skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't post conspiracy theories.

Also: the article actually comes out in favour of strong encryption. How does that fit with your worldview?
Why are most React tutorials outdated?
Absolutely hilarious. The folks running this ship (the company, not this endeavor) need to pause and reflect on the way they’re going about it. You’ve got a good product and great engagement. These decisions shouldn’t be so hard. Methinks this is due to their tendency to be overly transparent and design-by-committee oriented. Ya need a leader who has values and a vision for the future. If you need data, collect data. Stop walking on eggshells with your users. If they don’t like it let them leave and go elsewhere. The people complaining are likely the minority anyway.
How does encrypting your video help if the device that contains the video is stolen? The thief wont be able to view themselves committing the crime?
It's based on payroll cost (including non-cash compensation), not headcount.
Remember the Innovator's Dilemma. Worse is better for new products, because competitors over time add so many features that they become bloated, and so a newer entrant can create a basic version that doesn't have all the features, but it has the top 1 or 2 or even 3 features that most customers want, for a lower price. This usually will win out and the cycle continues :)
Isn't that true for any physics or math texts? You need to do problems. That's why there were exercise books to accompany Feynman's lecture.
As an alternative to Alexander Technique if it's difficult to find practitioners, you can try Feldenkrais method.
Next step, get funding from Bloomberg to push legislation that makes those "smart guns" required to price regular people out of gun ownership.
that’s what the taser corporation already does with the bodycams
I don't know why that is, but in the end, aren't web browsers using the native os widgets for input text, etc.?
I think this is a fallacy, its true that becoming 90th% in a few different fields would render you quite the unicorn. The issue is that its common for there to be very low demand for such an overlap of skill sets. Also, how would you leverage such an overlap? These positions and opportunities do not just appear as you are qualified, the job market is extremely inefficient, and not very good at correctly pricing ability. Whats more, being the best in the world at something generally makes that skill very recognizable to others. You are a standout and ascend extremely quickly. I would argue the true best strategy is to shoot for best in your city or country/world at some nascent niche skill.

As an addition, this kind of article is part of a group of articles aimed at seeming to be a "novel" or "clever" approach to life, somehow holding the key to outsmart others. Most likely it a complete waste of your five minutes. Its similar to thinking about the Dunning Kruger effect, a complete waste of time.
> Lol, what? San Francisco taxes revenue of businesses that are there?… This is just....staggeringly stupid. It just penalizes low margin businesses, for no reason. How can anyone possibly think this is a good idea?

I don’t think anybody thinks that either the gross receipts tax (with different rates depending on industry) or the payroll tax (which included stock exercise in payroll) were good ideas. They are inferior alternatives to property taxes (which are capped and distorted by Proposition 13) and income taxes (which RTC 17041.5 prohibits local governments from raising).
That's a terrible idea. Once people have been trained to do that, attackers can probably get them to type their password somewhere they shouldn't.
As far as I understand, they send an encrypted binary blob of the data on your phone, and the keys stay local. That’s much different.
Markdown doesn't address table of contents or references which were mentioned above.
I think it’s armful to the idea of remote work that it’s being equated with async work.
> wanting a definite list of words that were racial slurs that they could avoid using

That is a very bad example. Unless you are talking about living in a small village, you'll find that the Justice Potter test of "i know it when i see it" does not work! There is no such thing as "we can all agree that $X is bad, or $Y is an insult". Cultures vary WILDLY around the world, and the internet brings all those people together, giving them ability to say things that some feel are "clearly insulting and you should know it" and others feel are "completely normal discourse"

If you want to create a rule and apply it, you actually need to be rigorous and precise. This is why laws are written that way, and why we do not have laws saying "do not do bad shit, you know what i mean"

So yes, if you want to ban some types of words you had better be ready to provide a clear, complete, and correct list of what is banned. You may update it, but if you aren't prepared to provide it, you are not yet ready to create a policy around it!

Some reading to explore:

Baskin, Barry (16 November 2018). Implicit Bias in the Courtroom (PDF) (Speech). 2018 Afternoon Plenary Speakers. Contra Costa County, California: Contra Costa County Bar Association. Retrieved 29 November 2018. http://www.cccba.org/attorney/mcle/seminar-materials/2018/Pl...

Goldberg, William (October 2010). "Two Nations, One Web: Comparative Legal Approaches To Pornographic Obscenity By The United States And The United Kingdom" (PDF): 2121–2148. Retrieved 29 November 2018. http://www.bu.edu/law/journals-archive/bulr/documents/goldbe...
This is blatantly false. Private transfer of fully automatic weapon is fully legal, provided you live in the right state and register it with the ATF (and pay a $200 tax stamp).

