skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brave bundles VPN software with their privacy focused browser. Web privacy focused people tend to distrust everything by default. Web privacy focused people begin thinking of Brave someday turning on the VPN service and tunneling your traffic through VPN nodes they control with nefarious intent.

I think that's the gist. Tbh, just installing a service that's disabled is, by itself, not that scary to me. If they were to ever turn it on without my consent, that's a real problem.
The noise is, unfortunately, the point. HOA people in fancy HOA communities want to hear the affirming rumble of engines doing work. Or at least that's the summary of what I've seen/heard from people who've tried to promote quiet electric stuff.
> Been a long list of profiteering and generally dubious actions.

For the unaware, what are they?
Of the three leak files released so far there are 5,150,779 unique entries (I wanted to check if I was in them, so far I'm not).
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thx for the feedback!! we'll keep that in mind
125k is the capacity over a total year right now, not how much they're delivering in November. Just to clarify.
Neighbours hate this one simple trick!
Hmm, I think cases do express values. I've worked for a firm that took a lot of low paying criminal defense work and barely broke even most years; taking those cases defined their values that poor people deserve an effective defense. I've also worked for a firm that helped polluters keep polluting and was very profitable; taking those cases defined their values that profitability matters more than second order effects in selecting clients. Lawyers absolutely express their values by selecting firms to work at and clients to represent.

But I agree with your underlying point -- you can't read a lawyer's values from a particular client's values in isolation.
Will need a lot of macarons to consider this.

Best,
your Designer

P.s. thanks for the feedback @gjvc !
Zero information on how keys are stored/created/maintained.

Without this information - supported by independent source code audit, open sourcing of the client code, and reproducible builds - all the claims are meaningless, in my humble opinion.
It is best not to try to roll your own checked arithmetic. Your compiler already has an implementation, that will likely compile down to "check the overflow flag in hardware", and carries 0 risk of undefined behavior. Why not use it?

("It's not portable" is a reason that will cease to be true shortly--as mentioned, C23 added checked overflow functions.)
> Visual Basic allowed people with minimal knowledge of computers to write useful applications that powered the economy. This is something we often forget nowadays in the flood of frameworks, programming paradigms, microservices etc.

We haven’t forgotten anything. MS Power Apps is the spiritual successor for Access.

Also, it’s the likely reason that startups like AirTable went unicorn, and if you look at Salesforce and ServiceNow they look a lot like enterprise versions of MS Access. Everything mentioned is a low code platform. I’m sure if you give me time I can name more major low code companies

What you’ve forgotten in your nostalgia is the instability and insecurity related to VB and everything that relies on it. It’s probably why MS is trying to kill it for Windows 12.
AC wall power just doesn't have the watts to run a powerful motor. A battery can do this because it can charge longer than it runs if you want. Leaf blowers might be okay, but a lot of AC powered stuff lacks power to be good.
They realized they were gonna get bad looks for it so they covered that shiz up as if it were a mistake. Marketing damage control.
> This is where some feminists and "anti-porn" activists have problems with it, because in an exploitative system that demands you work in some way to survive, there is an argument to be made that no sex work can be truly thought to be entirely devoid of some form of coercion, and therefore the sex involved in that sex work cannot, in turn, be entirely devoid of coercion, which makes it, by definition, rape.

The part where they completely discredit themselves is where they (almost invariably) draw from this the conclusion that paying for sex work must be made illegal.

If women turn to sex work as the only available means to survive, how exactly does it help them to take away that option?
Interesting is that why Americans freaked out over that transsexual influencer from the Budweiser commercial? They were having confusing feelings?
Mechanical keyboard. This is the way.
> 23andme is little more than a curiosity.

If you call criminal convictions "little more", sure.

