skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all US patent applications will be published. The applicant can pay extra to keep it secret unless it is granted.

As for why the applications aren't published as soon as possible, I'm not sure. I suspect people might want some time before publication to test the market. If there is no market demand, I know that some law firms will abandon the application. But if it's worthless, then why not publish it?
I'm kinda surprised to see so much commentary on this. A lot of folks on here deeply misunderstand this industry, which is understandable, but there's a lot of very strident and incorrect opinion.

Simply put, one of the biggest mortgage booms in history just came to an end. Rates were at all-time lows. That meant an unbelievable boom in demand for mortgage refis.

Then when the Fed started taking inflation seriously, mortgage rates (which tend to track 2-3% above 10-year treasury yields) skyrocketed to 10-year highs. This means that very few people are in a position to benefit from a refi, and that business is pretty much dried up. The refi business is the specialty of Rocket Mortgage and other online lenders.

There is tremendous demand for housing right now, due to millenials being homebuying age and housing preferences changing with the pandemic. However, supply is tightly constrained. Boomers are aging in-place, home builders aren't completing homes due to building supply and labor disruption, investors are buying properties (smaller effect than people claim), and sellers don't want to sell without a home to buy. So for-sale inventory is at all time lows. This means less demand for purchase money mortgages, the main other product of a mortgage bank.

Mortgage lending is notoriously labor intensive. Nearly every lender, like Rocket, staffed up huge to meet the demand of the refi boom. Now, nearly every lender finds itself overstaffed for a mortgage market bust. Hence, layoffs. Every lender from the largest (Rocket) to the smallest is impacted.

This is just how the mortgage industry works, though. It is both seasonal and dependent on the economic cycle.
I'll never understand religious loyalty to a corporation.

The computer in the OP is fully assembled and has a 128GB of memory, a nice GPU, and 8TB SSD. Why be so obtuse.

If you're just trying to compare to the entry level Mac Studio at least have the decency to throw in a full parts list, like you know, with a graphics card..
If it were taking advantage of Accelerate, the performance would be much higher, but also the scaling would be quite different. Look at the scaling in the tweet you linked--it's anything but linear in the number of cores used.
https://archive.ph/iDgvm
Putin's Plot to Paralyse the EU
If you like The Hu, try Yat-Kha [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXgzc--MgvA
Bill provision about funding tree canopy gets bogged down in political squabbles
Yes but it will take years, maybe decades. High cost of living makes everyone less competitive. I'm not seeing anyone strategically making life less hard on a hard cash sense so it is undeniable. Although if you rush to "outsource" everyone for the cheap talent abroad it would be a shitshow.
Interesting; thanks. I guess one has to decide for oneself whether it is worth it, and good. :)
You get 60 days with the much more expensive Vertix 2 and that also has an always on display https://www.coros.com/vertix2

I have the Coros Pace, so can vouch for their battery life claims. I get between one and two weeks between charges, depending how much I use the GPS.
Dunno, looks like classic memory bottleneck to me. The m1 ultra has 800GB/sec, but I believe a bit more than half of that is available to the CPUs. The rest is for the GPU and various on chip accelerators.

So with about half the cores (16 vs 28) and twice the bandwidth (say 420GB/sec vs 180 GB/sec) it manages twice the performance. Looks pretty impressive to me. Looks like the Apple is significantly less memory bottle necked than the 6 channel Xeon W.
> An appeals court ruled that even though the theft was entirely due to Marriott's negligence, section 1859 of the California Civil Code meant that Marriott only owed him $500, despite the value of the stolen luggage being over $8,000.

It actually ruled $1,000 in damages, plus interest and court costs.

