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Hello again, HN Community!

I'm excited to share something intriguing: Hidden services offer enhanced privacy and security, with anonymized server locations and end-to-end encrypted communications, as well as globally unique hostnames without DNS attestation, making them ideal for secure, censorship-resistant web interactions.

You can now create a Tor Hidden Service running BrowserBox directly from GitHub actions!

Just fork or generate a copy of the BrowserBox repo, open the "BrowserBox Tor Hidden Service" issue, and the process kicks off automatically. Within a few minutes, an onion link will be posted in the issue comments. It's straightforward, requires no additional configuration, and runs on your GitHub Actions free minutes.

Let me dive into a key aspect of this update: Implementing HTTPS in the unique environment of a Tor hidden service. While the go-to solutions like Let's Encrypt shy away from .onion domains for privacy reasons, this presents a challenge for those seeking privacy-enhanced browsing on Tor.

My solution? I've opted for self-signed certificates. Despite browser warnings, they offer secure data encryption, which is crucial, even over Tor's anonymous network, especially at exit nodes. To facilitate this, I provide a rootCA.pem file (created per installation by mkcert -install) with an installation guide, balancing security with ease of use.

Here's a idea: if Let's Encrypt can authenticate over HTTP for certificates, why not extend this to onion services? It seems feasible, yet .onion domains remain underserved in this aspect.

For BrowserBox users, it's a personal choice on whether to install rootCA.pem. Installing it smooths out the browsing experience, but it also means extending trust to the CA. Choosing not to install maintains higher security at the cost of some convenience and feature limitations.

In essence, my approach with BrowserBox is to balance security and accessibility, keeping it user-friendly on the Tor network. It's a tailored solution, aligning with BrowserBox's ethos and the complex nature of online privacy and security.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the future of HTTPS in the Tor landscape and how we can collectively push for equal access to privacy and security tools, even in the hidden corners of the internet.

Have a good one! :)

Cris
Indirect taxes (sales taxes, GST, and VAT) are more efficient than income taxes, both from a compliance perspective and a fairness perspective.

Compliance-wise, it's easiest to calculate and collect the tax on economic activity when an economic transaction occurs. From a fairness perspective, it's clear when an indirect tax applies; with income taxes you need a convoluted code to address the many types of income possible in a modern society.
You will have to know the basics of calculus, linear algebra, and probability. A few months of study.
https://github.com/getsentry

You suggesting we are anything but what we are just makes you look like you have an agenda at best, or foolish at worst.

All you're doing is harming the broader community by arguing about nonsense which is factually proven to be untrue. You came in here trolling as best you could, making false statements without reading or educating yourself on any components. Making statements as if you're a legal expert, as if you're an expert on open source history, on who or what Sentry is or has been.

1. A majority of Sentry's source code permissive open source. This is a fact, and easily verifiable.

2. FOSS is not Open Source. So when you constantly equate the two you simply come off as misinformed.

3. Sentry has continually shown good faith in a variety of activities, including donation of services, financial backing of large projects, financial backing of our dependency graph.

4. We are not rug pulling - we migrated our BUSL-licensed projects to FSL. BUSL is already non-compete source-available, FSL is the same thing but a more aggressive time-delay, and a better license conversion mechanism.

5. There is no "vague legal speak designed to [do anything harmful]". If its vague to you, maybe you should stay away from licensing, or you should start contributing back intead of creating toxicity on internet forums. In fact, the FSL is designed to be _more easily understood_ than prior licenses of its type.
> If he's a crank, it should be easy to explain specifically why he's wrong.

Sure. The premise that a super intelligent AI can create runaway intelligence on its own is completely insane. How can it iterate? How does it test?
Humans run off consensus. We make predictions and test them against physical reality, then have others test them. Information has to be gathered and verified, it's the only rational way to build understanding.
Looks like he was originally "co-chair" which sounds pretty foundery. https://web.archive.org/web/20170729172845/https://blog.open...
They really need to subsidize the shit out of ebikes. The more people ride the better our roads will be for bikes
Maybe I'm crazy here, but why would this be a problem? Assuming Altman still had enough time to perform his duties as OpenAI's CEO, what's wrong with developing other businesses that might help OpenAI lower its costs and achieve its goal of broadening access?

One concern I could see is the source of funding. But OpenAI's COO is on record saying that Altman's firing had nothing to do with "...anything related to our financial, business, safety, or security/privacy practices." So that seems to indicate they wouldn't have cared.

