skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Making a decision at the last 5 minutes of a meeting is fine - if you make it earlier, the meeting was too long. But it has to be the right decision. You don't need to fight meetings - you need to fight bad decisions within meetings.

- Getting all the info and feedback and allowing time for all stakeholders to vote can drive a culture of decisions by committee - while this does allow for great collaboration and engagement, it also can be slower than desired, and does not allow a visionary leader to really drive his organization. It also can make people who truly are experts in a field feel dismissed because now everyone is held on equal footing and their expertise is devalued. At the end of the day, people lower in the org chart will love it, execs will not. And without exec support, it won't become integrated into the org.

Your idea of bringing asynch discussions and decision-making is on-target. But I think you have under-estimated what drives people at different levels of an organization, and this level of transparency and collaboration is not what everyone will want.

In all honesty, I don't know how I would change the solution. I know that you need to continue to feed the ego of leaders and experts, while allowing contributions from everyone else, too. You have to balance different audiences with divergent personalities, and let the leaders lead, without the app feeling like lip service to non-leaders. In short, I don't think your solution is bad - I just think you'll find that it will take a ton of effort, listening, and understanding to be sure all participants truly feel the benefit of the product and there is no way to hit that mark on the first try.
No engine product ready for purchase or no engine that could ever be built? If the former, whatever tell R&D to go do their job. If the latter, maybe it was a scam.

Which is it?
... which is tantamount to saying that efficient supersonic transport won't happen because the engine is too expensive to design, though. And maybe that's true. But even if it is true it's still on Boom to make that happen somehow. Not all startups succeed, but those that build the wrong product fail at a 100% rate.
While TopTal shot themselves in the foot, they did have a good model.

Basically, they curated both sides of the market and it worked really well and removed them from the bottom feeders race
True, but the information still had to be conveyed from the nearest telegraph office to your home (the 19th century "last mile problem")
Yep. A good time to end it all on as much of a high as they're likely to get.
Commonwealth citizen and feel much the same. She had my respect, but takes all of it with her...
We have decades more experience with electrical cars. And for over 100 years, electrical cars were a curiosity. For at least half of the time we've had nuclear power we've also had people saying that electrical won't have a chance at displacing ICU cars. "Experts" being far more adamant than laypeople because they "know" it isn't going to happen.

And yet, this appears to be happening.

The thing is, arguing that "X can't happen because X hasn't happened before" isn't a proper argument because everything around you has spent more time not happening than happening.

A compelling argument is one that argues how X can't happen for reasons we can know. For instance if we bang up against hard limits imposed by natural law that we just can't get around.
Same as passports; they're issued in her name, thus she doesn't need one.

It's also true that she cannot be prosecuted for any crime except that of treason against the British people, but that's contestable. Since crimes are prosecuted in her name.
Yeah - it's all in the vetting. I will dogfood a solution shortly!
Yeah that’s what we all wish for.

In real life customers rarely have the ability to write a complete and consistent spec. That’s why we have iterative development and agile.

The model I use is much more incremental, with a list of clear deliverables and expected cost. Work with customer to define requirements, write those down with estimates, agree, deliver, review, repeat. My customers see constant progress and can change direction at any time, they never owe me so much money I would suffer if they don’t pay.

If you try to freelance with the waterfall/BDUF method you describe you’ll run into problems.
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The most basic argument for online ad blocking is that I should be in control of my own equipment. It's my phone, my computer, an internet connection I pay for. Why shouldn't I do whatever I want with it. Websites should consider themselves lucky I let them run their stupid inefficient scripts on my machine.
You can even write perl to dump urls submitted by hn users, as this person I found does. [1]

[1] https://gist.github.com/adulau/939629
This is unexpectedly great.
You are missing the point, documentation is either evergreen, or it is not. If you don't clearly state whether your documentation is current, then it leads to a lot of confusion.
Even that is not true. One could argue that it's true in a system like the US, where the Federal Reserve is separate from the Treasury. I'm not sure it's true in a fiat currency situation where the Treasury can print money for free and then spend it. (Of course, that's the path to ruin through government fiscal irresponsibility destroying the currency...)
Fantastic news for the US and the scientific research of psychedelics as a treatment for depression and anxiety. Meanwhile, on the other side of the atlantic, it's a nightmare to get our politicians to even begin talking about cannabis (Sweden).
GitHub Copilot now available for teachers
This reminds of of what Prince Feisal said in Lawrence of Arabia:

> I think you are another of these desert-loving English: Doughty, Stanhope, Gordon of Khartoum. No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees, there is nothing in the desert. No man needs nothing.
I think it’s quite understandable to have an emotional response. People who become fixtures in our lives die and it instantly fires the signals of our own mortality we spend our lives suppressing.
Wasn’t he a sexual predator?
Or in fields where we're fighting the universe rather than each other, trying to make progress with your hero's strategy is probably going to be very difficult -- to the extent that there's such a thing as "raw intelligence," Einstein definitely had more of it than I do, so if I was going to look into physics, I'd not want to look at the problems he didn't complete, using his strategy! (of course, this is why fields build up an increasingly advanced framework, after the trailblazers have passed through).
Please don't take HN threads into political flamewar or on tedious generic tangents.

