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It seems as if in Elizabeth's life (if "The Crown" has any bearing on real life events) she was able to wield some amount of de facto power either due to her reputation/prestige personally or from her role as monarch.

> Charles could disband parliament tomorrow

Elizabeth had some amount of real world power perhaps via the potential threat of this.
I still use Perl whenever I need to get something complex done quickly. Whether it's the handy command-line switches and features for easier one-liners, or just easier stream text processing, or easier external command execution, or the huge library of modules that often support things Python doesn't, Perl is my "fuck it, I just need to get this done" language.

I can't wait for the day that programming languages as a concept are obsolete. It feels exactly like hand-tool woodworking. I would love to stop building tables and chairs over and over, instead just buy them from Code IKEA.
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I had a similar experience. I saw news of her death online and assumed it was some sort of hoax. When I woke up the next morning and saw it on the (TV) news I had this weird “Holy shit! The internet was right!?” moment. It was very surreal. Up until that point I hadn’t even considered that the internet could be used for much beyond screwing around and chat rooms let alone that it could be a platform for breaking news!
As Queen, she met 14 US Presidents (15 total) and 16 Prime Ministers (17 total). Whatever our feelings toward the anachronism of hereditary monarchies, she's been a participant in (and witness to) a significant amount of modern history.
She has been Queen of Canada for 45% of Canada's existence as an independent nation. Wild.
Nice!

It's a neat idea to implement it as an extension. And I enjoy how it just overlays the normal site (loads separate pages as separate pages, etc)

And finally a dark mode. Dear god.

One bit of feedback: it took me a minute or two to figure out how to comment on an article (to write this very comment); I actually had to look back at the website to make sure commenting wasn't a "Pro" feature. I don't know if the reply-arrow really translates to comment threads, especially when you're not "replying" to another comment but to the main post. Some sort of comment-bubble icon might be clearer. At the very least I think those icons could use titles, and/or "modern" tooltips.

Overall pretty cool! I think I'll try it out at least for a little bit

Edit: A couple other things,

- It's a bummer that karma and threads (now "Comments") are hidden behind an extra click. When I'm actively participating in a thread those are two of my most frequently-used parts of the UI

- The thread UI is a little too minimalist I think; it's a little hard to visually parse where one comment ends and another starts, nesting levels, etc. Some tasteful borders or lines would go a long way here, though so would some slightly-more-contrasted colors

- I don't see a way to see upvotes on your own comments like in the main UI. My dopamine receptors would like that feature back ;)
Pursuit of endless life is a movie trope - the fountain of youth - and inevitably concludes with punishment for those who seek it out.

I suspect there’s a strong biological reason we age and die. We compete against our children for the limited resources of our planet. Our genes need to recombine or else evolution stalls.

For now the only true path to immortality is through having children.
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> I wonder if it's less about metrics and more about principles; how does HN keep the level of quality so high? Is it because we share an interest? Because of the quality control? The UI/UX of the site? Something else?

HN is successful because it can be moderated by one dang. Maybe a bonus helper can appear.

But once you get so big that your dang can't do it all anymore, it will eventually fall apart.
This is an internet entertainment site. It's not possible to "oppose literal fascism" here—that's a category error.

All that is possible is to make pointless comments—either curious ones or tedious ones. "Literal fascism" comments are the latter and those are off topic, so please don't.
> 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.

Counter-hypothetical: what if the Monarch decided to act against the Prime Minister and appoint a Governor General to act against their mandate? Both your hypothetical and mine are incidents of "bad-behaviour" going against norms to push agendas. We would prefer were that neither were possible. However in your hypothetical at least the person exhibiting "bad-behaviour" (the Prime Minister) has some mandate given that they were democratically elected. Whereas in my hypothetical the person exhibiting "bad-behaviour" is an inherited position held by someone in lives in a far-away place and may have only set foot in the nation they are meddling in a handful of times.

