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CrowdLobby - please steal it

A crowdfunding platform that allows individuals to contribute donations to lobby for political change, empowering small businesses and citizens against corporate lobbying power.

What problem does it solve?
This idea addresses the disparity in lobbying power, where large corporations influence laws for their benefit. Smaller entities and individuals often lack resources to voice their concerns, leading to legislation that overlooks their needs.

Who is target audience?
The primary audience includes small business owners, grassroots organizations, and engaged citizens who desire a voice in political matters. Demographics include individuals aged 18-70, typically socially aware and interested in political activism.

What makes this solution unique?
Current lobbying avenues are often dominated by wealthy interests, making it difficult for everyday people to compete. Crowdfunding donations for political causes democratizes the lobbying process, enabling collective action from the grassroots level.
Good luck getting rich
If blocking ads means for-profit video creators go out of business then so be it. There will always be those who do it because it is something they enjoy and usually that kind of content is more worthwhile anyway.
I'm in Europe and have access to it.
I'm working on something tangentially related [1] but by sourcing my Google search history data. It's surprising how LLaMA 3.1 8B is pulling most of the weight in my case too.

[1] https://github.com/enclaveid/enclaveid
is just example howe to connect
"so everything here for for educational purposes only on how to connect BCI to ChatGPT, this example just clearly demonstrates how it can work in practice"
As another European, it seems to me like you haven't given much attention to internal US politics. Trump has (at the very least) repeatedly questioned some foundational principles of democracy. I recommend you check out "Project 2025" - if this prospect doesn't make you worry about the political future of the most powerful nation on earth, then we have a fundamentally different understanding of what a healthy democracy looks like.

Democrats (and I don't mean the party) should be worried about Trump and what comes with him.
I’m looking into using sd cards for my backups. Easy to transport， easy to store elsewhere, not a challenging write-erase workload. Does anyone have experience with this or have recent measurements? I do see many of the problems mentioned in the article below.
I realise that for dubbing (and voice actors in general), they have the least amount of "potential fallback legal protections" in the context of automation via generative AI:

Translating? Machine translation is already well established.

Copyright? IIRC the most popular voice generation company (ElevenLabs) uses copyright-safe models, where the sources for the base model were already consenting.

Likeness? As you said, just use a synthetic voice.

Replacement of jobs? Not really a legal issue. It's not much worse than self checkouts or driverless cars, for example. The only reason we're talking about it is because it affects white-collar workers and not blue-collar workers, and voice actors are more likely to be celebrities than cashiers, for example.
They can be transferred, but other languages have also other concepts
and other mechanisms of synchronization. This Rust book seems solid, but
I would not assume other languages to have the same mechanisms as in
Rust the same way I wouldn't recomment using programming patterns from
other languages in Rust.
Thank you for the feedback! I'm gonna check who it is :D
What about modem tho?
thanks! I found that even just lazily continually looking and playing the scales and the positions while building the tool actually also really helped with learning more myself :)
It says that a lot of people are on Ozempic. And that it changes the skin somehow. And that these people get plastic surgery.

If you search for "diabetes" in the article, then yeah, you'll find it about half way down, but by then I already stopped reading because I had no idea what the whole article was about.

So yeah, it might technically be in the article, but it wouldn't have hurt to put it in the post title now, would it?
Write your own Telegram Wallet bot
"Sure, for some women, but let's not generalize."

I agree, we should only talk about individual anecdotes. After all, we are special little snowflakes, each and one of us.
Sorry, I had to…

An app designed to expose and analyze the deceptive practices of AI-based applications, helping users identify scams and protect themselves.

What problem does it solve?
The rise of AI-based scams threatens users who lack knowledge about these technologies. This app educates users, saving them from possible financial and data losses.

Who is target audience?
Primarily tech-savvy individuals aged 18-45 who frequently use apps and are concerned about online security. This audience values transparency and safety in technology.

What makes this solution unique?
Unlike existing solutions, this app integrates user feedback and real-time analysis to offer a personalized and community-driven approach to identifying AI scams. It also educates users about red flags in app behavior.
With such a broad definition of linter, wouldn't the type systems of all statically typed languages just be high-powered linters?
> An awful lot of it is brand familiarity.

Thus the ad industry term "impressions" ? One gets the impression (heh) that they're just trying to beat logos and catchphrases into your reptile brain.