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It doesn't let you send a message but it does communicate (one-way only) by satellite. They're the hiker version of the emergency locator transmitters on airplanes.
Hm. I count six.

Mary I, Elizabeth I, Mary II (joint monarch with Willam III), Anne, Victoria, Elizabeth II.
Try linux-zen. I run it on Dell laptops, and it seems to support hibernation. Unless I'm not calling it the right thing.
> Error handling is very painful

Wait until you try Typescript. First you have to try/catch and then you also need an if statement to type assert the error in order to do anything with it. Now that's painful. If errors were commonly returned as values you could beautifully reduce it to if statements alone.
I have to wonder if people will be less receptive of the monarchy now that there's going to be a King instead of a Queen.
Thank you! I enjoy the big and not easy things, it's where the magic happens!
nope. a patdown to prevent any concealed weapons is a good thing....
may i ask, what kind of freedoms do you loose if you are 100% sure that in a train station or in a train that no one is carrying a knife or a gun or something lethal?

>tiny increase in safety

yeah, right... guns don't kill people, it is people who kill people. same for cigarettes i suppose.
Why do you mean traditions are not important?
That looks exponentially faster for large n, but with the Fibonacci numbers themselves growing exponentially, the former takes Theta(n^2), while the latter also takes Theta(n^2) for the final squaring of the matrix using naive multiplication and still takes Theta(n^1.58) for multiplication with Karatsuba's algorithm (or still less with the more esoteric methods in [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_algorithm
The reason why you are not getting any requests for Go is because you are not asked to find people for backend.
I believe that Charles is now officially already king.
Regarding Boom there are only two reasonable conclusions one can reach:

1. They are a Theranos-style operation

2. They are a Madoff-style operation

I, a lone aerospace engineer working out of my garage in my spare time, have a better chance of achieving supersonic flight than Boom does.

Even their technology demonstrator is an obvious scam. It demonstrates nothing. It does not demonstrate the ability to design, build, or maintain a supersonic passenger airplane, and it doesn't demonstrate any new technologies or materials.

The bloatiest of bloated old-school defense contractors can throw together a supersonic prototype for less than $100 million, in fewer than 7 years.
I write HTTP/RPC and some TCP servers, implementing specs to parse files and data processing pipelines based on PubSub, NATs, etc.

Whenever the server fails to do what is needed - in most cases, it will retry with a backoff. In case it is not retryable - most often, it will exit, an alert will fire, and I will start handling an incident.

Background jobs run in a goroutine and send a non-retryable error to the channel.

go func() {
errChan <- s.ProcessData(ctx)
}()

Followed by a blocking select:

select {
case err := <- errChan:
log.Printf(“Server failed: %s”, err)
case <- ctx.Done():
log.Println(“Shutting down”)
}

Something along these lines.
Spot on. If you build a more efficient engine P&W, GE, Honeywell, and a few other companies would be clawing eachothers' eyes for the chance to buy you out.

Boeing and other airframe mfgs would throw you a huge contract immediately if they thought you could actually build the engines and deliver them.
I think he was one of Englands greatest child molesters.
Twitter is taking a moment of silence.
While I admire the Elizabeth's dedication to preserving her own family's inheritance, I fundamentally do not believe anyone can inherit a country. The monarchy should die along with the monarch.
Some view the monarchy as anachronistic. Of course there's merit to that argument but the monarchy as an institution really doesn't cost that much and has worked in the British political system as really a check on abuse of government power. The Queen's consent in forming government is routine but it can be withheld.

Australia had an example of this where the Governor General (the Queen's representative in the Australian government) sacked the government and formed a caretaker governmen tin the 1970s.

The American system of relying on centuries of tenuous interpretation of a fairly short document just isn't as much of an improvement as you think.

The Australian constitution allows for the Governor General to have "reserve powers" without specifying what they are.

Ultimately all these systems rely on trust.

