skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heres a few data points to argue that this should be the case.

India's most populous and likely poorest state, had 202 mn people in 2012; nearly 2/3rds of the current US population.

Here are some cities and numbers for scale (Google search)

Mumbai had ~20.4 mn people.
Cairo has ~20.9 mn.
Dhaka 21 mn
Mexico city 21.7

New Zealand had 4.8 mn people in 2018.
Canada - 37.59
Mayanmar - 53.71
The UK - 66 mn
Vietnam 95.5 mn

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A few years ago, Mexico had a spate of gang violence. News about it was suppressed by the govt.

A woman driving along the road uploaded a video she had taken. It showed shell cases strewn on the roads, burnt out trucks, and the aftermath of that violence.

IT went viral on Facebook, going against the Government narrative and letting a slice of reality get observed.

Until morning came around to the UK. At which point someone opened facebook, and saw the gore. They were able to call people they knew at FB and say "why am I/my kids seeing this?".

And FB responded and took it down, for breaking site rules.

(taken from Custodians of the Internet)
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FB wasn't necessarily wrong, but it was definitely partial. When the blood and gore rule was enforced during the Boston bombings, senior employees overruled it citing newsworthiness.

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Your guess that the net will be balkanized is quite likely true.

FB spends great efforts to have local presence in each market. They recruit policy people, and negotiators. However, the platform does help broadcast content.

And if someone at FB can decide what is newsworthy or not, then why wouldn't local leaders crave that same power?
The "firewall" was Little Snitch -- which was implemented using a framework intended for per-application VPNs.
As an owner of a 2015 Macbook Pro, I'm pretty okay with that. Haven't upgraded anything the past 6 years.

Honestly I'd like an SSD and RAM upgrade but it's not that big of a deal. It costs money, too, and there's a bunch of stuff that doesn't improve with it like the CPU and battery which are key. And secondarily, any improvements to formfactor, screen, webcam, keyboard etc, although that's not as significant nowadays.

I'd rather just sell it for a few hundred bucks now that I'm 6y in, and get a replacement machine with twice the battery and a much better CPU. I think even without resale value $1200 or so machine cost me like $16 a month and I think I use it about 300 hours a month, or about 5 cent per hour. It's quite negligible part of my hourly/monthly wage. With resale value it's probably even 25-30% less, maybe 3.5 cents per hour.

If I were to have spent money on upgrades, it'd be a bit cheaper than a full replacement - resale value, but at best it'd get me to 2 or 2.5 cents per hour. But I'd miss out on improved CPU, battery etc.

Not being able to upgrade parts isn't that big of a deal to me. Back in the day it was, as within 2-3 years I felt I saw noticeable better experiences on the market with new parts. But today I'm quite fine purchasing an experience and having it last the next 5-6 years, before I upgrade. At which point I want a full upgrade, rather than only a few parts.
You deliberately chose not to read it. Why should you then be allowed to use the service AND claim not being bound by the terms?

(And yes, I think german law has the right principle there: clauses which are "unexpected" to an average consumer are invalid with consumers (different in B2B context), thus risk as consumer is low when blindly accepting)
>E2E is more recent and optional. Most rooms are not E2E, and have browsable history.

E2E is actually turned on by default, as of about one year ago.
Well, that's one distinction, it's true.

I agree and like Black Lives Matter because they have a valid point to make, and while it's unfortunate that there are fringe elements causing property damage and there have been instances of violence, that's not central to their mission and most people I know who support Black Lives Matter are against violence and property damage.

I dislike Trump because he's corrupt, incompetent, racist, sexist, a sociopath, and an authoritarian. I feel like it's a valid position to be against those things. However, any politician on any end of the political spectrum can be all those things, so setting those aside, let's look at his actual policies: the only one I can think of is isolationism.

