skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Currently my trust of Google is much greater than my trust of Brave.

What has Brave ever done that comes even close to trying to DRM the entire web?
I live in a majority-black city in the Deep South, and I can think of three restaurants within five minutes' drive (and at least one more within ten minutes) where takeout orders are literally placed on a rack once they're ready if you paid online. You don't have to speak to anyone.

If you wanted to steal a meal, you could do it pretty easily.

One fast food, three fast casual.
You have been able to do that with VMs for a long time
Are you happy with them?
But definitively not universal.

You can't pursue all goals equally well, unless you don't pursue goals at all. So when you start talking about "goal representations", you implicitly talk about a set of possible sub-goals - the set you would like to be able to represent, and the process by which you plan to pick them, implicitly defines the actual goal.

You're not interesting either, "rationalist", and I think you believe a lot of false things too. But unfortunately people who should know better listen to you.
Gravity doesn’t add energy to satellites in orbit. It changes the direction of motion but not the velocity. In effect it’s no different than rotating a solid object where electromagnetism keeps all the atoms in the same relative position.
"usable browser"
Anecdotally, I am sceptical that this is true (at least universally). My dad grew up with animals, and his family named and are plenty of them.
> Chrome gained traction because IE was really, really bad. Now it has mindshare and you might could argue that Google maintains this mindshare with malpractice.

Chrome copied lots of stuff from Opera, and Opera had 2.5% of marketshare. Firefox (who I personally didn't enjoy as much as Opera) had benefited from a grasroots campaign had taken years to get 35% of marketshare. Both were nobrainers compared to how broken IE was, and they were on the market years before chrome.

So.. Yeah. Chrome was a good product. But competitors had showed that being a good browser without insane advertising was never going to be enough.
Walked into year-end review and manager said "we're promoting you to Staff." No plan, no path, that was it. In retrospect maybe it was because I was always helping people out when they got stuck or just taking new tasks from the queue when I was done with my assignments, or any of a hundred other things. I never asked why. He may have told me why, but I probably wasn't listening.
There's immense value in ChatGPT's answers, you just need to accept that it's fallible.
What makes it harder is the naysayers. Change is more likely when people think it is possible.
> PCI and HIPPA

Neither of those are political or ideological. No one is arguing on any side of the aisle that companies should be able to indiscriminately share medical or financial information.

> It can include abortion

Why can it include abortion? To me and many others, abortion should be no more of a religious argument than whether I can get psuedophredrine to treat sinuses. The government already pressured companies to suppress information early on in Covid that everyone now agrees shouldn’t have been suppressed - that the vaccines were not 100% effective and that you could still spread Covid if vaccinated.

> FTC cannot force companies to filter specific content, it will leave it to the market to demand lawful categories parents want to use. Even adults want this.

And the “market” already has filtering mechanisms that allow parents to filter what their children can see. It’s built into iOS and the carriers offer a service.
It's likely that both will happen.
You cannot market nature, but you CAN market everything around it: Tourism, clothing/footwear, camping gear, even technology (cameras, GPS etc). All of them to give you the "upper hand" over your peers - And of course, you can buy that from us!
Air resistance is proportional to v^2.

My dad told a story once where he was driving out west borrowing one of his brother's cars with a broken speedometer. After he got back he said to his brother, "the car just seemed to top out at a certain point" and his brother said "yeah, that's about 85 mph" (the national speed limit was 55 mph at that time). So at 85 mph the air resistance equaled the force the engine could apply and the car wouldn't go any faster.
It's too fast (https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perfherder/graphs?timerange=3...).
Corporate America demands more grinding until stock prices improve
My wife. Teaches people to ride horses. Grew her business by word of mouth. Takes cash and checks, no Venmo. Lines up rides mainly through a landline phone. (No cell service in our valley.) Nominally there is a domain name for the farm, but no real web site, she does do some business through email.
There's nothing here that precludes both types of work. Some people can do "unforgettable" work, and create "experiences", *and* some people can do "just" work, and create solutions.
Carwow did a test fairly recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvwOa7TCd1E
I don't think this is the case.

