skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then why don't actual screen readers exist when a.i.'s at this point can practically solve captcha's

Training a computer to solve a captcha is a lot easier than training a computer to understand interface conventions.

There isn't an AI that can look at a jpeg screenshot of an interface and say, "there's two input elements, and it looks like they're grouped together and control the list to the left of them, and one of them is selected, which I can tell because it has some kind of subtle glow effect on it, but not the glow effect you would get if you moused over it."

There's nothing that can realistically do that today, and it wouldn't be fast enough or performant enough for low-powered cell phones and laptops even if it did exist.

If you're just looking at describing pictures themselves... sure, Facebook does auto-generate alt tags for images if you forget to put one in. And Youtube auto-generates captions. Those are valuable services, but they have a lot of glitches and mistakes. If you're a blind reader, you'd prefer not to have that experience when you're using a piece of software, you'd prefer something that just works reliably.

It's the same reason you probably used a keyboard to type this comment instead of speech to text. Speech to text is useful in some cases, but not good enough or accurate enough that you would want to use it as your main input method.
It does not generate safe bindings. Currently the metdata is scrapped from Windows headers which don't have all the necessary information to go that far. In the future the metadata could be improved. The metdata format is the same as used by .NET and WinRT.
Seems like a thorough listing. Yes.

I'd like to see the major changes in taxation and legal reform to favour encourage bigger risk/reward sharing with workers and reductions in paperwork and regulation to make it easier to set up companies with a diverse range of small, actively involved stakeholders.

I think it is notable how well American tech companies did with large equity handouts to their early employees. Maybe the model starts there. I don't have details, I do have a problem - to get great results, large complex organisations need a different model than salaried workers.
Fusion full-stack framework for modern web development on Java back end
First, I'm curious if they use a throat mike or something bone conducting.

Second, given how shitty voice interfaces are, I'm shocked they would use them at all. I assume the military funds a lot of EEG research- that would be ideal here.
There are advantages in countries with socialized healthcare to be an independent contractor (e.g. Canada). In the US, not so much.
https://i.redd.it/z9tejhhbg6931.jpg

This is way more sparse and streamlined than I thought. Wonder how big the manual for flight simulator game would be. Some video of UI in action on simulator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSy8DcLaRDo

Are there any design documentations for UX/UI for military hardware? Is there a name for this style. Is it actually as functional as it looks? I wonder how these designers feel about dealing with military powerpoints.
Federal judge rejects Parler's demand to be reinstated on AWS
Or opportunity? Maybe they could be good at selling those.
It seems pretty clear the motivation here is that Instacart doesn't need/can't afford the workforce and is instead probably finding that store employees are able to fill the orders via some partnership with the big chains for a cut that is more margin efficient than hiring their own "shoppers" to do so.

Also just generally this makes sense... a Safeway/Shoprite/Whole Foods employee can probably navigate and fill a cart faster than a random shopper who might not be as familiar with every store's layout. For Instacart this is a huge win, faster fulfillment and probably even higher accuracy of fulfilled orders. For chains this is also a great win since they can utilize their employees more, make a little extra off Instacart, and potentially even optimize their store layouts better to cater to this new style of shopping.

Also the headline is quite misleading given that there are only TEN union workers... so "all of its union roles" is misrepresenting the whole thing a bit.
It's not that bad ... right up until someone finds a security problem involving said feature, and the original code authors have left.
I have found this technique especially helpful in the WFH context created by the pandemic.

I also found it helpful to create a pretext for the recurring meetings -- like a "book club" -- even if the week-to-week interactions don't actually end up following that structure.
Toolz, like seemingly everything Matt Rocklin is a major contributor to, is something of a model library: cleanly designed and coded, with strong documentation.

Although Python is not going to match a full Lisp, Haskell or ML in all their strengths, using a functional style can be useful and expressive. The toolz docs give some relevant background at https://toolz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/heritage.html .

At a language level, Peter Norvig gave a lengthy comparison of Python and Lisp at https://norvig.com/python-lisp.html in 2000.
I work 16 hours a day mostly.

I got burned out once in a december day till January, with my previous employer constantly requiring me to be on ( even had my laptop with me when I went to the swimming pool).

Honestly, if i feel low on motivation i start with looping my issues, take a low/easy one and start with that one. Getting started seems to be the trick, so a small 5 minute task helps.
Now that is a name I had almost forgotten about.

Like many I had plenty of downloads from there, back in the day, on the university connection.
What do you think about sports leagues and the fact that the major ones in US have unions for their players? (low supply, high demand)
*Mostly free. Most larger museums are free admission, and many smaller museums are not.
FIFO or LIFO?
> Does this allow AOT compiling of Racket code to native ARM?

