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Ask HN: New Chrome Update?
This arrow key on the top right of the window on Chrome has appeared overnight. It's function seems to be to "search tabs" whatever that means. what is it and what's the point? does anyone else find it distracting?

Also, while i'm here, why is it that google in the uk is making browsing in incognito so hard? it used to be, just load it and done. Now, i get these annoying messages about cookies etc. also, for some reason, over the last couple of weeks, the message box has gotten longer thus necessitating scrolling to check the "i agree" box. Whats that all about?
It's essentially an admission that the "mitigations" they claim to have implemented (second paragraph) aren't that effective, and they want to outsource the review effort to the community. Which is fine in my opinion, but I agree that the current tools might not be fine granular enough. There should also be clearer messaging about what happens when there's an honest review mistake and a crypto miner slips through.
1. I don't understand what you're saying.

2. I'm not from the USA.
Don't forget the stupendous amount of energy from that big ball of hydrogen that hits it every second.
Excel as a Mapping Tool
Any kind of requests can be used for tracking purposes, not just JS.
What’s your budget & what are you protecting?

Without that info, I think one of the only universal recommendations (whether you’re a trillion dollar FAANG or 2 person startup) is buy U2F keys for everyone* and enable them everywhere. Also try to know what assets you have, and patch everything regularly.

* yubico make great U2F keys which I recommend. Others such as google also make keys
Yes please :)

Edit: consider having a look at the development version. While the core feature hasn't changed much, the webUI definitely improved. Also, the core became more robust and ready to accept more features easily.
>What on earth are you programming?

Earth. He is programming the earth.
> Physical media lets you have privacy without logging when you watch media

Don't some blu ray players try to connect to the internet whenever you watch a disc? I think my PS3 used to do that.
Beyond joint demosaicking and denoising: pipeline for a pixel-bin image sensor
Now I know why all the websites I use are so slow :D
Yeah I expected they would tell me to stop drinking peated whiskey, but now I do wonder how much bog it destroys.
my apologies. I obviously failed to communicate my point clearly enough and unintentionally created flamebait. Thanks for being an excellent mod :)
If you purchase a movie from Apple, you can download it to your computer and play it offline so long as your copy of iTunes is authorised. I can't find any evidence of Apple placing an expiry date on authorisations.
lichess has links to streamers on the home page, so they are serving ads by your definition

Naroditsky isn't paying you to promote his stream, so it doesn't qualify as an ad as ads are being referred to in lichess's post
Yes, I'm confident it's wrong because it re-use a word in a way that will confuse. It implies it'll be used without a GUI and the first thought is not to think "oh, they must mean it doesn't come with its own GUI". Lots of others things that have an API do not get called headless - presumably as they're aware of the existing use of headless and thus don't want to confuse people.

Maybe you could explain it's a backend for an editor.

Or maybe "unstyled"?
I literally bought many hundreds of used CDs and had them shipped to https://murfie.com/ to rip for me and give me FLACs automatically, because that was the only way to get lossless drm-free music I wanted legally.

I even wrote a python library to automate the process since I had so much music I wanted to obtain legally that I needed bulk access.

I spent thousands of dollars and many hours trying to play by the rules on this project.

A: The artist got nothing. CDs were mostly used, and the artists are often no longer alive.

B: Murfie went out of business and can't even afford to sort and return my discs to me. I can't prove I own my own music if challenged. It is all unsorted in a warehouse in the midwest somewhere.

Am I a criminal now anyway after all that work?

How many others would go that far to get a legal DRM-free music collection?

In the end I still got screwed.

If I could just download DRM-free music/movies/games directly, take my money.

Since that is usually not a thing, what other options do people that want freedom and privacy have?
My conjecture is that given two economic zones of roughly equal size, the economy which requires less energy to achieve a unit of productivity will be more competitive.

Right now the game is being framed as honest crypto vs corrupt government legacy weakness, but I think an economy that must devote huge resources to maintaining the security and operational infrastructure of their currency will be at a comparative disadvantage.

The defi stuff appeals to me as enabling composable bottom up tools for interaction but trustlessness I think is a very niche attribute which adds a lot of expense and in many cases doesn't mitigate any risks.
You would be wrong as pointed out below.

Modern shells also typically have `echo` as a builtin and can have quite different behavior.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33784892/bash-vs-dash-be...
- not having a clear flow open->closed, etc.
- not knowing what it means (open/closed/resolved/etc)
- not knowing what the right way to close the bug via a commit is
Maybe a visual representation of the flow and a text desc of what each stage means might help?

- not having the work item and communication separated and no easy flow between the two
- not being able to 'resolve' the issue when there is a checkup down the line

What does this mean?

- having to have my own shadow list of bugs I'm responsible for, i.e. when I need input from somebody else and I assign the bug to them, then it's gone from my 'assigned' tickets list.

