skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this isn't relevant to my line of work, so looking at it isn't going to be problematic, I don't think that posting direct links to patents is a good idea.

Just one employee reading a patent can have implications on a business
Yes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9309038

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14415265

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24776748

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25475751

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881112

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25884019

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31577325

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33015769
> "So did you guys make something terribly slow first, and then bring performance back close to where it originally was?"

In this case, the answer is basically, "yes". Objective-C is a neat language and really powerful in terms of flexibility and extensibility. But it gets that by essentially dynamically typed. It's Smalltalk duct taped onto C.

Dynamically typed languages are much slower unless you do lots of very powerful JIT magic, and even then they still tend to be quite a bit slower than most statically typed compiled languages.

Building Swift on top of an Objective-C core library makes a lot of sense in terms of getting Swift adoption when Swift was new. But in terms of performance, it's sort of like building a concrete bunker on top of a straw hut. You really want the bottom of your stack to be the faster, statically typed language. Then you can layer dynamic scripting languages on top for the users who want it.
Where "geographic area" can mean "moved a block, no longer technically in the same municipal area", yes.

I'll give you one guess why I know this.

Yes, most cases port just fine. I've ported multiple times successfully too. But no, your number is not "yours". It's the telecom's, and they decide if you can keep it or not... and they have a history of choosing so poorly that they are now legally required to make a better choice most of the time. It really does not imply good things about trust in their future behavior.
How is it an outlandish claim that one of their system's crashed? Is it unusual that a computer system crashes even if it's a rare event?

If a website went down and the company said "the system crashed" you wouldn't believe them without proof? What could the FAA provide you to prove this?

What makes you distrust the FAA?
The compiler has supported static linking the runtime libraries since 5.3.1, IIRC, and the package manager does so by default when targeting Linux since the acceptance of SE-0342: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...
Really? A good example would be a chess board individual moves are easy to read in code (chess notation) a whole board state in the mid game not so much…
No, obviously, not with bullshit claims.
The economy is cyclical. If you feel like it’s 2001 now, 2003 is only two years away.
Because, as they said, they're "cross platform" but really only exist in one place.
It's not a great title and not a great URL since corp press releases tend to be bad. The story has decent press coverage, eg

https://www.wsj.com/articles/alphabet-unit-verily-to-trim-mo...
Another one for the list.

Veeps join the Googlers, Xooglers, Nooglers, Metamates, Amazonians, Tweeps, Peeps, Rackers, Krakenites and Plaids.
If that ever happens anywhere, we'll decide then.
Isn't it ACID transactions on ... one table? I thought joins were right out for that on DLT at this point.
> Russian allows for sentences without any pronouns, or only neutral ones.

Right, but you're describing a situation where a specific singular sentence doesn't happen to have a gendered pronoun in it, you're not describing a sentence that requires knowing a person's gender. If you knew as a translator what pronouns a person commonly used, you'd still be able to translate the sentence "I forgot" in a grammatically correct way, right?

Unless Russia supports someone simultaneously using a masculine pronoun and a feminine variant of "forgot" when talking about them? But my understanding is that it doesn't.

We're not talking about a situation where we have no idea who the subject of that sentence is -- if you know what pronouns a person usually uses in Russian, it still seems like you could pretty easily translate that person saying "I forgot" -- because the important grammatical part of that is the consistency between the gendered variant of "forgot" and the gender variant of the pronouns that person usually uses.

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> If you truly like to suffer, have a place where you form a string of the form of "$PERSON picked up $COUNT $ITEMS".

So I have looked into this a bit as part of building dialog systems for my games, and yeah, it is super complicated. But while yes, it absolutely requires writing a ton of code and supporting a ton of variants and possibly even writing specific language-dependent code for certain translations, and while yes, it does require tracking object state to a much greater degree than you typically would for a purely English game, it still doesn't seem to change anything about what information I need to ask the player during their profile setup.

I'm still having trouble finding an example of where asking a player what their pronouns are isn't sufficient information from that player to do a translation.

Understand, I am not saying that translations would be easy, I am not saying that dynamically constructed sentences would be simple (they would not be simple). I am not saying that cultural translation and differing norms and references wouldn't be intensely difficult to deal with. But I can't find an example where I need to know the player's gender. I don't know of a language that gramatically distinguishes between pronouns and gender to a degree where knowing someone's pronouns wouldn't be sufficient to determine what gender-variant words to use to when referring to them.

I'm trying to imagine a scenario where someone says, "I use primarily he/him, but technically I'm actually agender", and I reply, "oh, good to know, we couldn't have done a translation with your character without also knowing about the agender part."
That's kind of one of Swift's things - it is designed to be as accessible as a scripting language but scalable to full applications and system software.

