skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But what is much less hard is to encrypt data and then to limit the problem to getting rid of the decryption key. This reduces the problem in scope to one single datum rather than a whole chain of possible plaintext copies.

Key issue: you can't do any operations on encrypted data, essentially you're killing off your database.

Homomorphic encryption is academic research, not something that is widely available and supported in common open and closed source databases. The best you can get is a database that encrypts the on disk data (Oracle TDE), but that only protects against a server being stolen or hacked on the OS level.
Because flat earth and chem trails don’t encourage policy changes or have representation from (potential) elected officials
The first drop by Q happened months after that story...
I believe they reached a scale of followers that none of these others have
I see about 10-12 paragraph indents, although short, so it might be an issue on your end. NYPost does have an intense number of ads so perhaps a blocker issue?
> So if you're accessing a variable without [obj]. it's either a member of the current object, or it's a local variable in the current function.

It could also be a field in the parent class. Protected fields are a bad idea but I’m sure some people use them.
A good listen about QAnon: https://youtu.be/lf3xlx9K0DI

Big issue with QAnon is that unlike normal standalone conspiracy theories, this one engulfs all other ones into a single plot.
The difference is that political bias of news outlets is a matter of public record, as is the number of articles on reparations before and after the protests started. All objective.
That sounds suspiciously like he's considering pardoning Snowden.

Also... going from calling for Snowden's execution to potentially pardoning him is one hell of a 180.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if 'intelligence' [sic] actors were involved in signal-boosting all sorts of wacky urban legends and conspiracy theories - so why not Pizza gate and Q as well?
Subtle typo: "compliment" should be "complement."

Exciting project! With so many companies thrust into remote only, the potential for sharing information via video is huge. I always say, if a picture is worth a thousand words, video is worth a million. (But, you have to consider that 1M words then is a processing problem for the viewers.)

The promise you wrote up really speaks to me. But the demo video doesn't look like much beyond a web based PPT tool. I'm struggling to see why I would use that over a generic tool like Google Docs.

When I was at a large fortune 500 company I saw others struggling to understand deep technical discussions without the video. I built an internal video sharing tool and would hound people to record their presentations so I could host them. It wasn't YouTube scale but thousands of people watched these videos, especially less technical team members that probably wouldn't have been invited to those meetings or wouldn't have felt safe to ask questions in those meetings. It was a big success in my opinion as a way to share tribal knowledge.

Good luck, very exciting space, especially because of Covid-19.
> They’re almost all applications now. We lost the fight.

Please reconsider! I've been using uBlock Origin to disable JavaScript by default, opting into enabling it when I want to (just like camera and microphone permissions). The vast majority of websites work fine, and many work better because they don't have pop-ups for cookie consent, unsolicited chat bubbles, or "wait don't leave yet" crap.

> There’s zero incentive for a develop to spend more than zero time making a website degrade gracefully today.

I couldn't dksagree more. Not everyone is an able-bodied software developer with a 2020 Macbook Pro and Google Chrome. We should continue making websites for everyone.

> But the web is no longer static HTML, however much I often wish it was.

You're right, but JavaScript is still completely optional for the vast majority of websites (and I'd argue that we should keep it that way). Just because a few websites need camera permissions doesn't mean that we should give every website access to our camera -- why should we have a different stance on JavaScript that usually degrades our experience instead of improves it?
To be fair, a lot of that is due to us paying much more than we should be at the moment for a nice two bedroom apartment for our family.
Lot of personal preferences masquerading as objective truths in this article.

My personal preference for C#: private fields are camelCased and are always prefixed with this on access (disambiguating field from parameter access); methods and properties are not prefixed. I find this gives a nice balance between code noise and explicitness.

Same principle could be applied to method access (since C# has local methods and static imports) and I would happily concede that it is a sane approach - but I don't find the code noise it produces is worth it.

If I join an existing project that consistently uses some other approach (even if it's an old-school underscore-prefixed fields approach) that's OK too.
Use Netflix to learn a new language
If it's worth anything, my impression is that the CPU (and probably GPU) performance of chromebooks varies widely between models. It seems to be particularly dramatic when comparing ARM models against Intel and AMD models.

I don't doubt that low-end CPUs could cause dropped frames during video recording.

If I had to offer any advice, it would be to test as many models as you can and then decide which ones to officially support.
Google has not only become dominant because their product is good.
First and foremost, they leveraged their market power through android and their search engine to get people to use chrome.
It seems the people making out most are the ones moving back in with their parents. Rent free and social interaction.
I'm generally distrustful of intelligence agencies because they are literally designed to carry out underhanded and deceptive operations. If you go back and read old WWII and Cold War declassified documents you can clearly see a lot of "ends justify the means" operations. I've never understood why we hold these agencies in such high regard. I guess because they're supposed to be on 'our side'?
> Companies are way faster, focussed and efficient than any form of non-profit or governmental organization in building infrastructure that supports their cause.

