skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose, to that end, what about my rights to not be looted or have my car flipped over and set ablaze?

I suppose in those situations, I'd be grateful for some law enforcement presence monitoring the situation and guiding folks on the ground to the most appropriate places needing the most attention.
But they aren't generating the content, users are. Why should they be responsible for what you say? And it's their platform, why are you entitled to it insofar they can't moderate?

Can Amazon not kick people off their servers without being responsible as a publisher? At what point can a company no longer decide what happens within their ecosystem?

I thought we appreciated freedom of speech in the US, and that includes freedom to ignore speech.
Anti-gouging laws always come with anti-hoarding laws. That's because the first always causes the second.
Police abuse of power and brutality happens every day and mainstream America doesn't bat an eye. But you burn down one Target... and all of a sudden everyone loses their minds!
Not going to weigh in more generally - but he seems to be doing pretty fine according to recent polls

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
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JS is usually not the bottleneck in web apps. The bottleneck is most of the time rendering. Rewriting the app in JS would make it faster then the Webassembly version. It's a common misconception that Webassembly is faster then JS. Although theoretically possible, the compiler wouldn't be able to beat a skilled JS developer's hand written JS specific for the web platform. A turtle is faster then a rabbit - in water.
The real answer is that double entry is a different problem, and SQL/relational databases are not ergonomic for solving it.

Most SQL ledgers are just a table of transactions. What happens when you have an error/typo in a transaction? SQL databases will ensure that your error gets safely committed to disk, with zero built in machinery to detect what double entry knows to be an error in the data.

(I don't know if OP actually solves that problem in their service, but this is the key idea in double entry.)

Cheers.
Even if we could easily draw a line between essential and non-essential goods (pretty much impossible), you'd still have the problem that banning "price gouging" doesn't help anyone.

Sure, it keeps prices down, but by artificially lowering prices when under high demand, it incentivizes hoarding and exploitation. It also decreases the incentive for increased supply. When local prices increase drastically, it gives incentive for non-local suppliers to enter the market, increasing the quantity of supply.
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very cool, thanks for explaining!
> What if it was a new UAV, designed just for law enforcement? No problems then?

Fewer problems. Presumably it would be much less capable. The sister comment[1] lays out how dangerous this UAV is, and how powerful. History has shown that the police/military are eager to gain capabilities, and very reluctant to part with them. If use of these very capable military grade drones becomes wide-spread, using them aggressively against live people becomes more probable. And very easy to do — they're already everywhere.

We should also think about how regulated their use should be! These have the capability to just provide 24h surveillance on certain areas, which would erode citizens' privacy greatly.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23354643
Well for one, I've never heard of it until this thread so that might be an issue.

That said, "doing something that other things do" is a really hard place to be, doubly so with developer tools. A lot of time and money is invested in dev environments for frameworks, and it's an uphill battle to adopt anything new once you have your build/debug/profile/etc tooling off the ground. Even if your solution is better.

And it doesn't appear to support desktop? That's really what would sway me to use this.

Sidenote: holy shit, that playground workflow is impressive.
I'd highly recommend reading Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich:

“Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can be known only in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.”

“Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby "schooled" to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is "schooled" to accept service in place of value.”

“Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.”

“School prepares people for the alienating institutionalization of life, by teaching the necessity of being taught. Once this lesson is learned, people loose their incentive to develop independently; they no longer find it attractive to relate to each other, and the surprises that life offers when it is not predetermined by institutional definition are closed.”

“In fact, healthy students often redouble their resistance to teaching as they find themselves more comprehensively manipulated. This resistance is due not to the authoritarian style of a public school or the seductive style of some free schools, but to the fundamental approach common to all schools-the idea that one person's judgment should determine what and when another person must learn.”

“Once a man or woman has accepted the need for school, he or she is easy prey for other institutions. Once young people have allowed their imaginations to be formed by curricular instruction, they are conditioned to institutional planning of every sort.”
I think that music production and composition is more important when it comes to making a hit song than musical talent (singing, playing an instrument) - and it's been that way for decades. And I think that production is absolutely a craft that some people have a talent for and hone over time, and it's something that I have a lot of respect for.

