skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happens a lot with Trump. He implies contradictory things at the same time and then says he doesn’t mean it that way when confronted. Meanwhile, everyone who was primed to hear the horrible/terrible/deplorable version of the message heard exactly what they wanted to hear.

He also does this with Tweets. Oh that retweet of that white supremecist, just a re-tweet. Doesn’t mean anything. Except there are good people on both sides.

But it does mean something when you are the President and you have a large number of followers.

People have been getting death threats for weeks about the stolen election. The only thing this President has done is continue to amp up the lies and demands of his followers to do something, anything.

The world isn’t a programming language, there’s no state machine and no precise instruction set. It is full of hints and innuendo.

Please interpret Donald Trump in context.
> what the modern equivalent of education by phone menu might be.

Podcasts and video, whether it's official company presentations or not.
Looks like Gab has silently broken federation a few months ago :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25715513
I guarantee that the market will crash. I just can’t guarantee when, and I can’t tell you how much gain you’ll miss by investing conservatively until then.

I’m prepared for the risk of a market crash by maintaining a market posture that matches my risk tolerance and investing horizon.

Edit to add: “are you preparing for a market crash?” is another way of saying “are you confident you can time the market?” I’m not.

And I think that if someone could confidently time the market, they would be unlikely to be vocal about it. Announcing the future if the market is likely to change it.

Honestly I think that’s what some crash predictors are trying to do. They’re long bitcoin or gold, or short the market, and if they can get everyone else to go along with them now, they’ll make money now.
There's basically no science in this "science-based how-to".

This was the article which started the flaxseed oil cast-iron fad. I think that has now faded: apparently flaxseed oil has a tendency to deteriorate and flake off over time.
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The feature can cut accidents and resulting claims 28 percent, making it the most effective item in the active-safety arsenal, says insurance group.
So who is going to lose? There are always winners and losers in markets.
Those things were a cooperation. And you definitely don't want to read up who led the US space program.
I'm a Prosody developer. If you're happy with ejabberd, that's fine by me! It used to be a real pain to set up and maintain (one reason we started Prosody), but both ejabberd and Erlang have made progress in that area recently.

Prosody has a strong community and one of our priorities is keeping stable, lightweight, and easy to extend and experiment with.

We are aware that some useful/popular modules are still in the community repository. We polish and merge new ones with every major release. As detailed in the blog post we are adding a simple way to fetch and install community modules to a Prosody installation.

Contrary to popular belief, XMPP is always evolving and adding new features, so this is our way of ensuring you can always keep up with new stuff even if it's not in a release yet.

We have a chat, feel free to hang out and ask questions: https://prosody.im/discuss
In order to access the service you need to register. The registration form would not allow you to register without accepting it. They only need to prove that you indeed access the service. That doesn't seem too hard to prove for most services out there, or at least the most popular ones.
Probably not a coincidence that this gets posted with no context the day that Parler gets kicked off AWS.

I presume it's someone trying to offer Cabal as a Parler alternative.
I can see the appeal. I imagine this means that if none of my friends follow conspiracy theory content, I won't see any of that, and if one of them did, I could presumably block the conspiracy theory content feeds while still following my friends.

The downside may be that, presumably, this puts everyone into a bubble even more than Facebook did? At least there is no algorithmic meddling or centralized content control.
If pundits like this guy are so wise, why are they 1) Always on CNBC talking about stuff like this rather than trading it and making a killing 2) Still working when they are as old as the author of this article?
Browsing f-droid recently, I found 2 other clients (second one based on Element codebase) also being actively developed:

https://syphon.org/

https://schildi.chat/
??? I think that is highly dependent on housing costs and how early you retire. If you have kids who are not in college (and live where college is not free) and have not paid off your house, 1MM in retirement is a woefully small amount of money (I think?). At 5% withdrawal (risky), you are living on 50K a year, 30K post-tax. That's not even going to cover your mortgage in many cases, much less other living costs.
Show HN: We made a Discord community for sharing projects, finding co-founders
Fair, but I'm also excluding dividends from the S&P.
and do you think that politicians should have to follow the same rules as everyone else?

I'll answer your q when you've answered mine
I still think this is horribly wrong.

Having groups "approve" information means having gatekeepers who wield a lot of power. Censors. Who is to ensure that they exercise that power both fairly and accurately? It opens a huge can of worms. It might seem to make sense for "obviously" black and white issues. But most are not so clear cut, and choosing a "correct" side is impossible.

"False information" isn't countered by suppression. It's countered with facts and open discussion.

