skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never used a fixed number for anything. Just tie it to a percentage of yearly revenue of the entity. This way you can ensure:

- small companies and private people can afford patents

- big corps do not get an advantage, in fact the bigger they get, the more expensive holding a patent becomes, ensuring they have to use those patents and not patent everything just because

- number of patents any single entity can hold is limited, unless they want to go in debt for holding patents

- there could still be a minimum yearly amount as proposed by you
Respectfully I disagree unless the job is low skill and fungible. Network is far more valuable. Especially local ones.
Compared to what? Afaik SF doesn't have the history of abject dependence on federal support that many 'Red' states have. SF is the hub of the technology world, which also seems like a success story any other states would wish for.
These users can't buy an Android phone?
Most businesses understand the pain points of their suppliers very well, as they feel that pain and gave themselves organized around it.

They have a hard time to understand the pain points of their consumers, as they don't feel that pain, look trough their own organisation-coloured glases, and can't see the real pain points from the whiney-customer ones.

AMD probably thinks software ecosystems are the easy part, ready to take it on whenever they feel like it and throw a token amount at it. They've built a great engine, see the carossery as beneath them, and don't understand why the lazy customer wants them to build the rest of the car too.
"stop the trolls through prior art"

Use Alice instead.

Using prior art is a waste of time.
The US isn't subject to GDPR.

I see a lot of US websites with annoying GDPR popups and they really don't need to do that over here.
Ditto, I had been doing sysadmin as my job for a few years in 1995 and as a component of my job or as a hobby for ~5 years before that. I was decidedly a telnet/ftp guy before ssh, and dabbled a little with "ssltelnet". I mostly avoided rsh and family because I didn't love the security model.

SSH was a fantastic improvement at the time, though the whole licensing model interfered with my use for the first several years.
But, for little Timmy to buy diamonds in a mobile game from an alternate store he would have to install the alternate store then "borrow" his parent's credit card to register with the new store.

If "little" Timmy is pulling those sort of shenanigans then I suggest his parents have bigger problems and they probably won't blame Apple at all.
> The web frontend is primarily built with React + Redux + Webpack + ES.

No over-engineering here at all
Using both a-lists and p-lists as mere structural conventions- and thus needing to convert back and forth or write multiple versions of routines to handle each- is a good example of how sexprs provide a superficial veneer of simplicity while inviting cancerous complexity in practice.

The Clojure approach of recognizing associative structures as a fundamental building-block and giving them specialized syntax:

{:the 50 :be 25}

Is a clear-cut improvement.
> Overall tesla UX is miles ahead of other cars, but the little things like this are so frustrating!

IDK, I prefer my boring old UX of 'physical buttons on a dashboard', plus it's a lot easier to interact with without taking your eyes off the road ;)
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Complain to regulatory industries until they force apple to act differently?
There should be no ambiguity here! A toggle button is an analogue for a physical switch. Unless the switch state is dependent on other switches, it must always display its current state. i.e. ENABLED is always true unless POWER is OFF.
Because the former scarcity is real, and driven by economic factors, and the latter is a fiction that burns energy to create noise.
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Thanks for the pointer, I had only checked the 'main' branch, which doesn't have the benchmarking code present.

When running on the commit & code you point to here, here are my new results:

$ hyperfine -N --warmup 5 './benchmark/fast_parser data/fastq_test.fastq' './benchmark/needletail_benchmark/target/release/rust_parser data/fastq_test.fastq '
Benchmark 1: ./benchmark/fast_parser data/fastq_test.fastq
Time (mean ± σ): 675.0 ms ± 2.4 ms [User: 399.3 ms, System: 269.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 670.5 ms … 677.5 ms 10 runs

Benchmark 2: ./benchmark/needletail_benchmark/target/release/rust_parser data/fastq_test.fastq
Time (mean ± σ): 840.8 ms ± 3.0 ms [User: 578.0 ms, System: 257.0 ms]
Range (min … max): 837.0 ms … 847.7 ms 10 runs

Summary
./benchmark/fast_parser data/fastq_test.fastq ran
1.25 ± 0.01 times faster than ./benchmark/needletail_benchmark/target/release/rust_parser data/fastq_test.fastq

Which indeed shows your parser running about 25% faster than the needletail version.
I wish I could’ve used that as an excuse for actions when I was “young and impulsive”.