Some other people might get lucky and manage to write a song that millions of people listen to without really knowing what they are doing. I think this is actually relatively rare, and even if it does happen I certainly don't begrudge their success. They still set out with the intention to write a song and by luck or intuition or whatever other means managed to produce something that millions of people enjoyed.

> 'Jazz', however popular, nor not, or controversial it was - is going to be around for hundreds of years, because there's an intense amount of creative legitimacy in it. Jazz musicians love Jazz for the sake of Jazz, they are amazing. It's very pure in that sense.

> The flavour of 2020 will not be around in 2 years.

I think it's unfair to compare the entire genre of "jazz" which has spanned more than 100 years now to a particular flavor of hip hop in 2020. Jazz has changed a lot over the years - just as much if not more than "pop" music has. There are jazz musicians who were commercially successful in decades past who I am sure nobody listens to any more. And not all jazz musicians are amazing... jazz musicians are just as capable of being derivative and uninspiring as any other type of music.

And it's hard to predict what musical trends will endure. A lot of people had written off 80s music as being fake and cheesy. But recently there has been a resurgence of classic synth sounds in popular music, and songs like Toto's "Africa" have found widespread appeal with new audiences.
I am not sure about that. In developing countries, rabies kill a lot of people. They might not directly kill people as much but their bites sure do.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/health/2020/jan/1...
What response exactly?

You can't build a bottled water factory overnight, it's not economically sensible to do so to fulfill a short demand.... and if you can't get the bottled water thee for some reason then it is even less able to respond to demand.

Meanwhile buyers are not rational and those with extra money and will buy up huge amounts just to store "just in case" while places that need it won't get it.

Pricing fluctuations there don't really change anything. With humans being the buyers it just doesn't work out.
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https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/article...
Personally I think they should just skip the human category. I mean, if I die of old age aren't I sort of being killed by a human? ok maybe that is a stretch, but how about if I catch the flu from another person? Is it the flu or the other person that got me?
> At the top management level, they are probably weighing the possibility that he never leaves office

Statements like this won't get you taken seriously.
There are some issues with the 3D importing pipeline, GLTF is the best supported file format, but they recently added .fbx support so thats good.

I agree that there could be further improvements made there but I've had good luck with .gltf.

Additionally, I've had problems with materials or animations importing into Unity as well. Seems like its a big, common problem.

Unity imports started getting smoother in recent years because marketplaces and artists started specifically targeting unity.
Those are good points, some solutions that I've seen sites like BitChute use, or one that Twitter is contemplating, could be a combination of the following:

* Any illegal content would be removed

* Content that is more fringe, can be required to have a flag, where users must opt-in to see such content (bitchute's strategy)

* Non-logged in users by default don't see specific content. But this is made clear to the user, and content creator. Users logged in can elect what level of fringe they would like to see, or not see (sort of like twitter's banned words list concept)

The site would essentially aggregate links, and statistics of the platforms onto one page. So unlike 8chan, users aren't actually posting content, and I'm not hosting the creator's content. Maybe a MOTD from the creator, but I think that's manageable

I would like to hear what you think. It is a hard line to draw, my thinking is the site would be a sort of meta-site, aggregating the hosting platforms to one place, thereby removing the burden from creatorbytes. Domains will go through a manual process as to not be malicious/illegal, and once approved, are whitelisted.

Edit:
All users will be able to see all creator pages, but previews for their content feed, or links with titles that are too fringe, etc, would have some sort of filter, and require log in.
> Keeping a warehouse full of water bottles and generators doesn't cost much more than the interest on the capital costs. Ie. A few percent per annum.

Can water in water bottles sit untreated for prolonged periods? If not, some inventory management would be required, possibly environment control costs, taxes on the property. I'm not seeing how this "doesn't cost much". Maybe if you're already in the storage business.
Wow, your totally true story and real story flies in the face of the fact that Switches are practically completely sold out worldwide.
Shatter the social and news medias!

