skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For threads that are getting a huge number of replies, it might be better to have them as multiple separate threads.

If they are consolidated they become paginated, and pagination does work well for rapidly growing nested comments.

What I see happen is that I get to the end of the first page of comments, then go to the next page...and actually see many of the same top level comments that I had just read. While I was reading them the first time, the new comments and replies coming in sufficiently shuffled the order around to make much of which I just finished now be second page.

I think that to make pagination work well, time must be taken into account.

Simplest would be when a thread is rapidly growing to change the ordering to be strictly oldest comment first.
> Thing is, companies are not servicing those areas because its not profitable. That makes me extremely leery of claims that gig drivers can make minimum wage ( or more) in those areas. I feel the drivers are basically subsidizing the ride companies profits.

Are licensed cabs not serving those areas because it's not profitable, or are they not serving those areas because other areas are more profitable and the licensing regime's medalion limits mean the more profitable areas won't be saturated with (licensed) taxis.

Unlicensed taxis could mean less profitable, but still profitable realms are able to be serviced, because there are more taxis. It also makes it more possible to profit because the prices aren't fixed, and some of the costs of licensed cabs can be avoided (at possible peril).

It does seem like mostly a scheme to subsidize rides (and vehicle leases) by investors, with little benefit for the drivers. I also am deeply suspect of the long term health of the current unlicensed taxi services; but there's certainly potential.
commentary in German: https://www.saurugg.net/2021/blog/stromversorgung/bedenklich...
I don't know the root cause of the noalias miscompilation, the thing I was referring to is https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28728

TL;DR: C++ says that an infinite loop with no side effects is UB, Rust does not. Empty loops in Rust will disappear entirely when they should really loop forever.

(I edited my comment slightly because, re-reading, "blindly" sounds too negative.)
That's how things were last year here in Lithuania. We never had a proper winter. This year it seems about normal in terms of snow, but temperatures feel a bit warmer (most of the season its been hovering around 0c, but is usually -10c)
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN and please omit name-calling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The youtube algorithm decided it needed to recommend a whole hose of cast iron videos to me over Christmas and they kept repeating this.

So I went and washed my skillet down to a matte surface, rubbed oil into it, and cooked an egg. Worked perfectly fine.

You won't ever get the "slippery" coating like with a teflon pan, but I also find cooking on that type of surface to be absolutely maddening since any time you try to chop or scoop in such a pan, the food just slides out from under you and you have to chase it about.

I want my food to "not stick" in the same way that a book doesn't stick to a table. I don't want an ice rink.
Its going to be biblical.
its really not...

I would advise you to try something outside of apple once the m1 dies on ya (in like a decade)
Well yes, and defunding fur trade will put poachers' livelihoods at risk, and defunding Amazon will put Amazon warehouse workers' livelihoods at risk.

Jobs will always come and go. New jobs will come.
So isn't the coating basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbo... ? Are we sure that's such a good thing to be cooking with?
Very good point on geographic diversity and over the long term is should work to investor advantage. In the short term, during a crash correlations are likely to be high and moves in EM more extreme (small exit doors).

However, my original point was that assuming things will be golden forever (or at least a very long time) usually ends badly.

To your follow up on allocations, unlike the past, a large bond holding is unlikely to save you this time (very limited price appreciation potential) and could go the other way when under stress (liquidity issues, forced redemptions to cover equity losses). It is harder to hide than ever before.
Interesting question, because I would be tempted to say "use the same safeguards as any other labor", but there are definite grey areas there. I suppose a union is the best way to go about it, but I don't know how that helps independents, side gigs, or people just trying to break into the industry..?
Linux laptops are massively YMMV. Some work almost perfectly out of the box while others are plagued with quirks that never seem to get fixed.

Point in case I have a circa 2008 Dell workstation laptop that runs Linux pretty well, except for some reason its volume buttons (which, as far as I can tell, send standard key codes) only work as expected under some distros running some desktop environments. It's oddly spotty for such a basic function, and last I checked there was no surefire fix for it, just an endless list of "try this".
What's your logic here?

Many European countries have generous welfare programs, and have open borders with other EU countries with far less generous ones. It works.

One common approach is to mandate having worked at least one day in the country in question in order to be able to use welfare programs, and keeping things like unemployment benefits proportional (with a cap, of course) to previous income in the same country.
Diversity of thought in the education system is a problem - like hires like, and is demonstratively intolerant of challenge, so the dominant mood gets entrenched. If the political poles were reversed (conservatives dominating education) this would be just as much of a problem - it’s a function of human behavior.

(UCLA’s) Eugene Volokh’s blog has been examining this for some time from the perspective of legal education, and of course Bret Weinstein rather famously came into contact with it when (literally) run out of Evergreen.

