skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, its not binary.

Its best case, average case and worst case, just like with algorithms on different data sets.

We already know that a benevolent dictatorship is the most efficient form of government, the best case in stewarding resources, it just lacks a secession path to maintain its efficiency, as dictatorships most frequently create worst case scenarios: worst stewarding of resources and no ability to dissent to correct it. No respect from the rest of the people on how the correction takes place, one coup just leads to another coup.

Inclusive democracies most frequently create average case scenarios of efficiency. They aren’t inherently better just because they’re inclusive. They can create best case and worst case scenarios too.
I think the first 5 minute experience is really good in React at this point.

npx create-react-app foo-app
cd foo-app
yarn start

In ~2 minutes (10 if you had to install node/npm/npx), you have a hot-reloading live site to play with.

That doesn’t make React great nor solve all of the issues that lie between minute 1 and v0.1 in production, but the startup is smooth and painless (for me who comes from C/C++/C#/SQL, and my javascript is at a level where beginners can still help me).
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Can you cite those exemptions? There is a longstanding campaign on Twitter (loveisnottourism) that complains that the US policy is preventing partners from seeing one another. Also, even if in some cases one could theoretically board a flight, that means nothing if you need a visa and your local US consulate won’t issue you one, because it says no visas will be issued during the pandemic.
I am saying that if Uber does not set the price, what is to stop desperate drivers from setting their prices at 15% lower than the next driver, other drivers would be forced to do the same and then the rate per trip actually goes down, not up.
The problem is people saw China bring the situation under control in under six weeks and thought that containment rather than management was also an achievable goal here. They therefore interpreted the term "flatten the curve" in that context and assumed it would lead to containment. What they didn't see (and what was never really talked about) is just how extreme China's eventual response to COVID was relative to the constraints placed on Americans.

The Chinese were placing everyone under house arrest, mandating mask use, monitoring everyone's movements at checkpoints, temperature checking anyone who left their house when possible, banning people from going outside more than X times per week, forcibly quarantining, arresting non-compliant people, shuttering every non-essential business under the strictest interpretation of "essential", blocking internal travel, physically isolating cities, requiring quarantine when returning from traveling abroad, etc. The US government didn't really do any of that. To anyone aware of the contrast in national responses, it was very obvious that we would not be able to replicate China's success and that COVID would be around until we got a vaccine.
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This song captures that feeling well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8isMSg0Tpe4
Courts in many countries often look at precedents in other places when NIN are available or when one case is sufficiently big, this could also be used in other common law countries, and even in Europe this ruling would quite likely going to be used in any future arguments regarding Uber and similar gig economy companies.
Apple Design of Its On-Device ML System for Federated Evaluation and Tuning
I wouldn't assume a "unanimous" statement from the board was genuinely unanimous at this point. It's clear the executives at Nominet are hell-bent on trying to cling on through any means possible, including deception. They are willing to shut down any form of communication between members that isn't in their interest. It wouldn't be the first time they were just saying anything they thought would save their skin.

I'd be wondering what weasel-word definition of unanimous could have been concocted in this context. Perhaps they mean unanimous based on members of the board present at a meeting where quorum was established, but none of the elected members were present? It was therefore the unanimous view of the board (if the board was quorate without any elected members present)

In any case, removing the unelected members will make clear to the elected members (who are accountable to the membership if they want re-elected) that the tide has changed. If they don't like it, they can be de-elected too per the articles of association as well, I would presume.
> I think the error here is perceiving errors from medical authorities as having emotional or manipulative motivations.

I think you might be forgetting medical authorities approving certain protests as being more important than containing covid. Dont want to start was flamewar here but just pointing out a flaw in your response. That was factually a 'emotional or manipulative motivation', right or wrong.

> This is normal.

