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What is Brave going to do when the code for WEI becomes load bearing in the chromium code base?

Still excuse after excuse after excuse to just not use Firefox. I literally don't care if you have to hold up your nose, there's only one actual alternative browser engine, and it's a matter of survival for anyone who doesn't want the whole internet controlled by google.

It could be half as fast (it isn't) and use twice as much RAM (it doesn't) and ask for a damn nude photo of me and I'd still be using it right now.

Using a google owned browser engine is like growing cavendish bananas while you know the neighbor's farm has the blight already. Change over and try to get good at the new strain while you have a choice, because soon you won't and it will be out of your hands what happens after that.
Perhaps after you wind down the tugboat thing, you can open a consultancy to explain, based on simple anecdotes about your experience, why people’s dogma is often ridiculously wrong.

No, that will never work. But I bet you will be successful in some field where patience is a virtue.
Try opening a restaurant and requiring your staff to pass regular drug tests. Good luck.
I have no idea how drug users work mentally, but overdose is overdose, just fine, right? /s
FWIW brave genuinely has multiple privacy patches that are useful and can't be done properly with extensions in chrome.

Several of these either can't be done via a js extension to chrome, or can be detected/bypassed. Brave does them in-engine which is the better way to do it.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-P...
That's, to me, the best form of an OS, linux gives me the ability to shrink my desktop resource usage to a _strict_ minimum, removing all the distractions, so I can focus on the task
The RaspberryPi is very versatile.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=27922#p248364

What does it take to make an antenna of sorts?

Now who trusts their operating systems?
Interesting though it involves recompiling the web browser. I have encountered this issue on many websites and my response is to stream the website through a proxy server which can then save the content (both outgoing and incoming) to the local disk for analysis. Using the browser's debugging tool is a lost cause when you're dealing with obfuscated code. The approach that I use is to isolate the target JS, modify it by including calls to a websocket, save the code to disk and instruct the proxy server to load the code from disk instead of from the website. This way the website appears to work normally except with my modification. In some cases, it may be necessary to isolate an additional file or two due to dependencies.

The reason for the websocket is that the browser console is also rendered inoperable due to the debugger statements and console clear commands emanating from the website JS. A websocket is then the only way to transfer actionable information (such as a password or a secret link). It's not an easy or quick process but, by inserting websocket calls in interesting places, it is possible to figure out what the JS is doing. It also helps a lot to prettify the JS in order to study it. There are websites that can do that for you. Unfortunately, the prettification of the JS may break it so you're still stuck with doing the modifications in the original JS.

I built my own proxy server for this task but I imagine that the same may be possible with a tool like HTTP Toolkit but that means getting the Pro version.
The point is that putting them in prison doesn't solve the problem and giving power to police results in inconsistent enforcement harmful to communities.

The point isn't that using some of these substances is "fine" but that it should be treated as a public health problem (like smoking) not a criminal problem.
Of course, there are tons, they're generally called IDLs (interface description languages), common examples are Protobufs, Avro, Thrift, etc.

They're not hugely popular for web services largely because the web was designed to avoid exactly this kind of a priori contractual requirements between communicating parties. But that's a much bigger conversation.
It's not so hard to believe that lack of access prevents some from getting hooked.
Rubbish.

Folks made the exact same arguments about alcohol and marijuana. Specifically with alcohol, anyone can walk into a treatment center without fear that they'll be arrested for the mere _use_ of a substance. (Marijuana has very low risk and rates of addiction, physical or psychological.)

If "hard" drugs are legalized, then they will likely be treated the same as alcohol and pot and tobacco: highly regulated, sold only to adults in very limited stores, and folks can enter treatment without fear of arrest.

The big mistake California (and other Leftist faux-topias) made was decriminalizing THEFT, ASSAULT, smoking and shooting on BART, smoking and shooting in public parks, smoking and shooting on sidewalks in front of residences -- and taxing the legal pot industry so highly that it was miles cheaper to buy stuff illegally no the corner.
What are you trying to say here though? The money is more important than people being rehabilitated?

Not everything scales well. Sometimes you just have to spend to fix.
Truth and I would change that statement just a bit:

Any * successful * treatment requires the patient to want treatment.

In addition, the triggers for it all need to be addressed.

Those can be:

Simple pain, trauma

More complex financial issues, housing, etc...

PTSD of various kinds, war, abuse and the like.

