skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her watch has ended.

Not being a citizen of the commonwealth, I have no political beef in this, I can only admire her for holding her office for a longer time than most here (including me) have lived. Being the formal head of once a colonial empire turning into a commonwealth with these days most of the member nations rightfully going their own way, she was an important participant in the history of hundreds of millions of people.

Her role was one of constance over a long time in which the world changed a lot. She was a truck driver in WW2 and became queen not too long after that considering she was queen till today. Now an era ends and a new one begins.
Someone is lying...

>the eBay seller, Ean Hutchison, who lives in Ohio, found the Dominion-made machine on a Michigan Goodwill website for just $7.99. He snapped it up then immediately put it up for sale on eBay.

>In the post on eBay, Hutchison stated that the device had been used in "the most recent Michigan elections."

>[Michigan Sec of State] noted that the voting machine was originally from Wexford County and clarified that it was not used to tabulate ballots.
>Once you actually start, the bar for getting in seems to get much higher, because there's suddenly a lot more concrete data points to benchmark your startup against.

I started in late 2013 and was rejected by YC in 2016. Haven't applied to anything since, with the exception of Apollo. Certainly was very aware of that dynamic at the time.

As a solo founder who lacks the aforementioned impressive resume, and who's nearly a decade in, I no longer have much hope for accelerators.

This was written less than a month before COVID inflicted a great deal of pain and delayed things by a little more than a year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22429827

But hey, at least I'm at step one now.
The only good one is where the people you need to communicate with. Which isn’t telegram or signal for me.
And he wasn't treated very well by his family as a result either. So you're kinda choosing between your family and leaving. Not saying you should always pick family, but for a young 20 something year old girl, that can be quite the ultimatum.
https://archive.ph/wjydA

The dream was always going to end this way
It's the property of the Crown, which is legally a corporation sole with the monarch as the sole 'member' of the corporation. It means, for example, that Charles gets Buckingham Palace and the crown jewels automatically by operation of law on becoming king, rather than via Elizabeth's will. A similar arrangement applies to Anglican vicars who have the freehold of their church - it's owned by 'The Vicar of Bray' rather than by Rev Smith.

It's generally understood by constitutional scholars that the Crown is essentially governmental rather than private and the Crown Estate would go with the government rather than the royal family if the assets were split up on the creation of a republic.

The Queen also had extensive private wealth, including Balmoral Castle which (unlike the royal places) was hers personally rather than as monarch. IIRC it was bought privately by either Victoria or Albert rather than via the Crown Estate. This mattered after the abdication of Edward VIII, where the property of the Crown passed to George VI as the new king, but the private possessions of Edward stayed with him. I think Balmoral and Sandringham had to be bought off him so they would stay as royal residences. Presumably most of that private wealth will be bequeathed to Charles, though we won't find out: the Queen's will is, uniquely, private by statute.
Oh yeah, bitcoin is only up 700% over the last 5 years after just crashing out. What a bunch of suckers.
Updates welcome to make it less contrived! :) It's clearly very confused code, but it does work under normal FP behavior.
Because you're incorrect. Some people face serious side effects. It can trigger mental illness in those that have a predisposition. It can cause HPPD. Here's a report I just dug up for an earlier comment:

>These symptoms persisted for the last 13 years, with little change in intensity and frequency. All efforts at treatment, psychopharmacological as well as psychotherapeutic, failed to alleviate the symptoms. Often the patient was unable to focus properly with her eyes and tired rapidly while performing intense visual tasks – these deficiencies being detrimental to her studies and professional work as an architect. As a consequence, the patient became depressed with latent suicidal impulses. She also found it increasingly difficult to distinguish between ‘normal’ and ‘ abnormal’ perceptions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736944/
What are you talking about? The fact that there are two Settings panels ('Settings' and 'Control Panel') is already sub-optimal for UI/UX. Not to mention that half the windows on Control Panel are not resizable and the font does not scale with the rest of the system.

Average users do poke around the Control Panel, e.g. to install a printer. You clearly don't use Windows very much.
One department is all he can speak to so the others might be unicorns and elf burps.
My guess is that you consider yourself to be a part of that select group of "aware" individuals. How extremely human of you.
Why do you need a queen in 21st century?

Can't the Brits abolish royalty, how they abolished slavery?
I feel similar. I am pro-monarchy but I'm not usually attached in this manner.
Do you happen to own a cabin in the woods, perchance?
Thank you! She's a good kid.
Hi, it's actually $29 for the entire course, of which this post is just one chapter. Was there some content that suggested it was $29 for just this chapter? I need to fix that if so!
> I don't have time to plow through the link you provided in your edit/update. But I think that for the specific issue you're trying to address, a pure subsidy might work better than rent control.

