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Ask HN: I live on Maui and am helping by creating solutions. Is anyone hiring?
Aloha,

I have been connected to Maui for the last 7 years and living here for the last 3.5 years. I moved to a retreat center when I got here and built their website/brand (www.mauiretreat.com) and stayed for about a year. After that, I moved to Wailea and worked as a private guide around the island before getting promoted to concierge.

I've helped build www.hawaiitours.com most recently and have been working with local businesses after. Now, everyone is strapped for cash and can't pay me money I am owed. It's all good, I understand and am not asking for it while we process what just happened. Before moving to Maui, I have worked at Bluehost as Wordpress tech support for top-tier clients and in sales for various electronics companies.

Currently, the entire island is like COVID times and it is expected to get worse before it gets better. I am piecing together a 'middle way' solution with the help of locals that respects the Kingdom of Hawaii while also keeping other parts of the island open to preserve many local businesses that are impacted by the fires (directly or indirectly).

Money keeps going out still faster than it is coming in. I have had to use savings to get through but that won't last forever. This is a hail mary but I felt it was worth a shot. I am open to doing any kind of work (design, marketing, front-end web dev, support, being a virtual assistant, creating content). I am very flexible on compensation, I just want to stay afloat and not be behind on my bills.

If you would like to connect, please comment and we can go from there.

Mahalo
God, I haven't even considered that. Design trolling! Prompt for an apple, iterate over all fashionable logo design styles, implicitly own the copyright all of them, then sit and wait. You're more likely to get a 'hit' as brand logos tend to be simple.

I would imagine that context matters a lot in trademark law and in design art though, since there's a lot of namespace collision in that domain. For there to be a violation of trademark or copyright, there needs to be a material loss or harm on the part of the owner of the copyrighted material, and it needs to be in the same space that the owner operates in.

Like if I generate a banana brand logo for my Banana Plumbing Co., and your AI generated similar banana line art prior, unless you were using it for plumbing it would (probably) be hard to enforce in court.

So towards preventing bulk image generation and trolling, I don't know if this ruling was especially necessary.

leaving the disadvantage of this ruling in that it encourages people to use AI as an excuse to sell like art? :D can't say I hate it though.
Kind of a brilliant compromise, actually. By default it's a declarative content-blocker, but if you run into a specific site that shows ads you can enable the full-fat uBlock Origin featureset there.
Hqng on, MV3 still lets extensions read web traffic, right? It just can't block it.
I considered that a few times, but eventually complex things like modern ad-blockers rot, so I would be forced to update every once in a while, and let's be honest: I am neither qualified nor prepared to audit the diff.

I guess deferring updates would give me lead time to let others get targeted / detect an issue before it's likely I would get the update. Still, installing the permission-less version is so much simpler and reassuring.
In the early days of Delphi I considered it to be a huge competitive advantage in terms of productivity and speed against everything out there. As time went on, though, it slowly died, and it became increasingly difficult to find and integrate 3rd party libraries, or find developers to work in the system. The user interface aspects of it also became dated and difficult to make modern.

Too bad, as I really liked it, especially the language. I liked the AMIGA as well, which also was ahead of its time and seemed to suffer a similar fate.
In appreciation of the irony:

“Humankind's common ancestor with other mammals may have been a roughly rat-size animal that weighed no more than a half a pound, had a long furry tail and lived on insects.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/science/common-ancestor-o...
I agree that the example input is more readable than the output, but I also think it's a bad example of messy SQL. sometimes it's nice to use a tool like this to break down a complex, appended-to-by-multiple-authors-over-the-years query just so you can understand the logic (and sometimes find unexpected logic bugs that nobody noticed before). at least, that's been my experience.
I don't know how practical that is, but you can figure it out analytically.

In equal temperament, you can find the frequency ratio of two notes in an interval by raising 2 to the power of X/12, where X is the number of semitones.

Once you know that, you can look for some green numbers that, when divided, would have that same ratio.

So to make a chord, you figure out the ratios. Here's an example for major triads. First, some math to go from equal temperament to ratios. A major third is 4 semitones, so that's 2*(4/12), and a perfect fifth is 7 semitones, so that's 2*(7/12). Those work out to 1.2599 and 1.4983.

They're really "supposed"[1] to be 1.25 and 1.5, i.e. 5/4 and 3/2.

So now that you know these ratios, you can look for 3 numbers that satisfy the two ratios. If you change 3/2 into 4/6, then it becomes pretty clear that 4 and 5 will satisfy the 5/4 ratio (giving you a major third) and that 4 and 6 will satisfy the 6/4 ratio (giving you a perfect fifth). So to get a major triad, you can play 4, 5, and 6.

With similar reasoning, you can figure out that 10, 12, and 15 form a minor triad.

