skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft and Copenhagen University create a new kind of quantum device
Of course you would just follow Pierce Brosnan's instructions and "Stay Calm"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWkNT5A3wIk
Haven't they added some of them? I think should be enabled in settings.
What happens if you die first and the service crashes for some reason?
From the title I expected something about the Australian Federal government, but on further thought that couldn't be: an entity must have a brain before it can be eaten.
This is true, but it’s not simple and requires quite a bit of work for both versions.
If you're interested to learn more about how MRI works. I recently found an excellent video on the topic. It's 42 min and quite technical, but that's what I like about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQegSF4ZiIQ
Many current website trends (overlays, popups, animated/video advertising, sticky video players) make content less accessible even for people with mainstream access requirements.
So Gmail doesn't support it and yet it wrong for this developer to go this route?

Being snobby about protocols isn't useful and comments like that should be sent to Google instead.
This can be seen quite a bit on Twitter, both in usernames and the tweets themselves. Personally, since I think human behaviour cannot be completely fixed but can be nudged in the correct direction, I'd like to see services implement something like alt text for text, especially usernames. This way people can use different characters to be as creative as they want, but provide an accessible version for screen readers. Something like this example:

<span aria-label="like this example"><span aria-hidden="true">𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕖𝕩𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖</span></span>

The alternative would be restricting the use of these characters, but this would kill many valid use cases and you can't just forbid non-latin characters on an international service.

I've written a post[1] about this and thought I'd implement it in one of my services as an example. I haven't seen any example of it live yet.

[1] https://blog.nytsoi.net/2019/12/12/alt-text-for-text
And their developers business model, and their high customer satisfaction levels.
I saw some research the other day that they think the decrease in death rate is because everyone is wearing masks and social distancing. Therefore anyone getting sick is getting a very low viral load compared to before. If comparing to flu we should compare to pre-lockdown, pre-mask death rate.
Facebook Reality Labs Research: The future of audio
WEIRD !
The author added a human fart sound that plays when the visit comes from HN.

// Hacker News is bad.
if (document.referrer.startsWith("https://news.ycombinator.com")) {
document.location = "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Human_fart.wav"
}

If you don't want to have anything to do with the HN people, then who is your ally in tech?
I agree, and I can only imagine how aggravating it must be to be a user with a screen reader having to (mentally/programmatically) parse the very "clever" strike-through-simulating special-purpose Unicode text some user decided would suffice for "real" strike-through text, just because HN is, uh, persnickety, with its allowed characters...

I've seen it many times here at least. Just add an addendum!
I got to use zulip for a big project last year, I do very much recommend it, lots of emotes too which was pretty fun
Isn't part of the challenge here dealing with the %0.1 that want to confess to or commit a crime after they have passed?
Unless the coffin confessor decides to write a book.
A sudoku game where you have to prove that your deductions are valid
With Vulcan, you are more than ever as a indie developer faced with the question: Are you going to do a game or an engine.
> One guy wanted me to put fireworks in his coffin so they went off during a parade, another guy wanted to be naked, lying on his front and for me to write "kiss this" on his a for when he had an open casket viewing.

This reminds me of Swiss kinetic artist Jean Tinguely: his coffin was followed by one of his mechanical sculptures with noisy fireworks and smoke… He was also known as a “party perturbator” [1] (article in German).

Another one of his surprises, a bit unrelated but noteworthy: a “major auto-destructive performance, a work called La Vittoria, in front of Milan Cathedral in 1970. La Vittoria was a 10-metre-high phallus made of papier-mâché, spiked with fireworks, and then set on fire.”
(I stress that the installation was set up in front of the “Duomo”) [2].

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13491563.html

[2] https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/collection/95263-jean-tinguely-l...
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Maybe one of these books could help him:
https://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-New-Mood-Therapy/dp/0380...

https://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Great-Revolutionary-Treatment...

The first one helped me understand how the mind influences the emotions, haven't read the second.
Interesting that a small tidy up from Linus directly caused such an impact on Redis/Apache.

> That Apache regression was tracked down to a Linux 5.9 change by Linus Torvalds himself. He took up rewriting the wait_on_page_bit_common() logic.
Here is a video demonstrating how a screen reader reads these pseudo-fonts:

https://twitter.com/jypnati0n_/status/1303012163766743041

Seems like the screen reader could have a "say what they mean" mode to pronounce "𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔" as "this". I assume the legitimate use of Unicode mathematical symbols like "𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔" is much less than the pseudo-font usage.
Don’t use those frameworks: they are not fit for purpose.
How young? My eight year old enjoys Duolingo though he gets a bit discouraged by the competitive aspect of it sometimes.
I would like to comment on this. My real name and also email I believe are in my profile, as well as in a couple of past comments.