I mean I'm mostly just repeating myself. Feel free to make a counterargument.
Not always. I'm somewhat disappointed with my 2020 16" MBP that I bought after owning a 2015 MBP for 5 years. This one is faster for sure, but also noisier, gets hot often for no good reason (even with the lid closed for the whole day!), takes 7-8 seconds to wake my Eizo monitor, while the previous one would take only a second to do the same.

To be honest and quite unexpectedly the 16" MBP is not the best Mac I ever owned, despite the hype. The display is amazing, the speakers are incredible for a laptop, I'm also glad the T arrow keys are back, but everything else is a disappointment.
I've installed Element on Android last week and created a fresh matrix.org account. No tech skills required so far.
fair, if you wanted good build good luck finding one outside of apple

I was more mad at the general markup relative to similar intel chips in say a Dell or HP ultralight
Thank you, will check those out. Will probably rip them from libgen so font shouldn't be a problem
Meanwhile, in Canada... forced sterilization of indigenous First Nation women (Native Americans):

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/forced-sterilization-la...

They're not isolated cases.
Being able to locally run the integration tests for my work on my 32GB thinkpad has been a godsend during the 'rona times. If I only had 16 (or even 24) I'd have to carefully consider whether I should close Firefox to run them.

These tests spin up a bunch of containers and run certain components with instrumented runtimes that take up gobs of RAM, so having a fat laptop is very useful.
It's expensive and is still not upgradeable is the point.
Same. I used to have a Macbook Air 13" and a friend convinced me to switch a Macbook Pro 15" for the screen size. Now I couldn't see myself coming back to 13".
The most educated people I know seem the most partisan right now and most likely to parrot main stream media talking points.

It’s making me question my assumptions about education. On the other hand Im just one data point.
My kids use Chromebooks. Macs are a little pricey.
This is indeed a point of contention among different styles of whether software titles should be italicized. Though the position that they should uniformly be is the minority one, it is certainly used by some outlets with considerable weight, and I believe it to be the consistent one if titles of books and films are too.

Some style guides make the even more inconsistent distinction that only titles of video games be italicized, but titles of “application software” not be.

I suppose that on H.N., where such software is frequently mentioned, it does stand out more.
That's great info, I wasn't aware of this. Thanks!
Our dog's food bowl is about the most mirror polished metal in the house. Free labor.
Again, people who understand what a Gish Gallop is aren't going to be persuaded by anything you're saying, because they know the same tactics could be used to establish that up is down, or that pants are shirts. That's why 'harryh pointed this out to you.

You can't persuade people simply by being too tedious to argue with --- like you are here, where, when confronted with a refutation of one of your claims, you pretend not to have seen that and retreat to abstraction.
I just switched from a 2015 MBP to the current 16" MBP and it is an amazing computer and a significant upgrade towards the 2015 one. The keyboard is nice, the screen much better, great sound and speed. I also like the touchbar. So the 16" is an easy buy. Though of course, you now might want to wait for an ARM based one.
>You may as well say, "There's nothing wrong with Gab/Parler/Voat as long as you stay away from the political discussions".

It's just a fundamentally different system than what you're comparing it to and has many well established communities that aren't what you appear to be alluding to.

>It doesn't matter. Your technical and logical distinctions are minor and irrelevant to most people compared to an overwhelmingly negative reputation.

Are there any major situations involving matrix that you can point to?

I'm not aware of any major issues and just because it's not one of the major social media platforms (arguably not even social media depending on your definition) doesn't mean it's inherently bad.
Microsoft is redesigning another Control Panel feature in Windows 10
I think the opposite is true: unless it’s agreed upon I work outside work hours, I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to stop everything at a vacation with my kids to solve a bug. And I would not work anyplace that wanted that.
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This isn't going to be as common. Either way it's not surprising.
There a few valid situations where you don’t want to follow the common deployment practice by pushing to container registry and then let Kubernetes pull it during deployment.

This is mostly the case during the software development phase where you quickly want to test your code on Kubernetes cluster local or remote, because the whole container image up and download is slow.