It's wild to think the Queen began her reign with having weekly chats with Winston Churchill all the way up to appointing Liz Truss just this week. Her father fought in World War I. She lived through World War II. It's wild to think about.

It's also wild to consider the Queen never had an exepctation of ruling. An abdication caused that to happen. The happiest and freest time of her life may well have been living on Malta prior to that, living a fairly normal life with her husband and young family.

Institutions exist to protect the people, not the institutions themselves. Never forget that.
It’s even higher now, the commonwealth countries have a population of 2.5 billion (almost 1/3)
At her coronation Eisenhower was president and she saw 13 US presidents while queen (and there was an additional three between her birth and when she became the queen.) Victoria actually saw more presidents come to power in her lifetime since there was a greater tendency for one-term presidents earlier in US history.
What is your theory for why Docker won and Vagrant didn't?

Mine is that all of the previous options were too Turing Complete, while the Dockerfile format more closely follows the Principle of Least Power.

Power users always complain about how their awesome tool gets ignored while 'lesser' tools become popular. And then they put so much energy into apologizing for problems with the tool or deflecting by denigrating the people who complain. Maybe the problem isn't with 'everyone'. Maybe Power Users have control issues, and pandering to them is not a successful strategy.
You're not wrong, but the experience in 2022 is much, much, much better than in 2004.

At that time, the main bragging right was at lan parties – I wasn't getting any tearing, in fact if I ran Quake 3 in Windows, there was a noticeable lag while the (whatever it was) was (doing something in the background) that was definitely not present on Linux.

Baptism through fire is a good way to put it. Back in my day, we had one-way cable modems and you still had to dial in for your upstream! It was on the ISA bus, have you ever seen an IRQ? trailing off...
Might be slightly offtopic but C#'s .NET 7 will ship with http3 enabled in Linux by default (needs libmsquic dependency). Also, if it's of interest to you, the performance is significantly better at gRPC workloads than Go: https://aka.ms/aspnet/benchmarks (page 9)
How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet
> Arguably the largest change in humanity in a ~100 year span?

I don't think so. My grandmother was born in 1900 and died in 2003. Cars, airplanes, electricity, radio, TV, computers, space ships, etc..., all were invented or became commonplace in her lifetime. Queen Elizabeth was born between the birth years of my parents, who didn't remember the "horse and buggy days".
I feel Zig could help here. The binaries ship with LLVM statically linked. You could rely on them to provide binaries for a variety of architecture / OS, and use it to compile code on the target machine. I'll probably explore this at some point for Pip.
The customer is not obligated under US law to comply with foreign tax obligations.

Are there not withholding obligations under US tax rules for the customer, though, unless they have something like a W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E? I’m by no means an expert in this area, but my understanding was that without providing the official paperwork, the customer would be required to deduct US taxes for US-sourced income before paying their bill.

What professional insurance does a freelancer need?

We carry professional indemnity, among other things.
Hardening against vulnerabilities is a zero sum game ultimately.

It is my experience that most guides you will find for Linux hardening are either outdated, too opinionated or are written with shock value to induce paranoia [0].

I harden ssh (no root login, no passwords), setup fail2ban for it and leave it at that.

Only thing I remember to do is not to mess with security configurations e.g disabling selinux to make something work. Keeping number of software installed to an absolute minimum. And last
but not least I setup automatic updates via unattended-upgrades.

[0] https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-harden...
Those guys put MotoGP riders to shame, really.
6th I think: Mary I, Elizabeth I (from Henry viii), Mary II (with William iii), Anne (both Stuarts), Victoria and Elizabeth II.
Had a morning and afternoon post though. For telegrams specifically at least I believe you could pick them up by dropping in on the off-chance too?
Exactly. To me it just seems like a profoundly bad idea to become overly reliant on the code of others. Then your capability to solve business problems will certainly decrease.
Yes! Let's push this as hard as possible. Monarchies are an affront to all Enlightenment ideals and belong in the history books.
Same here. And I'm an immigrant to the UK. Can't help but feeling sad
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Yeah seriously give me all the impossible whoppers. I'm all in for whopper wednesday... those things are legit!
It looks great, but a little disappointed to see no mobile version. I'll use this the next time I'm on my computer.
For now. 2022. Yeah no in the future too.
does it work with "tls internal" or do the certs need to be signed by an outside CA for HTTP/3 to be enabled.
I agree with you, save for the negative health effects. It's very rare but sometimes it breaks people (firsthand witness to this way back when).

It still should be legal but we should be honest about risks.
https://warontherocks.com/2022/09/not-their-plane-to-land-ge...

> Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss Doyle Hodges’ recent article scrutinizing Gen. Mark Milley’s behavior in the waning months of the Trump administration. Journalists have rendered a relatively favorable treatment of Milley’s insubordination, but Hodges questions the long-term implications for civil-military relations. Should senior military officers be expected to follow lawful orders, even if they are morally objectionable? Or is resignation the only proper response when those in uniform cannot faithfully execute an order? And is the problem of civil-military relations unique to the Trump administration or does the Milley case portend a future in which the military’s standing is filtered through the same partisan lenses that inflict our politics across the board?
It is way less efficient to consume HN with this design, so I won't use it.
Australia is happily selling any amount of coal to the EU because they are in a trade war with the Chinese who refuse to buy their coal.
Realistically, this is how every rating system I've ever come across works. On a 10 point scale, you avoid anything under a 7.5. this applies to even unfiltered public ratings, so I assume it's an attribute of how human apply numeric opinion scoring.
Many people have bad trips that end up in irreparable self harm or harm to others, often inducing death by police.

Psychedelics radically impact cognition and consciousness, and not always in a safe way.

It's not always just a 'woah man' giggling in a park.

People climb high things and fall. They run into traffic or harms way. They often attack first responders that are attempting to deescalate.

Thought loops are dangerous and psychotic breaks are an obvious possibility to anyone who has done these substances.
These have nothing to do with being "established religions." As you said, Mormons shun. Many Muslim groups advocate killing apostates. It might be trivial to get a copy of the Bible, but the vast majority of how e.g. the Catholic Church runs is not drawn from the Bible using the most obvious interpretation, and is not shared with laymen - the Bible is not an IKEA instruction manual.

Also Mormonism is not particularly old. Mainstream evangelical/charismatic Protestantism was formed completely from storefront Pentecostalism in the early part of the 20c, making it barely older than Scientology or even the Nation of Islam. Scientology isn't bad because it's not "established," it's bad because it hurts people.
Oh wow, it's like HN has entered the 21st century all of a sudden

great design, Im keeping it enabled for testing
It's true that a lot of aircraft development has occurred using substitute engines while the final engines where still being developed. The problem for Boom isn't getting airborne. It's convincing one of the few outfits capable of this to put billions of dollars into a clean sheet engine design.

Klimov RD-33's (the Mig-29 engine) are not super-cruise engines and aren't capable of demonstrating the intent of the Boom design. And frankly I think even a retrofit like that is beyond Boom's means.
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Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, ideally without barriers such as signups or emails. You'll get more feedback that way.

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I’m sorry, what service?
hah still a thing, and now they do delivery and have punchcards.

Supposedly one of them works with a prof at Berkeley to make their product
I suspect the King in question is a bigger point than it being _a_ King. I think King William could easily carry the monarchy another generation
Ecosystems grow, maintain themselves, and can be better at sequestering carbon.

Random example: blue jays plant oak trees. They like acorns, pick them off trees and bury them for later, and forget some. If you have an ecosystem that supports blue jays your forest will expand without fundraisers and government programs.

Ecosystems fix carbon in more active biomass than just tree trunks. If you get soil building ecosystems and ecosystems that put more carbon in living creatures, you have less carbon in the atmosphere. The extra CO2 in the atmosphere is like fertilizer, and you can get life to utilize it more and grab more of it out of the atmosphere by supporting it in small ways so it can go on to support itself.
In the long run, they could be dangerous to profit margins of defense contractors.
France clamps down on delivery depot 'dark stores'
It does and you can limit posters to in-sub karma. afaik the only way to implement that solution is to write a custom bot though. Reddit's tools for moderation are basically garbage.
I think the point is it's a technical structure that supports a very large organization's unified datastore, despite the fact that ownership of the structure of that datastore is decentralized and the responsibility for populating that datastore is maybe even more decentralized.

Very large organizations need technical solutions to organizational problems, especially when there are many loosely coupled teams interacting in one way or another.
Truss wouldn’t care about that. If anything she’ll spin this to her advantage. It’s pretty common for governments to release embarrassing documents or unpopular changes during busy news weeks, or at the weekend, knowing that peoples attention is elsewhere.

You don’t get to become a PM by playing nice.
In real life customers rarely have the ability to write a complete and consistent spec. That’s why we have iterative development and agile.

Well, yes, that’s the “communicate further as needed” part, isn’t it? :-)
Based on the data, that's unclear (18-24 year olds only) at best: https://www.statista.com/statistics/863893/support-for-the-m...
I want it to work but, the hard part is the engines and without a partnership it's going to be difficult to get off the ground.