If it wasn't due to Marriott ’s negligence, there would be no liability at all. Civil Code § 1859 explicitly limits liability of an “innkeeper, hotelkeeper, operator of a licensed hospital, rest home or sanitarium, furnished apartment house keeper, furnished bungalow court keeper, boardinghouse or lodginghouse keeper” for personal property losses to $1,000 in aggregate, and $500 “for each trunk and it's contents”, $250 each for “each valise or traveling bag and its contents”, “each box, bundle or package and its contents”, and “all other personal property of any kind” in the absence of advance written consent for greater liability.

The law is certainly outdated, but it's pretty cut and dried, so it's hard to see how a court could reasonably have ruled otherwise. (Actually, the court was clearly pissed off about the law, and about Marriot not just fully compensating the customer, which is why the judge calculated the interest not on the legally recoverable damages, but the full value of the possessions.)
I found it funny that the article refers to the troll with the pronoun “it”
because inferior tech that lasts a long time has a constant tax on productivity.
His first comment says the opposite and that they've tried hard to get the price down. Of course we have to trust him on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726#25067359

But I can’t really find any other large format e-ink displays with the driving hardware (which can be even pricier than the display), so I’m inclined to believe him.
I'd argue it can hinder sometimes.

I hate to say it but it probably depends on the gender.

What I will say is anecdotal and probably controversial but it is just my observation:

I've seen all kinds of talented male devs and there's huge variance in their looks. Some good looking and some not.

But when it comes to talented female devs: they all looked a certain type. I'll let you people decide what I mean.

Yes, profiling people sucks but .... sometimes it yields results.
That case doesn't work because the property taxes mostly fund essential local services that are also necessary to live and have a functioning society - there are many locales in the US where the property taxes are zero but there are no improvements or people around you.
having worked there for shy of a year (not in AWS, by random placement), i think your verb tense is true but misses the fact it long has been rotting.

but they exact a huge "tax" on items sold on the site, so they can survive incompetence for quite some time.
The same thing can be said for the unnecessary apple lightning plug - it serves no purpose other than apple selling adapters and blocking usb-c use. Yet it keeps being used. Lots of companies have things with only usb-c but the real problem is not new use, it's the billions of devices with usb-a plugs on them. In my house there are probably 10 usb-c plugs across several computers and 100 usb-a things to plug in.
Quantum Childminding is too real.
> People don't have problems sending money from A to B.

Respectfully, this is a deeply ignorant and factually incorrect sentence.

This indicates to me that: you have never travelled outside a limited set of highly-developed countries; never met anyone from a developing country; never had to send anyone more than $10,000; never had to send or receive money from another country; never met anyone who sends or receives remittances; never done any cross-border business transaction requiring FX conversions.

In some of the above instances, it is technically possible to send money from A to B, but only at very high cost, slowly, and with serious privacy and, at times, physical safety tradeoffs.

I would encourage you to look into how those usecases currently function, in a nuts-and-bolts way. It is ugly. A decent book on this subject is "Check Your Financial Privilege", by Alex Gladstein.
All of snaps marketing suggests no controller. That’s the part that I actually care about - I’m willing to have lower video quality and smaller battery if it’s easy to use in a regular social moment.
The filter in question, FaceApp "Hollywood" absolutely lightens darker skin tones. It moves everything a little more toward "Warm" colors. It also seems to make noses more slender but leaves lips large or enlarges them. That's my unscientific extrapolation from a few samples I saw.
yes, I would expect many companies are based on june so Q1-Q2 are in year n-1.
Love the Dependabot Alerts page which scans for vulnerabilities. We use Sonarcube and Dependabot to apply static code analysis. Anyone has an idea if this is enough or some other tips?
My god. You say I have an axe to grind, but I suggest that maybe there are better tools for the thing under discussion and I'm a cynic, making fun of users, tearing down the builders.