> A key feature of BuildKit CLI for kubectl is that it strives to make the images you build immediately available in the container runtime of your Kubernetes cluster so you can “bounce” your pod(s) to pick up a freshly built image with virtually no overhead.
Judging by the unanimous and immediate technocrat and media response to the capitol riot I would wager the rich are very concerned about it. I agree noone wealthy seemed all that concerned about the riots before that
Who? I can't think of a single core contributor who lives in California.

The vast majority don't even live in the US. I think I'm the closest to SV and I'm in Portland.
Can't say I blame him...

Miguel has tried everything under the sun to generate revenue while being "open source first" (And brought a ton of cool things to OSS while doing it). Maybe going the other way around like Netflix/Uber/etc. (having a non-oss service and open sourcing various pieces later) will be a better fit.

And on top of it all - he was always a good guy..
(GNOME not withstanding, everyone knows KDE is the better DE :-P )
Maybe, but the RAM and disk performance is so good [1] that it might not be needed so badly. Unless you want to run a whole bunch of VMs

https://mobile.twitter.com/Sirupsen/status/13442670199449477...
I was thinking something similar the other day, but rather than a fully standard TOS, where I get to is that we need standard atomic pieces of contracts and TOS docs. For instance in the language in the definitions part about who the customer is, who the business is should be {common:customer-is-you, common:business-is-mybusinessname} or a part that talks about not using other customer's login information. Etc. Why should we have to read every single line when it's mostly the same? DRY the TOS.
"new features" ah yes I love hw tweaks for benchmark juicers mmmmmmmm shows me so much about what matters in the real world
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Spot on. With desktops "loose fitting" software isn't as much of an issue, because there one has an appreciable margin in computing muscle and no concern for things like power efficiency, but with laptops lack of integration degrades the resulting product quite a lot. Software alone can be what makes a laptop good or bad.

For someone seeking "the best of both worlds" in terms of integration, power efficiency, and upgradability/overall flexibility, that can sometimes be found in 2-3 generation old (where all of the hardware is solidly supported) high-end business laptops running some flavor of Linux, but knowing which models of laptop are the "good ones" as well as setting up Linux to run optimally on them takes a level of involvement and energy that not everybody is up for.
Correction: bad devs make the web slower
> I don't really get the node.js fixation for command line tools.

It's simply because most developers are web developers. They use the programming language and tooling they're familiar with. I do also wish that there wasn't so much of a move to webify everything, particularly since web dev is so prone to constantly changing fads and dependency sprawl. It tends to lead to code/software that breaks all the time.
There's more to climate change than CO2... Forests create micro climates; prevent soil erosion; help fixate water and nutrients; produce food for local populations, thus providing them income and reducing need to ship as much food to rural areas; improve yields of agriculture, so you don't need to water as much, or use as much ferilizer... And Ecosia is invested is projects to help with all of this (read their blog).

This single track kindset of climate change fight is why we get so much green washing.
GMO has pounding this drum for years[1][2]. Eventually, they'll be right, but not because they were able to call it correctly. In fact given the run-up since they started calling for the bubble to burst you'd likely still be ahead if the bubble burst tomorrow and stocks halved in value.

Now a lot of what they say has some truth to it, and they might actually be right. But they might also continue being wrong for years to come. Timing the market is a fools errand. Good advice is invest mostly by value or underestimated growth stocks, invest continuously, and only with money you don't need for at least 10 years. And finally, when the inevitable plunge does come, don't sell no matter how bad it gets. You only lose or make money when you sell, before that it's just points on paper.

[1] 2018 https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1743d0x0ms3yx...
[2] 2017 https://www.gmo.com/americas/research-library/is-the-u.s.-st...
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Regardless of what computer that is, having what you think it is the best computer you ever had is such a great sensation, at least for me that I spend at lease 9 hours a day in front of it.
In my case it's a Dell XPS, but it doesn't matter.

