skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brave search is private in no-user-identification and no-reidentification-via-record-unlinkability senses always, both legs: we do not build user profiles. As with all engines, we learn from head of query log and what link is clicked. That is an essential first party purpose, but we collect no personal data because nothing is linkable across queries and clicks to any person.

If you opt into the Web Discovery Project (it's off by default and a separate setting; only in Brave), then your queries and clicks across all navigation are turned into anonymous data by dropping any with enough entropy to suspect they bear personal data, dropping IP and headers, and otherwise ensuring record-unlinkability. See

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-Wh...

and

https://github.com/brave/web-discovery-project/blob/main/mod....

Because Premium Brave Search has no ads, it's not useful _per se_ for ad measurement, conversion, or modeling. But I took your question do mean "do premium search queries and outbound link clicks feed into the search engine?" -- they do. But no ads, and no way to model directly how an ad would perform, beyond the big data benefit that all search engine use to help ad sales and matching.

Last thing: with off-by-default (opt-in) Brave Rewards user ads (push => new tab on click), the matching agent is in the browser, inactive until opt-in, off upon opt-out, and you can clear its history. Confirmations and revenue shares via Chaumian blind signature protocol (Privacy Pass uses same crypto alg). No server-side ad matching at all. Same for Brave News (for ads and all feeds, everything).

With search ads, matching is server-side (after the edge proxy that drops IP etc.) based on only the query, device, country, and timezone. Anything more personalized, we can go to client-side matching and ad insertion. I hope this helps.
It's typically in the shark fin above the rear windshield, which is not easy or convenient to RF isolate.
> The other company.. does what?

Has hundreds of millions of users and had an awful lot of advertiser accounts. How many accounts does SpaceX have? Yes, a lot more now that they've got their Internet service, but managing users is labor intensive, even if you don't provide many means of contact. Advertisers, especially large brand accounts, is labor intensive too, and if you lose half your big accounts because you cut staff willy-nilly, there goes a lot of revenue.
I fall asleep a few minutes after I lay down on bed, does not matter if it's day or night. If I can't fall asleep at night and I know I have to be fresh next day, I focus on each muscle in my body and consciously relax it. I start from muscles above my eyes, my jaw, my neck, upper and lower arms (one after another), all fingers, then same with legs. Once I'm done with all parts of my body I start again. Sometimes I also imagine black velvet during this exercise. I usually fall asleep after second round of relaxing my muscles.
Free speech absolutism is a clear and useful term for the belief that anybody should be allowed to say anything, i.e. that absolute freedom of speech is inherently a good thing. It's not synonymous with "freedom of speech" (i.e. the "absolutism" part isn't redundant) because there are versions of the idea of freedom of speech that aren't absolute, that don't allow anybody to say anything they like.

The version of freedom of speech that is encoded in US consitutional law (the first amendment and the long history of supreme court judgements on the subject) is an example. There are forms of speech that are not protected and there is a mainstream interpretation of freedom of speech that does not see restrictions against defamation, incitement of violence, etc., as infringements of it. A "free speech absolutist" would see these as infringements of freedom of speech, so the term is useful to distinguish that particular view.

You're seeing the term used a lot on Hacker News because there are people here who routinely argue that any speech should be allowed on a platform that claims to support freedom of speech. These people are free speech absolutists (at least in the context of the debate about online platforms) and, if they feel their views on the matter are correct, shouldn't be offended to be called that.
>claims

>it's possible

>I don't know if that's true, but it's possible.

Sounds an awful lot like a conspiracy theory, my dude.
On Windows it downloads the updater in the background and then executes it when you next restart Firefox.

(At least, as far as I can tell)
In folks' opinion, what are the best resources to learn Flutter beyond the official docs? The official docs are pretty solid but I am looking for something else — maybe a book?
Yet another sketchy and unprofitable company that has been subsidized so that it can act as the intermediary for human (teenage really) discussion.
You might want to retrain it on your voice. It consistently works poorly for me, but never this poorly, even when yelling at a HomePod in another room.
I guess it would depend on the venture. Do something you love to do, and you never work a day in your life.

