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by pythux 3y ago
Hi, Brave engineer here, Are you by any chance using a VPN while using Brave Search? (ProtonVPN?) Thanks for your help, we're working on ways to reduce the number of captchas shown to VPN users and your feedback is very useful.
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by pythux 3y ago
Nit. I believe you can use numpy and at least some other libraries relying on native extensions but performance might vary: https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#should-i-install-num...
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by pythux 3y ago
No, there are some meaningful differences in the Manifest v3 implementation in Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi... One such difference (and not the least) is: > Mo
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by pythux 3y ago
The operating system level does not have as much information as the browser so it would be much less effective. You could do domain-level blocking (mostly) but miss lots of granularity on URLs, types of requests, contexts of request (what&#
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by pythux 3y ago
Income tax rate is far from 70% (not sure if this was second degree or not). Up to €10,777 = 0% From €10,778 to €27,478 = 11% From €27,479 to €78,570 = 30% From €78,571 to €168,994 = 41% More than €168,994 = 45% https://www.ser
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by pythux 3y ago
It is very expensive to train these base models so a smaller size is more practical if you aren’t a big company with hundreds of powerful GPUs at hand. Table 15 from LLaMA paper[1] has some insightful figures: it took 135,168 GPU hours to t
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by pythux 3y ago
Brave has its own Rust implementation of an adblocker embedded in the browser: https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust ; so it does not embed uBlock Origin (but the filters are mostly compatible) Disclaimer: I work at Bra
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by pythux 3y ago
To add to that, I believe the title of this submission is a reference ("Open-Lamam: A “real” open-source project to train LLM not just checkpoints") to this project you link, since they did not (to my knowledge), release the code
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by pythux 3y ago
Hi, Brave engineer here, We're always on the look-out to improve our search ranking. Would you be able to share some of the queries you made that did not return satisfying results? (or use in-page feedback to report them automatically
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by pythux 4y ago
Only tangentially related but I wrote some code to manipulate these filters with the hope that I would help manage/centralize them more easily: https://remusao.github.io/posts/parsing-thunderbird-msg-filt... Leavi
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by pythux 4y ago
Hi, Brave engineer here, Thanks for your feedback, we've fixed the !i image search bang.
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by pythux 4y ago
One datapoint: I use Slack exclusively in the browser (both Firefox and Brave), and it works well. As far as I remember on Firefox there was some limitation on video calls but that was arbitrary (user-agent check or something like that).
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by pythux 4y ago
Are you by any chance referring to Goggles (with two 'g's) which is indeed a beta feature, but has nothing to do with Google? https://search.brave.com/goggles/discover (Disclaimer: I work at Brave)
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by pythux 4y ago
Note that the lack of adblocker in nativefier has nothing to do with the lack of libraires to do the blocking but rather technical challenges with preload scripts, etc. (Not impossible but someone needs to implement it). See here for releva
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by pythux 4y ago
You might like Goggles (also a Brave feature): https://search.brave.com/help/goggles Disclaimer: I work at Brave.
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by pythux 4y ago
> They charge by the GB and are not exactly super cheap so if the customer wants to store a big fat file of easily compressible zeros then whatever, they got their money. And what if they can charge you the uncompressed size and only act
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by pythux 4y ago
That does not match my own experience with a very similar t14s equipped with same CPU. I get much better battery life than 3 hours on Linux even with moderate workload (compiling, browsing, etc.). I often use it on the go and it’s been pret
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by pythux 4y ago
It cannot do CNAME uncloaking because Chrome's extension API do not provide dns resolving like on Firefox. Another example if HTML filtering where on Firefox an extension can rewrite the HTML from requests on the fly (e.g. to remove sc
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by pythux 4y ago
Thank you, very interesting ideas. I like the option to boost based on a variable depending on the page itself. How would we define “adcount”, number of network requests blocked by some adblocker when loading the page?
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by pythux 4y ago
Thanks for the great feedback! As you mentioned, before being able to apply multiple Goggles at once[1], we would need to define precedence rules. It's technically possible, but then we would also need to figure out some UX around it,
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by pythux 4y ago
Hey, I work at Brave, This is great feedback, thank you! We already have a few ideas on how to make Goggles more powerful in the future, and the things you listed sound very interesting. Would you mind elaborating a bit on how you would see
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by pythux 4y ago
Nice project, Goggles is also open-source, the main difference of the approach is that Goggles collaborates with Brave Search index while your approach uses any search index as source of URLs. That difference is fundamental, a client can us
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by pythux 4y ago
Hi, Brave engineer here, It is true that there are currently less examples of negative boosts, but it is supported by Goggles thanks to the 'downrank' option. For example: $downrank,site=example.com If you want to be stricter, you
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by pythux 4y ago
From what I can see the Lenses feature only allows to specify up to 10 domains? (Screenshot in the article linked above). If that’s the case I don’t see how Lenses and Goggles are comparable. Goggles allows to specify thousands of rules, no
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by pythux 4y ago
Thanks for clarifying, makes sense. I think the comment might predate the switch to boost=1 and was not updated accordingly.
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by pythux 4y ago
Hey, Brave engineer here, In this case it is needed because there is a generic '$discard' rule in the Goggle (which means: discard any result that does not match any other instruction from the Goggle; you can see this as a 'd
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by pythux 4y ago
Definitely a matter of cost/benefit ratio. DDOS using headless browsers are pretty common.
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by pythux 5y ago
Brave - Brave Search | Remote (Anywhere, but significant overlap with European timezones preferred) Brave Search is looking for talent to make search.brave.com better. Your work will impact the future of search to be used by millions of peo
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by pythux 5y ago
Aren't both companies potentially loosing money when their products don't work? The fact that it's crucial to businesses seems to be the client perspective, not the company perspective. It could also seen as critical for some
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by pythux 5y ago
I don't disagree with this, they could/should have transitioned already. But for one, cultures are hard/slow to change. And second, as an example, Facebook had the motto "move fast and break things" until 2014, and

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