skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current USPTO patent examiner here. The most effective way to eliminate bad patents would be to give examiners more time, say double the time across the board to start. If an examiner can't find prior art in the little time they're given, and they have no other reasons to reject the application, they'll have to grant it. The amount of time was (basically) set in the 1970s based on data from the 1960s. There have been some minor increases since then. Several orders of magnitude more prior art exists now. And while search technology has improved, it hasn't become orders of magnitude better. So I'd argue that the workload has increased dramatically since the 1970s. Simply giving examiners more time would probably greatly reduce the grant rate, and also incidentally reduce examiner stress levels. Patent examination is a tough job, as examiners rarely get enough time to do a quality job, and this leads to the high stress levels.

USPTO upper management is taking comments about the "robustness and reliability of patent rights" until February. You can leave your comments here:

https://www.regulations.gov/document/PTO-P-2022-0025-0001

Unfortunately giving examiners more time is only briefly addressed in this request for comments. I think the public should really drive home the point that the procedural changes discussed wouldn't be anywhere near as effective as simply giving examiners more time.

Don't believe examiners are overworked? Take a look at this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/patentexaminer/

(Note that this comment is only my opinion, not that of the USPTO, US government, etc.)
No. The writing gets worse and worse. Things just sort of happen for no good reason and the narrative gets so confusing I’m pretty sure that the writers themselves don’t understand what to do with it.
Kind of reminds me of the book Horrorstor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrorst%C3%B6r
It'll take more than 3 months but with Builder's Remedy SF may indeed get a lot more apartments soon!
I’m actually kinda curious what the “legal” definition of art includes. The word already seems to be ambiguous enough. I’ve gotten into multiple arguments here about whether things like music are art.
The vast majority of people don't want to deal with multiple platforms. They want to be on the same platform as their friends, and the content creators that they like. That's it.

Does Soul abstract away the platforms entirely, and make it feel like you're only on one?
Oh, of course! Thanks for the explanation about HAL and IBM, I actually had no idea that's where the name comes from. Very clever stuff.
Why Twitter is shutting down Revue, its newsletter platform
I really wonder about the usefulness of implementing a language feature to reduce the need to copy paste in an editor.
Yeah - it's almost better to think of GATs as less of a feature and more of a weird restriction being removed. That's obviously super reductive knowing the amount of work that went into it, but from an end developer standpoint, it's an explanation that helped make it make sense to me.
The U.S. doesn't even recognize Taiwan as an independent nation, so your remark is moot.
Fighting inflation doesn’t directly cause unemployment – but the likely outcome
TBH a lot of hotels look similar, and they likely went out to take pictures; resemblances may be unintentional, but easy to do.

> How will VR worlds that resemble real structures be treated?

Probably just like anything else that falls under these laws; copyright laws and licenses. I can imagine a hotel would be OK to be in a virtual world, just as long as no people get virtually shot in there.
I'd never actually tried to enable both at once, but I'm not surprised it doesn't work. I love writing prose with Triplicate Poly, but I code with monospaced fonts, as neither most code editors nor most codebases seem to work that well with proportional fonts.
> The problem with Twitter is that it gives an equal platform to everyone's opinions even if it is without merit or reasonable discourse.

Isn't that the problem with communication in general? Wouldn't, say, HN have the same issue?
THIS is literally the best explanation. My god people have forgotten how to explain anything anymore. Thank you.
“There is no cloud it’s just [computers]”

Since “cloud” is actually a marketing term (usually meaning virtualized servers), any company or department who says no to any mention of using the cloud is showing willful ignorance.
I thought your numbers sounded high, but they're actually too low in CA:

> The total overall funding (federal, state, and local) for all K–12 education programs is $124.3 billion, with per-pupil spending of $21,596 in 2021–22. For 2020–21, per-pupil funding increased from $16,881 in the 2020–21 Budget Act to $23,089 in the 2021–22 Budget Act.

https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fr/eb/yr21ltr0811.asp
I think it's a form of greenwashing.

> Companies that intentionally take up greenwashing communication strategies often do so in order to distance themselves from the environmental lapses of themselves or their suppliers.

It was one fuel company who popularized the carbon footprint calculator, such that consumers don't focus on the massive harm the company caused.
What you're describing sounds to me like higher kinded types, which are of some relationship to GATs (GATs enable a better encoding of higher kinded types as I understand it), but are not GATs. https://docs.rs/higher/latest/higher/
This is a bit of a red herring. Nobody in their right mind will just copy another artist 1:1 and make money with it. That would be plagiarism, and that won't have value anyway.

Even imitators (check out how much of those the artists like Ilya Kuvshinov have on Artstation, for example) vary their style a bit. That doesn't save them from being samey and boring, though. Some imitators like those of Jacek Yerka are less boring, yet they still have no message to tell.

