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Flutter on Web is still mainly not accessible when it comes to screen readers, despite what anyone wants to make you believe.

I checked it last a couple of weeks ago on my Android phone, and the result was so poor, I didn't check with other platforms.

You need to "opt in" to accessibility as a user, so in the beginning you have one button visible to screen readers, then your screen reader sees that single button, then you need to "double tap to activate" to make the rest of the document screen readable.

Then, somehow they made a funky screen reader voice read stuff out loud, not my system's voice, with all the awkwardness and issues that come with it.

On lists, it only recognized the items that were on screen, if you had to "scroll", you are out of luck.

Now, I'm sure someone will come and tell me how I'm holding it wrong, but somehow, every website and even Flutter on mobile got the accessibility mainly right by default, on Flutter web the accessibility situation is very poor.
The Biggest Boss Monster [video]
Killing 3.17×10¹¹⁴ enemies in a video game, slightly sped up.
You mean for those who will just add it into their bookmark pile. You could have started yesterday and built a NN from scratch if you were truly interested.
>My experience was it isn't particularly easier or harder than any other language to learn.

Then I suspect you've never tried to learn languages that are very different from English like Mandarin, Hungarian, or Tamil.
It is not in alpha, nor not ready. You can use it in production today, if you want to. It is just not fast. That is different. CPython is still 100x slower than C, and is widely deployed in practice.
Email being so cheap and easy is is a significant component of spam, which is a technical problem to a degree. Spam on Signal, text message, voicemail, Discord, etc… is significantly less present for various reasons (cost, complexity, etc…)
Mmm. The one thing I mostly learned from doing DCF models myself in Excel was how sensitive the output was to the different inputs. It didn't really help me to do the modelling itself, the hard part is predicting the future, not the Excel formulas.

If you look at the Price Targets for many "growth stocks", you'll see that professional analysts struggle with this as much as anyone.

Even for stocks with predictable profit models like resource extraction companies, it can be near useless because as soon as some external catalyst people didn't expect comes along triggers the commodity price to change significantly, the DCF valuation goes out the window.

IMO DCF is more useful for sensitivity analysis than actually valuing a business in some "accurate way".

All that being said -- it is definitely valuable to understand where price targets come from!
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This! While I do have a blog, it just to share my thoughts and learnings. I kept my Github repo open, but I've moved my work to my own instance of forgejo.

Code is just your understanding of the problem and its solution. What I found count more is the ability to express it in a more natural language. Talking to your teammate, talking to your manager/client and getting that understanding across. And that means being aware of more than the technical space.
everything can be time series if you want
Coming from a quantum physics point of view, it is very strange to see the term "topological fields" in this context !

Do you have recommended references about these grammatical constructs ?
Decision-Making 'Brownouts'
In 2013 there were maybe 630M websites.

Today there are over a billion. So those 38% amount to 22% of today's internet

Seems like a pretty good half-life!
> absolute blight

Not absolute. They have exposed plenty of truths over the decades. A blight, for sure.
Surely people trying to build rockets are trying to do _the opposite_ of "bringing people down"?
At least in the US government, whomever creates the document classifies the document. It basically requires an act of congress or the President to change it once done.

That being said, "I will say that 'classified' has often become a way to hide actions that governments and individuals don't want the public to see" is just as true there.
Pretty sure these are very different phenomena both called "ubershaders". As far as I understand it, outside of Dolphin, when people say "ubershader" they mostly mean a large material shader that has branches and constants to handle all the material variants used in one game (e.g. wood door, metal shield, shiny forcefield). It's produced by the engine so it's under full control of the engine developers. This means instead of loading separate shaders for the wood door and metal shield you can just tweak pipeline parameters. It's a work around for the various overheads, like compilation, involved in creating specialized shaders.

But Dolphin's "Ubershader" is a different beast. It's about handling all the shader variants for _all_ Dolphin games (which are made in different engines) with one shader, and the variant parameters aren't passed as nice constants (data) but as shader programs (code) that need to be interpreted to be understood. It's more like a meta-shader that takes shaders as input and produces shaders as opposed to a "normal" ubershader which takes configuration to specialize it at runtime.

I think that's right anyway. I haven't worked directly with ubershaders in either variety and my knowledge comes from building my own hobby engine and 3D pipelines.
I thought it went without saying that SynthID’s only practical use cases are warrantless mass surveillance and surveillance capitalism.

It’s been said literally millions of times before about thousands of other interchangeable schemes.

I guess some things need to be repeated every. single. day.
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Definitely doesn't feel native or accessible on web. Can't tab between radio buttons. On macOS CMD+A doesn't select all text field text (CTRL+A does).
It's fine nowadays but there was a time when "git pull --rebase" worked slightly differently to "git fetch" and "git rebase". I'd get conflicts with the former that I didn't get with the latter.
>"If what happened to them happened to us, there’d be a hole in the ground somewhere.”