It takes time and dedication, but I didn't work myself into the ground doing it. But I did have part time jobs when I was starting out.

I think its something you create for yourself that grows over time, when you work at a job, you are enriching someone else's vision. That's ok if your visions are aligned, but if you are working at a job that doesn't align with your value system, there is only so much of that you can take.
> The Jam dev team recently shipped a major refactor of all the state handling in the app a few weeks ahead of schedule

To me that doesn't sound like a thing to be proud of.

1. You approved a plan to have a refactor that lasts several weeks. Even for big companies that's usually an anti-pattern. It even contradicts your own advice of "make things better as you go".

2. You tremendously overestimated the required effort (i.e. absolutely failed at planning)

3. You got lucky this time and two wrongs made a right.

Also, your example suffers from survivorship bias. Of course everybody has examples where planning paid off. But there are also plenty of examples where planning was a waste of time, or where people were following outdated plan for the sake of following the plan. "More planning" is a bad advice. A good advice helps distinguish areas that benefit from "more planning" from areas that will suffer from it. But that is hard and nuanced.
Need based on what?
Not joking at all, this really was generated. I have now wasted hours amusing myself and others with epic poems, rap songs, limericks, short stories and such. This thing is pretty incredible, especially how it has context about referenced objects/concepts, and can alter and evolve its output based on further input. All in mere seconds.
The police themselves weren't threatening to lynch anyone, but there was a mob of hundreds of people gathering who appeared to intend a lynching. I see no indication that the black men conducted any violence and simply being armed is perfectly legal in the US, as modern-day right wingers love to emphasize when the people doing it are the right color, and they attempted to leave peacefully after seeing that there was not imminent danger of a lynching.
Being a donor doesn't save you from being arrested, see Madoff https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/12/madoff-and-company-...
My reading is this is a very cordial invitation to hang himself under oath. If you think SBF is guilty, than you have to believe he'd be insane to "participate in a hearing." (If you think he's innocent, it's still a crazy thing to do. I'd encourage anyone who hasn't seen Don't Talk to the Police to watch it. https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE )
No, it is actually the cozy relationships that wins Booz the contracts. You can't compete because you do not have the right relationships.
"But only post-Musk is CSAM on Twitter becoming a focus of attention in the media."

False. Do queries about this issue prior to Musk's takeover.
The wheels turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. This is a major case and it will take time for various agencies to put all the pieces together.
I'm far from an expert here, but don't most modern branch predictors actually keep a shift register of the last few conditional branches, hash that branch history with the instruction's address, and use that as the index into the predictor's state table, and assume hash collisions won't happen? (Hash collisions only have a material impact if two conditional branches in the same hot code path collide, which is much more rare than general hash collisions.)

If my understanding is correct, slots aren't really "taken up", but rather avoiding the branch predictor reduces the probability of hash collisions for other branches.

I also have a question for the crowd: for indirect branch target prediction, are the BTB slots actually tagged with the address? If you have BTB miss, do you pre-emptively stall the pipeline? It's more power-efficient to do so, but maybe it's better to avoid tags and tag-checking and spend that transistor budget on more BTB slots, and just go ahead and mispredict if you get a collision on BTB slots.
I thought about commenting on this. But I figured that people would just take the argument down the path of indirectly competing about who the most passionate hacker (tm) is.
On a similar theme, perhaps: https://interconnected.org/home/2021/06/16/horsehistory
> It's not cool to paint pressuring employees to work long hours as a good thing, and we need to be more vocal about this

Just stop, please. There's nothing wrong with working long hours and people enjoy it, let them live in peace.
It took him this long to abandon hope of getting a fair trial in his native land ?
Sooo... Debian is good if you don't want up to date browsers.
I'm genuinely shocked people haven't been redirecting this to Tubgirl. Frankly, I'm a little disappointed.
Sony has a stupid update app as well, but Nikon and Pentax? Download a firmware file, put it on the root of the SD card, and boot itin a particular way or goto some menu and runu the update. Its a very 90's process but easy and simple compared to Olympus and Sony.
I got the Ricoh gr3x and I LOVE it. Actually use it way more than my Sony a6400 now. The main reasons for me, a hobbyist street photographer:

- size: The Ricoh is actually pocketable. Now every time I go out, I have it in my pants or jacket pocket.