Treasure this sensation, it won't last forever :)
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Yes it is fast enough. People are playing GTA V and many other games at completely acceptable performance.

Here's a bunch of reports people made for games: https://applesilicongames.com/
Strange, I did exactly the same switch recently and consider the 16" MBP a significant upgrade from my old machine. It even stays completely silent most of the day while the old one would constantly spin the fans.
I generally agree with you, and would prefer we move toward in person voting on paper ballots in as many jurisdictions as possible. With easy exemptions for people with mobility impairments, etc.

However I think any pressure towards in-person voting MUST be accompanied by an expansion of rights in terms of how far polling places are from you, a national holiday where everyone gets the day off work, sizeable transportation stipends, etc. Without all of that, requiring people to vote in person is de facto disenfranchisment.

And furthermore, with regards to 2020, I disagree with you wholeheartedly. I think everyone had a right to no-contact voting this year due to COVID. It was a special set of circumstances.
Why is it not surprising when it has never been true before now?
A drop of water affected by the Leidenfrost effect looks different from one in a too cold pan.

If I'm doing something that requires a ripping hot pan, one that's actually hot enough for the Leidenfrost effect is where I am for. This usually requires that I use a high smoke point oil, like refined peanut oil.
I realize this is going to sound pretty milquetoast, but: I wouldn't use words like "worthless". Predicting the future is complicated and I think GMO understands the fundamentals and macroeconomics very well. They are directionally correct most of the time and for the right reasons, so I'll listen to what they have to say.

But I also don't think their predictions have sufficiently precise timing to beat the market. I agree with the thrust of your point, and I probably wouldn't invest my money with them. I think of GMO a lot like AQR in that sense.
I have a MacBook Air 2020 (Intel).

After upgrading to Big Sur, I have experiences a general degradation of performance, graphical glitches and serious Bluetooth problems (failing to connect to Apple mouse and keyboard).

The fundamental problem seems to be that with proprietary consumer hardware/software- only the initial version is reviewed and after that the vendor can push software full of bugs with no consequences.
The problem I see is it evolves from the free speech arguments (pro / against private companies being held to it) to one of concern about true utilities. I would argue AWS is more inline with a utility than social media ever was. The problem for consumers is that even if you look for alternatives, it's possible and highly probable that AWS is the backend hosting for third parties as well. This makes it very difficult to bypass a tool using their platform.

The issues get even dicier when you start talking about AWS or say cloudflare, blocking content. What happens when the block at the DNS level. Sure you can use other providers, but what happens when those providers, unbeknownst to you, integrate block lists from the aforementioned?

Yes people have a choice in products and can go else where, but when the products are so deeply intwined into the modern version of the internet, it becomes ever so more risky.

Everyone is onboard when its something they feel is morally right, but how long until it flips on them? It's not an if, but a when.

It's an extremely slippery slope we've been headed down for a long while.
Generally speaking I want to be on the sell side of transactions so I can at least attempt to dictate pricing.

That means:

- buying wholesale, selling retail

- buying commodities, selling products

- buying fixed assets, selling leases

As a long-time computer programmer and technologist my advice to my younger self would be, “sell things the market wants, not things you think are awesome.”
I find comments like these more telling of flawed workflows and not of the device.

For comparison's sake, we just rolled out ~100 of these in my department and the reception has been nothing less than stellar.
This was my conclusion as well. Maybe because I (naively) have trouble imagining that white doctors would reliably care less about black babies than white babies. Regardless, it should be simple to test for: just compare the outcome of all medical care administered in hospitals with relatively high amounts of black doctors to those with low amounts of black doctors.
What a fucking idiot.

How many times did he use the word "democracy"? The USA is not a democracy. It is a republic and for good reason.

If you don't know the difference than you clearly don't know shit about the US or how the government is supposed to function.

