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It feels like all this increasingly cheap technology will be used to enslave, and demoralize the poor?

My view of the future will be most of us catering to the poor.

They will be able to watch us, scrutinize us, and in the end exploit us?

I'm so disgusted in the way the wealthy (I'm tired of blaming corporations. I see the way wealthy people are using this chesp technology to control The Help at their homes.)

I don't know why Walmart is going to use this tech to train their employees, nor do I care.

We all had chit jobs.

They were/are demoralizing to begin with.

Now our picture is being taken daily. Our behavior is being over scrutinized. I'm wondering if their will ever be a point where workers say enough is enough.

"No--I don't want my picture taken today, or any day."

"No--I don't want to strap a AI contraption to my head."

"No--I don't want my name on the internet without my explicit permission."

"No--I won't pee into a cup."

Sorry, about the dramatic writing. I'm just so disappointed over what we are becoming. And--I don't see much push back. And I know, we are powerless. I get it.

Again, only the wealthy get what they want these days?

I'm getting older, and had my fair share of lousy jobs.

It wasn't like this before the plethora of all this cheap, easy to use tech.

It started out as cute, and neat. I'm getting fed up with the direction it's going now though.
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>Would you mind to explain how using gmail is fine but having to log in into chrome is not?

Well, I've sort of just accepted that Google has all of my personal data at this point. I trust them with data that I want to explicitly give up for the sake of convenience. Anything I type into Gmail I can accept as becoming essentially public record.

However, that doesn't extend to passively collected browsing data. It creeps the shit out of me that my private browsing history could be associated to my real life identity and other PII by someone at Google.
In that case, if it truly wrecked the day after, you were drinking a lot more than just a couple of pints or some wine with dinner, and were probably in denial about it.

I can tell the difference, trust me. I've been there myself, and I still go there on occasion, in good company at a concert/festival, when I know I can waste a Saturday/Sunday after. A couple of pints will not do it.
They can sleep in as much as they want if they go to sleep in the appropriate time. Teens don't have so much stuff to do, it is just that they want to go to sleep late because they must have just this extra hour of video gaming or texting. It is not really necessary.
It doesn't for _now_. Which is no small part of his point. The next step is to automatically turn on sync etc, which is an easier step now people will start to be used to the idea they're automatically signed in to stuff in Chrome.

The main thrust though, is that this doesn't actually solve anything for end users that the Google Chrome team says it does. There appears to be absolutely no benefit in turning this on.
He understood it and it's mentioned there in the blog post.
Maybe .. the other universe also contained life and sentient beings. But as they were aggressive and tried to invade our world. So the scientists decided to stop the experiment and never to tell anyone about it.
Show HN: Script to add last sudo commands to sudoers config.
Same in Portugal. We have medical graduates migrating out to the north, and we're importing medical staff from non-EU countries (e.g. South America).
Replying to myself: Apparently this [1] is the change.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E1crtuL-0002bw-Pq%40ge...
I'm not sure that's true. Facebook numbers have been falling for a while and I'm sure part of that is backlash over privacy abuses. https://www.recode.net/2018/2/12/16998750/facebooks-teen-use...
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I'm upvoting this because I find it interesting. I'm not entirely sure I agree, but your point that having one's employer also be one's landlord puts way too much power in a single entity is certainly valid.

However, apartment management gigs are frequently part-time-ish, with on call hours. I've known a few apartment managers who have outside income. In a small complex, say 30 units, the job can be done by an onsite individual on a part time basis. For that sort of scenario, I would expect that the pay comes largely in the form of subsidized rent. For a larger apartment complex, I would expect that the pay would increase commensurately.
Reading that thread, Green knows this and his argument is more subtle then that.
Increasing complexity in the browser and a number of other projects has put it out of reach of small open source teams, it can now only be done by a well funded corporates. This is a huge loss because now we can't have viable alternatives put together by open source teams who don't need millions of dollars to exist.

Without competition ultimately the user does not have choice and you get invasive and arbitrary behavior like this, all pushed under the guise of 'helping' some mythical average user and it will keep getting worse.

There are professional security fud mongers always pushing 'no alternative' solutions that somehow always end up benefiting centralized corporate interests. The simple fact is the tech community have lost control of the web, standards, privacy, user interests either by naivete or collusion to adware and spyware companies masquerading as tech companies.
It's possible, but it's much more likely that off-platform teams just don't get much love from their orgs. iTunes on Windows comes to mind, for example.
I use firefox and have an addon to specifically erase my google cookies when I close the browser. I don't see a problem with this new chrome feature. Ive seen users logging into eachothers browser gmail, maybe google is democratizing the info they collect so everyone can access it? :) Ill point to this again https://youbroketheinternet.org/trackedanyway
This is when I was a kid! My thoughts were along the lines of: 'surely it can't be good to throw all this rubbish in the sea, but what do I know, I'm just a kid'.
When I was five, kindergarten was a half of a day. Every other grade was a full day, and I'm fairly sure kindergarten was full day by the time I graduated.
Vyvanse contains less amphetamine milligram for milligram, but that's offset by better absorption and higher doses. It's also all the same form, which works better for some people.

