skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What else can we humans aspire? Living forever is out of question. As soon as we are born, we are bound to die.

I don't know, living to anywhere between 1'000 to 1'000'000 years of age would surely be quite the interesting experience, lots of things to learn, lots of things to experience. Such numbers might seem humorous but in the grand scheme of things that's still nothing, given the age of Earth and all that.

I get the feeling that if humans approached aging and death as an engineering problem, in a few centuries to a few thousands of years a viable solution might just spring up.

If nothing else, then fighting aging and everything that comes with it is definitely worth it, so the last decades of your life don't consist of being trapped in a degrading flesh prison and possibly suffering from ailments that will take away your ability to be a person (e.g. Alzheimer's or other neurodegenerative conditions, or serious health conditions due to aging).

Of course, most people don't like to think about their own mortality or consider it (or diseases that may affect them later in life) a serious problem, much less a solvable one. For some religion is enough, for others ignorance does nicely. It feels like we might benefit from more focus on this and research in this direction.

Realistically, one just has to take care of themselves as best as they can and spend their time well.

> Actually, I feel an urge to praise this person's achievements...

Regardless, this is admirable. A life well lived is one worth celebrating, with its many achievements and its impact on the people around them.
"Foul language" is a very rough measure. The parent's thought could have been communicated with less sarcasm ("Sad that ... ?") and bitterness ("doesn't deserve").

Edit: Further, some topics, no matter how carefully broached, are just a bad value proposition. They may have a bad ratio between their intrinsic value (importance, relevance, etc) and how likely they are to spawn a low-quality thread (and how low that quality is likely to be).
TAOBench: Running social media workloads on PlanetScale
Climate and Energy Implications of Crypto-Assets in the United States
> My angle was the "charismatic and overambitious leaders who think that gumption and sticktoitiveness can overcome any problem and who aren't afraid to start lying when they find out that solving science and engineering problems isn't like the scammy adware/SEO/social network they made their first chunk of money on" aspect.

Are you talking about SpaceX?
I am amused that the top-recommended "bug killing gear" is... a video game.

https://looria.com/search?category.subcategory=Bug-Killing+G...
Her speech early in the Covid-19 era was one for the ages[1]: Short, personal, reflective of history yet with a clear call-to-action for her country. I'm not British and also found it exceptional.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-britain-q...
Interestingly, for 134 of the last 200 years (i.e. 2/3), the UK was ruled by a Queen.
Go here, scroll to the section entitled "References" and read some stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II
I'm very much the same, and have an enormous amount of respect for her. There's a part of me that wonders whether this feeling of continuity - from the start of her reign which was only a few years after the independence of India until now - has kept the country in a kind of a weird stasis though. It'll be interesting to see whether the UK's view of itself shifts significantly over the next few years.
The Governor General does, and must, have real power. The King-Bing affair was controversial, but the Governor General's action was arguably justified, and negative opinions of it do not set a precedent that the Governor General can never do anything. The Governor general arguably should have taken a more active role in some recent times - when Paul Martin and Stephen Harper were trying to dodge (successfully, it turned out) votes of non-confidence, which have to be allowed in a democracy. Certainly, if the Prime Minister blatantly violates constitutional convention, such as by refusing to resign after losing the confidence of the House, it is necessary for the Governor General to dismiss them.

Since the Governor General must have real power, it follows that the Monarch must have real power regarding the appointment of the Governor General - rejecting the Prime Minister's request to dismiss or appoint a Governor General when this is clearly an attempt to fill the position with someone who will allow the Prime Minister to act non-democratically.

A dead person will not be able to fulfill this role.
Someone else linked this in the comments: https://www.businessinsider.com/queen-england-terrified-saud...

> She remains the only female member of the royal family to join the military, and is the only living head of state to serve in WWII.

Personally speaking, I definitely respect her for that.
you read my mind :)
Similar approach for Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Korea, Japan.

First, check if any of the big few domestic carriers have a temporary or contract free esim. In Japan, for example, NTT Docomo does.

When you get to Japan you are going to find an operator NTT Docomo physical store, the second most popular. The virtual SIM cards of this company have the following characteristics:

- Data plans of 1 to 7 GB.
- 4G LTE connection.
- No minimum clause or contracts.
- Exclusive virtual SIM cards for 5G devices.

Otherwise, Google "esim Japan" and use any of the gazillion variations of esimjapan, or use a trusted one you have an account with like GigSky, Truphone, or HolaFly.

