skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How Perl 5 is basically fine and gets the job done"

"If node is so fast why does my PHP site feel way faster than this React+Redux+Node thingy? An inquiry into what 'fast' means."

"Why GUIs in things other than webtech are actually not hard at all and work way better."
What country and type of company is this?
I have to disagree. Not only does it seem completely lawful to me, you'll notice that none of the justices could cite an actual law that was violated.

Their summary makes this a bit clearer - "...was unlawful because it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification."

They never actually indicate any law that has been violated. Just sort of a general assertion that it was an asshole, undemocratic move that they have now declared to be "illegal".

Furthermore, I remember when it was originally announced that he was considering doing this and every single lawyer, pundit, and news outlet that I read said very clearly that while it was "unthinkable" it was completely legal and he had every right to do so with the power of his position/office.
Then cut facebook usage as a tool too. #radical
So basically, don't be a woman?
Distributed / self hosted. Information pattern like Git or Scuttlebutt. UX abstracted enough that the underlying infrastructure is never exposed to non-tech savvy users. Optionally ephemeral[1]. No dark patterns.

Also, I don't think I want a social network about humans lives, ala Facebook. I want a social network that is constructive. I want a social network that is about storing information, learning, discussing, growing together, etc. With the attributes I mentioned above.

[1]: I recognize that in almost any distributed system data inherently can't be truly ephemeral. Yet, I think there's a meaningful distinction between the system ensuring everything you ever say or do is recorded forever, vs just not caring to keep anything labeled as "ephemeral" past a month or w/e.
It doesn't work for me at least. I still see a ton of ads on the youtube app on all of my Roku devices. I heard that it works for some people so maybe i'm hitting domains that aren't in the blocklists due to my location?
I think at this point - its not an assumption that Google and Facebook are monopolies. It is a fact. Here are some thoughts on regulating them:

1. No Lobbying allowed.
2. No business expenses for anyone related to politics or for politicians.
3. Their legal department gets a 50% budget cut for eternity.
4. Form an employee union.
What this data shows is that concerns about centralization, especially in relation to DoH, are overblown. Only 1.15% of users in this dataset are using Cloudflare DNS, and APNIC is in a region riddled with government censorship and crappy ISPs -- two major incentives for people to try alternative resolvers. Without such incentives, nobody would even bother to change their devices' DNS settings.

I'm in a country with both of these problems, so every machine I set up gets Cloudflare as the primary resolver with Google as the secondary. Fix these problems first, and I won't have to do this anymore. Centralization? I dunno. Taking control of DNS away from my state and ISP would actually count as decentralization in my book.
>They were reporting on the established (at the time) medical opinion.

To what end though? I'm not conspiratorially asking "what was their real angle?", but the much more simple "why did they think it was newsworthy for a non-doctor audience?"

I've seen the NYT run articles on a regulated industry I happen to work in. I'm no doctor, but I can see parallels because everything is slow moving and presumably based on expert opinion. Coverage of subtle points is surrounded by laughably bad analysis that drops a line of facts that lead the reader into conclusions they don't include in the print. Because if they printed it, the counterargument would be swift and damning. But without them explicitly saying it I'm "conspiratorial" if I say they're implying it. They then go on to make a wide-ranging hamfisted policy prescription that don't make sense for the subtle issue we started with and I'm 110% on board for fixing, but do make sense if you believe the unstated intermediary conclusion.
What is the engineer publishing model?
A Python Implementation of a Regex Crossword in the Terminal
Also, there's difference between a company sending in a clip to be played, and actually having the presenter say the ad out loud themselves.

The latter is unthinkable on commercial radio, where separating ads from 'content' is a skill unto itself.
I wish I could use the fallacious "No TRUE doctor would use The Times to inform medical decisions." Because it seems like it should be universally true. On the one hand I am glad this one is telling their truth, now I feel more informed. On the other, I am appalled and terrified that this may apply to a significant percentage of "true" doctors.
Let's see how long this stays online
For all those in this thread talking about monasteries without having ever been in one, please try the experience. If there's an Orthodox monastery near you, try seeing if you can stay for a few days. They generally aren't rich by any stretch of the imagination, but even staying for a few days and following the lifestyle will give you insight into why the monastic life is a valuable and valid choice in our increasingly chaotic and bombastic society.

The peace you feel when in one and the sinking feeling going back into "the world" are both experiences everyone should have.
I've actually started using vim with its :term feature as a terminal manager. So, I'll run screen (and tmux should work as well), and then run vim in a single window. Then I can run :term to open a terminal window within vim and then use use different terminal windows to do my work.

