skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am Ukrainian. There were some superficial lockdowns for a few weeks across 2020. Supermarkets and hardware stores still operated during that time without limits.

People still held private parties and you could attend bars and restaurants in speakeasy mode. I know because I did all of these things, as did many politicians.

The statistics are already available, in Ukrainian:

https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-56260505

2020: 616,000 died. 2019: 581,000. 6% increase. This mortality rate is still actually lower than in 2014 - 2010.
Afaik it's either due to climate (too cold or not enough rainfall) or soil not very conducive for farming (which is the case for Siberia). Populations explode in arable areas, which in Russia means mostly the European side.
This article talks about understanding the PNG pixel data and compression, which is wonderful. Recently I made a tool to understand another aspect of the PNG file format, which is the full list of chunks, metadata chunks, and chunk fields. https://www.nayuki.io/page/png-file-chunk-inspector
Breaking the trance: how I escaped IDEO’s biased career labyrinth
My observation is that countries with detailed plans for rare, but serious, crises are more likely to be better-placed than a country that does not. I realise this is a fairly obvious one and other factors may change outcomes thereafter.
When I was watching the show, I took special notice of gestures, and it was fun how same swipe up was either sending video to everyone around, or putting video feed on a big screen, or sending stuff to one specific person standing nearby. I wondered how those devices understood the context of the action.

Also, those devices privacy sucks! Everyone around can see what happens on you glowing screen that is transparent from both sides!! Under no circumstances could such devices be sold to real users.
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That's being worked on and there are already irc daemons that support it (but it's all a bit bolted on until the standard for that is ratified).

However it is also a feature that has to be enabled by the server operator and here you may run into different opinions if this should be a thing or not.
It's a different MGM. They're not getting the casino
The book about this[1] has been on my to-read list for a while. The reviews seem to be very positive.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54870256-there-is-no-ant...
Regardless of all that, the allegations (a rape trial, getting a hitchhiker to perform sex acts on him for $6 under the threat of being left in the middle of nowhere, among so many others) are pretty horrendous, no?

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/judnlm...
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Even Taiwanese Government does not call Taiwan as a country, rather they call themselves as Republic of China and even claims all of the mainlands territory and citizenry as their own. Taiwanese themselves have not made up their mind till now officially on sovereignty.
> Why is the domain owned by an icelandic entity instead of the nonprofit?

According to the WHOIS information, the registration of libera.chat was made 2021-04-23. This registration was made ~1 month before the organisation Libera Chat was announced. As far as I can tell, the organisation could not have made the registration as a legal entity before existing.

Seeing the registrar is Namecheap, I guess someone made the registration and made use of the zero-cost Whoisguard service available. Perhaps the registrant's contact details point to Iceland. Some of my domains point to Panama, what gives.

> Where is the company registration number of the nonprofit (required to open a bank account - where will donations be held, etc).

As the OP title suggests, Libera Chat was assembled a week ago. There is no Swedish law requiring that an organisation registers, but as you suggest, it will be necessary to register a legal entity for financial purposes. Fulfilling the paperwork of registering a non-profit organisation with Skatteverket and thus receiving an ORG number generally comes after the fact of the foundation of said organisation.

Non-profit organisations in Sweden are real and protected entities, registration or not.
Really strange to call an IRC network 'home'. It's infrastructure. And it's (generally) not a private space for its users. More like a cafe or a co-working space than a home.
Looks like they’re replacing the channel mods with Lee’s people the moment Libera is mentioned.
The title I see when logged in: Unidentified Aerial Polyhedra: Tetrahedron over Pentagon 12-19-2018 [video]

The title on new in incognito: Tetrahedron over Pentagon December 19 2018 [video]

I like first title much better! :p :) xx

edit: Also, two shots of the same object over Moscow ~ 10 years earlier:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCC340BD95A6CD988
How to Launch SaaS Product Faster
Launching SaaS Product is a game against a clock. You gotta make it work before you run out of money and energy.
If someone talks about “Europe” they are not referring to “anything west of the Urals”, they mean Germany, France etc, possibly Hungary, Slovakia etc or, if they are feeling generous, Ukraine and Belarus.

It has never happened that two people were chatting about “European culture and values” and had the khanate of Kazan in mind.
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> You can't count on network effects, because IRC is already such a pain in the butt that half of the people on it are secretly looking for ways to ditch it.

How so? I really like IRC for what it is. It's much quicker and higher-density than Matrix. Try opening a hundred channels in Element and see if you can still stay on top of what's going on :)
How does choosing not to watch someone’s channel “force” people to conform to your beliefs? I don’t get it.
Four more years of drama!
The “golden era” would consist of....TOS.
In 2017 said entrepeneur and then freenode head of staff downplayed what happened to the public and the rest of the staff. Otherwise this drama would have occured in 2017.
I think after a few years of Discord and Slack, I am happy to get back to IRC (ok, I never left).