I agree with this. It could work better if only legislation could keep up with inflation, which it doesn't. Hence fixed income is best subsidized by fixed rents.
User-Defined Functions in SQLite
>Elizabeth was not a passive victim of her birth circumstances.

It's so strange that this even needs to be said out loud. It's not edgy to say that someone born into her position has benefitted from it. For a place that claims to be a meritocracy, the UK has some strangely dissonant beliefs.
An interesting term I recently learned from the real estate industry is not just NIMBY but for the ultimate extreme of people who start municipal political fights against new development, BANANA

Build

Absolutely

Nothing

Anywhere

Near

Anything
I live in the French Riviera… I don’t remember the last time I wore a jacket…
UDP is connectionless. Connected UDP sockets are a OS construct, and don't influence anything that happens on the wire. If you "connect" a UDP socket, you don't have to use sendto and recvfrom anymore, and all packets received and sent (via send/recv APIs) are targetting the same peer. It's kind of just sets up some routes in the kernel, but doesn't make anything stateful or reliable at the networking layer.
Yeah sort of my point in that it’s a common form of organization. Point being we feel like democracy is the best but nearly every other organization is closer to monarchy. Monarchy’s are extremely effective organizational structures when the monarch is extremely competent.
This is the guy who wanted to be Camilla's tampon? [0]

The Monarchy serves no purpose whatsoever, it's an anachronism and needs to be abolished.

[0] https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/prince-charles-camill...
> my daughter is 14, her friend makes $17 hour working at a juice store. She makes about 300/week.

This is not 3k a month. This is less than 1/3 of that.
Gov.uk - love it.
.co.uk - always smelled of cheap, second hand, gaudy.
Tensile strength is a terrifying weakest link.
No need to prematurely optimize for re-entry: the main cost is sending material to space, not retrieving it.

Much more economical approach which won't cause planetwide devestation if a cable snaps would be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTram
> After that job satisfaction, respect, recognition, etc are much better motivators.

I don't think that all people will inevitably be disappointed, disrespected, or go unrecognized for answering someone's simple question for money. I also don't think these things can be disentangled from pay: if you pay me what I want you to pay me in order to ask a basic question, I will be pleasantly surprised, feel like the questioner really values me, and build up recognition as it leads to more work.

> Considering the teacher crisis right now, that's not a compelling example IMO.

The teacher crisis is about not being paid, and being abused.

> a site oriented towards tutoring is a different product IMO with a different kind of person you need to recruit.

If I have a team that needs to know a particular package that there's no established training for, a contributor who knows it well could be a lifesaver. I'm no professional teacher (and honestly pretty impatient) and I've given talks/classes to both teams that I have been on, and other teams who needed expertise that was locked in our team. There doesn't have to be some caste system, and there's no reason to think that all contributors to a FOSS project would either be terrible at or reject work that requires their expertise rather than their line count.
You can file a complaint what was counted doesn't match who you remember voting for.

Impossible to prove. You don't want people changing their votes. People wouldn't accept results if they change after the fact.
Imagine being groomed to do this job from birth, with no real way to opt out[1]. You wanted to breed horses, become a blacksmith or start a business? Get that nonsense out of your head, you're a princess!

Then, when you're 25, your daddy dies aged only 56 and after a rather brief period of mourning you get pushed into taking his job in a pompous ceremony. Now you're going to be doing this until you die. No retirement! I bet there were times where Lilibet just wanted to go to her room and cry.

I wouldn't have wanted her job for all the wealth and power that came with it.

[1] Well, you could make a big scandal about marrying an American divorcee, but that didn't go down too well for the last guy.
I think you're exaggerating a little bit. It doesn't help whatever point you're trying to make.

Average community college tuition cost[0]: $3,400/yr.

$3400/yr is $70/week in order to pay your tuition without a loan. Your argument is only lucky people making minimum wage for 40 hours/week, who have their rent paid for, can save $70/week?

[0] https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-community-college
Some parts of this book could be read/shown to a 5-year-old. We're talking simple battery-to-switch-to-lightbulb wiring diagrams, colored in red when the wires/bulbs have power (quite a nice touch when showing this to those new to the subject). This methodology continues in the sections on logic gates so you can clearly tell what line has a logic one for instance, causing a bulb to light up. The book is awash in plentiful diagrams that range from very simple to fairly complex. The complexity seems to be hinged carefully on relevent predecessor diagrams, so nothing out-of-the-blue is thrown at the reader.
But if you forget to change it back you may break other invariants, right?

Also, what about threads or fibers? I would guess it is thread-local but not fiber-local?
> Stop killing whales.

Definitely.

