised for this by other NATO members because essentially, chinese proxy war is making taiwan more secure against china...

china wanted to invade taiwan in 2027 that is why biden, trump are relocating chip manufacturing to US for last 7 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzhuXY9LBR8

EDIT: look up that part of russia between two inland seas, where georgia and azerbaijan are connecting russia with iran.

that part is so important that russia had to invade crimea, wage russo-georgian war just to be able to secure that part / land connection with iran.

ukrainian territories currently occupied by russia are "just" AA/AD zone for protection of rostov-on-don which is main railroad, seashipping hub for that iran russia connection land part.
by perching_aix | 2025-05-17 20:37:27+00:00
I asked myself and the answer is no. Now what? I have dealbreaker problems with Linux and Mac. I'm also not going to pull a Terry Davis and make my own OS, and I'm not willing to participate in the circus that is open source either.

With these in mind, what am I supposed to do, move to the mountains and live the life of a hermit? Once again, not happening. It'd appear that I'm between a rock and a hard place - exactly as designed. This is what an ecosystem grip is like.
by andix | 2025-05-17 20:37:33+00:00
The really interesting part of this issue is, that under most jurisdictions it probably won't even qualify as hacking. The data is sent out by the network voluntarily and during normal use.

There are no systems at any point tricked into revealing personal data, which is often illegal, even if the hack is trivial. Even appending something like "&reveal_privat_data=true" to an URL might be considered illegal, because there is clear intent to access data you shouldn't be allowed to access. In this case none of that is done.
by landl0rd | 2025-05-17 20:37:49+00:00
I personally have a lot of anger at Trump too. I will never vote for anyone who even somewhat supported lockdowns at any point beyond ~2 weeks. Unfortunately this means basically every politician.

We made a choice to transfer quality-of-life-years from the young (who already have less money and opportunity) to the olds who are parasites on our country. "Write me my $5k/month check or else. Pay for all my medical care or else. Btw our net worth is on average $1.4mm but no means-testing allowed. Thanks for the money, now I can hang onto my house for longer so you have no cheap place to settle down."

The biggest "class war" is between young and old. I will not support anyone who fails to recognize this. Trump is included in this group. Basically nobody I know had the foresight to oppose lockdowns from the start. Saying "that was a mistake" now is too little too late.

I still assign more blame to those who supported them longer and later. It is wrong but more defensibly so to have supported initial lockdowns once we knew we could either trade the young for the old or the old for the young.
by cbull | 2025-05-17 20:39:51+00:00
The "Hub" device can be as simple as a USB stick that's attached to the machine running Home Assistant. That's what I have been running for years, a Z-Wave USB stick that passes through to a ZwaveJS docker container (which also communicates with HA).

So it's not like you need a big stand alone device that has to have it's own Wifi or ethernet or anything like that, it's just a USB stick.
by WD-42 | 2025-05-17 20:40:52+00:00
It seems like the share a lot of the same goals but my impression is Poetry is much slower to pick up on standards. It’s normal to use uv with a project now that doesn’t have any [tool.uv] section in pyproject.toml at all but every poetry project I’ve seen is littered with [poetry] sections, even dependencies. Makes me not want to use it
by withzombies | 2025-05-17 20:41:23+00:00
When we were kids, just knowing music that wasn't on the radio made you "into music". Things were very different! The internet has really allowed music choices to be much more personal and I think it's a good thing. We have such a wide variety of music available to us now.

I've had some luck finding some TikTok creators who curate specific "vibes" and publish Spotify playlists. I think that's just how it's done now.
by permo-w | 2025-05-17 20:42:20+00:00
more interesting info. I'd also add Doctor Who as a really prominent example of it. the most recent series of Doctor Who is quite obviously aimed at more of an American audience, with a star known to Americans, being released on Disney, with Disney production values. whether that fully counts or is just a product of a production partnership or whether the production partnership is itself a sign of it, I do not know
by whilenot-dev | 2025-05-17 20:42:23+00:00
I would make a different list of points:

1. The "new" of today is no match for the "new" of back then: Breaking Bad is as good for a first binge today as it was 2008. I'm currently watching Mad Men for the first time and can't see how anything could've been made differently 18 years(!) ago. That's 7 seasons of a well-made show and I couldn't care less for any Netflix production that gets cancelled after its 2nd season. The change in quality from Star Trek: TNG to Breaking Bad seems like a huge leap, do these leaps exist anymore?

2. There is no discussion about any current Zeitgeist, everything feels intermixed and nothing is ever finished. Leaving politics aside here, consumers are beta testers without any way to provide direct feedback to producers (one that isn't public outrage of some kind) - every other usual customer interaction is just a waste of your time. Big studios are busy milking "universes" that have been created pre-social media.

