skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We went baby stuff shopping 10 weeks before the due date, because look at us go. Baby came at 8 weeks before. Pure luck. Have your setup ready ideally
early, you really never know.

The concept of a go bag for the hospital also was very important and would have saved four or five family trips to our place.

Get the most expensive peri bottles you can, not the hospital ones.

More people than you think faint during the birth, if you're sensitive, prepare to fight your parasympathetic system. Do the breathing exercises regardless of your role!

I was completely outside time and space for two weeks, very tired for four months and it took 18 months to feel as sharp as I did pre birth and I was the support system not the main character :)

Get a really long phone charger for the hospital, naturally the plugs around the bed are used by machines but not the far away ones. Naturally they don't have them on site so bring your own.
"Midnight" doesn't solve the second part of GP's problem:

> In addition to the confusion about whether 12 PM is 00:00 or 12:00, there’s confusion about which calendar day 12 AM falls on. When does a Friday midnight movie start? 99.9% of people will show up at the end of Friday, but in a literal user interface you’d have to choose 12 AM Saturday.

I use 11:59pm or "end-of-day" for most cases.
Link to Aether?
> What does the "Health Secretary" have to do with tech regulation?

Nothing in terms of his day job but he is known as a fan of technology (not a particularly well-informed one) so he’s likely to have an opinion on the matter. More to the point, though, the government usually nominate a minister to go round all the Sunday morning political TV shows and answer questions on whatever is in the news.
Not if the majority would allow them.

Minorities can still have discussion groups. It's just that their ideas never achieve mass broadcasting if the majority finds those ideas objectionable.
thx for posting this, it is much quieter and basically says that the situation is ok, nothing too special at all.
With you until the last sentence. But yes, it does imply that they're resourceful enough to learn what they know with limited personal mentorship. It's worth gently guiding them towards the canonical pronunciation, but definitely don't be surprised if they show you up on how to use that thing they're mispronouncing.
True, the article is about govt censorship. But my (and others) point is that this type of censorship is going to increase. And its partly because of western corporations' willingness to censor anyone they want.

Recently Twitter and Facebook (two of the biggest Western corporations in the world) abruptly cut off the biggest politician in the world. It was the first page headline for several days all over the world. Do you think govts are going to just ignore that?

And to be clear, I am not talking about any crimes. I am talking about censorship and power. It is now clear that Twitter and Facebook will censor anyone they want and that is a clear threat to the power of govts all over the world. (For example SWIFT network alternatives developed by Russia and China for similar reasons.)
Twitter doesn't make their own laws. They have a privately owned
platform and can choose how to manage it to some degree. Just
like a restaurant can kick you out if you don't act responsibly.

It might be different if Twitter had a monopoly on social
networks, but that's not the case.
Correct. I'm very much against what they did, but I think they have the right to do it.

What is more concerning is how they deplatformed Parler in a perfectly coordinated manner.
> "Despite no other documented case of reinfection being published"

Here's one for your reference. This pretty much matches my experience/timeframe, except my symptoms were similar both times (not worse the second time), and I don't have any known comorbidities:

Confirmed Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 Variant VOC-202012/01

https://twitter.com/andrew_croxford/status/13481695186030018...
https://getaether.net/

Be prepared that it's a distributed system, it takes a while for posts to show up when you first run it.
Cycling in Zwift, it’s massively addictive

When it’s warmer, I venture outside too
You quoted

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

then assumed my comment was calling you a troll. That looks to me like a particularly potent mix of hypocrisy and self-victimisation
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Twitter is a private sector business in the US with terms that include reserving the right to remove any content for any reason. They have every right to.

If you don’t agree with it, for moral reasons or otherwise, you’re free to provide your own service.
I agree. Verbally assaulting, belittling someone, or having a physical fight never has and never will solve any problems. However, that would only be the case if we lived in a perfect world. History tells us otherwise. Also, how someone delivers their message is more deeply rooted into a persons upbringing/nurturing and life experiences than being told how to act. I personally have a couple friends that I refer to as short-fused, they tend to loose their temper in no time and over things I would think are unimportant. However, I’ve accepted them as friends because I know that those small spurts of rage do not represent their genuine friendship with me (this is from knowing them over 10 years). I’m 40 at this point and something I’ve come to realize is that every person has a cut-off age, after which, no matter what you try to teach or tell them, they will not be able to change their way of life (specifically how they interact). Does that mean that they’re a bad person? I wouldn’t know until I am personally able to engage into an interaction with him or her. My wisdom has confirmed to never judge a book by its cover and that was not the case when I was in high school. My few cents. Happy new year bud!
Not true at all. No one is coming for a visit ever.

