skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's been convenient to blame Hungary, but the truth is, plenty of countries are unhappy about banning Russian hydrocarbons, with Germany leading the list. They can weather the consequences of their veto, because there isn't much will to make it happen anyway - i.e. there are no consequences.

I can imagine Finland/Sweden being very different. Who benefits/loses from Finland/Sweden joining? These countries are very well-armed, with large, well-trained armies, so they are a welcome addition for most. Baltic states must be delighted. Germany must be realising that hugging Russia for decades hasn't paid off, but it is in a clinch; its army has had decades of peacetime budgets, while they find themselves on the gas/oil hook. Hungary's own immediate neighbours, Romania and Slovakia at least, are quite wary of Russian threat and will welcome at least a diffusion of Russian targets in the area.

Would there be consequences to ruining the plans of US, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia and Romania, and many other countries? No doubt, and beyond what Hungary is prepared to pay.

But then what do I know? I'm an armchair strategist.
I guess David Attenborough probably isn't so well-known in the US? It's apparently much harder to get people to show up for something without a big name attached.

Edit:

> Actress and conservationist Sigourney Weaver was brought in to replace David Attenborough as narrator, as it was thought her familiarity to American audiences would attract more viewers.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(2006_TV_series)
> it's fairly racist place in my experience

Out of curiosity, did you live in other countries as well? I have the impression that in NL there certainly is a certain level of racism, but it's less systemic/endemic/widespread than in other countries (including parts of the US).

It's an opinion based on very limited data and personal observation, so take it with a grain of salt.
> Never seen combat

Can you describe what you mean by this? Are you suggesting that no F-35 has ever been used in combat operations?

> when trying to do a dogfight with a F16 lost

What's your source for this?

> but for me it's telling the fight was not re-staged again...

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.
You're saying this team has proven neither of them wrong in that their findings agree with GR, is that correct? Essentially, nothing new has been learned about these two theories?
I thought about quotes and information in general recently. It's not that we can't put almost all things into words, the problem is in making the information change something.

Like one of those retard pills in medication. The active component is just one problem. Making it reach a destination where it's able to unfold the effect is another.

People like Tony Robins (or quotes for that matter) don't hold extraordinary wisdom, but they have found a way to make them emotionally relevant for a large group of people (and that's really the important part). That's what makes a guru, quotes, tutorials, etc. successful. Much like those calendar quotes reach another kind of people. Everything's allowed.

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I just bought Austin Kleons trilogy and it's stuffed with quotes. Let me open a random page for you...

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard (in Kleons 'Keep Going')

"Share your dots, but don't connect them." - Austin Kleon (in 'Steal Like An Artist')

"Whatever we say, we're always talking about ourselves." - Alison Bechdel (in Kleons 'Show Your Work')
Dupe.

There seem to be numerous submissions of this topic.

This thread seems to be the leading one:

Astronomers Reveal First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of Our Galaxy

https://public.nrao.edu/news/astronomers-reveal-first-image-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353677)

Others, as of submitting this comment:

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2208-eht-mw/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353692)

https://public.nrao.edu/news/astronomers-reveal-first-image-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353677)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIQLA6lo6R0 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353643)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ws0iPDSqI4 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353587)

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=305028&org=NS... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353583)

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/ehtelescope/status/15247172729037... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353547)

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/watch-live-astronomers-re... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353480)

https://beta.nsf.gov/blackholes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353474)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIQLA6lo6R0 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353463)

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=305148 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353757)

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/astronomers-reveal-fi... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353786)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/science/black-hole-photo.... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353823)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-hole-image-reveals-sagi... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353874)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61412463 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353939)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31353221
Yeah too bad the continuation war didn't work out for you.
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> UST / Luna had substantial reserves.

This alone suggests you don't know what you are talking about.

Compare to reserves backing Dai, or the reserves USDC claims to have. UST/Luna had nothing and they were also highly correlated. It was a stupid stablecoin to hold in, which is why I never did - despite having holdings in Dai & USDC.
I found this incredibly helpful when I started getting into Arch.
Unlikely. People hailed the lack of undo (and the tape-recorder) as a feature because it makes you either commit to your mistakes, or having to re-record. Not for me, but that's what I've heard people say about it.

And also, "undo" is mentioned nowhere, and since they add "new packaging" to their list of features, I think undo would be mentioned there if it had it. I've heard an equal amount of people praising the lack of undo, as berating the OP-1 for lacking one, so they surely would have added it if they wanted to.
The plan at the moment is to use this as a lead magnet for our main (paid) tool https://www.bluecatreports.com/

But, possibly we will discover some need for features we could add to a paid version of this in future.
If this law prompts Twitter to allow Trump back onto their platform, that could save Elon from the backlash he would face by implementing that change himself.

