skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a great talk from 2013 about coding with voice commands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI

It's by a developer who developed RSI and had to find another way to write code. He uses a combination of Dragon and custom Python scripts to control Emacs.

The fascinating bit for me was the language he created around text navigation and manipulation. Lots of custom short words to optimise the amount of speaking he actually had to do.

Really worth a watch for anyone interested in this. If you want a quick demo, this part of the video is fairly representative: https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI?t=1034
Yes, it matters. It doesn't guarantee anything of course but it makes life a bit easier down the road. Go to the best university that will accept you. (I didn't and I think that it was a big mistake)
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According to the information I was able to gather, it seemed that the answer to that question depends on whether you ask Qt, or a visually impaired user of Qt applications.

I decided the latter opinion was the one I cared more about.

I'm admittedly trying to play it very safe. I have zero proficiency with screen readers, so I'm not really able to independently verify any of this. All I know is that the GUI toolkit is one of the most expensive things to have to change later, so I want to be as close as I can possibly be to 100% sure that I won't end up in a situation where my projects have accessibility issues that I can't fix without changing the GUI toolkit.
This is a topic of Lem's novel/essay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV.

And to be honest, I wondered about that with GPT-3. Maybe it could give a more profound answer to a given prompt, but it chose not to, since it found the prompt to be too silly, and it responded in kind. Just like adults are able to entertain an imaginary universe of children.

So even to explain that we want a "serious" answer might be difficult.
I can respect this, but then is it the case that SoMe is adding value to the community, or that you've just found a positive community that happens to use that service to communicate?

What I mean by that is, if your community was in touch via some other platform would it still be the same positive community? (My guess is, yes it would - but maybe there's some specific value from these tools that I don't see).
I expect something exactly like this happened. I had a similar bug long time ago. Apache was somehow incorrectly caching the request and the session cookie in the request ended up in a cache. But it happened only about 1/10,000th of the time so it was impossible to figure out the root cause.

However, one common source for this kind of bugs is to ”cache any URL ending .pdf as a static file” and then you are in fact serving logged in PDFs like customer invoices that come with the session cookie.

I think CloudFlare used to come with a default rule to treat .pdf as a static content. The responses were cached when you hit their ”cache the good stuff” checkbox.
Totally hear you but the bright side is that they catch up extremely quickly. My kid “caught up to average” within around nine months or so.
This is a fascinating idea. In some languages like C or Java or C#, the IDE can probably do this "for free" -- generate, then programmer can spot check for surprises. Or the reverse, highlight a block of code and ask the IDE to tell you about read/mutate/export. In some sense, when you use automatic refactoring tools (like IntelliJ), extract a few lines of code as a new method needs to perform similar static analysis.

In the latest IntelliJ, the IDE will visually hint about mutable, primitive-typed local variables (including method parameters). A good example is a for loop variable (i/j/k). The IDE makes it stand-out. When I write Java, I try to use final everywhere for primitive-typed local variables. (I borrowed this idea from functional programming styles.) The IDE gives me a hint if I accidentally forget to mark something as final.
I remember when this happened to Apple with iTunes Connect (where developers submit apps for the App Store) back in the day:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/29/itunes-connect-issue-loggi...
Beautiful idea - unfortunately it does load forever for the calculation to compelete on the website(at the moment). Found out about the city of Sibley, Minnesota now by Wikipedia and it seems pretty flat xD
Really? I'm surprised I haven't heard of that.
Can you not see the irony in

> Only dictatorships have historically wanted to permeate every aspect of life with politics. The USSR used to say "everything is politics"

Being responded to with

> That is one way to see it, aka a political opinion.

I’m genuinely curious in how you interpret that differently. If they had ended the comment with “comrade” it would have made a good joke.
"If I make, like, three good decisions a day, that's enough. And they should be as high quality as I can make them" - Jeff Bezos
I didn't know about this, thanks for posting. The value of youlist is you can save all these playlists to an account, assign specific names, and watch them without the youtube suggestions on the side. If you're on mobile and don't have an adblocker the ads don't play.
Had a baby 3 weeks ago in the UK, it was the same. Baby was immediately on mum's chest.
Weird idea - since these big companies all voluntarily stopped documenting in favor of MDN, perhaps they should pay Mozilla for this (it's saving them money, after all).
Ha.

I remember doing it too. I was at work in a meeting and they have instructions saying something to the tune of finding a quiet place and all of that, but my thoughts were if they are serious about this, then solving these abstract problems is something I'll have to be able to do while under pressure or under the heat of conversation.