You could be known as Daffy Duck or Obama or call yourself that. There is no legal requirement to use a legal name.

What sites do if a legal name is required is to require a credit card and get the info from there.

Clicking,I do not agree is not borderline fraud. Turning off javascript and not getting a tos prompt is not fraud either.
You don't write how much data you currently need, but I can recommend to start with time4vps and their storage VPS plans;
https://www.time4vps.com/storage-vps/

I currently use their 9.99 EUR/mon plan with 2 TB storage for my Nextcloud installation.

Of course - at some point you will need more space and performance, and dedicated Hetzner (or similar) will be a better value-for-money option to continue with.
Chinese are not allowed to use twitter thanks to the CCP. That is the twisted irony here.
"marginalized idea" like white supremacy, and "thinking out of the box" like planning an armed attack on the capitol? Yeah, what happened to the internet?
While I first read this an exaggeration, it looks like at least some of the police forces might have been sympathetic to the rioters ?

Also, there's still no explanation as to why there wasn't a large, anti-riot police force defending the Capitol that day…
> proper mandatory education, based on proved science

In the case of political discourse, that may improve the case around some 'fringe theory' concepts which add fuel to the fire, but it's not going to stop the core 'fire', which is driven by philosophy/ethics/metaphysics.

People need to be able to break the 'fourth wall' in these debates in order to question their philosophical biases, and empiricism-as-answer-to-all-problems is also a philosophical bias - eugenics was seen by many as 'scientific virtue' in the 1920s, as one obvious example
This will invariably induce bias or render the debate too shallow to be productive, maybe even at a cost of manufacturing consent.

Wikipedia already filters content, they only take more time. If you need some outlet with immediately curated information, I think you should look elsewhere, because this is not what wikipedia is for, the way I see it.
Oh, I am with you on this as well. My point is that we never get to the point where network effects (or lack thereof) is the problem to solve. Since nobody is financing the work we simply never get to find out if a proposed external tool would be accepted by the community or not. That's the disappointing part. We never had the problem to begin with.

IMO if you make such a tool for something extremely popular like Python or Javascript and then start pivoting upwards from there, people will be coming to you. There are a lot of deficiencies in the everyday work of the programmer to this day.
There's nothing zero sum about it.
Private forums.

By that, I mean forums that only show their content to members who have created an account. Some of them may have a vetting process that can include paying money for the upkeep of the site.

Finding such forums is a problem in itself, and I can't help you, there.
Correct answer!
XMPP is featherweight compared to Matrix because it does less things than Matrix.

Having a gigantic group chat with hundreads of people, with encryption, history and media synchronized between everyone without relying on a centralized server is something that XMPP doesn't even try to solve. Matrix does.

Prosody is a great project, I used to run my own Prosody server before moving on to Matrix. But people shouldn't lose perspective of the state of the protocol.

XMPP is okay if you plan to chat with a few people individually that are willing to spend time choising the right client with the right plugins and if you don't care about modern features but anything beyond than that and it becomes a huge headache.
The application was called Riot earlier and went through a rebranding in July 2020:

https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/
Agreed. Most of the pronunciation - and the original meaning behind these non-words - is incredibly opaque and unintuitive
Large swathes of the target population are run by dictators funded by America's geopolitical strategic initiatives. We are agreed in some sense: religion is a unifying cause which leads to irrational tribalism. The point is these are societies that have constantly been interfered with due to western military adventures and it's quite easy to unify a rallying cause. Not least in immigrant populations resident in the West, such as myself.
Isn’t the general solution there to bust the monopoly?

The main exception is utilities which generally operate as natural monopolies. They should be (and generally are — this is isn’t a new idea) regulated to only be allowed to deny service for limited, specific reasons. There’s room for improvement here. ISPs are relatively new to being treated as utilities and many ordinary regulations that should be in-place are missing.
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I'd rather fancy a system where such platforms can choose between being a publisher and a platform.

If they be a publisher, they may take editorial control but the also become liable for anything that escaped their control and can no longer claim “The views expressed here are not our own.”.

In the alternative, they can be a platform, and may not take editorial control and only be required and allowed to remove content they are legally required to remove.

The current situation is that they want their cake and eat it too.
Threatening social media platforms with regulations sounds like a good plan to get them to act as impartial platforms.

Still, I fear they will just accept being publishers and deal with regulations while still being considered impartial platforms by the public.
For the first time I used Ecosia to search something through VPN connection, I ran into Google ReCaptcha challenge.