"Familiarity breeds contempt"... but ubiquitous superficiality does not, I guess.
It's a wizard who doesn't have unreasonable expectations. Wizards definitely exist by the way, for many reasonable definitions of "wizard".
Given how when grok first came out, and people started asking questions about trans people and it came back with very sensible takes (trans women are women etc), and Elon and all the techbros absolutely hated it, I'd guess steps have been taken to avoid a repeat of that
Firstly, you are wrong. The FSF does not require copyright assignment. It is up to the individual software projects to decide if they require them or not.

Secondly, don’t equate the FSF with any other company. The FSF is in the unique position in that the FSF could change the GPL if they wanted to. If you use the GPL/AGPL, the FSF is inherently trustworthy; therefore, it’s completely reasonable to also trust the FSF with a copyright assignment.
Convert Spotify Music to MP3
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Perhaps I'll see you there! I moved to NL a year ago and have been trying to find my circle.
I can confirm. It's more than superior. It's a different product.

If you mix a soup spoon of balsamico vinegar, a half of cup of boiling hot water, 2 spoons of olive oil and put in 1 bay leaf, half a handful of juniper berries, black and red pepper, salt and a little bit of grinded nutmeg, and of course, put the búfala mozzarella. And let it rest cooled for a few days in the refrigerator, you'll be in paradise!
I do. Please stop pestering people about creating stuff you don't like. I don't want to see any more grumpy comment like that.
Personally, I really love hearing about other's startup ideas, chatting about weaknesses and strengths of the idea. How it could be modified to be even better. How big the market could be. What's an MVP that would work.

I love that.
> Be maximally truthful, especially avoiding any answers that are woke!

Alleged end of the system prompt of the previous version.
Hey, thanks for the question - Infracost does three things at the moment: Cost estimation before code is merged (and this is what is in JetBrains now with this plugin); then it checks the code for best practices being followed (like if the code is using old instance types, or old volume types, or there is no retention policies in place etc), it will tell the engineers exactly how to fix those. and finally, it also checks to make sure all resources are tagged properly both with the key and value being checked. Again it tells the engineer how to fix it if there isn an issue.

So overall, the two main benefits are cost avoidance, and then engineering time saving or toil reduction, since all the issues get fixed before the code is merged.
The product is being used by over 3,000 companies now in CI/CD; we have a few case studies on the website: https://www.infracost.io/safe-fleet/
The book was already mentioned elswhere in this thread, but also a good,
skimmable source of information is simply in javadoc:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase%2F8%2Fdocs%2Fapi%2F%2F/java/u...
>phone tree

i Googled that term

looks like it's another name for an IVR menu.
As a happy Tree Style Tabs user, this is wonderful. I'm using it together with containers for 8 different accounts I have registered for different Google accs, keeping them open all the time. Firefox is a great "co-pilot" browser in this regard.
I didn't mention it in the article, but the web component supports premultiplied alpha https://github.com/jakearchibald/stacked-alpha-video?tab=rea...
Don't take it too seriously. My app is focused on providing a quick and easy way to share initial project concepts with others. The key is feedback gathering.
I use LLM just to quickly provide project brief for user.
There's probably a way to engineer it such that the spin of the planet is 24h, the core is spun up. We'd also like ~365 day years.
> I saw my colleagues again and again implementing basic algorithms such as rolling median, or finding a maximum.

Emphasis mine so I will go with no regarding your explanation. It’s obvious the discussion was about one shot plotting from the start. The whole Go vs Python discussion for graphing doesn’t make sense in the context of automation.
I have just been working through the same problem (though just PDFs). Google DocAI helped enormously after a bit of initial input.
Open Sourcing ShedTheShade – A Ghost(Pro) Alternative
the errors in ML translation would be systemic and less likely to be of human arbitration, which is less dangerous. Human translation could be deliberately misleading at a specific phrase in a specific interview.
I find myself increasingly preferring the exists()-then-open() sequence to open()-and-catch-NotFound (not just in Python, but generally).

Yes, it is classically frowned upon, but:

1. It is typical that there are multiple checks that need to be done in addition to exists(). It is a given that conditionals are more flexible than exceptions (even in Python). As long as some checks are in conditionals, it makes the code more legible and easier to reason about when all preliminary checks are in the same fashion and in the same place.