A wavy wall with a wave amplitude of X has the same toppling resistance as a straight wall with buttresses on both sides of length x/2.

Assuming this stackoverflow answer is correct[1], the sine wave has (slightly) less bricks.

[1]: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1500468
I believe the cofounder and former CEO of Mozilla and creator of the world's most popular web language can maintain a web browser.
You know, I don't think I've seen this idea before. I've seen discussion of "can we swap the whole battery pack at a station", "can we make the cells pourable", people carrying generators, etc., but I've not seen the idea of a removable part of power pack for limp-home situations. A modern equivalent of the Jerry can.
... My decision to stop using this back in November continues to be validated; I read light-on-dark maybe two or three times slower than dark-on-light. AIUI this isn't that unusual; studies tend to show that some portion of people find dark-on-light sufficiently more legible, some light-on-dark. Thus, the obvious correct answer is to provide _both_.

Very odd. Like, they already _have_ a light mode; you'd imagine that maintaining it would be relatively cheap, especially given that the Twitter UI hasn't changed significantly in years.
You are exaggerating here.

While there was for sure a long period of time where Chrome was significantly faster than Firefox, there was never a time where Firefox was particularly bad. Firefox always oscillated between "really good" and "totally ok".

I’ll agree with you that Chrome really changed the web development experience with incredible tooling compared to what you could get back then but this had no impact on most users experience.

I totally remember Chrome being the fastest/snappiest browser, especially the first versions but Firefox has never been slow.
Ongoing social engineering attacks via GitHub / NPM
NDAs, employment law, currency changes -- fees for changing, plus wiring money -- and all manner of national / state / provincial / local taxes, different pension and hiring rules, etc.

and then there is the idea that you have no idea if i am who i really am, or if i'm the one doing the work. i could be a face on Teams Calls for what is essentially 5 Vietnamese kids, and we're all in different jurisdictions, so if we decide to rip off your IP, who would you sue? could you even get that lawsuit off the ground?

and for all that risk you're eating 4% to do currency conversions & wire transfers. or else i'm standing up an offshore subsidiary at a cost and then dealing with payroll tax, filing costs, local HR and accounting, etc, as well. there is, potentially, a lot of liability and headache in that.

and then there is the cultural, language, timezone, etc. difference.
I understand "common ownership of means of production" is just plain communism in the way Marx intended when it refers to "post-capitalistic economic organisation".
They have much more changes than just compile flags. Here's the repo where they maintain their patch set: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/master/patches
Ironically, the erosion of company -> employee loyalty has destroyed employee -> company loyalty, which has made it hard for companies to retain talent they've helped foster. While it might seem attractive for a company to invest little-to-nothing in keeping talent, they're making small short-term gains for a long-term loss. The trouble is that it isn't viewed as a loss, it's viewed as business-as-usual: 'it's so hard to find skilled people'.

The rise of publicly-traded companies doesn't help this, as it tends to encourage short-term tactics over long-term strategy.
> but adding their own bloat.

Brave runs faster and consumes less memory for me. Perhaps their additions aren't bloat at all?
Some recommendations on the AWS front (not sure if some of these are already implemented since the postmortem does not go into AWS details).

- Setup nightly automatic snapshots of EBS volumes (this is supported natively now in AWS under lifecycle manager).

- Use EBS volumes of the new GP3 type, and perhaps use provisioned IOPS.

- Setup a auto-scaling group with automatic failover. Of course increases cost, but should be able to automatically failover to a standby EC2 instance (assuming all the code works automatically which the blog post indicates is not currently the case).
FWIW Our Audis (Q5, A6 allroad) have significantly better MPGs than the advertised ones

The Q5 advertises 28mlg on the highway but i consistently hit 30+ here

And the wagon hits 35mpg on the highway very often even though it only advertises 26. It actually turns off 2 of the 6 cylinders when it senses that it can.
> My child is probably more like her than I would want to believe. Both struggling mentally and needing help

fascinating take here. granted a very empathic one, but also extremely naive
There's going to be some harsh language in the post, because this stuff pisses me off to no end, and what you're talking about, ultimately, is none of those things.