I absolutely agree that the current state of affairs with social media is problematic. That's the reason I quit all of them and deleted my accounts permanently. But what you're advocating still amounts to censorship and a failure to treat individuals as capable of evidence-based rational thought, and is still the antithesis of what we want in an open and free society.
It’s slash proc here https://youtu.be/Fow7iUaKrq4
50% stocks, 50% crypto

Though this is not a failsafe solution, as the two have been often correlated lately. Also, it requires a crazy high risk tolerance.

The problem is that I worry any market crash would be associated with inflation in the current economic environment, so the old solution of going long on cash/usbonds doesn't seem viable to me anymore.
If you’re still questioning the clarity of your copy, there’s a simple solution
I have seen contracts that made the work I was meant to do for them impossible, that type of work wasn't allowed under the contract.

The classic example is a company wanting me to work on some open source software and potentially put in patches on it but having a clause in their contract that assigns all rights to the software I produce to them.

They don't often read them themselves to see if they are sensible or correct before sending them. The entire situation is really dumb, no one anywhere in the process seems to read them.
These can both be true
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Author here. Apologies for the factual inconsistencies in the article. I wrote the article in a fit of emotion and I do not write often, so you might find my thoughts and words messy.

I do not defend Parler or the people on it either. What happened was not a civilized thing. The whole point of rule of law is that society doesn't succumb to rule of the jungle

Should Parler be banned ? I don't know. A big chunk of me leans towards the answer yes.

But this very answer scares me. Who am I, in a civilized, nation state, with a legislative, executive, govt. , to decide who has a voice and who doesn't ? And even if I do , who checks my powers ? What stops me from doing the unethical, the incorrect and the evil ?

What I wanted to focus was, not on Parler (it was my prompt for ideas washing around in my head for a while), but on the sheer amount of centralized power and authority in the hands of Big Tech, at the moment. Wikileaks was the wakeup call. It showed how much financial, media and technological clout Big Tech has and how effectively they operate in conjunction with the government.

Social media unshackled the voices of the normal people from the dependence of print and TV. It made the system of checks and balances more approachable for the common. I fear that Big Tech is now becoming the very same villain that they wanted to liberate the common man from.

And it scares me.
Well, you've just lost me as a customer for life. I had no horse in the game and condemn the violence on both sides - I just value free speech. I hope to see this censorship punished by the market and reflected in Amazon's stock price as well. I'm not a big fish but I'll take my couple thousand/mo elsewhere.
This seems backward. The government has no business censoring the Chinese embassy. However, the embassy has no particular right to force platforms to disseminate its propaganda.

Honestly, this sort of action just seems like a return to the status quo; you can say what you want, and people who read a lot of embassy press releases might see it, but good luck finding a newspaper who’ll cooperate if it’s abhorrent stuff like this.
Manyverse’s work on room servers version 2 will be huge.

The rooms will function a lot more like real life buildings. Some will be private like homes, some will be public like libraries, others will be restricted like a club.

Really cool development!
Free speech used to be fine because people used to be exposed to alternative opinions. Now people get put into bubbles by algorithms which show them more of what they want, rather than giving them a healthy diet of diverse opinions. Without that, some people can be easily led to believe any old propaganda and radicalised. The check on extremism has fallen off thanks to personalisation creating echo chambers.

For that reason, a P2P Twitter-type platform where accounts couldn't be removed would be potentially very dangerous.

I would rather try to deal with free speech by looking at personalisation and filter bubbles, perhaps mandating some kind of diversity gets baked into algorithms, which seems to lie at the root of the issue (that and economic inequality).
Banning Trump means they also have to take action against things like this.
There's a contradiction in your argument. On one hand, you claim these platforms "amplify" hate speech, and on the other hand, you want to push them to other platforms.

...but it is exactly that isolation that create the bubble induced amplification of hate-speech.

If everyone was forced to exist on the same platform (as a though experiment) then hate-speech would have to co-exist with rational thinkers and their hateful ideas might not propagate much.

...but the moment you ban/deplatform/censor/etc... then they begin to form isolated groups with no counter-balance of rationality.
On the second page already I'm seeing the need to screen out comments that refer to m/s (meters per second) and km/s.
speculation is good right? As long as the author state that it is speculation.
Why you want to use BuildKit CLI for kubectl instead of Docker Build?
If a politician who holds a rally is responsible for the behaviors of looters and arsonists and violence in said rally, then you can hold that opinion and be consistent as long as you held that opinion all 2020 long while our cities burned and literally caused people to flee to the countryside by the millions.