But we should probably focus on stopping the major contributors of atmospheric carbon and greenhouse gasses. The idea that planting trees or saving whales will help us now is unrealistic. We'd make a huge dent if we double-timed replacing fossil fuel energy producers with clean energy production, whether geothermal, solar, wind, nuclear, or a little bit of everything, whatever. Then we should replace the entire global bunker oil burning shipping fleet. Then we should figure out how to replace or manufacture concrete cleanly, then glass. We should be using pure ethanol for air travel, how hard could it be to invent a clean airliner? Then we should regulate the meat industry into the ground, and figure out how to do agriculture cleanly without contributing to the problem. All ICE should be phased out within a decade. And we should do all these things with a mind towards global cooperation; if we want to remove a major contributor in a foreign country like China or South Africa or Turkey or Texas, we should be investing there in kind towards clean energy.

Most of all we need to sacrifice, even the damn libertarians. We are energy and travel and consumer hogs. Every new structure should generate its own power, everything else converted into doing so. If everything was off-grid and clean, the petroleum and coal energy industry would vanish. 90% of what we need should be produced locally. We need to stop the clearing of forests and natural ecosystems for more urban sprawl that everyone hates.

It is ridiculous how the elephants in the room are being ignored. If we'd just usher them out, it would be a lot easier on everyone and the planet.
Heh, this is the most interesting comment/observation to me... Banal positivity in favor of the crown is in, but banal criticism is out..
I tried Julia and I had to wait several seconds for my program to start due to JIT even for very trivial applications. Did I do anything wrong? Seemed like the worst of both worlds. Python runs slow but at least it starts fast.
> you to behave as if someone who had experienced psychosis cannot live a full, functioning, well-managed life

It is true that it is possible to manage psychosis.

But it is also true that if you live with some one with psychosis you must respect the illness.

Denying that is dangerous. Unexpected violence is dangerous, and unexpected violence is a common symptom of psychosis.
I think it’s the existence / private activities that are secret rather than the mere existence. But perhaps it’s just another meaning of secret, eg the ‘secret archives’ at the Vatican would better be described as ‘private archives’ as laypeople may enter and be given access to (some) records.
> This status-quo bias is what you would expect of a forum run for the benefit of a Silicon Valley for-profit institution

I wanted to reach a broader audience with my phrasing so I didn't call that point out, but I completely agree.
Not directly, but for that reason it was a massive relief for the govt when he did abdicate and they could "exile" him and his wife and their Nazi sympathies somewhere far away.

Basically he never wanted to be King, and seemed totally unsuitable for it anyway.
This is an interesting addition to my not-very-well stocked store of information about how tunable a human being is to specific tasks or situations.

The second half of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves focuses on physical attributes, but I think it's the internal stuff like this that would be the real evolution paths.
I'll need to thread lightly before I get banned by Dang for not loving the british queen!

If we observed monkeys and saw that one was showered with gifts and jewellery their whole lives because they were offspring of two other particular monkeys.. we would chuckle at that. Not for being the strongest, tallest, biggest, smartest or best at something. Just for existing.
Mass Spectrometry of Sebum for the Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease
I agree, it might even be off-putting for some listeners to hear a random bit of her music out of context from the rest of the track (or even album).

"Journey in Satchidananda" I'm pretty sure is my favorite album of all time. I first heard it when I was maybe 16, and 20+ years later I still listen to it at least a few times per month. I'd suggest anyone that wants to listen to her music to put that one on and listen to it the whole way through. The album is both approachable and gorgeous.
"They don't recommend people anti-democratic indoctrination videos because they actually want you to become anti-democratic; they recommend them because they don't care, and just want to make money" is not a solid argument against them being evil.
> As someone who's not a day-to-day developer/software engineer: the Go code is more readable.

COBOL is what you get when you optimize for readability by people who don't know how to program.

> The Rust is interesting, for sure, but I don't know what "?" is doing. I like the use of the question mark as it makes the act of calling the function a question - did it work or not? But what's not obvious is what happens if it did not work? What happens then? Where does the error object go? Is there something that represents the error? Hidden magic isn't good magic, in my opinion. Just be explicit.

It gets returned to the next level up, exactly like in the analogous Go code above. And that's how it always works, so you don't have to try to figure it out separately for each use of it you see.

> Another issue with the Rust example is discipline. I don't know Rust, but the example you've given implies I can not include "?" in the call and just ignore any errors entirely? (What happens if I do that and there's an error? This isn't explicit enough.) Go, in comparison, does the opposite: it forces you to handle the error or literally ignore it. You cannot forget to deal with an error in Go.

You actually can't do that and will get a compiler error if you try. Rust's type system distinguishes between "a number" and "either a number or an error". On the other hand, Go will let you forget to handle an error, if you do "res1, err1 = canFail()" but then forget to return an error yourself in the "err1" case. Rust's sum types prevent that mistake entirely.

