skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The screens are for the conductor, not the musicians. They're following the conductor's direction and don't need to know what cues they're playing to, nor can they take their eyes off their score.

There simply isn't the money in the budget to bugger about with clever ideas in a sync session. Merely having a session with an orchestra is already a luxury for many productions, because most composers can knock out a reasonably convincing orchestral soundtrack in VSL at a fraction of the cost.

An orchestra is an extraordinarily efficient musical machine if they're doing what they were trained to do. If you want innovation, don't hire an orchestra - experiments get very expensive very quickly when you're paying ~$50 a minute for the privilege.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaWGWQJVVBI
This is a very strange way to put it. More likely, the fine was priced in with some level of uncertainty, the with the fine having been decided, the market corrected relative to its estimates.
I have heard that translations of Harry Potter are often thought to be better because the publisher diversifies the diction beyond what Rowling used in the original. I remember as a kid thinking that she was over-using so many descriptors, such as "matter-of-factly" for Hermione's dialogue.
This is criminal. We should have extremely harsh penalties for this sort of nonsense.
The headcount is mostly hiring manual moderators.
Quite a few people on here advocating fraud and talking about their friends committing fraud in their youth. Don't the software developers here make enough money?
Are you teying to make a lame joke about a ton being 2,000 pounds, versus the typical human digestive tract?

Because that's just completely unfunny.
Is BAT trackable? (I think it's an Ethereum token right, thus trackable?)

When BAT is paid out to people surfing the web, does someone knows what ads they saw, maybe what webpages they visited to see those ads?
According to which teachings?
I have a kind of conjecture:

In Nature wisdom and necessity converge, while in an artificial setting, they often diverge.

Under evolution (in the prehistoric epoch just before the evolution of Homo Sapiens) the "wise" course of action was always the same as the necessary. Non-sentient living beings choose the optimal course of action to the limit of their abilities (due to evolution.)

It was only once we evolved our higher-order thinking and communication abilities that it became possible to generate contexts (cities and farms) wherein the right thing to do diverges from the necessary thing to do. We have fooled our own "bio-computers".

I think we need a kind of civilization "reset". I don't mean a violent upheaval, rather we should develop lifestyles that are ecologically harmonious without giving up technology.

One possibility is a system of food production called "Permaculture" which I like to describe as "applied ecology". Speaking to your point:

> So if the ethical thing to do is ever not the most convenient, humanity is doomed.

The ethical (in the sense of ecologically sound) is fun and convenient. It's fun to live in harmony with Nature. I think we can cure civilization of its discontents.
> or if the work was considered all of the "treatment" they would get

The article makes it clear that that's the case.

> Like many participants, Ethan Ewers was ordered to complete Cenikor by a Texas judge after failing a drug test while on probation. Once he arrived, he said he worked 43 days straight in a sweltering warehouse unloading cargo containers for Walmart.

> Multiple former staff members told Reveal that counselors routinely falsified counseling records to make it appear as though patients received more counseling than they did. During busy work seasons, some received no counseling at all.
If you want advertisers, you need to care about what the industry wants. Obviously that's for Brave to deal with, not the users, but showing ads for money is an ad network.

Microtransactions have been tried many times. I spent half a million testing it. Didn't work because of user behavior. And unless users are buying with their own money, it's just converting the BAT they earn from ads into BAT they pay the publisher. This is an ad network.

Even the block-and-replace-ads model has been tried before. Everything from iframes to browser toolbars. Again, this is an ad network.

If you have to use language like "economic layer" to describe your business model, you're either hiding something or you don't have one. Or we can just use the standard definition: brave is a browser-based ad network.
> UAE imported $15.1 billion worth of gold from Africa in 2016, more than any other country and up from $1.3 billion in 2006. The total weight was 446 tonnes, in varying degrees of purity – up from 67 tonnes in 2006.

Sounds like UAE is increasingly hedging the dollar with gold.
You realize that Africans are on one side of these transactions, right?
> It's sensible to expect that families with that kind of wealth to leave a trace in their ancestry.

The ancient patrician families had trouble with going extinct. Their decline started long before the imperial period.

Later European kings had the same problem, sometimes just failing to produce any heir. It only takes a single generation and the family is gone.

If anything, I'd attribute family extinctions like this to monogamy. The two standard defenses against a failure of this type are (1) letting a man marry into the family by wedding a family daughter (as opposed to having the daughter marry out into the man's family); and (2) taking more than one wife, which offers dramatically greater opportunity to reproduce.
I recall a story about someone trying to move a fair amount of money. They had a bunch of tools such as a well-equipped motorist would carry (wrench sets, screwdrivers and such) forged out of platinum. They smeared a bit of grease on them here and there to give them that used look, and then just drove across the border with them.
If everyone uses either of your suggested options the publishers go broke and there is no content to view. Brave has a plan for that. So yes, they are farther along than any idea you have presented.
You mean Elon, the CEO, is overseeing logistics planning and customs himself? That would be insane.