And on a totally separate point, the police let the demonstrators into the building knowing most of them love their country, and where there to genuinely protest, and they didn't even damage any of the million-dollar paintings on the walls, set fires, or assault people (only two crazies, which exist in any group)). If this had been BLM the building would've been burned down and you would be rationalizing why is was "a just cause"
I don't really think the science is that conclusive on seasoning. I haven't been able to find any publications to support this opinion that flax seed oil or any other oil is the best for seasoning. It seems also that the health effects of ingesting parts of the patina is not fully understood
You might check out the list of books in Harvard Classics library, which were intended to be "enough books to give a liberal education to anyone who would read them with devotion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics

All books in Harvard Classics are available for free on Project Gutenberg.
I think disabling javascript could be considered hacking the software.
If it's diplomatic matters they should have used the usual
diplomatic channels. They instead posted it on a privately owned
platform they themselves banned in their own country.

Twitter has to obey the law, other than that they don't owe that
embassy anything.
Something - friendly is just the same as Something - ready. If you remember the HD - ready TVs you know what it means.
You're wrong.

Trump and the other speakers at that rally specifically told the people there to march down to the capitol.

He specifically told them to hold Pence accountable, which resulted in lynch mobs roaming the halls.

Trump refused to call in the guard and his own cabinet has said that he was happy about what was happening inside the capitol. Pence and Pelosi had to override him in order to get support.

Trump told the the protestors he loved them and that they were special people after restating the election was rigged and got himself suspended from Twitter.

Trump didn't disavow the protests until his cabinet handed him a speach and forced him to read it in what has to be the first presidential hostage video in history.

He then proceeded to back peddle and get himself banned from Twitter.

You can take your both sides centrist bullshit and fuck off.
Discounted stocks going on sale? Great, time to load up!
I guess it's quite a difficult thing to communicate without encouraging users to click on ads, which presumably would get them in hot water with the ad networks.
actually, this is a great detriment to every form of established contract law as we've trivialized what it means to establish a legal contract. Easy com, easy go.

A contract requires consideration, and a meeting of the minds. If you can't even request a change to the terms for your agreement, it isn't a spiritually valid contract. It's the difference between actually being prepared to negotiate, and making an ultimatum. ToS's are often presented in the forms of ultimatum's with no alternatives. That I do not accept.
IMO scuttlebutt's mood can be summed up by https://coolguy.website/the-future-will-be-technical/
I can confirm, I’ve tried flaxseed (based on this article and other ancedata) and while the seasoning came out really nice after 6 months or so it has started to flake and after a year it looks really bad.
> Beijing is alleged

The essence of tech giants: censorship based on allegations.
> Where did I say I supported people storming gov. buildings in Portland?

I didn't say you did, I was simply presenting the facts and reasons these people have for their actions I don't condone or agree with them. I understand them, I've followed along on both sides of this and nobody is talking to anyone, the left is calling people racist for even questioning them and cancelling leftist media on the regular for being "alt right" whatever the hell that means.

I'm just not surprised this is the outcome. What else can you expect?

It's not whataboutism, I'm not using my example to say they have the right to do what they did, what I'm pointing out is that you can't have sustained >100 day riots in portland with the government not being allowed to intervene and expect anything fucking less than an amplified repeat.
New coronavirus variant found in travellers from Brazil: Japan government – CNA
Wait a couple of years, or maybe four, nah, let's say 10, or 20, probably close to 30 and snow will be a thing of the past. Better say, 50. OK, by 2100.
In a way many Europeans have been experiencing one of the very real consequences of changing climate, refugees: The civil war in Syria was partly the direct result of a record drought [0] and a steadily escalating conflict over the limited access to fresh-water in the region [1]

[0] https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08DAMASCUS847_a.html

[1] https://library.ecc-platform.org/conflicts/turkey-syria-and-...
The first (and, so far, only) time I heard someone use “etsy”, I misheard it as “ansi” and looked a bit confused as I’d never heard of /ansi before. I usually pronounce it as “et cet”. Needless to say, the path didn’t exist, which heightened my embarrassment!
> Nietzsche never used a word of jargon. He made a large number of extremely direct claims. "God is dead" is hardly content-free, is it?

“God is dead.” is a claim whose exact meaning, like so many things said or written by Nietzsche, has been debated for centuries now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead#Discussion_by_Hege...

As you can clearly see there are quite a few different interpretations as to the meaning thereof.

> As for pandering to his audience for instant success, he mocked every piety that existed in Wilhelmine Germany, alienated most of his friends, and went mad.

Then those were simply not his audience.
Nope, it isn't used beyond WebRTC, and in Windows it even autodetects if the computer has a capable enough hardware encoder and use that instead (and decoding through native Windows libraries if there isn't a suitable hardware decoder).
The line between establishing credibility and bragging is easy to cross even for someone who's trying not to cross it.
I don't think that anyone on Hacker News is confusing between government and private entities by now. We have seen that exact argument hundreds of times.

