skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting! So I'd never really thought about this dimension before, but yes: at least among monarchies, hereditary monarchy is the most common form.

Whether it's the most common form of government is unclear. In modern times, democracy is most common. I think what was most common historically might be a complicated question and changes in terms of how it's asked (in terms of distinct governments, total territory controlled, or total population loyal to?).
David Shor, a Data Guru for Democrats, Throws One Last Bash
Right but that's assuming you'd be consuming content while the device is rolled up. I like the idea simply for portability - I don't have a large phone primarily because it's awkward to stick it in my pockets.
Some examples exist for directly converting alpha, beta, and gamma particles into electricity, but I didn't find anything for neutrons in my brief search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery#Radiovoltaic_co...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
Except costs for prototyping and building a plane are (no kidding) 100x the costs of prototyping and building a car

And that's for "easy" stuff like electric cars. Not a supersonic plane (which has a full bag of hurt to go with)

If you don't believe me just look at the price tag of a brand new Cessna (which is old/proven/boring technology)
Science and the Power of Multiple Hypotheses
Good time to quote the cosmic bard, Terence McKenna.

"Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong."
Why? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The same is true for Brave bookmarks, absolutely terrible. Firefox was acceptable in that regard (although it didn't seem optimized for having a large number of bookmarks), however it doesn't seem to have any documentation on the actual export format either.
None of those things are in conflict with her statement.
Well yes, they’ve already spent time and effort prevent PoC from voting to stop “voter fraud” (that is allowing PoC to vote) which is unconstitutional, why wouldn’t they then directly corrupt the voting itself?
There was a time when the 3D TV people infested HN worse than the Bitcoin people later did. 100 times a day, somebody was called a cynic for saying that people weren't going to wear special glasses to watch TV. Since half the new high-end TVs were 3D, we also got to constantly hear that the market had already chosen 3D.

Smart TVs were the boon everyone was looking for; they could reorganize and raise the profit margins of the TV manufacturing industry but didn't even have to add any expensive new technology, just crappy apps and ads.
If you're actively trying to improve the docs then you're already in the camp of "what to do"! Most likely the biggest challenge will be ensuring and enabling cultural change so that the documentation is regularly kept up to date. And obviously use the right platform - searchability, linkability (not just at the page level), ease of access and maintenance, etc. will probably make more difference to how successful your documentation is than writing style or level of detail etc.
The difference between a bad-actor Prime Minister and a bad-actor Monarch is precisely that the latter, in today's world, clearly has no legitimacy outside of enforcing well-established norms. So a Monarch appointing their unelected friend as Governor General, contrary to the Prime Minister's wishes, would simply result in an extra-legal declaration that the country is now a republic, or possibly that the Monarch is now the next person in line of succession (ie, forced abdication, again, extra-legal). In contrast, a Prime Minister who tells the Monarch to dismiss the Governor General and appoint their friend as Governor General instead, after loosing a confidence vote and refusing to resign, will presumably have the backing of some segment of the population (unless they're just insane), and hence will be much more dangerous, if the Monarch declines to exercise their power to refuse this request.
It does, but a supersonic personal jet is a much bigger feat of engineering than a rocket that lands. Most people don't appreciate that. We had landing rockets in the 80's, but Boom was trying to do several things that are completely new. SpaceX's real technology is about launching the rockets cheaply, not re-using them (which is only part of the problem).

And SpaceX started with engineers who knew a lot about the domain of the actual problem (rocket engines). Boom has never designed an engine.

Starlink satellites are a great example of SpaceX solving engineering problems that an incumbent couldn't, but SpaceX was a pretty large company at the time the effort started.
> please don't post flamebait, including ranting against monarchy or railing against "the nobility" like it's 1770

> 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

Pro status-quo bias. Monarchy isn't as relevant as it used to be but trusting the judgment and leadership of the elite is as relevant as ever and allowing positive-empty comments just reinforces that belief here. I guess that's just the sort of bias HN is ok with.
Needs static typing.

I'll let myself out now.
This is awesome,
I'm using it as I type. very refreshing.
The only thing that is missing, is that the front page does not show which articles i've already clicked (the link is not grayed), so I can't quickly scan the list.

Thanks! great job!
Would be great if there was an option to change the font color for more contrast :)
This really misstates an important point - the Unification Church is not "believed to be behind" the assassination, it was a man holding a grudge against the Church. Pretty much the opposite meaning. I don't think this comment is useful for discussion.
Why aren't linux-hardened's options the default and patches, if any, upstreamed?
MS docs definitely make me want to cry sometimes
Exactly. Just like how people buy trucks and never haul anything, or a g-wagon and never go off-roading.