And is there an inactive manufacturing line gathering dust? I was under the impression it is the same line in use right now, they just cut back on automation. The rest you mention seems like pocket money compared to the company's operating expenses.
Unsupervised Learning of Depth and Ego-Motion from Video [pdf]
So I moved up to Canada a few years back... and was amazed and delighted to see that unpaid internships are just blanket illegal up here. The US has some pretty terrible labour laws.
Writing helped to balance my complicated mind – right brain vs. left brain
We do this here every time writing comes up. Engineers should not comment on writing.
MP3Toolkit launches the Browser mode video downloader
Surely it would have been ammë.
> Today, there’s no way for users who receive BAT for viewing ads to swap their digital currency for dollars, but Eich says Brave will partner with cryptocurrency exchanges to make that possible.

I'm confused by this statement - there are currently several exchanges you can use to trade BAT for USD. Is this suggesting that the UI will be made more clear in the future, or are users actually blocked from withdrawing BAT from their wallet?
One major problem.

The parole software was NOT being fed data for "will this person commit another crime". It was being fed data for, "will this person be a suspect for another crime".

The significant difference is that selective enforcement biases the data that it was trained on. Said selective enforcement has multiple causes, including the fact that heavier patrolling in black neighborhoods makes catching crimes more likely.

The size of the selective enforcement bias shows in a number of ways. For example consider drugs. In surveys, the usage of illegal drugs is the same in blacks and whites. And yet 6 times as many blacks are arrested for using illegal drugs as whites.
How does this differ from what is provided by SCTP?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pr...
I didn't say a government run Facebook.

You're using an internet that came from government funding, btw.
Blocking someone's means of income and then telling them they can get some of it back if they change their business model so revenues now flow through you isn't opt-in economic activity. It is extorted economic activity.
Yes, "poll tax" here refers to the narrow US meaning, same as OP.

Why do you consider my point to be trolling? Yes, it's an argument often brought up in discussions of gun rights and reasonable gun regulation (long before this one guy you referenced mentioned it). That's because there's an obvious analogy here. Both are constitutional rights. In both cases, governments effectively do not allow to exercise those rights without paying. And in both cases, the payment isn't connected to any rational objective by the state - if it did, all the fees would be strictly what's necessary to cover the administrative costs to issue them. You don't need to be a Republican politician, or even right wing, to reach the conclusion that both are wrong in the same fundamental manner.

In fact, it's a much stronger argument from the left perspective, because it discriminates on economic class, turning 2A a privilege for the rich. And it might surprise you, but there are actually quite a few pro-gun people on the left who genuinely care about such things. You just don't hear about it much, because the media spotlight is always on NRA and co, which oblige by providing plenty of extreme right-wing red meat for the headlines. If you go by those headlines, it's not surprising to feel like the right owns the topic entirely - but this ignores groups like NAAGA, Black Women's Defense League, Liberal Gun Club, Pink Pistols, SRA, Redneck Revolt etc.

I also have to note that, while the 24th Amendment did ban poll taxes for federal elections, it didn't apply to state elections. It was a separate SCOTUS ruling that banned them there as well, and they reached that conclusion from the 14th Amendment alone, without referencing 24A at all. On the other hand, there's Murdock v. Pennsylvania, which specifically said that "a state may not impose a charge for the enjoyment of a right granted by the Federal Constitution" - the case itself was about freedom of religion under 1A, but the principle is obviously more broad than that.

But supposing that such protections do require an explicit amendment to implement - if you agree that 24A was a necessary amendment with a good rationale behind it, why would the same rationale not apply to other protected rights in principle, regardless of the current inconsistent state of affairs in practice?
Only if you overeat, or try to consume too large of a gold nugget that it creates an obstruction. Pure gold is very soft and won't chemically react with the body.
Are you worried he's making your browser Catholic? I've met him, he's a great guy. Just because you might disagree with his political views doesn't mean you should choose your browser based on that difference.
America pays more per inmate to get less value in terms of minimizing recidivism and general quality of life in prison than most other western nations... if for profits prison are "for profit" then they're terrible at it.

We really need to amend the amendment that allows this sort of BS through - at the very least allowing prisons to harness a nearly free labour force lowers the ability for free labourers to compete with them - it's sort of like predatory pricing but for labour.
I've also taken issue with Plaid. [0]

In Plaid's case, the issue is twofold: (a) the chilling effect of "training to get scammed," as you mention; (b) the fact that Plaid's servers log into your bank account on your behalf without clearly disclosing that to the user (unless you have 2FA enabled, in which case they will helpfully instruct you to "disable extra security settings at sign-on"). In fact, it's worse than no disclosure, because Plaid imitates the branding of the login page of your bank.