A crime was committed and we shouldn’t be trying to justify it.
Are your hiring? :)
Chevrolet Bolt EV? Physical buttons everywhere. No fancy features. It just works.
Why should there be a mention about their patents?
Seems like pretty circular logic to me:

Apartments in the city are too expensive ->

It's because we're not building enough apartments in the city ->

But Americans don't want to live in apartments in the city ->

Why are they so expensive then? ->

Well, see, it's because there is too much demand and not enough supply, buut not like the article says, actually the people who want these apartments aren't real Americans or maybe they deep down really DO want a suburban house but they just don't know it etc etc etc
I found an alternative solution: the application Easyres, a little app that lets you change resolutions from the menu bar, has an alternative resolution that's about 30-40px shorter than the standard resolution. This gives you back the whole menu bar as it sits below the notch. It's a much cleaner look. The notch completely disappears and you forget it ever existed.
Are Reddit links broken for anyone else?
But TikTok is not the internet, it's just a service. Even if TikTok is universally considered "fun", and it isn't, that still doesn't speak to the proposition that the internet as a whole has lost most of its fun.
patent maintenance fees are already higher than that.

amusing opinions that remind me not to trust them
The problem with open standards is that someone has to write them.

And that someone usually isn't a manufacturer, lest the committee be accused of bias.

Consequently, you get (a) outdated features that SotA has already moved beyond, (b) designed in a way that doesn't correspond to actual practice, and (c) that are overly generalized.

There are some notable exceptions (e.g. IETF), but the general rule has been that open specs please no one, slowly.

IMHO, FRAND and liberal cross-licensing produce better results.
The notch is really noticeable if you have a white menubar.

I'd take a screenshot of it but ... ha!
That K solution is O(n^2) complexity, vs O(n*log(n)) for Lisp.

I kinda hate it how all the K advocacy always uses old-style languages with small stdlibs, _and_ always ignores the complexity.. How about matlab (which does have "unique" in stdlib), python/numpy or even R?
I have always used pg_bulkload. It's a bit of pain to compile but the tool is really fast... I love how you can define what to do with constraint conflicts, etc.

Recently I used it to bulk import a billion rows and dedupe by a single column/constraint by throwing out the rows that conflicted. It did it-- in like two hours.

see: https://ossc-db.github.io/pg_bulkload/pg_bulkload.html
i mean this sort of thing usually gets like >1k votes so thats an easy enough filter?
> The MacBook notch is wide just to make it look like the iPhone notch.

I'm convinced this is true, at least partially.

The iPhone notch is branding and a visual differentiator from the competition, which is Apple's forte, and carrying over that very distinctive design element to other product lines seems right in Apple's playbook.

In other words: glass slab in your hand? Who knows. Glass slab with a black notch? iPhone.

Person typing on metallic laptop in a cafe? Who knows. Ah, but the screen has a notch? MacBook.
You're proposing that the state pay a good wage to anyone who chooses to be a full time inventor, regardless of the results? Does that include paying for whatever facilities might be required?
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> a risk that one has to balance when adopting new products

Was just talking about the cost of the Google Graveyard [0]

I think this needs a serious financial analysis.

We talk about "externalities" and TCO (total cost of ownership) but
what about hidden internal lifecycle costs like this?

Might it be that using some service platforms is a net loss even if
they're free? I mean, if the cost of migration and disruption when
they sunset actually outweighs the use value of even a free service?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39347375
To be honest, I was not the best when I started. I was average at best but I was grateful to have mentors in my life who helped me grow. Now, as a senior engineer, I am getting opportunities to work with best minds at Meta.

