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Can we even build something playing sound for 55 millions years ? I mean, even forgetting the required energy, the sand, the wind, the temperature variation and the light... Just creating a music player that last so long would be an amazing challenge. I don't think exposed rocks last that long, and they do nothing.
They're notoriously inaccurate, but I don't think that courts have given up on them yet. And if you think that's bad, just wait until you're given an inaccurate brain scan to tell whether you're lying.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016926070...

>The rates of correct detection in guilty and innocent subjects were 86%, which was better than other previously used methods.

Eh, that sounds close enough to 'beyond a reasonable doubt', right?
> The 1982 track is quadruple platinum, and was the most streamed song in 2017, with over 440m views on YouTube

That can't be right. Despacito has 5.9bn views on Youtube now and came out in January, 2017.
Somewhat serious answer. The 10,000 year clock by the longnow foundation is going to play music with chimes, I'm sure they could play the melody from Africa if we wanted them to ;)

They are finally starting to build the thing, pretty exciting for someone one who has followed the project for 10+ years:

https://vimeo.com/256688359

10,000 years might be the 1st baby step to building something to last 55 million, but that number is so large I would say it is effectively impossible.
The Weezer remake is really good too, and Weird Al is in the video. How can you beat that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5Dwg5zm2U
Surprised to not see more jazz chords like #9#5.
follow-up http://www.cpushack.com/2019/01/14/part-2-mini-mainframe-at-...
The problem with forcing someone to reveal a secret (e.g. a password), is that ultimately, there's no way to prove that someone actually knows the password. If I say that I forgot the password, and a judge throws me in jail for contempt of court, I could rot there forever. There is absolutely no way for me to ever prove that I truly forgot the password. You can't prove a negative.

With fingerprints or face scanning, neither of these is an issue. You put your fingerprint on the device, or you scan your face.

So, I think that forcing someone to reveal a secret that is purely in their head is fundamentally different than compelling other forms of access (physical keys, fingerprint scans, face scans, etc.). The physical access methods can be verified to either work or not. That's not true for mental secrets.
The issue arises when the knowledge of the password itself is incriminating. The 5th amendment prohibits forced self incrimination.

Forcing a suspect to divulge information that is directly incriminating will not stand constitutional review, regardless of the nature of the information.

You have the right to remain silent.
If you don't mind, could you ping me as well? I'm looking for a similar solution
Would you provide for your family at any cost? Forget about meaning. What if your work is causing harm to some people or a lot of people? Like the wall street or Cambridge Analytica or Palantir?
I have 2 roku tvs and my live pi-hole blocking log is just a relentless spam from their servers.
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Wouldn't that apply even more to gender nonconformism which stops reproduction?
It would still be funny to imagine California taking over electricity services.

"State-wide power coverage is estimated to be completed by year 2035 after a 10 year Environmental Review and pending lawsuits from neighbors who don't want power lines in their neighborhood. The costs were originally estimated for $10 billion but are now expected to be around $40 billilon"

....

"Meanwhile a startup called SmartZap is providing cheap electricity that you can purchase through their smartphone app."
FWIW, I've found that viewing bringing children into this world as a kind of higher calling has done a pretty good job of counteracting the daily stresses of raising children.
Same here — I cannot create an account with a password. If you try to go in and do an email signup, they will punish you for it by emailing you every time with a new password, until you suffered enough that you'll relent and give them access to your Google account.

Not a great first impression — especially not after their support tells me that this is for my own security.
This logic appears to presume that women are responsible for changing themselves in order to avoid being mistreated, and that their desire to change their looks is at all intended to draw catcalls, harassment, and unwanted attention.

I understand wearing makeup (for example) is an external thing meant for other people to see, but it's reckless and illogical to go down the path of assuming who the makeup is for and why it's worn. It's also unfair to say they should or could have taken steps to change themselves in order to solve a problem
unfairly imposed upon them by other people.

If a farmer has problems with raccoons eating their crops, would you ever suggest they should simply destroy their crop fields to make the land less appealing to raccoons?
I consider it part of my job description to get angry at anything that requires OOH escalation. Well, without drinks and pizza I guess.
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Are they still a “high fidelity” streaming service if they are lying?
Is this Namibian law?
I wish Intel Optane nvme sticks had more capacity. The 120gb drive turned my i7 6500u
laptop TWICE as fast as desktop AMD 1700x with regular drive. For example Python tests on a fairly big app ran for 3 minutes on a laptop and same tests about 7 minutes on a supposedly more powerful desktop machine.

