skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crazy thing is that we not ever see 10 billion at this rate. Globally we are down to 2.1 births per woman, and the majority of nations now have a birth rate below 2, meaning most countries are below replacement. And even the positive birth rate countries are rapidly trending downwards (with the exceptions of Uzbekistan, Kahzakstan, and Iran).

It will be very interesting to see how the population J curve flatlining affects global society. We live in interesting times.
Meh, it's more than tradition. It also brings stability and help with diplomatic relations.

De facto, the country is not a monarchy but rather a democracy.
The title should be "Don't move to Tallinn".

Learn some Estonian and spend time in the smaller towns and cities.

And yes, Estonian customer service is often short and to the point. It's not necessarily an expression of rudeness.
Years ago I interacted with hippies openly selling commercial-looking individually wrapped chocolates containing psilocybin in Golden Gate Park.

This is San Francisco we're talking about, psychedelics already weren't a priority for the police in any practical sense.
> So South Korea has reasons for being not too keen on Japan, which you understand, but you also wouldn't trust them to talk about that? Does anyone with any grievance deserve trust, in your eyes?

Trust in the matter that they’ve grievances with? Not really. It’s already a chore trying to discern biases in media and cross check facts across multiple sources. I don’t think it’s particularly useful to spend time giving much credence to a source that you know is biased. It’s like getting all my news about Joe Biden from Fox News and the Daily Caller. Why waste my time?
Likewise. Go was engineered for simplicity mostly in reaction to the complexity of C++. As anticipated, now that we got generics, some developers keep asking for more and more features. Let's not turn Go into another C++ when its goal is to stay a straightforward, simple, modernized C.
Saying that will take a bit of getting used to!
one liz in one liz out
People hate change is the short answer

The status quo has a lot of momentum and you need some sort of catalyst to make the change. Liz managed to avoid much controversy so that catalyst never appeared - perhaps her death will trigger the will to change it
I wonder if measuring engagement and optimising for engagement should be separated. I’m glad that there is lots of engagement on HN but I’m also glad that HN chooses not to implement a number of engagement optimisation features as well as downranking topics that result in high engagement flame wars.
I don't think there is another Royal family of the same prestidge. There are other royal families in Europe but you don't hear much about them.
Here's a secret. They don't really care about any readings. It's just a tool for interrogation and gaslighting you. If you're doing stuff like squeezing your sphincter, yea they have sensors on the chairs to detect that.

Polygraphers are skilled at reading people & telling stories. But them reading the machines? It's kinda nonsense - they'd only read results to find excuses to gaslight you. They pretend to rip off the polygraph sheets and yell. Playing good cop/bad cop and making up stories to try to build a rapport. It's really just an interrogation. If you can handle being yelled at for a week, then you'd pass.
Engine manufacturing is much more profitable, and seemingly challenging than airframe manufacturing. The engines they'll use are unlikely to be very different from those in other applications, so I'm not sure there's room for a new entrant. Keep in mind that the R&D and capital costs of becoming a turbine engine manufacturer are immense, and likely much higher than the costs to develop a new aircraft.
But plenty of them have connections to weird cults, also, due to the US largely being (especially in governance) a Protestant country. Protestantism isn't a religion, it's thousands of religions, each having between 1 and 100 leaders with constituencies between the size of a family or the population of a state.

For example, H. Clinton's relationship with The Family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_(Christian_political... or Amy Coney Barrett's People of Praise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_Praise.

American lawmakers are at least as if not more religiously bizarre than Japanese ones.
That video demonstrates the problem exactly. The "before" shot shows a clip from Lightyear which takes place in the black of space, and the screen is filled with high-contrast bright colors on a completely-black background. The "after" shot is of a bright sunny day where a car (low contrast despite the bright red color, to my eyes) drives through a desert. You could hardly ask for more directly opposite videos. For a real comparison, I'd have liked to see the same Lightyear clip on both setups.
> But also yes, it's an amazing piece of literature.

I think you are overselling. It's worth a read, but the writing is often stilted and repetitive, the central conceit interesting but tired by the end. It's not a long book, but probably would have been better as a shorter form.
Due to her passing away in Scotland, I believe there is a different Operation in play, Operation Unicorn - https://www.thenational.scot/news/21224640.operation-unicorn...
Canada has lost its queen as well. And not only Canada.
She navigated the changing world, role and importance of the crown across her reign with a lot of intelligence and grace.
Do they really have any power though? At this point they're there because they've always been there, but why is that bad on its own?