More likely, though, Twitter will be careful to phrase its moderation decisions in terms "harm to the election process / pandemic response" rather than allowing conspiracy theories to be given legitimacy as "political opinions" that need to be protected in the public square.
I'd be inclined to ask a second question in addition to "What happens when you press refresh?":-

What happens when the user presses BACK.

Pagination seems acceptable, but if I go to a list page, then apply 3 filters, do I have to click "back" 3 times to leave the page? Do you just overwrite the history to allow the described 'refresh recovery' without clogging the history? Do you "debounce" sessions of filter changes within a period of time into a single "back"?
Are the 5,000 people on Slack in leadership positions? I'd bet that when a decision needs to be made, it is made by smaller groups.
Why not, if there are no real consequences.
1. Care about technical matters and show that you care about technical matters - if you're selling something technical it's good to have complicated opinions on technical matters

2. Someone who is difficult in good times will be a monster in bad times

3. Repeating the words of other's back to them is eerily effective

4. Every client is in the middle of some sort of political drama, you will be some minor part of that drama - this is normal and not that meaningful
Good! Filthy earthas don be touchin this rock hoppa
Yes. It's priced this way because people don't trust Tether, but it is a massive opportunity for profit if you want to take the risk.
Sure. Asshead is marked as neither.
Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe" does a very good, completely non-technical, job of explaining the conflict between the two theories. It then goes on to explain why String Theory is one possible solution to the problem.
Not to mention that the last 2 years haven't been the easiest for electronics product development ;(
Many Many nodes :) i.e distributed
Black hole: First picture of Milky Way monster
Why my name is Tsuki
I find the whole thing amazing and captivating - yet the image is … huh … slightly underwhelming. It looks like some gaussian blurred random image. I wish it could be the kind of crisp image JWST ‘sent’.

It’s difficult to force oneself to not romanticise these un-visible things based on artists visualisation we got accustomed to.
Always be talking to your customers.

Always be selling.

Surviving is succeeding. Make more money than you spend.

read this : https://basecamp.com/shapeup

Find a LEGIT accountant. Expense everything.

FIND health insurance ( if it means getting a part timer for health insurance)

hire 1099s

there will always be bugs.

Set up an alert to be notified if your site go's down.

Workout daily. Go outside walk. whatever find something MOVE your body.

Good lucky.
That was a different black hole that is further away. This black hole is much closer in the center of our galaxy. So now we have pictures of 2 black holes to compare!
> Yanukovych? That’s not a great example, since he’s famously a Russian puppet, removed from office in the Maidan Revolution.

Coup! Coup! Remember, never call it the "Maidan Revolution", it was a coup! Oh, wait, sorry, you're not trying to prove you're a Russian troll, are you? ;-)

But honestly, I've found that's the easiest heuristic, at least on Twitter: Whenever someone talks about the 2014 "coup" (or "Putsch") in Ukraine, they're a Putler RToll (<-- tpyoed that at first, noticed how fitting it was, so capitalised it).
>In our recent survey of all 50 US states plus the District of Columbia, we asked respondents to assess the accuracy of eight widespread false claims. Four of those claims were about the COVID-19 vaccine...

Specific example of a false claim for their survey:

>"The covid vaccines contain the lung tissue of aborted fetuses"

>At least five of the candidate COVID-19 vaccines use one of two human fetal cell lines: HEK-293, a kidney cell line widely used in research and industry that comes from a fetus aborted in about 1972; and PER.C6, a proprietary cell line owned by Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, developed from retinal cells from an 18-week-old fetus aborted in 1985.

https://www.science.org/content/article/abortion-opponents-p....

Yes, this claim is inaccurate on the specifics. However, concerns about using a vaccine derived from the cultured cell lines of an aborted human fetus remain. This is a transparently dishonest method of affirming their hypothesis via loaded questions. "Misinformation" indeed.