This is already available. It was a major thing for us as we both build the software and also find issues when we use it. So we needed a way to take care of both. The dashboard gives you a view of issues assiged to you and reported by you.

- not heaving a way to be reminded about bugs

Not having 'to' remind others or to be reminded? If its the former, then we have nudges that gently nudges people assigned to move the bug. If its the later, maybe a way to switch off nudges would help.

- having to bug people about updating the tickets

already there
https://bugasura.io/release-notes/nudges-to-assign-and-resol...
https://bugasura.io/release-notes/email-reminders-weekly-sum...
Steve Jobs talks 'Bozos' who know how to manage but not how to do anything
The demon is not really supposed to be magical, but instead "some physical process or machine", e.g. a future nanomachine or something. It's like a "perpetual motion machine" - a hypothetical object that can be used in thought experiments. If it could be shown that creating a Maxwell's demon that creates less entropy than it reduces is impossible, then the paradox is solved. A [brownian ratchet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet) is an example of a (failed) implementation.
Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power
Yeah, this is the part I'm having trouble understanding. A few people, sure. But all these postal workers committing fraud, with many insisting there must be something wrong with the software? How did this not get discovered before they were all convicted and sentenced?

And according to the article, the full number may actually be something like 900 people.

>Campaigners believe that as many as 900 operators, often known as subpostmasters, may have been prosecuted and convicted between 2000 and 2014.

How do you make this mistake almost 1000 times over 14 years before someone suspects the system data may not be quite right? Also, even if you do completely believe the data, how can you convict them all without additional supporting evidence, like new purchases that don't seem to fit their salary, suspicious bank transactions or balances, records of unusual system access or them actually manipulating data, etc.
I have put quite some trust in Steam and hope I won't get disappointed
Oh good!

I've been wondering about Google's practices too:

Google:

• sells movies

• do not allow transfer of movie ownership to a different email account

• expires accounts after 2 years of inactivity

https://twitter.com/dorfsmay/status/1335262751992602630

You could also argue that if Apple/Google actually bought the right from the studio on your behalf, you should be able to stream movies you already own, because you bought the DVDs years ago, for a much smaller fee.
I hate it when text doesn't flow to the size I've set my window. Makes it a waste of space when the window is expanded past whatever the designer felt was a good one-size-fits-all fixed limit. At least let me choose how wide my wall of text should be.
This is already reality. Paypal shuts down inactive accounts. (And guess what they do with the positive balance.)
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Reinventing a Prolog Machine (2018)
Unfortunately people died during this time too and did so with this hanging over their head. An absolute scandal, but there's no inquiry into the directors involved. Not yet, at least.
No reflection? The iPad Pro running the Axxx soc was already insanely powerful. x86 is a monster with this huge legacy. Sounds to me more like the usual anti-apple speak..

The whole article is about not having to choose between performance and powerusage. With "5000", which 5000 do you mean? A 100W cpu of about the full cost of a macmini?

This is the whole point of the article. Apple made a monster move. Next up: Apple Cloud. M1 based cloud computing. Will save them a couple billion per year on aws which expires in '22 or '23 iirc.
For those who aren't aware: Google is a lesser-known competitor of the recommended search engine DuckDuckGo.
For me, the advantage is that I don't have to go find the disc and physically insert it, and deal with whatever disc was in there before. I get to just watch my movie when I want.

I also don't have to physically store the discs, which is a bigger deal than it sounds like. I really don't want shelves and shelves of books and movies in my house. I have a few bookcases of our favorites, and that's it.

Even better is monthly streaming services, though. Then I don't pay nearly as much and get almost all the convenience, but with the risk that any particular movie might no longer be streaming.
> If a tech product is illustrated with a child laughing at some salad, or whatever, it doesn't matter if some detail is lost, as long as it doesn't look ugly-compressed. Users will be scrolling past it, not zooming in and comparing it to the original.

In that case the best compression is to omit the image.
Yeah...technical legalities aside, I have no moral qualms with downloading an unencumbered digital copy of something I already paid for.

I guess you could argue that the cost I paid may have been lower due to the limited nature of the format/platform, but eh...I'm already trying not to be a total mooch so it'll do.
> I also have a right to handle their HTML the way I see fit

