skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about this for a while. Watching a swing towards autocracy around the world, it strikes me that republics seem somehow more vulnerable. The existence of a monarch, even as a functionally ceremonial role, creates a sort of conceptual top spot--and fills it. You _can't_ rise to the level of the head of state in a monarchy, that position is taken and can only be gained by inheritance.

At the same time, if the monarch (in a system like that of Britain) actually started using and abusing their theoretical powers, they'd quickly have the whole of the country turn against them. And they have a lot to lose if that happens!

In a presidential system, the President is both the theoretical and actual head of state. They're already in the top spot, and the only thing preventing them from staying there is convention or laws which are subject to change, and enforcement of which is largely under the President's control.

A more ceremonial President might work as well, but the thing is, an elected head of state has less to lose by abusing his powers, and far more to lose by properly following convention and thus stepping down.
Technically, Boris Johnson converted to Catholicism during his time as PM, while Blair did afterwards.

So BoJo was the first English Catholic PM, I think
There is no gray area here.

San Francisco can make murder legal and refuse to arrest people for it. State and federal law enforcement will just step in.

The DEA still busts dispensaries and grow operations in California for example, it just isn't newsworthy.
Nutrients from any food or product
This app lets you search for any food or product. You will then get the amount of proteins, calories, vitamins etc it contains. You can also scan the barcode of a product to get the result directly. Oh, and it is completely free.
It's nice to see this taking the e-mail whitelisting approach, that is be aligned with one of these large corporations or we don't care.

What's to stop someone from purposefully giving bad advice for his amusement?
tell me you've never taken a psychedelic without having to say that you've never taken a psychedelic.
A just over 50% approval rating, in a vote largely based along political party lines, does not a vast majority of opposition make.

What I find most interesting is that among younger generations, the approval goes past 65%. Though that might have something to do with younger people not having the luxury of ignoring potential future threats, with respect to defense, energy and such.
Same here.

Firefox on iPhone/iOS can't zoom text (a long time open request.) Therefor it's impossible to this website with it.
Kind of ridiculous.

Is it really so hard to create a proper default layout? Text size seems so basic...
Hey, I'll respond at a general high-level...

You use words like "odd" and "bizarre" to describe many people's reactions to the QE's passing...

I humbly suggest that it's it is simply that you don't understand a certain perspective here. That's totally fine -- completely fine -- because there's no reason to expect we all could or should share the same perspective on this.

I humbly also suggest that, while there are certainly many criticism that could (and should, probably) be leveled in good reason against monarchies in general, and perhaps this monarchy in particular, today is maybe not the right day to do it.

Today a lady who was very meaningful to many people has passed. Why not let them grieve?

Imagine someone important to you died today. They surely weren't perfect, but is today the day to harp on their negatives? The monarchy has been around for centuries. If your criticisms have any merit, they will still have impact a few days from now.

Anyway, whether you're lucky enough that no one important to you has died (yet) or because you don't have that sensitivity, let me assure you: today isn't the day to pursue your criticisms of those that have passed today. Hang on to it for now andtell everyone about it later. If it's really something worthwhile, it will have legs later, too.
The overwhelming majority of the sun is made up of hydrogen, and specifically the isotope protium, which is just a proton with no neutrons.

When two protons collide, the overwhelming majority of the time they just bounce off eachother. The diproton (a particle with two protons and no neutrons) isn't just unstable, it's basically forbidden.

However there is an incredibly rare chance that when two protons come together instead of just splitting up, one of the protons will turn into a neutron, thus producing deuterium, the hydrogen isotope with one proton and one neutron. Deuterium is much more capable of fusing.

Now when I say incredibly rare, I mean like "unlikely to happen to any given hydrogen atom over the lifetime of a star" rare. Luckily stars are big, and dense, and thus contain a lot of hydrogen atoms hitting each other very frequently. Thus you have a slow but consistent burn of hydrogen over billions of years. Once it's converted to deuterium, it fuses within about 1 second. This produces helium-3 (2 protons, 1 neutron), which is also capable of fusion, but not with the abundant protium[1], so it takes some time to find something to fuse with. A helium-3 will on average survive about 200 years before it fuses, which is still pretty short as far as the sun is concerned.

This slow burn means that within any given chunk of the sun there aren't that many fusion events occurring. Even in the deepest core of the sun, power densities never exceed 275 Watts per cubic meter. By comparison, compost releases about 7000 Watts per cubic meter at its peak decay rate and even over longer time periods averages around 600 Watts per cubic meter. Human metabolism releases about 1600 Watts per cubic meter. But since the sun is so immensely large, it has a lot of cubic meters of fusing hydrogen. Overall, it's producing 3.8x10^26 Watts.