Ideally it gives you some of the convenience and accessibility of a language like Python, combined with runtime efficiency of a language like Objective-C.

print("hello, world") is a cute example since it's a valid program in both Python and Swift.

(Though I still haven't forgiven Python for removing the print statement, which dates back to BASIC antiquity.)
I worked with C++ at my last job and now again for a side project with a partner. People not using `this` is one of my biggest pet peeves.
Unconditional seems extreme to me.

If you get money/free stuff from the gov't, perhaps the gov't should require something in return, though not a job in the strict sense. I.e., it wouldn't require 40h per week. Perhaps it's 1 day per week, 1-2h per day, or something even more flexible, but it's not so much that it would prevent you from improving your situation by other means.

Even if it's "picking up trash around your neighborhood", you'd be helping make things better.
I have strongly encouraged reckless use of CTEs throughout our product. We use in-memory instances of SQLite to evaluate any queries which would leverage CTEs. These datasets are usually small enough to reside within L1 (and certainly within L2).
Netflix is suffering from its own success: A glance at 2023
Why is this better than just joining an actual table that expands the codes?
Correct, they're paying out all PTO as of Jan 15th, 2023
If I recall Swift has a very interesting ABI for generics.

1. https://faultlore.com/blah/swift-abi/
L’Industrie was on my Google Maps list of “places I heard about in the dark days of 2020 and will visit post-apocalypse”.

I think it was the first of those that I did manage to hit, and absolutely lived up to the hype. Probably the best individual slice I’ve ever had.

(Also really enjoy Prince St., haven’t tried Bleecker St. to date.)
2022 Personal Annual Report  (FS Blog) [pdf]
https://fs.blog/annual-review/
You're missing the "multiple" part. How many non-tech people are backing up their laptop to Backblaze and a second service or encrypted external drive?

You're also missing part of the "encrypted" part, where the whole point of the article is that it's only effectively encrypted if the cloud provider doesn't have the key (and therefore becomes riskier). And Backblaze doesn't enable private encryption keys by default. Apple doesn't either by default for things like iOS backup.

So yes, what's standard is a single cloud backup that is encrypted at rest, but where the provider still has keys to access it.

In contrast, I very much stand by my less than 1%, if it's encrypted with a private key to multiple backup destinations, which is what the parent I was responding to was describing.
12,600 cubic meters is what some quick googling and math suggests.
Did you mean a 22-meter cube?
> But, it is fun to imagine how our belief systems would have been shaken up

I think such a revelation would have almost no impact. Let's be real, people that are all in on religion didn't get there using logic. Adding one more unanswered question isn't going to change anyone's mind.
Here's a link to the paper mentioned. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0
2011: Fractal heat transfer device https://patents.google.com/patent/US9228785B2
"and that government agencies often lie to the public"

Technical glitches occur more frequently in what type of systems?

What's often? Why are you grouping all government agencies when evaluating their trust?
>As far as I can tell, layoffs seem concentrated among high-earning folks - I can definitely see how anyone browsing HN would think we're headed straight for a recession. But it seems like overall, and especially in lower-wage jobs, employment is still humming along and people are very much not getting laid off.

Shit rolls downhill. We'll see how well the service economy holds up when their client base has been out of work for 6 months.
I suspect there's a semantic collision on the meaning of first: it can refer to temporal ordering (occured before other events), first can also also refer to primacy/importance (which was my reading. i.e. to be read as "Tesla is fundamentally a software company which happens to sell cars." A take I never agreed with, but was the basis of the overvaluation.)
So, if you really value security, buy a computer that you can take the hard drive out of.
I've found myself doing the opposite.

The other night during a minor scene I said aloud "what a great camera setup"

(it had beautiful bokke or possibly focal plane manipulation to put the character in sharp focus while what was beside or possibly behind him was softened)
> just screwed up and over-hired

what's weird to me is that this is happening at all kinds of companies, including ones with what I thought was pretty level-headed management. It's not just one company oops screwed up and over-hired, and "tech" is not really a monolith. Yet, they somehow all simultaneously screwed up and over-hired?
Verily so!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fa/9/90/Seyed_Mohamma...

(^ That's him.)

This is a reasonable question. My understanding is that once they have their signed confessions they may allow some form of communication with an attorney and/or family.

https://www.dw.com/fa-ir/%D9%88%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%...

DW, a German news organ, which quotes that young man's attorney -- note this attorney is not permitted to participate in the judicial preceedings. "After his first visit with his client, reported his severe torture in captivity."

That attorney is the likely source.
Why not just axe the division? What exactly is the P/E ratio at Verily, Waymo, GoogleFiber, AugmentedBS, etc? Let's put more wood behind more intelligent arrows, rather than dulling extremely dull arrows that obviously go nowhere - or just do stock buybacks.
Taking my own example - you can both monitor for panics per http request, while preserving SLO for other requests server by the same process.