Rebuild on a decentralized system of trust without blockchain (totally possible in my understanding)

Separate the data from the interfaces
The Chromium package on Arch Linux is actually just a bit under 200MB when installed. Are you looking at the download size?
Hi, Author of the Article here :)

I do not recommend JSDoc. Instead, typecasting has these advantages:

1. Precise self documenting
2. Much easier to maintain and less verbose (see 1)
3. Requires no external tooling outside of the typecast functions which are hundreds of times less complex than JSDoc checking environments like Closure
4. Adds valuable run-time capabilities that JSDoc does not

Sincerely, Mike
Sorry for the confusion, I'm referring to the parent poster's mention of "scientific consensus", not directly related to the CDC guidelines. There is a strong meme of talking about "what the science says" as if there is only one unified Science (TM) and people (scientists, even) who have differing views are either not real scientists or crazy
For those that want a great history of the company, I recommend the most recent acquired episode. It might give a new perspective on the economics behind these kinds of tests.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/spacex
I can do it with just containers, yes.

It would mean I removed ~20% of the things that were annoying me and left 80% still to solve, while kubernetes goes 80% for me with the remaining 20% being mostly "assembly these blocks".

Plus, a huge plus of k8s for me was that it abstracted away horrible interfaces and behaviours of docker daemon and docker cli.
i considered adding "mutate a global" in there but didn't feel like that was relevant to @iooi's comment. maybe i should've quantified "the only thing" a bit more :)
Based on the $, I guess you are in the US, but in which state is your company registered? Every state has different laws that protect minority shareholders. Often, as minority shareholder, you are protected by law and you rarely have to sell your shares, if you don't want to. BUT as the legal system goes - and it is very complex in the US - there are more exceptions and loopholes than there are rules. You need to know your share agreement and all provisions as well as your state's law. Depending on the state and the form of the acquisition, certain states like Delaware and Texas allow it that minority shareholders can be forced out of the company (https://smallbusiness.chron.com/force-shareholder-sell-stock...).

Normally, you should first talk to the majority shareholders. Then talk to management, because they only act on behalf of the majority shareholder (I assume they are the same in your case). You could mention that it is your right to know. If they are still not transparent, try talking to a lawyer or somebody that you know has a similar contract in the same state and industry as you.

FYI: I am not a lawyer and this is no legal advice :)
Plenty don't. Hyperbole isn't helpful.

Lots of websites seemingly actually break the law, with full page "can't see the page unless you click accept" etc. The problem seems to be under-enforcement, and then we're right back at the point of TFA.
IaaS is not "the cloud". it was in 2008 when all we had was EC2 and RDS.

Today Kubernetes is the antithesis of the cloud -
Instead of consuming resources on demand you're launching VMs that need to run 24/7 and have specific roles and names like "master-1".
Might as well rent bare-metal servers. It will cost you less.
I seem to think they wrote a book on things just like this... it was named after some year...back in the 80's if i recall /s...

George Orwell would be proud (not of what we've become but for his predictions being so damn accurate).
But it can change the meaning. For instance, if I write a tweet that says "I like the joker character" and twitter appends my tweet saying "People that like joker might shoot up a movie theater", you've changed the intent and meaning completely from what was intended... The media tends to do this kind of thing a lot when they take a speech and add their own commentary to change what was said. Appending/elaborating on what someone says makes them your words, not the original authors.
That doesn’t pass the smell test.

It’s much more likely that anti-hoarding laws are passed in order to prosecute people who are planning to price gouge but haven’t been caught in the act.

Would you care to explain why lots of people would hoard when it’s both unprofitable and unnecessary to do so?

Once you have a supply of toilet paper, most people are not going to buy a ten year supply of toilet paper just because it isn’t exorbitantly priced.

People who think they can make a profit absolutely will buy a ten year supply of toilet paper.
There's also a video from a new angle of the arrest (of George Floyd). TRIGGER WARNING, this video is graphic and difficult to watch: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/george-floyd-arrest-video-show...

The formal complaint to the court and charges can be found at: [PDF] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6933246/Derek-Cha...
I recognize the level of choice I have in it, but like you mention, it's the other worrywarts - if I'm willing to be <2m away from someone, but they are not, it's still the same...
They become pundits making mid 6-figures on TV and go on the lecture circuit making 5-figures per speech. Not a bad life for someone who doesn't need to be right.. ever.
I don't know who qualifies as an expert, but Masha Gessen comes to mind.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/one-year-after...
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I do something similar though different with my German employer. My employer lets me send my yearly bonus (or part of it) into a time account, i.e. the money gets converted into hours based on my hourly salary. Every five years, I have the option of withdrawing hours from the time account to take a sabbatical (with the normal salary payments just continuing in the meantime). And if I don't withdraw all of it by the time of retirement, the rest gets withdrawn for an early retirement with full pay.
That's the great thing about commerce: It makes selfish greedy people beneficial to society. It doesn't matter what this guy's intent was. The end result would have been to move a scarce resource from the shelves of some stores in Tennessee to where it was desperately needed. Instead, the resource sat in a church in Tennessee while thousands of people in New York and New Jersey were getting infected.