My answer was to the question of how "society" should handle the situation. I fully understand that the companies are free to do what they want. And I believe that as capitalistic entities, they would not have cut off paying customer without pressure from a large segment of society. I just believe that segment was wrong in pressuring the companies to do so.

Again, I understand that it is also their (those who wants Parler to have no platform) rights to free speech. I just happen to think that it is the wrong way of approaching this situation.

Edit: if it was a single company removing the Parler community (similar to how Reddit was kicking off alot of subreddit a couple of years ago). I think I would be a lot more inclined with your line of reasoning. It's the coordinated action from too many sides that made me feel uncomfortable with how this happened.
They wouldn't wipe out the entire US House and Senate. They would wipe out only those who didn't agree to object to the certification of the Biden's election. They would eliminate Senators and Representatives until Trump was appointed. Now you have an illegitimate president. As you say, the republic is the states, and I don't see how e.g. the Republic of California continues in the Union at that point.

> They are not essential for day to day governance.

Remember that states are not allowed to print their own money as the federal government is. States are now spending vast amounts of money to combat Covid. The federal government is funding these efforts by literally printing dollar bills. If the federal government fails to prop up states, you're looking at states unable to fund hospitals, police, teachers, utilities, etc. If the entire House is eliminated, there's no one to vote on federal budgets, and governors cannot just appoint Representatives as they can Senators -- Representatives must be elected in a special election in their districts according to the constitution. Meaning money from the federal government would just dry up without the House. Obviously the framers never anticipated this edge case.
Hah! Within the last couple of weeks I read Berdyaev's The Fate of Man in the Modern World, less for any special insight into theology than because the book was lying around, I had heard his name, and thought I might as well read it. On the other hand, I did read a fair bit of Plato and some Aristotle in 2020.

The one thing the modern synopsists will give you, though, is context. Jaroslav Pelikan quotes an American theologian to the effect that the Reformation was the reaction of Augustine's theology of grace on Augustine's theology of the church. I moderately well understand this, not through reading Augustine; I have read The Confessions and a smidgen each of On the Trinity and The City of God. But it was Peter Brown's Augustine of Hippo and the first volume of Pelikan's history of Christian doctrine that told me.
> Most of the "plenty of good HTML5 parsers out there" are broken.

Can you name a few popular and widely used HTML5 parsers that are broken and tell us what the bugs are in those parsers? I would be surprised if you can find or name even two such parsers that are popular but cannot handle optional tags correctly as required by the spec.

> Also I was explicitly talking about XML compatible HTML.

There is no such thing as XML compatible HTML (unless you mean XHTML which we are not discussing here). Maybe you mean XML-serialized HTML5. I can only guess since the terminology you are using is vague and unclear. In any case, HTML5 by itself is incompatible with XML. I mentioned this in my previous comment. Not all tags in HTML5 are self-closing, thus incompatible with XML. XML-serialized HTML5 is however compatible with XML, by definition, and in that case, one would use an XML parser, not an HTML5 parser. More importantly, you can safely omit the optional tags and still convert your HTML5 document into XML-serialized HTML5 document without any issues whatsoever. This was explained to you by anjbe here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706163. He is absolutely right.

> Btw, have you ever seen HTML in the web browser dev tools? Guess why it shows always the "optional" tags. ;-)

You see all the tags there because it shows the entire DOM. The browser automatically creates the elements when optional tags are not explicitly present in the HTML. This is all spelled out in the spec very clearly. Any HTML5 parser worth its name follows the spec. I am not sure what your point is here.

See https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#optional-... for details, especially:

"Omitting an element's start tag in the situations described below does not mean the element is not present; it is implied, but it is still there. For example, an HTML document always has a root html element, even if the string <html> doesn't appear anywhere in the markup."

I hope that explains why you always see the elements for the optional tags in a web browser's developer tools.
Parent comment discussed "democracy activists in Hong Kong being rounded up" -- Bagacrap was of course misleadingly labeling those activists as "secessionists", unless you think Bagacrap was referring to the Taiwanese people even though Taiwan is an independent country and has no need for secession beyond a legal formality. On whether these activists are secessionists: their demands focus on advancing democratic elections in Hong Kong while continuing under the "one country two systems" framework, the claim that they are asking for secession is incorrect given that the vast majority of the activists do not want Hong Kong to secede from China.

Edit: see https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/news/hong-kong/article/3065... which is from a newspaper in China (so even if it is biased, it would be biased towards pro-CCP views). As you can see, these activists want self-determination for Hong Kong, but do not want Hong Kong to leave or secede from China.
I've seen that inflation adjusted numbers put it closer to $2.5MM or $3MM now.
It might have! I installed a while ago.

I didn't find a fast way to un-follow all those automatically-followed instances though.
It’s only difficult to predict because of the fed pumping money.