Crashing the program is strictly worse imo, since there are other concurrent requests which will now fail for no reason.

I agree unhandled panicking makes sense sometimes. It’s context dependent.

Program state is a good argument, but I think it really depends.
The article does state that she was fired.

> Amar was fired in October and Javice, in November.
> ...caused trouble for Mastodon clients on various app stores (i.e. if you can use the generic client to connect to gab, the app could fail the app store's content policies and not get approved

Then they better start banning web browsers. I yearn for that comparison to be the official PR response, for those individuals that find themselves in the position of power to make those decisions at Apple and Google to feel the weight of its responsibility. A federated blogging client should be well above the acceptable threshold on a spectrum from Firefox to CSAM.app.
>And if 99% of the population is too dumb to do it, then it probably doesn't need to be done.

This is very hard to believe. That's basically conceding that we will never cure cancer/colonize mars/solve productive nuclear fusion etc.
Yeah, I would also add its still going to be tracked, but now that's pushed on to managers.
Come performance review time, this will have an effect.
I'm from NYC and call it "plain" or "cheese." "Regular" makes me think too hard as to whether the "New York thing" is to say "regular" or "plain." It's also a lot of syllables.

A similar phenomenon occurs with waiting "in [a/the] line" vs "on [a/the] line." I think I say either, but I'm "supposed to" say "on line."
We don't do it for them. We do it to to bring closure for ourselves.
Outside of death, it's usually "What have you done for me lately?"
The intro so nice they had to show it twice
Can someone explain why every single thread about Indians—whether it be here, on Reddit, or on Quora—is somehow allowed to become insidiously racist?

'Indians are sycophants', 'Indians don't speak English well', 'Indians are corrupt', 'Indians are good at office politics'—all from this thread alone.

I am trying to respond as civilly as possible without swearing, but this phenomenon is making it increasingly hard to do so.

Somehow white people are allowed to be 'sycophants', but Indians aren't? Somehow white people were allowed to trod all over Asia and Africa (many still are) for half a millennium, and coughed up racist theories to justify their borderline enslavement of non-whites, and evangelise their religion and culture[1]. But then when non-white people succeed, it's 'corruption' or 'nepotism'?

India is a country of 1.5 billion people. Include the rest of the Indian subcontinent and that number becomes nearly two billion. One quarter of the human population is from that region. Given these numbers, is it that surprising that Indians are quickly reaching the highest echelons of corporate America/Europe? By numbers alone, Indians still outnumber both the US and the EU, combined.

The region is still developing. India is a democracy, and the democracy is an absolute cacophony. It has taken its time to develop, and is frequently compared to a certain other neighbouring country with a similarly large population. That country had (and still has) no qualms in murdering millions of people to achieve its goals. India does not do that, and will bring its populace forward and upward, slowly but steadily.

These stereotypes are old, unfair, and unjustified. I am extremely unhappy that this is silently accepted, while racism against Blacks is white-knighted against.

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Civiliza...
How do you ingest your social circle's in-group memes? Are they reliably posted to meme generator sites?
The first time, yes, but what if we're the 10,000 civilization they've found?
This depends a lot on the country and the infrastructure.
What happens when you make meditation a real habit
Yet another "30 under 30" success story.
It was DMCA'd, yes... but there's still a way. When I last needed to install it the method involved using the wayback machine. If I needed it today I'd start by looking at the subreddit AfterVanced
I wonder if React UI should really be replaced with NextJS.

The majority of react sites nowadays are just NextJS. It might be that the future of react based applications isn’t react, but nextjs.
Yeah yeah, but "an Google"?
I had been super excited by the work on d2 (and Tala), the new language for diagrams with automated layout. I'm happy to pay a reasonable price... but their prices are currently five times higher than the cost of a Visio subscription...

A pity, in my month long trial period I used it extensively, and loved it. Crawling back to Plant UML has been all the more painful for it.
"Culture fit" is bad when it's not my group doing it?
And the tweaking they require for some more complex stuff means it might be actually quicker to draw it vs "code" it.

Even the most popular tools like PlantUML can't seem to figure out simple things like "do not draw text directly on the line"...
that makes me want to watch "synecdoche, ny" again
How do you create a new entry?
Datadog or Grafana
Barely two months from their announcing a hiring spree... https://www.reuters.com/business/logistics-startup-flexport-...
From the POV of a user, I consider Shadow DOM a menace, as it creates areas of the DOM that cannot be reached by CSS from outside - defeating my ability to fix UI blunders and bad design with a tailored userstyle.
Hehe, epic Netflix movie is like real life
> the high end restaurants are great, but what's more impressive is that the average neighborhood eatery is more often than not really amazing, too.

Absolutely! I share the same.