In either situation we're accepting the risk of bad-faith actors manipulating the structures of power, but if we ditch the Monarch, at least the person doing so is in someway accountable to the people. Harper was successfully able to dodge a confidence vote, but in the end he was ousted from power in a democratic process. I'd argue that's the better scenario.
I agree. I just think expecting to get back a stolen backpack, at any measurable rate is pretty unrealistic, unless the society in question is so draconian that the solution is worse than the problem.
Article was about the carbon emission reductions (titled "Germany's €9 transit ticket cuts 1.8 million tonnes of CO2"). Nobody is disputing that more people used public transport when it was almost free. My point was that it's really expensive as a means to reduce carbon emissions. It does have other effects that would be desirable. If it was for me, public transportation would be entirely free for everybody. There is evidence that the cost savings in ticket machine and fare enforcement infrastructure would make this especially appealing due to cost savings.
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I feel sorry to those who need to believe in ghosts to socialize with other people.
God bless her and long live the King.
Just don't bother with AMD if you want wide support for deep learning. While it is getting better, CUDA is king and will remain so for the future. I had an AMD GPU and I gave up and bought an Nvidia one for ML workloads. The gaming features are also superior to AMD's equivalents as well, like RTX and DLSS.
In British minds, Ireland is not "empire" as much as a backyard they feel naturally entitled to.
Precisely. Python often isn't the best choice, but it's always a good enough choice.
I very recently tried Caddy for the first time and it is one of the best software experiences I had especially because of it's ease of use.
My argument is that we should focus on reducing emissions.
1912-1964 Republicans may not have been particularly right wing.

My understanding is that prior to the "Southern Strategy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy) of the 1960s, the Democratic Party was largely right wing, and the Republican Party was largely left wing.

So San Francisco flipping from Republican to Democrat aligns pretty much squarely with the change in politics of the parties due to the Southern Strategy.

This implies that in fact, San Francisco has always been fairly left-wing.
If that's your measuring stick then Adolf should get the credit for creating the right condition.

European colonial power would have never left if they hadn't got into war of attrition with Hitlar.

British left their biggest colony India only when Indian soldiers revolted and they were too weak to crush it post WW2. It was simply not possible to rule after this incident.
Klingons (which in TOS were obviously supposed to be Soviets) might be an even better comparison: not only did TNG introduce a black Klingon (Worf), but they completely changed how Klingons looked. As far as I can tell, nobody cared -- probably because (past the first season or so) both the show and Michael Dorn were great.
Preside (https://preside.io) has this feature.
If a good idea relies entirely on adversaries to cheerlead it, it probably is not a good idea.

Truly good ideas usually succeed on their own merits despite opposition.
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I don't (and won't ever) get it, sorry
Fellow Brit here. I share this sentiment.

I've never had strong views for or against the royal family but always felt genuine respect towards the Queen herself.

She always appeared to be a morally strong character who tried to do the right thing.

I always expected this would feel like a very strange moment when it finally arrived. I wasn't wrong.
In some way, she was like one of those nice Grannies from your neighborhood. Had no big negatives, also not much positive for the average observer. Just a nice old lady, doing stuff with her family and being around for such a long time that she was some casual part of your world awareness.
> His Majesty the King said

Interesting there is no transition period or ceremony - he is just King.
Regardless of what you think about the monarchy she was exemplary throughout her reign! May she rest in peace.
Why does it need to be measurable?
I think these "no enforcement" things are the worst. It always leaves people in a legal grey-area where they want to do something, and they are allowed to do it, but it's still technically illegal with all the baggage that goes along with that. In fact, it relieves pressure to legalize, since most people are now able to do what they like.

Take speeding laws (in the US): (almost) everybody breaks them since the limits are so low, which gives officers discretion to basically go out and just start ticketing anybody they like. Everyone is guilty, but we just don't enforce it against you, at least for today. Clearly (I hope), when a large number of people are breaking a law, and we all just accept this - then it's not a good law. But speed limits don't get repealed, because very few people are actually prosecuted, so the general public doesn't get mad enough about it. If speed limits were universally enforced, the public would get mad and the limits would be removed or raised within a week.
I like the Python docs and the Java docs. I don't like the Clojure docs or the documentation for Javascript. The trouble w/ Clojure is that it takes some effort to wrap your head around the functional way of doing things -- Hickey's book is a great supplement to the docs.
If the monarchy wouldn't exist as an institution, a lot of that money would still go to the upkeep of the various domains that comprise it. The Buckingham palace won't disappear if the UK becomes a democracy. Assuming all of that money goes into the personal wealth of the members of the royal family is a little naive.
I would not be surprised at all. I can count on one hand the number of Engineering candidates that given a system description involving three visible networked laptops in view of the camera have answered "where is the data, right now?"
, or can at least give a decent stab at "trace the datapath through the machine".

I can't explain somehow this is the average candidate, yet somehow... Life goes on.
So how many of the current products were influenced by Woz in 2022?

How many are influenced by Jobs - the Mac, the iPad, the iPhone, the App Store?

When Woz left, Apple wasn’t a major player in the tech space in the grand scheme of things. Apple became the most valuable company in the US right before Jobs passed.