Edit: by regular I mean 960 evo
It needs it for setup (so you can set up the wake word using your phone), but then after that it can be disconnected.
This is a fatally flawed analogy. A more apt analogy would be one involving a professional engineer designing a system that creates uncontained electrical arcs for use in an environment known to be explosive.
I still don’t understand the point of quantum key distribution. It protects against passive snooping but not against an active man-in-the-middle attack: thus it gives you no more protection than, say, the Diffie-Hellman exchange performed at the start of every TLS connection. The main counterargument is that quantum computers can break Diffie-Hellman, and can do so retroactively if someone is tapping your communications today and saving them for the future. But post-quantum public key cryptography exists; admittedly it’s not as vetted yet as the traditional kind. but it will be soon enough, so even if there’s some rationale for using QKD today, it’s not the “future-looking” technology it’s sold as.

And in the meantime, if you really want to guarantee the confidentiality of your shared secret that badly, you can just physically drive over to the other organization carrying a copy of it. Inconvenient, but surely less so than running long fiber-optic cables through tunnels solely for that purpose.
Forget the wires, the speakers by themself seem to be positioned to collect as much sand as possible. Also the mp3 player is exposed to the sun, on a white surface.

I lived in West Africa, I went to the desert, and a week seems very generous.
One could technically write an SQL translation layer on top of it, as a client-side library? Or does it need support on the server-side / record layer?
It's an alternate interpretation of a set of commands, to effect an intentional exploit.
Funny. Contrary to everyone else worrying about the speakers and the PV's, I was thinking about the batteries failing fastest (assuming the thing keeps them to play at night).

Lead-acids would be garbage after 5 years, unless they were way oversized. After about 20 years, failure would be inevitable.

Ultracapacitors would probably last north of 50 years.

Whatever you encase the PV within needs to allow sunlight through. Diamond would probably not work for this. Silicon itself is freakin' hard (about 9 on the Mohs scale) so it would outperform even quartz in terms of abrasion resistance, and you could put its contacts on the back to keep them from eroding away. Silicon needs a different layer on the front to couple its high index of refraction to the incident light, and I'm not aware of any superior optically clear materials that could accomplish this.

Am not a speaker expert, but I'd be surprised if they didn't fail before the rest of the system. Apple's iPhone speakers will warble themselves dry after they're immersed in water, so I'm wondering if constant Toto will keep the sand out of the speakers.

An ultrasonic-interference sound generator based on piezoelectric elements might outperform a conventional speaker setup. Tinny > Short-lived.
> It sucks but I have to support my family and extended family as the main bread earner.

May be you can find a different work which may pay a bit less but doesn’t create negative value for the society?
Oracle is in the Java world since the early days, they even collaborated with Sun on the whole Java workstation idea of the Network Computer.
They used to have their own JVMs.

Also only IBM cared to make an alternative offer to acquire Sun, during the initial round.

The adware contracts were done by Sun, not Oracle.

Google has managed to create Android J++, and as Java developer that cares about the integrity of the Java platform I stand by Oracle.
But why not go nuclear? Not a full on nuclear reactor but one of those nuclear RTG batteries. The half life might be low but could you not keep doubling the amount until you reach the requisite years? Basically take the amount of Pu you need to power the device, and double it 20 times (half life of Pu-238 (87 years) * 2 ^ 20 >= 55 million years). This way the entire unit is self contained and you can encase it in whatever super durable material you can think of -- artificial diamond/sapphire.
The comment you replied to pointed out that they are voluntary.
The first four words of the linked Gwern article are "Joel Spolsky in 2002". In fact he gives him credit 3 times!
And hence, religion.
Yeah, I think the blog is written by lawyers who represent employers and/or draft noncompetes.

Massachusetts recently almost banned them, California style, in response to the narrative that the Route 128 tech corridor could have been Silicon Valley were it not for enforceable noncompetes. The law was heavily watered down once industry lobbyists (especially from all the biotech companies) got done with it.

Still, it is a big improvement over the status quo. It limits time to one year, requires 50% compensation during the time when you can't work, and bans the most egregious abuses (noncompetes for minimum wage employees and so on).
It is implicitly assuming good faith on the part of the German police, and that just doesn't exist. I wanted to point out the error. At their best they follow procedures, with regular disasters. At their worst, sometimes, they're raging racists.
K8s will update mounted ConfigMaps "live" in your pod, by updating a symlink. If your application is using inotify or file polling to watch the ConfigMap as a volume, you can reconfigure your app when changes happen (or signal your liveness probe you should be terminated to reload latest config).
the first rule of passive income is you don't talk about passive income... (cuz someone will copy it and end the gravy train)
My understanding is that if you are in possession of a key to a safe then law enforcement or the court can compel you to produce the key. But if the safe has a combination, then the court cannot make you give up the combination as that may be self incriminating. Not to mention the practical aspects of trying to compel someone to give up a secret. What if they claim to have forgotten the combination? What if they actually _did_ forget?