It does give the people a sense of history and dignity about their longevity.
It's the concept of monarchy I have a problem with. Not the UK in particular ( though your actions in Northern Ireland remain shameful).
Sounds like Lua. But I see no difference in execution time with Python 3.10.
I am a republican i.e. very anti-monarchist but it is a historic moment and I feel sad for some reason. The end of an era. A constant throughout the postwar period in this country. Someone my gran loved too and looked up to, so I feel pretty sad as a Brit.
Can't believe Brexit was voted 6 years ago, time flies so fast.
So Ikea is written in Prolog?
I feel slightly bad for Liz Truss, since I imagine that one of the things she will be remembered is that the Queen died less than 48 hours into her government.
It’s also rips the context out of the deal: Microsoft “bailed Apple out” because MS was deep in an antitrust lawsuit, and giving a cash infusion to your main competitor was a way to signal to legislators - “we’re not trying to be a monopoly!”
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"it's basically indisputable that they are socially harmless."

I wouldn't go that far. Any substance that alters perception, inhibition, etc has the potential for some social impact. For example, public drunkenness, DUI, liquor license etc were created because intoxicated people caused some sort of problem and laws were created around that. While these were created for alcohol, it's likely similar laws would be created for other substances.
I too am unable to do this, there isn't a comment box for top level comments.

EDIT: I would expect a comment block to be before the "${count} Comments" tag.
man, oh man.

I haven't bought a computer in I don't know how long.

Mainly, I just get the cast offs from my extended family. I let them buy the newest and best and just use their old stuff. I have 2 desktops and 2 laptops, all cast offs. It's fine for my purposes. 99% of what I do is internet browsing, word processing, spreadsheets, VOIP and a few other low resource apps. Why do I need a brand new computer? What do I care if the chassis is ugly or not? Who cares about the "looks" of it? I mean, sure, if I worked in some area with intensive CPU stuff, like graphics, I can understand that. But I don't, and 90% of the world does not. My parents got a new computer last year, they went from an i7 to an i7, their old computer is 8 years old, everything works in a flash, still super fast.

A freaking i5 from 10 years ago is just fine. It's how I've always done it. I mean, if I purchased the two towers and two laptops brand new, in cash money, that would be $6000 or something like that. That would get me a lot of blow and hookers in Vegas. Let's keep our priorities straight, folks. For women..it would buy one little container of high-end mascara, so that's all to the good. Priorities.
Managers jobs are typically kind of like a secretary but more. But more of a jack of all trades. Making sure the budget is correct for this year so we can hire the right amount of people (accountant). Jim on the third row needs a lot more hand holding than usual because his wife is in chemo (HR). Going to the upper management to make sure that 3 of your co-workers get the recognition they deserve (cheerleader). Sitting in that 3 hour meeting working out who is going to pay for that feature the sales guys must have (negotiator). Plus a dozen other things. If that position did not exist you know who would be doing that? You and all of your coworkers would. Are a lot of people bad at that? Yep. But some are good too.

The point of my question is to make people stop and think about the chesterton's fence of why is that position there. For example your janitor example. Extremely well defined position. Most people do not want it (including yourself).
> socially harmless. Nobody gets addicted to them, there are no known negative health effects.

Not true.

My friend woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed after a bad trip on mushrooms. He saw his dead body in the street and was convinced he was dead and a ghost. He then went running around Manhattan traffic jumping on cars.

An English teacher in high school witnessed her friend jump to her death from a balcony after taking LSD. The woman said she felt light as a bird, took off running, hopped up a chair and dove over the railing to the pavement 20 feet below. She broke her neck.

I am not saying psychedelics should remain banned. But to casually call them harmless is incredibly irresponsible. They need to be taken under supervision by people with experience. This is called trip sitting. Not all trips are good as emotions and state of mind can effect the outcome. Things can go wrong fast. Be safe.
PiHole is interesting in the amount of ads it blocks, but also the ads it doesn't. Made most of the banners go away for the silly coloring applications my kids use, but the full screen video ads don't go away. The video ads really need to be blocked as there are a lot that are not appropriate for the age of my kids.

Some applications also refuse to start without tracking active. Took a while to figure out that "Envoy" the desk booking system wouldn't start while getting DNS from pihole.
Indeed she reigned for about 30% of U.S. history.