Sure, different feature set and I like some of the stuff modern alternatives bring to the table. But they also bring a lot of disadvantages.
Actually I wasn't mentioning the android devices, or the ones dedicated to be emulation machines, but kind of a "newish" win10 machines where you can install pretty much what ever you want (from PC games to emulators), but come at a high price tag (600€++).

Everyone has to start somewhere, and history has shown that pricing was a major factor for the success of consoles (besides ofc IP, distribution, branding).

You have great examples, like Gameboy VS Gamegear or Playstation VS Sega Saturn.
From the beginning of the pandemic I've found myself calling it "my pandemic" owing to some recognition that in fact, my experience of it is so far removed from others as to be a different story altogether. For some people, their pandemic ended their lives in the early months before they even knew to fear it. For others it's still very present in their lives. My pandemic was quiet, anxious at first but gradually more settled and relaxed. It is now over; I'm vaxxed up and have little to fear from the virus, so whatever I am living now is just an early 2020's lifestyle. I still take precautions, but I am essentially in a holding pattern for the city to finish its reopening plans, and then I'll be doing some of the things I was doing last year before it hit.
They are close to hitting a critical point in terms of political and economic power where they literally will no longer be able to be stopped. We will have no recourse but to replace our government with Amazon. It will be like Buy n Large in Wall-e.
I actually think the just (although extremely unlikely) response to all of this would be to start a criminal investigation against the people involved in the response.

If you run a factory which, by some accident, kills tens of thousands of people, you can expect a criminal investigation for gross negligence. The same rules should apply here. The vast gap between the UK's death rate and the death rates of similar nations must be explained.
More to the point, the idea that "you cannot separate a river from the ocean" seems to be ostensibly wrong - otherwise we wouldn't have the (very useful in practice) notions of 'river' and 'ocean' in the first place. If you look at a map, the differences stand out pretty clearly - e.g., a river has a starkly different topology from that of the ocean. So, no, these differences are not just figments of our imagination, as, in particular, everyday practice shows.

In general, the failure to perceive emergent phenomena as something different from the particular substrate, and consider it separately - for instance, the failure to see how nature is not just a bunch of atoms moving around, has a name - reductionism. It is a form of intellectual blindness (not to be confused with the ability to think abstractly).
I think that a lot of the big politics players realize that if the big companies get broken up, some of the businesses might not be as profitable.

In other words, it seems like some businesses have been able to find a diamond//golden goose so much so that they are able to support different businesses. These other businesses will not have had the same success if they didn't have a cashcow behind their back.
I was unaware not putting all your eggs in one basket was "crapping" on the first basket...
Yes, #rsync apparently force migrated everyone off Freenode that way.

We didn't. We still got hijacked. Many others did, too.
Maybe everything goes according to Lee's plan, who knows.
I plugged in USB C once and destroyed a new Dell laptop by burning out the motherboard. The whole let's mix communication and power thing seems like a sketchy way to sell more computers and ewaste.
> The deal can be viewed as a doubling down on business strategy that Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, articulated at a conference in 2016: “When we win a Golden Globe, it helps us sell more shoes,” he had said, referring to Amazon's diverse business divisions.

This part is a real nugget.
Not only was the UK considered to have some of the best pandemic planning in the world prior to Covid hitting, there was pretty aggressive contact tracing and testing here early on, based as you'd expect on what the UK did to keep SARS and MERS out. The elephant in the room here seems to be Italy, which appears to have been reporting zero cases up until the point somewhere in the rough ballpark of 1% of their population was infected. This kind of early contact tracing and testing just doesn't work if you have no idea who to test or trace the contacts of, and being a major travel hub next door to a country with massive undetected community spread seems pretty fatal. Now, the UK did end up abandoning contact tracing around the time of the first lockdown, but that was long after it had already clearly failed.
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27289924
> the wrong side of history

I can't stand this phrase. It reeks of the history is a narrative with good guys and bad guys point of view.
I don't think that people are united about breaking up Amazon and frankly I don't really see the damage to consumer necessary to break it up; products come faster, cheaper.

Could you articulate why Amazon should be broken up? Most of the arguments I've seen boil down to "It's so big" and not really "It's effectively dominated x market and there is no competition there" or even "they are harming competition by pre-installing free software that I can't uninstall"
You're on to something here

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> the trillies

As in companies with a trillion dollar market cap? I hadn't heard that slang before -- I like it.
What a world to live in :-)
> Taiwan had a detailed plan in the event of a pandemic, the UK did not.

That's not true. At the beginning of Feb last year I searched if there was any UK pandemic plan. I found the active pandemic flu planning documents. 80% of it was about dealing with dead bodies, with stuff like turning Hyde Park into an open air morgue and insisting that each council has a plan of where to put the bodies.