Having a really hard time unpacking all this. This article is very speculative.
Go to this link https://open.sentry.io/ and explain how it is made clear that Sentry isn't actually open source. You can't. No amount of good faith turns "We're Open Source and we don't feel the need to qualify that statement" into "we aren't open source but we'd like to be close to". They are even directly asking in that page for help (for people to volunteer their time). The title of that page is a lie and they make no attempt to clarify it. I can't think of any good faith reason why they wouldn't just write "We're Source Available" since that is a more accurate description of what they are and they've been repeatedly told this. It's obviously less misleading not to over promise when you don't actually know the truth of the matter. The only justifications I can imagine for that title are that they either don't understand that they aren't open source, or that they want to appear open source to attract customers. Given they've had it explained to them repeatedly and even members of their company admit in this thread admit that they aren't open source (but claim they don't say that they are which is a lie) and that the page in question is advertising their product, I can only conclude the latter justification. That they are doing this to move product rather than to inform people.

> People have come out of Guantanamo Bay less tortured than that analogy.

A charity is an organisation of people can donating money or doing volunteer work to contribute to a cause they see as in the common good. An open source project is an organisation of people donating money or doing volunteer work to contribute to a piece of software for the common good of its users. They are more than a little similar. Even if they aren't, people deserve to know where their work goes if they are doing it for free.
That’s not true even if they are young, single and childless, have highly general skills, and live in a booming city, and the further you get away from that the less true it becomes. Many people live in an area where there are not that many options unless they want to move or deal with a worse commute, not everyone enjoys interviewing, and even those of us in high demand areas have been feeling some slack - I’ve heard more programmers talking about delays between jobs dragging out than any point since the 2009 bubble collapsed.

Again, my point wasn’t that the power is distributed 100:0 but that it varies a lot and only a small percentage of the workforce enjoys the odds being in their favor.
Kinda depends on your perspective on safety. In your view, should GPUs be regulated or not exist?
By making sure they had buy-in from all of the major stakeholders to ensure that it wouldn't cause blowback. I think they failed miserably at predicting the kind of shitstorm that this would cause and if they did predict it then they're even more stupid than they already look.

Of course this was going to blow up. Note that two founders and shareholders in the non-profit were presumably there when this vote was taken and the fact that those two didn't see eye to eye with the board was waltzed over because it was just a headcount. That's naive, to put it mildly. A move like that takes weeks if not months to prepare and even then you have to be super careful. You don't do that by taking a snap poll and hoping nobody else will notice.
> Looks like the first one wasn't either.

The first one says it uses AdaIN layers to help control style? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.15439.pdf#page=2 Seems as justifiable as the original StyleGAN calling itself StyleX...
He presumably at least got paid a salary as CEO, so it's not uncompensated work. In any case, being in some kind of suboptimal financial situation isn't an excuse for breaking the rules.
The problem is that the value Terraform brings and the value Terraform cloud brings do not scale the same way. Hashicorp
prices as if they did.
I bought a cheap $50 used treadmill off of Craigslist, removed the arms and control panel, and stuck it in front of my standing desk. Used it daily for ~1hr for 2 years before it irreparably broke, so I bought another one on CL.

I don't even run - I walk fast at ~3.4mph at a 10% incline. It's my "zone 2" training. And lemme tell you - when that hour is over, there is sweat all over the place. Even in winter.

And the entire time I'm happily programming (or social-mediaing).
Meanwhile my dumb corporate employer is still moving perfectly good internal applications from our data center to AWS. Productivity is tanking.
It's not called a GAN TTS right? StyleGAN is called what it is because of a "style-based" approach and StyleTTS/2 seems to be doing the same (applying style transfer) through different method (and disentangling style from the rest of the voice synthesis).

(Actually, looked at the original StyleTTS paper and it actually even partially uses AdaIN in the decoder, which is the same way that StyleGAN injected style information? Still, I think is besides the point for the naming.)
>Heh well actually I made the font for my own use.

Perhaps you should change the banner on the github page to reflect that. Currently, it says "the best programming font"; whereas your comment implies it is merely "the best font for rubjo".

Same goes for your Patreon page. When you take other people's money, you say:

>It means a lot to me that you choose to support me this way. With your contribution, I can cover some of the costs for the software and the time used designing the font. Issues / feature requests you might have will be prioritised when possible.

Obviously, it should say (quoting your comments here):

>Thanks for trying the font. In the end, I guess I don't really care. Issues / feature requests you might have... heh well actually I made the font for my own use. :D You should probably pick a font where legibility has been the sole focus.

>To me, the font is absolutely super-legible. If this font is hard to read for you or slows you down, yes, you should probably pick Dyslexia fonts.

Finally, saying that people who don't find your font legible should probably use fonts specifically designed for people with Dyslexia is just... ugh.

