skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember Appcelerator. In fact I'm still using it to this day. The core Titanium is now open source and the Apps are "true" native. Give them another look and you may be surprised: https://titaniumsdk.com
You should have proposed the pigeon post as the only next alternative! : )
is there a name/page/nonobfuscated version/git repo for that script?
Ask HN: How are you monetizing your OSS project?
Hey folks, question -- my buddy and I are working on a new OSS project that's been taking off recently and we're starting to gain some traction.

It's taking up A LOT of our time.

This is cool enough where we're actually considering quitting our day jobs to maintain it, but we still need to somehow feed ourselves...

I'm curious if there are other OSS maintainers here who have done it before and can give us their two cents (no pun intended) on monetization?

Do we ask for donations? patreon? just stick to sponsorships? Or is there another way we're missing (short of opening a company around it, which we'd rather not do for reasons out of the scope of this post).

Any help appreciated!
Kiwi browser for android supports chrome extensions. The chrome web store is horrible to navigate on mobile though.
Is adding a feature-flag really the same as pushing the feature into the browser immediately? It can easily just be part of a SWE needing the flag in place in order to continue work without impacting anything else, even if that thing never ever launches.

In general Google engineers don't tend to work on branches, especially long-running ones. Incremental small code reviews are the expectation. The general process would be to stick things securely behind flags and continue development without turning it on, even if it never ever launches.

Not saying this work should be done -- it shouldn't -- but code being pushed is not the same as "we're going to make this happen tomorrow, no matter what."
Your cells already know how to produce ATP from fat. (except for brain cells, and maybe a few others) there are more steps involved than the glucose pathway, but the cells already know them. All you have to do is up regulate those pathways in the cells that already have them. This is why your body makes/stores fat in the first place: it is a nice way to store a lot of energy for later use that doesn't have the problems of excess glucose in the body, if the body couldn't turn it into ATP it wouldn't bother making fat.

Ask a real biologist for details. I know this was covered in my high school classes 30 years ago, but I haven't studied it since so I don't remember details or know anything later research has discovered.
Nah, they want us to think they do. But bot clicks are clicks and can be charged. I read somewhere that 80-90% of facebook ad clicks were bots. That seems inline with the traffic I see on some commercial website I work on. Most traffic is from bots, crawlers, scanners and 'security researchers'.

Sometimes I pick up on actual fraud, like 'affiliate marketing' traffic 'boosters' that just result in someone clicking through a banner, making and order and not paying. 200 times in a day. Nobody cares, as long as the stats look good
You'll need an "approved" browser and potentially "approved" hardware to access the web. Since Cloudflare is on this too, most of the web will be locked for anyone who doesn't use mainstream hardware.
From a very top level view, this gives Google, and other websites, the ability to block requests from devices/browsers they don't approve.

This implements device level verification of the code running your browser. If the device identifies as something Google, or other implementing websites, don't approve, you'll get an error similar to how you see 404 errors for missing/wrong links.
Obviously, if you get paid to implement this you don't want the cognitive dissonance of knowingly doing something bad, so I'm sure those folks have already laid out their justification for this technology.

I wish Google could and would make Chrome closed source. It would at least give all those rebranded Chromiums (Opera, Vivaldi, Brave) a strong reason to reconsider their choice of engine, or at least maybe work together on a more divergent fork of it that stays away from Google's evil stuff.
Visualizing every job in the world
Yes, but we don't heed the warnings their stories foretell, because it's just science fiction, and obviously if it happened in a fictional book it could never happen IRL.
Just look around in this thread you can find people defending Google. It is not hard to think an engineer would actually want to work on this themselves.
L-theanine

Yeah! I've personally experimented (n=1) quite thoroughly with it. It truly reduces or eliminates caffeine jitters.

This product is excellent for energy on the go. Caffeine and l-theanine in a single pill. I keep a few in my bag. I don't know if there's anything special about this particular product. There are other ones that may be better/cheaper. But I've gone through a few bottles of it in the past years and am pleased: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MQWJYJ3

You can buy it separately but I don't see the point.

Well, clearly a lot of people like coffee and probably don't want to have a side of green tea with their coffee, so... you can see the point, right? =)

I do buy it separately. It's dirt cheap. I stir it into my coffee. Reduces caffeine jitter.