The prohibition target the manufacture of such weapon for civilian market past 1984. As such, there is naturally a very high demand for a very low offer, and prices are astronomical, IIRC about $20k for a pre-1984 M-16 receiver. If you have the money to buy a such receiver and your state law do not prohibit you from owning the weapon, go ahead, fill the ATF paperwork, wait 6 months, and enjoy your full-auto M-16. With more paperwork, you can even shot it as a full-auto suppressed SBR. 100% legal.
I'm not claiming that Gitlab is doing anything shady with the data, I'm making a general comment about the notion of "transparency" as a panacea.

I do object to what Gitlab proposed, though, because I object to all telemetry that I don't specifically opt in to.
Kiwi is Chromium based, isn't the future of uBlock Origin in danger there?
Pricing depends on monthly website visitors. We also have a startup package for companies with <20k visitors, <$5M funding and founded after 2015. If that applies to you, you can sign up here: https://jalehrezaei.typeform.com/to/OM9rmm?utm_campaign=hack...

How many visitors do you have?
> There is no way that I would host a solution that includes third-party scripts.

How is this different from allowing corporate users to access web apps that have google analytics running? We've seen some enterprises block GA, but they are in the minority.
You can do a lot of graph theory without being able to sum integers. No problem. :)
Both promises and async/await (basivally just a syntactic sugar for promises) are pretty unpleasant to use in a more complex app.

It's too low-level and hard to manage (if you care about correctness and performance). You eventually have to invent your own locking (to enforce ordering guarantees between read/update remote calls) and do resource management by hand (async task becomes something you have to keep track of, in case you need to abort/restart it, recover from network errors, etc.)

There are much better abstractions for getting remote data. State machines are one such abstraction that I like to use.

I'm still awaiting the day when web devs rediscover that coding an event driven FSM with pure functions is acctually the most flexible and easiest to reason about way to manage client-server communication. Meanwhile it's my secret sauce.
We also rolled back all changes to our Terms of Service and our Privacy policy, and we updated our blog post accordingly: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/10/10/update-free-softwar...
If you're using the Docker image (grafana/grafana), GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ENABLED=true
I find it odd that the US system (and presumably Canadian too) is so resistant to NSAIDs in paste form. Given they are more regularly killing their patients than Europeans, their arguments against patients handling imprecise dosing are as comic as morbid.
I was especially curious about this for education. If you explain things too much you may get more good students but they may drop on the first struggle.
Perhaps so, but many other answers premise with "not stupid," and were not similarly ostracized. I suppose some questions, rhetorical or otherwise, can only be answered one way, regardless of the truth.
Complexity Waterfall and Architecture on Demand
At my boxing gym every few months some kid would show up and after a week he would be much better than everybody else. These guys just understood the sport immediately and also had physical ability. A lot of these guys dropped out but if this level of talent meets with interest and work ethic then you get super athletes like Michael Jordan or Michael Schumacher in F1.

My ex coach knew sugar ray Leonard pretty well in his youth and he said that Ray started beating up people already in his first day at the gym without having learned boxing technique. He just watched once and knew what to do.
QT Quick also uses a markup language.
That part is somewhat true. It's the illusive cheap, healthy, tasty, fast combo that's so hard to achieve. I have to agree with OP about cost though.

There are even decent healthy frozen products that are affordable (most people could spend $1 on veg; they wouldn't think twice spending that on a drink) and take no effort. Frozen chicken breasts can be thrown directly in oven and eaten with mixed spices and/or sauce. It is doable.
My $2,500 TV has “sponsored content” built into the menu
The Snowden revelations were 6 years ago and since then there there has been no meaningful reigning in of federal surveillance power or of public/private surveillance "partnerships". The world in which Amazon/Ring would respect your wishes regarding the footage is not the one we live in.
Rendering becomes interruptible. In Concurrent Mode, React will split the work of a single render pass across multiple chunks as time exists within a single frame, yielding back to the browser as needed to let it process events. Once the whole render pass is complete, React will finally "commit" the changes to the DOM.

If a user input or other render - triggering event occurs partway through a render pass, React can set aside its partially completed calculations, start a new render pass, complete that and commit it, then effectively "rebase" the original changes on top of the just-applied change.

Shawn Wang has been collecting links to all the info on Concurrent React that's been released over the last couple years :

https://github.com/sw-yx/concurrent-react-notes
Good list! I'd also add Mary Boas' Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. A standard textbook for incoming students across disciplines and very accessible
I get the idea that remote.com is trying to trademark the term "remote". F that. The best way to stop that is to prevent remote.com from getting a lot of brand recognition. I don't care how much they want to contribute to the remote worker community - there's no way it will make up for stealing the identity that we have for ourselves.
I appreciate the links. Thank you! But can you point me to what they say about enlightenment being incompatible with sex scandals? I looked, but didn't see it.