I remember we used to make jokes about how off the wall Evergreen was, but now I think those things we used to laugh about have become more normalized. They are certainly avant garde, but it seems the tendency of entrenchment dictates that where Evergreen goes so goes the nation’s education system. If you want to see where the nation’s education will be in another 15-20 years, look no further than Evergreen today.
The "post mine" is something that has been discussed in the community for many months, and is not something we are hiding - in fact it's stickied at the top of /r/siacoin and has appeared in all of our announcment channels and official newsletters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/iox6ly/proposal_th...

It is also not correct to say I am "leaving" the Sia project, I will continue to work on Sia and Skynet as I always have, but administrative control over the codebase is being handed over to a non-profit foundation with a mandate of placing the community health and vision as its primary priority.

My own primary responsibility is to the bottom line of my company, and to the extent that Skynet Labs' bottom line is no longer perfectly aligned with the community's interests, we have created a foundation to ensure the community has a voice in how development progresses for the base layer.

I know that the 18,000 word letter you linked raises a lot of concerns about the project - from the history, to the speed of developemnt, to the core codebase, to the new Skynet initiative, to the economic model, to the team behind the project and the leadership behind the project, to the documentation, to the new initiative to hand over the project to the community, to the communtiy itself - but I don't believe the letter was written from a place of good faith, and I don't believe that most of the arguments hold up to scrutiny, especially if you compare the progress and decision making of the Sia project to competitors like Filecoin, Maidsafe, and Storj
Well, that kind of shows the issue, right? I’m talking about what happened many years ago (nofollow links were added in 2005) - companies learned their lesson and wouldn’t try to pay expert writers and editors for reference-type content for web use anymore. Here is content that’s somewhat similar: encyclopedia.com.

By the way, I think Google and its easily-gamed algorithms that rewarded regurgitated content and mega-sites is more to “blame” here than Wikipedia itself for how it went down.
Parler's CEO John Matze responded angrily after endorces Apple's removal
>Toe to toe? It starches every Ryzen chip in single core performance

It most certainly does not. It trades blows, winning on some benchmarks and losing others. It seems a bit ahead on floating-point workloads and a bit behind on integer workloads.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

It does simply outperform every Intel design. That's great, but not enough to make it the fastest core in the world. It, to no one's surprise, falls behind the parts with higher core counts.

Caveats:

1. These benchmarks are preliminary. We are, by necessity, comparing across operating systems and architectures.

2. Comparing single-threaded performance between a SMT system and one without SMT is a little misleading, since a non-SMT core is worse than an SMT core even if the single-threaded performance is similar.

3. I have no clue how to handle the big.LITTLE architecture. I've never used a machine with heterogeneous cores and have never written any software for it. It is certainly a benefit to efficiency. It probably improves performance on highly-threaded workloads, but I am not sure.

I find myself annoyed by these discussions. I love new hardware! I find this chip very impressive! It is the best chip in the world in performance-per-watt! It is clearly the best mobile chip on the market! It has a lot of interesting accelerators! Please stop forcing me to be the naysayer.
Yeah, when one forgets that there are more C and C++ compilers out there in the industry than just the pair that the FOSS community cares about.
It's funny that you ascribed a political slant to me.

Go back and read every comment I've made as if I'm a 65 year old white man with greying hair who's voted Republican every year except this one because I didn't approve of Trump's handling of Coronavirus.

Does anything change? Do my comments ring any less true?

As I explained above, you also don't believe just those images that got them banned, it's the context they exist in that matters, that's literally what the next line says!

And of course I explained exactly why I can confidently say Parler's ratio of hate speech would be higher... because their differentiator is literally not moderating hate speech since it counts as free speech.
Similar to the recent actions by Twitter, Google, Apple and Amazon; Visa and Mastercard are private companies and can do whatever they want.

Anyone who has an issue with what Visa/MC did must also take issue with the others.
as in: "Be liberal in what you accept, and strict in what you produce"
I 100% agree, but I was curious so I went through a few pages of hacker news posts, looking for some other scientific studies to see the general sentiment in the comments.

Here's one I found on an antidepressants impact on covid hospitalizations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25701446

Far from scientific, but there seems to be a general acceptance of the study in the comments of that article. I cannot say the same of this one. Now obviously the sample size and statistics of the studies are not identical, but it seems to me we're seeing significantly more 'critical thinking' in this thread than that one. I would love to drill into this further and see if this trend holds in further comment threads, but I'm late for a hike.
Is use of Javascript a requirement.
Kinda fits the current US situation too: The political violence isn't as new as a lot of people seem to believe - it started years ago, on college/university campuses. While that early violence was done by the students, several times people got videos of their professors in the crowd helping to coordinate.

Once that became normalized it spilled off campus and grew into what we're seeing now.
I don't know of any example in the last 150 years of a party leader doing that.