That all said, editorial time: caffeine is not awesome. It is a psychoactive substance (duh) and eventually it goes from "fun boost" to "I need this to feel normal." At least for me. I do have some every day but my goal is always to drink the smallest reasonable amount for me in order to manage my energy. Respect to people who drink 0mg.
Same, I do a lot of starlette/sqlqlchemy/etc. and I often miss Django and it’s batteries included approach. Django has its warts but my god is it productive.
Before the Internet, my friends and I would call the research desk at the local library. We'd sit around someone's house and have a debate over some topic. If, and when, we had a point of contention that we couldn't resolve with the resources at hand, we'd phone up the research desk. The folks at our local library were more than happy to place the phone down on the desk, go grab some reference material, and then pick the phone back up and give us a definitive answer.
I've willingly clicked on a couple ads sometime this year when I was desperately trying to find something that neither DuckDuckGo, Amazon, nor Google could find (namely, a very last minute plane ticket for an even remotely reasonable price). My thought being "since the regular results are SEOd to death, maybe the people willing to pay for me to look at their offer are of higher quality". Plot twist: they weren't. But at least that made me realize that my adblocker was disabled so I could at least fix that.
It will not be poisonous. It will just taste sour.
Does this follow the trend of car related fires only becoming news if it’s an electric car? Would it have been reported on at all if the source wasn’t suspected of being an electric car?
About a decade ago there used to be a site in the Polish internet called "Strata Kazika" (Kazik's Loss). At that time Kazik was one of the most vocal anti-piracy artists who equaled copying to stealing.

So the site's shtick was to take Kazik's newest album and copy it. Then delete to make place for another copy. In a loop. The site then counted how much money has been already stolen from Kazik in the process, and you could also copy albums by yourself locally and report it on the site, incrementing the overall counter. I have to admit that I have participated in this highly unethical venture myself, and as far as I remember we have collectively managed to steal billions of dollars this way.

We were supposed to split our loot and all get super rich. However, the site isn't available anymore. I suspect its author simply took the money and ran away...
> Apparently you expect the user to serve the process and not the other way around.

One of the ways to classify process control is by degrees of freedom: closed-loop, semi-closed-loop, open-loop. Anything but closed-loop processes require users to serve the process. That's by definition and there is no way to escape that fully. Sometimes you can make manual state adjustments to the process, sometimes you can "correct" aggregated data fed to outer process, sometimes you can't do anything about it.

In SCL/OL user is the oracle. Every business process management system (ERP) will be at least as complex as the process it models. The more generic the system, the less context-aware it is and thus typically the more complex.

You can pretend that SCL/OL control system should try and infer things to help users, but in fact that impedes correctness, because users are less likely to enter purposefully wrong value (mental default or validation-passing gibberish) than they are likely to agree with prefilled default value despite it being somewhat incorrect. Especially if the inferred default value is usually mostly correct.

A very crude example. Think of e.g. compass based boat steering control system. It will need occasional course correcting input to account for wind/current drift. Suppose you implement periodic prompt for course correction. Empty prompt will be more likely be filled with non-zero value. Default zero value will be more likely to be accepted unmodified, resulting in more jaggy course.
That was true in the late 1990s, but by mid-2000s everyone could get fast internet with no data caps.

That's when Steam started taking off, but music industry was still stuck in the previous century.
Don't forget Linux users. We exist.
Another tame article in The Register:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/25/google_web_environmen...

Despite the spec's half-baked state, the blowback last week was swift – in the form of a flood of largely critical comments posted to the WEI GitHub repository, and abuse directed at the authors of the proposal. The Google devs' response was to limit comment posting to those who had previously contributed to the repo and to post a Code of Conduct document as a reminder to be civil.

The usual way to deal with opposition these days.
Yes, because a feature flag shows intent to implement it before any real discussion have taken place with privacy and non-corporate security advocates.
> Is adding a feature-flag really the same as pushing the feature into the browser immediately?

"Don't mind me guys, I'm barely boiling the frog."
I've got a mortgage and two kids, I don't have a FAANG job and live very comfortably thanks. Stop spreading BS, you don't need to work for one of them to have a high paying tech job.
If you are curious what the betting markets think,

Manifold Markets is hovering around 30% with 225 traders that it is replicated before 2025.

https://manifold.markets/Mira/will-the-first-roomtemperature...

There's a few more similar questions on their news dashboard: https://manifold.markets/home?tab=superconductor%3F
Yeah, financial and social pressure is basically the only weapons we have against corporations when regulations don't exist. And honestly, financial pressure doesn't work at this scale or in this case.
The Browser application needs to pass a binary image check, and if the browser hash doesn't match Google database, you cannot proceed to the website (since your browser may be corrupted). A major big deal for non main-stream browser, and for non Google browser developers, extension developers (eg. AdBlock), etc. In summary, some websites (like banks, Netflix, etc) will no longer be available for non mainstream browser users. Also, even if you're using Google Chrome, you may need to run the latest version to satisfy the hash check. Every day, the number of broken websites will continue growing until all non Google Chrome users have a blocked internet.
And related:

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862494 - (530 points/1 day ago/398 comments)
But why do they care so much about this? Is it only for DRM on media playback?
Salesforce Document geneartor
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When was the last time you heard Google or anything Google-related backing down from getting their paws in deeper? It's no longer a fallacy when there's a sign next to the slippery slope.
> Is adding a feature-flag really the same as pushing the feature into the browser immediately? It can easily just be part of a SWE needing the flag in place in order to continue work without impacting anything else, even if that thing never ever launches.