My first computer was an Woz inspired Apple //e. My current computer is a Jobs inspired Mac that Woz had nothing to do with.
It would be better if he abolished the crown and disbanded the monarchy. He would write himself in the annals of human history.
That's assuming a lot I think. Having the ability to create a large amount of power on demand is a lot more useful than it's popular to think these days.
I've never really understood how we can still have monarchies but I do believe Elizabeth was probably one the better ones that have sat on those thrones.

A few years ago I looked into how much power she had and I was shocked. I was also shocked by how much that monarchy owns.
People in the US vote for politicians out of spite and animus towards the other party, not because they endorse their own party or politicians.
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Why? Constitutionally the Prime Minister is just the "first" minister to the monarch. These days, of course, the monarch defers all governance to the Prime Minister, but the origin of the role is as an advisor of sorts to the monarch. It shouldn't sound any worse than saying Merrick Garland is Joe Biden's Attorney General.
But I would still need to register using my work address - thus sharing it with an external service. That could still be acceptable (depending on contractual guarantees). Your cloud service will then send emails to internal users, thus it's me sharing outside the company the 1. contact addresses (which did or did not agree to above contract) and 2. email contents (up to users what they put inside). Hmm, not ideal. A MS Teams app, if you ever thought about one, would be able to use the user's own MS Graph for storage and for the contacts info, thus completely independent of external servers.
I’d be ok with a stripped down service and just send directions as text. Better than nothing.
The queen says "tut tut" to the prime minister when the prime minister does something bad. That is not a role that you can underestimate. The queen reminds the prime minister that there is someone above them, and someone that they answer to. In comparison, a lot of US presidents seem like they need a few "tut tuts."
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting flamebait and unsubstantive comments. That's not allowed here.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

(Since someone is now about to accuse me of stealth Brexit sideage—no, this is just about the tiny business of moderating an internet forum, and that is all.)

I don't lightly ban a 7-year-old account, but (a) we've warned you many times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22976700 (April 2020)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19765448 (April 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17865589 (Aug 2018)

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... and (b) you've broken the site guidelines repeatedly lately.
The EEC became the EU in 1993.
That is less and less true. The intensity of the fires has changed due to the recent history of excessive fire suppression and the resulting fuel accumulation.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/wildfires-kill-unprecedente...
What I see happening now on the cloud is containers from different companies and different security domain running on the same VM. I have to think this is fundamentally insecure and that VMs are underrated.

I hear people advocate QubesOS for security which is based on XEN when it comes to running my client. They say my banking should be done in a different VM than my email for instance. Well if that’s the case, why do we run many containers doing different security sensitive functions on the same VM when containers are not really considered a very good security boundary?

From a security design perspective I imagine hardware being exclusive to a person/organization, vms being exclusive to some security function, and containers existing on top of that makes more sense from a security function but we seem to be playing things more loosely on the server side.
They make a lot of money off "the little things"... Like owning large swathes of Westminster(land and revenue generating properties)

You can be assured that Royal Family Inc will fight tooth and nail to keep their privileges intact.
Can we have a black ribbon on HN?
Landing rocket boosters happened in the 70s already, and said rocket company benefited heavily from NASA, government and defence contracts and research. If Boom would have had access to supersonic jet research from the government, along with government contracts, development or production doesn't matter, RR wouldn't have stopped the cooperation.

Edit: Reusable or VTOL rocket were tested, successfully landing, in the early 90s by McDonnel Douglas under the DC-X program. No idea where the 70s thing came from...
It's already the case though.
Theranos' lie wasn't credible to people in the biomedical technology industry. That's why Theranos had to get investors who knew nothing about it.

If Boom's lies(or wishful thinking?) were as egregious as Theranos, they never would have gotten their foot in the door at Rolls-Royce.
Hey! I like the idea of this a lot; oftentimes in team standups, I feel our discussions would benefit from a clear issue owner, as well as the space for others to give feedback.

I might suggest trying other more granular voting systems instead of just up/down voting: 5-star voting, set number of points, or my personal favorite: prediction markets! A prediction market makes participants calibrate how much they believe in a particular choice, and also makes a clear ledger so everyone can get a sense of how often they have been correct in the past.

Here's one example of a market we set up for informing an important decision (which database our site would use): https://manifold.markets/Austin/what-database-will-manifold-...
Psychedelics still can’t legally be sold in SF. What good is criminalizing simple possession?