- snap focus and snap distance priority: a godsend for street photography.

- convenience and speed: since I usually have it on hand, and by default on snap distance priority, it takes me a littler over 1 second to turn the camera on and snap a picture.

That said, I did order a Fuji x100v so my wife and I can both have a camera with us when we go out. Also, they are different as you mentioned
they've long banned nazi stuff from appearing to german users since that is illegal there.
Not unless you know you will be asked about weather in the Bahamas.
> We have infrastructure solutions today

Prove it. If you say it's a solved problem, then go ahead and deploy the replacement. What should power ships if not fossil fuels? Sail? Batteries? Hydrogen? Go ahead and tell me the replacement and then deploy it at scale. If it needs some money to be cost effective, then subsidize it so that it's cost effective and deploy the replacement. No wall street needed. No trading needed. Just deploy the replacement and subsidize it as needed.

> Of course a carbon tax won't invent fusion - but I think it would be madness to make the case that people or industries don't adjust their consumption to adapt to taxes.

Yes, but we do not want industries to use less energy, which is all that cap and trade will accomplish. What we need is replacement energy.

>Keep in mind we have 30 years of data that shows cap and trade programs achieve their objectives and are pretty stinking cost effective.

No we don't. You are conflating the reduction of energy usage (which creates global famine and de-industrialization) with the deployment of a replacement. We do not have 30 years of data that cap and trade is effective at solving the problem of transforming our energy infrastructure, cap and trade is only effective at reducing usage. And it does not follow that reducing usage of fossil fuels will, by a type of inevitability, cause replacements to appear that are powered by market magic. It will just mean less shipping, which again means famine and de-industrialization.
We’re building our Kubernetes pipeline in Gitlab
Can't read the article but how did they cash out? Use the mobilecoin as collateral to buy btc and transfer the btc out?

Example: take $6 in mobile coin and pump to 60, then borrow $30 using the $60 as collateral and buy $30 worth of bitcoin and finally transfer that bitcoin out. You then have a 5x return ignoring cost to pump?
At this point I think we should stop pretending they were separate entities...
The thing is, Harvard could very likely fully-fund everybody's tuition from endowment, while continuing to allow the endowment to grow. I can't remember where I read that, I'll try to find a reference this evening.
Because blue check was released with no issues what so ever?
I don't think I implied making a package wasn't simple...from my comment:

> With that said, it is a mature, standardized process, and is fairly painless in the self-hosted/non-upstreamed case
Reddit is petty free speech from the site admin perspective. The vast majority of moderation on Reddit is done by the community (i.e. subreddit mods), no one is stopping you from creating your own free speech absolutists subs.
> With smartphones they are there in clould already

What? I would never trust my photos to automatically go to some cloud storage. Who knows who would have access to them?

Instead I download the photos from all the family phones on a regular basis. I copy them to an external drive in my house. Then they backed up to a cloud service, but they are encrypted before they are backed up and the cloud service is only a backup. We can't actually see the photos on that cloud service. It is just fire protection (and yes, I have pulled the photos and videos back down from the cloud service to make sure it is backing them up correctly).
If you want to call Sam a liar, be my guest. But it's his claim. Plus the $24 million from Ryan is documented.

If Sam isn't lying, then that's 40 million + 24 million = 64 million to Republicans. Which is more than the roughly 40 million to Democrats.