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[1] If you look at equal temperament as a compromise that doesn't get quite the "right" ratios.
That depends a lot on the site. It works well on some, but on others it's just not enough.

Safari/iOS blocking is closer to uBlock Origin than to DNS blocking, but is not as powerful as uBO and some sites "exploit" those limitations.
The issue with v3 is when it's the only solution.
Which is not the case here :

> However, uBOL allows you to explicitly grant extended permissions on specific sites of your choice so that it can better filter on those sites using cosmetic filtering and scriptlet injections.

Which I would expect allow it to work as well as uBO.
> I don't know how Google's or AOSP's build systems are set up, but I'd suspect that not many entities are able to mount a successful supply chain attack on internal networks.

This classic article might be worth your while:

https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60f...
I was there and watched it display scenes before during and after DEFCON. One of my extended online friendlies started a goof post on Reddit with a $300 reward. There were so many people who claimed they could hack it or would hack it this year and.. no one did.
Turn off extension autoupdate sounds like a bad choice, not all updates are mallware injected, many of them may contains security updates anyway
Yeah, I can, because the flip side of this is that they're already marking up the ford 250%, so when they take the 40% of the new total off they're just getting their normal margins and not their vastly inflated ones that they get to pawn off on others in the name of "ford price control", and everyone else pays those higher prices thinking, "Well, if that guy can afford it, I must be able to also..."
My parents are taking care of my cat while I'm away. Little black cat. They let me know she killed a bat that'd gotten into the house last night. Woke them up. She's an indoor cat
Number of Homes on the Market in San Francisco Jumps
It uses browser provided APIs for filtering, instead of running script injection on every page. This improves security, and performance at the cost of some capability. The reduction in capability comes from the inability to do all kinds of cosmetic filtering, but it lets you enable this on a per site basis.

Check the details on the extension page for more information.
To be honest, song file sizes are of least concern in the age of hdd drives that are multi-TB for $100. I can easily store lossless formats and then use playlists to convert to a more portable format.

What I really need is a way to be notified of releases from bands I want to track, and rate songs that I both do and do not own so I know what to ignore or investigate further. Of course this needs to be via something I myself can optionally own/manage, not just through a third party that will enshittify.
Parking enforcement too.
> their prime contribution is simultaneously their most cynical and most useful: they navigate sclerotic bureaucracies, locate the people who know the answer, and then present the answer to decision-makers in a way that cuts through organizational politics and saves executive face.

Is this not a description of a successful middle manager inside the org as well?
Nvidia BIOS Signature Lock Broken – What Caused Open-Source Pains for Years
declarativeNetRequest (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/decla...) involves loading a ruleset into the browser, which then does the blocking itself inside the network process.
> The artists get almost nothing from sales anyway and would like you to listen and enjoy regardless.

What you wrote may apply to huge artists like Beyonce or Taylor Swift (although even then they make a non-negligible amount of money off of sales since they do it in such huge volume). And it's true that artists make very little from _streaming_. But sales can be a large portion of income for smaller-than-Beyonce artists, especially if you buy physical media direct from them or digital media from places like Bandcamp.

Especially if you buy digital from places like Bandcamp, artists can actually get a significant portion of what you paid. I think when you break it down, buying digital from Bandcamp nets the artists just as much (if not a little more) than buying a CD off their merch table at a show.

Finally I assure you, most artists would prefer to get paid AND have you to listen and enjoy at the same time, instead of not getting paid and having you listen and enjoy.
No, they don’t. They may bundle additional DLLs but all those DLLs call the win32 APIs.
My comment was meant to show the absurdity of the one it replied to, but yours is just wrong. It's not overt racism etc that is causing concern, it's "systemic bias" and such, which, if reality to was so reflective of liberalism presumably wouldn't need to be a concern. You can't have it both ways, simultaneously believing the facts are on your side while complaining that we need to adjust facts, like a sibling pointed out, to combat bias.
Athlon was amazing.
Ask HN: What temperature do you keep your home office for maximum productivity?
That’s false. iOS has had full-fledged extensions for years now. Nothing stops uBO from existing on Safari other than stubbornness.

Most serious iOS content blockers ship both a native list (or multiple) and an active counterpart, usually focusing on YouTube ads.

However I am aware that adblocking is still poor on Safari, maybe nobody just can match uBO
You will need to go find some Intel Optane DIMMs, a tech I wrote about here:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/optane_intel_cancella...

In general the tech is called Persistent Memory:

https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/what-is-persistent-memor...
No. You're creating a pain in the ass for Namecheap customers. Your only chance of keeping my business (and probably that of other pissed-off customers) is to give us a one-click way to migrate all of our domains to your new "less of a rip-off" brand.