Besides, for every animal sacrifice on LSD there are 100 (probably more) drunk drivers crashing into trees, parked cars, oncoming traffic, and pedestrians, and alcohol is totally legal and widely used.
To be fair, deals Churchill made with Roosevelt during Lend Lease ushered in the end. She inherited that situation from her dad.
This is great! Congrats and thanks for sharing your work! People have been asking for dark mode for years. This has it and so many other nice UI improvements too. Well done!
In most of our lifetimes we will also utter “The King and Queen of England” since Charles is already 76. British seem to treasure this tradition, where as we Americans definitely got rid of a Jefferson stature somewhere recently.

struck me as unfamiliar.

Nope, it’s been quite familiar to even someone several hundred years ago.
Be careful saying things like "psychotic Japanese fascism" here. You can expect @dang to slap your hand for spreading "nationalistic flamebait." Why they don't put something like this in the guidelines is beyond me.
Not to dive into politics particularly; but there are advantages and disadvantages to every form of government. What are the particular disadvantages your family dislikes? Is it the principal of it or something in particular?

One clear advantage of monarchs that I can see, are that they have an incentive to grow and expand their tax base. That typically means long-term planning (but doesn't ensure it, which is a disadvantage the UK parliamentary system seems to mitigate).
The bigger issue is that returning the error without wrapping provides zero context and after a crash you're stuck trying to figure out which of a hundred calls to Write was responsible for "write error" or some other equally ambiguous message that's nearly impossible to track down.

So you have to resort to a poor man's stack trace:
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("my thing: %w", err)
}

(We use wrapcheck via golangci-lint to enforce it because not having context for an error has bitten us so many times)
She was a good person, and has my respect but she was also a symbol of a deeply flawed system of governance.

There are lots of notable figures that have died recently (Gorbachev alone may have saved the world as we know it), that don’t get the same, almost pathological level of admiration. It’s not normal to break down crying because a person you never met died at age 97.. that’s hundreds of years of indoctrination, social, and religious manipulation at work.
William has a very young family, pushing him into becoming the monarch would be incredibly detrimental to their lives as a family. The queen was very against abdication in any form
There is an FAQ on each page with a question "What's the time frame for this analysis?", and the answer is posts and comments from within the last two years
> Not to mention that she was the last monarch to have any memory of WWII

That's probably not true. There's the Dalai Lama and Simeon II of Bulgaria, who were minors but at least Simeon surely remembers (his father died in suspicious circumstances, he had an unconstitutional regency, and then he was dethroned, expelled and spent his life in exile).

> Now that generation that remembered the horrors of fascism has mostly passed and we find ourselves in a period that seems to have many echos of the 1930s with a new rise of authoritarianism and fascism around the world

It's honestly infuriating that with the wealth of information available at everyone's fingertips so many people are so easily making the same mistakes as a century earlier.
Depends on what you mean by "proxying". Everything you do (serving a Single-Page Application or requesting HN by backend, processing it's HTML and sending the content to your own frontend) will take traffic away from news.ycombinator.com and to another domain - which comes with it's own set of dreadful scenarios.

There used to be (and still are) things like https://mreidsma.github.io/bookmarklets/jquerify.html which allow to inject JavaScript on click (and thus would make it possible to transform that site), but I gave it a shot and HN is set up to disallow this:

Refused to load the script 'https://code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://www.google.com/recaptcha/ https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/ https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/". Note that 'script-src-elem' was not explicitly set, so 'script-src' is used as a fallback.
A lot of self-selected (not just any random programmer) Go programmers wanted generics according to the survey. So Go programmers who are motivated enough to find and answer such a survey don’t matter?

Actually scratch that, I was wrong. The opinions of regular programmers not mattering is after all one of the philosophies behind the invention of Go.
Yeah, when people hear GC, they often get oddly dismissive. However, various languages have optional memory management, so have to look at the situation carefully.
You're saying that Germany and California are not struggling with the electric grid...now I believe you're trolling

They invested a lot in solar power, which is expensive, so they couldn't afford to invest enough in transmission and backup generators, and now they have expensive electricity and unreliable grids. Ignoring current year, I think Germany is second in the world in regards to expensive electricity (after Denmark) and California is one of the most expensive states in the US.
You're technically correct, but I think that's a different definition of the word "cult" from the colloquial, and from what is being used above. Wikipedia's definition describes a cult as "unusual," "socially deviant," and "novel." I don't think Christianity fits that description in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult
Agreed, SpaceX has no chance against ULA /s
How comes that a fair wage is "intentionally punishing the employer", but paying subminimum wage is not "intentionally punishing the employee"?