skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I say this as a big Rust user: ignore that shit. At the level of writing a desktop app, the truth is that you're already using a vast amount of CPU and memory, and eking out performance gains on that level is not going to make a vast difference. It's very likely that your Rust code would end up being littered with .clone() and the like, and likely less performant than well-written JS.

Also, V8 is an incredible piece of technology, and is not that far off being competitive with Rust or C++. In some scenarios GC (by which I mean tracing) can outperform reference counting, or even Rust-style malloc+free. The event loop architecture is also very naturally fitted to user interfaces.

Ignore the HN opinionmongers and build with whatever tools you can work with. You'll be much faster and more flexible, and you'll gain an understanding of what the bottlenecks are, which you can use to do targeted optimisation later on :)
> Yeah too bad the continuation war didn't work out for you.

Oh, it pretty much did. Sure, there was a Carelia Oblast or something up in the Northwest of the Russian Socialist Soviet Republic -- but never a Finnish Socialist Soviet Republic.
>Law enforcement forces and justice system employees only have to obey to the laws, not to the politicians in power.

Frontex want's to have a word with you.....

And the Italian coastguard let people drown because it's law?....or maybe because it's a political thing? You cant separate the government and justice system completely.
I'll stick with the sensible bro science which says to avoid seed oils, this is a mere survey and if you scroll to the bottom and look at the sources they're all over the place.
>Modern FOSS.

How wrong you are :)

A distro like Hyperbola runs perfectly fine on 32 bit machines with modernish browsers and GL 2.1 -at least-, enough for a lot of stuff.
You have lots of lightweight GTK2/3 and QT5 software which can run fast enough even on a GB machine and less than 16GB of storage.

We don't need to reboot nil, but stop using Electron crap and JS for everything.

Half of the Gen-Z ers do today with 8GB of RAM at least to run Slack and such we, the old farts, could do that with 512MB of RAM and Kopete, with chats, videoconference, inline videos and LaTeX rendering the equations without even sweating.
And Kopete IM and KDE3 where the bloated environments.
We should stop wasting resources.
I also want to point out that the mass around Sagittarius A* is rapidly shifting which makes getting a sharp image still harder. From the NYT:

Sagittarius A*, the black hole in the Milky Way galaxy, is a harder target. It is less than one-thousandth the mass and size of the M87 hole and, therefore, evolves a thousand times faster. The M87 black hole barely budges during a weeklong observing run, but Sagittarius A* changes its appearance as often as every five minutes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/science/black-hole-photo....
During covid there were these ‘contests’ [0]. And there was more (will try to find).

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/18/uk-names-five-projects-its...
I agree and have been complaining about it for ages. Mostly got around it via using processes and microservices, but this would make my life so much easier. With general processors having tons of cores and memory now it just doesn't make sense, especially if the new changes work well with little or no performance hit. Seems like a no brainer.
It reminds me of all the hype and exuberance around the "first ever picture of a black hole". An achievement worthy of being lauded, for sure, but something just felt so artificial about the coverage. And truth be told, the photo itself was underwhelming in light of how incredible it was made out to be.
One way to prevent getting yourself into too much trouble might be to never talk to cops (without a lawyer): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine. A gentle and persuasive introduction to modern Stoicism.

Note: Insofar as it aims at tranquility (apatheia = avoidance of passions), it might not help you to get more motivated, though.
Further observations from P.Z. Meyers:

"I’ve asked those same questions myself. When I lived in Pennsylvania, we first got an apartment in a shiny glossy hellhole, in a town called King of Prussia. It was the most dead, soulless place I’ve ever been to...."

There's also, of course, the racist underpinnings of much land-use and housing policy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/05/12/the-ameri...
As decent as Cloud Run is (and it is nice, AFAICT the most pleasant/productive container deployment thing out there atm), CloudSQL is a tire fire, especially the complete lack of tooling and connectivity if your database is within a VPC.
More the exchanges imo. Similar to Robinhood halting orders on GameStop.
> "But until that happens, this "missing money" doesn't actually come out of any US budget; it's just not being spent at all."

That's like saying a 4WD SUV, which is much heavier because it can in theory go off road at any time, doesn't burn any extra fuel if you never take it off road. Maintaining the capability to send a huge expeditionary force to Europe at any time is mind-bendingly expensive.
It's more about Hungarian domestic politics. The Orban administration has alienated much of the EU leadership, and is (arguably) in violation of the EU treaties. So they're looking to Russia as a backup option, and as an implicit threat to the EU over having their funding cut off.
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Seriously, if you start with "I think EU is turning into Sauron",you then can imply everything, you'll be mostly wrong though.

> I think that's what their warning shot is

These arguments have been in discussion for at least a decade.

Why do you think they want to read your email?

What purpose could it serve?