So what? What does that have to do with anything? I would disagree with this statement wholeheartedly. Private enterprise did not save the midwest from the dust storms, government did. Private enterprise did not save the world from the Nazi's, government did. Private enterprise will not save us from global warming, government will. Indeed, all of these problems are generally started by private monied interest.

Without the government, those companies can't even operate, so your entire premise is totally backwards.
If you're into that kind of metaphors, you may like the game 'Carrion'; warning, lots of pixel blood. It launched not long ago and does a great job in creating an 80s horror atmosphere. At the same time it's a relatively easy metroidvania platformer, so I find it a genuinely good activity to recover "brain juice" after coding.
Google is many different companies and products, and some of them I'm so grateful for. They provide a simple product that does something magically better than the competition, don't screw with the recipe. I give them my data because I like the service.

But the company-wide decision to manipulate the URL as a business strategy drains all my enthusiasm. The "U" is really important! The URL is basically a filename that you use to access the data store called the Internet. Don't take it away from me by the brute force of market dominance. I need to be sure of where I'm addressing my packets. Don't tamper with that essential construct.

I use both browsers, but without Firefox, I'd be lost in the wilderness. With its recent layoffs I'm worried about the web.
Coronavirus has turned the humble QR code into an everyday essential
> In the comments of the article one person mentions that libre offices runs on a little less than a million a year.

That's just the foundation budget.

It doesn't include all the salaries of people working on the project employed by commercial companies (Collabora etc.)
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Looks like the site is down -- it's a conspiracy! /s
This theory scares the heck out of people who currently control media and TV because it is very well structured

it asks people to go to (in a weird sort of way) first principles and start from there

*

Why is bitcoin so scary? Because it completely removes CENTRAL CONTROL

even more so - it removes the need to TRUST a central bank

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QAnon is similar. If you read the precepts of it, it is written by someone who believes that the entire current mindset is INCULCATED and INDOCTRINATED by people through brainwashing in high school and college

Which is an especially effective way to position yourself because then people have to question

ARe my beliefs based on FIRST PRINCIPLES i.e.

If I start with a blank slate and build on that using non-disputable facts

would it lead to what the mass media is saying?

And then they see - OK, Mass Media is lying

Now, what is the truth

at this point it doesn't even amtter if QAnon is the truth or not

The victory is already won

one brainwashed person suddenly recognizes they are brainwashed
What are the implications of my race?
Media are endlessly debunking QAnon and PizzaGate, yet no media is investigating things like Epstein network (Mr Clinton traveled like 30 times in the famous island - he must really liked the beach).
"With Firefox succumbing this week..."

Firefox succumbed to what? Genuinely curious, i had not heard this.
What you need to know about the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation
QAnon believers are winning republican primaries and are likely to win a few house seats. I think the idea of a Flat Earth Caucus in the House of Representatives would also be troubling to people.
Welp there goes like 90% of the optimism about the future of the web.
==They are glossing over the fact that it is other people who made the university great over the years to the point that it is desirable at all. Those people made it great by donating money and going on to bring prestige to the university. Ignore them and lose the prestige and money.==

Nobody is glossing over that fact. I am simply saying that if anything outside of a student's merit is "discrimination", then taking into account the alumni status or past contributions of [not that student] is also "discrimination".

They are not the student's merits to weigh, they are the relative's merits.
You have no reason to believe that their son wants to be there in person. The son may share their parents' safety concerns

And claiming that coronavirus poses "no danger" is simply untrue. You can claim that the danger is over-stated, but young adults can and do get COVID-19
> When calling your own method

> decorate your own method

> I personally find that the consistency makes the code easier to parse and read.

> As long as your consistent

knowing when to break consistency is a sign of education and superiority. The point of it is to be difficult, to make those who know identifiable and part of a club, whether the club is grammar nazis or, well, grammar nazis.

If only we could make a push to regularize and consistentize more things, without it being called "dumbing down" or "satire".
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It seems I had swapped Tengen and Accolade in my memory. I am thinking of Sega v. Accolade.

The Ninth Circuit reversed the district court's order and ruled that Accolade's use of reverse engineering to publish Genesis titles was protected under fair use, and that its alleged violation of Sega trademarks was the fault of Sega.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
Religious, like having a theology or something more consistent with a civic religion where people display certain convictions they actually do not subscribe to in order to show membership in a specific group?
Try finding a ten year old rockhopper comp, those were mostly still 26" with QR and seem like a great budget friendly choice for a middle schooler.