Garmin is targeting the actual market of consumers who are going deep outdoors. Apple is targeting the much bigger market of everyone else.
I recall reading somewhere that trees follow a sigmoid growth pattern, reaching a maturity where they no longer create a whole lot more biomass. I think the 20 separate trees would do better.
If "activity" is "async", why rename it? Or, how is activity different from async?
> Putting domain names in import statements is a massive mistake.

Why do you say that? I appreciate the lack of indirection.
'We've Had Promising Conversations with Apple About Starlink'
The more references to 'green' and 'eco' a tech startup has in their proposal, the more likely it is to be smoke and mirrors. Not because green and ecological aren't laudable, but rather because they are. Proudly announcing such laudable goals and motivations is a cheap and easy way to build up wishful thinking and suspension of disbelief. It also makes people who see your bullshit hesitant to call you out, for fear of 'diluting the message.'
The two cultures in computing (1998)
US presidents answer to the people.

It’s completely different.
I'm really grateful to read this about Ikea's effort and Dave McComb's continued work. I just received email of the below training opportunity from Dave's company Semantic Arts. If you are interested in Gist, ontologies, knowledge graph, it may be of interest to you.

https://events.eventzilla.net/e/semantic-boot-camp-introduct...

I have no relationship with Semantic Arts other than they performed a contract for a company at which I worked.
Please don't post flamewar comments to HN. We ban accounts that do that—I've banned a thwack of them in this thread already, and we've had to ask you about this more than once before. Fortunately I didn't see other cases of that in your recent history. Please stick to posting within the site guidelines and things will be fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Don't they let the government use their property for free? It seems like a mutual type of situation. Unless you are advocating for seizing land?
They're a popular couple for sure. I expect King Charles will be more 'active', in lieu of a better word, than the Queen was and thus more controversial. He's long been vocal in eco/green/environmental subjects in particular, which might be very interesting.
I dunno, that seems like a lot to me living in NYC where we have basically none of that and life is fine. We all get on the train and go our ways and peak ridership is millions a day (prepandemic was almost 6 million on the MTA trains alone (not including the LIRR, Metro North, and NJ Transit, and Amtrak)).

I don't think anyone in NYC wants that. Talk about a police presence sheesh.

And yea I just talked about the perception issues, which is why they're cracking down on fare evaders. Basically increasing police presence to make people feel like it's the safe system they've been using for years before the pandemic.
Unsure if by "parked cars" you've meant crashing into parked cars or parked cars by themselves being a bad thing
What surprises me is how little technological progress appears to have occurred in the last decade (ie. 2010-2020). I think you'd be hard pressed to name a decade in the past 50 or even 100 years where the technology available to the masses has advanced so little. Note that I'm excluding things that are still mostly at the research stage, like deep learning, advanced language models, etc., since I don't think those have had much effect on people's lives yet.
> So barring occasional noble minded YIMBY efforts, once rent control is in effect no one ever has any incentive to change it.

Landlords who want to raise rents might. However renters outnumber landlords, but perhaps not out-donate them.
Twitter is an echo chamber of edginess and not indicative of the average person in the real world.

It's like wondering what 4chan thinks of this.
C was the lang I first really learned. You can look at opensource projs and they are all very different. C# solutions for instance are so generic it is almost boring.
Wow, that sounds like a great feature. Wonder if any other language has similar.
Thanks for the correction, I retract my objection. We could also start counting from when the Articles of Confederation came into effect (1781), which lies approximately between 1/3 and 1/4 ;)
They've released whats obtainable through imessages "encryption". If it was so important to Apple that their users privacy matters to them, they'd give people a way to cross platform encryption.

Apple iMessage

Message content limited.
Subpoena: can render basic subscriber information.
18 USC §2703(d): can render 25 days of iMessage lookups and from a target number.
Pen Register: no capability.
*Search Warrant: can render backups of a target device; if target uses iCloud backup, the encryption keys should also be provided with content return can also acquire iMessages from iCloud returns if target has enabled Messages in iCloud.
"Hence my second paragraph" which was this:

> At this point someone usually says "we don't need batteries for long-term storage, we can just make hydrogen and burn it later" but then oops, you're back to using a turbine.

There are various experimental options too but I don't think any have deployed at scale, so their costs are uncertain. And some of them, like thermal storage, will still use a turbine.
What is FeatureBase? The slogan "The First OLAP Database Built Entirely on Bitmaps" is barely parseable for this person after 20+ years in IT.
Most compiler profiles for space barely optimize anyway. Determinism is much more important than performance.
> In the same way that you shouldn't trust a friend to get you "exactly the clock your want" if you ask for it for your birthday or christmas - a lot of times you'll get a watch instead, because it's close enough and they got to pick it using their own expertise.