Do you really think France will accept to put the email of their citizens out in the clear if Germany refuses? (nations can still delay the implementation of regulations, technically forever)

> There is a reason we have search warrants

They are still required.

CSAM is only what Apple already does (and that's another reason why I don't buy Apple products).
> Taxes are there to raise armies, not money.

Perhaps that baseless assertion rings true in the US, where the dominant anti-state and anti-social policy political views create a vicious cycle of sabotaging public services followed by arguing public services should not be provided because they are badly managed.

In Europe, whose countries have been criticized by US politicians for spending under 2% of the national budget in their armed forces, money tends to be mainly spent on healthcare and social programs.
> Can you describe what you mean by this? Are you suggesting that no F-35 has ever been used in combat operations?

Yes. Complete zero air superiority combat missions as with the exception of bombing a few ISIS tunnels. But as this article from 2021 mentions, its not combat if the enemy can't shoot back.

"...The United States has been at war continuously since Sept. 11, 2001, yet the F-35 has flown zero combat missions. Zero. When I was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne, we would say: “That dog don’t hunt.” Perhaps sensitive to the F-35’s disgraceful war record, in 2018 the Pentagon sent a few on missions in Afghanistan and Iraq to notch up combat cred. Never mind that their help comes 15 years too late; the super-expensive F-35 was not designed to take out a weapons cache or a terrorist on a moped. Also, as any grunt will tell you, it’s not “combat” if the enemy can’t shoot back. If engine failure is the biggest threat to survival, then the F-35 might as well be flying over Kansas..."

"The F-35 tells everything that’s broken in the Pentagon"
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/542412-the-f-3...

> when trying to do a dogfight with a F16 lost
> What's your source for this?

My source are US F35 pilots...Note how somebody tried to undermine the F16 ( An airplane from the 80's) in the test

"Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight"
https://warisboring.com/test-pilot-admits-the-f-35-can-t-dog...

"...The F-35 was flying “clean,” with no weapons in its bomb bay or under its wings and fuselage. The F-16, by contrast, was hauling two bulky underwing drop tanks, putting the older jet at an aerodynamic disadvantage..."

"...But the JSF’s advantage didn’t actually help in the end. The stealth fighter proved too sluggish to reliably defeat the F-16, even with the F-16 lugging extra fuel tanks. “Even with the limited F-16 target configuration, the F-35A remained at a distinct energy disadvantage for every engagement,” the pilot reported..."

"And when the pilot of the F-16 turned the tables on the F-35, maneuvering to put the stealth plane in his own gunsight, the JSF jockey found he couldn’t maneuver out of the way, owing to a “lack of nose rate.”"

"...The F-35 pilot came right out and said it — if you’re flying a JSF, there’s no point in trying to get into a sustained, close turning battle with another fighter. “There were not compelling reasons to fight in this region.” God help you if the enemy surprises you and you have no choice but to turn..."

> Be careful, we're getting close to sounding conspiratorial and we want to make sure to avoid that, because we can't have a discussion at that point.

Did they re-stage the fight? No

I provided my sources. Yeah...very conspiratorial...
If you use a font which doesn't have outline data Terminal.app and you set the rendered size to whatever is the native size of the font, Terminal.app will show you the unadulterated bitmap (if you use a multiple of the size, Terminal.app should scale it up without anti-aliasing).

I generate a .dfont without outline data based on a tweaked version of my favorite bitmap font, in Font Forge.

Now, if there is a way you can pre-render your favorite outline font to a bitmap and write it as a .dfont without outlines (other extensions may be fine, not sure though), you could switch back to Terminal.app. But font tools on GitHub etc. are very very few and never work that well, if they even do what they advertise at all.
Would you trust currency issued by the sand government that can’t manage its own pensions?
My 2 cents.

Research before you build anything. If there’s no need for it, don’t build it.

Choose your business partners wisely. Don’t fall into the trap of working with smart assholes, if someone is an asshole - no matter how smart. The asshole-ness will take over no matter what. (That’s just one side of it, many other things to watch for).

Build trust, it takes time and effort to get this one right.

Put your name on your work. One of pg’s essays also mentions how putting your name on your work let’s society reward you. I’ve seen it happen in front of my eyes. The product with a UI that looks bootstrapped together is like magic for your customers. No matter how basic or “ugly” your think your product might be, stand beside it like it’s your first born.
Agreed. 2x rent is a significantly worse policy as it encourages landlords to allow folks to live closer to the edge.

It's the price itself that is the issue.
I have tried Phillips Hue, Sengled and LIFX lights and I like them in that order.

The Hue and Sengled lights use Zigbee. I'd say that Hue switches are clearly superior to Sengled switches, particularly when we have a power outage the Sengled switches seem to go crazy trying to connect to the hub and they run their batteries out very quickly.