[1] Actually helium-3 can (at least in theory) fuse with a proton, it's just extremely rare. In fact it is so rare we've never actually observed it.
World’s Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage
Those who've had to maintain someone else's perl tend to find that the hate is, if not strictly necessary, very much warranted.
I've tried teacrine. It did nothing at all for me. YMMV ... but the fact that YMMV makes it very different from caffeine, which has a marked effect on practically everybody.
This is fake news. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Burial_place_of_Genghis_K...

There appear to be many websites copying this article and then later vanishing or redirecting to scam sites.
Really? This is interesting! I had completely written off Perl for Windows due to its heritage. But we still use COM objects in our scripts here and while I like PowerShell conceptually, I really never got to have fun with it as a scripting language. It just has so many quirks like “implicit returns” etc. and is just so verbose it’s bordering on hard to read at times.
There is always therelateteam.com
> grifters work on the final product, the movers work on the first step, having a plan to make that profitable, so they can build toward the final product. SpaceX is probably the example that comes to mind

For me, it's Virgin Galactic showcasing the seats before they'd made it to space versus SpaceX building its engines and only much later unveiling spacesuit designs.
Treasury will warn White House that cryptocurrency needs regulation
Not by their intention, but by an accumulation of opsec failures over the last 700 years.
204 would be No Content

404 would be Not Found
The file/wire format can, but the official implementation doesn't handle it well. There is some work in progress to make it work, for this kind of historical work.
Youre losing $INFLATION%, very, very poor alpha sadly..
Anytime a person or "news" source uses the term "woke" they get instantly dismissed. Was hoping for some decent or balanced discourse on the topic, in spite of the title, and was not surprised to see the site and content not worth the kb's of space it takes up.
My reply was not about the color, it is about breaking functionality. I think the color difference is fine.
And the last meaningful act was to swear in Truss, not how I'd like to bookend my legacy :)
That’s much different than cheering when someone dies.
Victim of shared state, not shared libraries.

You can change floating point modes dynamically, and it's commonly done, and then it doesn't matter if the library was dynamically or statically linked.
> > “Industrial hemp absorbs between 8 to 15 tonnes of CO2 per hectare (3 to 6 tonnes per acre) of cultivation.”

> Comparatively, forests capture 2 to 6 tonnes of carbon per hectare (0.8 to 2.4 tonnes per acre), depending on the region, number of years of growth, type of trees and other factors, Shah said.

Per hectare PER YEAR.
Trees can store much much more carbon per hectare.
apparently also some of those that have to edit their own code they have not touched for a year.
eeeeeh.......

yes, but then again ... no.

I mean ... yes Vagrant does offer that, but no would I ever consider Vagrant configuration anything approaching a replacement for docker configuration.
This!

It's not a good mentality to have in this regard anyway.. Not unless you like growing your on food etc. lol
> not super common but I'm gonna trust my own observations of reality over studies that usually fail to replicate

You mean you are going to prefer anecdotal evidence over scientific research?

The "studies that usually fail to replicate" are the ones supporting a LSD inducing schizophrenia.

Your "own observations of reality" are interesting to you, but do not form a basis for creating public policy
I think that is the problem. An undemocratically elected monarch should not be entertaining world leaders period.
"surely the existing plane manufacturers could do it quicker and cheaper"

How could you possibly think that?
The current design is simple but lacking imo. Font size is small, not touch friendly.
Also annoying that a single new line doesn't do anything, you need to have two.
Doesn't make sense at all.
You're right, but that's only in the past fifty years or so. It used to be that money was backed by hard assets like gold and silver, and a bank note represented a claim on the asset. Now banks don't have to back their money with anything, because they can just borrow from a bigger bank if they need more cash.
Biochar is also intensive and only converts a relatively small amount of that carbon into stable charcoal.
Right, but you can send anyone an SMS. It would've been nice if we had a beter protocol in the same situation.
The reheat is needed to get past the transonic region and onward to supersonic. Once you've gone supersonic the drag actually drops a lot. So you want to get through the transonic region as quickly as possible and reheat is a good way to do it. After that the Concorde just supercruised.
We do speed tests hence we saw the issue.
See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/47840

Yeah I agree this is a edge case, 99,99% of Caddy users don't push so much data ;)

But Caddy can't be used as a big files download server for instance, unless sticking with HTTP/1.1 (that and sendfile + kTLS not been supported last time I checked?) (at least with a single http instance).

Another issue for HTTP/3 is https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go/wiki/UDP-Receive-B...
Current Linux in WSL for instance has this issue.
This will probably resolves over time as more and more Linux distros will take HTTP/3 requirements into account.
Heh, indeed, the similarly effective method if gamification. Even relatively "dry" things like algebra can be gamified, Dragonbox is a good example. From my limited experience (1 kid), it works really well.
I'm really glad to hear this is an option. But will browsers accessing the website accept the self-signed certs when setting up the TLS connection required by QUIC? I don't know how they behave. I'm genuinely asking.
SubZero – GraphQL and REST API for your database
> I ended up not wanting to put my years of thinking, planning and researching up on a public service, so I spun up a $5/month VPS instance from AWS Lightsail to be a dedicated git server.