What you describe can be mostly from physical stress of being stimulated all day. Dexedrine, Vyvanse, or methylphenidate might give you a better ratio of cognitive to physical effects. Supplementing with a non-stimulant medication might help with your symptoms in the evening and also let you take a lower dose of amphetamine during the day. There's evidence that some supplements, like magnesium, can reduce adverse effects from stimulants. You probably already know this, but it's important to eat enough throughout the day and often hard to do that.
> I'd never allow the internet to turn on my oven.

not even with a 2 FA?
Firefox DRM is only downloaded after explicit user consent.
I know. I was just trying to help another poor soul like myself in the interim of figuring out how to switch. For me at least, it's very nontrivial work.
I nearly failed calculus until I took a couple weeks off and read the damn book. By read I meant: start from the beginning, skip nothing. Skip no exercise, skip no example, skip nothing and only continue when you've understood the chapter's material. I got a hundred on the final. Just school, but do wish I had that kind of time.
What does LGTM stand for?
At least the cars have a crumple zone. If I had to hit a tree at 40mph I'd rather be inside a recently built car than anywhere else. Cars are actually extremely good safety devices, it's really the whole "moving at 70mph" thing that causes the deaths.

The dislike of cars really is the dislike of having to move at high speeds for two hours daily just to survive in society. Fast-moving scooters would make that problem worse because they won't to much to protect you in a crash.
I hope this works - and I hope its in the $300-$500 price point.

I really liked google glass - but I wasn't going to pay >1k.
Just noticed a suggestion feature the other day, at the bottom of the page, that said: here's what people near you purchased recently. If that 'feature' has been around for a long time, I've missed it.

Not only slightly creepy, also entirely worthless trash as a feature. I couldn't care less what people in my geographic area are buying. It showed me results for a lot of things for cats - I've never owned a cat.
My browser of choice is Vivaldi, the most features and flexibility. Love it.
Firefox's web tools are slightly different, but very comparable.

Firefox container tabs are game changing.
Except for the Google Analytics embedded into the extension system.
So does that mean their apartment is now tied to their job? E.g. what happens to their right to the apartment if they want to switch to a job outside the program or quit for whatever other reason?
Perhaps the high expectations are the result of the huge amount of money that the LHC has cost several countries. Paying up such amounts for a device that might discover something is pretty daft in most people's eyes. Of course the Physicists are happy to have all that dough to spend, but it came from taxpayers mostly.
Do they ever agree to that?
Great article. Bipartisan win!

When people work together (across partisan, economic, social, etc.) divides, everybody benefits.

Kudos to everyone involved in this one.
> Unless you were getting wasted it's quite unusual for a few drinks to make you feel bad.

Is it, though? I know plenty of people who will just waste whole days away in front of the TV doing nothing because they don't feel like doing anything else. People are constantly telling me they're "tired". I used to be like that too. But now I work on my career or on my hobbies day in, day out. Barring seasonal illnesses I never have down days.
Just watched youtube on the newest chrome it immediately brought my PC to a near-freeze status with 2GB swapped to disk, unusable. Opened firefox and it worked smoothly.

This started to occur recently, combining with the fact that each chrome tab needs about 120MB memory along, yes it is about time to be back to firefox
There's an actual API documentation standard called Blueprint API with some tools for this.
https://apiblueprint.org
Does anyone know any incubators or accelerators in Singapore?
And as he describes in the blog, this fact is utterly irrelevant.
I understand the frustration with egregious non-apologies. Many of those cases are not accidents; they are passive aggressive double downs.

But if an apology has even a shred of sincerity in it, I don't believe snarky critique is at all appropriate in any way. Saying "You apologized wrong" to someone who is trying to take positive steps is counterproductive, mean-spirited, and extremely poor etiquette.
I have a question for those people that don't like this change in behavior:

Doesn't this change in behavior make things far less confusing for non-technical users?
I switched to firefox (linux) several years ago for my main browser and I couldn't be happer. I also run chromium when some webpage isn't working in firefox (rare) or when I need to use my companies LastPass account (I avoid LastPass in firefox because that plugin sucks balls), but I never use chromium for google services. I run all google services in a "google" multi-account container in firefox.
A lot of code is treated like a black box. For example, can you describe me how ssh works other than schematically? Do you know the details of the cryptographic bits? What you asked for in terms of the fundamental numerical algorithms like FEM is somewhat close to this. They hopefully (especially if they are trying to get a graduate degree) should be able to schematically describe it, but in no way should every scientist have to reinvent FEM or finite difference methods again and again just like people shouldn't implement their own crypto: it can be rather hairy and making a mistake could be disastrous. Writing complicated algorithms should be left to experts who can be trusted.
Perhaps slantyyz was thinking that the IoT portion of the oven should be an isolated piece of hardware that is only capable of monitoring, and absolutely incapable of performing actions like turning on the oven.

