skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had two female Prime Ministers before her, one of whom was quite successful as a politician (bloody awful for the country though).

It wasn't sexism, she is genuinely completely useless. Fractally shitty, in that if you examine any part of her stint in politics it is every bit as shitty and inept as the whole.
Technically speaking, King Charles III does not actually need to PM to ask in order to dismiss parliament and force a new election. Given that Charles I and Charles II both dismissed parliament maybe Charles III will grow a pair and do the same. It is somewhat ironic that while dismissing parliament caused the downfall of the monarchy for Charles I is it likely to buy a significant amount of time for the monarchy if Charles III does the same.
Frankly, this energy support scheme is a blank cheque to the energy companies.

It guarantees that the energy companies will fully profit from high energy prices, all in effect funded by the taxpayer, and Truss also rejected any windfall taxes on energy companies.

I think it makes sense to limit it in its current form to this winter instead of 2 years (which is the latest status). It'll still be possible to reassess the situation next year and perhaps come up with a more targeted scheme if needed.

Edit in response to reply:

Truss had formally said in Parliament that there would be no additional taxes on energy companies when the £2500 price cap scheme was announced.

The current windfall tax was implemented by Boris Johnson and considering it taxes energy companies at 25% instead of
the normal 19% when the plan was, and again is, to tax all businesses at 25%, it's more spin than anything else.
The UK and US systems share a lot of similarities, which is not surprising considering the history, but UK politics seems better (or rather, less bad) to me? Both Boris and Truss were forced to resign by their own party, whereas the GOP's relationship with Trump is... well, different. Plus in spite of the first-past-the-post system there are actually candidates of alternative parties being voted in, even if we ignore the regional parties like SNP, DUP, etc. The Lib-Dems have a chequered history, but it's better than nothing.
There's https://json-schema.org for that.
I remember when Arab Spring was happening and thinking how amazing social media was going to be.
But why do you keep getting suspended?
Parliamentary conduct is fairly strictly policed. That said, you can still jeer and yell in a way which would be unacceptable in 99% of professional workplaces.
The diagram says that the HRE became the German and Austrian empires, but really those were two external entities that gobbled up the remains after it fell; Napoleon conquered the HRE, and thus by right of conquest the title of Emperor would go to him. Further, by being proclaimed emperor by the people, being crowned emperor by the Pope, and being recognized as emperor by the emperor in Constantinople, he was the last person to satisfy every historical requirement of being the Western Roman Emperor.
Thanks! What you say makes a lot of sense to me. (And for my part, I already feel a ridiculous amount of bond/attachment/love, just feeling the little guy/girl squirming around in there!)
At this stage I wonder what will Elon found when he takes over Twitter. There seems to be a lot of dubious policies at play.
And that was also a point of criticism at the time.
Like another user pointed out, we intend to charge for a cloud-based dns service. We intend to add other anti-censorship / anti-surveillance features too that may incur charges; like reselling a Private Relay like proxy, a remote browser, a disposable chat room, calls, and so on. Of course, a lot depends on if we manage to stay upfloat. We are a small team after all: Just the 2 of us, with zero funds ;)
I actually enjoy my commute. About 30-35 minutes each way. Gives me time to listen to a podcast and mentally separate my work and home lives.
I've been using discord on actually all platforms and browsers out there with and without ad blockers and it was never an issue. Maybe some server you were in was hit with a blanket ban and the timing just coincided with you using FF?
Is it really dead, though?

I still hear news about it from time to time.
The Overflow Offline project
> they're doing in a way that feels somehow good-hearted and doesn't lay bare the naked resentment and hatred that seems to be all we have left in the USA

It's nice that it looks this way, but the different parties and their supporters in the UK absolutely hate each other. Front-bench party members now routinely and openly using words like 'scum' and 'detest' to talk about their colleagues on the other side. I don't think US politics is quite that openly aggressive and hostile.

In the past few years we've had politicians on both sides killed in politically motivated attacks. I think that's a worse tally than the US as well.
Most of London isn't fond of the Tory gang either. Of the 73 seats that London has, the Conservatives only hold 21 of them.
Middle Management is more or less resource allocation (so optimization problem maybe of the stochastic, multi-agent, multi-criteria and/or multi-objective flavour if you want it to be super complex).

This article is right for the wrong reasons. AI/ML (which approximates optimization problems due to inputs not being clearly defined) is not required for the replacement of middle management (an actual optimization problem with clearly defined inputs).
Do I understand correctly that you're saying the people who control the gov't right now should choose to call an early election that they're almost certainly going to lose? That seems unlikely.
Yes, whenever I install it then it starts crashing almost immediately until I uninstall it.
Depends how cynical you want to be about the BBC, I suppose. The fact that the "C" in BBC stands for corporation is not lost on me, however.
How can rust run somewhere that LLVM doesn't support?
- Pocket Casts is crossplatform, including a web player.