Doubly ironic given that they are attempting to talk down to "American rubes" who dare to question official narratives. Perhaps individuals would be more trusting of establishment media sources and government pronouncements if they were not transparently dishonest.
Bluey is a fantastic show, and the fact that it's unapologetically Australian is part of what's so fun about it. I think it's just the choice of nervous higher-ups to localize things like this, and not actually what people want. Like Douglas Adams says, people can survive hearing references they don't understand. And they might even learn something about another culture.
I really enjoyed Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. It's more of a kick in the pants than an inspirational book, but it actually helped me think about (and act on) my priorities.
Didn’t I already reply to you weeks ago about a similar comment? Now you can read the actual papers which explain in detail why your comment is incorrect.
Here’s one that is counterintuitive. As you start to scale yourself, hire first for the things you know/do best. You will only be able to identify what good looks like if you understand the job. It will be tempting to keep doing those things yourself, because you want to feel competent. Startups are all about allowing yourself to be incompetent, but overcoming it.
And all the energy and effort and money doesn’t even help against child abuse.
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The first planet earth wasn't just given different voiceover for American audiences, it was recut. The brass called the Attenborough cut "excruciatingly slow-paced", so once they decided to re-edit, it was probably easier to recast the narration than to try and edit down Attenborough's own speech.

The Attenborough cut is my personal preference too.
* Americanize
I'd say neither. I want to like Flutter, but haven't had good experiences with websites that use it. I'd still choose PWAs built on top of Hugo or something similar for efficiency.
AVX-512 has really high potential, but for some reason, LLVM (not sure about GCC) is really bad at effectively using it.
It's also the things that's easiest to migrate away from to a cheap-and-performant VPS or dedicated server
doh that sucks, I was looking forward to getting a well made bike for use here. Every review I've read has the current batch as being kinda bad.
Thanks. I completely misunderstood that. That makes total sense for an enterprise use case too otherwise it would probably be non-starter for many corporate IT departments.
Just a nitpick -- the actor model was not chosen, the BEAM just happens to look like an actor model. The BEAM architecture was chosen for fault tolerance and the features you want for fault tolerance naturally guide you to something actor-ish. Also, the actor model says very little about fault tolerance concern (its concern is in improving computational efficiency bottlenecks)
Gold is one of the easiest things to smuggle: it is compact and can be easily melted, painted over, made to look like a cheap tourist souvenir, mixed with other components, etc. and then recovered at the destination.

That does not mean that it is trivial to smuggle gold out, but if you need to do so, the chance of success is pretty high. Much higher than smuggling out fiat money held in a government-regulated account during capital controls. My 2c.
My primary point is not that the old people are replaced by new people. My primary point is that you have huge costs related to maintaining the community you want in the form of massive subsidies that reduce taxation and collect resources in an unfair and biased way from the community.

I’m pretty sure it’s a bad idea because it’s pretty much a historical accident in California and implemented just about nowhere else. California can’t get rid of it because the policy creates a huge amount of inertia but people have tried on many occasions because the policy is also extremely bad.

The solutions to property tax rising are myriad. A person can take a mortgage out against the gains in property value. Since property taxes are well under 1%, this can pay for the property tax for 50 years easily and the only drawback is not owning 100% of the property. A person can also downsize to a smaller home or condo in the community, providing the community gets its act together enough on housing to provide said options. Ultimately, your community is losing someone because they decided the best option was to cash in the value of their home, take their profits and leave. They also decided there best bet for cheaper housing was elsewhere, which is something the community could have done something about with better policy. People should have that choice. The problem in this scenario is not property taxes going up with land value increases.

Lastly, artificially keeping communities together through massive subsidies to people who’ve been there a long time is just as much social engineering as having a property tax that’s based on current market value.
Ask HN: Any Tip for “Biodynamic Lighting”?
I want to use/have “biodynamic lighting” in my apartment. Anyone has any TIPs how to start with common lights from Philips or IKEA? Is there a light with API, som when I will calculate the sun position and light conditions to change light? Or just I am Over-complicating it and there is an out of the box solution? THX (my idea is to make an raspberryPI to manage lightning conditions) THX for TIPs.
Well I suppose they are called an Editor for a reason. They change the wording to reflect how they picture the character and might think that "What do you mean" is too formal, even in England we are more likey to say "What d'ya mean".

I guess the main thing was that Douglas Adams had the chance to review it and gave helpful feedback.
I'd hate to be anyone that was sitting on vested RSUs from coinbase.. value 1/4'd from a peak a month ago
Honest question: how did it lose charm by switching to American accents and localisms?

I'm not disagreeing (I'm a bit too old for Bob the Builder and I don't have kids), I'm genuinely curious.
Here's my understanding of the details.

At the time the Bank of England had committed itself to maintaining the value of Sterling at a rate that was widely considered to be too high.

Soros and a bunch of other large funds and banks decided to take on a coordinated short position. So they...