Yes, there's an example of this in the section "Cross-compile Racket modules for iOS".

> Assuming that JIT is still not possible on iOS.

JIT on iOS is not possible for non-side-loaded apps, like you mentioned downthread. That's part of the caveats[1] I mention at the top of the article and the more complex part of the change: when compiling new code (eg. via `eval`), we flip the protection bits between W and X for the minimum set of memory segments necessary based on certain heuristics.

[1]: https://github.com/racket/racket/blob/351c0047d6371e36cf422b...
Yes, that's what I'm suspecting too, although with higher clocked RAM, I should have somewhat more bandwidth. My DIMMs are 3200 MT, so should be running at 1600 MHz. But I saw a note (not sure where) that Infinity Fabric can run up to 2933 MT on my machine and it would run in sync with memory with DIMMs only up to 2933 MT. Unfortunately my BIOS doesn't allow to downgrade the RAM "clock" from 3200 MT to 2933, thus Ininity Fabric is running "out of sync" with my RAM.

This should mean non-ideal memory access latency at least, not sure how it affects throughput of large sequential transfers.

I'm planning to come up with some additional tests and hopefully write up a "part 2" too.
I've used them as my mail provider for three years or so without noticing any. So if they have regular hiccups, most of them can't be that serious.
I use X410 and run tools from inside of WSL2 by exporting the display. Works well for Emacs, JetBrains Rider, and every other GUI application I've tried so far.
bc and dc work for me.
If you have 5 minutes, watch it. There's no need to imagine here.
Not sure how much I'd trust my brain for this kind of thing... Thinking "I better not press that eject button!" might be problematic
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html#crea...
> and the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty is distinctly British and did not migrate into the US Constitution.

Distinctly English rather than distinctly British. As Lord Cooper said in MacCormick v. Lord Advocate, "the principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish Constitutional Law".

> no sitting parliament could ever restrict a majority of a future parliament from passing any law they saw fit

If the British Parliament tried to amend the Acts of Union 1707 to remove the protections granted to Scotland – for example, if it sought to abolish Scots law and replace it with English law – it is quite possible that the Scottish courts would rule such an Act of Parliament unconstitutional under Scots law, and also quite possible that the Supreme Court of the UK would uphold their ruling.
> In any case: it should be blatantly obvious that the Twitter representative did not know or agree that the person in the video was a minor

Or the moderator was [pick as many as you like]: Lazy, overworked, incompetent, or a scumbag.
They were such shit though, with the fake download buttons and everything.
> Suppose the NYPost has an axe to grind and went looking for a lawsuit that makes twitter look bad... so what?

Because that would be more like propaganda than journalism.

> That wouldn't mean they're lying, it would only mean they have a different idea of what constitutes news worthiness than you. That wouldn't make it disinformation.

Lying is only one of the many ways you can mislead someone. My point was that lying is inferior way to deceive than assembling true facts in a deceptive way. So the fact that the NY Post themselves didn't outright lie in this story does little to refute the idea that they're a disreputable paper.
Because. We fear they’re going to probe us.
A friend of mine was a professor at a US university in ML and came home to NED to work in medical ML and makes about that. I was amazed he wasn't at FAANG and his simple response was "My wife and I agreed that we would raise our children near their grandparents." There's perhaps more diversity in preferences than we can imagine.
Appreciate the feedback here. Was a legal template for the MVP (as you hinted at above), and not our intention to leave any uncertainty re data privacy.

We've amended the policy, and added this statement so things are clear.

Sundayy does not, and never will, rent or sell your personal data to any third party for any purpose (including advertising or marketing purposes) nor do we, or will we, permit targeted advertising on our Service. We only share personal information with third party service providers under limited circumstances as described in the section below.
I wonder if Rust is becoming Microsoft's way forward for development rather than C++ (i.e. Rust for Windows rather than C++ for Win32), leaving .NET for higher level development? The bold introduction in the blog post surprises me, coming from Microsoft themselves who're right now hard at work on these individual and ununified technologies.
It's incredible to me how often recruiters will shoot themselves in the foot when discussing WLB. When I was an undergrad, I had a lot of management consultancies reach out for technical/engineering roles. I thought - hey, there's a reason why people want to work at Bain, BCG, and McKinsey, right?

So I spoke to a recruiter and opened with: so what's the work life balance look like for technical ICs at your company? The recruiter literally laughed at me like I was doing stand-up comedy. Well, uh... ok? Waste of time, lol.
I wonder if this would allow using a WebView2 from Rust? I've searched the repository, but was not able to find it.
You're right!