Especially coming from someone who writes phrases like these:

- font which is hard to read for them of slows them down

- others have critized features of it

In the end, it's not about the font. It's about how you respond to people who "critize" your work.

And "works for me, have you considered you're dyslexic?" is not a great response. You can do better, and I hope you will.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38334154

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38334764
Heh, "compete with Nvidia and TSMC". FT apparently having no idea what they're talking about, unless they were really planning to get into leading edge semiconductor manufacturing?!
The simpler way to get free fitness is when it's incidental.

Americans don't even build their cities where they can walk anywhere, so exercise is seen as this thing you compartmentalize into a gym. You go there for exercise. Outside of it, you don't move at all. It's bleak and probably hard to notice until you've lived elsewhere.

The ideal is probably when you don't have to think "uh oh, gotta get my exercise in" at all—you've already done it going about your day.
Is their corporate charter public? I couldn't find it on their website.
Tiktok is probably a better direct competitor, but I see twitch and youtube as fairly comparable
How is it opposed to OpenAI's goals to have a friendly company selling them chips instead of NVIDIA, which is, at-best, a neutral company?

Software is always more important than hardware. All the big players have access to NVIDIA chips today and yet only OpenAI has ChatGPT, proving the point.

OpenAI probably wishes someone would create competition to NVIDIA and this is Sam Altman trying to make that happen himself, since no one else seems to have been able to pull it off so far.

A conflict of interest would be OpenAI buying Altman's chips at inflated prices or something like that.

But if he makes a bunch of money selling OpenAI chips and OpenAI gets better/cheaper chips, that seems like pure win-win and totally free of ethical conflict.
God I love freetube.
This person said there was no one precipitating incident but rather a mounting loss of trust over communications with Altman.

This is the worst possible response. They tanked MS’ stock price for this? MS will have their heads.
"invaluable" means "very valuable". Weird, I know.
I can’t do it right now (young family, work responsibilities) but if I’m fortunate enough to retire at a reasonable age and am in good health, I 100% plan on doing these extended volunteering opportunities with NPS or other similar more localized efforts.

There are so many things I complain about in the US but our national parks and the services that make them accessible are not one of them.

I truly believe capital E everyone benefits from spending time in nature, and want to find ways to support this however I can. I really appreciate the feelings I get after extended periods of time in the woods/mountains.
> inferences at up to 15-95X (!) RT on my 4090

That's incredible!

Are infill and outpainting equivalents possible? Super-RT TTS at this level of quality opens up a diverse array of uses esp for indie/experimental gamedev that I'm excited for.
I'm an introvert, but it feels very isolating working from home by yourself day after day. I also live in a 2 bedroom apartment, and my office is a gigantic 52 story building with free coffee, events occasionally, and plenty of space to focus and think. So if you're in a beautiful house in the woods and your office is a soul draining place in the middle of an office park, I totally feel you.
If you live in an apartment with only on-street parking, you frequently cannot in fact charge your EV at home. It's a big, often overlooked issue in cities.
Fun with Lexical Analysis and Rust
A string of tokens is text. Tokens is just another alphabet, like Japanese letters having many representations for the same sounds and a letter can be entire words sometimes.
> What a double standard.

There is no double standard.

For the vast majority of CEOs, if they tried to start another company as a side-hustle then they'd also get fired (and potentially sued).

For the CEOs who can run multiple companies at once, there's several factors

- they founded the company, so they have a majority of voting rights so they can't get fired

- they're so valuable to the company that the shareholders are willing to put up with them running multiple companies at once (and shareholders will definitely grumble about it)

For you, you're not really valuable to the company so if you try to work multiple jobs at once then they have no qualms with replacing you.

If you were a valuable enough IC then you could definitely get into a situation where you're working with multiple companies at once.

People do this with consulting arrangements, where they create a consulting company and are able to work with multiple entities at once because they've given themselves enough leverage to do so.

The issue isn't a double standard. The issue is that you haven't put yourself in a situation where you have enough leverage over the company to work multiple jobs.
Good explanation. Date meaning time and grade meaning quality. I get it, thanks.
Financial situation of the Matrix.org Foundation
He also committed a chunk of the initial funding. And it's not rare for capital providers who are there on day #1 to call themselves and be referred to as co-founders.

Essentially it is a short-hand for 'those that were present on the founding day of the company and whose names appear on the founding documents besides the lawyers'.

If you get added later on then you are technically not a co-founder, though even there sometimes (and sometimes rightly) exceptions are made.
If there's one Big Lie in the AI field, it's the idea that the models just "learn things" as if we invented magic that eats raw text and images and poops out intelligence. Not nearly enough attention is paid to the labeling and filtering infrastructure used to produce the datasets, a lot of which is human labor or derivatives thereof[0].