Here's a hypothetical: Imagine that instead of those stores having hand sanitizer for him to buy, they'd taken it off their shelves and sold it online at market prices (much higher than the price a few weeks before). The end effect would be the same, except without him as a middle-man. Would you prefer that the police go to those stores and "encourage" them to "donate" the supplies? In this hypothetical there's no middle-man, making it purely a distribution issue. So if you still have qualms about this hypothetical, then it's the price mechanism that bothers you and not the middle-men.

People love to hate on middle-men and claim they're not creating any value. But large companies are often too sclerotic to do things like arbitrage a couple products in their inventory for a short time. If not for the middle-men, many more people would have to endure shortages. That's the value they create.
I argue this is a good thing, like the Linux kernel and the Chromium kernel
I'm sympathetic toward the idea of a system made of interchangeable parts, but I also kinda feel like it's a bit unrealistic, maybe? Even with well-defined interfaces, there will always be interop problems due to bugs or just people interpreting the interface specs differently. Every new piece to the puzzle adds another line (or several) to a testing matrix, and most projects just don't have the time and resources to do that kind of testing. It's unfortunate, but IMO understandable that there's often a well-tested happy path that everyone should use, even when theoretically things are modular and replaceable.
I'm not sure "a plain ol' Django monolith" with none of the "fancy stuff" is either what people are referring to when they say "kubernetes", or a great choice for that. I could run hello world on a Cray but that doesn't mean I can say I do supercomputing. Our team does use it for all the fancy stuff, and spends all day everyday for years now yamling, terraforming, salting, etc so theoretically our setup is "entire application stack as YAML files, fully reproducible", but if it fell apart tomorrow, I'd run for the hills. Basically, I think you're selling it from a position which doesn't use it to any degree which gives sufficient experience required to give in-depth assessment of it. You're selling me a Cray based on your helloworld.
It is always, always, always true that when something is sold as protecting you it actually exists to control you.
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The same thing happened to Russian IT hub, Habr.com. Today it's nothing but a propaganda outlet aimed at those who spin the cogs of this technocratic machine (and especially at the suggestible teens who will spin them in the future). The same thing over and over again all over the internet and society as a whole. No choice, no dissent, no free will. We know better. You get muted and ridiculed. Silently. Efficiently. Yes you can but you can't.

People today seem to be scared to death to think different (not as in apple).
> The drone over Minneapolis is a MQ-9 reaper, aka "predator B", hunter-killer UAV.

I'd guess this is a Gorgon Stare drone.

https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare#Development
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I thought it was a massive misstep until I started using it heavily.

Now I really like it.

As to lack of lambdas, yes there are no lambdas, but coroutines are a first class citizen in gdscript, and network libraries, like Nakama for instance, use coroutines heavily. I prefer coroutines to lambdas anyways, and I think the industry is moving towards coroutines.

There are a ton of good things about gdscript. I was a hater on it until I started using it, and then I realised how quickly it allows me to do stuff.

Besides, I'm staring at the worlds worst Unity project right now.

Languages dont matter as much as system design.
Yes. "STOKE can be used in many different scenarios, such as optimizing code for performance or size". Note that this is the 4th sentence in the linked page. However the README hints that STOKE is unlikely to improve much over gcc or llvm optimizations such as -Os / -Oz for binary size.
> The economics 101 idea your repeating requires that all actors be rational.

It does not require people to be rational. I don't know who you took Econ 101 from, but you should ask for your money back.

What it does do is provide incentives for rational behavior.

> Reducing access only to those who are willing to pay 100x the normal price is not rational. It is a failure of the market.

It does not reduce access at all. A sanitizer hoard only has value if it can be sold to people who use it. The hoarder would also know that supply will increase, and he'll have to sell it fast in order to realize a profit. Furthermore, the higher prices encourage only the best use of the sanitizers are made, and encourage more supply.