So now you are putting all your eggs in one basket and you have the headache of this AWS service and any changes AMZN wants to make to that service.

The beauty of git is that you can have multiple remotes and push to all of those remotes.
It's the same stuff - namespaces, etc. But it doesn't shove greasy fingers into network config like docker. More a tooling question/approach than tech.
California Students Are Struggling in Math. Will Reforms Make the Problem Worse?
She was a figurehead only

Although she was Commander-In-Chief, she gave responsibility to the prime minister and the Secretary of State for Defence, along with other officials. Theoretically she could have ordered a strike against the white house but this would be vetoed by the govt.

She had the ability to declar war, however the government doesn’t need the Queen’s permission.

She could have issued an order of Dissolution of Parliament, but parliament is not the same as the government. The British government is the one that actually rules in the UK. Also such an act would have caused an absolute uproar among UK
citizens and probably ensured the beginning of a Republic

So she has "power" in name only, but no real power which was my point, everything has been taken away from her ... and now also King Charles.
Archived: https://archive.ph/USSUt
Why hempcrete when you could use wood?

> Hemp can be left down to return nutrients to the soil or for soil remediation as it's a very absorbent plant (that draws e.g. heavy metals out of soil and into the plant)

It won't remove heavy metals from the soil if you leave it there. You also can't turn it into a product if you leave it there.
I'm glad your daughter does not think this way or hang around people who do. You've raised her right.
There is like zero evidence that a hereditary ruling class is especially suited for and/or actually has done protecting the minority from majoritarian tyranny. I have no idea how one can hold this position in earnest.
Heroin seems to fit their definition as well.
The happy path should at least have a value that we oft categorize as error to branch on meaningfully. If the code has no purpose it wouldn’t need to be called.

panic is certainly appropriate if programmer error left the application in an inconsistent state (an exceptional state, or exception for short as it is often referred to). I've never seen a Go developer, or developer in any other language for that matter, try to deal with these cases by hand.
Apologies. In retrospect a comment that didn't add much.
Recently one of the worst I've seen is a property management system's API:

* Bugs in the implementation

* JSON looks like auto-translated XML without an XML

* Nothing about data types, values for an enum you could expect

On the flipside, Stripe's is one of the best. Although the only issue Ive seen is webhook signature code always uses their SDK which I don't always want to use, and webhooks can't be configured on a per-payment basis so if you have multiple systems on the same Stripe account, all of them get notified of everything (unlike other payment providers!)
In low does - for certain brains - for certain reasons - aye: there are medical uses.

Above I am speaking solely of recreational use.
Succession struggles were like their own whole genre of political strife until the modern era. Multiple parties can have claims of varying legitimacy -- first born might gain some advantage in being near to the previous leader, inheriting the royal rolodex and hopefully some powerful/motivated allies who want to keep the status quo, but it isn't a sure thing.

Sure, now that the top position is entirely symbolic in the vast majority of monarchies, nobody fights over it. But the if the UK Monarch was in any sense "in charge" of anything, we'd surely see the US propping up Harry and Meghan as the true legitimate heirs and we might even let them borrow a couple carriers to "persuade" Parliament of the fact. Or whatever.
Skyhook – cheap way of placing payloads into low Earth orbit
You're right that the safety profiles are dissimilar, but if anything it's the other way around: alcohol is significantly more likely to result in long-term illness or death than e.g. LSD.
Didn't see The Ancient Order of Free Gardeners listed:

> Although the Free Gardeners have always remained independent of Freemasonry, the history and organisation of the two orders show numerous similarities. Some commentators have pointed to possible mutual influences in the ancient history of the two organisations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Free_Gardeners
Indeed, especially at an eye popping $30 an hour or so for content.
it'll go through skin, and if you spilled a bunch on an ungloved hand you're going to be going for a ride, which is of course the origin of the 'bicycle day' itself and the discovery of LSD.

of course, many things are not safe on the skin and that's not uniquely dangerous, really
Show HN: The Illustrated Paul Graham
What about CFM or Safran?
I wonder if past generations have cared as much as we do about helping people feel better about their perceived failings? This essay fits snugly into a 2020s canon of NYT Best Sellers around "work less, enjoy more." My impression had been that previous generations principally aspired to get more done to advance their lot in life. If that's true, it will be interesting to assess later how long-term happiness compares between the "try harder do more" past generations and the "you're amazing why are you working so hard?" current one.

Cal Newport is the only contemporary personality I know of that advocates for getting more done, but his method still conforms to the zeitgeist, in that his "get more done" is more precisely "get more important stuff done by doing less overall."