There was little else in the plan, regarding preventing/hospital management.

The impression that I got reading them was that it was all about managing the consequences, and very little about fighting the pandemic. Defeatism basically.
Germany did pretty well, specially considering its border countries and population density.
A lot of consoles are sold at a loss, where costs are made up by people buying games through the console on the makers store, I wonder how valve will go about this because I don't see a lot of people getting this that didn't already have steam on another device.
TimescaleDB 2.3: Improving columnar compression for time-series on PostgreSQL
Straight from the factory back door in Shenzhen; reviews are stellar and 100% genuine.
This paper is by Marcus Hutter, the same person who founded the Hutter Prize for data compression in 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize
Honestly, it screams impulse control problems to me, that or a catastrophic misunderstanding of how people actually think and act.
Agreed on all, but worth discussing this point:

> he government briefing graph had numbers, and their 'optimum' number was 250k deaths.

Even if we say the worst of Covid in the Uk is over, the roll just from direct Covid is something like 160k lives - more than half the 250k number.

But then you add all the deaths from lack of treatment, surgery, etc and I think it is becoming a blurred picture.

Add economic impact trickling down to NHS funding and I really wonder how current response compares to letting it all rip.

I’m not saying you should just let people die. Rather, sometimes you’re dealt a crap hand, and you can’t know which of the awful options is good until after the game.
why are you asking me about the budget, i am not the client :)
Agreed.

> One common thread is an existential dread.

Am Gen-X. I grok Millennials and other cohorts.

FWIW:

My nephew was born 2000. He's basically checked out. Because What's the point? Hard to disagree.

I asked him: But what if you're wrong?

I related that I had felt more or less the same. Punk, Raygun & MAD, No Future, etc.

No one is more surprised than me that we're all still here.

I'm sure there's some kind of Pascal's Wager, choosing to live for the future, despite everything you know.
Dead is overstating it. The maintainers are moving new feature development to a Rust rewrite, weechat-matrix-rs, but still accepting bugfixes/etc to the current Python codebase
There's a lot of numerical symbolism in the bible, and 12 or powers of 12 (144, etc) really means 'a lot'
> So immediately not using Bitcoin would save as much CO2 as 4.5 million cars of the road

Which would have zero net effect on climate change (total number of cars in the world is 1.4 billion). Conversely, transition all cars to electric, renewable sources and dirty bitcoin emissions still won't be a problem (assuming they can be capped at some value instead of growing indefinitely).

In other words, current bitcoin contribution to climate change is the last of our problems- for now. But I understand that the idea of such an amazing amount of energy being wasted is something that immediately triggers an innate sense of abhorrence.
> What isn't canonical?

Yes.
While you are right that Libera is ran by former freenode operators, it's not 100% the same software. When you connect to freenode the server tells you it's running ircd-seven-1.1.9, while libera tells you it runs on solanum-1.0-dev. OTC says hybrid-7.2.2+oftc1.7.3.
Yeah, he didn’t need to buy and wreck FreeNode to do that. I do not buy this explanation.
To pile on, Google uses internally for incident response [0]

> Google has found IRC to be a huge boon in incident response. IRC is very reliable and can be used as a log of communications about this event, and such a record is invaluable in keeping detailed state changes in mind. We’ve also written bots that log incident-related traffic (which is helpful for postmortem analysis), and other bots that log events such as alerts to the channel. IRC is also a convenient medium over which geographically distributed teams can coordinate.

Also, irc can still be up when Chat, Hangouts or other tools are down. It's simple tech that is easy to interact with.

[0] https://sre.google/sre-book/managing-incidents/
Oh man. I wish I had the pages of manual PID tuning notes from when I was doing work with autonomous quadrotors in university to show what this thing replaces. Something like this would have saved me a massive amount of time, thanks for making it and thanks especially for wrapping it up into a nice interface.
> Which elements of 'top leadership' believed this?

Macnamara. LBJ. Kennedy.

> For whom would that 'show' be for?

For the American people, for Congress, for the world. To prove that the US stands by its allies and can still win wars. To prevent accusations of being losers by domestic political opponents, both in the same and different parties. Pretty basic stuff, these political dynamics are in play in nearly every war.

> This directly contradicts your first statement. Did US leadership think they were winning or not?

You are misreading the line. I am saying there were not winning either in reality nor in the leaderships minds. The US leadership did NOT think they were winning.

> Imagine how history would have changed were, in 1965, the Pentagon were able to fight on it's own terms?

How do you propose to fix the problem of Chinese troops overwhelming any serious success like they did in Korea? That's nearly the entire reason the US couldn't fully commit to destroying North Vietnam.