Kids are not a very lucrative market for the manufacturers or for the bike shops. Hardly any parents are willing to shell out four figures for a bike the kid will outgrow in nine months.
Next year, there will be almost a dozen Republicans elected that publicly endorse QAnon conspiracies.

It's more dangerous than chemtrails or flat Earth because it paints a lot of real people as dangerous enemies of the US.
I agree with you completely, no one should be hiding behind "It's a really complicated process". They need to actually sit down and come up with a concrete plan on how to tackle the problem then communicate that we have a plan in place its been added to the roadmap and we are going to tackle it in Q3 20XX.
At most state schools (including the one that employs me) on-campus room and board now costs at least as much as tuition due to years of upward pressure on amenities from [parents of] students and the resulting ill-considered public/private development deals.

I agree that the spending time immersed in the university environment is one of the most important parts of the college experience, but you don't have to get expensively kenneled on campus to do that, just spend time on campus with interesting people and interesting organizations.

I would only suggest most people deal with on-campus housing if it is being primarily paid for by a scholarship or grant they won't have to pay back and/or their circumstances don't offer a good alternative. If you're attending a school where there is an option for family (or whatever) that can provide you with a non-distracting environment and a _short_ commute for cheap, do that for a year. Once you establish a cohort of known-reliable friends with similar needs, rent with them, or pick up a modest apartment. I will say, IMO, renting with unknown quantity randos from a campus-predator slumlord _is_ a worse option to university housing, it includes both sets of disadvantages.

I'm also of the opinion that you have a substantial number of gen-eds you still have to take (not covered by APs, etc.), and they won't be paid for by a scholarship, do a year or so at a community college. It will be cheaper and better than the university service courses - gigantic sections taught from materials outsourced to ed-tech carpetbaggers, supervised by disinterested graduate students with alarming English skills, optimized to extract tuition from kids who statistically won't make it. I say this after years of discovering my students who took their early calculus sequence at community college, embarrassingly, tend to be more mathematically literate than the ones who did it at the university. I'm not yet convinced if that is because the ones that had the maturity to do it that way are predisposed and/or usually a little older, or the quality of the early sequence at [intentionally unnamed university] are really that poor.
Also its much easier to say every should go to school online when the person saying it most likely already got to go to college for real.
Hey! Thanks for that info, I think I saw some cool demo's of croquet before but will digg into it more. Right now we use roomservice.dev for our real-time video updates which has been great.
Friend of mine works at Anthem doing dental contracts. He said they were making money hand over fist for the last few months, because everyone was still paying premiums, but no one was filing claims because most dentist offices were closed.
Yes, and you could also queue files for deletion at a later stage by throwing away the encryption key for a large batch of files which have been queued for deletion.
There were a large number of layoffs at Mozilla, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336 .
You should have gotten a tutorial presented when you got bots, that'll go over over how it works.

You can just place ghost items by hand (press shift) but not much point. The advantage is being able to smack down whole bunches of machines in blueprints.

They can build anything if the products are in provider chests. They have the exact items, they won't build from intermediate materials.
A member of Congress (Thomas Massie - U.S. Rep KY) tweeted that Trump should pardon Snowden this morning as well: https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/12942523311319040...
When I lived in the US, every bikeshop I ever visited was awesome, and my home bikeshop knew me by name. If anything was wrong they could fix it on the spot, and.major work was usually ready next day.

Now I live in the bike friendly country Denmark, and the bike shops clearly have unlimited customers with no need to stand out. On a recent ride I was 70 kilometers from home and had my second flat. I could see the back tire was done for, so figured I'd find the local bikeshop to replace the tire and tube at the same time. After over an hour walk, showing up in full cycling gear 70km from home, they offer to change my tire for pickup two days later. It's a 10 minute job with the right machine, but my hands can't stretch a fresh tire over the wheel. I wound up buying a tube and changing it myself out the front of their shop, which set a good expectation for the level of service one could expect. Not that it mattered ... again, unlimited customers.

As a customer, I spend at least $2k a year on my bike in service and parts, and never complained or ordered online. Now I buy what I can online.
>why wouldn't I buy access from them directly?