Long story short anyway, I'm not intelligent enough to work there I guess, so good thing they used that test to screen me out and make sure I knew. It does have a little bit of merit with the very quick no versus the long, drawn out no. I recently interviewed at a great company, 4 1-1 interviews, a presentation/demo I had to make to present to 7 other people, etc. and I think another interview after that and I'm just over it.
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Might not technically be blogs, but definitely by individuals:
https://mediamonarchy.com/
https://www.corbettreport.com/
And for the musicians:
https://guitardashboard.com/
I've a Microsoft Surface Book 2 and I can't turn off the backlight entirely with the brightness adjustment. I also can't just turn the display off and have the computer keep processing unless I use a third party tool.
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I think this is the right step to take for things like this. There are massive corporations with cash galore that use open source and publicly available resources and rarely give anything back. With MDN Plus, there's a chance now that devs at these companies will get their company to pay the subscription. We need more programs like this.
Thank you, I dislike the UI of most websites so the biggest inspirations were craigslist and hacker news, no animations or fancy graphics.
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Lots of people here saying they don't see the point of NFTs. I totally agree for digital artefacts like this video. After all, the original can be copied perfectly as many times as necessary.

Wouldn't they actually be more useful for (say) ownership deeds of a property, or car or something?
Why do users get multiple other users instead of one then, if it's a global variable? I assume because Klarna is running on many servers?
You should read up on the Max Planck institutes in Germany, and on the Flatiron Institute in New York.

As others have said your problem will be attracting talent. You're best off organising free conferences, in collaboration with a MP, to start with.
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For me:

- https://twopagesdoublespaced.substack.com/ - short form non-fiction

- https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ - technical snippets

- http://paulgraham.com/ - entrepreneurship

- https://audacity.substack.com/ - a variety of talented writers
I've seen these types of services before but I am hesitant - now I have to trust my information to yet another party. I say this as someone probably in your target demographic - your website feels very cookie-cutter and doesn't inspire confidence.
I don't seem to get what you're saying. Do you suggest svaboda.org used a photo from the future when it published that article on September 18, 2015? If you're not saying that, I think we can agree he was there on that date or before.
> You sure about that?

Single dumb human posts singular dumb ai example to show that all ai are dumb and fails to recognize the irony.
My experience was that the core demographic definitely skewed older, lefter, more West Coast than your average internet demographic; not necessarily a techie crowd, but with some fairly well-known futurists and tech writers; more literary; people who did Burning Man way before it was mainstream cool; very deep in certain pop-culture areas (the Grateful Dead especially); more emphasis on meeting with other WELLpern in person; with the periphery composed of people drawn in by the legend.

The monthly membership fee discouraged the worst kind of drive-by trolling; which was good. Still very bitter flamewars, and rivalries running for years sometimes.
>despite being able to sell licenses to special editions of Firefox or other things like email

In 2021, there is not a chance in hell that any significant number of people are going to pay money for their web browser. At best (and this is very optimistic) it might make a few million dollars from dedicated HN-types, which is nowhere close to what Google gives them.

I actually would pay money for a Mozilla-branded email service, but running an email service isn't a walk in the park, and I expect all of the typical people would be complaining about Mozilla spending time and money on something that isn't Firefox, regardless of whether it's profitable (see also: all the complaining about Pocket).

Honestly, I wish that Mozilla had acquired Scroll (rather than Twitter) and started pushing it harder. That would be very in-line with their goals as an organization, and might eventually become a significant revenue source.
> A better university matters only if you're able to take advantage of what it offers.

There's more to it. A top university gives you a stamp that signals "I was smart enough to get in" for the rest of your career. That matters.
Which I hope makes it terribly clear thats BTC is a huge bubble
I've thought the same thing. Though, I also suspect Bezos is behind the reasons why they're limping along so slowly.

My prediction is he'll work on BO full-time and mess things up even more over there. Not make them better.
Wait, you have to pay to have a baby in the US?

The wealthiest country in the world cannot even pay for the birth of its own citizens?

I can understand arguments for private healthcare etc....but making people pay to give birth is insane.
This is a propaganda piece.

I do not doubt the possibility of AI(despite me writing crappy AI Software).

But this is merely a piece to say that less civilians were killed than in a usual war and that there should be praise for it.

This is to absolve any crimes that occured because "not even computers could have predicted better".
NFTs make money laundering and tax evasion exponentially easier than traditional collectibles. They’re also a new enough thing that asking for forgiveness after getting caught just might work.

There’s also the get-rich-quick aspect. A lot of the same reasons people “invest” in crypto. Exclusivity, novelty, and a lot of really naive traders flush with crypto cash.
> Wikipedia misallocating funds does tarnish the original brand a lot

Which has nothing to do the donation model.

Wikimedia can pay full time content writers if they want to.

Mozilla can also use the subscription income to pay CEO comp if they want to.