(credit for observation goes to Matt Glassman)
It looks great, is there a way to reduce the margins on the left and the right? Right now the padding is taking up about 40% of the usable space. Where on the normal HN the padding is about 15%
U.S. ban on Nvidia, AMD chips seen boosting Chinese rivals
Well, I would guess that at the very least she would be able to spell throne.
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I built something similar. It didn’t really work as a business (or at least I wasn’t able to make it work) so I open sourced it: https://github.com/async-go/asyncgo

If there’s anything useful there feel free to scavenge, or if you’d like to talk about what I learned trying to build it let me know.
How many American Presidents came into power during her tenure?
RIP. Perhaps the last reigning Queen of England the world will ever see.
This is the main way you distinguish the grifters from the movers.

The 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, even if they did borrow engines.
Fascism, communism and monarchy are a different side of the same coin.
Michigan GOP leaders encourage rule breaking at poll worker training session
Looks like there actually are conspiracies to steal elections.
This is probably the only death of a public figure that has really hit me hard. The Queen was a constant all of my life, all of my parents' lives and, indeed, a good deal of my grandparents' lives. The comfort she could bring to many is not to be underestimated in my view. When Covid-19 was kicking off in the UK, and our lives were changing in ways we couldn't predict, I remember being immensely comforted by her speech.
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Flamebait will get you banned here. No more of this please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would argue that the biggest change came to her parents' generation more or less.

They were born without electricity, and everything it brought, and without cars or planes, and they lived to have pretty much all modern comfort and watch a man on the Moon on TV.
Interesting. Could you define "_your_ car". Marriage, in US anyway, is effectively a business partnership with default split of 50/50. My car is her car and vice versa.

I think I already have a response I needed, but now I am just exploring other avenues of this conversation.
> Get up and do some push-ups

I’m just gonna ask now because I’ve seen it so often. Is this an idiom or is there some kind of expectation people can do push ups? Personally I can do a bunch of pull ups but I don’t think I’ve ever done a single proper push up. Judging from obesity stats I’d expect like half the populace to not be able to do either.
The last monarch of her kind; I don’t think the British monarchy institution will ever be the same nor future monarchs looked at with the same respect.
Great now do the Sprawl trilogy
My state has no law against public drunkenness and there is no discernible difference here between other states I have lived in which had such a law. Honestly I think that was written as a religious feelzy.
I'm not British so I won't recommend what they do with their monarchy, but I agree with you that her descendants are an unimpressive lot
I have recently toured the GE plants where the engines are assembled and developed. I have worked in the same office with the engineers who design and service the engines. No way in hell GE can do this given the amount of resources for this project. And I highly doubt Boom would like working with them at all.

GE gets skittish about a project when the government has already given them billions to develop it.
It's understandable, she's been a constant vague presence for a lot of British people.

It feels like a minor part of our personal history died. I definitely feel saddened, even if I don't have a connection with royalty.
> I have only seen GPT-3 used when it takes a prompt and then generates more related text

This is a fully general technique. Any repeatable problem can be rephrased as a prompt + related technique via the following structure:

Problem: <Example of Problem>

Solution: <Example of Solution>

<...maybe include one or two more examples>

Problem: <Real Problem>

Solution: <Ask GPT-3 for the solution>
Yes, just click the "aA" icon to open the settings, and use the bottom slider to adjust the content width.
Queen Victoria also reigned for a very long time - 63 years, seven months and two days.

A list, British Kings & Queens - by Length of Reign: https://britroyals.com/reigned.asp

These two women take the two top spots.

By the way, in the otherwise completely unremarkable hobby-writer webnovel "Monroe" (https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/35398/monroe) the queen was a - very popular - side character. After the introduction of "magic" in our universe she got her youth back and started killing monsters using armor and huge sword used by her ancestors hundreds of years earlier, in a sword and magic and levels fantasy universe. The author kept writing chapters about this initially not very important side character after it turned out a lot of readers found the Queen returning to youth and becoming a sword fighting and magic throwing monster killer at least as if not more appealing than following the story's actual main character.

Sample chapter where she appears (look for "queen", it's down the middle of this chapter): https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/35398/monroe/chapter/84715...
Finally some help for Elon, the Richest Man in the World, from the left media. About time.
Safran's M88 should be sufficient for Boom's 1/3rd scale demonstrator I think? Then at least they'd have something to show other manufacturers and investors.
I would like to know the difference between LiveView Native and Elixir Desktop [1]. It seems that both projects are in the same space. However, it is not clear which one should I pick for cross-platform development.

[1] https://github.com/elixir-desktop/desktop
Thanks for a great piece of software that I use every day in production and just works.