However, this can still be hacked to say that the oven is off, while it is in fact on and you’re leaving for the airport.
You will get a much better ROI if you address excessive worriness. It has to affect more of your life than just the owen. Elevated Adrenalin can cost you a few years of your life.
Timestamping only works in bitcoin due to The consensus protocol, which prevents involved parties from forging transaction timestamps
It's a Google reference. LGTM is their approval acronym for change control.

"Looks/looking good to me"
Looking at their site - nice selection! - wish they had a beer filter for "low abv" or similar.
Forcing users to sign in to their browser is simply bad taste. Ever since Sundar Pichai became CEO, Google changed for the worst. It’s very unfortunate.
That’s unfortunately even true years after they left Google.
>90% of numerical analysis would remain if continuous arithmetic was exact. There exist some prominent failures of finite precision arithmetic (and they resonate with uninformed audiences), but discretization and modeling errors are far more insidious and a deeper challenge for reliable scientific computing.
My diet is very well-controlled. I fast for 20 hours every day and have a perfectly balanced intake. But if I drink alcohol I will sleep badly and I will have a bad day tomorrow. Why do people refuse to believe this?
I'm not surprised by this at all. I just wonder what the percentages of each roughly defined category is. I'll also point out that, in your case, there were fallback alternatives. If all high schools operated this way, what's the fallback?

Thanks for sharing. I'd be interested to read more about the program.
Edit: evidently this comment is unwanted, so I'm removing it.
My father is a retired biochemist, inventor, and small-business owner. He does not use Twitter.

If he came across this, I expect that he would definitely notice that something seemed unusual. Once it became clear what was happening, I expect he would switch away from Chrome.
Well, we're at the beginning of the 21st century now and we can't even explain what 95 % of the universe is made of (but we know there's "something" there):

https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-da...

So I really think there's much to discover yet, we just don't have a clue yet where to look.
If it were only that simple.

Now that Google knows, who else can find out? Someone Google trusts? Someone that pays Google enough money?

Lets sell your browsing data to whoever wants to buy it. What kind of risks would that create for you and your family?
Regardless of what "most peoples' experience" is, people tend to remember things that are extreme. So, the smelly, ranting, alcoholic sticks in one's head. The person sitting quietly at the BART station with a sign, not so much. Someone shooting up in the middle of the station, hell yeah.

Who remembers anyone who's simply camping for the day at the public library and using it to try and search for jobs?

I can tell you, I've seen all of those and more. I worked with homeless people long term in a shelter for 2 years, and, of the folks I came into direct contact with every day, I don't think 95% of them could survive contact with the real world of employment, paying rent, etc. due to disability (mental or physical), addictions, and/or general lack of a support system. Granted, I worked with people who were not in the shelter's higher tier programs (where housing was provided for a set period, and job assistance provided, in exchange for attending training and religious sessions). The more vulnerable ones, the ones I worked with, were the ones you'd see out on the street, collecting cans and bottles or panhandling.

People "hate" the homeless because the ones they come into contact with who are visibly homeless are often not functional members of society. Simply put, they violate social norms in a way that disgusts most people. Nobody "hates" someone who's couch surfing or living in a car, but who's clean, not an addict, and is trying to get out of the situation the best they can.
"The time axis is like any other axis."

No it's not. In the Minkowski metric used by many things such as relativity, distances are defined as SQRT(dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2 - dt^2). That minus sign is fundamental, and means that the time axis is in fact different, in the ways we observe. If "time" was in fact an axis like any other, it would fundamentally be a fourth spatial dimension.

Unfortunately for the author, given that literally the entire rest of the post fundamentally depends on that misconception, there's not much left of the post once you fix that. There's a variety of other related statements that are simply incorrect understandings of modern physics as well, but all are secondary consequences of the mistaken belief that time is just another undistinguished dimension that is somehow treated differently due to some sort of dimensional chauvinism or something. It isn't; it's fundamentally a different type of dimension.
Same, I always loved FF but had switched to Chrome maybe 2-3 years ago.