The LIFX lights use WiFi and have the basic problem that they take a noticeable time to boot and be controllable whereas the Zigbee-based switches connect to the hub immediately. I think the LIFX lights can make more pure colors than the other lights but I think the quality of the white light they make is less good for making fine sensory distinctions.

I have Python scripts to control the lights that run on a tower PC. I've written things like "turn the lights on in the bedroom slowly with sunrise hues over the course of 10 minutes when it is time to wake up, then play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrX0z6i5Yp8" also I have scripts that can pass events between the sengled, hue, and smartthings system so I can turn on Hue lights with a sengled switch.
Absolute outrage clickbait. The bill is intended to protect children from traffickers. It is sponsored by the European Commission. The nonprofit founded by Ashton Kutcher supports it. He's not personally in Brussels demanding surveillance. The draft of the bill is likely written from a single point of view with a set of rules beyond what they expect to get, then it will be negotiated down and they'll get some of it or none of it. The notion that we should not even try to combat child sex trafficking because it will have some associated cost is really selfish. Obviously, we have to balance concerns, but that's entirely possible to do responsibly.

I think the last 20 years (really 100 years) have shown that abuse of free speech and privacy will happen no matter what when the authorities want it to and not at all when the don't. The US ran warrantless wiretapping for over a year post 9/11 and sucked up all sorts of completely illegally obtained communication and as far we know not a single civilian was remotely inconvenienced for it. Meanwhile Russia is throwing journalists out windows for their very public statements of fact.
I'm not going to say you're wrong, but I think it's extremely important not to dilute the public response to this.

CSAM scanning is arbitrary, opaque and ubiquitous. You cannot know what the blocklist contains, such a system is not introspectable and it is not outside the realm of reason that a more totalitarian government could insert a picture of President Xi photoshopped as Winnie the Pooh or the famous Putin in make-up picture: and then they will immediately get a list of all dissidents.

It's absolutely Orwellian, and it's invisible too.

This is not the way.

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I'll add that in general the hacker community (CCC and ilk) can be a bit more distrustful of authority than perhaps is healthy.

I attended one talk at CCC where a person detailed all the "wrong" ways that the FBI was hacking pedophile sites and collecting personal information on the darkweb.

I openly responded to him in support of the FBI; that wholesale collection of registered accounts on a pedophile website represents probable cause; that if it's illegal to gather information of pedophiles across county or country lines: then we should work on making it legal.

There's a large difference in my mind, between taking conscious action in doing something, such as trying to buy drugs vs submitting yourself for a mandatory drug screening every week.

Here's the talk: https://api.media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8018-law_enforcement_are_hac...
RT is not blocked in the US. I read it this morning.
For a small-mass central black hole (CBH), the spin-spin coupling of the CBH and the bulk matter of a relatively small and sparse galaxy is so small that it the orientation of the spin axis is almost unconstrained. That from Earth we look down on the CBH's north pole (right-hand-rule: the bright features appear to circulate counter-clockwise, and there is decent evidence in them that the black hole's spin is in the same direction (i.e., the accretion structure is prograde rather than retrograde)) is probably just a funny coincidence.

M87 and its CBH M87* are much more massive than the Milky Way and its respective CBH Sgr A*, but it M87 a giant elliptical galaxy that is almost circular (as far as we can tell from the highly random orbital motions of constituent parts like hydrogen and molecular gas clouds, resolvable globular and other star clusters, and so forth). So there is essentially no (bulk) galactic spin for M87* to couple to. M87*, the black hole, has significant spin however.

For a galaxy with strong axisymmetry to the point of a thin disc, there are still open questions about spin-spin coupling with a sufficiently massive CBH, under the assumption that the CBH spin and the galactic spin were identical in the early universe and that the CBH spin has not become perturbed (e.g. by black hole mergers, which may change the spin parameter, which translates to a CBH spin axis unaligned with the galactic spin axis, or a counter-rotating CBH, or some combination), and that the galactic spin has not become perturbed (by close-encounters or mergers with other galaxies). There are additional reasons why a jet and counter-jet may not trace out the extended spin axis of a CBH.

Finally, the spin-spin coupling is probably driven by the galactic spin imposing its "will" upon the CBH, rather than the other way around, because of the large mass-ratio and the distribution of mass at significant spatial remove from the CBH. However, there is a chicken/egg conundrum for very large CBHs, since we don't know if they become so huge (principally) primordially or by hierarchical mergers or by some other mechanism. The biggest CBHs may drive the initial angular momentum in the early protogalaxy, and then both the CBH and the later-time bulk galaxy will influence each others' spins. That is, the spin-spin can be correlated without any significant direct linking (in terms of forcing a drifting spin to realign), because the coupling can be arbitrarily weak.