- I’ve had slow sync issues with AntennaPod that I think are related to gpodder.

It’s been awhile since I’ve used both. I’d bet that AntennaPod has features that Pocket Casts don’t. A huge reason I started to use AntennaPod in the first place was the license and source availability.
The trouble is he doesn’t have the support of much of the party, and that inherently leads to instability.
I think Justinian was the last of the people who considered themselves emperors of a Roman empire to actually hold Rome (for a while), so the Byzantines should get at least some credit.

And then, the second Emperor of Russia married a Byzantine princess, taking the title of Caesar (Tsar).

Basically, every empire even close to Europe is Rome.
A century of controversy over the foundations of mathematics (2000)
My point is that the instruction set of these large CPUs (not AVRs etc) is itself just an abstraction to an inscrutable micromachine. That abstraction lets you develop a complex program without knowing the details.

Unix was specifically designed for small, resource starved machines and did not have the powerful abstractions of mainframe OSes like Multics or OS/360. It's OK, but as modern CPUs and IO systems have grown and embraced the mainframe paradigms that had been omitted from the minicomputers (e.g. memory management, channel controllers, DMA, networking etc) unix and linux have bolted on support that doesn't always fit its own fundamental assumptions.

That's fine, it's how evolution works, but "cloud computing" is a different paradigm, and 99.99999% of developers should not have to be thinking at a unix level any more than they think of the micromachine (itself a program running on a lower level instruction set) that is interpreting the compiler's output at runtime.
You can mentor people. You can adopt. You can foster a child. You can engage with your community. You could be a boy scout leader. There are lots and lots of ways to engage with kids that aren't "biologically yours". Technically my oldest son is a child I adopted and I never actually think that he's adopted. He is simply my son.
Because Italy and Israel benefit so much from their proportional representation systems...
What do you mean by lettuce?
Wet Lettuce, Damp Squib, any more!?

I always thought Truss was more like an Android than anyone I've ever encountered. Lack of emotive expressions, eyes that seemed to stare rather than scan, and so on.

Maybe later we'll find it was a failed A.I. experiment by Cambridge Analytica/Facebook !
Lost the confidence of the market for UK government debt pushing up borrowing costs for government and for others (as well as causing problems for pension funds who own that debt).

She did this by launching a series of unfunded tax cuts and doing so without an assessment of the impact on the UK's finances.
You are the first person I've heard mention FarCaster.
Rank choice and optional preferential voting have their own special tyranny. I just voted for a council election where I had to order at least 5 alderman out of 55 listed candidates. No parties, no voting guides. It was a lot of reading for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm-RE95lKJ0
Schutzmannschaft
I think there's a subtle difference. A person is banned, but the account is permanently suspended. Trump himself was banned, and one of his accounts @realDonaladTrump was permanently suspended.
It's important to note that the suspended account didn't send any replies, or even retweet or like any other accounts. Presumably it didn't send any unsolicited DMs either.

The account was not harming or annoying anyone. Does it even qualify as "spam"?
No smart phone... and no twitter app install.
The forthcoming Italian government could last much less, with Silvio Berlusconi trying to achieve negative duration by alienating allies before a prime minister is nominated.
OTOH, I was born several months after you so I must have been the youngest in my grade, my birthday was usually after the first day of school. My parents might have even fabricated by age for all I know. My best friend in highschool was almost an entire year older than me. It didn't bother me in the least. I didn't even noticed it until I was in highschool. This caused me ZERO difficulties.

My cousin was born about a month after me and he was in a younger grade than me. We grew up together and I always felt bad for him that he couldn't get highschool over with a year sooner like me. He was jealous of me. He also got into a ton of criminal behavior and has been in and out of jail for the past 20+ years, so I could easily say that was caused by the trauma of him being a year back from me in school. Who knows.
A Clever Way to Map the Moon’s Surface–Using Shadows
Agreed on this point. This easily could have been a bot farming reputation by retweeting someone else's content.

It is shocking though how much much more blatant spam goes unchecked. Pretty much every tweet by popular accounts has a slew of crypto spam replies.
Eugenics is politicians taking science of genetics and running with it in the context of certain cultural and political ideologies. The science of genetics is good and has significant contributed to medical science, historical research and our understanding of human, animals and plants. It has contributed to research of plants and animals, and the worlds ability to both feed people and to conserve the environment.