Artists have been driving themselves out of the industry for decades, without any ML. What can be easily automated with the current tools (which is not a lot) isn't worth saving at all. I suspect that most people perpetuating the panic never actually dived into AI art, learning what the tools are and aren't good for; they mostly enter a prompt, think it's magic, and start doomposting on Twitter. This is probably how artists felt with early 3D CGI, except we didn't have Twitter back then.
It's going to be interesting to see what Elon Musk considers free speech going forward. Clearly it's not "everything legal" as some had hoped.
Parents urged not to post videos of their children on social media as no consent
I agree there's corruption throughout, but there's some especially wrong about the top elected official being corrupt in this way that's especially bad.

Very visible role. Nominally in charge of keeping the city prosperous and functional. Someone who citizens pretty directly select for the role.

I don't doubt there's corruption at every level, but when the leader of the organization is enriching themselves and their buddies it's hard to expect anyone else to do anything else.

I don't think corruption can be addressed bottom up
> Its like saying the US should never have built rail across the US because most people don't use it.

Initialization of rail across the US was a greenfield project with little in the way of previous context and self-funded by land grants. The comparison is specious since about the only thing HSW and historic rail have in common is their use of rails.
i only skimmed the article but this is clearly based on the SCP story—-which does take place in an ikea.
I recommend steaming eggs. You only need to heat a little bit of water and the eggs cook more evenly
It's probably the fine line between parody and copying; the ikea game was ruled too much like a copy, GTA was ruled a parody.
Twitter actually turned a profit only twice in 10 years (FY18/19) but then went right back to hemorrhaging money. There was ostensibly no reason for it beyond mismanagement and staggering waste.
I've yet to figure out why to use associated types instead of generic parameters, and every time I've seen an explanation I nod my head in confusion and carry on.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221107104951/https://blog.adac...
> Aren't they correct?

Not in my professional estimation, unless you want to reduce the argument to absurdly pedantic levels.

My quick response to the county government was for immediate effect, "The CIA uses AWS."
That's exactly it. Mobile phone users have to use things like matrix with extremely heavy protocol overhead and someone else hosting their client software and maintaining connection (for the vast majority it's element.io in browser using their owned matrix.org homeserver).
I think that's largely the fault of the medium/way the message is crafted. This looks like it aped the agile manifesto which almost went out of its way to be unactionable and vague.

In both cases I'd say that the authors is getting at the right idea but they haven't really formulated it precisely in their heads.

As such the value is clear to the experienced person with the benefit of many years hindsight but not to the newbie.
Love it! Some feedback...

I'm getting an "Error" when clicking the share button.

The full screen option looks amazing, but I missed it on my first few sessions of paying. Adding the text to the buttons might be more instructive than hiding it behind a tool tip.

Is the source available? Would be interesting to see under the hood too.
Undefined Isn’t Unpredictable
probably best not to post this link until you have some actual content, else people will get the wrong idea :)
And what does that have to do with anything GP said?
AST, GUI... The technology is not there yet.
yep, I'd like to offer your service @mydomain
The stealing isn’t unique for sure. But most of the vocabulary in our language is borrowed words. Mostly just the “sight words” kids learn in early school is what remains of Old English. And many English words are the rougher equivalent of a borrowed, nicer words.

Most languages were pretty calcified by Old or Middle English, and English doesn’t seem to be letting up. But no language is static.

But with tech and mass communication, English is squeezing into many languages.

Pinyin is kind of weird. It’s not borrowing concepts, but lending itself to translation in and out. Based off prior western attempts and observation of Japanese success. Typesetting is more practical, and then computers really push it… the latter I feel awkward about. 1/2 is the typesetting benefit, 1/2 is eurocentrism. I dunno. Maybe I’m overthinking.

The vocabulary is more interesting to me because it’s importing ideas or nuances around ideas. It’s primarily nouns, though.

Learning other languages is great to see the world differently. Even in just French, which is fairly close: eg faire doesn’t have a real English equivalent, but makes total sense. It’s like how I learn programming languages I’ll never use for work, just to see things from their perspective.

I don’t know enough about Asian languages. Working on fleshing out my history knowledge now from Asian perspectives vs what I got in school. Maybe one day I’ll be brave enough to address a language.
Help with the social anxiety, you're probably right about that.

The productivity thing may vary based on the individual.

If there's stuff going on around me, I can't focus. I want to be in a quiet place alone (pandemic has been easy street for me, sometimes I don't leave my apartment for weeks on end).
Thanks, this was much easier to understand than the original article. What will I use this for? Usually for the “T” to be useful it needs to have some interface. In Java I’d just use Collection<Integer> or something more abstract.
I like my Rust and furries as the saying goes, but Ada is the underrated language out there. It really has a lot of things doing well for it, is really nice to write shit in it and probably the AdaCore being a single entity behind modern chain is what's both good and bad behind it. Yes, GNAT.. but, same thing.
<< It's all hot takes, no meaningful discourse.

