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lalos commented on Ask HN: What are the best ways to promote SaaS?    · Posted by u/Genius_um
lalos · a year ago
Billboard in SF just like the rest
lalos commented on Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show   wsj.com/tech/instagram-re... · Posted by u/Umofomia
lalos · 2 years ago
I wonder if whoever ran this test prefers this type of content and its tied to a wifi network, same device, linked account, IP or location and there's no detail of the setting of the test. Too many factors going on to conclude with not a lot of transparency for reproducibility or flaws in the data collection.

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lalos commented on Ask HN: What are the best / most accessible languages for blind programmers?    · Posted by u/0x0203
chrismorgan · 2 years ago
You may be cherry-picking pieces from your compiler output, but all up I think you’re probably choosing the wrong parts, and even caring about the wrong thing.

rustc’s (default) “human” error format is going to be very messy for screen readers to follow, because it has a lot of visual alignment and decoration. You’re going to have to leap through hoops to make it decent for accessibility tools, whereas that C++ compiler’s output might not be quite so bad in some ways. (To clarify: I expect that both tools/formats are bad for blind users, in different ways. For sighted users, I don’t think there’s much of a contest—but the distinction is in the diagnoses more than their presentation, so this difference is about everyone, not blind people.)

But I think blind people probably genuinely shouldn’t be caring much about the error messages as they appear in a terminal these days, because this span formatting is always going to be lousy without very fancy tooling to sanely contextualise it, and guess what? There kinda is such tooling already: IDEs (and with the advent of LSP, it’s even broadly cross-language). Use something like rust-analyzer with your Vim + coc.nvim (what I use) or VS Code (the most popular choice) or whatever, and you can jump between error locations easily and have it all presented with your code, rather than separately. That way, the only accessibility support required is in the IDE, and that you have a language server (which people will want anyway ’cos they’re handy).

(Since I mentioned Rust’s error formats, relevant reading: `rustc --error-format=…` <https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/command-line-arguments.html#...>, and `cargo build --message-format=…` <https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-build.html#op...>. My guess is that blind people would probably be better served by the “short” error format, or by tooling that consumes the “json” error format… like rust-analyzer.)

lalos · 2 years ago
My guess is that the rust human error format is derived from some raw format that could easily be propagated to any other UX/UI and right now we are only familiar with the CLI format. I doubt they are keeping the state with a string of "^^^^" rather than just some 'error_starts_at_char: 8' and then some pretty print function prints the ^.
lalos commented on The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag   wsj.com/health/wellness/f... · Posted by u/lxm
lalos · 2 years ago
Do doctors want to gatekeep technology to make sure they get a cut every time someone uses this machine? This seems to be sending a signal to the market for more competition of scanning technology so I can see this driving the price down for everybody in the long term.
lalos commented on Oldest Known Animation, a 5200 Year-Old Iranian Ceramic Vessel   vintag.es/2023/08/vase-an... · Posted by u/dxs
lalos · 2 years ago
Probably looks best in candle light and on top of the pottery wheel.
lalos commented on 1919 cartoon depicting the use of a ‘pocket telephone’   vintag.es/2023/08/the-poc... · Posted by u/dxs
jedberg · 2 years ago
Ha, joke's on them! We purposely used our cell phones during our ceremony to update our relationship status on Facebook, because that was a thing at the time.
lalos · 2 years ago
Today's flavor is starting your vows/speech as "As an AI model I can't say vows..." cue some laughs
lalos commented on Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved   newsingermany.com/archaeo... · Posted by u/janpot
civilitty · 3 years ago
The woman and child were clearly put there for ceremonial purposes.
lalos · 3 years ago
Vikings used to that - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_funeral as described by Ahmad ibn Fadlan
lalos commented on American IQ scores have rapidly dropped, proving the 'Reverse Flynn effect'   popularmechanics.com/scie... · Posted by u/hirundo
iq_throw_123 · 3 years ago
Imagine that, 150 years ago or whenever, some clever soul had decided to make a written test to measure niceness, and called the test score Niceness Quotient. And the first version sucked, but some other folks iterated on it and over time the test was improved until it correlated pretty well to the sorts of things you would think that niceness would correlate to. 150 years of progress later, we'd have a whole field of Niceometry and researchers trying to isolate sub-areas like charity, friendliness, etc, and trying to suss out an underlying factor of general amiability, and the whole thing would be so well embedded in to the culture that almost no one remembers that "nice" is just a regular word with no objective or scientific definition, and that we measure it with a written test not because that's a good way to measure niceness but because we can't find a better way.
lalos · 3 years ago
Then you would have a branch of computer science “Artificial Niceness”…
lalos commented on Bing Chat now has ads   twitter.com/debarghya_das... · Posted by u/georgehill
pawelduda · 3 years ago
If you thought ads were already blended in with the rest of the content in a sketchy way, wait for AI responses with implicit ads (no indication) optimized towards conversion :)

Or maybe some response that doesn't contain an ad link but nudges you subconsciously to take desired action

lalos · 3 years ago
That is already implicitly there - tons of SEO content probably was used to train this model. Information available in the internet since forever.

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KarmaCake day1907March 28, 2013View Original