2. You still need to handle the other possible sub-varieties of OSError and other exceptions that can arise due to, say, I/O being famously unreliable. If you implement that handling gracefully, you will have the FileNotFoundError covered for free. From end user experience perspective, since a file being deleted between exists() and immediate open() on a single system within a single thread is an out of ordinary one-in-a-thousand-years case, it is OK if it is handled slightly less gracefully than if it occurs during the preliminary checks.
Let’s review the evidence then shall we:

Evidence for DDOS:

- Elon said so

- the event in question very clearly had huge technical issues

Evidence Against DDOS:

- Elon said so

- People who worked at Twitter said it was bullshit

- every other spaces event that was run at the same time was unaffected.

- no other part of the website was impacted in any way whatsoever.
But there's a lot of people who have been working as voice actors for small/medium visibility content. Toothpaste ads, Kickstarter promo videos, corporate training videos, mid-range video games... a chunk of that is going away, and it's going to hurt a bunch of people who were previously able to make a decent living off it without being a star.
Don't take it too seriously. This is just a tool which saves me some time to share feedback with my friends and audience. But thanks for feedback!
> Either way, it's impossible to have a level discussion about it because the Muskovites are arrow-clicking en force.

Have you actually tried, or are you preemptively censoring yourself?

Regardless, internet points shouldn't stop a person from speaking what's on their mind.
The real criminals are the often the ones in power. This would make the world less safe and help real criminals commit crimes with impunity, by targeting those who would seek to hold them to account.
Do you maybe have links for the papers you mention?
I mean they probably dont like many small differences, the recent notion that they can arrested for what can be considered thought crimes in a sense... or a number of other odd things ( note I am an immigrant and I have little understanding of politics anyway ).

Im just saying the regulatory landscape seems to be changing in many ways and there are many reasons why people would consider emigrating, not just the fact they have to wait months for tech access in a rapidly changing technical landscape.
how it's different from https://www.findmicrosaasideas.com/
Programming pearls: Bumper sticker computer science [pdf]
Examples of Great URL Design (2023)
Reflecting on my own experience on both sides, I can tell a generational difference.

As student, research-focused professors and some old timers made you feel unwelcome in office hours, a mixture of “you are wasting my time” and “you should have put more work on this, I’ll just give you some hints so I can send you away quick”. Many had in common being from a generation and country where university access was not so normalized and accessible to all social strata, just graduating came many times with some sense of entitlement.

Some years later and I’m the one assisting students during office hours. I could already sense some generational change, with younger professors and assistants treating students more like equals. They were exceptions of course, we had younger assistants cargo culting the worst attitude parts of old timers (fun enough they were usually from kind of privileged background, families with ties to the field or even de same department). The result was students from other groups kind-of/secretly attending my office hours and the ones from other nice colleagues.

Academia is its own kind of hell :-)
Yes, he's a fantastic storyteller
I think the metric used to be every five years. If that's gone up to every two years that would be interesting. Do you have some sources for this? Five years is bad enough btw.

But in the end you get what you pay for in this industry. Programming jobs pay pretty well of course, which is because there is both scarcity and a lot of demand for them. Experience is even more scarce and not all companies are willing to pay for it. But mostly the issue is really companies trying to do things on unrealistic budgets with people that aren't necessarily very good at what they do.

I'm actually turning 50 in a few months. I recently got to work with people that are actually older than me, which is very unusual for me. Usually I'm the oldest in the room and at this point old enough to be some people's daddy even. I worked with a few interns 30 years younger than me recently, for example.

Mostly I actually prefer working with young people over older people in my teams. More mental agility and less set in their ways. I actually hate that in myself when I catch myself. Mostly older doesn't necessarily mean wiser.

I disagree with the calls for regulation here btw. The issue is not with engineers but with their employers not willing to pay for them to do better. There are plenty of certifications, security reviews, etc. that you can pay for. The issue is companies not doing that, skipping it, or treating it as a box ticking exercise and generally not taking it seriously. This stuff doesn't necessarily lead to good engineering decisions. Most banks are a good example of lots of ass coverage in that form combined with lots of technical debt. They buy plausible deniability, not better engineering.
Its true of numbers whose with a decimal representation which ends in an infinite string of 9s, so 0.939999... = 0.94. This is because we write numbers in base 10. If you write numbers in base 2 its equal to numbers whose binary representation ends with an infinte number of 1s e.g. 0.11111... (base 2) = 1.
This is mostly an O'Reilly thing.

https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-short-history-of-the-oreil...