About my only somewhat real discussions are with co-workers, who happen to have very different political positions. Frankly, I am doing it against my better judgment ( discussing political matters can get divisive fast ), but the conversations are generally interesting as the other participants are from non-traditional backgrounds so they can offer interesting perspectives.

I think this is the part that is missing, but last time I started talking honestly on the train about what I think is happening out of the corner of my eye I saw a kid raise his cell seemingly in an attempt to record the conversation. I wasn't saying anything too radical ( "people are idiots" was the gist of it ), but nothing I would want floating around the net..and so I stopped.

I am not sure what the answer is. Best I can hope for is that I will be able to keep my kid away from it long enough.
That’s great. Anyone aware of any good apps for workouts?
>I have not seen good examples of companies successfully deploying robotic systems in low-margin, public-facing settings.
— Matt Beane, University of California, Santa Barbara

Me neither, which has kept me at the opposite end of the spectrum for decades.

To this day, good apps linger where it's still cheaper to use a human operator.

Going to build me a robot anyway, as soon as it's complete it'll be doing an invoiceable job.

That's a key.

So it starts making money right away, admittedly not as much as having a human performing its tasks.

Human's going to have to fill in when the robot is down anyway, plus serve the robot instead at intervals when it is running, just to keep it fully supplied and maintained.

So it's going to require a higher-skilled human than before.

That won't be cheap but I can then sell the higher skilled output for a better premium to clients most interested in the robot.
> I remember my 2 years there much more fondly than I do my time spent at a "real" university.

Genuinely curious, what was it you liked about CC?
That show appeared to be like a meta verse thing, more so than a philosophical discussion of AI.
In high school, a friend of mine was kicked out of school and we were all visited by the police for making a counterstrike map based on our high school.

We did it because it's a maze of blind corners and weird little hidey-hole closets.

But oh boy did I learn about art protections through that process. They don't exist when it comes to violence of any kind, even perceived violence.
It goes in the other direction too; when I was 13, I got into some flame wars with people from the Half-Life modding community on places like Moddb and Facepunch and, as ashamed I am to say, I was a notorious troll, until I was 14, then I became more respectful and actually became friends with lots of the people I trolled, and even met a few in real life

But the things I said are still there, and I was dumb enough to use my real name, so they are stuck there forever, under my name.

This was maybe 15 years ago

I wonder how many rejections I got for jobs based on what HR found when they googled me
This is a big change, which is evoking some powerful reactions in people - it's pretty obvious that a company might want to get some distance between its brand and the maelstrom. They can always come back later, when things calm down.

This way, if nothing happens, they can always come back silently (or spinning the story in a way they want). If some PR disaster happens, they are safely away from it.

For me, this was to be expected and is a testament of how important Twitter has become in the marketing world that it isn't bleeding out advertisers even quicker.
This has nothing to do with internet. There were assholes long before the internet who would bully whoever looks weaker. They would do it in person, on meetings, in friends group, against students if they were teachers, against waiters and other service staff. This guy definitely seems like one.

Plus, that assessment turned out right.
This is a Problem with a lot of software developers, leading to interesting developments like microservices.
I think this is probably exaggerated. IN windows basically all old softwware works with very little fiddling. Maybe downloading a dll it literally just tells you it needs, maybe trying a few different compatibility modes. It is normally a <5 minute affair.

I am glad that MS goes ahead and fixed some of the most popular software, but even the ones they clearly did not do this for, work almost as seamlessly.
I actually have been a little excited for this game, its goofy but looks fun with friends and its a fun spin on a place I visit every few months or so. The uniform definitely screams Ikea and the outside of the building. Shame I think its a really cool concept and doesnt ruin Ikea for me if it went live as-is.
London’s Street Style in the 1960s
I'm not a lawyer and only vaguely familiar with trademark law, so I'm genuinely curious how some of this works.

> if they believe that the game's use of their branding would cause confusion or harm the identity of their mark

My understanding is "confusion" is centered around people trying to make similar products that seem like they are made by a famous brand. This would be more like if somebody opened a furniture store in a blue box-like building, yellow vertical striped shirts, Scandinavian themed, and named NOKEA[0].

"Harm the identity of their mark" is interesting. It seems intentionally vague, which makes sense[1]. I wouldn't be surprised if the word "harm" is used in the legalese, but it can't possibly cover all cases of potential harm, right? If so, I couldn't review any IKEA product as that arguably "harms the mark" [2].

Basically, I'm curious what "harms" are generally acceptable and which are not. I'm sure this is a really big subject, but in my non-lawyer opinion, it feels like IKEA has a weaker case here because it's a video game and not a furniture store[3].

[0]: Might actually be infringing on two for the price of one!

