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He's good at promotion and raising capital, and has real products that function... but I can't believe he's only a salesman.

OTOH how would you go about assessing his engineering ability? He was accepted into a Stanford PhD program. An ex-employee of spacex was amazed how he absorbed a textbook of rocket science.

Unlike Eistein, he hasn't written any papers himself (AFAIK), so we can't assess his work directly.
I would guess his primary role is being a technically and business-aware coach for engineers who actually do the work - like Steve Jobs. But maybe he is a genuine engineering genius himself - but how could we tell?
> I still can't wrap my head around the prominence of this idea that the only way to solve our problems as a species is to live worse lives and to be more disconnected from others.

I'm sorry, I still can't wrap my head around the idea that consuming more is always going to be okay. Or that consuming less is automatically living worse lives? Are you serious? You're all insane. Sustainable means consuming less. For fuck's sake. It's called reduce, reuse, recycle. In that fucking order.

Oh wait. This is mostly a US audience. So the idea of consuming less is anathema and utterly incomprehensible to you.
> 2. Why would anyone want people to post illegal material on a blockchain when it is immutable? Let's assume the culprit goes to jail, but then you have billions of people now able to access illegal content, that can never be removed because it is on a blockchain

I guess that's the whole point of it: illegal doesn't mean it's immoral, and no content could be silenced. But then another issue is who is going to pay for storing terabytes of copies of communist manifesto in-between legitimate edits to articles.
Private tabs are the only way I use Safari. I found that I rarely use websites that I need to be logged in to, as those type of services generally have an App that I'm already using. For the odd case where I need to login, with my password vault, its only a couple extra clicks.
The whole concept is bad, because the goals are paradoxical and mutually exclusive. Providing a way to instantaneously edit past transactions in a blockchain with the proper credentials sacrifices the only useful property that distinguishes blockchains from traditional databases (decentralized verification of/consensus about state).

The concept is bad because you don't want that property; you want a mutable data store with privileged and unprivileged access.
If it was a good hedge fund, they won't offer anyone they don't rate. If they offered you because they think you're mediocre and can get you cheap - do not work for them, they're charlatans.
I bought my house to live in, but it has gone up. Many of the stocks I've invested in I purchased because they pay dividends, and I expect they will continue to in the future. As long as that is true, I don't care if the price of the stock increases much. I have a case of fine wine in my basement, most wine doesn't age well, but some do. I expect these will increase in price... But I'm planning to drink more than a few bottles.
> Can someone put me in contact with the people at [dynamicland]?

contact@dynamic-land.com
Yes, and in the process 1) not spend CPU cycles extracting frames... 2) not have a permanent+widely distributed copy of `$illegal` thing someone tried to upload. 3) have a technology that works regardless of content type! amazing! It supports new video codecs right out of the box ;)
If status and social mobility are tied to contributing, I'd guess more than we'd otherwise expect.
How about proper multi-display support (including mixing HiDPI and low-res displays)? Every time I connect my FHD laptop to my UHD monitor the windows on the desktop move around completely randomly. It is better than before, because they used to move outside the visible area, they fixed at least that.

But hey, at least there is an Emoji Selector now (???).
>It should only prompt you to re-login if you've cleared cookies

Looks like Cookie AutoDelete extension somehow affects Pocket but not Sync. Thank you for hint!
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How do you turn an A.I. psychotic? Feed it the worst of the Internet
Every time people breathlessly relate the tale of Cambridge Analytica as the day privacy died, you should know they have no clue.

Because the Obama campaign built the exact same kind of dataset, using the same APIs, with the same overreach, 4 years prior, and Facebook knew about it and looked the other way. The campaign boasted about leaving the stone age Republicans in the dust. I guess the Dems don't look so hot now anymore after Iowa.

All of this is a matter of record. It was only bad when the "wrong" people pushed the wrong kind of propaganda, and the response was a massive push by the media to point the finger. Media, btw, whose websites too send your data to more than a hundred partners per site visit.

They all fixate on the scapegoat because otherwise they'd have to admit to being part of the problem.

That they then mix up the uncontroversial topic of privacy with the old hobby horses of diversity and equality is the final nail in the coffin. Mozilla is more interested in signaling their moral compliance with the current year rather than finding commonality on the greater topic of respecting privacy and thinking long term.

Oh yeah, where were any of these people when Stallman was scapegoated to absolve MIT of its Epstein sins?