Same approach anywhere, in my experience.
That would not be a credible lie - it is too widely known how very difficult & expensive the technology needed to produce any such engine is.
> awoken is the most correctly

I thought of "awoken" initially, but if I hadn't seen the other wordings before, I don't recall ever seeing the word "awoken" at all! Or if I have seen it before, I second-guessed myself after reading variations of "woke/wake" so much in a short period of time. Thanks for your response
That's my biggest problem with socialism in general, it replaces "This person is willing to pay me more" with "I just like this person better" or "This person has the right connections." Of course there are situations when "This person is willing to pay me more" isn't fair, but those other things are even more unfair.
Hi elefantastisch, could not be worried more. But we want to solve it for us and hopefully some others :)
A toast to dang's health.
90+ - Hell of a ride:

Dying in your thirties or forties? “Tragic.” Fifties? “Such a shame.” Sixties? “Too soon.” Seventies? “A good run.” Eighties? “A life well lived.” Nineties? “Hell of a ride.”

https://youtu.be/OgoBjEr8lsI
Immediately? Perhaps not, but I think we’ll see a bunch of countries breaking away from having the British monarch as their head of state in the next few years.

I’m pretty sure that (for instance) Australia was just hanging on until we could be sure she was gone, the current government have already planned a referendum on it in a few years if they get a second term.

(I say ‘we’, I am a relatively recent British migrant, and not a citizen yet)
I put on the song as soon as I heard the news and it took Spotify something like 15 seconds to load it. There's a very stressed server out there right now.
I think that when people see the world 'monarchy' they still have the vision and ideas of monarchies from medival ages. Modern european monarchies that are still around are nothing but and, to be honest, I have no idea what would have changed really if they were no longer here
> the soap opera situations that have dogged the rest of the [royal] family

"Soap opera situations" seems like a gentle way to put it. Several of her family members have been accused of serious crimes, and associated with some very nasty people. For years they were shielded by their association with her.
You think the homeless people were choosing not to do psychedelics because its illegal?
Now there is! ;-)

Yeah - this is where I see us fitting well. It's not really the standard install/import and you're done issues that docs deal with. It's the niche problem <> niche expertise area where I believe we can excel - these tend to be very competent teams or developers who would be willing to take that hour and pay for it because the value is high enough.
Given that most empires in history were pretty darn cruel, you might have to justify the idea that the British Empire was extraordinarily cruel, especially given that the Queen only reigned in its last years and that many of the former members of the Empire chose to stay on as part of the Commonwealth. Also the British Empire is unique (AFAIK?) in having wound itself up more or less peacefully at the end, rather than needing to be destroyed by a massive rebellion or war - the usual way empires usually die (well, except for the pesky Americas of course... but that was a bit before Liz's time!)
The whole act of discriminating text messages based on which brand of phone they herald from is ridiculous.
What do you mean by the arrow at the bottom? I don't recognize that.
One can certainly argue that Tesla is overhyped.
I'm not the target audience, but congrats on designing and shipping a product. It's incredibly difficult to go from an idea to something that actually works.

I have no idea if there's demand for a product like this, but you should talk about it to people who may be interested in something like that.

If nothing else it's a great portfolio piece to demonstrate what you're able to do.
I really hate how there's no alt tags or anything like that to actually tell you what any of the sliders mean.
FYI, SpaceX developed all of their engines in-house[1]. Other American rocket companies use Russian engines and Congress's bill forbidding that going forward has put ULA in a very bad place because Blue Origin's BE-4 engine still is not ready after more than a decade of development.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_rocket_engines
There isn’t. If the Queen ever steps in, it’s immediately a constitutional crisis that threatens the entire legitimacy of our democracy. Her role has been purely ceremonial for the longest time.

At least this is true for Canada. I have to imagine it’s very similar for the rest of the Commonwealth. Every instance of involvement that wasn’t ceremonial has been doing precisely what the Prime Minister has requested of her via the Governor General, such as dissolving parliament. Which I guess makes that ceremonial too.
You may speak too soon. From https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/08/queen-death-...

"In many [Commonwealth countries] constitutions state that the Queen, specifically, is the head of state. In these countries, constitutions will need to be amended to refer to her successor. In countries such as Jamaica, where there is a strong independence movement, and Belize, these constitutional changes will also require a referendum, according to Commonwealth experts. This is expected to bring about a moment of political peril for the new monarch, who, after Barbados became independent in 2021, could face the loss of another prominent part of the Caribbean Commonwealth."
Not to mention the actual cost.

I believe it is in the tens of billions when a monarch dies (changes of money, ceremonies, etc). Dude is in his 70s.

Save your country a bit of money unless you want to foot the bill for maybe 10 years of being King.
other than an occasional pkg conflict, we've found conda and pip to work pretty well together (defining pip dependencies in the conda env) -- across a lot of different python envs
May it last forever.
New stamps, now bank notes. New Prison names
> her Prime Ministers

I suspect that you don't realize how bizarre this phrasing is for the vast majority of the world.
> My guess is that folks coming from those other ecosystems are frustrated that it doesn't work exactly like NPM, which is the general model other ecosystems have decided to follow

The general model for package management in other language ecosystems is rubygems and bundler.