And what keeps on happening to Palestinians, had that happened to them, what will it be? But I get it, pretty standard for a war monger and profiteer to invoke false narratives on the mission to sell more weapons.
Yeah man gendered stereotypes about women are usually pretty misogynist.

But I wasn't even talking about that. I meant the assumption that women are more susceptible to social pressure than men are. And especially that, once assuming they are, that failure to surrender to that pressure is on a continuum with mental illness.

Either of these alone is a nasty thing to think about half of people. Combined it positions women as either powerlessly accepting the role prepared for them, or condemns them for "incorrectly" deviating from it. It leaves no room for the agency of women, or respect for their own decisions about their lives. Again, just a very 4chan misogynist view of gender roles.
It isn't worth it, if you care about freedom and configurability, Gentoo exists.

>reproducibility

would like to see people reproduce software that embeds build timestamp into the binary.
Where do you listen to denialists?
That's... pretty much what an LLM is. Dive in, and when you get stuck, ask questions in Claude 3 or ChatGPT4.
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Not a problem. The web is a communication medium first and foremost, and part of the freedom of communication is the freedom to de-communicate.
The EV industry can't shake its human rights abuse problem
Worrying is normal. There would just be another thing.
> I am now finally at the stage where I can go on a day trip to Amsterdam and the locals don't speak English back to me when I speak Dutch.

Was in Amsterdam again yesterday for the first time in a couple years and was again surprised to notice how many people just default to English, or waiters who speak back to me in English after me ordering in (my native) Dutch. Finding people to speak Dutch back to you in Amsterdam is an impressive feat in itself! :D Either way, congrats on becoming accentless enough that people don't hear it anymore and jump on the opportunity to speak English!
I wouldn't say that is "quite common". If you throw a bunch of unenforceable clauses into an NDA/non-compete/whatever, that increases the likelihood of the whole thing being thrown out, which is not a can of worms most corporations want to open. So it is actually toeing a delicate balance most of the time, not a "let's throw everything we can into this legal agreement and see what sticks".
I've also tried Japanese, Swahili, Arabic and Hebrew. Languages with completely different writing systems obviously have a significant extra hurdle. And of course, it depends how well you want to learn it. Becoming fluent enough to get by when you travel somewhere for a holiday or business trip is one thing; becoming proficient enough to do job interviews and work full time professionally with that language is another kettle of fish. :)
Of course C sucks, but since everything under the sun uses it, there's unique value in being able to make it safer without putting a whole new compiler in the process for users. Remember that time the cryptography library in Python decided to add rust? We could have avoided all that pain with wuffs.
I dug through the Git mailing list, and lo and behold, the whole project used to be called "dir-cache", and was initially intended as a local cache over any arbitrary slow version control systems[1]. It looks like this is where the cache terminology lingers from, but the index already had its current name by the time Linus released the git source code. It seems like there was an effort to clean up the terminology pre-1.0[2], but obviously some things were missed.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0508051104510.3258...

[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/200509020150.j821oXXM006699@lapt...
You'll be fine, it would be subcontracted out to Capita or the like who would make a pig's ear of the project but come in at 5 times the original budget; then it would be cancelled 2 months before completion and the minister responsible would get a job on the board.
Finnair at the end of last month suspended service between Helsinki and Tartu due to Russia's GPS jamming [0]. DME is being added next week and they'll resume service next month [1].

[0]: https://news.err.ee/1609328058/finnair-suspends-flights-to-t...
[1]: https://news.err.ee/1609343694/finnair-restarts-tartu-flight...
Rights in the USA are ultimately protected by a written constitution. In the UK we have no constitution we rely on an independent judiciary. They frequently tell the government no you can't do that. Judges while not perfect are respected. And we all agree that during a trial we all shut up and leave it to be done properly. To be clear if anyone from the New Yorker or elsewhere feels they have genuine evidence to contribute they can approach the defense barrister and ask for it to be included. But they will have to make the effort for it to be done properly and seriously. There is a lot that could be better in the UK justice system but I don't object to the actual principle being enforced here. When the trial is done the media will be rightly free to hold it to account.
I know. What did Hinton mean by his comment, though?
Yes my point is that the prohibition is based on a theory that tiny pieces of code have copyright and so all AI generated code is tainted.

If you write code for one company/client then the IP belongs to that company as a work for hire.

If you write the same function again for someone else then you would be infringing the first company's copyright - if you truly believe in this theory that little pieces of code have copyright.

If you believe in this theory then you need to have a database of all the code you've ever written and be constantly checking every function you write for potential infringement of a previous employer's rights.
Imagine if a Type II civilization built a Dyson sphere around a star but a Type I civilization was on a nearby planet. Then again I guess at that point the Type I and III would be aware of each other. I wonder could the Type I planet stop the Type III civilization? The Type III would be like gods to the Type I's but the Type I's would be nothing more than a nuisance if even that to the Type IIIs.
I think about it as a zero sum game: it seems impossible for someone to be stronger in some ways without being weaker in others.