Obviously not.
This reminds me of that website which provides several soundscapes, from the ambiance of a café to a walk in the woods. Its at https://mynoise.net
Ask HN: Ex-Employer alleging me for hacking. What should I do?
Looking for some guidance here.
I was working in a startup for a few years. A few months back, we all received notices for salary cut since the startup was having some financial trouble. This didn’t change me much, but soon they started switching my role frequently, different languages and frameworks with vague requirements. I developed headache and soon I decided to leave them even if I didn’t have another job. I talked to my manager and told him that I’m leaving without serving notice period. I formally resigned and since then a few more devs left company. Unfortunately, at the same time, someone hacked their servers and I got a call asking for explanations. Others who left after me informed that they are still blaming me for this and some totally unrelated incidents.
So here is me, a fullstack jobless engineer knowing most of the cool languages as well as plain old things that work and getting blamed of hacking I never did.
What should I do and be careful of ? Sorry for lengthy text.
This is why I use a card from Privacy.com to pay for my NYT subscription. Want to cancel? Just pause the Privacy card.
I feel like you asked the question and demonstrated how the answer is yes.
UUIDs are (very large) integers.
President asks Mexicans to ration power as Texas limits fuel
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This is the engine behind the fantastic game 80 Days, for those who don’t know. Highly recommended.
> Somehow I’m not surprised that HN users don’t express the faintest bit of skepticism on topics that confirm their pre-existing biases.

Could it be that you are drawing conclusions without evidence here?

How do you know anything about the skepticism or biases of those who don’t express them?
The point I made is that an average of 10+ years lost is strikingly different from the canonical “nearly dead elderly don’t matter” argument that I see far too many people use (and which my comment replied to). Obviously averages are very poor indicators when a distribution is wonky, and it is preferably to deep dive into the data.

Note I am all for people doing whatever they want with their own lives - if you want to go to a Covid party I would love to support that. I love taking certain risks myself.

However, when the choices of one age group can kill my mum, dad or friends, I would hope we agree to serious restrictions to help prevent that. With engineering balance to the compromises, given that prevention techniques cause significant human costs.

I am from New Zealand, so I can resoundingly support everyone acting together in concert to protect everyone else (as most kiwis did, with a good outcome for us).
This is REALLY COOL! I have that book on my shelf and I need to finish reading it. On my Catrike I would love something like this. It really needs something that balances braking between left and right so I'm not Yawing whenever I brake my left more than my right.
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It's only been 2 days. People need time to adapt to other methods of sharing news. The article mentions this:

> If this shutoff continues, I’d imagine that the more dedicated news consumers might adapt in ways that are, on net, positive for publishers. Maybe they go to a newspaper’s website more often, or they sign up for a daily newsletter to get their fix.

It does go on though.

> But the casual reader of news on Facebook — and that’s most users, given that news stories make up only about 4 percent of the typical News Feed — might just skip out on news entirely.

Time will tell whether this ends up a net win for publishers. Not only in terms of traffic/revenue but quality of journalism, ie freedom to post non-clickbait articles.
What a cry baby. It's the internet, get over it.
> This is like if politicians were shocked that raising cigarette taxes resulted in a drop in cigarette sales.

they go back and forth, at their convenience, on whether or not taxing things causes less of the thing to be produced.
The Crux of the article I feel: Open Street Maps (OSM) is free and the rest largely aren’t. Conversely the cost of things like Google Maps (as a service not as a consumer in this context) has risen dramatically so naturally big companies are turning to the free offering more and more and the worry is they will have outsized impact in the project and become the dominant body and their priorities will be pushed forward over others

And not a whiff that they are contributing back in substantial ways on the whole either

Seems like all giant corporations are one way or another not respecting the spirit of the mission of the organization and often aren’t receptive to community feedback in any substantial way

Edit: maybe leeches (that was my previous statement) is harsh, however I stand by my assertion that the spirit of the project isn’t being taken into consideration in this instance. Whenever FaceBook, Apple etc can make it proprietary they will rather than share data and compete on things like user experience. They could do much better in this regard. I don’t believe personally that it’s the developers at that company per se that are the issue this is an issue with industry politics and open source policies etc.
> When it launched in the mid-2000s, most spatial information was owned by governments, and was difficult or impossible to access.

It bothers me that this sentence is used as if the facts behind it are a logical arrangement of consequences. The fact that people are prevented from accessing data that they funded, and by all rights own, is an absurdity.