R.I.P. Mozilla. It killed IE, and then hubris and brain damage killed it.
Referring to this, for example: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxenxx/mozilla-wants-youn...
1) Thirteen banner ads, most of them animated

2) Tracking from Google and Facebook

3) Cookie warning with no way to opt out

4) You can only opt out if you live in California:

> Opting out of the sharing of your personal information by Protocol with marketers: Please send an email to privacy@protocol.com with the following information: -Name -Email -Confirmation of California residency
Satisfied customers spread their good tales. Who would have thought?
It'll be a while before we see any fruit produced from them to know for sure. Makes sense to me that modern date seeds would be smaller, especially considering how huge they already are.
It does not have macros.
The concept of the browser is a universal vehicle for information. One of the greatest breakthroughs for browsers, aside from increasing front end application rendering and interactivity, is extensions. They put the user as the primary, where they can access, control, organize the information accessed as they wish using extensions. Of course, there is a wild west aspect to this, and over time extension facilities are becoming closer to app stores, with ratings and permissions being primary. Chrome has had some of the best support for extensions, making it easy to create them and offering most features through them, which is one reason I use it instead of Firefox day to day. But no browser properly supports extensions on mobile. Chrome just doesn't, the Kiwi fork is supposed to but in my experience doesn't really, Firefox says they will but the signals are it will only be select extensions, at least for now. Extensions are one of the best markers and facilities of a free, user first web, that isn't just about accessing opaque, absolutely controlled services, where hobbyists and principled organizations can work directly in the space of privacy and trust as information is processed, so I hope they pick up some priority.
Yes, the people arguing that blockchain has it figured out for regular transactions are fools. Blockchain has a long way to go and many serious challenges to overcome before it can compete with payment networks like Visa.

It does a disservice to say the technology is already there, because it suggests that the current version is as good as it gets. To me, blockchain or something that incorporates its best features (decentralization, immutability) will need to process transactions for:

- Fractions of a cent
- Confirm in seconds

So far that is not possible, and there is no clear way to achieve it, but with blockchain as a base there is no doubt that it will eventually be done. At that point, if you have not sacrificed decentralization or immutability, you have something truly amazing.
I think the term for this is "market depth". https://bitcoincharts.com/markets/bitstampUSD_depth.html The 3rd chart (and the 4th which is the same thing but zoomed in) shows: if I'm willing to accept as little as X USD / Y BTC exchange rate, how much BTC can I sell? The answer is the area under the curve above the price you're accepting.

If you have a lot more BTC to sell than could comfortably move on exchanges, auctions are the way to go. Sometimes the feds seize large amounts of BTC and auction them off in large blocks, and they not only sell but they go for above then-current exchange rates.
Nope. Assets have a sale value and an ownership value.

Suppose a company makes $100,000 per year and this is expected to continue. How much would you pay for it?

Now, suppose it makes $100,000 per year, but for some reason once you have it, no one will buy it off you. How much would you pay for it?

You'd pay less in the second case, but not that much less. The company has a value which it gives to you for having ownership of it.

Meanwhile, bitcoin produces....$0 per year for owning it. The only value is in sale at a higher price. You have to bet on appreciation.

This is something fundamental people often misunderstand about, say, stocks. The price is set by supply and demand for the stock, but the value is determined by the cashflows. Usually price and value move at least somewhat in sync. But if stock markets went insane and valued everything at $0 for some reason, you'd still want to own companies.
You make it sound as if Brave does more than Firefox to provide an alternative to the Chrome quasi-monopoly. Let's not forget that Brave is a fork of Chromium in the first place which means that if you value competition Firefox is still a better bet, at least until Brave shows that they can maintain a deep fork of Chrome long term while resisting upstream changes they don't want and that's a very tall order.

I do agree that changing the internet economy would be great though, but at this point I'm not entirely sure I trust Brave to do that. They clearly want a piece of the advertising cake under the guise of "disrupting" things, but should they end up being successful I'm not yet completely convinced that it'll change things fundamentally. I'm definitely curious to see if they manage to do it though, even if it ends up as a failed experiment it will have been an interesting one.
I think Firefox market share peaked in 2010 at around 30% before slowly declining as chrome rose in popularity. At least according to StatCounter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#...
Only if you're speculating on currency.

Some people use BTC to pay for VPNs, drugs, or simply to get cash out of their country. There was a lot of speculation that the big spike in BTC a few years back was the Saudi royalty trying to move cash out before MBS cracked down on them.
Someone alert President Dugan
Not currency, unless you're a forex trader. And not if you're aiming to collect a dividend* or to exert control over a company.