I'm not about to reward a company that WASTES MY TIME by shuffling my business between THEIR brands. I will make damned sure that my next registrar has nothing to do with Namecheap.
What if anything might prevent Amazon or some other mega-cap from getting a controlling interest at the IPO?

Are mega-caps likely to be dominant buyers from the underwriters? Or will retail / pension funds be just as big.
> If you’re on a desktop device reading this, how many windows are filling the entire screen? How much screen space does the browser you’re reading from take up?

> It’s safest to presume that users on desktop or laptop devices are not filling their entire screen with a browser.

Is this true? If you're reading this casually (and you are reading this casually) is your browser not at full size? I almost exclusively use my desktop and laptop with windows maximized unless I'm doing some work which requires me to split up my screen (for example writing while looking at docs or program output). Am I the outlier here?
Well, Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of C#, is also the creator of Delphi.
Got any example urls handy? I’m using AdGuard and i just don’t recall getting ads anywhere i visit. I’m interested to see if any slip through.

The only exception i can recall right now was youtube but SponsorBlock does great there in Safari.
Quite the nonsensical argument. Alice pays Bob to rent his house, not her house. This is secondary to the nonsense situation we have at hand though, thanks to usury (aka interest) being normalized.
I'm responding to "you trust them anyways"

How does using a device mean you trust the vendors?

That's wrong. It's like saying you trust your governor because you live in a particular U. S. state.
Very cool work and explanation!
Is the futon still there? If not, work it into the story somehow, near the end.
This would be awesome, thanks.
"Trans woman Isla Bryson jailed for eight years for raping two women"

I wonder if you did not know about that, or if you think that that person should share dressing room and showers with biological women.

If you didn't know about that, maybe now it's simpler for you to at least a bit see how JKR is thinking?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/28/trans-woman-...

(Just to avoid misunderstandings: Such events are of course very rare, the trans people I know are kind and lovely people)
> Isn't it the question author who gets to choose when an answer is satisfactory or not on SO?

This would be a fine policy if SO didn't also make a huge stink about duplicate questions. As is, there's one canonical copy of each similarly-phrased question, and a re-ask that says "but for real, I actually want to do it this way" is going to get shut down as a duplicate.

> If a question is full of answers that aren't marked as satisfactory, then there's still an opportunity for someone to come in and get the points by providing a different one.

The system rewards being one of the first responders, not the one who actually answers the question. This is especially true now that they've updated the system to place the highest-voted answer first rather than the accepted answer.

> What more can they do, ban people from trying to provide alternative solutions? Surely that is going to create much more harm than good.

I don't know that there's anything the company can do, since it's pretty clear that they've lost control of most aspects of the culture.
Sometimes you can’t because of the way deductions work.
As Stephen King said, no adaptation replaces (or ruins, or improves) the original. No matter what they've done to The Stand (multiple times), the original is still there on the bookshelf.
> "All grounds are aggregated on grounding bars located throughout campus."

How does grounding work in a structure on an ice sheet? Does the ground just go into the ice? (Note: I have only basic electrical knowledge).
Visualizing mysterious dance: Quantum entanglement photons captured in real-time
> I'd pinch to zoom in...but some moron front-end dev has adopted the beyond-bone-headed mentality of "removing features is a feature!" and makes their site tell the browser to not allow zooming because...why? Someone please, tell me why.

For sites that have no business disabling zoom: no idea, and it annoys me too. I just chalk it up to dev, designer and/or managment incompetence, close the tab and never return again.

/Moron frontend dev
Here's a bit about the bombers. And it doesn't seem to have a medium paywall.

https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-...
The entire internet is built on a capitalist ponzi scheme.
I take and recommend magnesium each night just prior to bed. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magnesium-the-most-powerf_b_4...
You should discuss it with your G.P. If you own a dog, regularly take it for a walk in `green areas' (parks/gardens (away from traffic)). If you don't own a dog, get one.
> Why is "how hard it is for beginners to understand a concept without reading a reference" a useful metric for measuring anything? So what if it's hard? -- Spend an hour with the reference document, and your problems will go away.

Or spend 0 hours reading the JSON reference to reach the same result.
And of course stories like this will be abused as an excuse to mandate RTO.
I feel either you didn't grasp the context of my post or I didn't go far enough in detailing why I felt it's an inappropriate feature for them to push.
AKA tell me you haven't spent time with diffusion models, without telling it :)

I actually did figure out what works and what doesn't in real artistic use. Which is the entire point of the article in OP which nobody seem to have read - text doesn't work well beyond the basic use or amateur play, regardless of it being the initial prompt or editing; you need sketching and references (and actual skill) to do real work. I don't think anybody's using available methods of textual modifications for anything complex - they are cumbersome and unreliable, even worse than textual prompts. In fact, I haven't seen anyone using them at all.