This is just ad hominem. You did indeed ask me to expend effort, whether you see it that way or not. If you want to build great things, you might want to learn how to listen to criticism and not just assume that anyone who disagrees with you is being mean.
I think these kind of analogue laws are dangerous because it's difficult to define what an analogue of some chemical is, and if there are set rules, then you again give out a playbook of how to avoid them.
Life Is a Game (2018)
Then don't get the dongle. Just upgrade your accessory to use USB type C. Having a bulky USB A port just to appease the 1% of users who spend $2000 on a shiny new macbook but cheap out on a mouse they've been using from the 90s? I exaggerate, but if you really want to keep your old accessories then leave the dongle permanently attached to the accessory. You can get like a 10 pack for like $5 probably.
Many authors do some of their best work late in their lives and it would be a sad society if we stopped funding the art projects of those who got ill or aged because of inability to generate profits from them. The right interval for copyrights is larger than the zero years after death that many advocate for. It's certainly less than 75 years after death though, so there is massive room for improvement.
"But how many years of walnut do you have?"

—If carpenters were hired like programmers.

http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819413

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9017027
More like: constantly attached to the cable. Only USB-A device I use is a printer and I have an adapter permanently attached to the cable.
Some wisdom in this reply.

When I read the OP question I took "difficult to talk with users" as
being about the content of discussion/feedback not the mechanisms for
soliciting it, so I'll stick with that take....

I'd say, you need to know what you want.

You will definitely get extremes. I deal with feedback as a teacher,
developer, author or musician, and many of the same things apply. Some
will be straight, some over-nice, some funny and teasing, some will be
rude and angry. But what you want is useful responses, regardless of
emotional sentiment and how it's packaged.

How do you filter for that? Like the guidelines of HN it's good to
take the most sincere interpretation possible and look for attempts to
communicate nuggets of useful critique. Someone who knocks your work
down can be great, not even because they're right, but because they do
so in a useful way, maybe by making you think about something.

It's good to have a framework for identifying and interpreting things
you're looking for. When I post on HN, because I am researching for a
book, I have a kinda X-Keyscore selector set in mind - I'm looking for
ethical/moral signals, nuggets that reveal underlying attitudes of
hackers. But that could apply to any product or project and a set of
information you're interested in seeking.

A research method that can help you with this is thematic analysis and
sentiment analysis. You "code" responses and score them as to how much
they tell you about pre-selected areas you;re trying to improve...
installation, usability, cost, configuration, interoperability.... and
so on. Then, if you're going to respond, get back to those users on
those specific points for clarification.
Pro guitar teacher here. I recognise some things in what you say that leads me to speculate you might benefit from an accessible wind instrument. The saxophone might be something for you.

Some reasons:

- Wind instruments are fairly physical to play. That can be rewarding/refreshing after a day of playing in the geek world. As an aside, this makes them great for the many people with ADHD/ADD too!

- Most wind instruments are monophonic. The complexity of an accompanying/polyphonic instrument is its own can of worms...

- In many parts of the world, especially the western world, it's relatively easy to find a larger ensemble fairly quickly. The group can be a real anchor point.
Also anecdotal: When I was freelancing, I'd specifically make sure to be wearing my glasses and a hoodie during the first meeting with potential clients. I had better responses and they seemed to implicitly trust that I was competent vs wearing contacts. Whereas on a dating profile/first dates, I would always wear contacts because I think I look more handsome that way.

Biases are frustrating and annoying and I used to think they weren't worth worrying about. Then I went from obese to healthy weight and noticed the ways people treated me differently. Now I acknowledge that they have an effect and try to remove my own, but it's not perfect.
With its follow feature, can I just turn it on and have it go? I want something where I don’t stop the moment and most certainly do not have to have a controller or really anything external.
Is there an ability to approve questions before they are displayed?

Wondering about the spam that we see on other comment plugins
Not really a deal breaker.

Due to the United States Supreme Court ruling in Wisconsin v. Illinois, the State of Illinois is not subject to certain provisions of the compact pertaining to new or increased withdrawals or diversions from the Great Lakes.[4]
I see TheVerge has an article about it:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/25/23041407/e-ink-color-gall...