[1]: To the dismay of programmers everywhere, having hard and fast rules for trademark infringment doesn't really make sense. Those just become instructions for how to infringe legally.

[2]: Tying into previous parts, even if I don't use the word "IKEA", it could still (reasonably) be tied back to them.

[3]: Assuming the game maker removes the purported direct usage of the word "IKEA".
Making Meaningful Kindle Highlights for Fiction
These are called sub-types or pattern types, and they are not in the language. But they are something I would love to have. You can’t emulate them with GAT unfortunately.

https://cohost.org/oli-obk/post/165584-ranged-integers-via
Was this supposed to be a command line tool used in a Linux environment, where grep, sed, etc. are already available? Doesn't excuse their behavior, not at all, but I can see exactly how that might provoke their derision. The mistake was quite worse than I thought. But it is foolish to be provoked by the foolishness or ignorance of others. They could have remained silent, or could have reached out constructively (e.g. by introducing them to those widely distributed set of really powerful command line tools).

Or is there some JavaScript additional functionality that I'm missing?
Come on, it's an obvious IKEA parody ... but so what, it (should) fall under free-speech protections.
So, what I'm to take from this is that though plasma itself can be donated without risk, the other components cannot?
They don't make a "big" difference. If they made a "big" difference you'd have seen them decades ago. We've had the tech for as long as we've had automatic transmissions. More gears is just more stacked planetary gearsets. If you can build a 2spd you can build an N-speed. But just because you can build it doesn't mean you can justify it. It's only within the last decade that the extra complexity and cost have become a) cheaper b) worth it.
Ooh, Q and W rotate the view, neat.
A Bottomless Pinocchio for Biden – and other recent gaffes
Blessed.rs – An unofficial guide to the Rust ecosystem
If you know you don’t know enough, demanding paper documents makes sense. It takes quite a bit of study and knowledge to determine that a “cloud document” cannot be changed or altered after submission (and by whom).
Really glad your original post has been flagged, it was incredibly toxic. Becoming so irritated that you "quit reading after a couple of paragraphs" suggests you either struggle to keep up when there isn't a defined he/she pronoun, or that you take some issue with they/them pronouns specifically.

Modern readers are taught from childhood that gender isn't binary, and that singular 'they' is a perfectly acceptable way to refer to someone, and has the historical precedent to back it up.

It's confusing you as a reader, but the arbitrary claim that it confuses "the reader" is a baseless and inaccurate one. It's 2022 D.C., contemporary usage of singular 'they' isn't rare or unheard of in any way, and its frequent usage without complaint -- except from certain groups who take umbrage with non-cisgender peoples' existence, of course.

Surely a fellow as learned as yourself should be able to grasp the concept of singular they? -- it's been around for centuries... The fact that you're demanding a writer invents and starts using a new gender-neutral pronoun is ridiculous.

Firstly, singular 'they' is perfectly suited to this purpose, and has been used historically without an issue. Secondly, if you can't grasp the concept of singular they, you're clearly not going to be any less antagonistic about a newly-created alternative. Finally, your use of "Ms." seems to conflate pronouns and titles -- FYI, the gender-neutral title "Mx." has been adopted for many years, but (a) isn't used by every non-binary or gender-non-conforming person, and (b) is a title, not a pronoun -- so cannot be used interchangeably as such.

Since the author of the article uses they/them pronouns, your claimed solution of "he or she" wouldn't apply. At all.

Perhaps some reading could go some way to alleviating your irritation?

"A Brief History of Singular 'they'"
https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/677177

Writeup by the Oxford English Dictionary:
https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...

If you'd like to read a bit more about its usage for both non-binary people, and to refer to people of unknown or unspecified gender -- as well as style guides -- there's always the Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

It's quite telling that you complain of people "...demanding that the rest of us go along with their throwing sand in the gears of the reading process" when (a) singular they isn't new, and has been widely adopted for these purposes -- in this case to refer to the non-binary author of the piece, and (b) you're effectively demanding people create a new singular pronoun because you refuse to adapt to a usage you personally disagree with -- regardless of it being grammatically and historically correct.

There are much bigger things to worry about than getting yourself worked up over someone's choice of pronoun, and your apparent refusal to respect that.

Alon Levy (the author)'s work is rather good. It's a shame you abandoned reading their article because of your own bigoted and blinkered views about language.
commenters like that have turned me off of rust entirely and completely.
Damn, so that's what it's like to be surrounded by yes-men. God if people approached me like that it would sketch me the hell out. How do you live like that?
For the Dutch railway network, ProRail has commissioned a set of aerial images shot from a helicopter at a height of roughly 190 m, which is ridiculously high-res and available for viewing here: https://twiav.nl/nl/luchtfoto_prorail.php

You can clearly make out individual paving stones or even the catenary wire, so the resolution must be somewhere in the 1 or 2 cm range.