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mkishi commented on Google Safe Browsing incident statichost.eu/blog/google... · Posted by u/ericselin

ericselin · 5 months ago

You are right, of course. I'm not sure if those of you who disagree with me think that Safe Browsing did its job (which it did!), that Safe Browsing is a good thing (which it maybe is, but which I slightly disagree with), or that it's ok that Google monitors everything everyone does.

The last point is actually the one I'm trying to make.

mkishi · 5 months ago

It's hard to get that point because you're conflating two different stories.

Folks around here are generally uneasy about tracking in general too, but remove big brother monitoring from Safe Browsing and this story could still be the same: whole domain blacklisted by Google, only due to manual reporting instead.

"Oh, but a human reviewer would've known `*.statichost.eu` isn't managed by us"—not in a lot of cases, not really.

mkishi commented on Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices github.com/freeman-jiang/... · Posted by u/freemanjiang

freemanjiang · 10 months ago

Yeah the threshold is pretty brutal, but it is enough. Experimentally, I'd say you need under 2-3ms but even at 1ms you can start to hear some phase differences.

Most of the time, I think my synchronization algorithm is actually sub-1ms, but it can be worse depending on unstable network conditions.

mkishi · 10 months ago

How are you measuring this? I'm surprised the Web Audio API scheduling system has that much insight into the hardware latency.

mkishi commented on Claim: Private GitHub repos included in AI dataset post.lurk.org/@emenel/112... · Posted by u/latexr

latexr · 2 years ago

> based on

The data for The Stack’s dataset is sourced from the Software Heritage Archive, so checking that is redundant. We need different sources.

mkishi · 2 years ago

Even still, both repos had READMEs [1][2] clearly meant to be read by the public. The archival was only successful years ago, with a failed snapshot as far back as 2021 [3]. This really seems like they forgot it was ever public.

Now, this is only about it being a GitHub breach. Whether unlicensed (emenel/portfolio) or GPL (emenel/dust) code should be allowed in such datasets is a different matter.

[1] https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory...

[2] https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory...

[3] https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/visits/?o...

mkishi commented on Backlash as Netflix cancels five shows at once including its 'best series' independent.co.uk/arts-en... · Posted by u/pg_1234

iowemoretohim · 2 years ago

The title of this article is embarrassing. They took "best series" from a post of a random X user @MhayYhusuf who called the series "the best show on the platform".

Shadow and Bone is far from being a best anything.

mkishi · 2 years ago

I believe the title refers to the linked article [1]—which claims it topped the platform's charts—rather than the quoted tweet.

It might not be to your liking, but it's been in Netflix's top 10 lists [2] quite a few times.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/sha...

[2] https://www.netflix.com/tudum/top10/tv?week=2023-03-19

mkishi commented on What is the Demoscene? An interview onthearts.com/p/what-is-t... · Posted by u/keiferski

pixelpoet · 2 years ago

One of the example songs actually makes the user interface slowly morph into a sort of demo (!!!!), wait for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHFSrxlouh8

PS. Demoscene is by far the best thing to ever come out of computing, as a whole.

mkishi · 2 years ago

Not to knock on Sunvox or NightRadio (both awesome!), but that effect only exists in the video. It doesn't happen when playing the demo song on the software, and they confirmed it was made with a video editor [1].

[1] Highlighted comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHFSrxlouh8&lc=UgxI33WIYq61V...

mkishi commented on Desmos 3D graphing calculator desmos.com/3d... · Posted by u/benpm

Aardwolf · 2 years ago

This is fantastic! So easy to move, zoom and rotate the graph with exactly the mouse buttons you'd expect. In most even commercial math packages this is always super clunky

mkishi · 2 years ago

How does one move with the mouse? I could only find gestures for rotation and zoom; for movement I had to resort to manually entering coordinates in the settings.

mkishi commented on Svelte 5: Runes svelte.dev/blog/runes... · Posted by u/benmccann

wikoj1021 · 2 years ago

What about scoped reactivity? Sometimes you need to react on some of the states not all of them. Right now we are achieving this by passing function with arguments to react on to $: but with $derived and $effect it seems to be not possible because it takes variables from every function passed. Are there any plans how to resolve this? Also nested $effect instead of onMount looks awfull and to be honest is less readable.

mkishi · 2 years ago

You can use `untrack` [1] when you don't want to react to some state inside an effect.

You can still use `onMount`. It's not deprecated [2], although `$effect` could be used similarly going forward.

[1] https://svelte-5-preview.vercel.app/docs/functions#untrack

[2] https://svelte-5-preview.vercel.app/docs/runes#$effect-what-...

mkishi commented on An Excel error led Austria's SPÖ to announce the wrong candidate as the winner twitter.com/joncstone/sta... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

theshrike79 · 3 years ago

I just made an Excel sheet, put in formulas and I could just type over any formula with numbers without any notifications or errors.

How do you manage to require "a handful of clicks" to do it?

mkishi · 3 years ago

This only happens in "proper" tables. When you add a formula to a table column, Excel will automatically convert it into a "calculated column," so overridden values will have a green mark denoting an "inconsistent formula."

It's still a pretty minor warning and it only requires two clicks to ignore.

mkishi commented on Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI github.com/xtekky/gpt4fre... · Posted by u/freedmand

jrochkind1 · 3 years ago

Hm, good point, I think of "takedown notice" as being about the DMCA, because I never heard that term at all before the DMCA, I think of it as a term of art from DMCA. But people could be using it differently or mis-using it.

However, this is on Github. Github specifically has a "DMCA Takedown Policy" [1]. I don't believe they have any other policy or procedure involving a "takedown notice". But sure, I could be wrong, or the notice on the repo could be not quite right about what's going on.

Other companies, even big ones, will just take down anything a big corporation asks them to, with no written policy or a written policy basically saying that's what they'll do, while using language implying the DMCA (like "takedown notice"), when that's not what they're doing at all. But Github has actually been pretty good at actually doing this according to the procedure spelled out in DMCA, and not just randomly for whatever another big corporation might want. And being clear about what they're doing why if they're doing something else.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-polic...

mkishi · 3 years ago

From the submission (the repo's readme):

> We got a takedown request by openai's legal team...

Did Github take a separate action somewhere?

mkishi commented on Lerp rachsmith.com/lerp/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

tempodox · 3 years ago

IDK, on my fast desktop computer it's still a slow and bad simulation of inertia.

mkishi · 3 years ago

It shouldn't matter if it's a fast desktop or slow mobile (unless it's not keeping up, which is unlikely in these examples); what matters is the display rate on these devices. The demos feel very fast in a 250Hz monitor when compared to a 60Hz one.