...And now for the rant: the opening:

> E Ink has a new version of color electronic paper, and, while it isn’t as pretty as an OLED

These people must be those who use EPD at midnight and OLED at noon. (Of course it can be done, it just makes no general sense.)
> However, even if they were just testing, it was ethically, morally, and legally wrong to do so without the consent of the vehicle owner.

Aren't ethics and morals the same thing here? Also, I wonder what law was being broken, or if the author just thinks it should be illegal.

(FWIW, I do agree that it's not cool to take apart someone else's car without their consent.)
This kind of sloppy thinking is why politics is such a sewer and problems endure. To start there are lots of different types of homeless. One of the biggest groups are long time working people who went bankrupt and can no longer work because of medical reasons or advanced age or both. Homeless populations are not generated by idleness or political movements but appear every time there is a major economic shock. This most recent boost to the homeless population are no longer dominated by young men but are the oldest and sickest group ever seen showing up in rescue centers. As long as the response is extreme simplification and criminalization of the problem then it will continue to escalate and ultimately we are all responsible regardless of how righteous our political stances have remained all through.
Ah that explains why WhatsApp has been spotty in the last hour or so.
Pishop.ca shows "Notify me" eternally for most of the Pi products. I'm actually thinking about getting a Pico and start learning arm assembly.
>b-b-but what about TrUmP?????

every time
> I wouldn't mind using a slow-refresh display for coding

I've seen this sentiment a lot when eink displays are discussed here. But, I'm not quite sure I get it.

I've typed in platforms with significant lag between a keystroke and the character showing. It's horrible! So often, you think maybe you made a typo, but have to wait to see it and fix it, instead of a quick few backspaces and ONWARD! I find it really disruptive to my train of thought and it breaks the brain-interface link.

Maybe the eink displays refresh fast enough to make this be a minimal issue, but my few years old Kindle Paperwhite doesn't have me confident that's true.

Or, maybe I just type way worse than those of you that want an eink dev environment.
Not sure how long ago this was - photos on resumes is definitely not a thing in the UK anymore. Very common in some European countries (e.g. Germany), though.
> It actually ruled $1,000 in damages, plus interest and court costs.

Fixed, thanks.

> The law is certainly outdated, but it's pretty cut and dried, so it's hard to see how a court could reasonably have ruled otherwise.

Agreed. I don't fault the court at all here. I fault Marriott for exploiting a loophole rather than doing the right thing, and I fault the California legislature for the loophole's existence.
I am happy to hear the other side of it. It feels like only the people who have an axe to grind are allowed to vent on HN about their anecdotal experiences, and it's considered taboo to share successes.
Interesting. I always thought they'd use some PNG chunk (comment?) for that.
Perhaps the government should convene a standing committee of chemists to make determinations like that.
Not the poster but no way am I outing my self. This is a sacred team you do not talk about.
>iPad should be a Macbook Air.

Isn’t there already a MacBook Air?

It just seems that trying to use the Mac UI purely by touch would be godawful. I mean how do you Command-click, or right-click a UI element with your finger? These are solvable, but only with horrible compromises. The iPad has a completely different interaction model to very good reasons, and this would utterly butcher it. Microsoft tried this approach and it was disastrous.

Yes the iPad has its limitations, but also incredible strengths. The new multitasking gesture system is a vast improvement.
Some jobs in the UK get a lot of international applicants; from time to time they'll include photos.

Agree it's pretty uncommon though.
Think bigger. Not photo display like "pictures on the end table"... photo display like "teenager has band posters on the wall" or even like "changing the wallpaper on my actual wall to match the new pintrest trend"
No but also key to the definition of the actor system is that those are the only things they are allowed to do. Also, there's strange stuff like naming processes for service discovery, and iirc something is wrong with the way that Erlang does selective receives that disqualifies it from being an actor system, and ultimately more modern Erlang things like ets tables and sharing memory with nifs.

