skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not meaningless, but it's an example of humanity chasing its own tail.

Photosynthesis is not the most efficient process in the equation by far. It is competing against two things; a system that can use lots of oxygen as an oxidizer to release energy, and titanic stockpiles of hydrocarbons waiting to be burned. An animal can either consume plants after they've done their job or consume other animals, and use animated lungs to consume a constant stream of oxygen that can be used to oxidize the energy substrate. Plants can only use photosynthesis, which is much less efficient of an energy transfer than respiration (creating molecules instead of breaking them apart). Because plants are stuck with photosynthesis as a food source, they are limited by its speed. Plants still need oxygen to respirate the food they create for themselves, but they cannot afford lungs and a cardiovascular system to utilize more oxygen. If they could, then they might as well be eating other organisms that already performed the hard work for them.

What I'm saying is that humans, being respiration animals, are always competing with plants, and do even more so when they release carbon from reserves in the earth. The ability of artificially propagated plants to compete against that system is minuscule. It can only compete with surface area, and for humans to be able to even make a dent in atmospheric CO2 by planting trees would mean planting way more trees than is likely worth their own expended energy. In such a scenario, the tables are flipped, and the animals (humans) are competing against the inefficiency of photosynthesis and must use enough energy to compensate. That is neither a proven strategy nor sustainable. Just as body fat can in theory be lost entirely through exercise, it is orders of magnitude more efficient to simply not introduce more energy into the system (i.e. consume less food, and eat food with fewer if any deleterious side effects).
during her lifetime the British Empire went from its zenith to its end

leaving a trade bloc (Brexit) is hardly notable by comparison
Royalty is interesting.

I think it's a very understandably human urge to hold up someone for emulation. The only odd thing about a noble class in that sense is that we decide the job of "role model and leader" should be hereditary.

But I think it's a very understandably human reaction to feel sorrow when someone who millions of people have invested so much energy into making the best person that can be is still mortal.
I've never tried to total them up but I don't find that at all surprising. Tourists head out into the wilderness with no respect for what they're facing. They aren't carrying enough water, they have a breakdown, they're in deep trouble.

Here in Las Vegas we have a ring of mountains around the city--and virtually no cell coverage beyond that ring. Even within the ring the outlying areas are often shadowed out.
I mean, the family rushed there because they knew "this could be it", and the statement issued by the palace this morning "Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen's doctors are concerned for Her Majesty's health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision. The Queen remains comfortable at Balmoral." was probably meant to also be taken as a big warning, despite it sounding understated.
I do not find anything dignified about William and Kate either being bestowed a title due to the happenstance of the sequence and gender of one’s birth.

Harry and Megan are capitalizing on their circumstances, as are William and Kate.
This argument could be made about any big SV company the past 30 years.

- Anyone of IBM, Microsoft or Yahoo could build a better (quicker and cheaper) search engine than what a bunch of new grads from Stanford can (Google)

- Anyone of the car manufacturer can build a better (quicker and cheaper) electric car than a software millionaire (Tesla)

I don't agree with the statement, I think there are numerous reason people embark on ambitious project that incumbents "could" do, but are not doing;

- An unexpected insights,

- A new research breakthrough from some other field

- Collecting a bunch of the most bright people coming up at the same time in the field (Mueller for SpaceX comes to mind for instance) etc.

But most of the time it's just that it's not really in their business to do a 100 million dollar - 1 billion bet on something that risky, they are in the business of returning like 7 - 10% a year to their shareholder, not producing 5x returns (like the VC/startup business).
Love to hear it!
Even as a (still) EU citizen, I'm saddened by the news.

One has to remember she took upon her shoulders a lot (essentialy from WWII to everything we've all gone through in recent memory, plus a lot of responsibility we can only guess at), and yet, by all accounts[1], was an amazing human being.

[1] https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1567894552744271872
No, it's just saying they we haven't really done the serious work and engineering yet required to have an answer for this yet. Remember, we still aren't even sure which type of reactor design will work/be used. These are the type of problems that we can't seriously deal with until we have at least the basics down.
I don't think so. From what I read and see I think the world is about to change or die trying in the next 30 years.

This monarch and the following one will also witness great changes and they may play some role in it.
Prince Andrew is a pedophile, it's not unsubstantiated, that's a monstrous thing to allege.
Good point, I'll add tooltips to the next version.
Nazis continued to run West Germany after WWII, too. The US preferred that.
Hi jitl! We are working on alternative decision proposals. But it ads a lot of complexity and people would need to come back to review those a lot. Thanks for the input!
I was speaking about my Best Buy Retail experience but they do have other large operations that are different.