Many people consider that a good thing, but I'm not talking about moral valence or vibes - the point is they are an industry supplier of PII that sends people to jail.
Number of patches seems like a very bad metric. Especially since many of braves patches are not about security or privacy, but rather implementing their custom stuff on top of it. I clicked around that github folder and of around 15-ish patches I looked at it seemed like at least 13 were UI-customization and not privacy-focused.
What are the issues for Librewolf?
Statement on the Responsible Use of AI Technologies in Scholarly Publishing
VB does have PRINT, it causes text to be drawn on the form. It's not very useful, but it is there.
If physical DNA were PHI, then everywhere we deposit DNA would need to have the same security as your doctor's office.

But the data revealed in analyzing the DNA (e.g. if you have a genetic disorder) should be PHI.

It's odd how something could go from "not PHI" to "now this is PHI" just by processing something like a piece of hair.

"At what point does it turn into PHI" would be a difficult question to answer.

IMO protection of DNA related data deserves something different than HIPAA.
You could say exactly the same thing about any form of encryption.

I haven't bought much with Monero, but I always offer it because I adore the premise. I personally think its great, one of the few truly valuable cryptocurrencies.
My city has a subsidy for electric law equipment, both residential and commercial. That's in addition to a ban gas leaf blowers.
Seconded about the FS1R. The idea of finding one on the second-hand market here in Australia is pure fantasy. They look amazing. I'm hoping that one day one of the future Yamaha workstations adopts the FS1R's formant synthesis features.
When I used eclipse, it is suggesting symbols from locations that are not even contextually available. Given how much refactoring often relies on accurate contextual symbol detection, there’s about a 0% chance that it does better than IntelliJ.

I didn’t even get to trying eclipse features because everything else in it is so remarkably stupid, useless, and actively battling me compared to IntelliJ.
I would try to avoid using too many macros which generate multi-line code, because preprocessed code will have different line numbers compared to the code in your editor, making it harder to follow the compilation errors and warnings.
A proof of existence is not the same as a construction, so the fact that we know that there exists a TM that computes BB(748) does not mean that we know which specific TM does it or how to construct such a TM.
Yeah, I find it a bit telling that they had to show completely ridiculous toy examples:

>f"""{f'''{f'{f"{1+1}"}'}'''}"""
Sadly development is no longer possible on Win11 and requires a Win7 VM
IIRC blacklisting in this manner is basically just a suggestion - it's saying, "hey, in the opinion of Binance, these adresses are bad. Don't do business with them".

If the majority of nodes in the network comply with the blacklist, then it works. But at any point, someone who runs a node (or nodes) can choose to ignore the blacklist.

It's only centralized if the majority of people running BNB Smart Chain decide to trust Binance.
You can suspect whatever you would like. I don't mind.

Your comment is rather disrespectful and yet, if someone tried to shut you up, I would proportionately respond. You have a right to your disrespectful speech.
yup, it's pretty configurable & flexible to the customer's KPIs. i've got a more detailed explanation above about how we do underwriting & risk.
I think this might just be a slight difference in language usage. "opt-in" and "opt-out" as adjectives mean "something that is default off/on (respectively) that you can choose to select the other mode".

But "opt in" and "opt out" as verbs mean "choose to/not to participate". So you can in fact "opt out" of an "opt-in" feature. It means choosing to keep the default of not opting in.
Volume of air is only part of what matters, the other is pressure. Pressure tends to make noise.
> But once you have defined and tested your GATTs, it hasn’t been my experience to come back to it a ton of times.

> It was my experience to care more about distance, speed, interval, and MTU on actual hardware than protocol confirmation to a PC.

That's exactly my concern, coupled with a (perceived) small pool of Bluetooth developers. Do you think there's a market for a Postman style commercial cloud product for team collaboration?
Not-shit-isp can be helped with not-shit-vpn (like mullvad)
The monetization scheme for Twitter seemed so obvious to me — just charge to edit tweets. Something like $1 for a “5 edit bundle”. I would have easily probably ended up spending more than $8/mo with that. Beyond being just plain bad ideas, each of these new fees they’ve introduced leaves no ability for users to spend a lot of money. They're all one-time payments. And edits in particular would work great because:

1. It’s not functionality people were already used to getting for free, so they wouldn't feel like something was being taken away.