Like: a GitHub founder invented semantic versioning.
You want to find an answer? I believe the solution (if any is to be found) is going to be a combination of dozens of different actions. So grow plants and build machines and dump iron in the ocean and cut down on oil use and move people away from coasts around the equator and come up with some type of global basic income and build nuclear reactors and windmills and geothermal and move to electric cars and redesign cities to reduce the need for cars and come up with a plan for colonizing the stars and embrace GMOs to reduced the impact of agriculture and encourage people to eat less meat and so on.
True, but most museums also keep the bulk of their collection -- except of course for the crowd-pleasing hits -- in storage. I think their motives are mostly better but the end effect is often the same: a work of art is rarely, if ever, seen live by humans.

One fun thing about The Broad (pronounced "Brode") in Los Angeles is that you can peek into the storage and restoration area where the staff is often moving pieces of the collection around for cleaning and so on.

The movie Tenet has some fun with the freeport idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyoI7_C6N_s
ok my bad, I completely overlooked the "skip" part.
when looked at by manuf. this isn't true at all.
PyTorch Core Technical Lead Joins Lightning AI to Build PyTorch Team
Lightning is building a dedicated PyTorch team out. Very exciting, especially given that Soumith from Meta is on board with it.
It’s time to abolish the Monarchy (2012)
Her family is in mourning tho
> how does HN keep the level of quality so high? Is it because we share an interest? Because of the quality control?

My guess is that dang's moderation is a large part of it, and I think dang moderates (creates moderation policy and executes it) based on things that are "human-assessed" and not quantifiable....

> But if you are the size of Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, etc. it is too risky (and expensive) to let individuals define what success looks like

You're probably right, but I think it's worth challenging this conventional wisdom. (Not necessarily here, we're not going to work it out, but still, I'll ask some rhetorical questions) Why is it too dangerous? Even if you have quantitative metrics, are you _sure_ this isn't still "letting individuals define what success looks like", since individuals decided how the metrics were defined and measured? So then, what's the difference? Why, specifically, is it too "dangerous" to have non-quantitative metrics defining what success looks like? Danger of... what? I would say facebook as it is, is actually incredibly dangerous to, like, human society. So... what kind of danger are we talking about? Danger to facebook's profits instead? Or what?

> So the question should be what metric(s), if not engagement in itself, should we measure for to create a healthy online community?

Sure. I don't know! I think that's the question the OP is meaning to ask too, if not completely answer. The OP suggests:

> At the start of this, I said that people join your community for support, connection, opportunities to give back, and meaningful relationships. Those are the things they value, and those are the things you should value. And if you value them, you should measure them.

> They’re not as easy to measure as engagement, sure, but they can be measured. The best part is that maximizing these metrics is always going to be good for your community.

My point is that i'm not certain this should be short-circuited with "Well of course whatever metrics these are, they need to be quantitative and have the appareance of "objectivity".
Why democracy? Monarchy isn't great, but neither is democracy when most of your population is idiots who don't believe in science.
> NS1 by sanctioning Russia so they can't work with the companies that repair the broken components.

Not true. While Canada who repaired the turbine first refused to give it back to Russia now they are willing because of German pressure. Siemens (the operator of the turbines) has stated multiple times that there is no technical issue in running NS1. Russia is not supplying gas trough NS1 because of political reasons:

- Russia's main goal is to make the EU stop supporting Ukraine, thus they can make a favorable peace agreement. Their main goal is to get the EU states oppose the war.

- They are doing this by trying to sow panic and chaos in the EU by turning NS1 lower and lower (now its off) and other things like releasing ridiculous videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcbcBrL4ju4

- This panic also results in high gas prices which is harmful to EU's economy and good for Russia's pockets.

The west should not bow to Putin's will, if it would lift the sanctions Putin would use gas as a weapon against the EU whenever he wants; the only good choice is to get rid of any Russian dependency.

Trust the western leaders, they did the math. The EU will have enough energy for the winter. Also USA is bringing out the big economical guns too, they started to lower the price of oil which will result in crushing Russia's #1 income source (they can produce oil for around $50) and this will also bring down energy prices.

This and the next winter will be still hard for the EU, but after that things will stabilize. But seriously what did you expect, how could a Russia, a country with a total GDP around Italy beat the EU, Japan, USA, Australia, South Korea in an economic war?
> although I'll note that there are plenty of ways (most of them via Java interop) to introduce mutability of some kind into a Clojure program besides the first-class reference types (atoms/refs/agents/volatiles.)

Fair point, I tried to word that statistic accurately without being too verbose.

> I'd be interested in an analysis in what percentage of Clojure functions are truly referentially transparent, but that's difficult (if not impossible) to determine statically.

