skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, but to play devil's advocate, what if I changed your comment to:

Agreed. I know nothing about automotive engineering or car design, but the hype around Tesla always puzzled me. If this start up can all of a sudden make an economical electric car, then surely the existing automotive manufacturers could do it quicker and cheaper. Toyota, Mercedes, Ford, etc... already have existing designs from decades past that they could at least use as a base. They have experts in material science, car design, and actual resources/contracts to actually build one. If it made sense.

Sometimes the incumbents are just too entrenched in what they are doing to make what out an outsider sees as an obvious move.
she's dead, it's not going to offend her anymore
Still some issues of basic math and physics. If your aim is to heat a house, the most efficient thing you could do with a liter of ethanol is burn it. If inventor is claiming the device can do better than that it's simply perpetual motion once removed.
Sadly Boom is doomed and it’s been a writing on the wall all along. They never had a good engine option. The military engines are not safe enough and developing a new civilian engine makes sense only if you make hundreds of them.

Their net-zero emission claim is also bogus. Their pricing model doesn’t make much sense either unless they’re willing to lose money for a decade or so. There is not much innovation in aerodynamics and shock wave shaping either. Their only innovation compared to Concorde is the use of composite materials which is just not enough to hit their targets.
Yeah but imagine trying to convince people to use an OSS tool where the catch is that you have to deploy it on special instances, only on providers that support nested virtualization

Not a great DX, haha
I wound up using GraalVM's "Polyglot" abilities alongside it's WASM stuff
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Centuries of advances in typography are surely not a bad idea
It's impressive because the rest of us have to read about these things in history books or in the news. She was there for it all, not only witnessing, but discussing, events of profound significance with the people at the center of them.

And, I think, show-me-the-achievements represents a misunderstanding of the role of the monarch in the British government and British culture. It's not comparable to the Prime Minister or the US President, for example.
Should I trust the Russian press on the topic of Ukraine or NATO?

i.e.

"So Russia has reasons for being not too keen on Ukraine and NATO, which you understand, but you also wouldn't trust them to talk about that? Does anyone with any grievance deserve trust, in your eyes?"

In my view, no, I would not trust or give much positive weight to Russia's opinions on Ukraine and NATO.
>_real_ money is backed by _real_ things

I'm not sure there is a more real thing than another person's labor, which is what people offer when they sign a debt contract. The way fiat works is effectively a time banking network with abstract currency units.
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Psychedelic use in SF is not primarily among the homeless population. That population is using very different substances.
I kinda come here because it doesn't have this :)

But this is the good thing about it, people can extend it as they wish.
the 3D to 2D projections happening in realtime engines don't 'curve' anything the way a real lens does. A fisheye lens in real life will turn some straight lines into curves, you'd never see that in a video game (unless it's a post processing effect that fakes it). So I suspect that there aren't really any games that have the ability to do a 1:1 projection that perfectly matches the curve of a monitor, although there are probably some fast approximations.
Mate I dislike the monarchy and the Queen, but you managed to pick the most senseless thing to complain about. Wow.
You will find any news story of this magnitude on HN. Things like a new president. You're probably just not used to it because they are pretty rare.
This reads like one of those "we need something...anything, to hand-wring about" kind of articles.
It is, but I’m disappointed that it’s flagged because regardless of how much we might dislike it, it’s still a common view.
the point is they didnt need tech startups, they were happy, rich, well fed, simple lives
Hi synu! Thanks for your comment! Very interesting! Would be great to have a chat! Best wishes, Linus
It’s almost as though there could be a better system, one where ability could be judged and debated and voted on.
Yes it works with self-signed certificates!
SSJ 100 was certified to operate in Europe in 2012. How much of SSJ 100 is Russian is another question.

Irkut MC-21 had its first flight in 2017 and was supposed to get certified somewhere around 2025, which is pretty normal period, I think? Obviously, not going to happen now.
Isn't there a third kind of operation, maybe a Magic Leap-style operation, where employees are earnestly developing against a goal which is fanciful but appealing to VCs? And in that case, what's the difference between that and the "usual" VC funded company?

I don't really think Boom are a Theranos style operation, because they aren't claiming to have an operational product when no such item exists. A Theranos style scam would be flying a known-unsafe airframe, or parading their demonstrator around claiming "it totally has engines and is ready to fly lol! we just haven't tested it yet." But so far, Boom have just honestly said "we're delayed" instead.

It's surely not a Madoff style operation as they employ staff who are earnestly working towards their goal, however fanciful it may be.
Outside of the context of OP’s work, I have been mentally conditioned to consider anything “Modern” to be absolutely shit.