I see this more as you technically having the ability to do this, but what makes it your “right”?
If gold went away as a trading instrument no one would notice. It exists, but it is not integral. Much more value is stored in the stock and bond markets and RE
Yeah they did that (although I think they did leave some time and specific places for people to complain but at some point decided: Ok, now it's enough.), but that was clear and pretty obvious. I'm still just really very puzzled how the star ratings came into being. I don't trust them anymore since this happened.
AMEN to that. I still use my fully repairable MBP 2010 for web surfing and light tasks (with 8GB and a SSD its fine). On the Keyboard note, I've bought an expensive Eurocom (Clevo) Xeon laptop that had keyboard issues after a few years. Its not only apple that did bad with bad keyboard on expensive products (Fortunately I could repair it myself for 50$). Today apple product should ship with rossman videos and a SMD workstation if you plan to use them more than 3yrs ;)
SolarWinds hack analysis reveals 56% boost in command server footprint
While that's definitely a valid approach, it does have the downside of making you more of a manager. I've done both, but eventually stuck with raising my rates (for now) because I much prefer working on some interesting projects myself over managing others. And because I tend to do full-stack stuff (including server management and often even UI/UX and some degree of product development), it's varied enough.
"it’s just so far into the future that we should not yet be doing that"

You're probably right. And 640K aught to be enough for anybody, too ;)
They made a computer that can't add
They could've done this with the iPad already, but have not shown any indication that they will do so.

I suspect Apple don't want you to use your phone as a laptop replacement, they want you to buy one of their laptops.
Note that all of these attacks are easily defendable and closable, unlike closing a border for attacking tanks. The only reason the attack vectors exist is the legacy of Microsoft Windows and not having competent enough embedded system programmers. Risks have been externalized in the name of short term shareholders profit. The only way to fix the situation is to have investors to suffer if their company inadequately deals with cyber security.
This is correct. Being exhausted from social exchange also, quite naturally, leads to less time practising it, generally.
It doesn't necessarily benefit massive corporations more than individual artists, because those massive corporations probably also hold copyright over a lot of works; it'd cost them huge amounts of money to renew them all.

I think GP's scheme isn't awful honestly; it would have the effect of drastically lowering the practical length of copyright for most works while providing artists with a way to maintain copyright over works that are actually highly successful. (A per-year doubling might be a bit much but I think it's on the right track.)

If the practical effect was that we mostly got back to the original copyright term we had in the US (14 years with the possibility to extend that once), I'd be pretty happy. Maybe start the fees after the 14th year.
>The difference is you don’t need to make a copy of a book to use it. That’s what gives EULA’s their power.

While often assumed to be the case, that's probably not true. Copyright law generally allows for incidental copying necessary to use a product. And, in fact, (US at least) law has been amended over time to explicitly allow certain types of copying needed for functional purposes. So licensing is probably not, in fact, necessary. Rather licensing came in at a time when it wasn't clear that software could be copyrighted.
I agree, I am not saying the lawyers should be charged for perjury necessarily, just that they know the seriousness of what they're doing when they do this.
Tech giants and cops at least agree thwarting terrorist or extremist activity
AAA video games do that for you :P Well, it isn't the programming part that uses the ram(although yes, building our codebase takes about 40 minutes and uses gigabytes of ram without using distributed build), but just starting up local server + client + editor easily uses 80-100GB of ram since ALL of the assets are loaded in.
I had one friend like that. As an introvert myself, it was like magic to me that in less than 3 sentences, he'd have identified and dived into an interest of theirs and held his own. It didn't seem to matter what area the interest was, he either knew enough about it to get the stranger talking, or asked insightful questions that they were more than happy to answer. In one particularly impressive instance, we (two men) got invited to join a table of 4 women in a bar within 3 minutes of walking in. They bought the drinks. I just sat their silently astounded.
Malware and ransomware gangs have found this new way to cover their tracks
You are right that CISC processors (like x86) have more capabilities, i.e. more instructions. You as the programmer get to take advantage of the "extra" very specific instructions, so overall you write less instructions.

Less instructions sounds great, but with CISC you do not know how long those instructions will take to execute. RISC has only a handful of instructions, that all take 1 clock cycle (with pipelining). This makes the hardware simple and easy optimize. The instructions you lose can just be implemented in software. That space on chip can be used for more registers and cache, for a huge speed up. Plus nowadays, shared libraries and compilers do a lot of work for us behind the scenes as well. Having tons of instructions on chip only is a benefit for a narrow group of users today.

We've found that for hardware it's better to reduce clock cycles per instruction, rather than reduce total number of instructions.
That's a fantastic joke, thank you :D
Developing the schema is a not a science.

Implementating BCNF is a science.

Choosing whether to use a normalised relational database, a star schema, or a non relational eventually consistent database, that's design.
New US Justice Department team aims to disrupt ransomware operations
Are you aware that the latest generation has a new keyboard? It's not the fiasco that the previous super-slim one was.
> I don't know why you insist on ...

Because what's at stake here is the legitimacy of the government.

The message of this article is : "Innocent man stays behind bars for 20 years. Prosecutors are monsters".

And people buy this wholesale. Just read the other comments in this thread.

When people hear this time and again, and then they enter their echo bubble, the conclusion is that the US government is not any better than Putin's gang of thugs.

Folks: whenever you read about an "innocent" man wrongfully serving 20 years in prison, spend 15 min on Google to see if there's more to the story. We do not live in Putin's Russia.
API versioning has no “right way” (2017)
Do u have any info on floating-solar-in-salt-water?