2. It's something people have been, quite vocally, asking for for a very long time, so you know that they, well, actually want it.

3. It doesn't lend itself to complaints because typos feel like they're “your fault,” and so it feels more understandable to pay to "fix your mistake."

4. And it can be billed as a pure convenience: "you can always just delete the post and repost it". Even though this misses the point that you lose your retweets, it just adds to point (3) that it feels like a hack they're allowing you to do to fix your mistake.

5. It doesn't negatively affect any existing user dynamics. When you charge a subscription, it's natural to feel like you shouldn't see ads anymore. "What am I paying for if I still see ads?!" This feature is completely orthogonal to every other existing revenue stream.

If they would have just done this at the beginning, I think people would have actually cheered it on, and it doesn't affect any existing user dynamics. No devaluing of blue checkmarks, no risking losing tons of users by making it a for-pay service, and again, there's no hard ceiling on how much revenue you can generate from a single user.

And guess what... a year later, they can still also offer a subscription that gives you 20 edits a month, or 300 edits a year if you pay all year up front, or something like that. So you can still get your subscription payments. And critically, unlike previously, you know what you're paying for. The messaging is simple and you can spin it as a user-friendly move: "Oh wow, the new edits feature is so popular, we decided it made sense to give people a way to get edits cheaper. Our new subscription pricing saves you money!"
Most of the use of my leaf blower isn't really for blowing leaves, at least ones the size where rakes are useful. I mostly use my leaf blower to clear the sidewalk and streets from lawn clippings and other debris from mowing. Those clippings are pretty small, most rakes wouldn't be as effective as a leaf blower at clearing.

I also use it to blast out the dust from the garage. Its a lot faster at clearing the dust and cobwebs out of the garage than manually brooming it all.

I am mindful of the level of noise though. I use an electric one which is way quieter than gas ones.
This is awesome and the first precedent I've ever seen for a standard library doing the right thing on rand floats. Big kudos to the zig people and thanks for brightening my day!
Yes, those unsolved problems (or similar to them) should have been or were priorities for most of human history.

Humanity has shown that, so far, it is incapable of or unwilling to solve them.

Existential AI risk has to be added to the pile and also taken seriously.

Short term existential AI risk is probably from a race towards superintelligent (hyperspeed) military AI weapons command systems. It is a lever that enhances the existing types of risks.

The potential for military conflicts are accelerated by the types of problems you mention.

All of these challenges are interrelated. Integrating effective and accurate information collection, dispersal and application into government and society in general may be key to progress. Maybe deployment of AI is a crux that could be very helpful or make things much worse.

Without an integrated global political system, AI could make military conflicts even more existentially threatening. The US and China may continue to race ahead, deploying ever more powerful AI, controlling larger and larger swarms of military assets with more and more autonomy.
Yep, they need to immediately issue a "this was an accident, we're really sorry, and it will never happen again" or else they need to accept that this is the rational response
Every time I read about the Binance Chain, it involves a scam. Is there anything created on it that isn't that sees "wide" use in the crypto space?
Sure , there are several big issues in compromised DNA profiles. See also: https://www.ecseq.com/blog/2019/privacy-implications-of-gene...

But let's wait until it's clear whether raw data was actually leaked.
For a physical build, just curious if you've thought about integrating something like OpenTrack to track head/ eye position of the player and modify the camera position - to make the table look even more real when it's in a physical cabinet?
Micro everything shop. Rebrand involves releasing N front ends. Util code copy pastitis. Putting shared code in an npm module or git submodule is painful.
stdint.h defining the fixed width integer is part of C99. I wouldn't call that recent !