Nothing is more repulsive than a tag line on a product that says “New and improved modern look!”
Thanks for the explanation. I removed the plugin.
I feel sad for the british empire, she was like the figure that represented the whole Great Britain. I think it’s the start of a Long way down.

Brexit is a disaster, Prince Charles is not really a charming person, Scotland wants to leave Great Britain and join the EU, Northern Ireland is split as ever.

God save the king.
I really wish lobbying and campaign donations were made illegal because in practice it’s little different from bribery.
That's about right for a 40" TV for domestic ground shipping, maybe a bit low. It's more than that to ship it from China to California, and larger sizes will hit breakpoints that significantly increase shipping cost.
Drives me bonkers.

There was a time when you could just work a minimum wage part time over the summer and it would pay for college the rest of the year.

Now, you can work minimum wage full time year-round and if you're lucky, you MIGHT cover tuition at a community college if you're still living with your parents and they don't charge rent.
I spend a decent amount of time in the backcountry--and more likely than not I have no reception. In general, if I can't see buildings my phone probably doesn't work. (Note that "see" should be interpreted broadly--looking down from a mountain you can rarely resolve individual buildings, but you can see it's developed land.) Major roads will generally have service even if you can't see buildings, but secondary roads rarely do.
meanwhile, Irish Twitter and TikTok have been absolutely ablaze with celebration...
Maybe he should have said, "I encourage readers to skip any interview that discusses views not listed on this 3x5 card"
Sorry you're going through this, it's a tough spot to be in.

I have reframed my approach to employment in the past several years after going through something similar.

At the very core, your relationship with your employer is a business arrangement. You provide a service and your employer pays for it. There might be more to it, like if you have friendships with your teammates, etc. Ultimately though, once your perceived cost exceeds the perceived value you become a liability to the company and they will get rid of you.

I have taken that very personally in the past. What changed my perspective is when I started consulting. I was no longer me, but a "business entity". The relationship then reflected the performance of the business entity, not me as individual. I hope that makes sense. Another take is, what happens when two corporations terminate their contracts? Would you feel bad about that?

This is a long winded way of saying that it's a business relationship and it goes both ways.

- Don't quit because you should be able to collect unemployment.

- Do look for a full time work and if you decide to quit after, just quit. Where I live it's customary to give 2 weeks notice, but not legally required.
Modern humans generate more brain neurons than Neandertals
As an American, I kind of envy the fact that there's a referee who can step in when needed. She stepped into Australia's government shut down and fired the whole government in the 1970s during a government shutdown.

It works because she receives extensive training to be apolitical. (And if she is political, there are repercussions.)
My contact info is in my profile.
DALLE2’s training predates craiyon I believe.
I lived in a Soka Gakkai heavy neighborhood in Tokyo. They tried to recruit me a few times. I've been to their services and social events. It's big thing. They even have offices world-wide, with a few in Cali.

Generally while it's pretty culty, it doesn't do any of that cut-ties with non-culters and its beliefs are derived from Nichiren Buddhism which is pretty standard in Japan. As a result it peacefully exists out in the open for the most part. Not defending it, but it walks a fine line between religion and culty cooporation more so than the normal "cult".
as an American this also makes me sad, the Queen is one of the leaders of the free world and in her passing, the world has lost a great leader
Textbook whataboutism--and I hate that phrase.

Yes, and both substances should be controlled. Uncontrolled hard drugs are harmful to society, but it seems like the ignorant, naive youth of today are going to have to learn some hard lessons on the topic from first principles.
> I can’t see the commonwealth nations welcoming King Charles as their new head of state.

Well this is precisely what is about to happen. There may be some hand wringing articles in major newspapers about whether the Royal head of state is still relevant, appropriate, blah blah blah, but there is approximately zero chance that anything will change in reaction to this news.
My Canadian money is about to get weird.
Bloom County. Comic strip. Back in the 1980's did a whole series after William was born poking fun at the royals. I collected a whole shoebox of comics including most of that series. Long since put it in the trash, but I have never seen any of those strips again. Oh but google:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bloom+county+prince+william
And Jobs is dead.

What I am suggesting is the personality types live on and continue to work together at Apple.
Some of the comments you've been taking action on have had some foul language but this one is just an opinion.

There are some that argue the monarchy constitutes a human rights abuse both against the people she took tax money from and against her own family which was forced to participate in the pageantry.

Calling those opinions "flamewar tangents" is incredibly dismissive.
Glider is a pretty great client on mobile IMO.
>... 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.