Without a plan to address triggers and desire to be done with it all, treatment success is extremely unlikely.
I'm sure his wife has the tickets on her phone.

also, this is specifically for a personal vm on a work machine, right?
For people complaining about the name, USD has been already a thing publicly since at least 2013, and internally probably fair bit before that: https://www.cgchannel.com/2013/10/pixars-usd-system-the-new-...

I did also happen to find small comment about the name from an interview:

> Just a little fun an anecdote, the original name ... And we were looking at the extension for the file. Technically when I do something that says layered scene description. But the extension LSD we thought it was a little too trippy, so we decided that we couldn't go in that route. So that's why the universal came, because it feels a little too far, but technically it was supposed to be a layered scene description. But anyway, we couldn't use that.

https://cesium.com/open-metaverse-podcast/the-genesis-of-usd...
All I know is that if I were born into their circumstances I would probably do the same thing. Some lives are way worse than others due purely to accident of birth and the really uncomfortable truth is that we have built a society where some lives are not even worth living. We need to face up to that, not pretend like everyone suffers to anything like the same degree. Life in the USA is very unequal. I’ve suffered terrible events in my life but I also have hope that my future will be worth living. If I didn’t have that hope, I’d be doing exactly what these folks are.
> A REST client needs little to no prior knowledge about how to interact with an application or server beyond a generic understanding of hypermedia.

This language always bothered me, 'client' in this case surely means a advanced general intelligence, or 'human', who can futz around with the URIs to try and get what they need. Maybe that's better than CORBA, but it's not the Universal Translator of interfaces by a long shot.
Then it sounds like AI.
> They're effectively making you pay the difference in the cost of gasoline up front so there's no economic incentive to the consumer to get the better MPG or emission-free option.

A different way to look at it: the dealers are trying to make you pay for the difference in oil changes and maintenance costs. EVs don't need regular oil changes and service checkups. For many dealers those services are their actual bread-and-butter where they make the most profit.
> The problem is opioids and other hard drugs aren't regulated, they are just made legal.

So let's regulate them! (though as someone else pointed out they are indeed currently regulated, just not well)

> Human thought when addicted to hard drugs is not logical. Giving people the freedom to consume them has the effect of allowing them to forfeit their freedom from choice when they become addicted. Making them even more widely available will just cause more to become ensnared in their web.

I frankly find it bizarre when people venture down this train of thought. Should we eliminate all potential sources of illogical behavior? You mentioned sex, should we regulate that? Sugar? Groups (which inspire groupthink)? What even is the threshold for you for "logical?"

If we assume consenting adults are capable of making decisions and we value their freedom in doing so, drug prohibition is directly counter to that value.

Now if you truly want to venture down the road of restricting freedom to what is "logical" or some such thing, that actually is a road I think you could reasonably trod down (it's not a popular argument and I think it's pretty hard to make work but I can see a possible world with very little individual freedom but high degrees of flourishing, the problem is it's much more likely when you remove freedom flourishing also suffers b/c the possibilities narrow towards the needs of whomever still holds freedom, ie those in power), but I doubt that actually is where you were headed, drugs just tends to get this kind of double speak for historical reasons.
Eh, there is plenty of safety equipment. Mainly undo-tree and magit.
I mean from the sign company, it was an easy/good job... As long as Elon actually pays the invoice.
Totally agree! I am a bash fanboi with a fish fetish, but recently started in a windows shop. I've actually grown quite fond of the flexibility powershell offers, and how usable it is without requiring esoteric knowledge.
It's nice that they are changing their marketing on this a bit now that there is a wave to ride and the evils of DRM are coming for them; but, let's not forgot that, at the end of the day, Brave is just another company that makes money on ads :(, and (thereby) has most of the same anti-user incentives.

So, sure... they clearly don't want to be prevented from blocking other peoples' ads (a big part of their pitch); but, blocking their ads while still getting paid--which is, of course, extremely easy to pull off on an unrestricted computer--is an existential threat to their only actual revenue stream which they want to protect against.

The ramification: Brave's product managers--and even Brendan Eich himself (whom all of the later quotes I have in this comment were taken from, directly or indirectly)--have often talked about using the very same remote attestation technology to protect their SDK and even their browser for the same reasons as Google.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/bw6sek/

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/b7rwbx/

> 1/ native C++/Rust code, no JS tags on page that have zero integrity. That means ability to use SGX/TrustZone to check integrity and develop private user score from all sensor inputs in the enclave; ...