TL;DR:

> Some of the people at O’Reilly were taken aback: they thought the animals were weird, ugly, and a bit scary. But Tim [O'Reilly] got it immediately—he liked the quirkiness of the animals, thought it would help to make the books stand out from other publishers’ offerings—and it just felt right.

They even have a browser which helps you identify the animal:

https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp
Thanks for feedback! Hmm, public ideas discussion might be interesting.. I appreciate your feedback! I will surely consider your proposal!
well its protecting us from data mining. Which is good. But I disagree with the clunky implementation.
By default the contributors also hold copyright and need to consent to the separate licensing.

However, this is typically solved by using a contributor licence agreement (CLA) where all contributors click through a form before submitting a PR where they declare that they own the copyright for the PR and they give a license for the organization to relicense the work and derivatives. Sometimes the whole copyright is transferred to the organization in these agreements.

I didn't check but according to some comments here the CLA in this case is already embedded into the AGPL license.

In principle this scheme guarantees that the original organization always has special rights over all of the open source community, as they can dual license all the derivative works.
Don't take it too seriously. My app is focused on providing a quick and easy way to share initial project concepts with others. The key is feedback gathering. I use LLM just to quickly provide project brief for user.
OpenBlur Chrome extension hides and blurs sensitive information on any webpage
The AGPL is based on the ”Affero GPL”. The Affero GPL v1 (AGPLv1) was based on GPLv2.

(I also disagree with your feelings about the GPLv3, and think you should be using the normal AGPLv3.)
Getting my lactose intolerance diagnosis changed my life. I was having all sorts of bad pains & issues. At one point I thought I had kidney problems because of the pains in the area. I stopped drinking alcohol. The GP did so many tests - I was fit and healthy. Then he suggested an elimination diet. I was sceptical, but after 2 weeks I felt like I had been reborn.

Many of the ills I had had over the years had been misdiagnosed (antibiotics for a bladder infection, for example - turns out it was just bloating and internal pressure from my bowel).

It's so nice being able to sleep properly at night, and also not have random diarrhea/bloating/pains. My mental health is also great - the link between gut health & depression etc needs much more research.
Easiest method is to simply take your idea at face value.

In our first version, imagine all of the stars at rest. Now, we emphatically know this not to be true locally due to all kinds of measurements, but let's go with it. What happens? The moment you let these stars "go," they begin to draw toward one another due to gravity. You would have gravitational collapse. We do not see that.

Next iteration: we throw the stars, and the galaxies, and the galactic clusters away from one another. No expansion required. Here we have two options. In the first, we did not throw with enough speed, they expand out ... slow to a halt ... and the gravitational collapse again. Again, unobserved. Option two, you have thrown at escape velocity and what you would see is an asymptotically decreasing speed, never quite hitting zero, since gravity works "forever away." Also unobserved.

What you're suggesting is basically the Steady State concept, a kind of static universe. This is a very old idea. So old it was given a kind of courtesy term in general relativity, which would eventually be set to zero.

Here is a rule for any armchair astrophysicists: whatever you think of, that was most likely an idea at one point and was eventually ruled out.
> Well no, unless you literally starve them to death. State pensions or money in general is just a redistribution mechanism which doesn't change average available resources.

The way this is currently playing out in the UK, is that pension ages are increasing.

At the extreme case, there's no more state pension: if you don't have a private pension, you're working until just before you die.

I was thinking more of heating (and, increasingly, cooling) rather than starvation: Food specifically isn't the main concern here, unlike in the 1800s, because of how few farmers we need to feed the entire population.

(And this whole thing may be inverted at short notice in a whole bunch of different ways; UBI is basically a pension age of zero, but I'm only expecting that when AI gets good enough, and IMO that's "at least five years after self driving cars, whenever that is".
> Can the authors (holding the copyright) distribute code under a different license when there were external contributors under GPL?

No, if any contributions were made under the GPL, they'd have to get permission to change the license to AGPL from every contributor or remove their contributions.

Most projects like this require you license your contributions in a way that lets them sell non-AGPL licenses (see their Contributor License Agreement) https://cla-assistant.io/paradedb/paradedb

So basically they can do whatever they want with your contributions.