Yes, because that's a such anti-consumer issue. It shouldn't exist in the first place, it should never be merged to master.
There's no reason to not keep it on a separate branch if you don't intend to use it.
Ah true. I'm using the wrong family name.
In medicine they say the dose makes the poison.

But in general it's a far more complicated causality chain. When weight gain leads to insulin resistance then sugar is poison. We have lifestyles that maximize both a lack of physical labor and an excess of high sugar foods.
Any useful tool to transcribe voice notes?
For whatsapp specially!
As year after year passes and nothing happens on the anti-trust front it is clear that the do-no-evil embrace of the boa constrictor will end in a fatal bone crushing event that no alternative vision of technology could survive.

The open minded tech comminity can move mountains but this is now bigger than a mountain.

At this point about the only slingshot manouevre that could help us escape this fate is a reasonably resourced sovereign entity fully underwriting an open source stack (desktop, mobile, browser, cloud, fediverse) and nudging / seeding a mass user base by making it mandatory for engaging with public functions, paying taxes, transacting is sovereign money etc.

Effectively by declaring a tech "liberation" war.

I don't give this scenario high odds of happening but hopefully not every sovereign is captured. History is not made by the dazed and confused indulging in debilitating apathy.
let me simplify that for you: how does a superconductor not violate one of the laws of thermodynamics?
Ok, so make an enormous capital investment in tech that will be outdated in two years - if not already outdated, as you mentioned AMD and Intel. Then, I'll need to hire geniuses who can extract juice out of this hardware at a scale that not even Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others could.

Or, I rent just as much top performance hardware as I need, scaling as I go along, and worry about execution and implementation of my niche application instead. You can see why cloud is winning right now.
America seems determined to do as little recycling as possible for weird culture war reasons, but even in the US construction rubble is fairly widely re-used and recycled:

https://www.epa.gov/smm/sustainable-management-construction-...

> 600 million tons of C&D debris were generated in the United States in 2018, which is more than twice the amount of generated municipal solid waste.

> Demolition represents more than 90 percent of total C&D debris generation, while construction represents less than 10 percent.

> Just over 455 million tons of C&D debris were directed to next use and just under 145 million tons were sent to landfills.
I have a website so I guess that makes me a publisher. Say I wanted to block Chrome on Windows and Firefox on Debian? How would I use this?
There's a classic blog covering this that has done the rounds here a few times. I recommend giving it a read if you don't think becoming a top achiever is possible through non-heroic amounts of sustained practice.

https://danluu.com/p95-skill/
Is https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... the best place to shame?
> Increased supply and higher competition leads to lower prices.

The "supply" of music, including music sold on CDs, is equally unlimited. What leads to the low Spotify price is that they have to compete with music piracy. CD prices weren't higher because CDs were expensive to manufacture and therefore limited in supply -- they weren't. Instead, they were more expensive because they didn't have to compete against piracy.
If this isn't the straw that breaks the camel's back, there is never going to be one.

Google needs to be broken up.

They own the browser market.
They own the web (through Adwords).
They own Search.
They own mobile.
They own most of the video sharing market with 2.5 billion monthly annual users.
They own a good chunk of email with 1.2 billion monthly annual users.

They have amassed an incomprehensible amount of power and influence over humanity and they have proven repeatedly that they are willing to use that power to the detriment of humanity and to entrench themselves further.

Google needs to be broken up.
Companies don't usually make a habit of having their employees work on something they don't intend to pursue.
I have a question: Last week I downloaded llama-7b-chat from meta's github directly (https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama) using the URL they sent via e-mail. As a result, I now have the model as consolidated.00.pth.

Your commands assume the model is a .bin file (so I guess there must be a way to convert the pytorch model .pth to the .bin file). How can I do this and what is the difference between the two models?

The facebook repo provides commands for using the models, these commands don't work on my windows machine: "NOTE: Redirects are currently not supported in Windows or MacOs.
[W ..\torch\csrc\distributed\c10d\socket.cpp:601] [c10d] The client socket has failed to connect to ...."

The facebook repo does not describe which OS you are supposed to use, so I assumed it would work on Windows too. But then if this can work why would anyone need the ggerganov llama code? I am new to all of this and easily confused, so any help is appreciated
I find it interesting that the author thinks "invasive user fingerprinting" would stop with WEI. If you really believe ad networks are _only_ fingerprinting users to fight fraud and will stop doing it after WEI, I have a bridge to sell you.