At first I was scared of how stupid simple it is. It feels like web servers are supposed to have giant config files with a hundred mysterious knobs to twiddle. Now I always default to Caddy, and have yet to find an instance where it didn't fit my needs. Congrats.
When she was born, the British Empire ruled over a quarter of the world’s population.
Cover crops have a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen fixing bacteria that they maintain in their roots. When the crop is harvested (and the roots die), the nitrogen that was fixed by the bacteria in the roots remains in the soil.

Free living, nitrogen fixing bacteria are free living and have a protein that allows them to fix nitrogen to allow faster growth than the bacteria that need to get their nitrogen through other processes. They are often anaerobic (or functionally anaerobic) and so flourish in areas that are oxygen poor (like soil and decomposing organic matter) and by fixing the nitrogen present they enable other organisms to live there (their nitrogen fixing allows fungus to become established in the decomposing organic matter - the bacteria themselves aren't doing the decomposition). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paenibacillus_polymyxa is one such species of nitrogen fixing bacteria that forms a biofilm on plant roots, fixes nitrogen, and produces a substance that makes the plant roots more resistant to other pathogens.
Makes me wonder what sorts of things will be triggered by this event. I bet security services are on high alert, and for some reason I'm a little worried about getting on my flight in a couple hours.
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I'm also anti-monarchy, but if we had to have one, I'm glad it was her :) I've never met or didn't know her, but she came across as a good person and it's odd to know that she's gone.
Top right theres 'aA' setting button. Play with is.
I was running this on my laptop for a while but it doesn't support hibernation which sucks :(
Money in the form of a one dollar bill is effectively a perfectly liquid perpetual treasury bond with a fixed interest rate of 0% that the central bank issued.

In the modern economy where commercial banks create deposits through loans, the borrowers don't owe anyone money other than the interest payments on the loan, paying the loan destroys the deposits that were created through the debt. The borrower owes products and services, not money, to the holder of the liquid claim on that debt. The borrower gives up his products and services willingly because he must pay his debt with money.
Good idea. Two things:

1. Usually, there is a larger context to decisions. Have you considered integrations around tying these decisions to frameworks like OKRs?

2. Usually, decisions require some form of execution. Execution also makes decision matter. People within an org should feel like not only they were heard, but when the final decision was taken by its owner, there was some form of action taken as a follow up. Sometimes the follow up would be merging some code in a git branch. Sometimes the follow up would be calling a lawyer and discussing long-term consequences. In any event, people should be able to see that something happened as a result of their input, within your UI. :)
The king/queen's passport situation is also weird. British passports ask for passage "in the name of Her Majesty", but she theoretically doesn't need one since she can ask herself.
That worked thanks, I would recommend adding a tooltip to explain what that action is doing.
Interesting. Bob’s political views are much more left leaning, so this automatically makes him a much more credible source than musk in our present day.
I’m finding this is hitting a lot harder than I expected.
Companies Are Buying Large Numbers of Carbon Offsets That Don’t Cut Emissions
Everyone’s job in a business is solving business problems. Programmers do that mainly by programming. Otherwise we wouldn’t call them programmers.
> thither

?? is this still used in english, or were you just teasing? thanks
*Lost* in the wilderness?

Off the top of my head (local news or cases I have heard of from fellow hikers):

One keeled over dead, on the trail and part of a group.

Two diabetics, alone but not lost.

One found dead on the trail, apparently an insta-kill medical issue.

One lost, never found, but I suspect he was actually a suicide. If not, he was trying for a Darwin.

One near the road going for help after a vehicle breakdown.

One got cliffed out trying to go for help after a vehicle breakdown. Not really lost, but unable to proceed.

One disappeared, his body hasn't been found where he was expected to be but given his experience level lost is unlikely. Personally, I suspect he went off trail for something and keeled over.

There have also been two skeletons pulled out of the desert, probably lost but it's unlikely we will ever know.

Admittedly, a small sample but note that only 20% of those appear to be lost.

I've also talked to a woman who just about became one of those statistics--new to the area and didn't respect the heat. Not lost.

Most wilderness deaths are medical or accident, not lost, and a lot of national park deaths are traffic accidents.
Closer to a fourth, but still impressive.
Time to end on a high? Shall we just abandon this whole monarchy thing and time to flip over to a republic and leave the much revered queen as the last ever monarch of the UK?

Seems like Scotland is going to go independent, and if Scotland do Wales will only be a matter of time so may as well just can it now?
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I'd be surprised if there wasn't. Does QE get credit for former colonies like Canada though? If so that might help.

If you start counting what we'd usually call dictators, there definitely are bigger ones. The monarch/dictator line gets a little blurry and subjective/political I believe.