As far as I know, M-x shell doesn't allow for running multiple shell buffers in emacs, but :term in vim will allow you to do so.
I think it's mostly due to the difficulty of managing reply threads with large groups of people. Most don't have the patience to deal with it.

And while I quit Facebook a year or so ago, I do think they serve different purposes. It's more like a webforum or something in the Reddit/HN vein. You can have one-on-one or small group discussions, but you can also post things out to your larger friend/fam/acquaintance network or to more public groups.

There's definitely something to be said for that, and as someone who spent my college through adult life on IRC and message boards, I get the appeal. I just wish it didn't have to be a winner-take-all situation where the "winner" happens to be a really shitty company I don't want to do business with.
In theory yes. Except you don't have control over the interest rate nor the exchange rate. When the double whammy hits you, you have no cover.

If a government has internal debt, i.e in it's own currency, it can print the debt away which would cause inflation and some distress.

If the government has external debt i.e foreign currency, it is at the mercy of those creditors who can now dictate policy.
You assume they didn't due any due diligence. Maybe they didn't, but maybe they did too. Either way, what would have sufficed beyond verifying that it was indeed the prevalent medical opinion of the time and that it wasn't contradicted in any significant way? It's not the role of news media to verify scientific research further than that-- it's the role of the research establishment which, yes, failed at that task until it was too late to avoid a crisis.

If there had been significant opposition to this at the time, I would agree that news media failed. But I just searched through ProQuest and Google Scholar for research journals during 1990-2000 and I didn't find much at all that points towards significant risks of increased prescribing of these drugs. Quite the opposite, they pointed towards them being underutilized and leaving patients in significant pain despite low risk of addiction.

As it turns out, doctors were wrong. But it's only in the last few years that the scope of the issue has really come to light. I can't fault the media for not knowing 25 years ago what the medical establishment has only recently come to accept.
If there is a political bias here, it's not major and mostly affects non-news items like columnists and opinion pieces. The news reporting is mostly pretty neutral.

In comparison to American commercial news outlets like Fox News, it is very neutral indeed.
This is a lot of self hate. The west got ahead in the colonial era, not just the industrial era. We had plenty of empires that worked on developing the country such as Mauryan, Maratha etc. I very much agree that a strong command over English is the only thing that can help someone in this country if they’re not born massively advantaged; but there is no need for un-true self-laceration.

If I could go back in time I would definitely smack some emperors around the head for not being more exploratory on the Naval front - but our very fertile soil was our undoing - much like China, no need to go anywhere if agriculture is highly viable right where you are, and foreigners come to YOU looking to buy the nice stuff you grow (spices).
The UI, mostly. Email threads are harder to read than the same thing almost anywhere else. And yeah, spam doesn't help—most people don't know how to set up filters and automatic categorization and such, even in programs that make it fairly easy.
Veganism is 'single biggest way' to reduce our environmental impact, study finds
Prior to this ruling, Parliament was not able to continue doing anything because it had been prorogued (suspended). The ruling allows it to continue.
Its pretty simple:

> A Domain Name Server (DNS) amplification attack is a popular form of distributed denial of service (DDoS) that relies on the use of publically accessible open DNS servers to overwhelm a victim system with DNS response traffic.

DNS queries are much smaller then DNS responses. Making a huge amount of queries uses less bandwidth then uses to respond - making it a prime candidate for DDOS attacks. Look at your logs, no doubt you will see a large number of requests for various hosts. This is your system being used to attack people. Please close the port.
I suspect, provided we keep mandatory voting we should be ok either way.
In the same way that the mp3 changed the music industry, bittorrent changed how Hollywood made movies adblockers are going to reshape how the internet works.

Because adblockers drive down the value of ads so substantially companies will give up on trying to pay their overhead costs by using advertising and instead switch to a Netflix like subscription model.

The irony with this is that once you’ve had to log in to a site with payment information your privacy and anonymity are completely erased and you’ve often given the provider the ability to run background and credit checks on yourself.
> It refuses to trigger a general election.

It refuses to do so because the current PM has shown he can't be trusted to avoid dirty tricks, and if a general election is triggered, it the dissolution of parliament makes it impossible for parliament to exercise oversight of government.

Everyone is preparing for a GE, just not at the time that would play straight into Boris' hands.

> One major political party is now openly saying if they get enough power, they will simply cancel Brexit entirely. Labour is not far behind.

And if they do get into power, the voters will have given them a mandate to do so. A core pillar of democracy is the right of voters to change their minds, or we'd just have one single election and be done with it.

