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by eob 4y ago
We use AppCode (JetBrains) with server-side Swift and had to install XCode to get it to work. I can't recall why it's necessary, but the first step in our developer onboarding README is "Install XCode, even though we don&#x27
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by eob 4y ago
That's a very gentle way to describe the agony of string processing in Swift :-). We have written a few shortcut libraries ourselves, but we actually don't end up writing a great deal of string processing code in practice because
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by eob 4y ago
We use Swift on the server at Steamship. Our Swift project is a federated database for NLP data (query, training, inference, embeddings — the whole bit) I assume folks are familiar with the downsides of Swift on Linux so I’ll focus on what
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by eob 4y ago
I bought the Hackers Dictionary by Eric S. Raymond as a 90s kid and it had this story, as well as a few others. Das Blinkenlights and some AI Koans like the Broken Lisp Machine come to mind. I used to read them over and over, and it really
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by eob 5y ago
NLUDB | Software Engineer | US & EU Time Zones | REMOTE | Full time NLUDB is a well-funded, pre-launch platform for full-stack natural language service hosting. We're motivated by the future Star Trek showed us we were kids: a futu
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by eob 5y ago
I think Eirik Bakke deserves a shoutout on this thread. He's the creator of UltOrg ( https://www.ultorg.com/ ) and has literally spent his career pursuing this question with a level of focus unlike anything I've eve
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by eob 5y ago
Well, the payload is encrypted using OTPs. But if the gist of the question was really "why use such old tech when newer tech is available?": I suspect these methods of communication remain because of their robustness against attac
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by eob 5y ago
I just lived in Taiwan for about a year, and it's pretty common feeling there that TSMC is struggling "to get Americans to work hard" in Arizona. I had several folks mention it to me when TSMC came up as a topic. They're
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by eob 5y ago
My 2022 wish list is a Postgres plugin that adds vector + AKNN support that plays well with relational queries. There are so many use cases of that. I believe Ant Financial has published an open source one but iirc the English language docu
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by eob 5y ago
Question for folks: where do server-side Swift folks hang out? I've been writing server-side / enterprise code in Swift for about a year now, and the language has really grown on me. But it's a small community, and IBM's
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by eob 5y ago
Your employer is paying the difference for you. As part of their health plan setup, they select what percentage of the plan to cover for their employees and their dependents.
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by eob 5y ago
I’ve been playing around with Abbot for a few months and the experience has been awesome. It feels like Twilio but for chat: takes the cost of writing a bot down to just a few lines of simple code. Excited to see it on HN — congratulations
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by eob 5y ago
Would love to chat (ted@nludb.com) if you’re interested in using APIs like this in production. NLUDB is supplying folks with equivalent APIs both as a SaaS and a private cloud install. If you’re interested in rolling your own, a good place
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by eob 5y ago
This is amazing! Thank you for putting it together. The show is called Office Girls. Friend in my Mandarin class recommended it as being fairly simple once you get past some office-related vocabulary. “Rich kid has to pose as poor kid and w
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by eob 5y ago
Paying member here -- I've used it to slowly, sentence by sentence, watch a full season of a Taiwanese workplace drama over the past few months. One of the best parts of LLwN as a way to study is the passive encouragement: you can clic
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by eob 5y ago
I've been using Swift to build the server-side of NLUDB.com and async/await is the biggest item on my wish list. Maybe I just haven't learned proper EventLoopFuture-style development style, but you really seem to get stuck ca
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by eob 5y ago
I really don’t know. One perspective is that, “knowledge generation wise,” the current system really does work from a long term perspective. Evolutionary pressure keeps the good work alive while bad work dies. Like that [Top Institution] pa
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by eob 5y ago
I will never forget the day a postdoc in my lab told me not to continue wasting time trying (and failing) to reproduce [Top Institution]’s “Best Paper Award” results from the year prior. He had been there when the work was done and said the
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by eob 5y ago
Taiwan resident here. Just wanted to include that “massive outbreak” so far means a few hundred cases nationally. That’s bad, it might get a lot worse, and we’re all nervous — but just wanted to add the context because “massive” can mean a
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by eob 6y ago
Related to cloud-scale ANN: if anyone is interested in testing an embedding service that helps programmers scale NLP operations without the infra hassle, please reach out! (edward.benson@gmail.com) This thread has been a wealth of informati
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by eob 6y ago
I’m constantly blown away at how high quality SpaCy is with such a small team. Everything: from API design, to documentation, to education, to tool ecosystem. Congrats on the (preview) release and thank you for the great software. Exciting
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by eob 6y ago
You might enjoy reading about Taiwan’s experiments in this direction [1]. They’ve used an online system to craft 26 pieces of legislation now with public participation. Now quite full-on “governance by git” but a very cool step in that dire
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by eob 6y ago
Any chance you could elaborate a bit? This sounds interesting but I'm not in the know enough to read between the lines. You were trying to see if someone was sniffing the documents uploaded (and confirmed they were).... or you realized
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by eob 7y ago
Just wanted to say that both Dropkiq and website to market it look fantastic. Really nice work. If you're ever interested in licensing a version to work with custom grammars (not liquid), I'd be interested! (email: ted AT instabas
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by eob 7y ago
To the folks reaching immediately for the “revolving door” observations: DARPA is one instance where churn is a feature, not a bug. Or if not a feature, at least an intentional design choice rather than an accident of corruption. Various ru
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by eob 7y ago
If anyone on the Polynote team is lurking: curious if this is a successor to the great work done by NTeract, which you funded (thanks!) That project experimented with a lot of interesting themes I see echoed here.
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by eob 7y ago
There are several preschools like this in the Bay Area. My son has been going to one for three years in the Presidio. They show up rain or shine (but seek shelter in high wind or forest fire smoke). It’s been an absolutely wonderful experie
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by eob 8y ago
I was a PhD student at MIT CSAIL a few years ago and recall an incident where a visiting scholar from a corporation who had donated money had to be asked to leave because he essentially scraped every piece of internal data and code in the l
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by eob 8y ago
I just wanted to chime in to thank Chariot for the service they provided. In my experience, few startups literally make your entire day better. I’ve been using Chariot to commute across SF for about two years and it has given me more time a
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by eob 8y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER FOR HIRE | SF or Remote | React Instabase is a fast-growing company that builds a platform for data processing. We have a growing set of backend capabilities and would like help building front-end interfaces for these cap

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