Allocation of funds has close to nothing to do with the acquisition of funds, unless the acquisition comes with a specific mandate, which neither Wikipedia donations nor the subscription service here has.
Remember all the way back to 2013 when FB switched to the algo-driven Timeline instead of the Facebook wall newsfeed? A lot of people hated that update, as it fundamentally changed the user experience of FB permanently. But not me.

With Timeline, the wall post counter was no longer displayed on your profile. That had long been a source of embarrassment for me as so few people posted on my wall. It didn't matter IRL, but in college, you do feel that you're not doing something right if your page is so inactive compared to those of your peers. Was I really that uninteresting?

It was a proxy measure of my relative social popularity, and it sucked, because I had no interest in juicing these numbers. So they stayed low for years until the metric was finally hidden from view.
What does [1] do over [2] ? I looked at the readme of [1] but it's just a fork of [2], so I'm not sure why [2] needs a rewrite? Is [1] just a rewrite of [2] in Rust?
Having a paid option disincentives improvement of the non-paid option.
> As far as I understand, the MDN documenting the standard (HTML5, CSS, etc.) will stay freely accessible as it is.

For now. Once you let the monetization genie out of the bottle, Death by a Thousand MBA's is almost certain.
you come across as a very horrible and hate filled person in your comments.
my point is that it's better then a div without those attributes.

Switching markup completely is a larger effort than adding tabindex and role and the latter still provides a benefit.
"Forced."

Sigh, come on. Corny team-building things in big corporate spaces happen all the time. It's part of the whole deal. Most of these dudes are going to laugh over the corny thing they had to do at work today like happens all the time.

I'm fine if people don't think it's effective, but what's going to happen is a bunch of people are going to get triggered and then entirely overestimate the possibility that this will be dangerous.

It's not, no more than any of the other corporate team stuff that people do.
Can't wait for Gruber to start NFTing each of his Daring Fireball blog posts. He's done extremely well selling a single tasteful banner ad for, last I checked, $6,000/week on his site. Blog posts by popular authors are actually a decent fit because they're like cryptographically sponsoring something--at least you'd get exposure for the money you spent.
My first job at a consulting company out of uni I had to to an IQ test that could also indicate if I had rabies.

It had questions like "are you afraid of water", "have you showered in the last three weeks", "have you felt more aggressive lately"...
How would that help when this rare syndrome only affects a very small proportion of people vaccinated. You would have to test it on hundreds of thousands of animals and that's assuming that the animals are a perfect model for humans.
To be fair, they said the response "to .. is" as in "it ( ought to / should ) be" - not "was"

Point stands though. Lacking the ability to argue the case, the press often derive authority from the ability to slander, censor and humiliate.
Russian spies and their coverups != Belarussian KGB\OAC and their coverups.

Russians have the ability act bold on purpose because of their oil and money. They have a massive propaganda machine that will scream all kinds of bs in all directions. Paid politicians all over the world will also side with Russia.

Belarus, does not have that kind of leverage. They have no propaganda machine to create coverups and have to act sneaky.
Like with Pavel Sheremet's murder [3] in Ukraine, they organized it well enough to avoid detection up until 2021. Or a Minsk metro bombing [5] where they just grabbed some dudes and executed them not even a year later.
They often fail ofc. They failed with a cover up of Alexander Taraikovsky's [0] murder and later with Raman Bondarenko's [1]. How they failed with staging a coup attempt with russian PMC soldiers shortly before the election[2] and released all "terrorists" a few months later without any punishment or comments [6].

Do not over sophisticate these people. Belarusian KGB today, in general, is not what it used to be even 20 years ago. Times of people dissapearing into thin air (Zaharenko, Zavadski, Gonchar to name a few [4]) are gone, just like most of the people who were able to pull off stuff like that.
Today's state of it is due to negative selection where the most loyal get to the top, and not the most talented or capable.

[0] https://voicesfrombelarus.medium.com/what-we-know-about-the-...

[1] https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-bandarenka-lukashenka/311691...

[2] https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-diplomats-meet-detained-vagn...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-belarus-journalis...

[4] https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/120000/eur4901320...

[5] https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/minsk-bombers-executed-...

[6] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/world/europe/belarus-russ...
I remember seeing tools like this in the past, used by governments for flood modelling and other activities, but one of the interesting things at the time(not sure about now) was that the elevation data wasn't granular enough in some cases water went uphill. Still good for modelling but you needed humans to interpret.
Pardon my ignorance, but what does MP mean in this context?
Viva Internet. For giving so many business opportunities.
Taxation funded healthcare seems to work pretty well. It allows you to avoid the situation where individuals pay significantly more due to bad luck with their health. Plus you get to cut out the insurance companies' cut completely.
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> You pay for a nurse or aide to be ready to intervene if there’s an issue in a post-caesarean situation.