The key point, no matter which theory you subscribe to, is that medium of exchange is the most important property.
Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc.

Really one of my favourite tech companies.

Not an employee just a happy customer!
A sell off of bitcoin happening in January after a huge bubble? Feels like 2018 again!
Good engineering is about finding reusable solutions to problems, it's not manual labor.

If you have good engineers the relationship between amount of work and number of engineers needed is non-linear.
Thanks! Sure. Circuit boards are easy. Many suppliers. The tricky part is the casing. Currently we are using Toolless that mill the units with CNC. That’s pricy per unit but we can order lower number of units.
If we reach enough funding we go for injection moulding. This is the way to go. Start small and expensive, worry about cutting costs and scaling later.

We have already built a final prototype that looks and works like final product together with our plastics manufacturer.
Circuit boards from Pcbway currently but larger order will come from other company most likely. Again there are many. And same with injection moulding; lots of companies do it.

I think we will reach crowdfunding goals but if not we may get external funding.
It's concentrated on Parler. Are there any liberal or moderate groups using their service?

Parler's only redeeming quality is that it had all of the footage from the attack on the Capitol. It would have made a good honeypot but now it looks to be weaponized as a Russian disinformation project.
This reminds me of the Connection Machine architecture [1]

> Each CM-1 microprocessor has its own 4 kilobits of random-access memory (RAM), and the hypercube-based array of them was designed to perform the same operation on multiple data points simultaneously, i.e., to execute tasks in single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) fashion. The CM-1, depending on the configuration, has as many as 65,536 individual processors, each extremely simple, processing one bit at a time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
I have a similar and opposite problem. I would be fine with all my secrets dying with me, but what i want to protect against is me going into a coma/for some reason I forget how to access my accounts.

How to securely manage it so that only I can open it if my biological self is there? I don't trust bank safe deposit boxes and I can't put a safe worth using inside my Apt.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
> Try dealing with something of consequence, like killing your former self (as in: the person in that point of time-space which carries the mutable signifier of “yourself” which is younger than yourself) or giving yourself a kilogram of gold from the future, which I think would violate the law of preservation of energy or whatever.

It is entirely irrelevant what it is. The point is that if the system is immutable it is impossible to represent a combination of state transitions that alters an existing state, as such the set of possible space-time combinations would in that case only include those where the time travel does not introduce a paradox that depends on change.

The same way the timeline does not include any states where I fold an elephant, because it's not possible to do so.

You have not presented any paradoxes that can work with an immutable space-time other than perhaps if said space-time introduces divergent timelines at any point of mutation, in which case the paradox can also easily be resolved.

> And yet if time travel backwards is possible you simply cannot deny that one would experience (!) that time travel as steps 1–3. Temporal experience. Hah!

You can experience it that way, but your "do something" step 2 would be deterministic and could not possibly include steps that introduced a paradox.

> There’s absolutely nothing hard about the concept of time being immutable;

You're still thinking in terms of a mutable space-time. I did not talk about time being immutable, but the entirety of space-time. Your "do something" step does nothing that changes anything in an immutable space-time, because everything is fixed from the start. Nothing moves. No action is taken. Everything is unalterable.

Time, and cause and effect, in that scenario is simply an illusion of consciousness at every point of a fixed 4d (or more) canvas that never changes in any way.

> The true puzzle is time travel which introduce paradoxes, which your original comment says absolutely nothing about.

My original comment gave immutability as an example of a possible solution. Time travel with paradoxes is not possible. That is the entire point of a paradox: The problem as stated reveals a problem with the presumed model. The solution is to identify and remove flaws in the model. Removing mutability is one such solution.
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You speak like the risks are the same. They aren't. Your statements don't talk about how the risk change with vaccination - and change even more when more folks are vaccinated.

If you are vaccinated, you are vastly less likely to get the infection you are vaccinated against. It is kind of like car accidents - you are vastly less likely to be in any sort of car accident if you are walking (vaccinated) than if you are driving a car (unvaccinated). Most folks will be protected.

Since most folks will be protected and won't get the disease, it means that - with enough vaccinations - the risk for those who don't get the vaccine or who are unlucky enough not to have full effectiveness are more protected as well. This situation is more akin to most folks taking public transport instead of driving cars: Since there are fewer cars on the roads, everyone's risk of getting into a car accident drops significantly.
The two if statements given aren't logically equivalent; an equivalent version of the 2nd one would be:

if (!(input.command === "foo" && isValid(input))) {
...
}

Which IMHO is the least comprehensible.