You would only get a watch if the person is A is a jerk and thinks they know better or B they made an honest mistake or that was all that was available. If you don't understand that part then I don't think there is a need to carry on.
I just said "top in HN..". I have no intention of starting a flame-war but seeing the amount of valid comments deleted it seems to me that despite being indifferent about this news, the only rhetoric left in this thread is praise, why is praise not flamewar?. I am not inviting comment on this unpopular opinion but asking for a reflection from fellow 'hackers' of how one-sided intelligent conversations are becoming here. People who may have a different opinion about this news may be afraid to state their facts. And individuals like me, indifferent, cannot express our indifference about this event
Controlled hard drugs are harmful to society, the only country that has decriminalized everything is doing very good in that regard.
I would like to add: biggest things about code samples:
1) Use every parameter / return in the example. There is no good reason to put
(_, speed) = myFunc() because what is the first returned value?

2) Don't name the input parameters the exact same as the variables, even though it reads nicer
Class Pet:
func pet(pet)

pet=Dog
Pet.pet(pet) <----- whyyyyyyyyy
No thank you.

HN is great because it /isn’t/ … that.
Already happened across the bay in Oakland. Unfortunately Oakland police is so dysfunctional that it's impossible to know if decriminalization has caused any change in problematic public behaviors.
How shall we live in a post-job era?
Alcohol, especially in conjunction with acetaminophen or other OTC pain meds, can cause liver damage.

As long as alcohol is a legal substance to consume, it makes no sense to criminalize substances widely shown to have lower harm coefficients than it. There's tons of studies which mostly-objectively quantify harm/addiction caused by substances. The only drugs squarely as bad or worse than alcohol are tobacco products (also legal, contains many more psychoactives beyond nicotine), meth, crack cocaine (delivery route matters), cathinones, GHB, certain gaba-ergics, and most opioids.

Nicotine in isolation, ketamine, classical psychedelics, cannabis, MDMA, most of the Shulginoids (phenethylamines and tryptamines), all fall short of the harm caused by alcohol.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.5921...
This is NOT a new development. With or without the Queen, countries under the sovereign have been planning to leave, which is not opposed by anyone.

Ironically, Commonwealth is actually getting bigger. The last commonwealth games was surprisingly well attended and celebrated.
Does Joe Biden agree?

Does Donald Trump agree?

I would wager that neither man feels particularly accountable to the unwashed masses that both of them openly disdained.

Edit: Does George Bush agree?
Show HN: Conversational search engine powered by GPT-3
Nice, but no thanks. HN's old boring design is an oasis on the modern web.
The Troubles - was literally a rebellion violently suppressed... for 3 decades.

Let alone all of the Unionists are staunch monarchists and were tightly linked to government institutions.

I wasn't comparing anything to anything. You think that comparing The Troubles to bengal Famine, somehow excuses you from writing an obvious false sentence.

PS: Civil Unrest isn't Civil Unrest, when the army is literally shooting.
Generally I agree with the sentiment, but at the same time this is impactful, because this is a person that has been in the public eye for people's entire lives, so it presents as somewhat of a shock. It's a reminder that the only constant is change and that death comes for us all... at least that's why I think many people have a strong reaction to the news. My personal reaction is "meh".
Edward 8 had to abdicate to marry outside of the church of England, and Charles is already married outside of the church of England. His abdication wouldn't be weird.
I'd say tesla's "full self driving" and "autopilot" claims are pretty theranos like.

There's zero way they don't KNOW internally that asking an inattentive driver to take over with no warning doesn't work, and that they aren't as safe as they are trying to spin.
Today yes. But until the 19th century, heredity based monarchy was the most common form of government historically.

Monarchy is still the most common form of organization as well. For instance, every corporation is a monarchy with a board that acts as the king/queens court and executives that represent the remaining nobility. Same with Military arrangements. It's probably a reason that these forms of organization tend to dominate others, like collectives, etc. Strong leadership from the top will always be optimal. Of course, weak leadership from the top is fatal.

I'll add:

Consider there are 3 forms of organization:

Rule by 1, Rule by some, and Rule by many. These can be broken into 6 implementations, 2 for each form. Monarch/Tyrant, Aristocracy/Oligarchy, Democracy/Populism. There's interesting relationships between these 6 and what some historians believe are natural transitions from 1 to another: Monarch->Aristocracy->Democracy->Oligarchy->Populist->Tyrant
Passkeys are great but it does not solve an important problem
What would happen if a government issues a subpoena for the passkeys stored in say, iCloud in this case? Would not that makes it easier for them to have access to an individual's private communications, for example?
It is said that the Queen was 100% against the idea of monarchs retiring. I suppose that harks back to the abdication crisis, but also undermines the concept of royalty altogether.
> another is demanding to have your vision be understood and accepted without being willing to grant the same courtesy first.