I imagine the situation with electronics will be similar. If a key to, say, an encrypted volume is stored on a flash drive then they may compel someone to produce it (analogous to a safe key). But if the drive is protected by a password, then the government cannot compel someone to provide the secret.
I'm currently porting about 15k lines of my own JS to TS. There's something so satisfying about finding all kinds of bugs through this process.

And what I love the most: anywhere that I absolutely positively don't want to deal with it yet: `any`
Destroying PG&E will hurt an awful lot of people that had nothing whatsoever to do with faulty equipment.
A function by that name is apparently treated specially for flow. My guess is it interprets it like the if statement OP ended up using, where applies the first condition to the type checking.

https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/112
There's really no need for that. Google at least has a speech recognition API that you could send audio to directly; no need to use a Google Home as a middleman if that's all you want.
Strangely, it links to an article [1] that says “It was one of the most streamed songs in 2017” (emphasis mine), not the most streamed one.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-45810659
Banks also provide medium term price stability for high volume IPOs, these are not high volume IPOs however, so there is an inherent stability.
I was on call for years for a global lottery software and services provider in a 4 man rotation 1 week each. Took people 3-5 years to be ready to take on this responsibility. The last few years i was alone as people left with stress and i was 24/7 365. The pay was good but the day my new boss told me he didet get paid so i could escalate at nite and nobody could find a solution for months i started to look for new oppertunities. They hadent tried to prepare new people for years but managed to get a guy who was not ready to take the call but it also resulted in major incident and data loss. By the time i got out i had constant tinitus so i could barely hear on one ear from the stress so Im pretty happy Im done with it now but Sometimes miss the action ;)
It was a great post, sorry to only have written a criticism!

I vaguely recall there was some issue with the Babel emit of enums, but I can't remember it well enough to even remember whether it was fixed or not.
stupid question: why aren't we dropping landers on ice-filled craters on mars? it seems like that would be a much more productive way to collect interesting samples than landing on rock.
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>crime lab (run by the people doing the prosecuting) to not be sloppy

Oh yeah. Not just incompetence, but actual malice. Recently in Massachusetts there were two high profile state forensic drug lab scandals: One where a chemist was functionally incapacitated by taking all the drugs she should have been testing [0], and one where the chemist was falsifying positive tests (!!!!!!) [1]. More recently, the state police are known to be falsifying overtime records [2]. I can't even begin to imagine what it's like in "stereotyped as corrupt" states.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/6000-drug-cases-linked-to-rogue...

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-than-21000-drug-conviction...

[2] https://www.masslive.com/expo/news/erry-2018/12/1fc00a248688...
What does "society values" mean, though? These women in their 70ies supposedly don't care about being attractive. So the only thing that matters is could they get decent jobs if they were unattractive. They supposedly don't care about societies evaluation of their attractiveness anyway.

And we were talking about "pressure to be attractive". What form does that take. What happens to you if you are unattractive?
Mitochondrial DNA can be inherited from fathers, not just mothers
The flash translation layers in SSDs implement things equivalent to the journalling functionality in modern filesystems, but they don't really provide any hierarchical organization of data. So you'll still need a normal host-based filesystem for the foreseeable future, but filesystem design can be influenced by the assumption that it's running atop flash storage.

There are several efforts underway to provide more specialized software interfaces to SSDs. Several vendors have produced models that expose a key-value store instead of fixed-size block storage; with those drives, you can throw away RocksDB and speak directly to the drive with the same semantics (subject to limitations on supported key and value sizes).

There are a few competing standards for open-channel SSDs that move some of the FTL onto the host CPU so that the journalling overhead doesn't have to exist at multiple layers; the different solutions here vary in terms of how much complexity they move to the CPU vs. how much abstraction the SSD still provides for the sake of software portability. Most of the potential benefits this approach provides are being subsumed by extensions to the NVMe protocol that allow the host and SSD to exchange optional hints about data layouts, GC status, etc.

SK Hynix recently announced they're working on a SSD with transactional storage support, so that the host can send multiple write commands and either commit or abort the transaction as a whole.
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That's not how this works. Alias plays white noise into the Home/Echo speaker so it can't hear what's going on, unless you first speak the Alias' wake word, which causes it to activate the Home/Echo and allow speech through.
Any chance California is going to claw that money back and execs face criminal charges?
It originates from design by contract (but is still the incorrect term). An assertion is not a contract.
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https://archive.org/search.php?query=what%20is%20life%20schr...

http://libgen.io/search.php?req=what%20is%20life%20schröding...
Not wrong, just incomplete. It's better for you to put a price on the ad than not put the price on the ad and get the bogus click. However, it'd be even better to fix the targeting & keywords and not show the user the ad in the first place if they're not going to click. Google's trying to align your incentives with its users; after all, you're the only one who knows your business well enough to understand if there're subtle differences between what your prospective customers search for vs. what window-shoppers in your industry shop for.