I appreciate that OSM exists, but in a perfect world, it shouldn't have to.
My main problem with dictatorships is mass concentration camps, mass executions, torture, human experimentation, etc.

Granted, democracies have done all the above, but diligent activists corrected the system, and the scale never reached that in dictatorships.

But yes, for your average citizen, dictatorship is probably not too bad.
This might be a short term hit to publishers, but maybe readers will eventually retrain to visit news sites directly rather than relying on Facebook and friends to select articles for them. This is very much a fight over who controls the entrance to the web and it's probably better it not get centralized into Google and Facebook. It didn't work out well for AOL and Yahoo.
That’s discounting the forced sterilization, imprisonment, and extermination of the target du jour,

> One is an authoritative report documenting the systematic sterilization of Uighur women. The other was the seizure by U.S. Customs and Border Protection of 13 tons of products made from human hair suspected of being forcibly removed from Uighurs imprisoned in concentration camps.

- https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/15/uighur-genocide-xinjian...

> they only censor what nobody cares about: critics of the party

Saying that they only censor their critics and adding that they are only censoring “what no one cares about, critics of the party” is disturbing.

When one person can impose their will on you, it’s all rainbows and kitties until you disagree or step out of line. As I am guessing that the people who oppose forced sterilization and the other Nazi concentration camp policies (forced shaving of hair at camps for use as a product is a fairly distinct one) will end up censored and at those camps too?

These problems and issues might be out of sound and out of mind for now, but sooner or later, as the previous enemy starts to thin out, they will find new ones. And eventually, they’ll come for you too.

Often people who live in autocracies by choice do not believe such warnings. They are the intellectual equivalent of exercise and vitamins.

To make it clearer, here's what happens at the end of such regimes. Even for their supporters,

Towards the end of the war, the Nazis who were occupying the Netherlands blew up a town hall after inviting 134 people and their children to take shelter there. These people were of the right race. Most of them had done nothing against them. Some of them might have supported them.

They were the in-group until they weren't. They died because they weren't members of the party.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadhuisramp_Heusden

Being ambitiously evil, the Nazis also killed erstwhile embraced citizens at scale with the Dutch famine by blocking the transport of food from farms to citizens in their occupied territories. They did it because they could.

Perhaps this is still distant. Here's a shorter example. Almost all of the people Stalin directly ordered to be killed were his supporters.

They were the in-group until they weren't.
It's true, in a way, society looks like what the people in power want society to look like because the people in power are those with money and people who figure out how to make more money get power. It's like you say, that TV and ads are on the trailing edge as people figure out how to keep up with the distribution of money in society.
previous discussion from 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769424

Looks like they're making good progress!
rclone also has the really nifty ncdu command: https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/
Unfortunately when restaurants around here could open, they didn't have the required distancing between tables because that'd mean they'd make half the money. Your country culture may vary.
Nominet has been hell-bent on trying to get into lucrative side areas. They seem keen to heavily position themselves in anything they feel they can trade in their reputation as the UK's NIC. Anything involving a database or cyber-security, they're all over, trying to use their NIC status as a USP.

When it started to get to things like autonomous vehicles, that's when it starts to get a bit murky and strange. Nominet surely ought to stick to what it does - it's a non-profit, and could focus its resources into its core goal, rather than constantly trying to turn a profit in other sectors.
Fear of being somewhere specifically without clothes is something deeply ingrained within us but not really typical among animals. I wonder if these "man-made" fears are more likely to appear in dream scenarios.
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i seem to have issues with safari as well on mac, works on chrome
> And I'm no Rust developer, but it looks to me like it basically demonstrates how Rust is an abject failure in that regard. The developer has to jump through lots of nonobvious hoops and choose between competing libraries to get anything useful.

As a rust developer, there are other ways to skin a cat, or an Error return as it were. For the std::net library (I've been using it when dealing with tcp/udp sockets), when a socket returns an Error, it uses std::io::Error [1]. This is basically a struct that implements the display and Error traits, it stores an enum inside of the types of errors that you may want / need to ignore/ handle. You don't technically need to use libs to do anything error related.