We had a pediatrician in the room (which is also a perfectly opportunistic for the ob/gyn to score a referral). OR theater was main OB/GYN (which we chose), his assistant (also ob/gyn, younger and oddly published), anesthesiologist, instruments clerk and pediatrician. I don't think we had a nurse at all.
Yes but I think you are overthinking the risk and overestimating the formation of a secondary market.

But most people overestimate these things in the collectible market.

All you get is the ease of prior price discovery and history of ownership. That’s only useful after the market has decided your edition was the valuable edition.

Copies leaking isn’t important because the history of ownership shows you were the only owner, at an earlier date. Literally solves all of the provenance and forgery issues that have plagued art world for millenium. People pay a premium for just that. Has nothing to do with comparisons to physical attributes or rare metals used. Like I said, a better analogy - for now - would be improvements to rare items in online games that people already were spending time and resources to acquire and trade. If you recall, many people weren’t willing to understand intangibles there either. Regardless, it is an extension of the same crowd and the same sentiment. Shareholders in the gaming company could pressure them to increase the supply of a rare item in a database, with NFTs that is not possible as earlier provenance can’t be modified. It assumes the market is discerning but if it already cares about a piece than it is. If it doesn’t, a secondary market would likely never form for the “investment” to begin with.
Login required. What is the problem AI is trying to solve, and what is the right problem, according to the author?
That's what the investigation aimed to find out before it was cut short. Klarna's general reasoning has been (A) 'because', and (B) 'because it's all in the same system and we have no obligations or confidence in thinning it'.

Any request for data or information regarding their architecture is rejected on the grounds of 'trade secrets'.
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You can get intriguing descriptive statistics (n-gram frequencies, time distributions) from even a relatively small labeling effort, well before you have much predictive value. So, in that sense you'll have something interesting in failure.

If you'd like a hand, please email me. I figure you have access to my hidden email address.
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Unless science studies:

* analysis of trained neural network so they're not just black boxes.

* arrangement of real neurons in actual brains of ants, mice, flies and other small animals.

* some philosophical questioning of how conscience, intelligence, awareness emerge, including a good definition and differentiation on how the brain is able to recognize causality from correlation.

* some actual collaboration between psychology AND neurology to connect the dots between cognition and how an actual brain achieve it.

Unless there are more efforts towards those things, machine learning will just be "advanced statistical methods", and programming experts will keep over-selling their tools. Mimicking neural networks is just fancy advertising about a simple graph algorithm.
I'm a big believer in assistive tech. It isn't particularly difficult to implement, and the rewards can be great.

Nowadays, the apps I'm developing support things like accessibility labels (voiceover), high-contrast mode, and scaling, in addition to the localization that I've always had.

I also suggest using tools like Sim Daltonism[0], to evaluate colorblind accessibility.

[0] https://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/
Wow thanks I was always looking for a way to share types between files, I wasn’t aware that I could do that with a .d.ts
It goes like this in the Netherlands as well. Typically with only a midwife, and a nurse if you want pain reduction medication because the midwife is not allowed to handle that. The exception is if there are medical indications like an early birth (I think before week 36), then a doctor would be present from the start.

Home births are a choice and a lot of people make that choice because it is a less stressful environment. We were told that the Netherlands has an above average amount of home births compared to the rest of Europe.

However for my daughter we were offered an even nicer option: There are special "non medical delivery" rooms in the hospitals around here. It looks and feels much more homely than a hospital room, has some normal chairs in it, the walls aren't white, it has a nice bathroom. You go there with your midwife that you already know from all the checkups. The process is like you describe it in Denmark, they indeed give you a lot of time to relax before and after.

But there is one thing different from home birth: It is right across the hallway from the medical delivery rooms, with full baby-ICU capabilities less than 10 seconds away and a red alarm button to press when you need medical help immediately. That was for us a comfortable feeling, because if things don't go right the natural way, you really don't want to be 15 minutes away from the hospital by ambulance.

Luckily we didn't need any of it, but the fact that it's there when needed feels safe.
Well, it's a good time to be looking for a new dev role. The market is pretty strong. Makes sense.
If it's wrong to support this kind of training for <random-race> <random-gender> then it's wrong to support it for white men. If it isn't wrong then everyone should be trained, or not, equally. Collective guilt is one of the most evil ideas in the meme pool. No <random-race> <random-gender> is more racist because other members of that group are racist, and it is racist/sexist/prejudiced/bigoted to assume so.
Why would Tectonic have big potential? Why is it noteworthy at all? What benefits does it provide compared to ConTeXt?
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