3. Algorithms are part of the creation for these problems, not their solution. Big tech just doesn't like this take, creative work is risky, businesses need to scale up quickly and efficiently.
by throw310822 | 2025-05-17 20:42:35+00:00
> At the moment it seems Israel says lets live in peace

What do you mean, Israel says "let's live in peace"? Do you not know that Israel is illegally occupying Palestine, constantly building new settlements, practicing apartheid, protecting the settlers that attack the civilians, demolishing entire villages, closing Gaza in a total embargo since 18 years, preventing any meaningful economic activity there and periodically bombing it killing many thousands, for the vast majority civilians? Who said that this is "peace"? Does it look like peace to you?
by quantadev | 2025-05-17 20:43:51+00:00
Nobody knows what happens at the event horizon, but we do know from the perspective of an outside observer things about physics 'break'. It makes sense that there's a flip-side to that 'breakage' (on the inside of the surface, or even "only at" the surface) that isn't just normal space as if nothing happened.

For example there's no mathematics at all that mankind has ever known where an asymptotic approach towards some limit doesn't have a mirror version (usually inverted) on the other side of the asymptote. If we see time stop, at the EH it seems wrong to assume there's nothing "stopped" similarly from the other side too. So this means the surface has to be very special. You don't just pass by it and not notice as you fall in, imo.
by trebligdivad | 2025-05-17 20:44:21+00:00
Very impressive! (On a more geeky note, I note that the movie zip's have a _MACOSX/Movie EV10 dir with a _Movie EV10 legent.txt with an OpenAI / Chatgpt URL in - I guess probably just making the (boring) titles for the video files. Odd. I hate to think what other _MACOSX dirs contain in released zips
by landl0rd | 2025-05-17 20:44:35+00:00
No it's not. Constitutions are the bones of a republic. They are the framework that gives the government power and that checks that power. Letting it mess with that too much or too often is bad.

Constitutions should be simple. They should delegate very little power to governments and focus mostly on constraining those governments. They should be changed very rarely.

Adaptable government with changing scopes belongs at lower levels of governance (mostly very local) or nowhere.
by molticrystal | 2025-05-17 20:45:00+00:00
>That kind of emotional writing does not become someone whose profession should focus on scientific persuasion.

What you'd probably prefer reading is one of the sources John Carlos Baez cites [0]:

Comment on “Gravitational Pair Production and Black Hole Evaporation” Antonio Ferreiro1, José Navarro-Salas, and Silvia Pla

Where they take the equation used in the paper, and outline how there is a better way than using that equation

"... is obtained to the lowest order in a perturbative expansion, while the standard way to obtain the non-perturbative Schwinger effect using the weak field approximation is to perform a resummation of all terms"

and how the one in the paper being critiqued can't handle situations arising from electromagnetic cases, much less the gravitational one properly. These are the statements Baez makes but the cited paper gives in a much more professional tone and method.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13...
by boznz | 2025-05-17 20:46:37+00:00
A Lot of these physics papers are interesting but ultimately just noise. An untested Theory is NOT fact, it's just someone (with or without a PhD) pulling something out of their arse that might explain things. Most of cosmology and physics is still theory (even the big bang, and string theory) and even if 90% of theory fits facts, they could still be wrong. I am seeing more and more of these un-testable theories, built on other un-testable theories, citing other un-testable theories, this is why theoretical physics is in a crisis IMHO.

MY mother and father also have an untested theory that explains all this too it's called "God", most Sci-Fi authors have plenty, and I am sure AI's will soon add to this pile.

Kudos to those scientists that create testable papers or experimentally prove stuff.
by movedx | 2025-05-17 20:47:33+00:00
You raise a good point here.

There's a degree of trust here, too. Trust placed on the consumer to do the right thing and pay. I'd also say there's an additional consideration being put forward by the operator: sometimes people just need a ride every now and then. I've been Japan three times now and I've seen several incidents of the guards letting people just walk through without a ticket because they explained some situation.
by ghthor | 2025-05-17 20:47:42+00:00
This happened across the board to everybody as there was some change that went into unstable that broke 1000s of packages, everybody was rebuilding nodejscause it failed to build (thus wasn’t in the upstream cache). It’s a good idea to pin you nixpkgs with with flakes or fetchgit in your config and not use channels. Or stick to stable(can’t do this on macOS as easily though, this is where I learned this).

You can use hydra to observe the ebb and flow of broken packages getting fixed and pick good git hashes to pin to. Once I figured that out I was very happy and had a good time glancing through hydra to monitor this. Now I can make informed decisions about what hash I build from and still keep unstable train, upgrading more often then I was before.
by zzo38computer | 2025-05-17 20:49:05+00:00
> I think there's value in exploring operating systems and environments. And, it's very useful to note that you don't need to do both at the same time.

Although they can be done separately, I think there is also a value in doing both together, since the design can be made to work with both together better. Furthermore, they can be designed together with the hardware as well, to work together all three better.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-05-17 20:49:14+00:00
The list of non-cryptographic hash functions that aren’t currently known to be broken for general purpose hashing is pretty short. There are three dimensions to performance: latency, throughput, and microarchitecture. Algorithm designs explicitly tradeoff older microarchitecture performance for newer microarchitecture performance, depending on if the objective of portability is compatibility or consistency.

For latency-optimized hashing, rapidhash is currently the fastest algorithm I know of with consistently good hash quality. Hash quality is outside the cryptographic range, which is expected for a latency-optimized design, but close enough that you can at least make a comparison. Should be pretty portable too. It is what I recommend for general-purpose small-key hashing.