*In the tech hysteria, it's easy to forget that this is where the fundamental value comes from.
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It also depends on the share price. If the stock goes up, like it did in the last few years, then people keep getting "free" raises and stick around.
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Seriously, why would anyone trust the Russian controlled Yandex any more then Google? Might as well be advocating for Baidu as well.
You scroll up for context.
Keeping code clean doesn't mean architectural perfection. It means architectural consistency. So, if your controllers talk directly to your database, great! Just make sure it's easy to do and doesn't involve too much boilerplate.
A solution looking for a problem is resorting to 'think of the children' marketing. Neeeext!
it's like a gathering of flat-earthers
I miss them. Some of the funniest reddit posts ever. The best part is the number of people who took the bait.
Succeed (big or small) every day.
I often forget how does the internet look like without the adblocker
Normally the ratio of rudder to tilt for a turn is fixed for a given aircraft. The main reason is that people are ok with experiencing downward forces, but not so much with sideways forces. As a pilot, if you want to keep the forces downward, you need to use both rudder and tilt in a particular combination. In order to make a turn you also really need a tilt - if you use only the rudder you are in a "slip", you don't really change your direction of movement but the direction of movement and the front of the plane are not aligned (actually it's more complicated and the rudder will initiate a tilt as well but I won't go there).

From what I understand, the problem with this particular kind of design is not so much about the direction of the forces but about the variation in forces though. If you're sitting in the end of a wing, as the aircraft goes into or out of a tilt you will experience quite some variation in the magnitude of the downward force, which is uncomfortable.
That doesn't really change anything with HS2 though since it'll be a decade before anyone can use the line.
OP is using Nix to build a Docker container.
Give eBird [0] a try, also from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

[0] https://ebird.org/home
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Weekly on Sundays
We keep ours in a manilla folder labeled "Business plan 2021"
Great, sounds like you are fostering a culture where mistakes are shared rather than hidden.
What are the specific pyqt unit tests? Curious since I use this stack at work.
Are you saying your team of 3 devs are maintaining 1M lines of code? Roughly how many years and devs worked on it in total?

I guess I’m spoiled working on a (mostly) Ruby project with ~100K-ish lines of code with a team of 25
Mobile Firefox has the only extension I really need on there, uBlock Origin. No other mobile browser has anything comparable from what I've seen so I'm not sure what you're talking about on that point.
>Firefox says they will [properly support extensions on mobile]

The most relevant extension - uBlock Origin - works just fine on mobile Firefox.

It's a real game changer, especially with screen real estate and energy usage being quite important on mobile.

That extension alone is why I have and use Firefox on mobile phones (aside of the usual compatibility testing on other browsers for certain web projects).
I'm pretty sure they rely on user agent in the server logs.

Sure you can spoof it, but it would be the same for the stat counter.
That's not how GSB works in firefox.

https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-...
I don’t think that was his point. He is saying you can neither assume that this fee is enough to offset the carbon, nor that Ryanair will spend it appropriately. Just because it says carbon offset doesn’t mean all of the carbon is offset.

If the true price were actually that low, it would be easy to solve.
No I'm just saying that HS2 seems to be more of a contractor back-pocket filler than other more meaningful projects. The amount that has gone in to build a slightly faster trainline is obscene (plus it's not actually going to be faster for most people since it's probably going to stop outside London).
Noncompete agreements are legal in many places outside California
I fucking hate programming. I would rather go back to labor jobs if the pay was the same. I would rather go back to fast food if it paid the same. I would rather go back to retail if it paid the same.
Firt thing that comes to my mind will it be dpa resilient?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9437021
Sure. Basically all these new checking and savings accounts that are coming out, Robinhood, Google, Credit Karma, etc., are actually being serviced by a real bank.
Not sure why the downvotes. Is painfully true.

There also hasn't been aggressive legislation about it until CCPA. Start adding minimum costs for a breach and things may change.
We don't!

One of the reasons why some people become valuable in long-tenure positions is because of the lessons learned. At a certain point, no one is going to read through every page in the wiki / archive / man pages / whatever is popular this year.

That's where onboarding and process come in: Management needs to make sure that lessons drive improving the process, that newcomers are onboarded with lessons from the past, and that everyone continues to follow the processes.

Now, jokes aside, in my company, the new owners decided they didn't like the people we were outsourcing with, and decided to replace them with their own outsourcing center. Now everyone's re-learning lessons that are probably tracked in our various wikis, repositories, ect. But, the newcomers want to run things their own way.

That's why a few long-tenured people are important.
>you would need something else other than just possession of a number to make that possession illegal.

Yes, the index, which would itself be the encoding of the file. It's just Huffman coding optimising for the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter.
In which the author presents an appeal-to-consequences argument against taking a hard line against accepting appeal-to-consequences arguments.

At least that is self-consistent, while an appeal-to-consequences argument against accepting appeal-to-consequences arguments would not be. But what sort of argument against accepting appeal-to-consequences arguments would be self-consistent?

After rolling that one around for a while, I would tentatively suggest that it is self-serving appeal-to-consequences arguments that we should be most suspicious of, while genuinely greater-good ones deserve consideration.