In case it helps, I'm genuinely interested. It seems to me that if enlightenment is a thing, there's no reason to assume that it necessarily goes along with conformity to conventional morality. In fact it seems likely that such a person would be less constrained, because less subject to fear of social pressure. But I don't know.
rsync or lftp (sftp subsystem) to a chroot sftp server with encrypted partitions.

or 7-zip encrypt video chunks and upload using above method.

In both cases, you can control the server and the data. You can hand over data that is applicable to the period of time in question and you still have your local copy.
Google accused of creating tool to spy on employees' organizing efforts
Once you get to a population density that allows police departments big enough that most cops can have social circles that are only other cops (I'm not claiming cause or effect, just that this seems to be about the crossover point) cops tend to start wanting everyone else not be armed.

Edit: yes I'm totally wrong which is why city police departments constantly fight against gun control. /s
The Princeton Companions to Mathematics and Applied Mathematics are beautiful to leaf through at the library. They're also hardcore heavy-weight (physically) and unlikely to be read twice, so don't buy them.

My personal take is that good linear algebra books at any level are great "tours of mathematics". Start with Strang and never stop. In a few years you'll be balled up with Kreyszig scribbling proof attempts in receipts, flaming unkempt hair and everyone around you will think you're weird but you'll be so, so happy.
IBM runs a public school that could change the way we think about education
The broken windows theory, and why you should clean your room
If your house burned down unexpectedly you'd be sort of curious to see what happened right?

Or even just if the power or internet was out. The whole point of these things is to be able to see what's going on when something unexpected happens.
I mean, why not? Wouldn't it be reasonable to stoke a desire for that in order and use the resulting frustration as a way to continue to keep a segment of their consumers frustrated with government overreach and limitation on 2A? There's plenty of gun mags that talk about all the high powered tech that the military has access to. If there was no civilian interest in that stuff, it wouldn't be published.

You want motivated consumers screaming for your products, and large segment of keeping the 2A in place is reminding consumers that "if you don't have access to guns, bad people will do bad things that could have been prevented".
Technical Analysis of the Checkm8 Exploit
jQuery is not an UI framework. It's a library of utilities for DOM querying and manipulation.
I daresay you would have the same experience with any other book.

If you just read a book and don't work through problems yourself, you simply don't learn enough to do it yourself.
It worked when I tested it right now.
Besides memory consumption, the killer feature for me would be true native text boxes. Skype on the Mac won't expand my abbreviations, use my dictionaries, etc. Drives me nuts.

Maybe that's Skype's fault, it wouldn't surprise me, but I think I've seen this behavior elsewhere. Skype is, thankfully, the only Electron app I have to interact frequently.
What would the world look like without China ? There is literally nowhere else to go to build something today...
I'm in the market for a doorbell Camera. What options besides ring are out there?
I mulled over this for a while and figured that I should be grateful.

This whole situation appears to be lifting IT salaries all over the world. I'm currently in the middle of switching jobs and found that I sneer at positions that pay less than ~$50k (in Poland at that) or don't offer fully remote work.

So, I guess, thank you?
Funny, someone else posted this, after I did, from a different source and it moved up in the “ranking” faster than mine. Maybe the algo decided that their post was better than mine, although it was about the same thing.
Perhaps he meant "before all of the data has arrived", i.e. some of it is already available.
I'm not looking forward to GitLab "taking into account" the community comments, then ignoring them and forging ahead with this change.
Based on a comment on the other thread, the CFO insisted on this originally. I'd love to hear specifically from the executive team about the CFO's instructions, and this 'rethinking.'
> they're trundling along like everyone else who started a VR company in 2013

By what metric? They’re #1 or #2 in that space. Leap Motion, Razer, etc are not in the same position. I really don’t understand what you’re alluding to.

> Then moving on to focuses that have more to do with bottom-line finance than creative effort at pushing forward the industry

Can you give me an example of a decision they made that you think made them money at the cost of holding the industry back?

Would you at least agree they were at the forefront of digital distribution and that was motivated by wanting to move the industry forward?