You can flip the negation by swapping the if/else blocks, but only if there is an else. Then you also get into questions about whether or not it matters which block is on top.
Widely reported, yes. But only officially recognized very recently.
This is one of the biggest reasons I really like (the python superset) Coconut: https://github.com/evhub/coconut
Sms conversations are green to iMessage users. So the practical expectation of a blue message is at least the content is not going one or more carriers.

So it is obvious when texting with someone that the content is flowing unencrypted over sms, and easily read by the phone company, let alone a request from LE.

The problem with this service is it makes the conversation look like it is over iMessage. And while your comments about the factual trust level of the user or their choices around iCloud backups and password protection is always the base consideration—-beeper is being additionally introduced, possibly using a wholly unprotected iOS device along with their own cloud storage of the content.

So the attack surface now includes not only the recipient and their trustworthiness and opsec in using the apple product but the entire opsec of this third party service.

Dialing it up to, “well prism” or “trust of the other person” deliberately ignores my point which is beeper is being added as a listener in an opaque way to the iMessage user.

When I say practical expectation, I am not worried about my contacts copying and pasting a conversation. They might but there would be a reason and I’m not worried about some kind of betrayal.

Nor am I overtly concerned about a contact having their iCloud backup stolen and read. There are fairly robust measures Apple takes to prevent this including mandatory 2FA. It would take true determination.

However this is marketed as an innocuous gateway for iMessage and it isn’t. As I mentioned above Beeper takes no responsibility for the loss of data and does not bear much reprisal if they leaked data. They can’t because it’s a startup.
> Such executive agreements are not legally binding on the U.S.

They are binding on the US (they are binding under international law), they just aren’t always binding within the US on their own.

A Congressional-Executive Agreement is binding under the terms of the relevant statutory authority, and typically also is (and authorized by Congress as) the basis for binding regulation by the executive.

A sole executive agreement isn’t binding under domestic law on its own, but typically is implemented by being used as a policy guideline for executive action under other authority, or as a basis for the executive seeking supporting legislation (the latter of which may transform it, after the fact, into a Congressional-executive agrement.)
I second this, highly recommended!
Reputation obviously... He'll forever be "the guy who believed Craig"
The real Satoshi is probably dead. Who just disappears, without any warning, without saying goodbye, when their project is just beginning to take off? What sort of a person never gets involved again, even just to comment, when the project attracts the interest of heads of state? Death or severe incapacitation (stroke, coma, etc.) is the simplest explanation that fits all the things we know about this person. He probably used FDE and his family probably did not know his passphrase or what he was working on, so nobody even knew to announce what happened.

People die all the time -- car accidents, heart attacks, strokes, drug overdoses, etc. Usually you never hear about them. Satoshi was almost certainly not a well-known cryptographer or even someone with significant involvement in the cryptography research community or any related community (the whitepaper screams "enthusiast"), so his death would have likely gone unnoticed.

(Besides being a simple explanation of the evidence, this is also falsifiable -- all Satoshi has to do is spend some of his BTC or sign a message or otherwise unambiguously reappear and we will know I am wrong about this.)
Product Designer hoping to someday find a post here to automate my day job so I can spend more time making actual great products.
Can we expect to get a better compilation time with this?
I own several domains that I registered through Hover.com .

I noticed the billing statement always comes through as from Tuwcows Corp, but I didn't realize Tuwcows was it's own thing that existed apart from just Hover.

According to Wikipedia, its been around since 1993, so a relative dinosaur on the internet. Wild.
Ugh, I make less.
It isn't at all though if you read the article. They are instead partnering with stores to have the store employees fill orders from Instacart instead of Instacart's employee "shoppers."

The model of Instacart has evolved, it went from any shopper going into any store and getting you what you need to having the stores actually be in on it and using Instacart as an extension to increase demand and orders (think how DD partners with restaurants for delivery vs. the old Postmates model where they could just send someone in to order your food for you)
Making personal podcasts out of YouTube and Project Gutenberg
> On confirmation, the grantor’s Master Key is encrypted using the grantee’s public key and stored once encrypted. Grantee is notified of confirmation.

> When the request is approved or the wait time lapses, the public-key-encrypted Master Key is delivered to grantee for decryption with grantee’s private key.

I'm not quite sure how I feel about the way they're doing this. Whilst this is a feature a lot of people desire, the way that they're doing it makes it feel like it would be impossible to verify that they're not storing your Master Key, or transmitting it to someone else - i.e. backdoor.

At least, not with the level of detail I can find. [0]

[0] https://bitwarden.com/help/article/emergency-access/
Some people don't care so much about the money. I'm barely over the six figure mark in the bay area. I could probably make a lot more money somewhere else, but I wouldn't get to do anything nearly as interesting as my current work.