skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. This morning there was a debate on QE2's page about the wording for Elizabeth's death section and they already had a draft written for when it was officially announced. This event was really well telegraphed hours ahead (BBC in all black, cancelling their afternoon programming, everything straight from Operation London Bridge started at 8 or 9 ET)
Elizabeth was the Queen of England, the Queen of Canada, the Queen of Australia, etc., etc., it's the definition of being a Commonwealth Realm. So, at the time of her death, she had about 150 million subjects.

Given that all the countries with more population than that have a constitution and not a sovereign, it's safe to say yesterday she was the most prolific monarch alive.
Does the royal family do anything non-ceremonial? Do the royals have real power?
Looria's ranking algorithm has no effect on what happens to the actual quality of content for Reddit users. Volunteer moderators cannot be expected to keep up with paid bot programmers. Paying objective moderators is essentially impossible, and the whole business model is built on harvesting review data for free anyway
R.I.P. She was the real image of monarchy in the world for almost a century. God saves the Queen
Fun fact about English royalty

It’s technically easier for a muslim to become king/queen than for a Catholic.

Catholics are the only ones who are banned by law to become English royals.
Most people aren't mourning her, personally. They are mourning what she represents.
Drat, she had less than two years to go to pass Louis XIV.

I have been a republican for most of my life and don't like to have her name in my passport. Nevertheless the first time we brought our young son to the UK we had a picture of him in front of Buckingham Palace (and I have the same picture of myself at that same location).
I've been running it about 4 years now? It's very low maintenance (run process_new_comments.py every month and re-deploy). It also doesn't bring in much money: it's definitely a hobby rather than a business.

I don't do any marketing, most traffic comes from people mentioning it on reddit or from being included in "cool internet stuff" newsletters. I have some ideas for marketing, but I also hate marketing and do enough of it for my day job SaaS.

So I just run it because I really enjoy it! I used to have a newsletter but stopped that as it was too stressful having a regular deadline and dealing with email spam filters. Everything else about the site I enjoy: writing occasional blog posts, looking at culture through the lens of books, finding new books. I really like books: I used to own and run a bookstore, and a book price comparison website in the past.
This is an interesting world event, but I'm confused that it is considered on-topic here on HN. I had thought that non-technical news did not belong on HN.
Can somebody please clarify the guidelines as to what is considered topical?
The level of confusion and arrogance to call other religions than your own "superstition" is mind boggling. Especially since one of those religions is Buddhism which quite literally doesn't even believe in gods!
One drug is possibly more harmful but is already legal almost everywhere, deeply ingrained in many aspects of Western society and has a history of issues regarding criminalization

The other is possibly less harmful but it is currently illegal/controlled pretty much everywhere and has a niche demand.

I think its entirely reasonable to think that we should not open up a whole new can of worms.
If you switch to julia you'd have to port over the entire pytorch ecosystem as well if you want to use this together with that (taichi has great compatability via `to_tensor`). Also, the kernels you write in taichi is hardly a DSL, they're nearly indistinguishable from normal python code (minus the rare occasional caveat).
>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.

Having an unelected, unaccountable individual who leeches off the tax system: this is anachronistic but fair, it's about balance of powers, its an important part of our cultural heritage, it doesn't even cost that much why do you care.

Having strong founding principles and rights that are cautiously amended: this is tenuous, this goes too far, free speech too extremist, why bad man own gun.
All: please don't post flamebait, including ranting against monarchy or railing against "the nobility" like it's 1770. Such reflexive comments are not on topic here. We want curious conversation. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

This story is on topic because it's a major historical event and history has always been on topic here. If it doesn't produce an intellectually curious response in you, you're welcome to find something else that does—there are plenty of other things to read—but in that case please refrain from posting.

Positive-empty comments aren't substantive either, but as pg pointed out way back when HN was getting started (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html), those are benign. The comments we need to avoid are the malignant ones.

Edit: by positive-empty I just meant comments like these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32770030

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769786

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769037

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769019

I'm not telling you guys to be royalists! I'm just asking you not to post crap comments, which this thread was filled with when I first saw it. We don't care what you're for or against, we just care about people using HN as intended.

Edit 2: I think the problem is that this comment has outlived its usefulness at the top of the thread because the bottom of the barrel comments have mostly been moderated away, whether by user flags or by us. I'm going to unpin this and mark it offtopic now. Please don't post any more bottom-of-barrel comments!—and if you see some, please flag them.
So OP was out of line by calling it "sad" but to call his opinions "flamewar tangents" is totally different?