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/std...
Conform to what? What labor is saved? I'm not following
We do a ton in louie.ai bc of this:

* sometimes we want an LLM with longer context, faster speed, higher quality, etc: so even in a model family, in the same job, diff model configs

* we do a lot of prompt tuning for agent calls, like what a good Splunk query is, what SQL tables are currently available, what a good chart is, how to using a graph library, ...

* we also do accompanying code-level work, like running a generated python data analysis in a sandbox and feeding back exceptions to the LLM, or checking for parse errors when running a DB query, which feed back to the LLM

* When working directly on data, we might run it through the LLM, which might get into parallel chunked calls, a summary tree, etc, where a single LLM call would be insufficient, costly, slow, etc
Vivaldi is pretty much closed source, no?
Started with inserting their referral links into clicks way back in the early years.

https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect stuff like this.
I uninstalled it after the crypto affiliate thing even though I don’t buy/sell crypto
Thanks a lot! I think the current setup generates the level based on a hash of the date, so you should get a new level at your local midnight hour based on your browser's reported timezone. There might be some small issues around daylight savings times or leap seconds since it was pretty quickly hacked together.

You can play the game completely offline as a PWA and still get a new level every day (and you can in theory also play an infinite number of past and future games if you just change the url params). It was inspired by the pre-NYT Wordle where the game was always playable offline and you still get the same game as everyone else that day, but instead of using a fixed number of possible words/games, it makes levels with a seeded PRNG using the date.

If I find the time to work on it again I'll add the level editor so people can share custom levels, and a backend so you could sign in and share your levels or daily scores. But with my growing family I'm too busy for the foreseeable future, so it may remain as just the proof of concept that it is right now.
Over Russia.

From Norway to Svalbard to some island between Russia and Alaska. From there to Japan.

It looks very goofy on a map but it's a lot shorter of a distance than expected.
> knee jerk reacting

Knee-jerk means behaving in a predictable manner, following the easiest path.

A knee-jerk response would be condemnation of Hamas and support of Israel because that's how all of our media is telling us to respond.

Both-sides-ing can also be a knee-jerk response for some people who habitually try to claim some middle moral high ground.

Taking a contrarian position, knowing that it may hurt them personally like this, is the opposite of knee-jerk.
Prequel.co (YC W21) is hiring a founding marketer – enterprise data sharing
> 23andme seemed like a solid, reputable company.

One thing I've come to realize over the past couple of decades is that with internet/tech/VC startups in particular, the statements they make about goals, philosophy, core values, and ethics are subject to change as needed to secure more funding, increase revenue, or in case of acquisition.

You really cannot trust what any company says until they've been in business at least ten years with an unbroken record of responsible, trustworthy operation. And even then it can all change with a merger.
I don't know how you can claim this.

The unpoliced proliferation of absolute horseshit, buried under an insurmountable pile of "verification" checkmark replies, is a form of censorship in my opinion.
I saw that -- those potential partners could be almost anyone. I specifically think they should go with a tier-1 tool maker, especially over "lower tier" tool makers or a household electronics brand.
Watch the Anker TB4 cable on Amazon, it’s frequently on sale. I snagged it for $29.99. If it’s for connecting your Mac to a 4K or 5k monitor, I think Apple’s cables are worth the premium.
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A lot of hats are going to be eaten if they actually manage this. There are a plenty of people online still convinced that the Cybertruck is vaporware that will never see the street or will only be produced in Electric Hummer numbers.
Yes, it’s definitely the noise and not the fact that gas powered leaf blowers provide >50% CFM over electric.
Manual coffee grinder. Didn't see much use lately, but I've used it a lot & that habit isn't going anywhere. Don't need electricity to get a good brew.

Pen & paper. And sometimes: pocket calculator.

Alcohol stove is my daily driver for cooking food / coffee / tea etc.

(Some) paper maps. They always work & rarely need replacement.