How else are they going to learn more about me and shove ads that they think I care about?
I lived in a place where they fished it, and definitely not rewarded adequately.
They used a really beat up 30+ year old boat at the crack of dawn, to first catch some other fish that is used to bait the tuna. I would be surprised after it's said and done that they got more than a few thousand for the tuna, in the end. It's a really dirty and smelly job paying peanuts.
And? Making people who can't help themselves from consuming DRM'd content jump trough hoops is much better than integrating this shit into the browser. Eventually media companies might have caved in and accepted DRM-free distribution like the music industry already has.
I usually use TranscribeMe! https://www.transcribeme.app/r
It also has ChatGPT integrated!
> That's the problem with medical personnel. They see the immediate act of "saving lives", e.g. putting a patient in a scanner ASAP, as their only job. All the documentation stuff is usually seen as a hindrance, sometimes as a way to cover someone's ass.

Thankfully, we have reasonable people in the management: people who understand that it is maintaining proper documentation (and properly shifting liability) is the one and true purpose of the system; the "medical caring" (or whatever it's called) is simply a by-product that would fall out of it naturally. If only that stupid line personnel (and they are stupid because why else would they have applied to such lowly-paid job?) would understand that and would start to change the world so that it would to match the written documents and instructions (not the other way around, that'd be blasphemous).
No, this is for DRM on web pages. End game is probably to force ads down your throat.
The UK has incredible hiking. All the rambling trails connecting everything are amazing. As bad there is something magical when you’re hiking around and a small country pub pops up.
Nothing will happen. People have been making the same complaints about every new crypto standard for decades, and yet here we are. TPMs are a thing, EME has been around for over a decade now, DRM on the web is as pervasive as it's ever going to get, and yet no one's user experience is any worse than it was before these technologies existed.
I imagine this is true. It was strange passing a mine in Bolivia owned by a company local to myself in the UK. Who got wealthy and who lost out due to the colonies is another question I imagine.
Yes, European thought is simply colored by the fact that Rome was the first civilizing empire in Europe. For people in the fertile crescent and the Levant, it was just another empire in a long line of empires. We shouldn't discredit how important that empire was, however. For most of the world, empires came and went with an average state of terminal stagnancy. The fall of Rome was like a springboard for the successor states to industrialize and colonize the entire world. That's impressive for a place with little previous history of civilization.
It's so that you don't modify their precious page content (ads and trackers) with "unwanted" software hacks.
My parents have a photo of me from the mid-90s on their fridge; I'm shirtless, sitting at a computer, working in an IDE.

Not that much has changed. Sometimes I put on a bathrobe for Zoom calls now.
I’m a couple of years into this professionally and have been programming for almost 10 years now.

My greatest fear is to reach a point where I don’t feel like "I love this shit" as I do right now, I hope I’ll feel the same as you in 40 years!
I imagine also anyone who, despite being on an approved distro, has had to enroll their own key to build and sign drivers as well.
I hope that this result can be independently reproduced. The theory behind superconductivity in this material is nearly absent. I find this odd.
"According to their website, Coutts requires clients to have at least £1 million in investments or borrowing, including a mortgage, or at least £3 million in savings." To me it sounds as if he's no longer a millionaire, and that his political opinions are merely the reason that Coutts won't overlook their rules.
Whether or not the browser is open-source has no impact on this issue. The monopoly would not exist because Google/Apple/whoever are the only people allowed to make browsers. Google would simply have the power to make all of its services (search, docs, etc) totally unusable on any browser that isn't a version of Chrome compiled and distributed by them, thus making all other browsers useless to the vast majority of the population. Because analytics data is money, other companies would have financial incentive to follow suit.

By the way, Chrome contains proprietary code. Chrome and Chromium are not identical.
I mention that above this sentence in the image - glad someone was "paying attention to" the text ;)
I agree, but I specifically said other than paying attention to injuries. Also, the article is about wall squats, I guess these are not done with weights.

But the part about deadlift brings me again to my point. When I started working out about two years ago, a friend gave me a few tips and this included squats, and no deadlift. So to this day, it stayed like that. In the past I would've spent way too much time figuring out what is better for beginners, and probably wouldn't have done anything. Now I have a routine, so I am thinking about trying out some more things, or checking for tips on how to do existing things better etc. Slow and steady works really well for me.
haha ty ty!
I'm not an Apple user, but from what I've heard, battery usage is the main reason to prefer Safari to Firefox on MacOS.
They can finally, finally get rid of those pesky ad blockers.

Google is an ad company. They're not a browser company.
In America, a "social credit" scheme that ruins lives is perfectly fine when it's done by private corporations, and people will tell you that "freedom" means that corporations should not be accountable to anyone other than their shareholders.