All of this is from public information and Sam's claims. Where's the conspiracy theory, my dude?
> “Right, boss, apparently because you keep talking about freedom, a large group of people are taking it to mean they have ‘freedom’ to harass people with slurs and all sorts of abuse. People are leaving the site because of it, and advertisers are pulling ads.”

> That seems bad. Quick, have someone write up some rules against hate speech.

> Level Four: “We’re the free speech platform without CSAM, infringement or hate speech!”

This is where you have to draw the line and say: "Nope, hate speech is too subjective. I disagree with what they are saying, but unless it's against the law I will defend their right to say it"
Would you bet your liberty on it? For what upside?

Say Waters throws only softballs. Why wouldn't Republicans on the committee seize the opportunity to make her look foolish and compromised by throwing hardballs?
I can't see your email and you can't see mine, but I may see your tweets even though I don't know who you are.
Precisely. Big lenses should be dump peripherals to phones.
....per trip. What about lifetime?

With a more pessimistic 6.5MPG, using mbell's math, that's 82 cents per mile in fuel. Electric is 19 cents per mile.

An average semi lasts 750,000 miles: https://www.tristatetruck.com/blog/posts/what-is-the-average...

Let's assume for a moment that Tesla has made a motor and batteries that will last that long (far from guaranteed). Heck, let's take some random internet claims at face value and say that the motor will last "millions" of miles and the batteries will last 300,000 miles: https://www.vehiclehistory.com/articles/how-many-miles-will-.... Will these batteries last 300k with a likely use case of being driven to their absolute maximum range every single day?

In that 300,000 miles, the fuel savings of electric will save you 300k * (0.82-0.19) = $189k. Replacing all the battery modules in a Model 3 (82kWh) will cost somewhere in the range of $25k. How much would replacing this giant battery cost?

It's possibly better, but the math isn't particularly clear.
Mars shines high in UK skies
It's "not particularly relevant" except for the part where it was the reason they were banned.

Deliberately misgendering someone is not the same as making fun of them. The Babylon Bee's entire punchline is just that they're using a hateful slur.
LET THERE BE LIGHT

(reference: https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf)
What version of Firefox do you have installed? The up to date version is 107, released almost half a month ago. If you're on 106 or earlier, you're not running an up to date browser.

Which might be fine! If that's the kind of system that works for you.
That's a pretty insightful analogy!

Bolting an entire keyboard on to a monitor to add a single extra button...

Thankfully the cost of adding physical atoms prevents such outrageously dumb ideas.
Deswampifying Florida is one of the greatest environmental tragedies ever committed. Up there with the building of the Glen Canyon and Hoover Dam. Shortly below is attempting to control the Mississippi River Delta.
GP didn't say "layoffs are inhumane", but that the manner in which people have been fired is inhumane.
It adds a few more steps.

It's a good rule of thumb that if you are hacking you should target victims in another country other than your own. I think the Netherlands (say) could get you extradited from the US, but it is a lot of work and the whole process of investigation leading up to to that extradition is going to be slowed down since the police won't be able to use the same powers they could do if you were in their jurisdiction. Most likely they'll go prosecute some easier case and only go after you if the results of your hack are particularly larger, visible and embarrassing.
Based on the fact that they've gone through several waves of layoffs and nothing significant has broken yet. If anything, it's gotten better now that I don't need to log-in to scroll through someone's feed. Best change they've made in years, from where I'm standing.

But generally, yeah. I've heard a lot of people question Twitter's opex and headcount over the years, from HN to daily standup meetings. Twitter is a big company that ships a small handful of products, of which only Twitter for iOS and Twitter for Web really seems to matter. As long as they don't fire their sysops and iOS developers, most Twitter users would probably never notice a difference.
Maybe try this simple counting technique inspired by mindfulness meditation: http://www.dirk-loss.de/calmyourmind/
The author brings up some important information that is not always easily noticed. The university should definitely setup a task force to look into the matter and give the author a paid position on the task force.
This seems like it isn't really any of my business. The guy is doing what he needs to do, and life goes on, even if it's not in an optimal configuration.
The issue with the essay system is coming up with an evaluation criteria that isn't completely biased and prone to manipulation.