We've allowed a lot of people to become really fucking lazy. That's the bottom line. Baby Boomers, some Millennials (not all), and a lot of Gen Z.

Generation X had no choice but to gain a strong knowledge of computers if they wanted to do anything on the Internet, because it was still difficult, it still required a little reading, and you couldn't just press the WPS button on your router to connect your new MacBook Pro.

Every single problem the web faces is that. Period.

A lot of people never had to learn jack shit, so they don't know jack shit. They can't tell the difference in a legitimate website versus one that isn't. They don't know how to read a web address. They can't figure out that irs.gov is legitimate and irs.4doad04ldud.com isn't. I have met people who are 50+ years old who have used Windows computers since they were 22 years old, but look absolutely goddamned dumbfounded when you tell them, "Just click on the Start button and go to Word."

Fuck.

Them.

Fuck every single one of them. We have tolerated lazy uninterested users for long enough. I'm not saying every computer user needs to be able to debug assembly code and fix their own driver issue by rewriting it from the ground up. I'm saying that as a society, we have progressed past the point where you can throw your hands up and say, "I'm JuSt NoT A CoMpUtEr PeRsOn!"

To quote Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "NOT GOOD ENOUGH! NOT GOOD ENOUGH, DAMMIT!"

And the entire industry across the entire planet and every single national, state, county, city, provencial, whatever government is going to have to get onboard, come together, and say, "Okay, here's a baseline set of knowledge about how computers and our communications systems work that every single human being needs to have."

You cannot "tech" your way out of this problem. Not without massive corporate and government overreach and invasion of people's privacy. Lazy shitty people are just going to have to be made to suffer until they stop being lazy and shitty. There are plenty of average IQ people who can grasp the basics of how their computer and the Internet work - but they're never made to. Well it's time to start making them.

The dumbing down of every single technological product and concept does our species no favors.
"become a caricature of yourself"

this is definitely comedy
> you'll be homeless

We ran out of carrots, but we have this nice stick here.
Processing 160M of records (with 4 JOINs and 1 aggregation) in real-time
Modules. No more duplicating code into header files, just import a module like in modern languages. I love C but really hate headers.

Then, second for namespaces.
The Roman occupation lasted until the 5th century CE, which is 1.5 millenia ago. Prior to that, our knowledge about Iron Age Britain seems to be mostly sourced from Romans, with all the biases they brought in. The Celts (which is a very vague term historically) seem to have been "tribes" and engaged in foreign trade but I'm not entirely sure we have enough information to say they had a "throne" in a meaningful sense, certainly not for a span of 500 years or more (if we generously interpret "thousands" as exactly 2000 years).
> I bring a spare 5L tank with petrol under the backseat always.

Not too safe of an idea...

> An EV could achieve the same with a small portable powerbank, not?

Say that tank gets you 70km. You'd need 15 kilowatt-hours or 54 megajoules of battery, or about 56kg and about 25L of volume to do the same.

> An EV could achieve the same with the back-seats replaced by additional battery-packs, not? I'd presume this might be too heavy or not allowed due to regulations, but technically just adding ridiculous amounts of batteries would solve this.

Maybe, but it's also ridiculous amounts of money. Also, really increasing the mass of the vehicle is enough to hurt efficiency, so...
In my experience, people like the following remote features:

* Where's my car? Press the button, get a honk.

* Lock the doors. If they're powered, close themi first.

* Unlock the doors. If they're powered, open them afterward.

* Warm up the car, it's cold outside.

* Cool down the car, it's hot outside.

So that's five buttons on a remote, maximum. None of them require connection to infotainment systems.
I have a design degree and have spent time roughing out kerning pairs in FontForge, so while I'm sure I'm not the most qualified person in the world, I do have a bit of cred here.