Sometimes, with people who care to do so, they can work on those weaknesses and find ways to limit their impacts on themselves and others.

But everything comes at a cost.

Takeaway: if at least some of your friends aren't difficult in some ways, you're missing out on a lot.
If you get away with a 1/2 GB RAM version I'd say the Pi 5 is worth it, otherwise cheap mini PCs are better. I've found mini PCs to be more reliable than the Pi's I've owned as well (including the 5), though a lot of that is mitigated if you go for an m.2 hat on the Pi. In general though, if you're thinking of using a Pi more like a regular computer there isn't really anything special about it that makes it worthwhile. Well, beyond "I get to tinker more" if you particularly like assembling the thing, picking out the exact case, finding your favorite m.2 hat, etc. Even if you enjoy doing all that by the time you're done you still end with a PC that is worse than one you could just buy but maybe with a claim of saying you saved $20 doing so.

Where I like the Pi is use cases that don't quite fit with a normal mini PC like IP KVM.
Government outsourcing: What has worked and what needs reform? (2019) [pdf]
> 1. If he didn't turn down the money, you wouldn't have heard of him at all;

Perelman provided a proof of the Poincare Conjecture, which had stumped mathematicians for a century.

It was also one of the seven Millenium problems
https://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/, and as of 2024, the only one to be solved.

Andrew Wiles became pretty well known after proving Fermat's last theorem, despite there not being an financial reward.
So, should the UK government read every newspaper before it is published, every webpage that gets loaded inside the UK, every tweet viewed in the UK, etc. to check whether it deems it acceptable for UK citizens to see it?

If the government had the tech to do that it would be awfully easy to misuse it.
Also 38% of a web filled with diversity, no hidden agenda, and amateurs (in the first best of ways). This number is probably now .00001% of a much bigger, far more homogeneous web. a web 1.0 site > today's walled garden "group page".
The law hasn’t been settled yet, but I strongly suspect that the courts will rule that when an LLM memorizes an input and outputs something substantially identical, that the copyright of the original is maintained.

If not, then we can just bias these models toward memorization, input harry potter books or whatever, and then declare output text that’s 99.95% identical to the input to be public domain.

The obvious problem this creates for groups like NetBSD is that there will be copyright trolls that leverage the lack of provenance of LLM output in order to extort people that use these tools.
Not many creative technical people want to be mere caretakers of the ideas of the past, however beneficial this might be for the general public.
Also practical though. If you live in Utrecht actual, you wouldn't want the municipality to give you a car which you may not be able to park where you live or, if you can, need pay quite a bit of money for the parking

Driving a bicycle to your place is always practical, also considering most of the city is within 3km of the town hall (~10 minutes cycling) and the worst terrain you'll encounter is needing to get over/under a canal
Those sulphur emissions were not large by atmospheric standards (the entire shipping industry “only” emits about 800 Mt of CO2 a year, not all of which even comes from high-sulphur bunker fuel). However the SO2 quantity does have severe environmental impact (the first emissions trading scheme, back in the 90s, was to control SO2 emissions), in this case increasing the acidity of the oceans and coastal regions thanks to so-called acid rain.

The real tragedy is that the scrubbers remove the SO2 from the exhaust and…deposit it in the ocean.
I'm probably in the minority of people who appreciate that trend. Valuable information being hidden means that community comes before information. If you want to gain access to other people's knowledge you have to opt-in and interact with and understand the people who made it, and that creates an incentive to contribute back and use knowledge in an appropriate way.

The open internet seems increasingly predatory and a place where some gigantic ML company just vacuums up your stuff or resells your content for ad revenue, parasitic.

I don't mind the fact and think it's honestly a natural reaction to this that people guard their information. It's sort of like a medieval monastery version of the internet where people recognize that information is cultivated rather than just some commodity you scrape off the web.
That doesn't surprise me at all, I've heard it's the same in private credit. I think a lot of the initial ground work that's done in due diligence and modelling is more to flush out any red flags than to inform the investment decision itself, and a model is only as good as its assumptions anyway...
Weird flex but ok. I think though that there is some merit in being able to communicate with a difficult or insufferable person but I find no merit can exist in choosing to take pride in regularly willingly doing so.
That's the point: to illustrate what is possible. Isolating variables is the most basic scientific principle.