I’m not sure what drugs the Shipping people are on though - we routinely shuffled 40+ unsold copies of The Benchwarmers into a bye bye crate and they’d show back up a month later but 50+. They were inventory gaming and probably doing some book cooking now when I look back on it.
I was indeed counting from the declaration of independence and was trying to round to the nearest natural fractions, but you are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
It's not about the achievment, but it illustrates a point how long she was a fixture in British public life.
You can think of Go as the modern representative the Plan 9 and Oberon schools of thought -- their answer to (and replacement for) C and C++.

The fact that it was developed at Google is incidental. That's where Robert Griesemer (Oberon) and Rob Pike (Plan 9) and Ken Thompson (Unix, Plan 9) and Russ Cox (Plan 9) and Ian Lance Taylor, etc., happened to be employed.
I greatly admired her dignity, strength, and no-nonsense approach over the years. RIP.
Hell SF pays homeless cash, simply for being homeless. Walk around SF on homeless payday and you’ll see a massive uptick in open use of crack, folks strung out motionless on the sidewalk with needles sticking out of them, and sidewalk slouchers openly sapping on liquor bottles. This is the same city that can’t manage to secure funding to prevent human waste from accumulating on the sidewalks.

I happen to be homeless as well, but I still can’t get behind this concept. I volunteer my time to a national wildlife refuge and expect nothing in return, these folks shit on sidewalks and get cash in hand. If we really want to “solve” homelessness (I don’t think it’s something that needs to be solved, every era of humanity has had some portion of the population living without a solid roof over their heads), the answer is funding more public works programs, not funding delinquency.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10498607/San-Franci...
And I would guess that monetary policy has disproportionately benefitted the wealthy, but that's only because I assume that all policy benefits the wealthy unless it's specifically designed to help the not-wealthy.

Nobody remembers that the gold standard used to be viewed as a "cross" on which poor farmers were crucified, hence we needed to massively expand the money supply with silver.
15 - Wilson served non-consecutive terms.
Iunno, the King of England can barge in whenever he wants and start telling me what to do. That worries me.
She and her family is responsible for a lot of atrocities around the world. Yet a lot of people here are eulogizing as if she was a saint who taught art of living to the people.

To me this is a demonstration of power of conditioning and media management.
To answer the question and not discuss your private life or your relationship as most seem to want to do for some reason, the consensus these days when it comes to the most Windows-like experience seems to be Linux Mint with Cinnamon.

( Others have said the same already from what I've seen. )

If you want options and customization and are willing to spend serious time to set it up, then yes, KDE beats everything else and you can probably have it set up to her liking if she wanted to try it.

I'd download a couple of live usbs, talk with her and see if she absolutely hates the idea of playing with them or not.

( Personally I'm not a fan of derivatives though, and would stick to an original distro; Debian, Fedora, Arch, SUSE ... Edit : Fedora has an official Cinnamon spin and people talk well of openSUSE's KDE. )
Best: Github, MDN, Rust standard lib docs, Stripe.

Worst: anything MS (excl. Github obv).
Thanks for the heads up, will fix that in the next update.
> "the opaque procedure of Queen’s consent has been exercised far more extensively than was previously believed"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...
Huh, interesting! Thanks.
Unpopular opinion but wasn't Tesla subsidised and missed the cost goals anyway? My impression is that Tesla succeeded thanks to Musks personality that made the customers forgive unfulfilled promises that they paid thousands of dollars for.

Almost as if Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos imitated Musk instead of Steve Jobs and kicked the can down the road and delivered traditional but improved blood test machines and kept promising stuff down the road by collecting money and be edgy on Twitter, she could have been a hero by now.

I mean, Tesla still delivered stuff that people value. Just not the promised ones.

Tesla makes the best computerised vehicles out there and has built a valuable charging network, not the stated goals but valuable anyway.
Do you have any details on your decision log? I'm curious what details you add to it. I guess it'd have fields like date, decision made, options considered, and who approved the decision.
I think he's said that he's going to style himself "King George VII" as he didn't approve of Charles II.
The fmt package should not put the compiler into conservative mode. If it does, file a bug report.
I can think of three occasions where this happened: Eurofighter with the RR based Eurojet engine, Rafale with an engine from Snecma and the A400M with a specifically designed turboprop. None of these manufacturers rose to challenge GE, RR or Pratt and Whitney when it comes to mass produced turbojet or fans.
The "two lineages" argument has been grossly oversold. They're just two SNPs apart, making it near-impossible to distinguish whether they evolved in animals (implying two introductions into humans) or in humans (after one introduction). If they were more different, then we could exclude evolution in humans, since it's unlikely the virus could spread for that long without causing enough sickness and death for someone to have noticed earlier. With just two SNPs, that's much harder--SARS-CoV-2 picks up something around 1/3 of an SNP per transmission, so it's not even that unlikely that the lineages formed in a single human-to-human transmission (p ~ 1/9). It's also possible that an intermediate lineage existed but went extinct before it could be sampled, as most lineages do.