Nearly antique, hand-powered drill has been useful occasionally.
It's certainly inarguable that their founder is in a better place.
Shameless plug: I made a version of this you can order yourself from JLCPCB (with some bonus connectors.)

https://alvarop.com/2023/07/usb-cable-tester

Github project: https://github.com/alvarop/usb_c_cable_tester
Doesn't that require you to know the password in plaintext?
November is in half a month, and they haven't even announced the price yet! Let alone features of the final production model (which differs significantly from what was shown on stage, but even that was vague in a number of areas).

While I'd normally assume this is just review samples, 125K is far too many for that.
1. initialize all your variables - you will trip over this one, and it's always nasty

2. I typically throw a _ptr at then end for global pointers

3. use a unity build - create a build.c file and directly #include all .c files, and then just compile your build.c file. This will speed up compilation by many orders of magnitude, as well as allow the compiler to make better optimizations. Don't think too hard about how to separate your C files. I typically start in one file and I begin separating as themes or modules start to emerge. And even then, I wait a while, because I may change my mind. This allows my designs to become quite refined.

4. Make as few allocations as possible.

5. no comment

6. I get a personal kick out of sticking to C89, to my own detriment probably.

7. Errors are handled differently on a per function basis. But when an error requires a lot of cleanup, don't be afraid to use a GOTO.

8. Throw -fsanitize=undefined in there as well.
Not using embeddings/lookup table means they can't generate image/audio, which to me it's a severe limitation. Why bother going to the process of generating a multimodal transformer if it's able to generate nothing but text?
Yeah, sure in theory they could build chips with 384 bit memory controllers for that sweet bandwidth, but something tells me they won't.
"Light Field" photography has existed for a few years now, yet there is still no porn using it that I am aware of.

I tried a demo a while back that was very impressive, despite being relatively low-res stock footage. Simply being able to move your head a few inches in any direction without taking the world with you is a much better experience than contemporary VR video.
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None of those, but on my last contract, the client used D.O. + Docker envs for "local" dev. Personally, I loved it. I didn't have about to worry about getting a project to work on my on-desk hardware. I simply opened VSC, VSC+SSH'ed in, and went to work. It simplified collaboration, etc.

By far, what I appreciated the most was I didn't have unnecessary data on my local hardware. No customer data. No order data. Nuttin'.
I liked the idea of paid un-promoted tweets (can't remember where I saw it).

Some people pay to promote their tweets.

Other people pay to not see such tweets as promoted in their feeds.

Both sides are happy to pay!
When I was kid, I lived next to a pulp mill, there was an air quality station for dioxins on a bluff over the mill. It looked to me even in elementary school that they placed it such that it placed inside of the turbulent vortex as the ocean air would mix with the mill, not measuring the true pollution output of the mill. And there was only one for the whole mill.

A drone collection system could sample air at any point vertically, it would be pretty easy to build a system to sample and model pollution that could capture a 4d volume and create a predictive model of emissions.

If we can sue and get a percentage of the fines, we could build this right now.
I love the Digitone as well. it's 4 part multimbral and the 8 voice are shared across all 4 parts.

people tend to think of the Digitone as a FM synth, (and they wouldn't be wrong) its architecture is very much like a subtractive synth but in a normal east coast subtractive synth the architecture kinda looks like this:

VCO -> VFC -> VCA

Digitone:

4 operators FM engine -> VFC -> VCA (then ADSRs for the filter and the amp).

the other think thats kinda interesting about the FM section of the Digitone, is it uses a form of additive synthesis to create the harmonic series for the HARM parameter. Additive synthesis is one of the oldest forms of electronic sound generation. this allows you, like the TX81z to have operators that aren't sine waves.

So in a lot of respects the Digitone is more versatile that your standard 6op sinewave FM synth.
Sounds like you, or someone, could build affirm for b2b, using this platform, and you’d be customer #1.
The easy solution is an inverter connected to any truck or van's alternator. Solar does not have energy density to realistically work.