Eugenics is not science. It is a set of political beliefs and practices.
Part of the archetypal vampire trope was that peasants would carry grains of wheat or barley in their pocket, so that if they were being pursued by vampires, they could throw down the grains of wheat, and the vampire would be transfixed and obsessively start trying to count the grains, allowing the peasant to escape.
What are you talking about? The graphic at the bottom says 5.3 billion dead of famine within 2 years. That is two-thirds of humanity dead, not "most of humanity would remain".
I can't remember the name but there's a Reddit subreddit where people can post photos to request colorization, so that may be an option if you're curious what some passionate volunteers might do for you.
> it likely to buy a significant amount of time for the monarchy if Charles III does the same.

Can you expand on this? Is it just because he would be more popular if he dismissed parliament and another election was called?
You can save yourself some trouble with a bit of math. Continued fractions are known to provide the best approximations under a reasonable definition of "best": https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/what-821...

Computing the continued fraction for pi actually presents some technical obstacles though - it has to be done numerically, since there's no known pattern to the sequence, and to do that, it seems like you need to compute higher and higher-precision numerical approximations to pi in order to accurately compute higher terms in the continued fraction expansion.

Turns out there is another way:
https://math.stackexchange.com/a/720082/
Yes but GGP said “instead of licensing”.
I live in a city that transitioned from diesel buses to battery buses. I've never driven in a bus with trolley wires, but am very happy with the current situation.

First of all some of the roads in our cities are being replaced. No problem for the buses, take a slight detour and inform the public that one of the bus station is not in service for the time being. Such a replacement and/or maintenance would require much more planning with trolley buses.

Second, a big event was held in a weekend a couple of weeks ago, in a location not normally serviced by the buses. The roads near the event were closed off to all cars due to expected crowds, and visitors could get there on foot, by bike or by public transit (train or bus). Again, the buses extended their route to the entrance of the event, which would have been impossible with trolley buses.

I also imagine that the a trolley wires are vulnerable to vandalism and damage due to storms.
Another benefit, that IMO is as big if not bigger, is that you can easily make changes to this code whereas changes on the library side may be hidden behind configuration, impossible at all, or god forbid even require a wrapper anyway. In the above example, if you wanted this instead to return the version number string that is larger, that's an easy change and one that's very obvious from the PR what it is doing.
Fair enough I guess? From the comment it sounded like it was arguing that repealing the jones act would only make sense if foreign ships could navigate internal waters ways. It was more aimed at clearing up misunderstanding
than creating a strawman.
Circa 2014, George Mitchell (D-Maine), Bob Dole (R-Kan.), Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) were known to be IRL friends. But that was back then. These days I think the hatred is more real than not.
If only those cultures would work separately instead of getting in each other’s way.
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I don't think you should caveat that by saying it's "just aesthetic". It's at the heart of politics - how you say something carries a great deal of meaning, not just the words themselves. Witness the difficulty of good written communication. Unfortunately the tone in the UK is worse than it was, lead by a good dose of unhinged rubbish on social media: https://twitter.com/flashboy/status/1582784766222684160
The important thing is that humans review algorithmic bans, not review every tweet.
John Cleese on Creativity In Management (1991) [video]
Legitimate only means that the :rules: were followed and nothing more. It does not mean that the rules or the system they reside in are just.
awesome, I'll look into it. Thanks!
This is my experience too, I honestly believe that for anyone using twitter being permanently suspended is the best thing that can happen to them. It's just an awful place.

Spam, bots, fake stories, constant outrage. It's miserable but people seem to become addicted.
The first step would be to not allow NATO puppet to control your country. Compare the NATO military capabilities vs. Russia, then tell me who is the aggressor (how much does NATO moved East since USSR collapse?) Don’t force the war for survival.
Free Software vs Open Source is not about copyleft vs permissive. The GPL is both a Free and an Open Source license. The MIT license also counts as both Free and Open Source.

Most permissive licenses — and most popular permissive licenses — include a copyright statement and conditions which would not be enforceable without copyright. They usually require redistribution of the original copyright notice and license text to be distributed along with copies or derivatives of the work.
Accounting for developers part III – building a lending marketplace
And only after 100 years, did you find out that the others in other Vaults fared much worse than you in Vault 13.

Thankfully, you have your trusty PipBoy.
I am not sure this question describes the situation accurately, considering that the invaded country doesn't have nuclear weapons, and the invader wasn't threatening a nuclear attack against the invaded country.

Your question might be rephrased to "what's your response to a country that invades you and threatens nuclear strikes, and you have nuclear weapons", or to "what's your response to a country that invades another country and threatens nuclear strikes if you come to its assistance". Which are both good questions, but different ones.
How is telephone and telegraph detrimental?
Actually in a lot of problematic cases the elections were "rigged", in different severity stages of "rigged" of course. Gerrymandering, restricting voting so that some groups are excluded, electors, for-life politicians (lords), and so on. And of course the usual dirty manipulations in the worse countries.