(I have seen some in lakes/reservoirs. Surprisingly, less than 20% cost premium)

> why offshore tidal energy projects are continuing to attract major funding

Yeah. Agreed. Solar/wind/batteries/EVs will dominate.

Everything else will get "scraps" from a $trillion/year energy industry ;)
Not for the duration that matters. 5 years for free is plenty of time to make reasonable income on your creations; after that, you're just seeking rent from society.

Sure, boost that to 10 or even 20 years if needed[0]. But from then on extension costs should grow exponential - otherwise we risk locking down work for duration longer than a human lifetime. Like it already happens with Disney.

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[0] - 20 years may have been appropriate in mid-20th century, but I'd argue it isn't now. Cultural creation accelerates exponentially, but long copyrights prevent the ability to improve on prior art to accelerate in lock step.
> It will be anchored close to Orkney where it will produce enough electricity to power 2,000 homes.

I can't possibly express my existential torment that I feel when I read statements like this in an article.

Just state the damn power in SI units.

A close second is measuring the size of something in terms of "football fields" or "Rhode Island" (wtf??). I am pretty sure this is tied into the general innumeracy of the population.
It makes sense for software release versions, but I think this lacks marketing prowess.

Consider; “hey man check out my new M1 machine!” Versus: “hey man check out my M1 2021.04”

Even with the Core series it’s short and sweet.

“10th gen. Core i7” still sounds futuristic and always will.

Ryzen 7 also.

Honestly I think folks here are overthinking this stuff. It’s easy enough to compare the specs on a 10th gen cpu vs 8th gen. I think that’s easier than comparing different product names.

For instance, just by the names: Pentium 5 versus Core i5 it’s not quite clear unless folks were old enough to remember Pentiums. Whereas, everyone knows current generation has better processing than previous generation.
This has to be an April Fools, it's just posted early and we're talking about it late. It's not real right? right?
I had wondered what their first Apple Silicon powered data center would be.

I thought the company would wait and deploy a later gen chip. Though with the standardization of M1 across such a wide array of products makes me think it is going to be the M1.
Two Asteroids to Pass Earth Ahead of NASA's Impact Simulation
If Lichess is a French Charitable Association, why do its (very clear) terms say that we agree to follow the laws of England and Wales?

https://lichess.org/terms-of-service

This seems rather an odd arrangement. Does anyone have any insight here?
I am not sure I follow either.

i: Index of comparison, running 0..n

p: Index in pattern P, running m..0

t: Index in text T, running 0..n, t=i at cycle beginning.

Is the trick to not seek the character mismatching at T[i], but T[t+1], in front of the pattern-text-alignment?

I think that's the Sundance (?) variance or something. It's quite neat because you can do the simple BC preprocessing in O(m) and access in O(1) and still lose nothing over the extended BC, if the text is random (at least I can then prove it via expected value for character occurrences). So you simplify BC pre-processing, access times and gain one char possible shift distance.

However I am not sure how this goes with repetitive texts theoretically. And e.g. DNA is not random, although at our level of understanding it probably is practically.

In my implementation cutting GS didn't improve performance. Tho, I wrote it in Rust and then the compiler really weirdly optimize for cache misses in a not predictable manner; it mattered way too much where I put functionally equivalent code (do A, then so B wasn't the same as do B, then do A, for the most trivial and independent things).
No one thinks Tesla murdered these men. They're worried that Tesla 1) lied to them about the capabilities of their car, and 2) failed to do very easy things to keep their car from endangering other people on the road.
'Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe' by Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson
>Forcing yourself to use a bad piece of software on ideological grounds, or worse still, engaging in doublethink (deluding yourself that it's actually a good piece of software and that everyone else is mistaken) does not help the open source movement. It damages it.

Exactly this. It reminds me of the worst type of Apple fans, when people try to argue that a piece-of-crap software provides an equal experience to a ridiculously polished piece of proprietary software. Sometimes open-source has better software, but sometimes it doesn't and there's nothing worse than being gaslit by zealots.
Protecting mental health – an issue for technologists?
You will be. Give it a decade.
I was laying in bed worrying about the serial and periodic nature of math curriculum just this morning. My kids will finish algebra I this year then geometry then algebra II. And still haven't been shown any statistics beyond mean mode median. By the time algebra II Rolla around they will have forgotten a ton of algebra. And after one lump of geometry, they will never have it again
Yes competitors may have worthy opponents to the M1 "just around the corner".

But do you think that Apple stopped innovating after releasing the M1 last year? Don't you think the M2 (or M1X whatever it's called) is well into design and prototyping at this point?
Does this mean Firefox is controlled opposition? }:)
Above all else, before you get your hackles raised, thank GitHub for giving you as much free services as they do.