skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s important to realize that Brexit is a bit more complicated than the rhetoric would have you believe. First it began with a combination of simple populism/nationalism/jingoism in the form of UKIP and at the same time a section of the political class in the Tory and Labour parties. For the Tories (at least the ones who became ERG members) it’s pure self-interest. They are filthy rich and like many filthy rich businessmen they think they’d thrive in a more lenient regulatory environment. They can create that environment for themselves if the EU is out of the picture and they keep power. Labour is more Remain, but Corbin and his fellow hardliners want a Brexit because they want the UK to be Socialist/Marxist. They know that’s just not going to happen in the context of the EU.

So you had Farrah’s and others playing the usual “Hey struggling masses, all of your problems are those immigrant’s fault” game. Over time the political success of UKIP and internal strife within the Tories led David “The Chinless Pudding” Cameron to promise that he would hold a referendum on the issue of re-elected. At the time he assumed that he would win by the same narrow margin he had previously and once again would enter into a “power-sharing” deal with the Liberal Democrats. He could then blame the LibDems for blocking the referendum, defuse the Tory civil war, and shut Farage up for another election cycle.

Then he won, decisively, and the LibDems tanked. So Cameron had no excuse to not have the referendum. He assumed that people who had been openly pro-remain such as Boris Johnson would put aside their personal ambitions and support Remain, but of course that didn’t happen. So what you had was a group of highly motivated people such as Boris who used this as a means to get power, people like Farrage being populist demagogues, and the ERG playing ideologue while just looking to get even richer. Cameron quit and literally walked away humming a little tune, and the Tories went to war with themselves. In the end everyone “died” and out of the ashes rose the silent one, Theresa May, who had switched from staunch pro-Remain to equally staunch Brexiteer mode overnight.

The rest is history. In a sense at the highest levels where Brexit isn’t about gaining short-term power and settling grudges, it’s about the long-term goal of being able to capture UK regulatory bodies. “People” like Jacob Rees-Mogg see how the business class can rob the state in the US, and they want a slice of that. The EU would prevent much of it, so they want out of the EU. The details of why individual people (who bothered to vote at all) voted to Leave is a lot less interesting and has less to do with Brexit than the political reality.
The project's director was Shep Doeleman

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/04/harvard-scien...
I think having empathy for those directly around you is a good start. The saying "all politics are local" goes the other way around as well, that most change is local change. It is unlikely that I can help people gain asylum from oppressive regimes, but it is very likely that my donations to local charities and volunteer work is directly helping those around me. In a categorical imperative sense, if more people acted this way fewer things would be so bad about the world.
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Did you tried Github?
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Would be great to have you onboard. Any questions, just let me know.
As someone who uses App Engine, it'd be nice if Google would stop treating their non-java languages as second class citizens. It seems, as per usual, there is only App Engine Java support...
And using sunlight to simply damage a reputation has been used as well. It depends if you believe it's sunlight or not, so we just go back to old-hat media problems.

So let there be a "Free Marketplace of Ideas." This is again, precisely why we need Free Speech! It's when our society lets someone be the arbiter of what's allowed to be said and heard, that we run into problems.
I'm not sure where you are getting those numbers from, but according to Open Secrets, in 2018 a Democrat was top receiver from Comcast. McConnell is fairly low on this list. Can you share your source?

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000461&ty...
Not to mention it makes the sentence redundant.
IMO might want to revise the title to something like "Remains of previously-unknown human species found in Philippines" -- I initially thought the headline was indicating some kind of super elusive secret species of humanoids was living in some hidden cave or something. :'D
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Being unpopular doesn't mean you're right.

Looking up a few articles, it seems that they're just racists in lab coats.
I don't know how much more data I should offer, while your and OP's position is basically "everything was better in the past".

The New York Times has seen subscriptions quadruple from 1988 to today. (two charts needed for this timespan: https://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/oimg.png and https://secondmeasure.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/NYT-Cha...)
Absolutely. Having suffered from German imperialism, Europeans understand that the only way to preserve their freedom is to allow it to be restricted as Germany sees fit.
That is an impractical argument.

Say there is a situation that Alfred have the power to effect. To reliably cause change for the good Alfred must:

(1) Identify a problem and its root cause

(2) Change the root cause

(3) Confirm that the problem is solved.

There are people who claim you can leap straight to (2) and skip (3). These are people who (if they ever honestly checked) would discover that they are not responsible for very much positive, meaningful change. They are flailing, looking busy and have the best of intentions.