I think if somehow true democratic voting was magically implemented world wide, then a lot of assholes would be voted out and quickly. Even in countries where people are electing sociopaths.
There has to be a line drawn somewhere. The main issue here is that MS is taking advantage of OSS by using the massive codebase available to them. You can't play both cards and expect devs to take it and move on.

They started by stating "we love open source". Created tools to demonstrate their commitment and then when the community lowered their guard
just a little bit, boom, back to old practices.

This is a rant but you get the idea. The level of corporate malice and greed is almost comical and it was perfectly executed.

Start saying you love OSS.
Build tools (vscode) to attract devs and keep selling the message "for the community" (WoW reference). Create a Linux environnement to stop bleeding devs and keep selling the message. Buy the largest code repository in the world and keep selling the message.
The community starts letting its guard down since it seems they are changing. Then, with no surprises on why this happens, switch gears and start going back to old habits. Rest assured this was not "this is what's best for the community" decision nor it was decided 2 years ago.

We tend to forget that corporations only answer to shareholders. That's it. Everything is and will be, one way or another, aligned around them.
> Britain, Brazil, Australia, Philippines, India, Turkey, U.S

I know it is fairly popular on HN to say that any party that is coded ring-wing is terrible. But, I genuinely think that there isn't a single person with enough nuanced knowledge of even 3 of those countries at the same time to make any kind of sweeping political statement about them.

What makes you think that countries or opposition parties with less spotlight have more competent leaders? Name a country of any decent size and I'm sure citizens of those nations will flock to the comments talking about how messed up their political system is. Politics is messy, by definition.

> dumbest end up in positions of power

The hubris of us highly-educated workers to think that degrees or 'elite coded appearance' are what define intelligence. The likes of Boris and Modi are political geniuses with carefully cultivated identities and a keen understanding of the landscape.

> randomly pick a citizen to be President or PM

I know you mean this in jest, but political power doesn't come merely from titles. They'd just end up manipulated by the same 'powerful politician' anyway. I picked on this strawman because it demonstrates that politics is not a vice that can be eliminated from positions of power, it is the very mechanism by which struggles for power function.
Intel Core I9-13900K and I5-13600K Review: Raptor Lake Brings More Bite
College enrollment declines for third straight year since pandemic
I think the fact that yelling and jeering is allowed actually helps somehow. It's like it releases some of the pressure rather than people bottling it up and exploding.
I agree, very good list.

I was just wondering about animals with a methane balloon. It doesn't look impossible. Fish has an air balloon to avoid going to the bottom, so a similar design may be possible.
Never heard that before. Sure you're not thinking of iOS, where that is indeed the (stated) reason for not allowing alternative browser engines and requiring the use of the system webkit.
I learned this, when I was a kid (and have long since forgotten it).

These days, I tap the Compass complication on my Apple Watch...
It would be a reasonable comment if Conservative MP's - who are elected by voters - had chosen her. However, Rishi Sunak was their choice. Instead she was chosen by a bit more than 100k members.
I don't typically enjoy platformers, but as both a gamer and a dev, I really appreciate the amount of polish that went into this!
You don’t elect a Prime Minister in the UK, you elect a parliament
It doesn't need to be centralized though, and I think centralization is the cause of both the moral problems (political bans, censorship, etc.) and the difficulties running these things.

Without centralization it's just some kind of trust network, and since the messages are open it's a much easier problem to filter away unwanted material than to deal with things like e-mail spam.

The reason people don't is simply that they want power over political discourse, so they accept what part of these problems are problems for them and are then happy for the other problems.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33244834
If you had purchased Pocket Casts ($2.99USD?) and Pocket Casts Plus ($9.00USD) before the freemium model was introduced, you were eventually given "Lifetime Member" status and are not required to pay a recurring fee to use Pocket Casts Plus.

History of the kerfuffle here:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/19/20873611/pocket-casts-plu...
Morally correct and politically intelligent are directly opposed here.

They morally should put it back to the people as they've failed at it internally twice, but nobody seriously expects them to intentionally do it.

They could accidentally find themselves cornered into it if they can't pick a new leader
If only my fraternity brothers understood this during our meetings. So many hours wasted on off-topic ranting or the entire chapter discussing issues that should’ve been settled in committee (or one malcontent stalling the committee’s report)
> My assertion is that it is very very easy to miss "easy rules that were emergent and are working well"

You are right, at least for people who have poor social skills, are emotionally unstable or immature in some way, including people with autism, ADHD, dementia, children, etc.

With such people arround, it may be better to have clearly defined rules for who speaks when. The same goes in situations where people come from very different background or there are very low levels of trust to start with.

The better a group of people are at communicating in a cooperative manner, the fewer hard rules are needed.
The tl; dr I've been given is that IPFS is essentially one global DHT swarm with some searchable/discoverable magic on top. Not exactly the same as DHT torrenting but close enough fir the simple explanation.
UK Timeline of Past PM's