Incompetence is sometimes a brilliant intelligence and counterintelligence strategy.

The old saying of "don't suspect malice when stupidity is possible" or whatever was a favorite saying of Aldrich Ames. And of course that is what one would say if they were doing what he did.

It's also a great recruitment strategy for spies. The CIA realized by the mid 70's that hey didn't have to ask ppl to defect, or to pass secrets, often they would just say, "can you make sure that if this security concern ever gets filed, you just just make sure it gets lost, or that you are really confused and don't understand?"

Incompetence happened a great deal in the Soviet Union. It mentally killed people to see it everyday. People had just given up on society and accepted a corrupt incompetent way of life. Ultimately, incompetence, even if begun as a malicious strategy, eventually inspires it in others, which is tragic.
I just wonder what kind of software needs a full time dev once version 2.0 has been released?

What I mean by v 2.0 is major bugs have been found and major missing features have been added.

It seems to me that after that it's just the feature treadmill to justify asking money recurrently.

As a dev myself I understand you want to live of your craft, but as a customer I'm not going to pay all my life for an app, I will find an alternative.
> Majority of coffee fans say their local coffee shops make better coffee than starbucks.

They are wrong. Are there any blind taste tests? It's harder than wine to test, but should be possible.

But the premise is incorrect anyway.

Enjoyment of food and drink is tied to way more than taste. History matters. Sight matters. The story matters. Variety matters. Routine matters. The people matter.

The trick is to get the coffee backhouse, without suspicion or losing all the extra things that matter and then use pods -

30% of Michelin-starred restaurants choose Nespresso machines
https://www.grubstreet.com/2013/03/nespresso-sold-at-micheli...
Single dad - with two boys who delight and terrorise in equal measure. Working in an industry in constant flux, trying to make the right moves and play to my skills. Knowing all along that I am not the best at what I do by a long mile. I've had two years that have often felt horrendous, and that's putting it lightly. I am approaching 40, and have taken a turn for the worse in terms of lock down weight...

Weirdly corona has brought together my family, has made me see I am really lucky to have the job I have and made me desperate to work harder at social relationships.

So that's my story, and I am here for anyone who might benefit from a similar perspective :)
It looks really interesting, immediately downloaded and would be glad to pay a subscription if it works for me.

I have two asks:

1. Glad you're supporting Gmail shortcuts, but sad to say they aren't working in a second keyboard locale which I have (as basically any non-Anglo-American user would). Gmail provides two columns for keyboard shortcuts in settings so I went and manually adapted all keys. Or maybe Mimestream could support that automatically, for instance Superhuman has no issues with the language I'm using. Currently I just can't use any keyboard shortcuts unless I switch my input to English.

2. I specifically dislike unified inbox, could there be a setting to revert the side bar, so instead of the top level Inbox with folders for my accounts it would be top-level accounts with folders for each?

Thank you for working on this!
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If there was no short term market then long term buyers and sellers would have a harder time buying and selling and it would cost them significantly more.
Yeah but Ireland does everything to not lose them over privacy regulations. The delegation of authority to national regulators is a big weakness in GDPR.
But it's hard to avoid the cheap offerings of US cloud. I'm from Sweden myself and I'm only speaking as a layperson who is observing the IT industry.

It feels like the rampant capitalism in the United States, and lack of regulations, fuels the VC economy. Making startups like Google, Amazon and others possible.

I can't imagine a company running on hundreds of millions in dollars of VC money with no real profit coming in, just hoping for an exit.

That's a very strange phenomenon, sort of like the .com bubble never burst but just got bigger.

I'm afraid that in order to see the same rapid development of cloud companies here in Europe we'd have to adopt the lax corporate regulations of the US. Which in turn would lead to other issues like workers losing rights.
Just because your eyes are sort of like a cmos sensor and your brain sort of like a recording device doesn't mean its exactly the same they very clearly banned a process on an external computer. You are free to run your brains built in facial recognition on anything you photograph and write them down in pen.

What you aren't allowed to do is feed a stream of data to a computer and run facial recognition over the stream.

It's pointless to pretend these activities are legally or literally equivalent when this just isn't so. Additionally the first amendment seems to only apply in this context if it pertains to freedom of the press. Presumably you would have to argue that the inability to ask the computer to guess the identity of all and sundry materially impaired your ability to report on current events.

Most of the people likely targeted by this law are apt to be neither professional press nor citizen journalists and wont be able to take advantage of this argument. Whereas citizens photographing cops would likely be able to make this argument.
> Hoping other platforms follow suit. Preferably using SwiftUI...hey, I can dream right?