> The Speaker has given up the traditional role of political neutrality.

The speaker has kept trying to ensure parliament can exercise it's constitutional role despite government attempts to play games. His role is to ensure Parliament functions, not to protect government from scrutiny.

> At all levels British democracy is in outright collapse. This is not due to actions of Leave supporters or campaigners, but rather due to coordinated efforts by people who are ideologically committed to the EU and who are willing to destroy any institution, tradition or constitutional procedure whatsoever in their efforts to do so.

This is pure fantasy. It is in collapse thanks to a government attempting to use dictatorial methods to avoid parliamentary oversight by hoping that people would so blindly adhere to convention as to sleepwalk right into a massive abuse of power.

> How can people respect their government when they see politicians so openly doing U-turns on their own position the moment they won an election, when they see those same politicians refusing to allow new votes except for those they've rigged so leaving can never win?

None of them ran on no deal, so nobody should be surprised they are fighting tooth and nail to avoid a no deal that voters have not voted for.
Sure, thanks! :)
>Well if the employer is in the EU, they won't.

They would, of course. Unless, someone's planning to build a whole Chinese-style censorship state, it's not possible to disallow to obtain information through VPN.
This is why "preppers" make me laugh ... they go out of their way to stockpile these resources (food, guns, survival gear, etc). I don't know about you, but anyone I've ever met with prepper tendencies isn't shy about letting you know about it ... so now they're making it known that in an emergency, they will be the place for the mob to raid
You are thinking from a US perspective though.

Europe, and especially the east and north, is nearly cured from religion. Cold air and higher education keep people level-headed and reduce the need to invent comforting fantasies to deal with reality.

And when people in Germany say they are ”religious“ by German standards, they are not at all actually religious, e.g. by US or Saudi Arabia or Israel standards. It’s merely a cultural residue they were born into. That actually existed way before Abrahamic religions spread to Germany. They only ever enter a church for a birth (sometimes), marriage (often) or death (usually).
East Germany is pretty much 100% free of religion. And Berlin is the least religious place in Europe. (Unless you count veganism. ;)

We prefer to concern us with things, that are actually observably real and hence useful.
Which VPS provider do you use and what is your backend stack?
There's also a business of subletting church buildings to other churches. I once wandered into St Dunstan in the West, just off Fleet Street in London, and found that there was a Romanian orthodox service in full swing.
This comes from a [EU Court 2014 Ruling][1] based on Spain's implementation of European Union Directive 95/46 from 1995 which has nothing to do with what you're talking about.

[1]: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...

And the 2014 ruling, as this ruling, are clear that there is no absolute right to "erase" the result on a name.

It is not a wildcard to erase every bit of relevant data about anyone, and Google regularly denies requests to de-list result on this basis.

As the 2014 ruling provides:

"Whilst it is true that the data subject’s rights protected by those articles also override, as a general rule, that interest of internet users, that balance may however depend, in specific cases, on the nature of the information in question and its sensitivity for the data subject’s private life and on the interest of the public in having that information, an interest which may vary, in particular, according to the role played by the data subject in public life. (§81 of 2014, Case C-131/12)"

And for example the court provides that "for particular reasons" the right does not apply. Such reasons include "the role played by the data subject in public life" that would be "justified by the preponderant interest of the general public in having, on account of inclusion in the list of results, access to the information in question. (§97)"

As always, the actual ruling is much more nuanced and balanced than many media reports or corporations would have you believe.
Yeah, but the absolute numbers in that table are misleading. Any society whose budget for education is far outpaced by its budgets for mind-numbing entertainment and propaganda is sure to be full of morons. Rewrite those expenditures as a percentage of GDP and you'll paint a wildly different picture.
It is. If you're using screen, you can press ctrl-a a to send ctrl-a to readline to go to the beginning of the line. ctrl-b will actually move back a single character. Presumably, you could do something like ctrl-b b in tmux to move back one character, but I haven't tried it, so I don't know if that would work.
Why is this linking to a google redirect? It's not like the URL is shorter that way.
Yes it is. Four extra sitting days: https://order-order.com/2019/08/28/boriss-prorogation-will-s...

As you mention, it's a vital time. The democratic mandate from the general public outweighs parliament's attempts to interfere in negotiations. Prorouging provides an excellent mechanism to allow the PM to focus on negotiations that deliver what people voted for.
Young video creators have been around but not at this scale because youtube or instagram props them up and makes them influencers. They have no life experience and yet are influencing millions of other young people. The sad part is that everything is shocking content to get their visitors up. This is broken imo and can’t lead to anything good. Of course, few of them become millionares
I think the average Indian consumer has become more aware and conservative in their spending. Thanks to the wider reach of the internet, financial literacy is gradually increasing. Combine that with an economic slowdown and people are just more thoughtful about where they spend money. This is a natural consequence of a slowdown as Indian people are very risk-averse.