Kerning is hard, not just because of the skill you need to eyeball things well but because there is so much variance to account for. Very tedious.

That said, I think there's an art to it, so it's probably fine that I disagreed with some of the choices.

With Quijote, I wanted the u closer to the Q than the solution did. When I got to Toronto I tried to remember that, and ended up with a low score because the T and o were a lot closer together that time.

I dunno. Hard to nail down. But fun! Nice project.
haha yeah, the https://taylor.town/-10x post made me think this might be satire
I make EVs at a different company, and I'm not a fan of Tesla's range indicator. It's misleading because miles don't map directly onto battery charge. The range that that indicates is miles on flat level ground with no wind at 55mph which you will never experience in real life. At 80mph you're going to get 2/3 of that range every time. At 35mph you can get significantly higher range, but no one is ever going to drive 300+ miles at 35mph. If you just tap on the range icon it will change to percent, which is less misleading. ICE vehicles have all the same problems, but most ICE vehicles always just show gas level, rather than range.
Opt in setting doesn't mean much here. While it's technically true the crypto stuff isn't "enabled", it's constantly pushed to you with no option to remove all of that during installation.

I'll walk you through it:

Upon loading the browser on a fresh install, you are greeted with a new tab page pushing Brave Rewards. With manipulative UX, there is no button to disagree or remove the feature, only a button for "start using rewards". You can hide it by clicking the 3 dots, which for most users they're never going to do unfortunately.

Looking at the address bar, there's a triangle up there with a badge. Hiding the new tab Rewards card doesn't hide this triangle. Clicking on this does not show a remove feature option. Beside that, there's a sidebar button and a wallet icon again with a badge. Clicking on this only shows a learn more button. I can right click both of these, and finally see a hide option.

Finally all of that is hidden. Maybe I browse a page or so, and then open a new tab. I'm shown an ad on the new tab screen. Right clicking it shows no hide button. So I'll try the customize button. Here's where you have to scroll down and disable the "show sponsored images" option.

All done, right? Ok let's browse Reddit for a bit. There's where you see the "tip" button under every post. Right clicking shows nothing about hiding it. So into the settings you have to go to finally remove the last bit of the feature and be prompted to relaunch the browser.
I'm following this fellow: https://twitter.com/andrewmccalip

Seems to have the right energy

[edit thanks folks]
https://nitter.net/i/status/1684433849781202944

Here’s a more colorful play by play as well:

https://nitter.net/8teapi/status/1684586672917565443
Years ago I ran my own NTP server with a Garmin device as the source over RS232. Not only was it fiddly but it was notoriously unreliable (the PPS output was a bit unpredictable).

Eventually I gave up and said NTP is something best left to the pros who sell time appliances. They've been tested and the bugs worked out.
Chrome was faster and optimized for google services indeed.

However, Google was smart enough to know that being superior doesn't count. Firefox was not horribly slow, the leap from firefox over IE was massive. Chrome over firefox wasn't quite the same leap.

The average user has been pushed aggressively, they weren't going to do research on web browsers when they even didn't know what a web browser is. Google knew that.
No. Sorry. Making the claim that most tesla owners do X is in my opinion horseshit. Tesla should be ashamed of themselves and should be sued into oblivion for false advertising. This is not a +/- 5%. This is a massive lie and a coverup.
It's easy to look clean when you're just black and white, but leaning on it without thought means you eliminate information. Blue is used in the UI for interaction areas and blue checks in particular mean persons, as opposed to gold and gray checks which are companies and gov institutions.

You can have a functional UI in just black and white, for sure, people have been doing this on computers and handheld devices forever. But why? To what end?

It looks stark and dystopian and strips an information channel (color) for no good reason other than X is way too serious for... color. For some reason.

For an "everything app," X so far is only removing things. People won't recognize anything that connects them to this app one day and they'll move on.
how do eSIMs enable locking arbitrary devices to a network?
20K+ karma in SO.
I have never used SO chat.
I don't come to SO to socialize.
To me chat means socializing.
> Their opsec's way too good for scientists.