For throughput-optimized hashing, rotohash[0] is currently the fastest algorithm I know of, with single-core throughput saturating CPU cache bandwidth. Hash quality is at the low-end of the cryptographic range, about the same as MD5. While it is built on portable 32-bit primitives, it clearly targets modern microarchitectures — the Zen 5 performance metrics, though not listed, are crazy. This is brand new, part of a research project to efficiently and robustly checksum I/O at current hardware line rates (100s of GB/s).

Any algorithm can be faster if you completely disregard quality. In fairness, the quality bar has risen quickly as we’ve become better at designing these algorithms and finding the defects. State-of-the-art algorithms a decade ago are all considered obviously and hopelessly broken today. Designing a competitive hash function now requires an extremely high degree of skill and expertise. It was much easier to come into it as a hobbyist and produce an acceptable result ten years ago.

[0] https://github.com/jandrewrogers/RotoHash
by spwa4 | 2025-05-17 20:50:45+00:00
Note how Moody's says directly that Trump's policies will increase government spending (by a lot, I might add). They also's directly state it's Trump's tax policy. Not anything else. Trump is the direct reason the US' credit rating drops. Yet another reason to state the obvious: Republicans, and definitely not Trump, care about the US's debt or low taxes.
by perching_aix | 2025-05-17 20:50:50+00:00
> Even if you ignore tourists that's not really true of Tokyo either. Japan doesn't collect ethnicity statistics though - the numbers for this you may have seen are misreadings of something else.

Which is all very interesting, but remind me, how does this tie into payment systems again?

> That's absolutely what people online think about Japan, they think it's a stuffy collectivist society where everyone agrees with each other

... and then they play the latest Yakuza and wash that down with a few episodes of Tokyo Revengers? It'd would appear that one generalization doesn't beat another.

> and there are no immigrants.

YouTube has been overflowing with thinly veiled grifts lately about how everything in Japan is going to shit right now, and how it's because of the damn tourists and immigrants (heavily peppered with false crime rate figures and false immigration statistics of course).

Still, pretty unrelated to payment systems. I can't shake the feeling that this is the exact same type of conflict sowing one can see under more mainstream topics. Vague mention of something, then a massive tangent, and all of a sudden we're discussing deeply controversial political topics. If you're not doing this with malicious intent, you might be in an unhealthy loop that I'd advise you try quitting. This is not helping anyone, which is what I intended to be my point.
by chowells | 2025-05-17 20:51:35+00:00
I don't really disagree with the idea that there's value in curation. And I even think there's some value in gatekeeping. Sometimes, at least.

But the timing is really funny here, given the massive success Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is currently experiencing. People have found this game - and it's not by curation. It's by massive word of mouth, as people who try the game tend to tell all their friends about it. In the case where something is really good, people find out about it without curators.

Curators are good for finding some stuff. But the ones so good that everyone talks about? You'll find them anyway.
by Muromec | 2025-05-17 20:51:46+00:00
That's a lot of wasm and beam. I tried to do it the other way -- compile beam straight to wasm and it seems to work in straightforward cases, producing wasm binaries in kilobytes sizes. With wasm fx it's even possible to do processes natively. You can find the link in bio.

Cool thing would be to somehow wire it up to liveview to make it possible to run some parts on the frontend side transparently.

I'm not doing any active development on it right now, but it looked pretty doable when I tried last time.
by baobun | 2025-05-17 20:52:28+00:00
> Privacy Policy

> 1. Information We Collect We collect the following types of information: [...]

> Data you input through the app, including filled forms and saved snippets.

> We only collect the minimum information necessary to operate and improve our services

If the model runs locally, form data would not have to be collected by you (and shared with third-parties: Which? Policy only mentions Firebase and GA - no third-party provider used for the AI part?). Also, even with current server-side model, it's not clear why you would need to _retain_ all user-submitted data post-response.

Oh, and the GitHub link in your footer is broken.
by Tijdreiziger | 2025-05-17 20:56:19+00:00
The last time I was in NYC was 10+ years ago, but from what I recall, operating the turnstiles correctly required some experience: you need to know that they require manual operation (not obvious to first-time users), and then you also have to operate them at the correct speed (going too fast doesn’t let you through).

Systems with fare gates (i.e. most systems worldwide) don’t have these problems, because it’s obvious when you can pass through.

Then factor in lots of tourists/visitors (who aren’t used to this system) + aforementioned small stations.
by mempko | 2025-05-17 20:56:41+00:00
The government doesn't need to sell bonds, but does for practical reasons. It provides a safe asset for wealthy people and organizations. If you haven't realized, but banks only insure accounts up to $250k. There needs to be a safe mechanism to store more and treasuries serve that purpose. Also bonds help drain bank reserves! Selling bonds actually slows down bank lending and reduces risk taking in the banking sector. Also too many reserves make monetary policy from fed ineffective.

The national debt is simply all the money the government created minus the money it destroyed from taxes. Another way of thinking about it is it's national savings.

The boom and bust cycles happen because of private sector debt cycles not government debt.