This makes it seems like it's up to those other platforms, but it's really all about Apple's decision, right? (in which case I'll eat my metaphorical hat if this happens)
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That's good to know--I'm dealing with a home lab server (running ESXi,) which makes it a little awkward, since any solution that involves an older version of Windows would end up residing as a VM on...my ESXi server, whose (i)DRAC I'm trying to access!

I'll try it out on a (physically) separate machine considering your comment. Thanks! I'm glad to know I'm not the only one dealing with hardware companies' awful software.
Your innocence is quite charming, specially in a post-snowden world
Indeed, and now the Association of American Orchestras wants to end blind auditions because they don't get enough black people that way ️

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition...

https://americanorchestras.org/images/stories/diversity/Raci...
It’s not crazy, the entire point is to avoid use of Free File by any means possible.
I think OPNsense (an offshoot of pfsense) has this capability built in.
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The net profits from that 30% is a trivial amount compared to their iPhone/iPad profits.

Yes they are worried about competition, Android. Epic isn’t competition. Without the walled garden, the iPhone loses a huge differentiator between it and Android, a and one of their developers and customers most valued features.
Excellent! That makes asking for a raise much easier!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574650
You can define logic circuits abstractly, without referring to their implementation in electronics at all.

Even if you insist on defining them in terms of electronics, I don't think there's a significant difference between assigning some meaning to an arbitrary voltage vs assigning some meaning to an arbitrary squiggle on a piece of paper.
Azure Service bus –| Peek/Delete scheduled message which has future enqueue time
Adobe wasn't what I had in mind.

That's a moneymaker, for one thing. For another, they're the industry standard, and yeah the formats are proprietary but if you take a couple years break and start paying again, your files are going to open.

I was thinking more of products like Roam Research. Not to pick on them in particular, I know a lot of people like it, but it's just a non-starter for me.

The Moleskin iPad app is the one I'd most like to use, if they came up with a different business plan for it.
More history about Google's mapping products is available in Bill Kilday's book "Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality". Kilday was a founder at Keyhole, the startup acquired by Google to become Google Earth.
I wonder if a screen reader could be smart enough to use OCR when it comes across an abrupt sequence of unusual character combinations like this.
Towards a more perfect democracy (2013)
Those neighborhoods lack opportunity because they lack funds and have ethnic names and or faces. When the same resume gets a fraction of the bites when you put the name Jamal on it vs John its pretty easy to identify the issue. Furthermore I don't think disallowing facial recognition is going to materially effect the services offered in a city so this seems like you shimmed it in there.
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Because EU countries don't have mammoth sized, trillion dollar SW companies with a global monopoly.

If your country's software industry is comprised mostly of 10-200 person web shops and consultancies there's no real gain for the Goverment agencies to be in bed with them.
I thought it was to duck and cover...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ruvGaUuVLDc
I like the idea, but the de-Unicodifier would have to use the current user's locale - de-Unicodifying certain characters (e.g. Cyrillic that look like English) would have unintended consequences if you just assumed they're meant to be English.
I once used Unicode to set off some fixed width text inline with my comment. (Or, I think it was italicized? Don't remember exactly).

I was doing it to work around the limited formatting available here, but I noticed a couple hours later that my comment was transliterated into ASCII. Given the time delay, I assume it was done manually. (Dang, was that you?)
Yes, but it's it good that they did so? Don't they have enough problems with the populace at large of current size?
Such as lack of jobs - having more children than replacement exacerbates it.

The only way it is beneficial is because some jokers decided that running country on ever increasing debt (esp. retirement) is acceptable, and another decided that growth rates have to be high.
It's even worse when your friends tell you that you're underpaid and should seek new employment when you are struggling to find open jobs or get past the HR people.
We're all basically saying the same thing. That this kind of service is problematic for us because of our condition.

But, you're right in that were all same same but different.
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I don't think you representative of a lot of customers.

Where I work I must do without critical software because it's deemed too expensive by the management (weekly restaurant outings for the managers aren't deem expensive though ;)
Maybe when we (re)create our own electronics industry. Even China has problems with sourcing components (the TSMC/USA licenses case). It also doesn't help to be a collection of small countries that can be played one against the other by USA, China and Russia and possibly others.
If you're living in Europe then that's something that you just need to accept, the pay is nowhere near anywhere the pay in the US, I think in my country it caps at something like 60k$ per year and that's if you're really good at what you're doing.
Why don't screen readers have image recognition neutral nets? Seems like an easy win to me.
> I have no evidence

I mean, there are several books about it such as Surveillance Valley, or these two sister pieces

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/why-google-made-the-...
You're underestimating how well birth rates react to having actual free time and space to live in.