But this isn't about Trump; this is about Parler and the consistency of AWS is applying to its Terms and Service to of service for hundreds of thousands of users over the weekend.

Trump doesn't even use Parler AFAIK; his actions are related but tangential to the core issue of Parler + AWS.
Same way you ensure any other person isn’t being exploited. Society provides resources allowing the person to have the opportunity to not be leveraged into exploitation as their only option.
It is a an upgrade in some ways, no doubt. When Apple said the 16" MBP has the best ever laptop display they were right - it's hard to go back to the previous models after this one.

Something just feels a bit wrong about this machine. Running trivial Swift code in Playground can get it so hot that it becomes uncomfortable to rest it on the lap for example.

Do I need a processor that powerful? I'm not so sure if the price is the unsettling fan noise and being practically constantly warm. And no, there's no 3rd party software that could cause it, it's all Apple apps.
Compilation speed isn't one of them though.
Of course, you can find the full explanation in the amicus brief: https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legal-work...

It is NP complete in determining to an absolute degree that a redistricting plan is excessively unfair, as the number of possibly districts grows exponentially. Demonstrating to a quantitative degree is more clear (eg stop drawing more maps after a few billion).

I highly recommend anyone interested read at least the summary of the above brief, but relevant details from page 4 are reproduced:

"With modern computer technology, it is now straightforward to (i) generate a large collection of redistricting plans that are representative of all possible plans that meet the State’s declared goals (e.g., compactness and contiguity); (ii) calculate the partisan outcome that would occur under each such plan, based upon actual precinct-level votes in one or more recent elections; (iii) display the distribution of the outcomes across these plans; and (iv) situate the State’s chosen plan along that continuum to reveal the degree to which that plan is an outlier. One can analyze outcomes for a statewide plan as a whole, or for an individual district within a plan. In this way, it is now straightforward to measure the quantitative degree to which a partisan gerrymander is excessive."
Treating depression by ‘erasing’ neuroplasticity damage caused by stress
Subjectively, it increasingly feels that while the complexity has been increasing, the notion of longevity of the underlying products and services has been degrading.

While updates to software were expected, general outlook would be that they would not be breaking the core features. The emphasis on backwards compatibility was in a way an assurance to businesses that building their operations on vendor's products is not risky. Even then, some mission-critical elements would be defensively abstracted to avoid the dependency risks (at least theoretically...)

Now, we all witness the "eternal-beta" paradigm across the most of the major software products. Frequent builds with automatic updates, when new features could be suddenly pushed, and old features removed.

Sure, it's still possible to spec out a "hard-rock" steady platform, postpone updates, abstract dependencies and just focus on business. But...such approach won't be approved, as it's widely acknowledged that the presence of critical bugs is rather a "feature" of all software. Postponing the updates is not prudent, it's a liability.

So the rock-solid expectations are just an illusion or perhaps a fantasy promoted widely, just to get the foot in the door.

Ironically, the most stable elements are the so much dreaded "legacy", too often in charge of the business-critical logic.
Peanut oil has a flavor. Safflower and sunflower oils have higher temperature and no flavor.

Been using safflower for over 20 years on my day-use skillet.
It says "extract all possible information (title, published date, author, content, etc.)" which includes content. I presume content is protected by copyright.
Copied from a different comment of mine: £999 is a lot of PC. The processor in the M1 air is about 20% faster than the one in my laptop (£550 IIRC), but to spec an M1 out with the same amount of storage and RAM brings it to £1999.

I should stress that my now slightly ageing laptop is much thicker than an Air, but it's also used to play modern games so that balances out.

Personally, for the price of an Air I could actually use I'd just get something cheap and a big PC setup.
The unarmed civilians were repressed over summer, sure, but the government still largely capitulated in the end.
That's not the problem, as stated in the article. It's payments being cut off by card networks.
>Why should you then be allowed to use the service AND claim not being bound by the terms?

It is like a child signing a contract. The child isn't bound to it, but the other party is. In this case, a corporation attempted to use an extreme disparity in knowledge and power to take advantage of a much weaker party. The disparity is larger than that between an average adult and an average child. As a consequence of this, it seems just as fair as in the case of contracts signed by children.
> "There's not a lot you can do about it, which makes you feel really helpless. I have friends who are considering leaving the business as a whole, just because Pornhub was such a big source of income."