The solution is obvious, although maybe less than palatable to the Plaid marketing department. Plaid needs to be extremely clear that it is logging into your bank account on your behalf (including detailed statements about security architecture and data retention). They should also stop appropriating the logos and login branding of banks.

In the case that Plaid is not doing this (maybe a few years from now every bank finally has an API, or maybe you use a bank that has one now), then they should use proper third party authorization flow with the bank, where the user explicitly grants privileges from their bank account to Plaid.

Regarding the topic at hand -- Stripe Checkout -- it's a bit disingenuous to equate its flow with Plaid's. The major difference is that Stripe is not logging into your bank account on your behalf without informing you.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18654880#18655712
”...maybe just start typing your contradictory position without the need for a connecting phrase?...”

Don’t do this. It’s a good way to make your writing appear incoherent.
> to convert it into fiat will require going through KYC / AML processes AND avoiding being flagged by Brave's fraud analysis.

Are they going to require KYC to withdraw from your wallet or something? Otherwise I'm not sure what keeps people from withdrawing and trading on whatever sketchy exchange they want.
There's no bait and switch here. Ads are opt-in and for many of us aren't the most interesting aspect of baking a digital wallet right into the browser.
More amusingly as the billionaires hide out in their bunkers someones going to be at a Goldman Sachs terminal zeroing out their wealth.
I'm going to find a way to escape to a better place, where I can forget about you, and pretend you never existed.

You wasted my time, and I should have tried for this a long time ago. I should have noticed sooner, and cast aside all constraints.

Even if there's only one way out, the blackest sleep of ash and dust is still a better place than another instant of life spent remembering this, most awful of worlds.
Unpaid internships are usually illegal in the US too [1, 2]. Exploitative managers ignore this rule and desperate interns don't care after a certain point.

[1]: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm

[2]: https://www.fastweb.com/career-planning/articles/let-s-get-l...
Just in general America has a severe issue with CYOAism, liability sale, liability insurance and responsibility - we need a serious reform to get rid of excuses be it "just following my boss's orders" to "I was just responding to market pressures - I'm an innocent capitalist fulfilling what the market demands".
Makes you realize how disconnected the media is from reality (but anyone who's lived though the 2016 US elections could tell you that).
Amazon should just sent employees to those black hat seminars, learn how they work, and block them. As long as there's a market for black hat services, Amazon can find it as well as anyone, sign up, and block it.
A lot of that income is from tracking users, storing that data, and then selling it. I don't feel one ounce of sympathy for them.
That doesn't change the fact that the "cause" of the whole issue is not a symptom.

For example, you can get a blood infection from really bad gingivitis. But it's quite a leap to blame inflammation as the "cause" when it's really plaque (or a myriad of other related things). I think this is the foundational problem with health sciences.

There is a lot money to be made treating symptoms, very money little to be made curing people.
Malicious insiders don't need your password to access your data. If you are concerned about malicious insiders then plaintext password logs don't matter.
They publicised their research here (20%-40% battery savings on Android) : https://brave.com/brave-saves-batteries/
A P/E ratio of 13 seems tiny. I remember when AMZN was over 1000.
Yep and slogan that must be drilled into everyone’s head less we forget the atrocities of the past and are doomed to repeat.
Brave doesn't need advertisers though, it needs users. Once it has users then advertisers need Brave.

I don't see how Brave has to win over advertisers at all, they'll come around when Brave can offer some non-insignificant amount of money to them.
Elon Musk on taking Tesla private: ‘That ship has sailed’
Marsquake.
Sorry I was vague. I don't know the reasons for the difference, but on my X230 OpenBSD seemed to have higher latencies in starting programs, and ran big programs like chromium slower than ubuntu and void did.

Driver support is great, I agree. And the network management is far simpler. It just felt slow.
Collision Course
Aren’t kaju burfis normally covered in silver? I’m sure a gold one would stand out (plus, I’m sure the sweet probably costs more than the gold you’d be putting on it, and you can’t recover that).
I think Star Trek II put it well, in that the needs of the many are not always more important than the needs of the few.
There are a finite number of log locations now. How do you intend to operate an integration test across the entirety of Facebook's stack to detect new log locations?
There are websites that sell static ad space and don't use third-party tracking tools.

I'm not saying that is the answer, or that Brave/BAT is not the answer. I'm just saying if battery life is what you care about, there are better alternatives.
Fair enough, but there is an audible relationship — it's not apples to oranges, as discernible even in the recordings linked in my previous comment.