For anything reported in the news step (1) represents a huge investment of time because the news has probably got the situation at least somewhat wrong. To say Alfred has a moral responsibility to do something is equivalent to saying Alfred has a moral responsibility not to read the news; because Alfred doesn't have enough time or resources to confirm what the problem is for all the sad stories he can read about.

In your specific example - 'sending money to NGOs with workers on the ground' - Alfred would probably divert a lot of money to organisations who are good at emotive advertising campaigns with administrative costs verging on embezzlement. We have good historical evidence that Alfred's best bet is to go all-in on capitalism, make a fortune, and then do some philanthropy to maximise his impact.

Giving to a worthy cause creates incentives that are terrible. I can't be convinced that it is a good idea. I have a lot more respect for people who volunteer time, but even then I'm suspect of their ability to correctly diagnose the problem they are trying to fix.
That's a very common end result for startups, usually goes by the name "sad exit".
BTW the famous "fire in the crowded theater" quote was used by Holmes exactly to suppress anti-government anti-war pacifist speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

Judge Holmes came to regret his support of speech suppression, but a lot of people still seem to miss the point.
Being stressed out and dying early is also a likely result for an apathetic population.
I'm not sure I agree. If you can affect the state of the runtime in ways that are not intended to be possible by the WASM API, this breaks sandboxing requirements. Even if you can't break out of the current process (due to isolation provided by the kernel), you can still cause arbitrary code execution within the process.
Is this the end of websites being available 24 hours a day? Just switch off the web server every evening when leaving the office?
> A common and agreed upon standard definition of news.

This is inherently political.

> A common and agreed upon standard definition of journalism / journalist.

This is also political.

> Transparency and full disclosure about what is news (objective) and what is op-ed (subjective).

This is also political.

Ultimately, accepting that news is political and rejecting the idea of objective or unbiased reporting is the only way to go.
maybe?

but first I'd like to identify the mode of harm. How would this low-energy, non-ionising radiation present a biological impact?

The theories I've heard (induced currents in the dna base stack? magnetic stimulation of cryptochrome that modulates intracellular reactive oxygen species?) describe very rare, unlikely and low (negligible?) impact.

I am open to the theory of hypersensitivity, however I've never found anyone who suffers it.
Lovely, running my own email server could be punishable by jail time. And people bitch about the continuing consolidation and centralization of the Internet ...
I bought my (current) house eight months ago.
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I do agree that paying too much attention to the crazy that’s going on is not constructive or healthy. But you can definitely overcorrect.

If you completely disconnect you have no data with which to make your decisions come election time. A lot of what’s happening in politics does affect you directly. Changes to tax code, the budget, deregulation of industries (e.g. net neutrality).

And some of it may not affect you directly but affects people in the communities you live in. A Supreme Court nominee had allegations of sexual assault and gambling problems brought against him. Regardless of what you believe, it behooves you to be aware that this is happening. If the accusations were true don’t you want to know? It affects the women in your life to have someone like that be given a lifelong appointment to the most powerful court of the land. If the accusations weren’t, wouldn’t that be important too?

If you’re taking a break to maintain sanity I can understand that. But if you’re simply shrugging your shoulders at what’s happening simply because it doesn’t affect you right now—and trust me, some of the policies this administration is adopting are having a big impact on some—then I think that’s a pretty shitty, selfish attitude to have.
However, once you're in iPXE, that has features for downloading images over HTTPS: http://ipxe.org/crypto

(plus it's probably easier to upgrade than your motherboard's network boot implementation).
I used Perl 5 heavily back in its day but I haven’t kept up with 6 other than occasionally peeking in on progress.

I’m not sure I’ll ever find the time or need to catch up and use it in even a toy project.

But reading articles like this makes me think twice about that. It’s not even so much that Perl 6 looks interesting but that the writing style is just so darn entertaining and informative at the same time.

Reading first books and then early available docs on the internet that kept my attention through humor or interesting anecdotes is what helped me power through difficult to understand concepts and seemingly impossibly cryptic syntax. I am better at what I do today because some authors took the time to infuse some personality into their writing.

Even if you have little to no interest in Perl 6 give this article a go, you might enjoy it!
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I would assume the problem is that for the consumers, even if they are a larger group - it’s way more expensive to collect the same amount of money to lobby for the opposite.

So obviously it’s way easier to hold an extremely narrow point of view because it’s so easy to get campaign money for it.
It is implied that the parent comment was talking about illegal drugs.