That did not take long to 'go meta.' Maybe it is a sign that this, like many other ethics issues, is resistant to doctrinaire solutions, which is pretty much where the author ends up.
This might be complicated by the fact that "merkle trees" and git/blockchain invert the parent/child relationship. The root of the git/blockchain trees changes every time a commit/block is added, and the child nodes are called "parent commits" in git. Also the shape isn't going to have a wide base or be balanced like a binary search tree or similar.

When you say that "git and blockchain nodes are linked", I think you might be not abstracting the concepts from the form the data usually takes. For instance in git you might be thinking of a commit as a single package with all its source changes, headers, parent details and hash, but it terms of it being a merkle tree the leaf node would be non-hash parts (source code, non-hash headers etc) and the "tree on top" would be the hashes. This tree structure of hashes are absolutely part of the fundamental architecture of git/blockchain.
It's possible larger varieties previously existed and fell dormant, then later the domestic varieties started with a smaller fruit and the genetics for larger fruit were no longer in the active gene pool of known varieties.
No ads coming up in my Epic Privacy Browser with adblock & encrypted proxy on :-). Firefox has been copying a lot of Epic's features, but still is far behind their privacy defaults.
I searched for "voronoi" and got no results. I don't know if this is because the site doesn't have any content about voronoi polygons, or if search is broken. I assume it's the former.

That then leads me to ask - how do I discover what content the site has, and what content is it likely to have in the near future?
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Someone's already given the biggest answer (eBird), but a good supplementary app for help with identification is the Audubon app. You can do checklists in Audubon too, but eBird is better for that, plus has the bonus of submitting your lists for science.
Back in 1992 Queen Elizabeth II, for various reasons, described her year as annus horribilis.

I suspect Boeing could use similar words to describe the year they have just experienced.
Probably not. If you're that smart, you'll make that money on your own anyway
Been using KDE for a few years now and I've always been impressed with the experience. I'm really looking forward to this update, for me night mode is critical. (I understand there were third party solutions but I often found them to be buggy or otherwise difficult to use). Here's hoping my distro adds the update to its repositories soon.
It provides no pushback at all when a picture has been taken, jpeg encoded and then sliced into pieces and inserted onto the blockchain as extra data on a number of transactions, in a way easily recognised and easily re-extracts.

Sure, those numbers could have come about some other way, but they didn't.

Your hypothetical decoder is actually going to contain a very large amount of very specific data as well, so much so that the 'circle' part of it is more or less irrelevant. You've just defined a (very poor) data encoding scheme.
What is the alternative? Assuming here there is such a thing as a correct engineering strategy, who should define it?

Or, maybe there should be no engineering strategy, at least not an explicit one written down?
This wasn't 'nonsense'... Google spent 12 billion on Motorola's mobile patent portfolio and Samsung lost half a billion in legal judgements. If they spent half that money innovating and improving mobile design instead of copying everything to the point of confusion from the popular market leader.. we wouldn't be having this conversation.
BlockChain = AuditTrail + PKI
There was also a Connections pc game
https://www.oldpcgaming.net/connections-cd-review/
If you listen to the NASA update [1] you'll hear the audit team state that if Boeing was following the procedures that they stated they were doing they would have found the flaw at 4 separate places. Let's just say the auditors tone of voice says it all.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxQ_ZV26E04
aren't you describing litecoin?
There's a very quickly growing use case of decentralised finance, abbreviated to DeFi. Within the Ethereum chain alone, close to $1b has been locked up in different DeFi projects.
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"Old desktop applications, because they did not have a core application "cycle/flow" and were not arranged as a tree of components,"

I am not sure where did you get this idea. Delphi had it like almost 30 years ago.
It's funny how Mozilla preaches privacy, but if you open `about:config' and count

1) parameters that include word "telemetry"

2) everything that looks like a unique token

3) "mozilla.org" URLs

you'll see that the sum is steadily going up with every release.
It leaves me under impression that Mozilla is trying to follow Facebook and Google. Lately they removed setting to use a custom page for the new tabs, leaving only choice between blank page and Mozilla-provided "interest based" homepage. I am still using it as the main browser, though, as "lesser evil", but discrepancy between Mozilla's slogans and actual features is pretty chilling.
We have Confluence pages that no one reads but it's nice we go through the exercise, I guess.
Firefox sync is super convenient though, I don't really agree with you that it's a dark pattern. It does make using your browser more convenient across devices and I'm sure many people coming from chrome expect this to work out of the box especially since, AFAIK, google auto-logs you into Chrome as soon as it can.

On the other hand I find Pocket a much more questionable addition.
There's no dedicated place to discuss meta-topics in here, and I feel the virulent anti-blockchain sentiment on HN is more detrimental to the quality of discussion than my small one-liner complaint at the end of an on-topic explanatory comment.
I'd wager the start of a new multi year bullrun, fuelled by developments in different technologies.
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