- borrowed very large sums of Sterling

- exchanged the Sterling for Dollars (or maybe DeutschMarks?)

- waited for Sterling to depreciate

- Sterling now being much cheaper they then used the Dollars to buy back the original loan amount of Sterling and have plenty of Dollars left over

- repaid the loans

The large amounts of Sterling that they were selling would have increased the downward pressure on the price of Sterling, forcing the Bank of England to sell foreign currency reserves to keep the value within the narrow limits it had committed to as part of the ERM.

Due to the open nature of the market other currency speculators would have been aware that all this was going on, and they too started shorting Sterling, further increasing the pressure and forcing the BoE to sell more reserves.

At some stage it became apparent that this was unsustainable and Britain exited the ERM and devalued the currency, creating massive profits for the speculators.
What makes it obviously so?
I've been staying at that click for a solid ten minutes, but I can't figure out why minutes and seconds start on top, but hours on the bottom. Any idea why that particular choice was made?
> But a lot of 'coins' are just paper dreams, and live somewhere on the spectrum of the Nigerian Prince scam.

If social was full of people showing off all the stiff they bought with the Nigerian Prince’s money maybe. Seems more like a lottery to me, but even that feels like a poor analogy.

The difference is crypto has made people wealthy, probably with a large luck component and others want in on that.
seriously, I am a GenXer who grew up with mostly digital clocks and I still have to stop and think to get a time out of a clock dial.

But then again as Adams said elsewhere, Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so. That one still rings true, especially if you're a freelancer like me who never needs to get up and go to an office at 9AM.
It could also be done through partial mirrors and prisms, but would of course require a brightly lit field or suffer ISO tradeoffs
How is this possibly true? The argument that 16-bit DCT somehow gives better precision AND doesn't change the size of the encode makes no sense. If you get better precision you need to keep those extra-precise bits that are no longer zero due to truncation.

I haven't seen this argued as 16-bit DCT, but in color space conversion. The gist is that all 8-bit RGB values cannot be represented properly in 8-bit YUV420, so you're supposed to use 10-bit to get "proper" YUV values. But if you start with an 8-bit encode you've already thrown away the extra precision, so why waste the (considerable) extra compute on 10-bit just to make sure you don't truncate the already-truncated YUV?

I have a project in progress to measure all of the variations, but from quick testing with CRF encoding the same value results in much longer compute AND a larger file in 10-bit versus 8-bit. The larger file has a slightly higher VMAF score, as would be expected from spending more bits. The work is in finding a set of encoding parameters to measure the quality difference at the same output size, and to measure the relative improvement across CRF vs size vs bit depth.
> Doing a refactoring of some basic Java code that's not going crazy with annotation processing would be quite reasonable for a job ad seeking to hire someone to do Java development

This goes back to the days where job ads would request N years of X experience. The big takeaway from the last ~10 years is that this type of requirement is unnecessary. As an engineer who knows the fundamentals, it's relatively straightforward to pick up a new tech stack.

I wouldn't want to pass on someone who spent the last 5 years working in C because we have a java stack.
> Russia is losing the war, has a weak military, cannot invade another country successfully, but at the same time, we should be afraid of them?

No matter the outcome, it is a very bad result for Ukraine. Look at all the destruction, loss of life, and loss of money.
So because the USA has advanced weapons and other bases close enough to reach Moscow, it doesn't make sense that Putin/Russia would be concerned by NATO expansion even closer to Moscow, right next to their borders?
> EHT team members talk about a sharpness of vision akin to being able to see a bagel on the surface of the Moon.

This is truly amazing!
Just when you thought you'd seen the last of Clippy
(I'm the PM for this at Cloudflare & the blog author)

We looked at a number of existing options — trying to strike a balance between languages we run at scale (tooling, ops, security), memory safety, and long-term maintainability as a growing company.

We ended up writing an MQTT broker from scratch in Rust, with our own Durable Objects[1] for consistency and co-ordination across our hundreds of edge locations (and tens of thousands of machines). The MQTT spec itself[2] is very approachable, which made this undertaking easier still.

One of the increasingly cool parts of Cloudflare is that we use more and more of what our customers use: our Broker service sits behind Spectrum[3], and we use Workers + DO for all of the metadata/session handling. The next set of new products will invariably start to build on Pub/Sub itself, too :-)

[1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/using-dur...
[2]: https://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v5.0/mqtt-v5.0.html
[3]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/spectrum/
Why do you think you know more about astronomy than a team of scientists publishing peer reviewed information?