In my 6 years career, I have worked with multiple junior and new grad engineers and have seen them grown exponentially. If you are starting as a software engineer, you should:
If you need the state to use its authority and other tools at its disposal to accelerate the adoption of a technology, more often than not it means the technology is not good enough. On its own merits, it can't compete, so you need to help it by creating artificial incentives using taxpayer money. Very similar to public transport services or passenger rail. It probably just doesn't make sense.
That trick mainly keeps ants at bay. Spiders and everything else get you from above.
What would be an example of the inverse?

Of all cutting edge technologies?
Many e-mail client still has a field for it in its account settings.
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Ask HN: Forking our app a lot, and it sucks. Is this new approach any good?
We built an app, and fork it each time we have a new client to make a new deployment.
Each deployment is slightly different as clients want customizations.
This slows us down, adds maintenance cost and we want all deps to run from same codebase.

To achieve this we are building a plugin system
- All functionality of our system is divided into various (interdependent) plugins
- Each plugin contains a set of actions (functions invoked by a service with an actor in context) along with some helper resources like input validators, access control validators etc.
- These plugins are defined as a JSON schema (with proper input and return types for all functions) which is used to derive types and boilerplate code for the devs to continue writing the business logic in.

Through this system, SDKs in different languages will be built that can then be used by our applications

Our problem is that we have never seen this implemented before. Do you have any ideas, notes, on our approach. Or links on how other people solved this problem?
> However I don't understand why many people are longing for Ladybird as another free browser. There are already some and Firefox is losing marketshare every day. So please do use it.

Having more options in the FOSS world is always a good thing. Firefox unfortunately lost market share because the Mozilla Foundation does absolutely nothing to promote it, and that's not going to change until they find a better source of revenue than Google.
I don't know about strictly superior. It's certainly strictly easier for people with a budget, who just need "good enough" results the first try. I don't have any evidence whatsoever, but I'd expect that enough tuning and retries can get squeeze a bit more performance out of RLHF than you can get out of DPO.
Why/When did they stop referring to this as {a|the} 'Jet Stream'?
It isn't a tax credit. It is an offset on profit, same as if the studio spent a bunch of money on preproduction and never got to the principle photography phase or if the studio spent a bunch of money on production but stopped during editing.
I prefer to think of it as two large full-color notches going upwards as compared to a small black notch coming down.

Too bad they didn't increase the resolution of the display slightly for that.
Pessimistic, probably. Unnecessary, absolutely not. Watching the second rise of populism and fascism in the world teaches you that you must absolutely watch out for humans in mass promoting violent behavior.
That's essentially my understanding too. The legal construction of property, and rule and commodification of law are all necessary functions of market economies.
I thought your post was a parody. Might as well filter based on family wealth as well, huh?
Local networks are just typically stronger. And networks in major cities are typically stronger. It will take a lot of time for this to change. I’m mostly remote but everyone is still attached to a major urban hub.
If you read the article, he actually moved from Seattle.
In the UK, some solicitors and accountants already provide this service.

They don't market it as "facing death alone" though, they market it more as "giving the family time to grieve" and "getting complex paperwork right"
Wow, someone got paid to make that.
On top of this some Kepler support (for K80s etc) is still maintained in CUDA 11 which was last updated late 2022, and libraries like PyTorch and TensorFlow still support CUDA 11.8 out of the box.
So far as I'm aware, this was never the case. Bernstein's case started in 1995 (it was decided in 1999). I assure you, cryptographic software was widespread and, apart from export controls, unchecked in 1995. Source: my professional career started in 1995.

In (I think) early 1995 I bought a "This T-Shirt Is A Munition" shirt with RSA source code on it, by typing the information from the bottom of a personal check(!) into a web page. It was a whole thing.
> Domain names pay per year because there's an ongoing service attached. There's no such thing for patent

Erm, what service? A record in a database? How's that different from a patent office? I guess there's fancy registrar website...to do what...help me pay my recurring bill?
> In defense of the ambiguity of digital toggles, I’d like to add that this is unsolved on most, if not all, physical light switches in homes and offices.

