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> "Simplicity" is rather subjective, even if you answer the question: simple for who?

I used simplicity in the meaning provided by link in parent comment refering to three desirable properties of time systems: "Every "day" has 86400 "seconds" (606024)."

> Civil time has to stay in phase with the sun. As I see it, that's not negotiable.

I don't see why that needs to be the case on a seconds level.

> switching to leap minutes or leap hours would be simpler for people living now, who could then just ignore the problem. (Pollution and global warming and lots of other things can be treated in the same way, of course. Perhaps some of these things really will be easier to solve in the future, but I'd rather not rely on it.)

Considering that need for leap hour would appear in over 500 years, I feel like trying predict the situation then is really borderline overarrogant.

Also leap hour would be basically a timezone shift, and I bet we will be doing timezone changes anyways in the next 500 years
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Now explain to a technical audience why some people say nonsense like how it’s the next internet or how it’ll change the world please.
other recent pi-hole discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696397

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15608052
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Of course an Eldritch Horror apologist is going to take Oracle's side. Have you ever considered being eaten first isn't all it's made out to be?
It looks to me like makers of major web browsers generally cater to the lowest common denominator, or slightly less cynically, but effectively equivalently, aim for a large or universal audience. Their design looks almost indistinguishable from what they would come up with operating by the motto "features confuse users".
>Taking a chance and joining a very large corporation.

I have two questions if you don't mind answering.

How large is the company you are referring to? 10K people? 100K, 250K, 500K?

What type of company is it? A company that builds and sells mostly software, or a company that uses software to sell something else (e.g. automobiles?). Amazon+AWS is a an example that is a hybrid of both.
Not necessarily. The company I work for has a number of customers asking for blockchain but they don't know what it is. They just want it because it's the new cool thing and it will make them look up to date.

The part of this that's hilarious is we already have verification mechanisms in place. We have logs, controlled access, and verification hashes. It would not be easy to bypass the controls we already have.

On top of all of this, most of our customers can't even figure out how to read their emails to click a password reset link.

If IBM wants to fleece people, more POWER to them.
OmniWeb (circa 2004?)
I believe the article is mistaken. Their License says:

>"Program(s)" refers to Oracle software provided by Oracle pursuant to this Agreement and any updates, error corrections, and/or Program Documentation provided by Oracle.

Not programs you create using the JDK
Seeing as Microsoft owns GitHub I guess this is a way to compete in this space. I bet this was an internal tool for a long time and now it’s released to the public.

The only worry here is that if you build your businesss around anything google, you risk them changing the rules alá GMaps or just sunsetting it at some stage.
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A scan on Bluetooth (although N/A for this situation) can't possibly give away any position. A scan of wifi might, if the device happens to pick up a wi-fi source that Google has already collected (by some means). Still not very relevant though - it would mean that location permission would be needed in order to use wi-fi at all, because how would it otherwise find the hotspot or access point you want to connect to.. other than having to enter the SSID manually every time. But we don't have to enable location tracking to do that.
To configure Chromecast though, 'google home' (which replaced the 'chromecast' application or whatever it was), takes you to Settings and unless you turn on location tracking it refuses to look for the dongle.
Right, what is the equivalent of the following in Go?

import org.apache.hadoop.*;

import org.rapidoid.net.Server;

In case you are wondering people not only using languages for language features but also for the quality/quantity of libraries available in those languages. This is why is very hard to bootstrap a new language. Java has a ton of great libraries that are essential to big data and high performance backend services that you do not have in Go. I could mention tooling as well but we can skip it for now, the aforementioned library situation is enough to not to consider go already. Btw. the new OpenJDK releases are just fine for running Java and many companies use it extensively already (like AWS EMR for example) to run production code.
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I like how succinctly you've put it. I may add that as long as you are creating value or reducing the amount of collective headaches for the people around you, they'll keep you around.
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The counter to this is one can find meaning and fulfillment in any task, by doing it well and to the best of ones ability.
OpenJDK is the reference implementation now so if you did find a functional difference, Oracle is in error.
It's better to just connect to computer and use it as additional long therm memory and quick problem solver. It's very helpful when you have problem to hard to your own brain to solve, then think about or do something else, then have ready to use solution in the short-term memory - you just know it. However, intermediate steps from problem to solution are omitted, of course, because they are performed by separate thing.

It's good for quick solving of problems, but bad for learning. It's like using of calculator for math: calculator shows you answer quickly, but you learn nothing. Such interface will allow to effectively use persons with average IQ for problem solving, like calculators allows to do math easily for just anybody, but it will not generate geniuses.