Interesting side fact: unlike in english, there are two completely distinct words for illegal and legal drugs in russian language. Which a lot of times makes it easier to spot russian-speaking posters, as they tend to refer to illegal drugs as just "drugs", while referring to legal ones using other more specific terms, like "pills" or something else.
Ask HN: What is the best BI/Analytics solution for a growing startup?
I am working for a startup that just raised a Series A and we are looking for the v2 of our analytics. So far our data driven culture has been supported by quite a bit of hacking. The thing is, we ideally would like to run SQL queries but also some python scripts on top and share the output with our customers.
A couple of cloud based services offer this kind of possibilities (like Mode Analytics, Periscope Data, Sisense) but so far I cannot find any that allow the output of the scripts to be accessed via their API. We are now considering sharing the reports as pdfs which is not ideal. We also would like to avoid having to build the API from scratch.
What are you guys using for your company analytics? Would you recommend it? Any suggestions?
A asked a friend that asked one of their professors who nominally studies such things. He said probably same thing that happened to all the other mega fauna when modern humans showed up somewhere.

It's not lost on me what happened to Native Americans in North America when Europeans showed up. Disease, competition for resources, social disruption and war drove entire tribal groups to extinction. And Native Americans are Homo-sapiens not some random archaic Hominid.
This type of elitism has no real place in hopefully constructive conversation.

I'm not going to ignore a well thought out point because someone doesn't have a PhD in the exact question under rumination.

And "armchair quarterbacking" tends to translate to "Request For Comment" in my book. I.e. a coming together of disparate ideas and areas of expertise to more fully render the extent of a problem.
Sorry to hear that. On the subject of AMT, one of my accountant friends, on the side, advised to simply not report and not pay the AMT on the phantom gain of exercised options, but instead pay the AMT plus penalty when exercised option stocks actually pay out in the future. Reason being that in case of things not working out, the company is out of business and the stocks worth nothing, no point to look at the phantom gain. In the case of a home run, the large gain should cover the AMT and penalty.

Of course you need to be prepared to pay the AMT and penalty whenever the IRS comes after you.
Fox is the only mainstream cable news that shows the other side. The two programs you mentioned are opinion segments. The daily programming is much more balanced.

IMO the daily segments at Fox have been much more fair in the recent years than CNN or MSNBC have been.

Disclaimer: I am conservative. It's hard to watch left-leaning cable news. It's also hard watching hard right wing segments like Hannity. I do watch one segment of Fox (The Five). I like the 5 panel dynamic.
I saw that review too. It’s a bit deceptive because it’s not optimal to charge all the way up to ~100% on a supercharger. He could have saved a lot of time by stopping twice (2x 15-20 minute stops instead of one 50-60 minute one)
You are focused on unsophisticated bad actors if DNS is all it takes to block.
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Mostly information about making drugs that are frequently abused, but it's hard to say specifically what qualifies since some law bans just "propaganda" and what is "propaganda" is for any local judge to decide, and decide they do. And some bans information such as "growing plants containing narcotic drugs" - so if you are a gardener and want to know how to grow a poppy flower, woe is to you. Also if you are chemist and want to make an experiment involving acetone (it's a "drug precursor"). And so on.

Some more general information in English here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Internet_Restriction_B... but this is not the only law, there are many additional bans (Russian parliament is sometimes called "crazy printer" in Russia because it has issued so many insane laws).
You can read about banning Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_Wikipedia_in_Russia
These meetings are for the employee's benefit. It would be something if they were not involved in board meetings.
Same one you live in. By not moderating a conversation you started, and instead of locking it down, allowing people to name parties and stand by while the internet mob takes shape, you are absolutely going to lose standing, and a competent lawyer will be entirely able to argue you counted on that happening.
> And some of it may not affect you directly but affects people in the communities you live in. A Supreme Court nominee had allegations of sexual assault and gambling problems brought against him. Regardless of what you believe, it behooves you to be aware that this is happening. If the accusations were true don’t you want to know? It affects the women in your life to have someone like that be given a lifelong appointment to the most powerful court of the land. If the accusations weren’t, wouldn’t that be important too?

This example is exactly why someone should ignore the news. This was pure partisan bickering and mud slinging. Not once during the whole episode were Kavanaugh's actual positions discussed. Just rumors, gossip, fighting and soundbites. No one came out ahead paying attention to this story.
You can be right about something without bringing it up every chance you get, despite it only having a vague relation to any topic being discussed.
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This is a super irritating thing to say. I do in fact hate DNSSEC (nobody who pays any attention to me could have missed that fact and I don't hide it). But I "rant" about it on threads about DNS security, which is what you're seeing in my comment history. DNSSEC is small fraction of what I talk about on HN, but DNS security has been a somewhat hot topic in the past week.