Ok, not too bad.
So what's going to happen to those nations in the long term? Are they just going to slowly die off until they get replaced by immigrants?

Suggesting this possibility somehow got me banned in several subreddits. There's something going on here.
Parler’s Last Hurrah
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i would say what you have outlined is consistent with “free speech”. germany, for instance, has very high freedoms while still restricting membership in nazi parties, displaying nazi iconography, publishing...etc.

i think if the line is delineated legally, explicitly, clearly that this restriction adds freedoms to those who would be restricted were free speech absolute and the screams of the intolerant drowned out their pleas for survival.

i think the perception this does not qualify as free speech because it is not absolutely free in a libertarian sense (i can say literally whatever sequence of things i can imagine, i can transmit literally any sequence of bits, i can portray literally anything in film/video games) is a strange and mostly american one.

to be clear: i agree free speech is important and am not particularly arguing against it in the american context here either—one thing that i think is better in sum in american is the high degree of press freedom due to america’s extremely high legal standard for libel. i just wanted to comment on the sociological phenomenon i see where there is “free speech” and “this other thing where it is free speech as most other places would recognize it”.

this is just one of the things makes america peculiar, in a special sense. blessing and a curse, and in total i think the lumps are worth the rest of the pudding.
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Ironic given the article talks about fact checking, but:

Fact Check 1: NASA has not lost the blueprints and ability to engineer an engine like the Rocketdyne F-1. Sources:

[0] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/20302/were-the-sat...

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20100818173517/http://www.space.c...
/saturn_five_000313.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_F-1#F-1B_booster

Fact Check 2: Last I checked I can still download/clone repos anonymously, from public repos;

Fact Check 3: De-platforming has been a thing for a long time, for businesses like porn, crypto (at least back in the day), scams, terrorism.

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Parler, seems to be targeted for the last one on this list, for unmoderated fringe content.

Why is the expected treatment different from other similar radicalized fringe groups?

Why does our complacency for not learning how to manage servers etc fall on big tech?

edited: formatting
> What does the "Health Secretary" have to do with tech regulation?

He was being interviewed on a general politics show

>> Mr Hancock, a former culture secretary, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show

It's usual on these shows for the interviewer to treat the the politician as a representative of the wider government and to ask general questions as well as those about the politician's own area of responsibility.
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I was hoping to find middle ground in this conversation but if you truly believe the ability to tweet or post on Facebook is indispensable, I’m not sure we will.
I came across this website via a HN comment [0].

This is the website of 'every', a 71 year old developer interested in the Unix toolkit.

Needless to say, I absolutely loved this website!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25705764
I believe the parent is talking about rate of change rather than absolute temperature.
Discounting collisions with large meteors, the statement that the average temperature over time has never risen so fast is true.
Frankly Signal is so horribly buggy with basic features that I wonder had arthurcolle ever used it?

I can’t create a new group, but my friends can.

I don’t see friends that join Signal until I search for them manually by phone number, even though I allow Signal access to my contacts.

”So much better”?!?
Parlor (not Parler) is #8 in the US App Store
As a tangental note Iceland is still trying to diversify its portfolio having started with only fishing, then adding aluminum, then (catastrophically!) finance with the latest being tourism.

There are some interesting tech companies around (for instance one involed in the pfizer's covid supplychain, genetics, mmorpgs, ai, bionics and food processing machinery) but the lack of funding is making it real difficult for new startups to take flight.
Pretty naive worldview if he actually believed in that to begin with. Capitalist entities doing capitalist things in a capitalist society, why are you acting surprised? Internet just came of age and became popular, that's all. And if you want some fringe stuff no one is stopping you either.
it's not that you can't have a single, good point fit into a small number of characters, but that good discussion requires more than one good point, and plenty of nuance and thought. it's strictly true that the number limit is arbitrary (and only loosely correlated to 'goodness'), but assuming there is a limit at all, my (simple) point was it should be a minimum rather than a maximum, for better discussion.
I'm a brit so I really don't mind what system the US uses. That's their right.

That said, it's never made sense to me that if you go and get qualified in a difficult subject and work hard to advance, you have to compete with economic immigrants. But if you have no skills or qualifications you get a monopoly?!

Skilled worker visas should, imho, be limited to the top 0.01%, Olympic level sports people and Nobel prize winners etc...
> If the BIG TECH majority even find you a threat, not only will they

It seems to me that big techs acted against Parler not because it represented a threat to them, but because of emotional reasons. "It was the right thing to do" or something like that.
If they acted for business reasons, it would likely be slow and gradual, not "like a pack of wolves hunting down a rabbit".