What about SteamBox and SteamOS, which came in response to Microsoft announcing they were going to require all apps to be distributed through their store? Was that a money grab in your estimation?
I think in addition to questioning having kids as a default in life society needs to ask if it is ethical to continue having kids. We have an impending climate crisis we haven't even begun to address that will make the life of any child born today much harder and much different than life today.
Does anyone know why they chose Node.js 12.8.1 instead of 12.13.0, the first LTS release on the 12.x line?
Just change the headline to "broken health care system" to "broken economic system" and "doctors, nurses" to "all employees" and it'd be even more accurate. Most jobs seem to try and drain every drop of energy they can get from their staff, instead of giving them realistic workloads that are sustainable. I feel like as a society we've crossed the Rubicon from being efficient to being downright sociopathic and self-destructive. I guess this is the end result of unchecked capitalism. You definitely don't see the same extremes in Europe, but at the same time there is less opportunity. Maybe that's a worthwhile trade off?
An aside, but basketball is probably not the best example. A large amount of men 7ft tall or more have played in the NBA. over 17%. So basketball many of them have achieved elite height not skill.

http://www.truthaboutit.net/2012/05/true-or-false-half-of-al...
It is not because of Electron.

An empty Atom window containing 5 source code files consumes about 120MB of RAM. For comparison with native apps, an empty iTerm2 window uses 100MB, and so does an empty Notes.app window. The base memory footprint imposed by Chromium is not that significant.
Shitting in the bushes or behind a dumpster because you simply have to go and there's no restroom within reach is an act of necessity. Many of us have found ourselves so disposed. Shitting on someone's doorstep is not something anyone needs to do, ever.
That's exactly the kluge I'm talking about. I use iOS and macOS and it /mostly/ works. Primarily Chrome on the desktop, but use Firefox for work related stuff and Safari as a contingency. It seems to break on things like expiration (they seem to re-enable the captive portal after an hour or two) or waking from sleep. Some captive portals seem to let through iMessage or email, but block http traffic until you click through--this seems to confuse some portal detection. There have also been different "hacks" around it for decades to bypass it and get full web access.

Most of my personal frustration is around apps. I get an error downloading a podcast or connecting a game so I would fire up the browser because the captive portal handling messed up. Starting a few years ago my go-to domains started https by default so I took time to seek out http-only domains because it still comes up.

Assuming that all worked perfectly, you still end up with an unencrypted connection. I'm just kind of amazed that with all of the big players implementing this stuff on the client side; Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, and on the server side AT&T, xfinity, Gogo, and any other chains plus Google on both sides deploying to Starbucks and authoring Android. Nobody seems to see this as a problem.
> common sense regulation on ownership and ad funding

The word common sense here is trying to normalize restricting free speech by employees and companies. That may be "common sense" in more repressive countries, but hopefully it will never happen in the USA.
It doesn't really factor in here, because the wind just isn't that bad and we have elevation. I'm also a Vancouverite, but from Winnipeg, so I'm very familiar with both. I'd also say that a night on Salt Spring with no heat is insufferable in it's own way. The difference is bone chilling cold here in the worst of times, vs face on fire mode in the prairies.
I’m a generalist and it works for me in my one man company. In my previous company I hired specialists, not generalists, because the specialists did not suffer from distractions as much as generalists did. They also didn’t question everything a specialist in another area did. It’s also easier to build teams that way.
> It'd be different if my friends checked climate change facts, but it's usually pointless pop culture trivia.

This sounds more like a difference in interests than a difference in conversational etiquette.

I do understand the disillusion with how pocket-sized screens have affected human communication, but I also love being able to google citations in the middle of a conversation. I imagine I'd get more annoyed by the behavior if it was related to a topic I had no interest in.

Maybe try to find friends with vaguely similar interests? I don't demand that my friends are interested in everything I'm interested in (and I wouldn't have any friends if I did), but if there isn't some decent amount of overlap in interests I'm probably not going to enjoy conversing with somebody for an extended period of time.

Edit: quote formatting.
What is your take on Tulsi being a spoiler? I for one, agree with HRC on this point.
I think this is exactly right. They are always looking to the next thing, which leaves a false impression of “not doing anything” because they’re visibly not continuing to do the same thing.
As Putin Era Begins to Wane, Russia Unleashes a Sweeping Crackdown
Yes, but below -25 or so you don't have any exposed skin so it matters a lot less. Mostly just decided whether your eyelashes freeze in place or not.
Not a good or reasonable one, though. This is no slight against Qt devs, and I think they're fixing it in Qt6, but it's just not good.
Penrose's 'Road to Reality' [1] is a kind primer on where the math comes from, as it applies to physics. Kind of a philosophical walkthrough of how math applies to physics. It is nowhere near as concise as Feynman's lectures, but it does complement them pretty well, while getting more into the math, and why the math is needed to describe various aspects of physical reality.

[1] https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=154
What happens if you die in a server-related explosion?

That's a pretty easy way to shut down this service with no notice. Absurdist, sure. But that is the stakes with this kind of service.
"Their coming right for us." Would be an appropriate voice command to delete the footage.
They won't rethink it, they'll just wait until this blows over then implement it silently. They haven't changed the TOS back yet.