Edit to match yours: If this convo is so fraught, Dang should delete the whole thread.
You can edit the title to take the 'show hn' off although a mod will come along to do it for you at some point.
and I think things that were really sad like the triangle between Prince Charles, Princess Diana, and Camilla Parker Bowes.
The words 'God save the King' in the national anthem are going to feel very alien for a while I think, I feel a genuine sense of loss with the Queen's death. I think it comes from a place of national identity in general rather than royalism specifically, royalist or republican it can't be denied that Queen Elizabeth played a significant role in how the UK sees itself and to an extent how the rest of the world sees us and now she's suddenly not there.
Steam deck also supports FSR2 just not globally like it does FSR1.

For FSR2 you need game-specific data so it's dependent on the game developers to adopt it.
Correction, I was referring to "X more comments..." like seen on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32755893

I just want all comments to load on page load so I can search easily.
which part of that is a personal attack?
> As a counterpoint we, as humans, got here in roughly 100 hundred years with the bulk of the damage done most recently.

Right, of course. In the simplest possible terms, causing a mess is always easier than cleaning it up. That is true in every sense; time, energy and resources.

I tried to answer this question in my research. In other words, if we can make a mess in 100, 200 or 500 years (take your pick, we started burning oil a long time ago), why did we make such an impact and why is it that we can't clean it up just as quickly.

In the end I think it boils down to energy. It's a long topic. I'll try to summarize it as best as I can.

When we burn one liter, gallon or barrel of oil we are burning a concentrated form of energy that took mountains of plant and other matter and an unimaginable amount of time and energy to produce. I have not run the numbers at all. I would not be surprised to find out that the only energy source on earth that is denser (per unit mass) than oil is nuclear.

A loose way to think of this is that each barrel of oil burned might represent burning down a forest-load of trees. I can't calculate an accurate number because it is so hard to get reasonable estimates. Just judging from the results then: If, in 100 years, we did what normal took 100K years (a 100 ppm increase in atmospheric CO2), then (very hand-wavy now) we are burning a thousands times more fuel per day than whatever occurred in the natural cycle.

This is, in my opinion, also why we just can't fix this without, I don't know, magic of some fundamentally incredible discovery of the scale of the Theory of Relativity. We need a ridiculous amount of energy and resources to fix this. Most people think local/laboratory, when, in reality, this has to be viewed at a planetary scale. And, at that scale, we might just need more energy and resources than exist on this planet if we claim to be able to fix this (drop it by 100 ppm) in 20 to 50 years.

I would really like to see honest scientific conversation around this reality.

Why?

Because, if it is true that we cannot fix it, we should be investing money, resources and brain-power on how to deal with it.

I don't think I am wrong. I have yet to see any proposed solution --of any kind-- prove viability at a planetary scale. If I am right, we are wasting valuable time and resources.

I just read this article this morning [0]. Quite a revelation. I am still trying to understand it. No conclusions on my part yet.

There's so much we don't know. And, again, to be repetitive, we can barely control things at a local level (coal and forest fires) and we are actually claiming to be able to fix an entire planet in two decades. At some point one has to take a moment to think that this might just not be a reasonable claim.

I'll repeat that none of what I say is to propose we do not need to cleanup our act. We definitely do, at all levels. I just don't want lies about why we should do it. And, of course, I firmly believe nuclear is the solution to energy generation. From what I've seen so far, nothing else can compare, not even close.

[0] https://www.ornl.gov/news/inland-water-carbon-emissions-rise
Not OP but I think advancements are not exclusive.

Going faster is one of the big advancements, but probably not the biggest.

Going 2x faster is obviously a good thing, everything else being equal. Costs can potentially go down as you can run 2x the flights per day. People enjoy flights more. The difference between a 2.5 hour and 5 hours flight is a lot. A 6 hour and 12 hour flight, a lot.

Making flights cheaper is something people consistently prefer. The main flight costs are fuel, pilots, staff, and airport capacity. Electric flights are interesting for short hauls but are a long way away from long haul use (much further away than supersonic). Automating away pilots is something that technically is easier than driverless cars, but hasn't seemed to be a priority yet. Progress there would be helpful. Removing staff on planes is a legal requirement and seems harder to do for larger flights for human reasons. Airport capacity is probably best helped by increasing turn time.

Honestly, the easiest way to improve the flight experience is to (effectively) get rid of all security on flights. Once planes can't be made into missiles (door locks were a good post 9-11 change), they are no higher risk than many other enclosed spaces that have no security. This would help speed of travel AND cost, and really means "just do less". But it's a political issue.
I was reading [1] (from 2017) this afternoon, I guess it came up because the queen was reported as being ill.