There are often other keywords that can indicate purchasing intent - just thinking back to my own search habits, "buy", "product", "cost", "pricing", "comparison", etc.

And it's true that more clicks doesn't always = better user experience, but it's also true that more clicks in the absence of other information usually = better user experience. Google works off the data it has - for many cases, that's only CTR, bounce rate, and time on site. I suspect (I don't have any inside information how Ads Quality works) that when they have information about conversions - like when you've chosen to link your Google Analytics account with AdWords and set up conversion funnels in the former - they use that information too for determining quality score.
Numbers please? How common is it (percentage of women)?
Not a cryptographer, but a few things irked me about the secret projector encryption features:

1. Calls it AES-CBC, but it's using AES-GCM https://github.com/tumblr/k8s-secret-projector/blob/master/p...

2. Encryption key generation (edited: from a password) uses a hash function rather than using a KDF. Short hashes are padded (takes first N bytes required to hit max length, appends to end) or trimmed to the appropriate length. https://github.com/tumblr/k8s-secret-projector/blob/master/p...
The mp3 player itselft won't last 55 milions years. It will break way before. And be buried in the sand by the first sand storm, no matter how flotty the sphere is. Footballs get buried in the desert, no matter how light they are. Source: I lived in Bamako.
It seems pretty plausible there is a very large number of the groups I mention that rarely or even never sees the light of day due to how they are looked down upon by society at large. Some cannot enter the normal realms of human interaction, such as the workplace, so we are almost unaware of their existence.

People not even knowing one exists seems, in a way, an even more dispiriting sort of discrimination than that faced by the current persecuted group du jour.

More of these 'unseen' groups: the elderly, the extreme rural poor, the home bound, the institutionally insane, those suffering from debilitating disease, foster children shut away in group homes. And this is only considering groups we can easily access within our own nation. Much more even greater suffering in other countries.

Rarely do I see these groups mentioned in the media focus on the suffering and oppressed, but it seems intuitively a much larger grouping, and possibly enduring much more suffering than gender nonconformists.
This might be the first good alternative to etcd for configuration stores that need real-time updates.

Like Kubernetes.

Many Kubernetes scaling issues are etcd-related.

RethinkDB is dead-ish, and CockroachDB is treating their changefeeds as an enterprise feature that requires a Kafka instance to stream to :(
The users' comment was about multiple liability but his example strongly implied the gas leaker and not the smoker should take the blames. PG&E is only partly for all of the terrible things that have happened under their watch but liable enough that they deserve harsh penalties. I think it is telling when someone groping for a defense by analogy can't help but stumble onto an analogy that says the opposite of what's intended. It can be symptom that one's overall argument is quite thin.
Wow that is way better than the way I put it.
It would be tough to implement every SQL construct on top of what is there today. I could explain why (I have tried and presumably ran into the same issues they did described in various areas in the docs and the paper), but the docs give an authoritative answer to save me typing :)

"In the future it is possible that the Record Layer may develop a formal query language, but it is unlikely that such a language would closely resemble the SQL standard." [0]

[0] https://foundationdb.github.io/fdb-record-layer/FAQ.html
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Your analogy is flawed.

You assume the smoker is ignorant of the fact that there is a gas leak.

It would be better to say the smoker went into a gas filled house with signs that said "NO SMOKING!", smelt gas, looked around and lit up anyway.
I'll give long odds against.
I don't think the "Right to Roam" in England and Wales is quite as extensive as it is here in Scotland - basically we have the right to walk and camp pretty much anywhere as long as you are sensible - don't damage crops and avoid the immediate vicinity of houses.

I'd really miss living somewhere where you can't pretty much wander about anywhere you want.

Edit: To add another cool aspect about the wilder parts of Scotland, there is a network of free accommodation as well:

"To maintain simple shelters in remote country for the use & benefit of all who love wild & lonely places."

https://www.mountainbothies.org.uk/
> If any of the pulses’ paths are interrupted and they don’t arrive at the endpoint at the expected nanosecond, the sender and receiver know their communication has been compromised.

This isn't how QKD works - it isn't based on timing or delays. The common BB84 protocol (and the decoy-state modification) are based on the fact that measuring a photon necessarily changes it. Essentially, it is easy to distinguish a photon that's been measured twice from a photon that's been measured once (statistically speaking). Because an eavesdropper would necessarily have to measure photons in order to extract any useful information about the communication, their presence can be easily detected.
Pretty cool! I'm gonna try it out, any plans to implement fuzzy search?