I think it’s a mistake to imagine how an alien species would behave based on our own tendencies.

A civilization that has achieved what their (supposed) presence here implies has clearly managed to move far beyond human capability, and our understanding of opsec seems irrelevant.

It could be that with sufficiently advanced technology, “opsec” is mostly irrelevant relative to a species like ours with the capabilities we have.
Transparency in Government
The rules for grapheme clusters are well-defined and documented. I’ve only implemented a forward iterator on graphemes in the finl_unicode rust crate, but backwards would not be that difficult either. If I’m looking at a byte stream, I have to first make sure that I’m not in the middle of a multi-byte sequence (easily enough accomplished), you need to do some forwards and backwards iteration to determine where the grapheme boundaries are, and likely you will want a library to do this for you, but it’s something that should take a reasonably skilled programmer in about a day or two.
Of course. YMMV (literally), I suppose. My ICE Nissan seems highly variable while my SO's Ford seems pretty accurate. Maybe it's just the difference in driving habits :-)
Interestingly, undercurrents aren't as common as people think.

Most currents can't pull you under the water. There are notable exceptions such as obstructions, dams and rapids which can form "keepers", or sudden depth or width changes that can make the water flow extremely fast and turbulent beneath the surface (such as the strid), but those sorts of situations aren't that common.

Most drownings in rivers and lakes where someone was apparently pulled under are actually due to cold water shock. The water beneath the surface of a river can be extremely cold, which can immediately paralyse even the most experienced swimmer.

Worse, sometimes the water can be a lot colder than other times, or colder in the middle than at the sides, meaning the river could be safe sometimes and not other times, and it might seem fine when you first get in, only to find you rapidly fatigue as you move further away from the bank.
Use leave to cultivate autonomy on your team
Raspberry "Sandwich" ... yummy

It looks clunky but seems to works for his job though. The cutie RGB LED stick w/ USB is kinda neat.
I'll take you up on that - what are the odds you'd put on AI-integrated tooling making the typical developer in 2027 twice as productive as in 2022?

As for me, I'd put that at more likely than not.
Are there quality alternatives that dont cost six figures?
References to what?

1.

> second link being a non-credible source

- Website is called "security detectives" which is an affiliate-link blog

- Article leads with the paragraph `Avast and AVG no longer pose a threat to user privacy, meaning both products are 100% safe to use.`

2.

> wireless carriers selling customer data

- https://www.govtech.com/network/wireless-carriers-face-200m-...

- https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-acces...

- https://medium.com/@philipn/want-to-see-something-crazy-open...
My only real issues with Brave is 1)that when you have too many tabs open it starts stacking them elsewhere... and two, when I open settings they are terrible and I have to search Password manually to find saved passwords, but the way their UI works it first loads the password module and when I go to click it it loads something else and moves it around, it is annoying.

But the tab thing is the most breaking to me.
It would be interesting for this audience to compare QEMU against VirtualBox..

My own bias is that I will be purchasing a Mac Studio around XMas as a flutter app build machine.

I know that VirtualBox has guest OS additions to pass through graphics acceleration from the Host OS to the Guest OS. Does QEMU have this for MS Windows and Linux *6 guest OSes?
There is really nothing new reported on the site. They seem to cite a lot of HN comments from previous posts.
Also the creator of JavaScript
It's almost an annual ceremony for the EU/German authorities to go after Deutsche Bank's offices because of Russian money laundering.

EU authorities absolutely go after big European companies.
I disagree that Brave is the browser to bet on but also wonder why you're being downvoted. Mozilla is selling ad tiles, Brave is trying a different model. All these players need to diversify their income streams if they can hope to compete with Alphabet.
I think insurance companies are also salivating at having access to detailed driving data so they have more reasons to deny claims and raise rates. I'm not sure they want to jeopardize that by getting on automakers' bad side.