> And of course, Go gives you an error object you can work with (something I'm sure Rust does too, but it's not obvious to me as a none Rust developer.)

Indeed it does. I consider it a good thing that you don't have to deal with language features you're not currently using, though.

> I prefer my languages to be statically typed, statically linked, and very explicit in their syntax. It results in a bit of extra work up front for compile and run time safeties, and the ability to easily re-read the code at a later date.

But Rust fits the bill for all of those things, and if you care about compile time safety, it does so way better than Go.
I don’t remember where i read it but as far as i know when using Fargate to run containers (with k8s or ecs) AWS will just allocate an ec2 instance for you. Your container will never run on the same vm as other customer. This explain i think the latency you can have to start a container. To improve that you need to handle your own ec2 cluster with an autoscaling group
I asked craiyon for a self portrait. In two of the outputs it was showing a picture of someone holding someone else's portrait in front of their face.
Oh, that's no longer a strange rebuttal. Welcome to HN.
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Show HN: A Twitter bot announcing every action of the US Congress
Congress quietly released api.congress.gov yesterday, and it seemed natural to make a bot announcing everything either house did, so here one is.
Peanuts can cause a strong allergic reaction and death, thus peanuts are very dangerous.
Where is the processor? I don't see one in the pic.

https://regmedia.co.uk/2022/09/07/aaeon_gene_adp6.jpg
"There are two types of languages, the ones no one complain about and the ones no one uses"

-- C++ dude
I agree, this feels like it could be built as a feature of Asana instead of a separate tool.
Have done this, can confirm.
I think monarchy is irrelevant for HDI and the correlation is more about long term political stability rather than better politics. My country (Finland) could have been a monarchy but ended up not being so. I can’t imagine what could be better with a monarch.
Under the reasoning laid out here, if you want to build one house, should you submit plans for a subdivision with multiple houses so that the HAA does apply, gain approval (and terrify the neighbors) and then run out of funds for construction as soon as the first house is completed?
Local official arrested in Nevada reporter's slaying
Nobody knows when the war will be over. Most of us didn't even know there would be a war, even while Russia was amassing troops at the border.

While I'm not sure about Europe, Ukraine seems lost: they're at the mercy of the IMF and had to give up their economic independence. In the best case, they can emerge like Bulgaria, Romania, etc in a decade or more - moderate brain drain, industry bought off, moderate corruption. In the worst case, they'll suffer massive brain drain, all their industry will be bought out or lost, high levels of corruption and they'll be reduced to providing labour and raw materials for the EU.

The war will likely strengthen the nationalist and extremist factions in the country and make it even more difficult for the government to reach a compromise. It's not clear if the fledging democracy will survive this war. Beforehand there were concerns that the president has too much power, now with political parties banned it's uncertain how a meaningful opposition would look like.

On the military side, even ignoring that they've lost a large chunk of territory, they are still neighbouring Russia. And despite the optimist messaging, Russia has many ways to make Ukraine's life harder or even snuff it out. From targeting energy and industry, to chemical weapons and even nukes.
Is an accurate summary of this saying that the court interpreted "only residential units" as construction of one or more residences at the same time?
Not all cover crops are nitrogen fixing.
It may be that they DO actually have some talented engineers and some interesting IP (such as a much better engine design) but were hoping to also generate additional revenue or get bought out by a bigger company. The fact that we are also seeing lots of companies come out with smaller turbojet engines (made for retrofitting older small planes that run on regular style ICE engines) makes me wonder if material science or other advancements have gotten us to the point where we are going to see some big improvements in turbojet and turbofans.
Those are the fake secret societies the real ones make in order to make you think they’re all just glorified social clubs. /s
(at a cost of $1.4 billion USD)
Tibet, not Nepal
In the past I was following a guide which I probably got from a Digital Ocean blog post (they have a lot of very good instructive guides).

It eliminated password ssh logins (cert only), and I think it changed the default port (which I do always, just to cut out the lowest quality script kiddies).

As I recall, it also changed some permissions on shared memory via fstab. And it did something regarding sudo or suid... I forget now.

I also setup ufw firewall so at least I only allow incoming request to the specific services I intend to offer.

All that said, my nginx logs would be full of sh*t from wordpress-related vulnerability scanners and whatnot, and it just personally offended me. I think I did try to setup fail2ban, but I don't recall the success of that.

At this point it seems like there should be a "wizard" (not so unlike a linux console installation process) which asks you questions and adjusts configuration accordingly.
Beautiful, you have a way with words.
I apparently set HN to 150% so long ago and had gotten so used to it I didn't even realize that I had until reading this comment.

Just tried 100% out of curiosity and you're right, it's ridiculous.