Pekar et al. do some complicated phylogenetic modeling that purports to show the MRCA in humans is too recent for a single introduction. That result is unintuitive, and I believe their model is highly suspect, per my comments and links at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32740568

I agree that "of course nobody knows", and so do Ebright and Chan; they are careful to assert only that further investigation is required, if necessary by subpoena (e.g. for any sequencing data potentially containing early genomes of SARS-CoV-2, whether as the deliberate target or from contamination like those Antarctic soil samples).

The author of the thread that you're praising does not though; she considers the question closed, and has viciously attacked those calling for such investigation, including Chan, whom she called "an intellectually dishonest, manipulative conspiracist". (Ebright gets rather unpleasant himself, so perhaps one could excuse her behavior to him as tit for tat; but Chan does not.) I find both those attacks and the overselling of Pekar's result to be deeply unfortunate. Don't you?
> 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.

Sure, but that's underselling Theranos' scam. For Boom to work they would need engines that could exist, but don't, and they weren't lying about the engines existing. Theranos was claiming they already had technology that couldn't exist.
Yeah, an awful lot of the people who would need this feature won't be able to power it. I've seen far too many let their phones run dead out there.
A Unicode string library for Nim
Prince Andrew is a bit of a problem...
I hope so. One look at the gh handle and you can see this person has less commits in ten years than your average developer in a single day.
Now you know why people say "good old days". Even though you're living in the best days and the future will be even better.

Your emotions is a result of imparted and perceived.
Many useful recommendations can't be bought at all. My recommended pan is any antique cast iron, my recommended antidepressant is exercise, my recommended boat is don't get a boat.

These options are part of what makes going to Reddit better than a retailer for reviews
The guidelines are linked at the bottom of every page including this one.

In practice, pretty much any topic where people can remain civil is generally ok.
> Governments have repeatedly destroyed commodity money because it prevents them from achieving an agenda that would require more money than they have.

It is called a bigger economy. A bigger economy needs more money and the money has to be given to the new comers that created new wealth rather than to those who didn't.
A String Library for Nim
I would like to travel like this, assuming they have wifi and tickets are affordable:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/15/eco-airship...

Maybe they could fly fully autonomous when used as freighters.
Regular meetings with the prime minister must count as having some power.
Do you accept feature requests/think this might be a good idea?

I've been thinking about creating this + adding https://github.com/mozilla/readability to grab the links that are text articles and present them in-page (and cleaned up, just the text+images+similar, removing all the sidebars, popups, etc) instead of having to go to a 3rd party website with all the popups and such.

It'd have to be either a personal website or a browser extension like yours, since I wouldn't be able to host a given article for anyone to read (for copyright reasons), but I can have a modified browser that loads a 3rd party article different.
they already do with all the people consuming alcohol, nicotine, etc.
I find myself consistently pleased with the quality and consistency of the MSDN documentation for C#. It usually has a nice example for just about everything that deserves one.

I used to like DotNetPerls because it made me pause and smile with its strange almost zen-like analogies, but now it's gotten a lot more formal, which makes me a little sad.
> reigned as the crown of an extraordinarily cruel empire

What are the empires you're comparing it against? To call it "extraordinary" makes the claim that its level of cruelty is substantially greater than the "ordinary" cruelty of other examples. Were the Russian, Japanese, Ottoman, and other 19th and early 20th century empires substantially less cruel than the British empire?

Not to mention, as other commenters point out Elizabeth was coronated during a period of decolonization, with India departing the empire less than a decade earlier and most of its colonies in Africa and Asia following suit over the next couple decades.
I'm surprised to say I feel the same. I'm Scottish and never really had much affection for the royal family, but I also feel quite sad and that it's the end of an era.

She was the last of the best, we'll see what comes next.
I wasn't fully aware of how the US law would apply in that situation. Thanks for the clarity.

I don't think the ability for the state to act arbitrarily is a good thing either. It is a morally ropey area when you're law enforcement engaging with groups that threaten the freedom and stability of wider society. But I suppose that's why warrants and such safeguards exist.
The existing automakers are making EVs faster and cheaper than Tesla did, and the EVs they are making have substantially greater build quality than Tesla's vehicles.
I was an EU based contractor in an US company which decided to sell.

It went downwards, the ugly heads of incompetent middle managers reared up, I went away. Most others also.
I love it. I wonder if it's possible to do this by proxying requests to HN instead of a Chrome extension -- that way I don't have to bloat the browser's start-up time and don't have to "worry" about this extension spying on other websites, even though I realize it's unlikely, it's good principle to not have to give this permission.
No comment.

edit: Ok comment. perhaps spacex is not the best comparison though. SpaceX had tremendous necessity driving it. The need for launch vehicles for commercial, scientific, and military purposes.