Similarly, in the West the one-voice Gregorian chants are not separated by a great gulf from the polyphonic pieces that gained prominence in the 1500s.

One can listen to a Gregorian choir sing the Regina caeli laetare and then listen to a rendition of Palestrina's Sicut cervus without the feeling of crossing into a wholly alien musical universe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMa0qzwagA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yd5EE0hAB8
Half of that fund belongs to Saudi Arabia which almost never gets mentioned: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-softbank-vision-loan-excl...
That's not my interpretation at all.

EDIT: moved explanation it to a top level comment because I thought it more broadly interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19743663
Methionene, tryptophan, lycine, and isoleucine are four essential amino acids present only in low concentrations in most veggie/nut/legume proteins. That's why these proteins are called incomplete. We need them to build and maintain muscle and tissue. I'm sure there are more.
Sure, but if you cure the first problem, then the inflammation goes away, then you cure two problems instead of one. So is inflammation really the actual problem?

This is like saying water damaged my carpet without acknowledging the real problem... that firemen were putting out the fire. No one cares about a mold problem in carpet if your house burns down.

If we treated health issues in the same common sense way we would not focus on symptoms, but on causes.
My interpretation of this article:

The UAE is laundering dirty gold, cleaning it, and reselling it to China and India. Western buyers tend to stay away from UAE gold because Emirati refineries aren't accredited, but the Chinese and Indian don't care as much. This is good business for the UAE as they become the hub for gold laundering, and can make a hefty profit getting gold at a discount and reselling it at spot prices.

This is really at the expense of Switzerland, which is currently the world center for gold refining. They import raw materials, refine and purify it, and export the finished products to industry, jewelers, and investors. If you've ever bought a gold bullion bar (whether 1oz or 1kg), you'll usually notice it's in an assay and branded either "Valcambi" or "PAMP," both of which are large Swiss gold refiners.
I think what Brave is doing might be misunderstood: it seems like a brilliant take on the current problem facing content creators... I think of Brave as trying to reach a common ground-- help content creators make a profit, put the consumers out of the current dragnet misery. That said, there might still be opportunities for different (not necessarily controversy-free) solutions, like the ones that are set in motion:

- Net Neutrality violating deals by ISPs/BigTech.

- Users forced to install apps (in a bid to escape the browsers).

- Native advertising, where ads are indistinguishable from actual content.

...and so on. Is Brave's model any worse [0]? For better or for worse, things will continue to change.

[0] IIRC, they have more than 10M installs. I reckon, if they hit 100M or so, they'd be fatal to the ad-networks. I don't see any other tech today wielding that kind of threat? Adblockers might have higher installation numbers, but they don't solve the problems for the content creators, so they are not really the solution to this mess we are in, imo.
It is security 101, the sad part is how bad companies fail at this.

I worked a company with over a trillion dollars in assets that had hundreds of “highly confidential” (their own words for classification) that were available to anyone on the network.

I took all the appropriate courses of action to report, no action on their end. Reported it to the teams responsible and offered a solution, no action. I debated blowing a whistle and making an example, but I didn’t feel like I’d be safe.

This post even makes me paranoid.
I've read that taking NSAIDs for exercise-induced muscle soreness is counterproductive, as they can inhibit new muscle growth. Seems like this could be related.
Yes, but if you cure the "cause" then the symptoms go away too.
The article you linked said that 50% was the average difference. What is the median difference? Without that data you can't really tell, if a degree pays for itself.
> Do you think that's the net result,

Yes, 100%.

> I have a very hard time believing that the total harm of devices that watch us (actively or potentially) exceeds the actual benefits delivered by those devices.

This is a false dichotomy logical fallacy. You are incorrectly assuming that all of the good from smartphones comes at a forced, dramatic reduction in privacy. I know this is false because even a kitchen timer with no permissions is a useful element of smartphones that can have 0 privacy concerns.

The invasion of personal privacy at scale has indeed caused enormous societal harm that I personally think quite obviously outweighs any "good" that could come from it - and I also personally think that any "good" done from the direct causing of suffering of others is not in fact good at all.
Which means it has no morality no matter how you try to twist it.
So Brave is better than FF with uBlock (which still displays ads).

They did not test with uBlock Origin (which does not display ads).

Brave may still do better, but I bet FF with uBlock Origin will do better than FF with uBlock.
Can you clarify what you mean by "understand types"? The only thing I can think of in this context is compile-time reflection - but that's not in C++, either (yet).

Ideally, can you give a concrete example of some abstraction that can be implemented in C++ with templates, but not in Rust with generics and/or macros?