> We already have to deal w/ fraud. That is inherent in any system with users and revenue shares or grants. We do it better via C++ and (under way) SGX or TrustZone integrity checking + OS sensor APIs, vs today’s antifraud scripts that are routinely fooled.

> What Brave offers that's far better than today's joke of an antifraud system for ads is as follows: 1/ integrity-checked open source native code, which cannot be fooled by other JS on page; ... (1) requires SGX or ARM equivalent, widespread on mobile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/97trex/comment/...

> Part of the roadmap (details in update) is a BAT SDK. Obviously it would be open source, but more: we would require Secure Remote Attestation (Intel SGX broken but ARM TrustZone as used by Trustonic may be ok) to prove integrity of the SDK code in app.
I assure you if 260mA room temperature and pressure superconducting wire can be consistently produced we’ll be living in the future.
Another example that I read about once and have never been able to verify (or it may be completely made up) is that the because the Chinese invented porcelain first (which was more sturdy than glass or something) they never bothered with glass, which meant they missed out on all the cool astronomical discoveries (which then has implications on their development of mathematics and physics).

Again, no idea if there is any validity to this or just something completely made up.
>or NixOS generation

Yes! NixOS is perfect for the author's situation. But maybe his setup is so simple that a little bash script could work just fine.
The framework looks solid! My pressing issue is I will not have stable source of income in near future.

The sad episode kicked in because of the current market. I have no experience to show, no remarkable achievements, no cool projects, and everything is vanilla. This process spiraled downward to current stage.

Also graduation is taking longer than I expected.
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As long as you haven't been holding from day 1, those are someone else's losses
I've had a drink or two which came with some sort of large pasta straw.
I visited before the pandemic when last did you visit SF because I think it’s a totally different scale.

EDIT: just googled the stats and the number of homeless in SF is roughly the same as the whole of Portugal
Most of the danger (for me) comes from evil-mode. Adding prompts wouldn't make sense there ;P
I always have to program from both sides, and hopefully meet in the middle. You need your low level stuff before your high level stuff works. but you don't know what low level things you will need until you do the high level things.
Odd to see Nvidia and Apple working together on anything
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Unity and Epic seem like two glaringly omissions from this.
Is there a Wayland compatible WM analogue of Awesome?
As much as I love emacs, that is too spartan for me. I would at least run OpenBox, it is lightweight and unobtrusive. That way I could still run emacs in full screen mode, and escape to a web browser gracefully if needed. I am not that much of a minimalist.

But I won't criticize other people's desktop environments, if it works for them, I wish them hours and hours of joy.
Anyone keeping track of all these LLM releases?
This might be the most "Hacker News" comment I've ever read. Whether or not I agree with the way Brave goes about their business, I'm not going to deny they are trying new things which is the definition of innovation.
I think you are misunderstanding the screenshot you shared. What the screenshot shows is that your driver has accepted the order you placed but is currently in the process of finishing a previous delivery, similar to an Uber driver accepting a ride while they are driving someone else to their destination. It doesn’t mean your order is being “merged”, once your driver gets to your order they will go directly from the restaurant to you.
Honestly modern Firefox works better than Chrome for me at everything - better memory management - faster loading times - better extension support.
Tiptap is incredible! Built https://novel.sh/ with it and the extensiveness & API is chefs kiss! So proud of you guys and the YC funding is truly well-deserved! Congrats again!
Where every username containing 69 has already been registered before anyone born in 2069 can use one?
I don’t mean to be an apologist here, but Google’s vs Apple’s intention seem crystal clear.

Google is trying to make it impossible not to see the ads it’s selling. Apple’s intent seems to be lock down the Apple platform…? I know Apple is blatantly abusive in lots of spaces, but Chrome is a super-majority of the browsers in use. It’s an odd take to spin this into “they started it” finger pointing.

The reason Chrome is getting all the hate is that Google finally realized its power, position, and needs and became self-serving. Apple is just a lesser demigod is this fight.
I think I might prefer a high president than a drunk president if a surprise ww3 broke out.
Some have the belief that hard drug users are temporarily down, but with the proper help can be converted back into productive citizens.

I think we overestimate for how many of them this is a realistic path. Quite a few of them will struggle for life. Have no family or a dysfunctional one, no marketable skills or ability to gain them, mental issues and cognitive shortcomings, wrong kind of friends/network, a whole host of issues.