There is no similar necessity for supersonic commercial aviation.

A Boom customer isn't going to watch 14 test failures and say "well we have no other choice we gotta get people from ny to london in 2 hours" but there was a "we MUST be able to launch people and things into orbit on a US rocket" driving spacex.
To be glib about it, probably Netflix can tell us in the future how much viewership in the UK went up.
Sure, though all of this doesn’t seem any different to other freelance development work. Communication has always been key in client relationships.

My intended point was just that I’m talking about the level of freelancer with enough skill and experience to get a good job done themselves and with minimal disruption or drama. That kind of person isn’t likely to be charging sub-£500 day rates over here so I’d be very surprised if they were charging sub-$500 rates across the pond.
It's almost irrelevant that rent control hurts more than it helps - it's very politically stable policy.

The beneficiaries are always people who live and vote in the district. People hurt by rent control leave or never show up in the first place.

So barring occasional noble minded YIMBY efforts, once rent control is in effect no one ever has any incentive to change it.
Have you heard of The Troubles?
Meanwhile;

> A mix of June and 19th, Juneteenth has become a day to commemorate the end of slavery in America. Despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued more than two years earlier on January 1, 1863, a lack of Union troops in the rebel state of Texas made the order difficult to enforce.

> Some historians blame the lapse in time on poor communication in that era, while others believe Texan slave-owners purposely withheld the information.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abolition-of-sla...
Falcon 9 flies very regularly, and the Raptor engines for Starship are in an advanced stage of development. The engines Boom needs don't exist.

You're right about some of the rest of that though. Particularly the personality matter.
That's just the "off the shelf" argument. Which has just fallen apart because RR doesn't have the product and doesn't want to build it. You're right, that if Boom could just buy their engine it would be better for Boom. Boom can't just buy their engine though, and now it looks like their company is going to fail because they decided to build the easy part and not the hard part.
They are in an odd spot of having extreme de jure power (Charles could disband parliament tomorrow) while having a completely unknown de facto power (would they listen? It didn't work out too well for another Charles).
> Change a couple words and the doctrines aren't much different.

Saying this is just a declaration that you know nothing about either the KKK or The Nation of Islam. The KKK are aging race-terrorists, and the NoI are almost Scientologists. The KKK murders people, the NoI thinks that white people were created by evil alien scientists.
Out of all the HN extensions/websites I've used, this one has become my favorite. I really like the customizations available and also, it really does feel "modern" in that some things just feel easier to do with this tool.
So people are generally incapable of governing themselves, and require goals to be imposed on them to make meaningful progress?

I sure as hell hope I'm reading you wrong, because yikes that is a frightening ideology.
This is a good one. I was excited when it was announced but I stopped using voice assistants almost completely.

Partly privacy, partly poor implementation. It showed so much promise, once implementation improves I don't see how it wouldn't be ubiquitous.
This looks very nice, great job!!

I used to use HN-Special[1] (by the same dev who made that 2048 game[2]) but I stopped a while ago and I don't miss it. I like HN as is (for now), but I do have it at 150% zoom using the native browser built in zoom, which works great for my needs.

The one thing I really really want is the equivalent of the "[l+c]" button from Reddit Enhanced Suite. In one click you open both the comments and the submission (if it's just a text one) in new tabs.

1. https://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/

2. https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048
My Russian great-great-grandmother was born in 1898 and died in 1998. She witnessed tsarist Russia, communist Russia and democratic Russia. That was quite an experience. I always was kind of jealous because she could compare the regimes first-hand.
You really hit the nail on the head. Watching footage of her inauguration drives home how the world changed during her reign. She lived through the entire crazy exponential increase in, well, everything.

May she rest in peace.
Come on, tax the land.
Congress.gov API
Honestly even the phrase from the article "In a statement, His Majesty the King said" struck me as unfamiliar.
I’d just like to point out that there’s no way to “win” this battle. If you release models or datasets that have or can predict porn, you will get an equal number of complaints from the people who think your model/dataset is irresponsible or only useful for smut.

In fact, the dataset used to train it received precisely this criticism on HN back when it was originally announced.
I'm pretty sure "unicorn running across London bridge" is not a mental image I'd ever pictured before today, but thanks.
Yuuuup.

And it's probably 10x worse if you're a woman. And 100x worse if you're gay or bi, and 1000x worse if you're trans.
It is when you see Brexit as part of that end.
Even if you choose to ignore all that has come from it.. Space is quite possibly the most important thing we can be investing time, money and research into in terms of future advancement and sustainability of the human race.