Point is all of these deviations from actor system were choices made by the Erlang team in the name of pragmatism. They all exist because there was a use case and the first teams using Erlang needed them for something real; that Erlang is not an actor system is important, because it's a highly pragmatic system -- not one that is based in theory.
/me nods, but it is so very _very_ convenient.
This doesn’t sound quite right. The devs did this with their last game, Lugaru, too. They just seem to like the old idtech model of releasing their engines to the community when they finish their games. I doubt they expect anyone to make another game with the engine, it’s more for modding and porting Overgrowth itself.
Excellent description of the actor model, thank you!
That is extremely unusual for the UK. I know some European countries make a photo mandatory - but I've never seen it in the UK.

I've reviewed a huge number of CVs - at SME and large companies. I think the only time I've ever seen a photo in that context was an auto-generated thing from LinkedIn.
Innovating on the Twitter API v2 and investing in our community
PVC is used everywhere in the USA. You can probably name almost any common household item in the USA and there is a PVC version of it if not the dominant form. It's because there are very large PVC manufacturers in the USA which is why it is pushed so hard and people kept in dark about the dangers. You've surely heard of "vinyl" but maybe didn't realize that was PVC.
Not good for shareholders but AMZN has always reinvested in itself at the expense of everyone else. It is the Amazon way.
I worked in business consulting and we always put resumes/bios with out pictures (professional headshots) in proposals.

Many startups have founder / leadership pics and bios on their website

Most "professionals" like lawyers have a headshot on their website. Every political campaign features the face of the candidates.

Almost everyone who uses linkedin has a pic

Really, western institutional job applications are pretty much the only place where people are trying to "sell themselves" but don't have a pic. It's basically fairness theatre, to pretend that the personal physical characteristics of people don't matter. If that was true, you wouldn't have all the examples I listed.

I'm not trying to say it's right or wrong here, just that it's obvious from all human behavior that seeing what a person looks like is an important part of working with them.
It probably matters less, but unconscious bias likely still exists to an extent.

Hopefully remote work would help establish practices like interviewing over zoom with a camera off. There's potential concerns about someone else completing the coding challenges for the candidate, or otherwise more blatant cheating. But that could be accomplished by, say, capturing video and only reviewing it after a hiring decision has been made.
For the same reason an infinite number of zeroes will never contain a one. Particles still have to follow the laws of how matter behaves, no matter the timescale. Nothing spontaneously forms like the author suggests, regardless of entropy. That’s not how matter works.
It's bad enough that they felt the need to insert a mental health line item in the filing. To them it seems "we're so nice, let's boast about it" kind of a thing. To me it reads like a warning: "you'll need that mental health help if you work here".
For more of an open source Age of Empire like experience - 0ad is quite good and moddable.

https://play0ad.com/

For modders - while the 0ad Pyrogenesis engine is C++ based - its interesting to note that the mods are javascript/XML based and somewhat grokkable - everything from the animation descriptors to economics/AI. You can even mod the UI menu elements using JS/XML.

https://wildfiregames.com
https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Modding_Guide
That's unnecessarily negative. It's a 14 year old codebase that they want to share with people that might be interested, not a bid to compete with other engines.

> To be clear, this is not “the next big engine”. Since great open source game engines like Godot exist, using Overgrowth’s engine for your next game project is a bad choice in almost all cases. However, if you‥

> * Are interested in looking at what shipped game code can look like.

> * Want to look at specific code, like the procedural animation system.

> * Are an Overgrowth modder who wants to make a more involved total conversion or mod.

> Then this is for you!
Apparently the company ceased operations in 2011, though indicates they plan to return:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Airways
Sure, yes, coalitions form in even unlikely places. But even so, come on. Plumbing is largely a zero sum game, or at least far more so than book sales.
Didn't know "Indian folk metal" was a thing, but Bloodywood is bloody fantastic. (I speak Hindi).