Australia was ruled by a Liberal/Country coalition from the 1940s to the end of 1972. Finally the workers of Australia elect a Labor PM, and he was thwarted for three years and then removed at the behest of a hereditary monarch thousands of miles away. That sounds like abuse, but not of the type you mean.
>recommend just keeping your mouth shut because "there's no point leaving a review"

Did anyone say that? I know I didn't.

The parent I was replying to (and simply to offer clarification on what they might have meant) said:

>This is wise.

In reply to the suggestion of using a fake name to leave a negative review.

>Have Airbnb become the corporate mafia or something?

I'm not sure how this follows from what I commented? I don't have a reply.
This is such an overly negative reaction it is frankly mind boggling.

The UI is optional. It is literally an extension you can install separately. Nobody is taking anything from you.

There is a place to criticise bloated and Ad-ridden web pages. This extension is not it.
> Most ad-supported sites today are pretty much garbage, in large part because they're ad-supported.

Would you include HN there? ;)
The extension uses ExtensionPay [1] to accept payments via Stripe for the Pro upgrade. It's open source and created by HN user Glench [2].

[1] https://github.com/glench/ExtPay

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=glench
Translation: Apple doesn't believe in the freedom to get for free, what they could restrict and charge you for themselves.
I share your feeling. I was struck by a deep sense of sadness as well. Maybe it’s silly, I don’t know, I sort of felt she was the grandma of the nation. It was a nice feeling knowing she’s there and a sad one knowing she no longer is.

One thing is for sure. She did leave a mark. Winston God damn Churchill was her first time minister! When I will be old and have grandchildren, I will tell my grandchildren how I became a British citizen. And when they’ll ask me when, I’ll tell them during the reign of The Queen. And they will know who I mean.

God rest her soul.
Lol you're too harsh. I was an aerospace engineer at an aviation startup you've probably heard of. We built a jet and received a type certificate, and sold ships. The company still went bankrupt. Boom is trying something harder, but it's not Theranos, or cold fusion. It's still just an engineering problem. They have aerospace engineers and facilities. It doesn't look more like a scam than SpaceX did in its early days when they were constantly blowing up rockets. It's just they're trying something very hard stretching what any manufacturing startup could do.

3. They're a startup in a manufacturing-oriented, highly regulated industry and dramatically underestimated capital needed.
My angle was the "charismatic and overambitious leaders who think that gumption and sticktoitiveness can overcome any problem and who aren't afraid to start lying when they find out that solving science and engineering problems isn't like the scammy adware/SEO/social network they made their first chunk of money on" aspect.

I just can't believe people keep falling for it.

I'm willing to bet most of the $100m+ they've raised went right into executive compensation and that their engineers have been making do with peanuts since the beginning.

And I eagerly await the dueling Netflix/HBO documentaries to come.
No different than reefer madness. People do all that shit without psychedelics
End, of an era. RIP.
The role of the Monarch is not easy to qualify. She is a symbol of continuation, stability and unity. Her neutrality makes her look like she is doing exactly nothing, when it's the source of her power and influence. She lives above politics.
Beyond that, the Queen has real so called reserve powers that in theory she could use in time of great crisis to change government or stop laws (she used it once I think). But she can't use them in an authoritarian manner or else risk losing them and tarnish her legacy.
We’ve found decision logs and our structured “RFC” process quite useful at Notion. The extra structure from a dedicated SaaS for this could be helpful. But to me the Pro/Con voting system seems like it’ll work only for Go/NoGo binary choices. What about selecting the best option from a suite of candidates?
In 2020 COVID decimated Rolls Royce given their concentration of revenue associated with selling & servicing existing aero engines.

They have yet to recover from that era which saw a ~10x decrease in enterprise value and record losses.

That said I would interpret this news as a "cut the $!@$! R&D bleeding in anything that won't be generating revenue in the next 4 quarters" vs a reflection on the feasibility or health of Boom's very early but very ambitious plans.

(1) https://www.barrons.com/market-data/stocks/rycey

(2) https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/rolls-...

(3) https://simpleflying.com/rolls-royce-record-loss/
Since they are contributing to school bullying. not having a blue bubble shouldn't matter, but we forget how brutal school was.
Her main achievement was utterly subordinating her personal life to the requirement of her public life. No one has any idea of what her personal belief was on any matter more consequential than what brand of cornflakes she ate.
Well you would hope so.
Thoughts for the family, and all people affectively attached to the monarchy

That being said, given the geopolitical situation, I would not want to be responsible for the sitting arrangement of international dignitaires at the funeral.

(In a fantasy book, it would be the "perfect" occasion for every one to meet on "sacred ground", observe a truce, and get so drunk that unexpected settlements get found.