Part of that is the fine dining though. Fine dining is its own culture, and just like other Bay Area industries, once you get some good chefs in the city, they'll train people who open their own restaurants. Then the quality expectations go up among residents... and everything ends up better, even "down market".
It's a beautiful vision, and I mean that. But I must also ask: How much more in taxes should Californians pay for the privilege? Give it a number. Because your average HN reader in California is paying close to 60% of their salary in state and federal taxes.
cl-lib is practically indispensable in modern emacs lisp programming. It can be pretty annoying to write some patterns without cl-loop, for instance, which like the real loop macro in CL is stupidly powerful (think, DSL for describing loops).

I'm not sure what you mean by "that direction," but if it implies doing CL, writing emacs lisp won't get you there, even if it might give you a head start from cl-lib, eieio, and general lisp ideas.
The country with 10% of the world population produced CEOs of 10% of companies (by valuation).
How is it not a money problem?
ChatGPT got it...

> This sentence is a play on words, using the homophones "it's" and "its" in different ways to create a pun. The first half of the sentence is using the phrase "it's not it is" as a way to say that something is not true, while the second half is using the phrase "it is its" as a way to say that something belongs to itself. The second sentence is in similar way "it's it's" meaning " it is its" and "it is it's" meaning "it's is it"
Running Before the Modern Shoe
You can do better than a general image-to-text model reading memes, because they all use the same fonts - so you want something trained off synthetic data made with that font.
HEVC Passes AV1 on CanIUse
blah blah blah blah blah you're laid off blah blah blah blah
Not sure why this is downvoted. Here is a recent example showcasing how common this is: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/half-...
> It's a quite opinionated experience, because every branch will have a URL that you can share

Can you clarify what you mean by this? What does it being opinionated have to do with there being a URL you can share?
And Astronauts.
It is a really simple book and not particularly academic, but you have to start somewhere.

It is basically the equivalent of a picture book, with 200 pages of free body diagrams, which may be helpful to someone if they aren't used to thinking in terms of beams, forces, and moments.

The entire books' contents is probably covered in pages of Shigley's, and perhaps for some people that is enough..
how is this possibly the highest upvoted thing here on django. it's like the opposite of good opinions.. they're bad opinions!

_(99% kidding, but i disagree with most of this lol)_
P/E is undefined with E=0.

Verily (at least) is an independent entity. Google maintains a hefty equity position, but there are other outside investors too.
You’ve got it backwards. It should be socially acceptable to question any trend in society to understand it better. The comments below seem fine to me. You should be able to question Indians and Jews and Blacks and Whites, tall people, women, attractive people, highly educated people and so on.

I think you’re right that people wouldn’t make the same comments about Jews and to me that’s an indication that Jews are more protected than they should be. Let’s all ask questions and let the truth come out. Better that than pretending that people don’t have in-group motives and waiting to see what happens when we’re not looking.

The moral of WW2 wasn’t “don’t persecute Jews”, it was “don’t be afraid to question those who are resisting being questioned”.
I can’t tell if this is sarcastic or serious.
HN stories are user-submitted. If you want to celebrate the somebody’s accomplishments, post things they worked on, or post your writings about things they worked on.
Microsoft definitely did not use the term 'unlimited' they used the term 'discretionary'.

Pretty cynical of this.

Manager approval needed?
Pressure not to take time off.
Studies show people use less time off.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220520-the-smoke-and-...
Aren't C++ compilers also interpreters for large subsets of the language, all the template / constexpr / consteval stuff ;)
They got through about 60% of the text before the ‘unfortunately…’
>People always claim this, yet with ever increasing population, we continue to find work for people to do.

The reason I expect employment to eventually be much less than 50% is automation not population growth. In the past when one industry gets automated people move to another industry, but I don't see how that happens when/if we have human level AI.
They are Moonshots perhaps
I think the desire would be for that statement to fail. The pipe looks like a logical or, but it's actually for chaining IO. Always a good idea to turn on the pipefail option in your bash scripts.
> If anyone can offer guidance on how to find these hooks into system_server let me know

You might have some insight using Xposed, but I'm not sure if it works with AndroidTV. Feel free to contact me (email on my profile).
> I think that's probably a natural tendency for any type of people...

I agree about the natural tendency, the call of the "tribe" (ethnic group, common language, etc.) is there for all kinds of people, more or less.
But there is a difference, and I'm talking about frequency distributions of behaviors, not naive black and white: some groups of people are aware of these tendencies, and they act purposefully and conscientiously to counteract them; other groups, well, it's hard to tell whether they are aware of these tendencies or not, but what is certain is that they don't practice any countermeasure to a natural bias.

Now, for some ethnic groups or nations, it is quite forbidden to talk about any kind of "tribal" behavior that they exhibit. But if within Facebook or Google or Netflix or whatever there was a team led by a Bulgarian citizen with all Bulgarian members, some complaints about the oddity of the situation, I am sure, would be heard.