After this incident, I switched to FF Quantum permanently. It has come a long way and honestly I feel more at home in FF after a day than I did in Chrome after everything they've tacked on the browser.

Having read these threads, and personally knowing people in the Chrome team that read these threads, I am almost certain that Google will backtrack this. I know more than a dozen developers that switched from Chrome to FF Quantum this week.
I think Chromecast is one of the worse ideas for a shared communal TV. How do other people control the TV? Am I expected to leave my phone/tablet in the living room? A Roku stick/Apple TV/Nvidia Shield have apps and you can just use a traditional remote. With the AppleTV/Nvidis Shield you can Airplay/Cast when necessary.
This is the theory behind "housing first" programs, and it works. Literally getting people off the street provides stability that helps them get other things in their life right.
Not sure if it helps much. It still looks like the same clickbaity garbage that's in my regular trending tab.
I log into my personal gmail and Facebook on Firefox and everything else on Chrome. I’ve been doing this for years now and I’m perfectly comfortable. For the most part I’ve forgotten about any differences between the two browsers.
Really? So you don’t simply get this? :

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0xU-mTEbBSDtCRSgVUGGhp8Kw
Yes, but that's because they are uninformed about the humongous amount of data they're voluntarily handing out and how much can be deducted about their day-to-day lives using that data. If they'd know, like - really properly understand, I suspect that they might not be so eager to hand it over.
I'm literally in charge of a team of 3 devs that does that. React complicated our stack, slowed things down both development wise and in terms of inefficient asset management, so we reverted to vanilla JS and never looked back.
Building and distributing a cross platform desktop UI in Scala
More convenient? Sure, but that's not "necessary".
Is US running out of affordable housing supply though?

The common theory is that US real estate market was overbuilt pre-2008. Prices in several markets, like Detroit, Baltimore, Mississippi delta, Appalachian coal towns, and San Bernardino county among others, have not returned to 2006-2007 levels.

There are also markets with very lax, sometimes non-existent, zoning laws. Houston being the flagship example.
The main thrust though, is that this doesn't actually solve anything for end users that the Google Chrome team says it does. There appears to be absolutely no benefit in turning this on.

Over the last year or so, it feels more and more like Google, as a company, is getting desperate. Like it feels the external tide of popular opinion turning against it. But rather than mend its ways, a decision has been made somewhere to slurp up as much information as possible as quickly and quietly as possible, before it all comes tumbling down around it.

I wonder if GDPR was the turning point. Even my boss, who on a computer literacy scale of Linda Lovelace to Ada Lovelace ranks near the bottom of the scale, asked me to explain GDPR to her.
765 assuming the graduates all found jobs.
School starts early because of parent work schedules.
If the customer does not respond to your requests to accept your house rules you deny them service. GDPR is quite clear that "silent agreement" does not apply.

GDPR Recital 32, sentence 3: "Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent." https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-32/
That's a really interesting point I hadn't considered. And thanks to evolution's pseudorandom algorithm, it could be that the benefit was obtained in conjunction with another benefit (nighttime socializing), that one came about after the other, or that one exists and one doesn't.
I feel that improved engagement used to exist as a positive term before marketers took it and added all the marketing garbage that comes with it today. If something makes you less bored with teaching then it's worth looking at.
"there were a lot of weird ideas (fluids, etc.) about in those days for what electricity was, but that's just because the set of observations was very limited, thus expanding the space of hypotheses beyond what we consider reason these days"

That's pretty much what Kuhn means by pre-paradigm science: when scientists don't know enough about an area to have come up with general principles to guide their research. And Kuhn certainly doesn't think pre-paradigm science is better than science within a paradigm. He's primarily interested in trying to describe how science operates, rather than saying I way of doing science is better than another, but he's pretty clear that most of what scientists accomplish happens when they are working within paradigms.
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I agree with Matthew that the supposed problem this is solving doesn't seem to be an issue for the case where no one is logged in to Chrome. In addition it seems to me as if it has a non-invasive solution:

If A is signed in to Chrome, and the user then signs into gmail as B, sign A out of Chrome, perhaps with a notification telling them what to do.
> It's useless for figuring out what is true.

Only if teleology is false, which you cannot prove rationally. If teleology is in fact true, then assuming it is true can be very useful for figuring out what is true.
I’m sure people at FaceBook said the same smug things until they crossed a line they never saw coming, and now it’s all congressional hearings and “heartfelt” apologies. It’s true, you can dick a lot of people over for a long time, but you’re just breeding backlash. It will come, in waves, and if your history is defined by a kind of arrogant dismissal of their concerns you’ll be screwed.
Maybe they've revised the flag, but the flag did not disable the feature as much as the text might lead you to believe. My comment from a couple weeks ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17943524