Similarly, demonstrations of gasoline engines aren't usually done in high altitudes, where the oxygen levels would constrain the engines.
As far as I know it’s part of the stock plan for most startups. There’s usually a standard clause that covers this, usually with phrasing that sounds reasonable (like triggering if company policy is violated or is found to have been violated in the past). But it gives the company a lot of power in deciding if that’s the case.
What would be examples of non-western morality? theocracy, authoritarian over democratic, hierarcical caste systems, gender inequality, arranged marriages, corporal punishment, honor killings, tradition over critical thinking? Honest question - I have been seeeing this type of criticism lately here. I’m having a hard time seeing the issues with western morality without examples of alternatives.
The warming doesn’t have to just stop but has to reverse. Assuming we aren’t past the critical point of some unknown hysteresis curve.
>it threatened to have a color revolution leading to a viable democracy

Threatened? They tried that two or three times but Ukraine never stopped being Ukraine. Always losing a couple million people between these attempts.
Good point. Factories ain’t shit without power.

If we can’t get stuff from China, that hurts, a lot. If China can’t get stuff from China, they’re dead.
>if it can "make GDP go up" then it is good.

Not always. If you have a car crash and pay medical bills that raises the GDP by the amount of spend but is not a good thing.

I'm not sure how well GDP accounting works with AI.
There's a shadow of the tip of the pen, but it's not the mark preview. The mark preview has been there for a long time.
That's definitely not true as of today.

There were some rumors that made people think of the worst, and as we speak about Google, a lot of people panicked that Google is dropping Flutter.

However, that was not the case.

They moved some roles to new locations, meaning (they claim) the team size change is net zero. https://x.com/MiSvTh/status/1785767966815985893

I get your frustration. Google just killed two of my favorite products this month (or more accurately, I found out about them this month), and then I heard about the Flutter downsizing rumors. I worked with Flutter for years now, and I decided that I can't let my professional fate in a company like that and started learning something new to switch to. Even if today it looks like they let Flutter live, it's better be prepared and pack up while I can leave on my own terms.
Nering is neat. Aside from Nering, and obviously Halmos, do you like the various texts from Lang? What about Shilov?
Yes but it's not really about the number crunching itself (NN's or something else), but more about modelling the "wider world" ("macro") outside the company that could drive its business. Like if you wanted to project an oil company's cash flows into the future, you'd do a lot of analysis and number crunching on things like IEA projections, known oil reserves, risk scenario analysis and the like.
California had a couple of winters of heavy rain and snow as a consequence of this warming trend. It’s counterintuitive but just as damaging.
Aaaaand they are not selling it. How typical for ICE car manufacturer.
but you still can't see where a particular movie is playing (not just in your city), which would be the entire point
I wasn't aware of this. Thank you for clarifying that; I appreciate it.
ImHex Looks amazing, but I couldn't get it to work on my system last time I tried. Not a pre built version and not compiling it myself. So I wrote myself a simple hex viewer. Only a viewer, don't need an editor. All other hex editors that I could get to work on my system where really disappointing. Either they couldn't handle large files (>2GB), or they lacked features, like decoding the bytes at the current location as various integer types, had very cumbersome controls for navigation, or displayed important information like the current offset in uneditable labels (status bar) and even didn't give it enough room for large files so it got cut off! Did they never use their own program? Anyway, my viewer only has a terminal interface, so you can always select and copy any text it displays. Also has IMHO handy controls to jump around to absolute and relative offsets. See: https://github.com/panzi/rust-hox
But don't look at the ugly code. I just cobbled it together somehow because I needed exactly that.
It also means that the country can summarily deport you for lying on an immigration form, even if you committed genocide where it’s legal and outside their jurisdiction.
In some ways, expectations for UI toolkits have dropped too, though. Practically no UI toolkits created in the past 5-10 years come with a row recycling tableview/datagrid widget (table with column headers, sort by column, etc) for example, which used to be table stakes (which is why they’re present in Win32, MFC, AppKit, GTK, and Qt among others of the old guard). New toolkits that lacked a tableview would not have been taken seriously back then.

This has been a major blocker for my adoption of newer toolkits. I understand that it’s a result of mobile UI trends dominating the space, but that’s not helpful when I’m looking to build useful desktop apps, for which these widgets are crucial. Relying on third party libraries to fill these gaps (if they even exist) isn’t appealing either, adding yet another dependency to the pile and making a major part of my app subject to likely eventual abandonment by the library’s dev.
>Facade gardens help collect rainwater and plants and flowers are good for butterflies and bees. And they look cozy.

Having your house looking cozy even on the facade is the most dutch thing I've read in a while.
> Yes modifiers are a state, not a key

So why are you talking about a key then??? Kitty doesn't support left/right modifiers unlike proper keybinding handling apps, the left/right presses for non-modifier keys aren't relevant

How would you bind LeftAlt-A to something different from RightAlt-A in Kitty?
I have not said anything about the bravery of Ukranians in my comment.
Plenty of them make their way to hn. Give this article enough time in the front page and you'll have a chance to listen to them.
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This is pretty much how they call these laws in China...