What? This has been solved for physical light switches since before physical light switches existed.

If the light is on, the switch is set to "light on". If the light is off, the switch is set to "light off".
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Cause and effect. The why’s matter not to me, the end user.
> This is not true at all

I think the trouble is that all of the above are true, but not universally true. The issue can be framed from multiple perspectives depending on which aspect of market dynamics are most impactful to a given app/service/situation.

Some developers build for the Apple ecosystem because the ecosystem is large and enticing and provides better opportunities than the alternatives.

Some developers are big enough that they don’t need the App Store to gain customers.

If a new app gains popularity primarily because of Apple, and eventually gets big enough that its origins are now immaterial to the ongoing success of the company, whose customers are they? There isn’t a clear answer to this question. Arguably both Apple’s and the app maker’s, and there’s an intrinsic codependency that can’t be easily separated.

I agree with your point about small devs. The question is: at what point does it become penalizing? Once the app reaches some threshold?

The hard thing about this conversation is that I can see the merits of Apple’s position while also agreeing that at times, the outcome feels “wrong”, i.e. an existing product with an existing customer base seems like it shouldn’t be so limited.

But is it possible to provide a platform that enables this kind of developer ecosystem and app diversity combined with a consistent user experience without the at-face-value “wrong” outcomes? I don’t know.

This gets even murkier when apps rely heavily on Apple services for data storage, syncing, security, etc. It seems very fair to charge for “we’ve solved a lot of hard problems for you”.

It’s an interesting situation that is often painted in terms that are far too simplistic.
I'm building a bare metal business around MI300x and top end Epyc CPUs. We will have them for rental soon. The goal is to build a public super computer that isn't just available to researchers in HPC.
Reminds me of the patent troll from Silicon Valley
He is moving from Seattle to Miami. Where did you get California from this?
Cheers. We’re a small team. 4 developers in total. I’ll pass on your thanks!
And here's how it was socially constructed -

Step 1: Take all the western cultural sexist stereotypes that apply to women (female) and men (male).

Step 2: Redefine "woman" and "man" in terms of all these sexist stereotypes, instead of by sex.

Step 3: Anyone who wants to adhere to the sexist stereotypes imposed upon women is now a woman. Anyone who enjoys the sexist stereotypes associated with men is now a man. Invent the term "non-binary" for people who don't want either set of sexist stereotypes to apply to them.

Step 4: Whichever category of sexist stereotyping from Step 3 an individual feels most comfortable with becomes their "gender identity".

Step 5a: Replace sex with "gender identity" in law and policy everywhere. Formerly single-sex spaces and services are no longer separated by sex, but by which set of sexist stereotypes a person feels most comfortable performing. For example, if a male human criminal enjoys wearing dresses and make-up, incarcerate him in the women's prison.

Step 5b: Replace any language that references anyone's sex with a sex-neutral term instead, so that those who enjoy performing sexist stereotypes feel comfortable and unchallenged in their beliefs. For example, replace "expectant mother" (a term implying the female sex) with "pregnant person", just in case a female human who aligns herself with the sexist stereotyping associated with men bears a child.
then you shouldn’t form the patent then as you would still just be increasing costs for the industry by existing and delaying things

you could have just written about it on your blog and been the same place and been a net positive for society
Yeah one needs to distinguish between the optimal state sequence and the optimal state at a particular time. In other words, a joint posterior (state trajectory up to now given all measurements up to now) vs a marginal posterior (state right now given all measurements up to now). the KF only gives you a marginal posterior. they are not the same
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So your argument is that its closer to virtualization, than to emulation?
No, it doesn't?
I've been in a Waymo when a voice message informed me that a difficult situation was detected and a remote human driver is taking over, then a couple blocks laters another voice message said it's returning control to the Waymo driver. So I assume they got alerted and have a high definition video feed. Also, it was super crowded with people watching the illegal fireworks, and they all got it on video https://twitter.com/michael_vandi/status/1756550257851449372
You don't think that the people who run companies that makes negative profits and thus can't pay workers since they lack the money doesn't feel the same? Just because some do that doesn't mean it is the norm.