I would guess for at least some of the public, sex workers leaving the business would be seen as a feature rather than a bug.
(never tried cabal, it could be worse)

tox was accused of having a poor crypto implementation / playing silly buggers with libsodium. I've tried it on android, works ok but most apps at the time seemed older. not sure where tox stands re community liveliness but its certainly a good start on p2p messaging, my claims notwitshtanding.
reddit ticks 4 out of those 5 boxes
Moody doesn’t seem to care about the abuse or victims that is rampant in the industry, she just wants to get paid.
OnlyFans allows them to sell their content directly (not the same as it's up to them to solve the discoverability problem)
I don’t know whether that’s true, but that’s quite a change of subject from “macs are priced at roughly 3x markup compared to the market”.
The voting system reflects HN sentiment, which generally isn't particularly pro Apple, so the implication is that M1 is quite special.
Element looks like more of a hassle specially for non tech savvy users in my family circle, I'm trying to get them to move to Signal from WhatsApp / FB Messenger.
I don't know if I honestly care though. Their livelihood is to have sex on camera for money, it's not something I or many other people really value. COVID restrictions on movie theaters put a lot of actors / actresses livelihoods at risk and I don't care. They don't provide a lot of value past entertainment (for some).
> what stops SOME modern manufacturers to do the same?

I believe there are manufacturers filling that niche now. Field [0] is one that I'm aware of. I think there are four or five others.

[0] https://fieldcompany.com/
Yeah, not so much. North American developed countries aren't shining examples of labor protection champions. I'd refer to parts of Europe [1] and New Zealand [2] on how to protect sex workers in a more substantial way.

[1] https://www.nswp.org/sites/nswp.org/files/Declaration_bookle...

[2] https://www.nzpc.org.nz/The-New-Zealand-Model
I think this is just a corollary of having your priorities straight. You'll likely prioritize the most important things first if you have a clear goal of what you want.
I gave you the definition of hate speech. And it has nothing to do with what you are trying to spin it into.

Your line of argumentation is typical. Because BLM activists went to the street to fight against racially motivated disproportionate police violence the Rght constantly tries to justify overthrowing an election result.

Those two things are not the same! What happened on January 6th at the Capitol is not just a protest. Treason is the word that comes to my mind.
> I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but most jurisdictions have strong protections for providers hosting third party content so long as the providers are not aware that the content is problematic.

We cannot rely on that continuing to be the case. Neither Trump nor Biden want Section 230 to keep going as it is.
Apple, Hyundai set to agree electric car tie-up, says Korea IT News
Yes, me for example
Yes, works also fine for me; maybe the link of the original post should be corrected.
I like the idea. However, is 5 bucks for 20 pages a fair deal?
In the past that has not happened, the reason open web wins is because of freedom.
This has been done before by others in response to credit card networks cutting the cord, and it never replaces the lost revenue.
Agreed. It’s tempting given how old my current MBP is, but I priced out a 16” MBP last year to budget for, and the 2TB drive, 32GB RAM, and 16” of screen size (especially since Big Sur is Big Sur) are too many compromises to make to jump on the M1 Macs today.
The Race to Preserve the DC Mob's Digital Traces
In some extent, given the use of macros and Haskell like libraries, it is already another C++.

Besides, if Rust doesn't become another C++, it won't fulfil the industry needs that C++ caters for, thus while it might become a success in some domain, it won't replace C++ in the OS and GPGPU SDKs.
I suspect you would enjoy it that much even if it wasn't so much superior to your old laptop, but just because you built it yourself.
The quality is very poor and I don’t think they verify age.
I returned mine too
The election result is disputed. Hello!
You adapt to those changes with time.
>BigTech has just now gone nuclear in their censorship efforts

Who's being censored? Twitter, Facebook etc. are private platforms and they've been banning users who break their TOS throughout their histories.
IMO, JavaScript became the most popular language in the world because:

1) Everyone with a modern, full-featured browser already has it. There's nothing to install. It's the modern equivalent of the built-in BASIC in the early microcomputers.

2) "View Source" lets you see exactly how something was done at the click of a mouse. This is invaluable for learning.

3) Writing it and debugging it just requires a text editor and the browser mentioned before, not some baroque toolchain. You can even modify it and rerun it from directly within the browser, most of which have fairly sophisticated JS debuggers built in nowadays.

4) Rich text, GUI widgets, networking...all that stuff is already baked into the browser cake. You don't need to fool around with a separate libraries.

5) Interpreted, so iterative development is fast.

6) Forgiving (some would say "sloppy"), so beginners don't get overwhelmed with type systems and similar shizzle ("Why can't I just add 1 and 0.5? WTF?") Of course, this also brings problems along with it. No free lunches.

Some other languages, on some platforms, have some of these features, but none to my knowledge has all of them.

For example, Linux systems do come with C, and do have the source code available, but looking up the line of source that produced exactly what you're seeing on the screen in, say, an X program, is a far more involved process than just right-clicking it and choosing "View Source".

Node, in turn, became popular because JavaScript is popular.

That's my take, FWIW.
How does this work on the internet where there are a 100+ separate countries involved?