Miracle comeback stories will grab the attention, but shouldn't be seen as the normal path. The normal path may be dedicating enormous resources for very little return.

I don't have the answers. You can't do nothing but you can't babysit somebody for their entire life either.
I can't even find a single page describing System Java on https://graalvm.org, so they'd probably have even more difficulty with that than Rust.
You can block people replying to other people. You can have an account and be a lurker (which mostly can be reduced to 'read-only'). You're not participating in any conversation, just filtering the content that is presented to you.
"It was successful until we stop dumping lots of money into it."

Generally, successful public programs often stop being successful when they stop recieving funding. That is a fact. The resources used to pay for the portugal program were redirected from enforcement. Perusing the wikipedia page, the stats seemed a lot more encouraging than any similar ones I've seen from a country with war-on-drugs type policies, but I'm not an expert.
It reminds me of the days of cold fusion. Or the days of buckminsterfullerene.

Basically, something which is very unexpected, with potentially large consequences, and which can be done in many labs using discretionary funding.
This has been addressed in Emacs 29.

From the NEWS file:

Emacs is now capable of editing files with very long lines. The display of long lines has been optimized, and Emacs should no longer choke when a buffer on display contains long lines.
Please add a license.
Not yet. The next retooled Leaf and Bolt models will have NACS plugs and similar if not equal convenience to Tesla's Model 3.
The real root issue, is that we drastically underfund rehabilitation.

There are generally just not enough rehab spots, therapists, psychiatrists, etc. to address the unmet need. There are not enough of them in the health system because we don't pay for them enough.

There are also not really resources in the prison system either. A lot of the prison-reform movement was actually supported initially by conservatives, because low-tax governments cannot afford to lock large numbers of people up for petty crime.

No matter what the solution is, it requires spending money.
I partially agree with this. Not all drugs should be legalized, but rather, handled differently. In Seattle, the latest "drug enforcement" failed because the judicial system knew they didn't have the people-power to process the inflow of repeat offenders, who are cycled through the system and let go, only to repeat again. It may keep them off the streets for a bit, but it doesn't solve anything.

Police should be able to enforce drug abuse, but it's a different path.

https://www.kuow.org/stories/what-s-next-for-seattle-drug-la...
Anyone who disagrees with me should be unable to vote.

The paradox of tolerance says I should not tolerate anyone who is intolerant, and if they disagree with me then they are intolerant and we should not tolerate them.

Checkmate, fascists.
This is the closest thing I'm aware of: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...
> Nothing beats the JetBrains stack with the IdeaVim plugin
> I keep VSCode around for...text editing mostly.

Couldn't agree more. I would like an alternative to VSCode for text editing/viewing that has fast startup, basic syntax highlighting, tabs, and an auto-saving "unnamed files" feature, but a license for Sublime Text feels way overkill for what amounts to the equivalent of a throwaway notepad
For startups, you can count us in[1]. Our backend, across all services, is using Nim.
[1] https://cxplanner.com
> I will also defend "naked imports" as a feature that works very well with the rest of the language: functions are disambiguated by signature and not just name and so conflicts scarcely occur (and simply force qualification when they do). And, this allows for the use of uniform function call syntax - being able to call arbitrary functions as "methods" on their first parameter. This is incredibly useful and allows for chaining function calls via the dot operator, among other things. Besides, if you really want you can `from module import nil` and enforce full qualification.

This is spot on. You can also not really have productive and well-fitting errors-as-values in a language that emphasizes UFCS, which is why Nim (and D) has/have to have exceptions. In order to productively use errors as values in Nim you either have to chain some kind of `Result` type (which, if you `map` & `mapError` over it will have to be able to implicitly allocate in certain cases, etc.) so the list of potential victims of this (and other features) just seems to go on and on.

In general, if you go over the list of features in Nim there is a coherence in them only in that some of the (mis)features actually have to exist in order for other features to make sense. I would feel like it was "designed" except in the case of Nim it really feels mostly accidental and not very well though out in general. The end result is (for me) that it feels very much like it ended up on the wrong side of readability, clarity and overall coherence.
I also heard that one of the side effects of this is that when you're in a foreign country and offer Americans tea/coffee and of them refuses, you can be assured they're a Mormon working for the CIA.
Don't pay too much attention to votes anyways you do you do long as you're politics and helpful (as you have been).
What should the headline be? "South Korean scientists claim room temperature superconductivity again! Are they lying like their last paper? Let's celebrate!"
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