Perhaps this is the natural evolution that occurs when a country has reached sufficient wealth where contributing gains to per capita GDP just ain't inspiring to a comfortable generation? It's interesting to try to contextualize the current popularity of anti-productivity literature vs what has come before it.
Planting monoculture also has big advantages
> I harden ssh (no root login, no passwords), setup fail2ban for it and leave it at that.

Similar here (but I allow root login), with the addition of setting up an nftables firewall with whitelisted ports and logging all the rest, and having fail2ban analyze logs and adding/removing to it IPs that become blacklisted because of some global limit is exceeded (which happens e.g. if you try once to access weird stuff stuff in my webserver VM + try to guess a pwd in the mailserver VM + try to login unsuccessfully into SSHd)
Sortition would be a better approach - elect a list of people who are all "good enough" and then choose randomly from them.

Constitutional monarchs do have their uses; it's good that someone can fire the head of government, especially if the people can invest in the head of state instead.

The US should have one picked from the top 10 Spotify chart. Even if half of them are Canadian.
I don't know, other than he was very smart. But a potential way that the article hints at is that the factorial is related to the gamma function which I believe is the solution to a differential equation... and so there may be some insight to be had in looking at the relevant differential equation and trying to approximate its solution.

Edit after googling: the gamma function not the solution to a differential equation, in fact there is a proof that it cant be [*] but it's formulated as an integral, whose approximation could lead to odd looking equations like the one in the article

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6lder%27s_theorem
The question is "what control can the government of Somalia have on names that are registered under its TLD?" Can it seize the name? In 2010, it was regulated by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. In 2015 it was a different government and managed by Somali Network Information Center. In 2018 it was transferred to The National Communications Authority. Will the policies change? If the country cuts ties with all non-Somali entities will the email addresses continue to work for a time? Or will they be snapped up by scammers?

Additionally, registration financially goes to the government of Somalia (see the controversies with .io TLD).
What is this I'm reading here, the voice of reason?!

The last frontier for these types of comparisons is unusual circumstances like embedded platforms with limited resources.
today on HN shill moves goal posts. First you brought up encryption.

second it's not apples obligation to force encryption, but if they really cared about your privacy it's as easy as releasing iMessage for Android.

Apple won't even talk about compatibility for Android so technically it is on Apple to offer a solution if they really cared

Third you brought up encryption not me
But Google Chrome has the following note in the extension details view after you install it:

> This extension is not trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing. Learn more[1]

[1]: https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/2664769?vi...
Just replace "psychedelics" with "*" because the general question is interesting, not psychedelics. People have just sort of gone along with the idea that psychedelics precipitate mental illness more than other drugs, or other life activities. There isn't really strong data for that with LSD.
Depends on the trees but if we are talking about redwoods its certainly more for the 1000 year old tree.
Imagine seeing bike races on Formula 1 tracks instead of being spread across mountain ranges like they normally are.
This just looks like coming down off LSD. Google's deep dream videos looked like coming up.

I guess it's useful to have an accurate video simulation so you can decide whether it's for you.
Sorry, but I'm just going to trust my own observations of reality over some random paper. It's plainly obvious that these drugs trigger schizophrenia and other mental illnesses in a percentage of people who use them. Sometimes all it takes is a single use even. If you haven't met people who have had this happen to them then I advise you to search online for people's stories since it's not that hard to find them.
Yes. And.

I often hear stories about people tripping on mushrooms getting upto mischief. When I did I always find that, along with the mushrooms, there was a bottle of whiskey, or equivalent.

My culture is awash with alcohol. It is hard to disentangle the dreadful effects of the alcohol overdose experience form the psychedelic experience after consuming a bottle of whiskey.
Use Open API and then something like https://stoplight.io/ and you will get first class API docs that automatically update with your spec changes.
When retirement was invented (rather recently) people tended to die shortly afterward IIRC. Not having anything to do can be even worse than working.
Shit, I should not post in the morning before my first coffee :(
In what way? From mini skirts to punk rock to gay liberation to extinction rebellion to pro- and anti-brexit protests, we seem to be comfortable with challenge. Citation required.
There are those trees but the difficult bit it finding a cheap was to bury thousands of tonnes of wood so that it won't decompose.
It's my fault for not being clearer, but it was so obvious to me that my point had nothing to do with monarchy, and only with lame internet flamewars, that I never thought of being taken it this way.

If I were moderating myself I would now point out that the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate intent: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

I couldn't care less which side you guys are on re monarchs! If you want to make thoughtful critique, go for it. Just remember that the bar for that is rather high when it comes to a topic so filled with bombast as this one.

The idea that we'd be trying to preserve the royalist status quo and the elegance of railway travel is just so silly that I can't believe I have to say that. Clearly it was my mistake, though—that was no splash-free dive.