How do you even fix the problem of having unreliable and problematic allies in Southern Vietnam that could never really rally the country properly?

You have learned no lessons.
I don't think the Washington Post has gotten any softer on big tech since Bezos bought it?
10-20 years ago it felt like it was all the telecom companies buying out these media/production/conglomerates to serve as their auxiliary arms. Now it's big tech.
Streaming is still in a awkward position, both user experience wise, the cost of the streaming games (with data caps), and the competitive aspect of some games.

People get blown away by the amount of data used by NVIDIA solution, Google Stadia is pretty much dead...

It's hard to say if streaming would be the win condition.
Ian M Banks’ “Culture” series can be kind of hopeful in a way, in that the entire existence of the Culture itself is a neat space utopia. The stories themselves aren’t always hopeful in the small, though, but it’s that contrast that makes it so good!
Yes, but no one mentions the downside: that timing the exact bubble end, catching the proverbial falling knife without getting cut, is nearly impossible for the vast majority of bubble investors. The key would be to take your profit we’ll before the collapse, which you’ll notice is antithetical to the whole “HODL” and “never sell” mantra being spoonfed to the first-time meme stock/coin investors.
> US felt invincible after it and tried to do the right thing

Wait, you think that was the motivation for US actions?
Both major mobile OS platforms support steam link.
Brussels to Big Tech: Open up your algorithms – or else
> The magnetic surface in an FDD disk is floppy the magnetic surface in a HDD is hard

Maybe I'm wrong but I was under the impression that a "floppy" was called that because the original ones - 5.25", were floppy.
Powered flight on Titan is a while off, the mission isn't even set to launch till 2026
Try going to https://libera.chat/guides/clients and reading through that page, and keep track of how many words a non-technical user would not understand.

Here's my list:

client
IRC
SASL
authentication
graphical clients
terminal clients
bouncers

From the very beginning there's jargon. The page does do a good job of explaining the jargon though, so they get points for that. However, if you're a new user, the difference between this 365 word wall of text full of new words and strange client names is striking compared to e.g. Slack's obvious "TRY FOR FREE" button.
Human beings are actually FASCINATING examples of PID controllers...especially as we learn.

I'm soon to become a dad for the first time and so my partner and I have become much more conscious and aware of babies around us and watching them learn things. It's really fun to apply control theory to that...

A friend has a young child who is learning to feed themselves. I was chatting with the friend while we drank beer and he helped the child eat dinner. using hands to pick up food (watermelon chunks) and bring it to mouth - very conservative and lossy PID-esque model of action, but you could watch small tuning improvements in real time. Then a spoon was introduced for sweet potatoes and the kid's PID controller clearly could not adapt to the change in mass in the system and we watched huge overshoots and control failures. Then it slowly improved...but isn't yet 'good'

then we tried to explain this to our partners (both reside in the 'S' in STEM)...
Working link https://theintercept.com/2021/05/25/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-s...
Kraken never answers any support requests, and I have experienced outages without any information. I would not rely on them.
> It’s about not losing all the progress an organization like Blue Origin has made, since starting from zero will be more expensive.

Would Blue Origin lose all progress? Why is the assumption that Bezos would fold up shop and shred everything?

Yes, the headline is a bit provocative, but it's a valid criticism; as is the fact that the bailout was added by a Senator from the state that Blue Origin is based in, which makes it look like a much less altruistic move to ensure space exploration continues at a rapid pace, and more like a way to make sure her state gets a cut of the budget.
My Father-in-law was a Vietnam Vet, an older one who had been in the military for awhile and made a career out of it. I believe he retired in 1978, he passed several years ago.
My wife was born after he retired and he spoke very little about the war. He had PTSD, but he'd mostly dealt with it by the time I met him.

The only vivid story I recall. He talked about when they were stationed at an outpost. The supplies would be stacked up in a central area and he was getting the rations for his men. There was an explosion and everyone thought they were being shelled.

However, it turned out that one of the other Sergeants was wearing a grenade on his vest. The pin caught on something and pulled out without him noticing.

They had to spend the next few days taping down the pins on all the grenades to avoid another accident.
Copyright notice from ISP for pirating Linux? Is this some sort of joke?
I should've been more precise in my wording. There was not enough detail where it really mattered, such as the example you give of 'preventing/hospital management'.
iOS app rating flaw lets apps refuse to open without 5-star review
Oxygen might not be flammable, but it is caustic. Plus, does the distinction of what is flammable really matter when spilled LOX is 'allowing' everything around it to combust at the slightest spark?
Given the amount of backlash this whole debacle has in the community, couldn't a crowdfunding to cover legal costs be successful enough to start a lawsuit? AFAIK funding is the main reason why a lawsuit isn't happening (https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461).

Everyone should still move to Libera, but a lawsuit might bring some justice.