When I "rant" about DNSSEC and stop seeing people say "huh, what's wrong with DNSSEC?" as if they were unfamiliar with its problems, that will be my cue to stop "ranting" about it. The comment you're responding to is just such a statement, and you responded to it not with information but with a personal attack.
Avoiding DNSSEC is literally, in the literal sense of the word literally, the primary motivation for MTA-STS. The relationship to this thread is not vague.

(Source: the section of the RFC that says the primary motivation of MTA-STS is to ensure transport security when deployment of DNSSEC is undesirable or impractical.)
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I don't experience this kind of empathy very often.

For example, I don't get upset when a plane crashes or there's a mass shooting. I can imagine myself in the position of the victims. I can imagine if someone I loved died in a situation like that and I can simulate some of the grief and anger I think I'd feel. But that exercise seems sort of selfish to me. In general, these kind of tragic events don't affect my mood.

I do sometimes experience this kind of empathy when I'm reading history or a human-interest story about some tragic or unfair situation.

It seems to me that many people assume that all good behavior flows from empathy. I don't think this is true. I use various philosophical viewpoints to justify (or rationalize) my behavior: sometimes utilitarianism, sometimes the categorical imperative, and often a vague sort of humanism.
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It's a very well made pop-sci video, which probably substantially increases the likelihood of it being reshared.
Bezos didn't need to name his company "Amazon".
talk about virtue signaling; people on here will upvote anything that's vaguely associated with an ivy. 962 pages of dense reasoning/argument and I'm supposed to believe this has broad interest. I'll Bitcoin you $5 if you've read it and can give me 200 words on what it's about
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Just doin their job and slowly but safely moving towards a well off retirement...

Why is this surprising or unusual? It doesn't matter to them. Citizens aren't their customers and can't refuse to fund them. What other outcome can one rationally expect?
Yep - this spec outlines exactly how to tell another compliant MTA that it should use TLS with you, and how to detect (on subsequent connections) this type of MITM. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8461#section-10 explains the threat model.

Of course, to thwart an MITM of an initial connection, you'd need something like https://hstspreload.org/ . And all the criticisms of a preload list apply here. Still, this is much better than nothing.
Here: https://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20Sy...

Read this. Read it again. RCA FTW!
Go vertical rather than horizontal with your solution. Google, and the other large players, need broad swaths of customers/users to get to a viable total addressable market at their scale. That is your advantage over them: you can survive and thrive in much smaller markets. Also, see ricklamers take in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ricklamers)... it's not the be-all, end-all and never will be. If you've already decided to open source your tools, then is that really even your primary value add[1] or is it some expertise/service on top of your tools? Figure out what that is, be a cockroach and find a market that's too small for them to be bothered with and then super-serve that market.

[1] If the tool is your primary value add, I think you're making a mistake in open sourcing it.
Well, the good news is that you guys aren't losing out on it!

You're on HN. Which means you get your daily dose of "outrage porn" like anyone else. I think many people don't think of HN as, basically, a "News" site. With a large percentage of the front page dedicated to "outrage porn". "Big Tech Helping China." "US Workers Highly Taxed." Etc etc etc. And those are just the more, kind of, moderate examples. I think yesterday's: "San Francisco's Slow Motion Suicide" was an example that went a bit further. And there have been discussions on here that just tend to devolve into extremism relatively quickly. (I guess the San Fran post from yesterday devolved into extremism relatively quickly as well. But I suppose I'm talking about discussions that tend to devolve right away.)

At any rate, yeah, if we're on HN, we can't realistically claim to have sworn off news, or "outrage porn". We're just, kind of, comfortable with the "outrage porn" that we get from Hacker News. So much so that some of us, apparently, don't even recognize it as news, or "outrage porn".
I'd like to be wrong, but with the nature of this standard, I don't expect heavy adoption.
If a person is deploying G Suite or Office 365 or similar, they get asked to setup MX records, TXT for SPF, possibly DKIM and so on. If I could create a record that says "use the policy Microsoft/Google publish", it would be a no brainer. And it would take off because, much like SPF, these groups can just add it to their onboarding checklist.

As soon as you say "deploy an end point on your domain", it falls in the too hard basket for unimportant domains. Moreover, in a corporate situation the people running mail have no involvement in web endpoints. For the mail domains I professionally manage, that falls into the domain of another department, and the people involved in running web endpoints are going to say something like "if it was important, Wordpress would do it already for us".
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