The fact that this labor is being offloaded to third-world kids who know how to steal their parents ID to earn beer money^W^W0.69 bobux is also a scandal, but it's the boring, frustratingly mundane kind that is common to all "gig economy" companies. Surely, not every kid is being permanently damaged by this exploitation, and there's certainly worse exploitation out there, but it's still exploitation. And these AI models aren't AI, they're products of lots of human labeling and filtering.

[0] e.g. reward modeling
You give capitalism far too much credit if you believe anyone would forgo a few bucks over the destruction of humanity.
What's this title have to do with the content?
Making it easier to use zoneless over zoned is a mistake, though. An even more grave one is making zoneless the default. Unfortunately, that's a mistake that we've made decades ago, and now we have to fix it in a way that deals with all the accumulated mess.

Really, though, this is a recurring lesson in software engineering: don't be in a rush to make something a default just because it's "obvious"; explicit is better than implicit. Strings are another example; we've treated them as arrays of characters for so long that it's still a common default semantics for indexing a string, except now what you often get instead is UTF-8 or UTF-16 code units rather than actual code points. All of which is likely not what you actually need - but what you do need depends so much on the task that it should always be explicit.
Say what you will about Mormon/LDS religious beliefs, but I have never met anybody more selfless and pleasant when it comes to volunteering and caring for those in need. I've been a recipient of that kindness and co-participant in many volunteer activities with them, and not once felt like there was any attempt to push a belief on me other than "be kind to others". I probably wouldn't want to join them at church or read their literature other than as entertainment, but the individual people don't deserve all the hate that the church gets as a whole.
No need for the snark.
Use insta location tags and check what the top posts are for that spot.

If they are all influncer posts then skip it.
Maybe they designed this way, but in practice usb-c ports are getting destroyed over time and not cables. On my two Samsung phones ports started degrading over 2 years use and after 3-4 years they are trash, barely connecting without fix to any cable. Same cables connected to the less used hosts, like new Kindle or new powerbank connect snugly and hold fine. I feel that usb-c port design is just garbage or maybe pushes materials too far.

And I've never ever seen a usb-a port break or the cable connector part.
You' re missing a point, quality of life
Gas compressors also failed because ERCOT and local utilities were blind with regards to load shedding and critical loads. You must build for total system resilience, and not assume your continuity plans will be robust because of disparate energy sources. Clearly you can’t assume the competence of some system operators.

https://www.masterresource.org/texas-blackout-2021/electrifi...

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-natural-gas-pipelines-vu...
HN title at present is "StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven Labs quality Text To Speech". Actual title at the far end doesn't name any particular other product; arXiv paper linked from there doesn't mention Eleven Labs either. I thought this sort of editorializing was frowned on.
> Note that the license website is pretty clear that it is not Open Source

Then fix this one: https://open.sentry.io/

You have admitted that you aren't open source and that this is a blatant lie so remove it.
In the TFA the OP is being interrupted in an office without an open floor plan.

I am saying that an open floor plan would make it easier for others to read his body language that he currently does not want to be interrupted.
> In other words, if you express a problem in a more complicated space (e.g. a visual problem, or an abstract algebra problem), you will not be able to solve it in the smaller token space, there's not enough information

You're aware multimodel transformers do exactly this?

https://github.com/bytedance/SALMONN
It appears that Germany has more homeless per capita than the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_...
The nonprofit the board oversees doesn't have any shareholders and only answers to its charter. Sam & Greg allegedly sidelined Ilya shortly before all this went down, so Ilya probably felt he had to take drastic action regardless of the blowback.
From what I understand Altman is a business person and not an engineer. Can someone explain to me why everyone is freaking out about his departure? A salesman is gone, who cares?
And now they want him back because the investors want him back.

What a mess.
> Adam D’Angelo is working on ChatGPT competitor Poe.

> Helen Toner & Tasha McCauley are working with OpenPhilanthropy/Anthropic on GovAI board (former board member Holden Karnofsky left when his wife started to get involved with Anthropic)

These seem like much larger conflicts of interest (working with direct competitors) than working on a company that one day this company might want to purchase a product from.

The board was anemic, lost people and didn’t replace them, and then was small enough that you could fire the chairman of the board and then remove the CEO in a friday night massacre.

https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board
Ilya Sutskever: An Observation on Generalization [video]
I don't really buy into - though of course it could happen.

But the way the board moved - extremely fast - tells me that there is more to it.
Keycloak is also worth checking out - I remember it had some good docs and a lot of different flows & features last time I encountered it...