"People who are not expecting to cry will cry."

Looks like they were right!

Interesting read by the way which touches on many aspects.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens...
> reigned as the crown of an extraordinarily cruel empire

Queen Elizabeth presided over its dismantlement. No famines occurred during her reign and no rebellions violently suppressed.

The Empire was cruel, but it's unfair to wash her with the cloth of empire.
As a Brit I'm not a huge fan of the royal family on principle, but Queen Elizabeth has been such an excellent head of state for us you really can't fault her.

People like to make out her life was easy and that it's not fair that she inherited such a privileged position, but I think the exact opposite. Her life seemed like living hell to me. Every day for the last 70 years she's had to serve this largely ungrateful country, and she did so without complaint. Even in her 90s she took her duties extremely seriously, and I respect the hell out of her for that.

It was only a couple of days ago she invited our new PM to Balmoral Castle to form a government. She was clearly looking weak and it's been no secret that she's been struggling to fulfil her duties as Queen for a while, but even just two days before her death at the age of 96 she put on the performance that was expected of her. And she did this practically every day of her life.

RIP. I doubt anyone will ever live up to her legacy. Despite all the problems I have with the royal family, I couldn't feel more pride that she was our Queen.
People don't understand that money is necessary to trade. Yes I know it sounds obvious but nobody even considers the following scenario.

Imagine building a highly advanced society on the division of labor and trade between people. No single person can do everything alone so by cooperation we will attain a much higher standard of living free of starvation. Now let's say the money system is exclusively digital and runs on the internet. If the internet were to shutdown and take down the money system with it, the standard of living would collapse. If people decide to no longer farm food for themselves, they would have to do so again, if they cannot start a farm, they will have to starve. All the things we take for granted would disappear.

Now, imagine a slightly different scenario, instead of the money system shutting down, all of the money concentrates in the hands of the 1%. For the bottom 99% the result is the same as if you shut the money system down for them. They would be doomed to poverty overnight. We call events like these economic "depressions".

The real world isn't black and white. There are different "grades" or there is a spectrum in how good money is at facilitating trade. The gold standard is worse at doing so than fiat but even modern fiat has problems and isn't perfect.
One correction, the current non-enforcement of the nylon favelas is coming from a place of compassion, ostensibly

I just wish we could use selective enforcement as a way to invalidate some laws and policies under the constitution (right its only the opposite, a law can only be questioned by someone it was enforced against, if they can afford doing so)
The Queen is the moral heart of the kingdom. She set an example for us. There remains a feeling that we lost a light to look towards.
I am in Madrid and I would be interested into organising something like this.

Maybe we could start with a event on meetup and gauge interest?
In Canada, it would require changing the constitution and will open the floodgates for more changes. It was hard enough to do that once.
Looking forward to all the new PyTorch-related improvements and features that this new focus will bring to Lightning!
Imagine I start a cult and accumulate 20 members, then get millions in funding from a state benefactor who only requires that we advocate for them, then expand to a million members over the next decade, although sometime in the fifth year I was deposed and replaced by a successor hand-picked by the state benefactor.

There's definitely an extreme difference between what I've done here and what the state benefactor did, but the difference is that I was far less important than the benefactor. If anything, the state benefactor "set up" a political organization, and used my glorified yoga class as a "support."
I would argue that ruby as almost all the strengths of perl and conciseness with more coherency if you want a perl-like fluidity and terseness. I personally like python for anything that becomes more than a 100 lines of bash.
Elizabeth II was the most decolonial monarch in history. Almost all our colonies gained their independence during her reign, and insofar as the empire was "extraordinary cruel", almost all of that cruelty occurred before her reign.

By all means let's have a reasoned discussion about the legacy of the empire, but this is not the place.
Sure, but no one could argue that Tesla is a Theranos-like operation. Arguments can be made about whether Tesla's valuation is reasonable, but it's certainly a legitimate car manufacturer.
Seems true, because about 80% of the volume of a tv or monitor box is padding. Padding scales with surface area, not volume, so it could be reduced by a ton.
Nobody is claiming that success is 100% attributable to luck. The claim is that becoming rich and famous is mostly luck-driven (see the quote in OP's comment), which I think is absolutely true.

Believing otherwise leads the rich and famous to think that they are better than everyone else, and the less successful to think that they are inherently inferior, when in reality there is a wide overlap in effort, dedication, and strategy between the two groups. One group was just in the right place at the right time while applying those skills, and the other wasn't.