However, such direct interaction with computer or an other person can lead to schizophrenia, so it must be clearly marked: "here are my own memories, here are memories implanted by the computer", which is not an easy thing to do. Sometimes we cannot separate even our own dreams from our own memories. If such system will be used in wrong way, you will need years to recover, to forget badly implanted memories.
Nothing surprising: Google's revenues come from advertisers. Advertising is its main focus. Not developing browsers, or even providing search results. Those are merely means to an end. And of course, all the users are targets for ads, NOT customers. A farmer's cows aren't his customers; same logic here.

It's obvious really, and Google never denied it.
Someone on here recently recommended uMatrix for this purpose and I find that a nice trade-off between usability and request blocking.

It's an extension but given it's less opaque than a generic ad-blocker I feel more in control and that it's less likely to go 'rogue' like adblockers do.
Realtime-notification could be implementad as an optional service running besides the dumb storage, triggered by whatever.

It's not that bookmark-sync is so important for most people that they cannot wait some minutes till a periodical checker fetches the updates.
> > 7% average returns

> So requiring those 10 years are during a bull market.

If your bull market includes the 2008 crash, then yes.

"The last decade provided an average return of 6.88% in the stock market. The lower return takes into account the tremendous loss the market took in 2008." https://www.creditdonkey.com/average-stock-market-return.htm... (question 2)
Podcasts are enjoying a renaissance possibly due to the legitimization of the medium by semi-famous people, and due to some proper distribution outlets finally appearing. Possibly even some vanguard entities such as Joe Rogan and This American Life.

It's an alternative to Radio, and an alternative to YouTube for celebs who don't want the production hassle.

Also, you need enough momentum to convince advertisers as well.

It was a slow and bumpy ride but I think that all the pieces are now in place and so we'll see a lift.

My belief is that this is going to be more or less permanent a secular shift, not a pop, because the nature if it is just not very pop-sugar or hype-ish. NPR listeners are not faddish.

Obviously, content is still going to be important, and you can't just slap up BuzzFeed crap. NPR has a loyal following. Joe Rogan makes basically the perfect pop-culture podcast. Celebs have star power and invite other celebs for their love-ins. There's some popular specific podcasts on things like the 'Roman Empire'.

I don't think it will be a huge boon and I don't see any massive companies or takeovers, but it's a real shift.
Netherlands has the odd Canta, which is allowed to drive on the bike paths:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canta_(vehicle)
Pi-Hole is beautiful and open-source. As long as it doesn't get too popular, tech savvy people can continue to enjoy network wide content blocking.

Consider supporting them (but not too much ;): https://www.patreon.com/pihole
stickK app is very useful for breaking bad... habit. You put money on the stake to follow through.
“Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"
Sounds like one of the random LinkedIn requests I get on a pretty much daily basis that I just hit the "Ignore" button on. I guess there are people who accept them. Furthermore, if I do get a random LinkedIn connect request that's immediately followed by someone trying to sell me on something, that's a recipe for reporting spam.
I dislike most tech podcasts, except the great

NLP Highlights Podcast

which interviews researchers about recent papers they have written

I also listen to a bunch of politics podcasts

The Weeds

Erza Klein Show

538 politics podcasts

Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast
Let's compare the same things, then.

73 million Americans are infected with E.coli every year and 5,000 die. Only 5 died in this outbreak. You think that number was significantly reduced because it was announced that there was a single small outbreak?

The outbreak was minor, but the effect on the economy and people's state of mind was overwhelmingly more powerful. It's fine to notify an at risk population if you can, but what do you gain if just a few less people get sick? What do you lose when people stop supporting an entire industry?
More importantly, why aren't people talking more about blockmilk technology?
Exactly. This thing is in the best possible location for poisoning DNS for every system on your network. That should be a HUGE concern.
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Summoning Salt makes absolutely incredible content. I'm interested to see how (if at all) he covers this event.
Longtime uMatrix user here.

The most frustrating thing about UM (which is the same problem I had with NoScript back in the day) is that some scripts call other scripts. So, particularly when I'm trying to play an embedded video served by another site served through a CDN, the process for getting the damn video to play is something like:

Click video -> Open uMatrix -> whitelist some scripts -> reload -> whitelist more scripts being loaded by the first batch of scripts -> reload -> whitelist some XHR references called by new scripts -> reload -> finally whitelist the actual media being served.
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+ the backing of a huge corporation.

Poor little Oracle & IBM.
I think the news sites are thinking the same thing. "I don't want you to use my network and computational resources (to read the news) without compensation (watching our ads/mining our coin/etc)"
> Yes, but that's not punishment for communicating or publishing ideas.