> The days of downloading source code from sourceforge anonymously are long gone.

I can't believe that author is deeply concerned about centralized github but an the same time feels nostalgia about centralized sourceforge. At least github does not spread bundleware.
Ah. Read the details. Most were committed by "patriotic Trump supporters"...
There’s a long held principle that one is not above social ostracism as a result of their actions.

Other people are biological creatures too, with all the same warts.

I think a noble goal would be for you personally accept that’s an arbitrary goal, expecting others to adopt it is exactly the problem you hate.

If we all adopt that goal, where is the alternative thought? Is there right to question that goal? Or protest that goal?

Round n round we go, regurgitating banal rhetoric, ignoring what it means in physical reality terms.

Emit whatever syntax you want. No one else is obliged to agree with or act according to the semantics. Expecting such is exactly the problem.
You could skip steps on some systems, put in null values, click yes get the next link and remove approval.

There is no legal requirement you agree to use the service. The system may prevent access but that's not a legal requirement.
I'd much rather we all man up and learn to live with the fact that people say things we disagree with on the internet, instead of assuming that we need gatekeeping.
As a former fund manager, I think this is a well written essay by a well respected guy. He gives a lot of pointers to evidence as to why it's a bubble. He tells us why it's hard to time, but remarkably he gives a relatively tight timeframe (weeks to months) as well as a trigger: widespread vaccination.

Of course it's just a summary of conventional thought about bubbles, but it's a good summary.
> Even though I know it’ll just cement their viewpoints even further, I’m hoping the mods do something about it

Maybe troll was a strong word. But calling for censorship by HN mods to suppress a perfectly reasonable comment is a very strong position to take as well.
If by thinking out of the box you and empowering marginalized ideas you are saying that the companies have a duty to provide the infrastructure and tools for planning violence and the disruption of democracy, then I suspect you will find that not many people in tech are too comfortable with playing an enabling role.

We have been presented with a slice of reality. The legislative branch of a superpower was stormed, normal democratic process was disrupted and people were killed. A mob was egged on by lies and conspiracy theories spread by a president who is effectively trying to set in motion a coup d'etat. It is likely that this isn't the last such event we will see in the coming years.

What do you think ought to be done?
Do you people just copy paste this exact comment, and replace "Twitter" with whatever social network, ISP, payment processor in question exists? Did you oppose the Civil Rights Act, which forced restaurants for example to serve blacks? Do you think there's anyone here who isn't aware that Twitter is a private company?

You add nothing to the conversation when you do this, you just reiterate a neo-liberal talking point that even most self identifying libertarians disagree with now.
Whole world was shaped my Christian Church, we even calculate time in accordance to Jesus' birth.
This is a good option. By offloading your storage you could save both money AND time, as there is no maintenance (don't underestimate that).

B2 also offers a compatible S3 API and it's something like $.005/Gb/Month.
The enitity that tweeted this statement forecibly sterlized women and is presenting the results as "emancipation". This isn't disagreeable, its monsterous and diabolical. The same limits that apply to serial killers presenting their handiwork on twitter apply here as well.
I think it's actually rather sad. I think there is a good chance that these in my opinion very important technologies will get a bad reputation because of this.
We’ve been using Skynet for all our decentralized web projects at Namebase.io ever since they added Handshake naming support[1] — it’s been fantastic. It now takes us days to build things that previously took our intern a month to do. With censorship entering the zeitgeist nowadays I wouldn’t be surprised if the next big decentralized social network is build on Skynet.

[1] https://siasky.net/docs/#handshake
The idea is that moderation will be based on who you trust.

First and foremost, that is yourself, i.e. you can moderate your own timeline by choosing who to follow or block. Since this happens on your device, there's nobody who can interfere with this.

Further, it also means that you can trust your peers when you want. One default behaviour is that if you do NOT follow a feed A, and feeds B and C, who you do follow, each block A, your client will not by default replicate A's messages and thus you won't see them. Of course, if you unfollow B and C, or if you choose to explicitly follow A, then you'd see their content again. That's what I would understand by "close moderation" anyhow.
Most of the stock market focused writing recently appear to be from one of two perspectives, with very little big picture that unifies both.

1) The monetary perspective, in which stock prices are what they are, but there's a broader game (the real economy) of primary concern

2) The stock market analyst perspective, in which stock prices ebb and flow within a given range according to somewhat understood patterns

The issue is that (1) has been taking monetary actions never before seen (not even to support WWII), and (2) is crying from the rooftops that nothing makes sense when analyzed under historical pricing standards.

Well, yes. Both of these are true.