Prices of Cars and Houses have increased at a much higher rate than the Incomes, so people are delaying spending on expensive purchases. However, this is probably just one of the factors.

Demonetisation has definitely had an adverse effect on small individual businesses that operated on cash. Cash was the primary mode of transaction for maximum number of Indian people, especially the non-urban population. Unavailability of sufficient cash in the system for a long period of time has hit them hard. You cannot expect a barely literate rural person to suddenly start using digital form of payments.
I know most of the revenue goes into interest payments. The solution to that is not to borrow more at lower interest and waste on profligate projects which won't generate revenue.
> We fought with China, not the other way around.

That is not true.

From Wikipedia [0]: Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territory along the 3,225 kilometre- (2,000 mile-) long Himalayan border,[10] the Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line on 20 October 1962.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War
The "news" industry is complicit in just about every shit thing happening in this country.
How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid?
These days I don't think you can blame the media for anything without blaming the advertising industry as the upstream cause. We distribute unbundled nuggets of content that are optimized to get clicks (and to drive click rate, meaning you have to make your impact and turn the consumer around as quickly as you can), because that's what's incentivized by advertising-based revenue streams. Those optimizations are not compatible with accurate and balanced coverage of nuanced issues.

I assume something similar was true in the 90s, or starting to be true, but I don't have as good an understanding of how it all worked back then.
There needs to be anonymous accounts on the internet because of safety. However someone you need to be able to derive a system that permits you to validate you are an individual internally to the system, but also allow for anonymity externally. This way the anonymous speaker is protected, but you still know that it is a real person, just not for you to know who. Of course the anonymous person could be a bad actor (whatever you define that to be) but at least its not a bot.
Then let's ignore the fact that the UK is tearing itself apart over this and carry on, regardless of the possibility that people may have changed their mind and that brexit is looking more damaging than ever, and that BoJo's career has been built on opportunism (before the referendum was he for or against brexit?) and lies (£350 million?)

Yes, push on, let's. Let's not compromise, rethink, allow a possibly bad decision to be reconsidered. Push on, forward, forward!

Since neither side wish to compromise, the above was my suggestion of a way forwards, where I would support brexit if I lost a 2nd ref.

What's yours?

(Oh, one more thing - the world's ecosystem has possibly started to collapse, which may kill millions and cause wars killing more, perhaps many more. But, BREXIT!!!!)
If I need a catering service or a stationery shop I do a search and look for the websites, not the ads (which are blocked anyway). I don't see how ads disappearing would prevent them from getting business through their website.

At the moment everyone "needs" ads because everyone else does it. If this cancer would disappear then everyone is on a level playing field and can attract business by ranking well on search engines, etc.
Looks like it's already dead on HN.
People are looking for anyone to blame. Drug reps. Doctors. Pharmaceutical firms.

Now we've entered the "politicians/the media is to blame" stage.

When something goes wrong in this spectacular a fashion, you can bet people will try to lay blame wherever they can. But probably the truth is that this was on all of us. Doctors for prescribing without disseminating incredibly pertinent information, Parmas for creating "medicinal" opioids in the first place, politicians for not admitting the need for stronger regulation earlier, media for not covering the story better earlier, the people for being in denial about the obvious signs of addiction in their friends and loved ones. I mean the list probably goes on and on.
> What abhorrent behavior?

Did you ignore my comment two comments up from yours? Read it, and the links.
PSA for anyone who does this, regarding the friends part. Hell, works well if you happen to move to a new place too.

Go join a hobby club of some sort. Even if you're introverted. A structured "social" activity makes it super easy, approachable and everyone (in my experience) is welcoming.

Meetup.com is a pretty good place to start. Even the generic social groups are fun too. Try your local library and rec center too for get togethers near you. Or if you do have a decent friend circle already, do the leg work to coordinate something. Doing a structured social activity helps a lot. Even everyone bringing a random bottle of whiskey and watching a movie while you all try different whiskeys is better than being home alone.

Having a real social network you meetup with, makes it real easy to cut back on the addiction of social media.
> why not do social control of operations directly by tax codes for electric car factories and internet connected toaster makers, but here we are doing tax code stuff on the parts that make those toasters or whatever.

The West pretty much doing that already in more ways than one.

Last G7 was all about finding new ways to tax new industries