Besides the implementation details, natural language just doesn't have enough semantic density and precision to give artistic directions, even for a human or AGI. That's a fundamental limitation. Higher order guidance, style transfer, and compositing is how it's done.
This is exceedingly cool, thank you for putting it out there.

A small suggestion: when you press the purple buttons, it would be neat to see the green numbers change by the multiplier (or have an option to do so). This would let you easily see parts of the keyboard transpose correctly vs not, and what new pitches you get access to. Even sweeter would be a quick animation to show "where the numbers went".

I would also like to be able to have the purple buttons be active only when pressing the keys, so that I could quickly modulate up a just fourth and back. Having to remember where I am in the modulation state is a bit much, and very different from typical musical instruments.

But I've been playing with this for a good while, trying to recreate basic stuff like V7 -> I etc and it's very cool, thanks again.
There's a desktop version which I unfortunately don't have the time to get in release state, but I'll release the source code for everything eventually (maybe months later).
Who benefits when, from FAIR data? Part 1
>I just hate that so many games I want are exclusive to Epic.

I miss the days when PC games weren't tied to some online webstore but came on a CD and the only DRM was a CD-key, no always online, no proprietary web store, just physical media that you could share with your friends.

Sure, Steam and GoG are probably the best kind of on-line webstore so far, bur I still love my collection of .ISO games that I can mount and play whenever I want without depending on any invasive DRM, accounts or internet connection.
I almost exclusively use my laptop split-screen unless I’m doing some work that requires maximization.

Over the last few years increasingly many websites when allocated half the laptop screen have needlessly contorted into less functional layouts appropriate for a phone, but stretched huge.
The big problem was directx, not steam_api.dll, which can be solved in many ways.
You read my mind!

I feel like they could have done a better job at faking a depth map though.
Firefox's implementation of MV3 allows both async permission-less blocking (declarativeNetRequest API) and permissioned synchronous blocking (webRequest API). uBO Lite uses the former to provide an ad-blocker without read/write permissions.

You can still write a unsandboxed extension with MV3 (and in Firefox it will still be able to intercept requests, while in Chrome it will not be on the network hot path) but the point is that you can also write a permission-less ad-blocker now, which is what I want.
Security footage of search of 98-year-old newspaper co-owner Joan Meyer's house [video]
So how do you generalize this idea to programs and functions? My framing is "incorrect" I think but it feels far easier to reason about.

Couldn't this same idea be applied generically to all computer programs? Could its valuable situational properties ever be done in a way that is language neutral with arbitrary program monads?
You need the webRequest API (that uBO Full is using) from manifest v2 to be able to read the traffic. Without it, you can just block/allow based on rules.

Chrome is deprecating it with v3, Firefox supposedly no.
I guess the lesson is/would-be less "all resets are signs of nefarious intent" and more like "if seems reset, always reset it again yourself to be safe."
Yes, but that income should equal production, so either more housing is produced, or something else more is produced, and either gets cheaper or we have more stuff. I guess it’s a combination of all three, our society is definitely wealthier with more people working, we are better off than we were in the 1950s. But that wealth maybe is spread out less evenly.
I’m super impressed with orion as well. I use an iPad and Orion provides a decent support (still a WIP though) for Firefox/chrome desktop extensions to run in iOS. After Reddit axed third party support, I almost stopped browsing Reddit until I found out I can run RES with old.reddit inside Orion. This has been an absolute game changer for me.
Discord moved from discordapp.com to discord.com
I've been looking for the same sort of mini charge controller with grid backup that is mentioned in the problems and challenges also with no luck. Is this really not a product that exists?

I've long wanted to do a sort of small scale migration to solar. Offset the load from my home server with a few solar panels and source any excess power needed from the grid while also charging the batteries/providing power from solar when the sun is up. I could probably engineer something myself but doing things right on high power circuits is not worth the effort/risk. Any suggestions?
>Kandria, a commercial game written in Common Lisp [14 ], is
used in a more complex benchmark. The game uses a mixture of
object-oriented code and numerical code with unboxed arrays. The
game is configured identically to the retail version, using a 4GB
heap. We played the same part of the game for a few minutes
with each collector configuration10, and record the distribution of
how long it takes to produce each frame (frame times), and the
distribution of pause times in the kandria benchmark.

That's a fun benchmark to have. Seems like gencgc is better than the new GC anyway wrt pause times?

>Very few objects survive garbage collection in Kandria, with
less than a megabyte surviving out of a 200 megabyte nursery.

From this sentence I'm going to guess that Kandria performs a lot of per-frame allocations. Having a bump-pointer arena for this which is reset per-frame would probably be quite nice.

The Acknowledgements section is crazy haha, with mentions such as Cliff Click (OG Hotspot JIT compiler architect) and Larry Masinter (Xerox PARC Interlisp) along with the nice SBCL and Kandria devs.