The essay system favors people who hire admissions consultants to write them, or who study the online guides about what types of essays get into Harvard. They also tend to chase sensational sob stories - the claims within those stories are never verified by admissions officers.

I can't find the study at the moment on google, but I recall some work asking to end essays in admissions packages since it discriminates against Black and Hispanic applicants who do not have the background resources to write appropriate admissions essays.
‘ are “expected to work” through that period.’

That’s the bit that makes no sense though. A lay off means I get to fuck off. Bye. You cut ties with me. Pay me what I’m owed and then leave me be to find new work. Do not expect me to work knowing I’m being let go.
ESA Fully Funds Moonlight, a GPS and Starlink-Like Lunar Constellation
He got high on his own supply and put too much into the scheme. He can't exactly threaten to stop donating if he has no money to spare for it. Absent that, the PR value of being able to frame it as fighting corrupt business practices is enormous.
I've been reading this forum since years, and generally its perception of photography is rather technical and very proud to achieve perfect photos with the right color balance and all that. Sure it's nice to know all those technical concepts, so you can be conscious when destroying them, and have fun.

Concerning photography tech, it's great to talk about sensors, how mobile camera is being achieved nowadays, like explained in those Pixel blog posts, or even about analog photo development works.

Hey HN, enjoy bad photos, take pictures with the worst camera you can find. I've read in some comments here that you need to take at least 10k photos first until you get better, this is not a sport
Navigate to the camera app? The camera button is on the home screen. I can be taking a picture or a video just about as fast as I can raise the phone.
As things stand Wikipedia is pretty good. Non-contentious topics are free to edit by everyone, contentious/political/hotbutton/etc topics have restricted editorship.

I do not sense any specific bias. As usual, "freedom of speech" does not imply a right to be listened to.

Also, I do not buy this dystopia claim. In 99.99% of all topics we know exactly what is true and what is not. The sky is blue, clouds are condensed water, the earth is a sphere, there is racism, there is poverty, wealth is unevenly distributed over the planet, hygiene helps prevent sickness, vaccinations have prevented a lot of suffering, social security is expensive, etc, etc.

The facts are easy. We used to argue about consequences stemming from these facts and what do to about it. These days we tend to confuse our disagreements with "alternate facts".

It's really not that hard to stay informed.
If they wanted him, they would have gotten him already. This is regular every-day corruption.
How would (e.g.) strings work in this FFI, considering that wasm doesn’t have a built-in string type or any way to pass variable-length data to a function without allocating space for it in the instance’s memory, and languages have different native string representations (UTF-8 vs UTF-16 vs “UTF-16”)?
The hilarious part is they literally buried the lead in the last paragraph. Nothing says "our readers will definitely think this guy deserved to get fired and not read any further if we tell them this" than burying it in the last paragraph.
Backyard Ballistics
The last few years I've been working on a fairly big django project written by someone learning the problem domain and python/django at the same time.

I have a lot of similar stories and I you are absolutely right to encourage people to learn the basics, at least (looking at you, indexes and perf tools).

We're talking about having our cpu hitting 80-90% and rising internal temperature to 70-80C, while executing a task thats normally performed tens or hundreds of times during the workday.

A couple of carefully planned indexes, a bit of sql shuffling, is all it takes sometimes.

The upside of working with cheap bare metal servers is that you catch these things early on (5 concurrent users and your server is toasted). Fun times.
You can now completely disable automatic updates of Snap packages. [1]

[1] https://snapcraft.io/blog/hold-your-horses-i-mean-snaps-new-...
Have you tried submitting it?
It actually seems quite easy to train a separate classifier on top of this to censor bad messages