This code has been round since Rust 1.0. Imho, this is kinda how Rust should tell people to make/handle errors. I like it. But I also have found rust enums to be extremely powerful in a lot of use cases.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/io/struct.Error.html
Are you sure this is the case? From the Norwegian news it seems very much like the epidemiologists that are advising the government in many cases are advising lesser restrictions than what is actually implemented.
Global deforestation peaked in 80s. Many countries now have reforestation
Facebook is a website on the Internet, and Australians are not forced to visit it.
Don’t so quickly discount mystical descriptions of dreams, even if you aren’t a religious person yourself. The thing that is special about dreams is that unlike our conscious waking experience you have no control over how they manifest themselves. They aren’t scientific or rational at all; they are human. Dogs have dreams, and we wouldn’t expect them to have a rational, non-mystical explanation for them. In a sense your dreams are the only way your body can communicate unconscious (and therefore irrational) fears or desires, short of a panic attack or mental breakdown.

Your fear of snakes is likely older than humanity itself, so even if you can have rational control of yourself around a snake in real life they could terrorize your dreams. Snakes used to be a real and present danger in our environment for millions of years of our evolution. They are the unknown environment, the cunning adversary, the unforeseen consequence of carelessness.

In a similar way, you might find that you can manage to present yourself in social situations, there is a very human fear of being found out, cast out, laughed at, and/or rejected socially, since we are social creatures. Even nudists have dreams of finding themselves naked in front of their peers. If you spend your day putting on a facade of some sort, which you probably do if you have a job, then somewhere there is a part of you that you don’t want others to see, and in your dream they all see it big time and you have to deal with it.
I don't really understand why this can get downvoted... Seems like pure HN censorship to me. I fully agree. We need to do something, whether that be writing your senators, protesting in the streets or making your voice heard for what you believe in. If you have an opinion that is different from others and your opinion is valid. It should never be discounted even if others believe it is wrong. Discourse is the key to rational thinking.
If its a generic employer/employee relationship then should uber not require 40 hours a week per driver? I am not opposed to that but it does kill the gig concept of the job. It will drastically remove the ability of people to just pick up shifts on the fly.

Uber is currently very much a loss generating company, adding additional cost to their business plan will accelerate that. If they go out of business, even if just in specific markets, then that helps no one.
Australia and publishers really set themselves up for this one.

The implication of this rule is that FB is the one benefitting from the sharing of news on their site, and by giving FB an out (letting them simply ban sharing of news links) they had a chance to forego that 'benefit.' They took it, and lo and behold, FB isn't hurting but the news sites are suffering.

Australia should've just taxed Facebook directly and funded the news sites with grants based on that revenue if they wanted the government to rescue publishers. This move really reveals who benefits the most from news on Facebook, and surprise, it's not Facebook.
> Ultimately a news organization is an internet citizen like you or me. They should not have different privileges.

This is the right take. If news organizations get paid whenever someone @mentions them (metaphorically speaking), why shouldn't I get paid as well whenever someone @mentions me?

In other words, if someone links to my website, I should get paid too!
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> So I actually find that microservices should actually help tremendously here? Service A starts throwing 500s. Service A has a bunch of well defined API calls it makes with known, and logged, requests and responses.

This isn’t wrong - although there is a reasonable concern about expanding interconnection problems – but I think there’s commonly a misattribution problem in these discussions: a team which can produce clean microservices by definition has a good handle on architecture, ownership, quality, business understanding, etc. and would almost certainly bring those same traits to bear successfully for a more monolithic architecture, too. A specific case of this is when people successfully replace an old system with a new one and credit new languages, methodology, etc. more than better understanding of the problem, which is usually the biggest single factor.

Fundamentally, I like microservices (scaling & security boundaries) but I think anything trendy encounters the silver bullet problem where people love the idea that there’s this one weird trick they can do rather than invest in the harder problems of culture, training, managing features versus technical debt, etc. Adopting microservices doesn’t mean anyone has to acknowledge that the way they were managing projects wasn’t effective.
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I sometimes get lost going down rabbitholes in here:

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I second this. The best thing is to find opposing views/reports and then research their points to form you own opinion.