The only coup that took place was by Biden (or rather his handlers cause that dood has clearly checked out) - a guy that has been in politics for 40 years now. A guy supported by people like Nancy Pelosi that has also been in politics for 40 years now.
I’ve had this experience and seen many others mention it too. I always make a point when I have time to mention how I’ve solved it.

If you haven’t already, try plugging the power in on the right side, and the display/any other peripherals on the left. It sounds crazy, but this has been the solution for tons of people. Apparently the heat generated by power input (even at a steady full charge) is enough to spike the sensors near the components on the left side.

I haven’t experienced any downsides to this change other than having to spend a few minutes rearranging stuff on my desk.
Privacy and the end of the data economy with Carissa Veliz ep.50
It got so popular because it was the only available language to do web scripting. It's not that complicated. It's easy to "win" when no competition is allowed. You can argue that there's CoffeeScript, etc, but every other language is still a second-class citizen in the web ecosystem. WebAssembly may change that once it's stable and mature enough, though again, you have the problem that the DOM APIs were designed for JavaScript, which will create an impedance mismatch with other languages.
I went from a 2017 MBP 15" to a 16" 2019 MBP late last year and the keyboard is clearly a big selling point but lets not forget how much better the audio is either. It's under played in most reviews but it's a night and day difference. I feel like I'm in a home theater every time I use it.
WhatsApp making explicit their data sharing with FaceBook.
I think you meant - covid mitigations hit both of those.
All v3 Onion Addresses Down After Attack on the Tor Network
Great article, just one thing I don't quite understand: vintage vs modern cast iron pans.

I get his point about the older ones having smooth(er) finish due to production methods change, but what stops SOME modern manufacturers to do the same? Surely for a community that is essentially a cult, there should be enough people buying it to worth the additional manufacturing cost?
https://www.semrush.com/blog/linkbuilding-dofollow-vs-nofoll...
Some have suggested that they wanted to burn the ballot boxes in an attempt to prevent counting them. The problem is that, even if they did, it wouldn’t matter. The counting is just a formality and they can declare a winner without them. They already know who won.
Pretty impressive —- Parallels supports some sort of GPU pass through on ARM already?
It was my problem at first.
Why ? Maybe I am missing something.But if I understood their model correctly they are crawling websites(Not illegal) aggregating info of the articles(pub date, link, author,topic) and serving that as json. How is that different to the millions of link-aggregation websites, including HN?
> It does indeed make a lot of their comments annoying to read without obviously adding any value

I’m going to assume that you mean that the italics don’t add value, and not their comments as a whole. I think your comment could be read either way. Anyways, even so others have since pointed out reasons why the might be used to doing so.
It's just... really good. It's an uncanny feeling that many haven't had for a while
Problem with forward secrecy is that it doesn't really work well for a use case like cabal. You want to be able to join a cabal and read all the past conversations.
please test your site with nojs.

js is not an option with many devices and useragents.

thank you for doing what you do.
Did you view the links? There are core problems with Bluetooth, Wifi 6, and security of the device (not workflow).

I don't think my workflow is flawed, here's what it produces: https://github.com/niftylettuce
Can't believe people still use PornHub anyways.
In my experience, the content is not the greatest
I can think of exactly one time in my life I have upgraded anything on a laptop, and that was probably more than a decade ago. Back when they still came with 4200rpm 2.5" hard drives, and I put a newer drive in a then 5 year old Dell because I needed it to last another few years.

I did have a battery go bad in my MacBook Pro about 8 year ago, and it was replaced by Apple free of charge even though it was WAY out of warranty and I didn't have Applecare. Service like that alone is enough to keep me as a customer.

Most of the rest of the time by the time I am ready to start upgrading components, I am just wanting a newer, faster machine in general. I am not saying these things are not important - the are obviously important _to you_. But Apple has figured, correctly in my opinion, they are are not important to a _lot_ of people, or at the very least are not deal breakers. And more often than not I find myself in the latter camp.