Exactly my point. The government has been overlooking Google's antitrust issues, and Google doesn't get immunity from that scrutiny because some GOP congressmen don't like its First Amendment-protected actions. The antitrust scrutiny (and especially its timing) may seem like a "punishment for communicating or publishing ideas," but it's really not.
2663 requests over 17 minutes? Is there a Poe's law for the web?
Striving to work as a teacher at my alma mater. Despite everyone telling me I could not do it, that it would not be possible, I became the youngest lecturer at my university.
The same - as a uni dropout, I'd have had a pretty hard time getting my career kickstarted had it not been for a failed startup I was working on after moving back in with my parents (which is also another thing, having an awesome home environment undoubtedly helped too).

Had I not had the opportunity to spend 6 months working on something that made no money, but afforded me the ability to talk about the full-stack skills I developed, there's very little chance I'd have walked into a temp web developer/marketer role and stayed for 3 years.
I always wanted one of these, but never got around to buying one. I’ve used the Filco Ninja keyboard with a similar compact layout, which I enjoyed. The keyboard I use the most, however, is the Apple Extended Keyboard II. It requires an adapter to work with USB and doesn’t have media keys, but it’s just the most comfortable keyboard that I’ve ever used. It looks odd paired to my 2018 MacBook Pro, but I’m willing to forego the aesthetics for the comfort.
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Forbes published an article containing this line "To understand its functioning and functionality, it is necessary to start first with the definition of blockchain." It's annoying in the same way that people in marketing using the word "digital" as a noun is annoying.

But it's how financial/business people are typically abbreviating "blockchain technology". It's like Brexit: there are many possible implementations, but one concept.
This should be a tractable problem. Cruise missiles navigate by matching the terrain they're flying by with a 3d model.

Doing it with 2d video and not having precise starting coordinates, speed/heading/altitude makes the search space larger but I think that is more than made up for by the fact that you're not trying to do it all on embedded hardware from the 80s.
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Seriously, who wants to listen to a Buzzfeed podcast? Podcasts are _amazing_ channels for independent makers, comedians, etc.
Table-top games are low-tech “Paper Computers”
A great way to learn about blockchains is building your own from scratch / zero in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. Find many starter samples and articles in the Awesome Blockchains [1] collection. [1]: https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-blockchains
Yes, a collegue and I have both taken a look to the situation when version 9 was released and it's going to take some work to do the migration. But as it is I don't if we're going to 9 or directly to 11, but I think it's on the roadmap of the next version.
as an engine mechanic by trade, Ive seen the 4G trend in cars ramp up over the past 5-6 years and its more than a little startling.

From what i hear in the customer service office up front, info-tainment universally sucks. There isnt a single manufacturer that hasnt turned the radio and air conditioner into some sort of rube goldberg machine. the switches on the steering wheel also adhere to absolutely no standard, so drivers are either turning the volume up on that classic rock song they love or setting the cruise control to plow through an intersection.

To add insult to injury, these systems are all needlessly expensive. a knob or a button will last ten times longer than a screen, especially if the vehicle is light truck/small business or god forbid, a family wagon/minivan.

The thing about the 4G interface software is that originally it was a powered accessory in the vehicle, but these days its an integral component. that means if it goes out, or you remove it, the car throws a code in the ECU and a light shows up on the dash. Why? internal combustion doesnt require 4G. in fact most drivers one would argue are better on the road without cellular networks.

If you want to avoid this weird 1984 wonderland of cars that spy on passengers, go for an older car. Mileage rarely matters anymore for cars 2006+, and platforms from manufacturers can remain the same for a decade. That means the only thing that changes is the interior cloth or shape of a button. I drive a 2005 Dodge Charger RT, and the only two people who know the music I like are my dog and my husband.
Just guessing, but if appending to the chain requires signatures from IBM / Walmart, then all you need is to get the blockchain from somewhere, and you can verify it. With in-build non-repudiation.

This is of course also possible with signed responses to queries. I think the advantage here is that the signatures are build into the data-store. This just simplifies verification and replication.
It doesn't need to be perfect, as long as there are no false positives and few valse negatives.
> On Android I use Firefox with [1] and [2] for YouTube; the former lets me turn the screen off without letting YouTube know that the screen is turned off.

The problem is even if the screen is off, youtube still sends the video data to your phone. It would be nice if youtube gave us an option of "audio only" streaming so only the audio is sent. Currently the only work around is downloading the audio using youtube-dl.
In trying to find this balance, it helps to understand what you can and cannot emotionally detach from. For example, it may be important to feel you are doing meaningful work. But it's important you emotionally detach from "under all circumstances."

