Hacker News: kulpreet

Turkey's translators are training the AI tools that will replace them

kulpreet — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:00:25 +0000

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2025/turkeys-translators-training-ai-replacements/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43123875

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by kulpreet in "Founder Mode"

kulpreet — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 15:35:10 +0000

I have a feeling that Apple's unique organizational structure[1] will likely share a lot what Paul is describing as "Founder Mode"

[1] https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovatio...

Why AI needs to learn new languages

kulpreet — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:11:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/01/24/why-ai-needs-to-learn-new-languages

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39123909

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Apple has a decade-long lead in wearables

kulpreet — Fri, 28 May 2021 22:43:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2021/5/27/apple-has-a-decade-long-lead-in-wearables

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27321387

Points: 179

# Comments: 233

Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984)

kulpreet — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:48:05 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358198.358210

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25097042

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Use Swift on AWS Lambda with Xcode

kulpreet — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:05:58 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10644/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655706

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kulpreet in "Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure"

kulpreet — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 01:23:46 +0000

In most cases, you'd want this to be handled at the OS-level by setting your locale preferences to match your region. However, this would require the app to be properly internationalized (using number formatters, etc.) to work correctly.

So you bring up a neat idea. I'm not sure which OSs support it, but OpenType does have a `locale` feature, primarily for glyph variants (ex: same codepoint, but different glyph for Chinese vs. Japanese). I'm guessing it could be abused to accomplish what you want and not require an app to adopt i18n APIs.

Linux (Ubuntu) Benchmarks for Server Side Swift vs. Node.js

kulpreet — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:29:35 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@rymcol/linux-ubuntu-benchmarks-for-server-side-swift-vs-node-js-db52b9f8270b#.qb95ytg6p

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722345

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kulpreet in "Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP"

kulpreet — Wed, 04 May 2016 17:46:29 +0000

As someone who took the replacement 6.01 Intro to EECS, I would have much rather taken 6.001 SICP.

I'm sorry to say, but I feel very strongly about 6.01 being the least useful course I took at MIT.

Why Cryptosystems Fail

kulpreet — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:09:50 +0000

Article URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/wcf.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11306296

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Meaning of Life

kulpreet — Sun, 04 May 2014 13:35:23 +0000

Article URL: http://sivers.org/ml

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7694233

Points: 182

# Comments: 117

"Currying" Objective-C Methods

kulpreet — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:38:08 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.lukhnos.org/post/17270947434/currying-objective-c-methods

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6322367

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kulpreet in "Yahoo tops Google in US traffic"

kulpreet — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:08:24 +0000

I just finished a 10 week internship at Yahoo and while I can't say much about where the company is headed strategically, I can say that it's a super exciting time to be working there :)

New comment by kulpreet in "IOS Maps and China"

kulpreet — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:28:13 +0000

I noticed this over the summer when I was in Beijing/Shanghai with the iOS 6 beta. As soon as I got on the Chinese cell network, the maps suddenly changed to the AutoNavi maps, which although they turned out to be significantly more useful, they weren't vector-based maps and you couldn't rotate them like Apple maps. I also noticed a few other things like I no longer had access maps of any other country and after comparing the maps to the Google Maps in China on my locked iOS 5 phone, the AutoNavi maps were SIGNIFICANTLY more useful (and even saved me when I was lost one time).

After 2 Years Of Pivots, ShowMe Has 500,000 Lessons Being Added Every Month

kulpreet — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:15:31 +0000

Article URL: http://www.businessinsider.com/showme-adding-500000-lessons-per-month-2012-5/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3920121

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by kulpreet in "I want to go to college"

kulpreet — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:08:24 +0000

Thanks for the replies everyone. My main concern was that their courses are extremely rigorous and thus would consume a huge portion of time, possibly not leaving enough time to work on awesome side projects. Even still, I'm sure there are other opportunities. Will write a blog post on this soon.

New comment by kulpreet in "I want to go to college"

kulpreet — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:23:39 +0000

Thank you for this post. I recently got into MIT and have been torn and confused over whether or not it is worth going. All these anti-college posts on HN were not helping but this post shared some good perspective.

Gizmodo iPad HD Liveblog

kulpreet — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:27:13 +0000

Article URL: http://live.gizmodo.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3676212

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kulpreet in ""It's A Brick" - Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem"

kulpreet — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:52:27 +0000

While a lot of this accurate and something to consider, the author of this article fails to mention anything about Tesla's unique service/support model that they plan to roll out with the Model S. Tesla also mentions a "five-minute battery swap" available on their upcoming vehicles as well as "Tesla Rangers" that will come to your vehicle in the event that it dies. It seems to me like this is a small problem that the author is blowing out of proportion.

Stephen Colbert Weighs in on SOPA

kulpreet — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:00:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/403465/december-01-2011/stop-online-piracy-act

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3303682

Points: 8

# Comments: 3