I raise you Israel as an example of not a poor country with big increase in birth rates.
A1778, so, Intel I guess?
But shouldn't there be software that treats the entire page as an image, and from there reconstruct what parts are important?

Web design practices are far too unpredictable, and you can't rely on them to extract semantics.
I have the same feeling. In most cases you do the job without any external libs which is rarely the case with other programming languages.
I guess your username has the same properties.

They're chosen because of some visual elements, and are hard, if not impossible to pronounce for text-to-speech.
Disclaimer: I am Google shill

Have you tried recently? "OK Google, read me this web page" does pretty much what you'd expect.

There's nice quality of life features of people who can see. The page scrolls as it's read, and the current word is highlighted.
I strongly disagree. Empty alt text means no image description. Think about that. You are blind. Your Screen reader tells you "image", nothing more.

How are you to know if this image is purely decorational or if the author just didn't include any alt text, like happens so often?

Also, don't think of the alt text as part of the surrounding text. Think of it as many browsers would display it, a box with a broken image icon with the alt text besides it. Would you not wonder what would have been displayed there if the image would work?

And do images that are just for decoration really need to be images? Can they not be for example background images in other elements? Like styling an hr element for a visual divider instead of using just a divider image?

But in any case, provide some alt text! If it just says "divider", "logo" or "decoration", that is still better than nothing for someone who can't see it at all.
> one of the top up-sells is insurance

That's because most storage facilities require insurance and no one is trying to buy it on their own, so they accept whatever the facility offers them.
Say I'm doing home automation and I decide to go with BLE and Bluetooth Mesh (I didn't realize this was a thing). What's the recommended chip/device/design to bridge this Bluetooth network with "regular" computers?
Wall Street sees a bright side in 'healthy' tech selloff
It isn't, as the rates are near replacement, which should not be a problem. (And increased health span allows some older people to remain in workforce.)

However, retirement and social systems were designed during a boom and were inadequately funded.
(Sustainable) Index ETFs in the stocks.txt universe would likely be less sensitive to single performers' effects in unbalanced portfolios.

> pyfolio.tears.create_interesting_times_tear_sheet measures algorithmic trading algorithm performance during "stress events" https://github.com/quantopian/pyfolio/blob/03568e0f328783a6a...
> We're living in the gold ages before everything we do within eyeshot of anyone is recorded like that Black Mirror episode anyone can review/share anything they've seen with their own eyes.

I very much doubt that. Just because it may be technically possible to some degree at some point doesn’t mean that anyone would be interested in it. It’s technically possible today to wear a mic and record everything you hear and say for your entire life, but no one does that, and most people would find anyone that did very weird.
But then you have a situation where either those n people have to know about and opt in to this deal which leaves them wondering what your secrets are and just knowing that people were thinking about it would drive my crazy or you have a situation where people get an email totally out of the blue saying that someone they know is dead and click this link to find out their secrets. I would mark that as spam and delete it instantly. Some people would just click cos they are like what the hell is this about. Almost zero people will take it as a serious instruction to be dutifully followed.
Ya can tell by the way the guy writes he's an experienced used jewellery salesman.

"New Zealand", like he's the crown prince or something.
They are fucking with you. Competently. They are doing so on behalf of people on the other side of the “who gets fucked with” line. You thought you were on the other side of the line but it appears you were mistaken. Behaviors premised on a belief law enforcement is incompetent won’t do much for a defendant. Defendants are even further along the “who gets fucked with” spectrum.
well why wouldn't they? Every government would love to have silicon valley. The question is why the rest of the world blindly trusts the narrative about data security
Meaning that they're both roughly equal in terms of latency and bandwidth, so much that one could swap one out with the other and not know the difference

Because I do not see them as strongly competing technologies. Cable has sheer speed and latency on its side and 5G has mobility. Switching my cable connection today for a 5G connection tomorrow would make my life worse. They both fill niches the other can't.
The regression of civilisation is palpable.
Interestingly most throwaway accounts I see with throwaway in their name aren't green, so I think those people must have just kept their "throwaway" account?
Donald Trump's very own Twitter account is a steam of hard-hitting criticism ;)
> I'm utterly convinced that the only compelling reason for async is to avoid the per-thread stack memory allocation of 8MB per thread or whatever it is, in order to be able to scale to an extremely large number of concurrent threads/coroutines.

If it's possible to avoid shared state then I tend to prefer threads, but in the presence of shared state there are good reasons to think that explicit coroutines are easier to reason about than threads or green-threads: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2014/02/unyielding.html