Many people use manipulation and guilt to get other people to do what they want under totally unreasonable/unrealistic circumstances. If you are able to emotionally detach from being affected by this type of behavior, they lose the control they have over you. You're then in a much better position to dictate a situation where you can a) work on stuff you find meaningful, b) provide high value to the company) and c) do it on your terms. Sometimes the only way to do this is to switch managers and/or jobs.
Here's the thing, gorhill maintains uM and uBlock Origin and he is one of the most trusted names in several sec circles to the degree that ubo has been deployed in many enterprise settings. Is the elephant in the room by Troy 'well do you think gorhill will sell out for a measly 10k?' Or is the market for 'adblocking extensions' that inundated with shoddy extensions that simply serve as data mining tools and Troy wants to make us all aware?
I get the same. When I do the same search on DDG, the top result is Oracle.
To be fair, ads are the reason websites are bloated. I don't mind websites loading 50 MB if I'm in awe of the amazing multimedia presentation it's giving me. 50 MB of ads just... isn't.
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A fine article and then you get to the last sentence of the fifth paragraph and you can't help but to ask was that necessary?
I'm spending more time than ever listening to podcasts, most of which are monetized either by advertisements, subscription or Patreon. Podcasting appears to be a medium that actually benefits the smaller players over the bigger ones.
That's relatively easy.

1) Some people are ignorant;

2) Some people are trolls;

3) And some people have an agenda e.g. they're trying to get folk in 1) to buy something.
I use a HHKB and its solid response on key press is irreplaceable for me.

I wonder how I can reduce the noise, though. A 5mm shock absorbing mat beneath helps to some extent (cheap one, like $2 USD), but apparently that's not enough.
I run uBlock Origin and noscript - even then I'm amazed with how much guff the UK Daily Mail website loads. From their perspective - you would think they would want to reduce the bandwidth to the servers as much as possible...?
What's amazing to me is that, in this case, that's completely obvious to anyone technical. Lots of people know only a little bit about AI, even if they're computer programmers; I think most people can appreciate the idea of a distributed database.
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I’m surprised that Walmart is wasting time on this. They are both cheap, and very good with traditional databases.
It recognises _recordings_, not performances.
Software in general has become bloated. The increases in performance, memory etc in consumer hardware has been offset by the bloat.

Android P uses 10x as much memory as it did from Gingerbread, I don't feel as if there's 10x as many features.
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Did that some time ago already, doesn't work for me, I can't log in with my Yubikey, which at the same time works from Chrome.
Daimler Changes CEO as It Focuses on Electric Future
Search for anything, watch the video, then watch the next recommended video. Keep following the recommendations. See where you end up.

If you know exactly what you want to watch it's fine, but the whole browsing/surfing experience sucks.
Blockchain Is a Movement
I'm surprised this is the top slot right now. Troy, generally, puts out interesting info on security related news however this feels a bit minimal. Since the project has been around a number of years now, and it's not relegated to only a RPi I would have expected him to delve into things a bit more. Pi-hole will also break things. I think the common one I always heard from users on my network at home were that Google click-thrus for products always fail. But... Don't deploy it on an RPi. It's not worth the inconvenience of maintaining another entire device for a network service. There's an actively maintained container I'd recommend, or it's very easy to deploy as a VM. Troy also didn't hit on anything like DoH or DoT, surprisingly.

Container link: https://hub.docker.com/r/pihole/pihole/

Edit: word
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, please submit the actual page title.
The point is that the tasks are commodities and by pushing it onto others you effectively waste the specialized labor. Split it around all you like it is still waste. Sentiment doesn't change the math.

As for things working I believe we are speaking of works in two entirely different ways. Having someone as a dedicated cleaner is perfectly functional even if it is a crappy way to make a living. Call it SBW - sucks but works. As long as there are people willing to work the job it is SBW at worst. If they have people willing to head in then it works.

SV and NYC are both not the densest by a wide margin compared The issue there is a lack of willingness to upgrade transit and housing density sufficient. SV especially.
Works for most basic ads. Unfortunately basic ads are a thing of the 90's. Does not work for most common ads nowadays, as youtube et. al. run them from the same domain as other important parts for the app/site to run. For these you have to use a different approach, like running an extension in the browser to block them.
The TMS product they are using to stimulate the receivers brain is pretty interesting.

https://www.magstim.com/products/

I'm pretty skeptical that you could use magnetism to transfer any sort of useful information into someone's brain. I'm guessing it just gives a sensation, or maybe some vague visual effect since it is used on the occipital lobe in this experiment.
Back in the 90s, I started using the Microsoft Natural keyboards at work (the ones that are 'bent' in the middle) and I am most comfortable with that layout.