Edit: You see plenty of stories from company owners who worry if they can pay salaries next month and it is all they can think about, that is the kind of person you are calling a "wage thief" here, even though they just like you are just struggling and trying to make ends meet.
I think part of this confusion stems from the "default mic on" mindset, where "mic active" is assumed to be the default, and mute is a deviation from that state. We can trace this pattern back to the UI of phone conference systems, back through analog phones, back to the time of a literal wire connection between parties.

Many/most audio mixers (in the context of live music and recording) and their digital brethren use the same pattern - a "Mute" button which lights red to indicate that channel is silenced. But a few have an ON button above the fader which lights to indicate the channel is active.

I think it's about time conference applications rip off the bandage and take the "audio off by default" approach. We can kinda see it already with UI elements that light up when a speaker is talking.
If anyone wants to work in this area, AMD currently has a lot of related job posts open.
gonna be like climbing a wall of jello, or a mountain during an earthquake. fun thought experiment.
I looked at the way the law defines "contraceptive", and the definition to me sure seems like it includes a right to access and provide an abortion:

> (1)Contraception

> The term contraception means an action taken to prevent pregnancy, including the use of contraceptives or fertility-awareness based methods, and sterilization procedures.

Abortion is an action taken to prevent pregnancy, so to me this law includes a right to an abortion. Again, if you think abortion is equivalent to birth control pills or condoms, then sure the conclusion that republicans just love the idea of restricting "contraception" seems clear. But if you see any difference or nuance between the two, which I think is pretty reasonable, then there's a pretty good explanation of why they voted against it: They think abortion is murder. They are against murder. You can disagree with them that it's murder, but it's quite disingenuous to suggest that they just love restricting contraception unless you also clarify that by "contraception" you mean "abortion."
In the time period we're discussing, I was on a team shipping a commercial (shrink-wrap!) software project that extensively used cryptography, including an export version of same. It was not a big deal; it was not an operational nightmare; in the North American market, it wasn't a thing at all, you just did whatever you wanted.
Of course it's nicer to give everyone a humane job. It's not about what's nicer. It's about reality. There's simply not enough jobs to go around if there are no bullshit jobs. Your statement here doesn't make sense to me. Yeah it's better but what does better have to do with the realistic consequence? Nothing.

Very little jobs for people with sub 80 IQ which makes up a significant portion of the population. If any of these people hold jobs it's most likely bullshit.

If millions are unemployed that doesn't mean they won't get paid. But if they didn't it doesn't mean money has no meaning. I didn't mention the consequences of that. You did.

All I said here is that if we get rid of all bullshit jobs. Millions will be unemployed. What that means is up to you decide, I simply stated the immediate realistic consequence of no bullshit jobs.
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*brass tacks, but I like this take on it too
Interesting. Luckily the tax is new as of 2022. I heard that income-tax bearing states like CA and OR pursue the tax bill against folks who finally sell equity in a non-tax state if the stock vested while the individual was in the state w/ the tax.
SYCL is the latest attempt that I'm aware of. It's still pretty active and may just work as it doesn't rely on video card manufactures to work out.
The tipping thing is insane. I live in a rather progressive city, very pro labor. Many local restaurants have added small fees to your bill, often called something like "living wage fee" or something similar, the implication being it's a fee to help improve the wages the staff get.

Except it's a 3% fee! I'm paying $50 for steak, surely you can just freaking charge me $52 and pay the staff what they deserve?! Why all this nonsense around adding fees like you're the local cable company? You've spent more editing your printed menus to include this new disclaimer than it would cost to just pay your damn staff!