In other words, not becoming rich and famous is not a personal failing. Sometimes you can try anyone's best and simply not succeed.
Yes, Prime Minister had an amusing bit about that, and how they definitely weren't going to be seated in alphabetical order.
Using it now — I like it!
Rachel Aviv’s Journey to the Ends of Psychiatry
I should be happy that you have automated a process that I manually perform frequently, but instead it gives me anxiety.

The set of incentives means the more successful you are, the more you will directly be attacked in the form of bad faith posts. Reddit is not better because it is a better system or because it has better moderation. Reddit is better because there isn't an entire industry (SEO) devoted to corrupting Reddit posts yet. Even google hasn't done a stellar job of winning that arms race, and they have vastly more resources.

You add value by performing the manual labor of finding and "reading" through posts, but the core value is generated by Reddit's abuse prevention team. If you were to be acquired by Reddit, my trust would go to zero. If you took outside investment, my trust would go to zero. My trust is already a little low because wirecutter specifically avoided items they couldn't get affiliate links for and now they are completely corrupted by new ownership. Wirecutter was the last review site that I used to make a purchase decision.

More than anything, I am worried that the dark mirror of this website, the "reddit optimization" industry is probably just as advanced and validated by efforts like this.
The idea of someone's likeness being broadcast on some kind of screen has been in sci-fi for a long time. More like facetime - but still. The idea is not new. And people wanted it.
If the called function only returns a specific type, how is there a need to type check the returning value?
Crying "whataboutism" isn't a rhetorical shortcut to dismiss a reasonable argument. It's hypocritical and silly to allow alcohol and not other recreational drugs with similar safety profiles. It's also untenable to completely restrict alcohol.
If we could keep our brains running that long, I wonder what our perception of time would end up being.

Would our minds scale to timescales that vast? Would we just start forgetting things as time went on?
The best OO frameworks Mouse and cperl make it faster. Moose, Moo and Corinna signicantly slower. Guess which frameworks are recommended
Not so black and white, but I still thing the Sex Pistols GSTQ is a great song (also Anti-Nowhere Leagues 's "So F*king What!", much more FTW). Never a fan of the Diana bandwagon either.

Yet, likewise to me the Queen always earned the respect shown her. Colouring the establishment by the actions of some is just too black and white thinking for me.
Amazing piece. I always read such types of fiction with some white, but slightly darkening, sense of envy. Especially parts like "We humans are, deep down, lazy and gluttonous creatures. If left to our own devices, we will do nothing but eat Pringles and watch Netflix." I left my job in February with enough take to not work for another 10 years keeping my gluttonous lifestyle and 20 or more without it. I kept myself busy with moving across the country (and then pushed a little further) for a couple months but 6 months later I ended up with a side project that I have an itch to productize, another project that I want to do for money, a consulting company and I talk to prospective employers at least once in 2-3 weeks. I don't remember when I was watching Netflix online, not downloaded while on the plane.
These are the people from another universe. Somehow I believe their existence is a figure of speech for brilliant writers like Adam.
There's some overhead, but not much. It basically just parses the underlying HTML as soon as it's loaded, then redraws it with added features.

Also no heavy frameworks used, just basic hand-coded JS + jquery + a few helper libraries (luxon for dates etc)
Ask HN: iOS mail client that allows password protection?
I would like a mail client for iOS that enables password protection. Regular Mail app doesn't have that unless you do it the hacky way of using screen time.
I don’t think the monarchs ever worried much about how much underlying work was required for things to happen for them.

That kind of improvement benefits poor people.

It’s like the opposite of tariffs or sanctions: the people at the top are unaffected.
Only because most haven't figured out what happiness is. If happiness is being in control of your limited time here, than giving too much of that away in exchange for material belongings amounts to self torture. Find your balance, and do it sooner rather than later. If you put it off, work has a nasty way of taking control.
I'm not a huge fan of how it removes the built-in account-linked bookmarking functionality (favorites) and replaces it with a pro-only feature (locally stored bookmarks).
I think this is a relatively new feature - HN used to show all comments, but the feature very frequently caused a lot of load on the servers which would cause HN to go down.
Queen of Canada for 44% of its existence[0]. My father remembers her coronation when he was a little kid- he's 75 now.

Meanwhile my daughter is 6 months old and will likely live to see a half a dozen monarchs.

[0]https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28June+2%2C+1953+to+no...
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?

I'd vote no, because then we'd end up with people like Boris Johnson or Liz Truss as our head of state(!!) The monarch nowadays is important for what they prevent. The Queen stood in the way of someone like Boris getting access to all the 'bling' of state. A big shift would need to occur before we could become a sensible republic, particularly in dismantling a lot of the ceremonial aspects of British life. Perhaps even a collective head of state like the Swiss could work.