Sadly, we don't live in a fantasy book.)
I don't believe in monarchies generally, and this sentiment remains throughout my life, although for slightly different reasons that keep improving with age. The more I read and know about history, the more I understand that the ideal of the Enlightened Monarch is a rare event, that can be destroyed in a single generation (we only have to look at Imperial Rome history for quite a few examples).

Still, I do really respect the person and work that Elizabeth II did thorough her entire life, I really believe she helped improve the world with her limited power.

Many purely democratic countries - mine included - would be so lucky to have her as the head of state.
One person should not receive so much attention. People die. We all die. Yes, I understand she was a fake Queen of a country, but so what?

Why do we feel we need to worship these people, be it royalty or celebrities? They are just people, like you and me who happen to be famous.

People are dying in Gaza too, maybe spare a tear for them.
> I thought trees were somewhat ideal because the carbon sequestered in them can be used as long-lived lumber.

This is why hempcrete is ideal. But hemp, by comparison, doesn't result in a root-bound tree farm for wind break and erosion control; 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)
Yes I think this is the case. The death announcement from Buckingham Palace refers to him as such.

"The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.

The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow."
It uses the Mozilla certificate store by default.
.....riiight.
Psychedelics, especially in conjunction with SSRIs, can cause serotonin syndrome. They can cause visual disturbances that far outlast the trip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep.... They can trigger psychosis in certain people, i.e those with bipolar disorder.
Thanks for the correction, it's been a while (too long) since I've seen it!
It's weird that this is met with such hostility on a website like hn. Probably just the sensitive timing.
I think it's overdue. IMO Brexit would not have happened if GB wouldn't be a monarchy.
Hi pvg! Thanks for your message, I wasn‘t aware of that.
FYI: When people are this age, they can die suddenly without much warning. I saw a headline a few hours ago about her family coming to visit, and I thought we'd have a few days.

Both of my grandmothers died at 91 without much warning. Cherish your time with your elders, and don't procrastinate a visit.
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High rents are the incentive to build more housing. What we need is federal legislation reigning in local district's abilities to block new housing from being built. Owning a home shouldn't give you the right to stop other people from building their's.
Meta's whatsapp is not great either. Telegram or Signal are better alternatives.
This isn't whataboutism, it's very specifically comparing the societal consequences of two drugs and the possible consequences.

It's not whataboutism bring up other risks that as a society we tolerate, when we are thinking about restricting one.
I used AirBnB a fair bit back in 2014, but not since. Never again. I don't see why this is even a topic for discussion. I don't log into Google either.
Germany and Italy too
What does "Font smoothing" do?
The US has a small claims court for copyright infringement as of June 16 this year. https://ccb.gov/
I also know nothing about the subject, but just to play devil's advocate here, doesn't SpaceX show that a startup could potentially solve hard physical engineering problems more effectively than established incumbents?
The "Wtf happened in 1971?" meme is the poster child for being skeptical of mono causal explanations for complex issues. There have been a ton of other events since 1971 that are likely major contributors. In addition to the things you pointed out, 1972 is the year that Nixon went to China. Automation has replaced a lot of workers. The size of the workforce increased dramatically. We experienced the dawn of the information age. All of those things are going to contribute to stagnant or reduced real wages. Especially for those at the bottom of the wage distribution who are going to be most vulnerable to offshoring and automation.
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I'd day there is a balance between form and function when it comes to websites, and I'd rather stare at a nice looking slightly less efficient webpage rather than an ugly but more efficient one.
Paying a well established and experienced engine manufacturer to design the engine you need which is only one part of your product is much more economical than becoming an engine manufacturer yourself. By analogy, if an AI startup needs custom chips, that doesn't mean they need to nor should build their own fab and try to compete with TSMC.
Would it be good for you if everybody followed your advice?

Just to be abundantly clear, I offered no advice. I simply offered a clarification to the comment I replied to, with my assumption of what they meant.
Constitutional amendments that only come into force upon the death of the next monarch; I like it!
Personally the only problem I have with the current UI is that I have to hit the arrow at the bottom to expand for more comments. Kills my ability to CTRL/CMD F and find keywords.
As a former Hong Konger from before the handover but has long ago become American, the news also made me sad. I've always maintained a degree of affection for her throughout the years. I think the dignity you mentioned really helped in that.
Why should we?

It's a perfect moment to think about this.
From my read of the scientific literature, most situations like the ones you describe are at least partially caused by underlying disorders that pre-existed (and manifested). And the second one you describe is a pretty common story to be told (same rumor at my college).
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Great job. Already using and enjoying this. Keep up the great work.