Absolutely, I'm not sure it's possible or even practical to measure functional purity in an absolute sense, but there's definitely room for improvement:

- measure Java Interop

- measure usage of mutation functions (eg. swap!, set!, binding, send, vswap!, alter, etc)

- measure (def ^:dynamic *my-var*) usages

My intuition is that the numbers wouldn't change that much, but I'd rather have the data than guess.
New media project is working to sneak blocked media into Russia
It applies -webkit-font-smoothing to anti-alias the fonts.
I actually don't. I haven't checked in a while, but just looked and my position is just listed as Principal Software Eng. I have no posts, nor any job details. In Skills section I have Linux, Go, Golang, among a few other things, with endorsements.

I think recruiters are perhaps able to scrape skills for keywords? I don't want my identity tied to HN, but if you drop me your email(or add it to your profile) i'll make a throwaway to reach out if you want.
The more serious of that crowd likely will, but not the more casual people. I'd say I see them hanging from a few percent of packs--but the deeper into the backcountry one goes the higher the percentage becomes.
- What was your experience?
I was fired after my toxic boss discovered I was confident enough to interview at FAANG's, after a huge war scene of over expectations (from my manager) and under delivery, obviously (from my side) during my initial career days.
- Is there anything you wish you would have done differently?
always have a good runway(savings) and / or a 100% assurance that there are 1000s of orgs out there willing to give you better work experience / satisfaction and pays than the current one.
- Any suggestions?
Just look out for a new job. stay happy, calm enjoy life.
- Is there any remedy for the dread that keeps you up at night?
understand that (apart from rare life and death situations), nothing is really as horrific as it looks like. Always be sure that there will come a time that you'll laugh at your dreads today. Just like you laugh at your childhood dreads today. and most of all, learn to be happy (have a no fucks given attitude, most people have problems) and it's good to have some kind of a meditation practice going on. the key is to directly reach "Acceptance" instead of traversing through all 5 stages of grief aka coping mechanisms.
- Did you have family to support and come out the other end okay?
financially yes but emotionally no. their so called "support" had the potential to destroy all the 'nothing-can-touch-me-there-are-1000s-of-orgs-out-there-lol-fire-me-all-you-want' mindset.
- How do you not laugh (in agony, of course) at the sudden change when management starts talking like they work Customer Service and have to pretend to be nice?
you can never control other's reactions. you can only be aware, and controlled of how YOU respond. I would suggest you be 'no-fucks-given' to anything and everything, given that this is no longer a company you'll be working for.
- Do I keep this role (less than 1 year) on my resume for future applications?
depends on how important this role played on your career. did it make a huge difference worth flexing when asked about?

Wish you all the best!
Lots of love.
She’s already been busy:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/08/tom-scholar-...
Brit here. I'm no royalist but by God, if you're going to have a monarch, I don't think you could have ever asked for more than Liz.
RIP. I've always believed that there was a place for constitutional monarchy in the world. As the world hurtles forward, having a tether to the past grounds us, reminds us that we are not ahistorical, but part of a continually unfolding story.
The phrase 'free world' is ironically apt. It was developed in the Cold War to refer to the US-led anti-communist bloc, precisely because 'free' is equivocal enough to cover despots ruling over capitalist economies. Of course, a Queen by definition is not an emblem of free government.
I really don't want to go on criticizing the queen at length here because I think it's a bit insensitive, so I'll be brief, but I don't think that "avoiding soap opera situations" is really the same as "being a moral authority". Not that I think she was horribly bad either, but my standards for "moral authority" are quite a bit higher. Royal families tend to be neutral to a fault.
Skate to where the puck is going to be, human rights be damned!
What happened to this HN community. Apple took what was an open standard for interoperability, added "paywall" features on top of it, and its even to the point where people are ostracized for not buying into this paywall.

This behavior should be condemned not celebrated.
-- Queen Elizabeth was cool in my books because - she was pretty quippy -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgQpcC-ne64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rd1v2OX6vE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAD6P_y-ZAo
--
On the other hand, if we take the last, say, 5,000 years of history, digital technology must be in the top 3 inventions that have most effected humanity.

By way of cost-benefit analysis, I'd say that erring on the side of pontification, over-intellectualization and navel gazing, while pretty crass, is far preferable to the alternative. The sheer power of what has been invented, for good or ill means that we can really never be too careful or introspective about it.

To be even more specific: given the fact that energy prices rising 10x in a matter of months is now a reality, isn't the kind of introspection in Steve's email precisely the kind of thing we'd hope more of our CEO's were concerned about? Seems to me that our reliance on outside systems for our survival is a super relevant concern to anyone who's paying attention.
I'd love to read a bit more about this. Do you have any interesting reading on how psychedelics were legalized or decriminalized in the Netherlands and the resulting affects on society? I'll Google it, but maybe you would know better :-)