Because far more people are familiar with Mozilla than Mullvad. Knowing they're the same service is just insight that can save a few euro.
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Culling the herd of the weak is probably not the college experience most people are looking for.
I didn't say you were siding with Apple. I stand by and fleshed out my analogy. It's not bad.
The scale of QAnon is much bigger than the others. There's a QAnon candidate in Georgia who's won her primary for a senate seat. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/politics/marjorie-tayl...
Because there is at least one Republican politician who will win a House seat in November and is a firm believer.
> I don’t want 5 blasted stores on my iPhone. I want one store and run by someone I trust.

You must be representing the first generation that is anti-competition and pro-monopoly. It makes no sense that you would really want to have fewer options to buy a product. If the problem is trust, then clearly what you need is regulation, not a monopoly.
Counterpoint, in many ways its much simpler than 20 years ago: Docker, k8s, etc is miles beyond the type of automation I used to have to deal with from the operations type people.
I just assumed they were putting that under webkit.
There appears to be a not-insignificant number of people who believe these theories. And unlike flat-earthers, who aren't out to hurt anyone else, some of these people are motivated to take their dangerously misguided ideas of justice into their own hands.
> Is it possible that planets/solar systems [...] are created by stress pressures in various regions of space as they rub against one another like tectonic plates, [...]

No. The formation of solar systems and planets is reasonably well understood and it is very different than what you proposed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_and_evolution_of_the...

The universe is even more weird than what you can imagine, but you must understand first the not weird part to enjoy the corner cases.
This is going to get voted down to hell, but I'd like to reply before it does: America really does have a long history of huge numbers of people believing absolutely insane things. QAnon is the new satanic panic. I'd love to know how and why, but I think the answer is probably just religion.
Soft skills are important, but everyone knew that already. Each field will have certain skills that are fairly permanent that are things that distinguish it from other fields. In computing, these things are understanding computer architecture, knowledge of common algorithms, etc.

However there was one item that stood out for me in the article: "The ability to distinguish “temporarily out of favor” from “wrong." The only way to do this is with technical insight born of study and practice of engineering fundamentals and also knowledge of history. History is something you can study and can learn a great deal from. Everything that people say is the new hotness came from somewhere and nearly always is a modern reflection of something that has happened before. It doesn't give you the power to predict how things will happen, but you can often predict the range of possibilities, and it's usually not what is being hyped. The hype is usually driven by profit seeking and careerism, and so the predictions are partly hollow.

I knew a guy that was working on CPU algorithms when GPUs were becoming extremely hot. I was concerned that he was working on something that would become outdated too quickly. He told me that these things go in and out of fashion over a period of years, and to a certain degree he was right. Around that time Intel came out with Knight's Landing, Knight's Corner, etc and AVX-512. While it seems like that architecture is not exactly panning out popularly, it did show that general purpose CPU architectures were able to produce the kind of FLOPs that were competitive. It makes me think the cycle will continue though GPUs continue to race ahead.
It's not 100%. The fine can get up to 4% global revenue or 20 million Euro, whichever is higher.
Should You Be So Worried about Cloud Lock-In?
Since I'm on mobile and can't test it right now: Do you support export to other platforms/formats? Is there an easy way to get the finished video onto, say, YouTube?
Yes... (I suppose it depends on which "sales pitch" you listened to).

Sometimes people are just crazy and stupid.
it essentially just means “the black and indigenous subset of people of color”. Some definitions say it is to emphasize them more but includes all POC, but the former definition is effectively what it means in any context where one would find it necessary to use it at all.
Urban legends about a "powerful satanic child raping cabal of power that run things from the shadows" date back to the 1980s at least. Some of the underlying tropes are centuries old or even more - for instance, there's plenty of historical, blatantly biased propaganda about Roman emperors portraying them as vicious, crazy sex predators. So what's new about Pizza and Q exactly?
All misinformation is a risk and threat. But Qanon seems minor when compared to others that are perpetuated by major news organization and undermine democracy: Russia collusion conspiracy theory, fine people on both sides hoax (the belief that the President called neo-nazis fine people).

These have much more public and institutional support than QAnon.
Yeah, with rsync you get both -- like I can deploy source code (python, et al) and stuff with outputs I don't want to track in git (webpack et al).

I can essentially invoke whatever build steps I need to once on a build host - then let rsync handle moving all the changed things to my deployment environments.
Value to someone, sure. I wouldn't necessarily see the value in it.

I do have personal projects, one to do good, others out of curiosity. Mostly out of an urgency to be creative. I don't think this carries more meaning than pure leisure.
I've never liked added explicitness for readability in tool heavy environments (which C#/VS is) since it tends to not add much value because those tools can impart the same information. If we were doing C# in a really basic text editor, I could understand the need for qualifying 'this' though.
What is unusual in it? It's standard privacy policy conditions
America might wield its ultimate weapon of mass disruption