Is it available somewhere? I can't think anything why that compiler patch[0] can't be upstream (of course not default, but under a flag/different build mode/config option).

[0]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335#issuecomment-10138...
I've had my car broken into 3 times in different parts of SF. Nothing visible anywhere inside the car. They took things like coins and a utility knife from the center console, and once I made the mistake of having a dash cam which was promptly stolen. Never again.

Criminals are not localized in SF. They roam around in cars smashing and grabbing.
“I don’t think it’s something that needs to be solved”

Yeah it is something that needs to be solved. I simply dont agree that society should sit idle while people are out there in the cold. Sure some do it by choice and you cant do much to help them. But a healthy society should have the mechanisms to house every person. I am not a socialist or whatever but i strongly believe that basics such as housing and health care should be taken care of on behalf of those who cant do it on their own. How can people call themselves “patriots” or say they love their country yet they dont help their fellow citizens. A country is not made of trees and rocks its made people. Loving it means loving the people as well.
It depends on what you mean by "owns" too. My understanding is that legally the monarch (or is it the Crown, I know there is some kind of distinction) is the landlord of last resort for all of his or her holdings. In the case of the British monarch, that includes not just the isles, but the Commonwealth realms as well. Any property taxes in those realms are technically feudal rents.

And yeah the British monarch's theoretical legal power is immense. For one thing the UK armed forces swear loyalty personally to the monarch, not to the government! The monarch could go to war with Parliament again and the military would be upholding their oath!

The late Queen was a woman of impeccable public ethics though. In some sense it's more admirable for a person who is not bound by the law to choose to follow it scrupulously, which she did.
>These are people who are being paid, right?

It is well documented that people are not that money motivated past a certain point. After that job satisfaction, respect, recognition, etc are much better motivators. You can only have a successful experts platform if you're able to recruit and retain those experts, otherwise you've just built a new Fiverr.

>I mean, I'm sure that plenty of adults get sick of hearing questions about subtraction and multiplication from 6 year olds, but as teachers it's their job and pays the rent.

Considering the teacher crisis right now, that's not a compelling example IMO.

>edit: Assuming no cheating is involved, what's wrong with paying an expert to help you with your homework? I think that a marketplace for expert help is flawed if you can't use it to find tutors.

Nothing wrong with it per say, but a site oriented towards tutoring is a different product IMO with a different kind of person you need to recruit. I don't think most experts want to be tutors or would make good tutors in the first place.
Another way of looking at it is that right now only the kids buy and consume shrooms, and they do so completely unsupervised.
a little surprised they don't have a fourth layer containing the individual product variants; i.e., layer 3 has 'Billy Bookcase' while layer 4 has each product variant and code (white, 3-shelves, 003.389.132)
Charting the Relationship Between Wealth and Happiness, by Country
Ask HN: Could the Apple Neural Engine be used to run Stable Diffusion?
I don't really know how to look at neural engine specs and figure out if it can run CUDA (probably can't right?) but if the bindings existed and the Neural Engine interface was public (apparently its private and can only be used by Apple or via the MLkit offering) could it actually do the matrix mathemagics needed to run say txt2img or img2img natively?
Show HN: I've created a website for creating art with stable-diffusion
I've been assured by many that real capitalism has never been tried because people are afraid of how perfectly it will work, and that North Korea is the perfect example of the result of any kind of socialized anything.
Or maybe just used the wrong word (panic instead of worry)? Regardless, what I posted still applies ...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the key understanding for me went even slightly further than that. I don't know exactly how safe it is either, but apparently you need to actually get the foam earplug somewhat into the outer ear canal itself if you really want to block out sound? Especially if you're not supposed to see the foam protruding from the ear, looking straight on.

And not just smoosh it up enough around the outside of the opening as if it were a foam finger held in place by the ear's outer cartilagey bits. So far so good anyway. But make sure you can easily pull it out again in any case.

I don't go around sticking Q-tips into my ear canals either, but at least I don't see a foam earplug being able to reach my eardrums. However, they could both push wax back further into the ear and potentially cause damage? May be a remote cause for concern anyway.

I've also known about having to roll it and pull the ear back, but I still found it rather difficult. Maybe it's not the totally correct way, but I've found rolling it and then pinching the sides a bit allows me to get it in at just the right angle, maybe a bit like an arrow, instead of just bending the tip around outside.

Took some experimenting.
I wholeheartedly disagree, psychedelics can amplify mental illness and result in bizarre behavior. Decriminalizing psychedelics in a city with a large homeless drug infused population is asking for trouble.
Not surprising that VMs running unikernels are as nimble as containers, but not quite useful either, at least in general. Much easier to just use a stock docker image.
https://archive.ph/Bt3ao
main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768834
Technically the Pope is a monarch and every Catholic a subject but it doesn't quite play out the same way.