So, we should not be surprised by central black holes spinning differently from their enclosing galaxies. But, we have a lot to learn about your question from further observations of CBHs!
I support an imperial retreat by the U.S. I strongly disagree with the the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and our policies against Iran, and our support for numerous brutual regimes. Unchecked power is dangerous and it’s time for the U.S. to engage is isolationism once again. The EU will need to learn to either strengthen federalism and defend itself or remain reliant of the U.S. military tit. I prefer the former option.
Yeah I was wondering the same. From the M87's images I understood that the bright part of the ring was moving towards us, that's why it was brighter.
But with this explanation, how can there be 3 bright lumps then on Sag A's ring ..
Yes. Huds for example usually are made so that the image seems as if it's floating in the distance.

Ultimately one could have a light field display to achieve all this in a flat package. It would be like a display consisting of small directional mini displays. It would have some resolution and brightness issues and would be expensive.
So do you agree that letting Russia invade Ukraine is wrong?

Like I said, the US was wrong to invade Vietnam and Iraq, and Russia is just as wrong to invade Ukraine.

> take a step back and ask "If I were Russia how would I view this?"

As a big mistake. Russia is not getting anything out of this that's going to help Russia in any way. Russia has made itself the enemy of everybody around them. They've completely alienated all Ukrainians, nearly half of which used to be friendly towards Russia.

> The idea is that if not expanding NATO stops Russia from invading Eastern European countries

"Expanding NATO" is the wrong way to look at this. NATO doesn't expand itself, it accepts new members who apply to join NATO. NATO hasn't conquered anyone. Membership is entirely voluntary.

NATO membership has shown itself to be the best protection against Russian aggression; Georgia and Ukraine have been invaded, but Estonia has not. Refusing membership to Estonia in a faint hope that Russia would not attack is a dangerous game to play with an entire country.
Relatedly, before general relativity, people already knew something was wrong with Newton's theory of gravity from observing the orbit of Mercury, which didn't follow the theory accurately. At that time Mercury, being so close to the Sun, was an extreme condition that showed the flaws in the theory.

The fact that general relativity continues to hold up to every observation we can make is remarkable.
I'll keep this one on my watch list, as LG is getting out of the business (of providing me phones with good audio quality).
>I already own the home.

A privileged position the poorer half of the population doesnt share. They have to deal with rising rents along with rising gas prices.

>Imagine that sales tax was assessed yearly on every item you already own, based on the current market value

Imagine instead that it was limited just to the roof over your head. Voila youve just imagined rent. Something the poorer half of the population HAS to deal with.

Im just proposing leveling the playing field between renters and owners by limiting owners' right to capitalize on land value increases.

That is, taking away what are effectively handouts given to you. Free money. Wealth you didnt earn because the land value isnt about you or your house.

>How does that help me if I’m not a rent-seeking landlord

1. The option is always there. Whether you exercise it or not having the option of an additional stream of income DOES help you.

2. Your net worth literally goes up. You can easily convert that net worth into cash if you choose. Reverse mortgages, etc.

>How does that help the community that you want to forcibly dismantle?

With a higher land value tax land would HAVE to be used more efficiently. Denser housing etc. That means lower rents. That means renters who were priced out of their homes, forcibly dismantling their community, get to stay.

Some people think forcibly dismantling communities of renters is fine. Perhaps they dont think they matter coz theyre typically less white communities. Perhaps this is what they really want.
I will just shamelessly add to the list this wooden 7.5 inch display that I have been working on over the past two years:

https://www.invisible-computers.com/programmable-e-paper-scr...

Price-wise it's in between the M5Paper and the PineNote, but personally I think it's the best-looking one for the smart display use case. :P
> not to mention using the media in exactly the same way Trump did

All political campaigns try to get their message across through a variety of media. Can you be specific?

The remainer objections you quote are at least arguable (some more so than others). Many remainers wanted the result overturned through legal or political mechanisms (typically, a second referendum). But Trump pressured officials to modify vote tallies and literally told followers the election was "stolen". There is a distinction.
I think you missed a decimal it’s trading at 2.3cents right now
"What is true, and I'm actually being serious here, is that there are – there's footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don't know exactly what they are," former President Barack Obama said

This is all happening during Trump and Biden's admins. This is bigger than some sort of counter intelligence effort. I don't think Obama was being disingenuous. I think he said the truth here.
It’s absolutely false.
Proof: Putin already invaded Crimea 8 years ago.
It’s shameful how some Italians are bamboozled by Putin online propaganda.
The very chart you linked shows a dramatic increase in volatility over the last days. That surely points to increased stress tether is under.
I’m 2 years into starting my own company and we don’t do schedules meetings. We don’t do commutes. We’re fully remote. We’re fully async. We have a slackbot that asks for an update, but that’s mostly for anyone who needs help getting unblocked. Most days people just ignore it, which honestly works out since when someone does respond it means they truly do need some assistance.