skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because examiners are not incentivized toward accuracy, but volume. An examiner is in no way held to account for an overly broad patent grant, or at least wasn't when my father explained/ranted about it to me a few years ago (he's an IP attorney).

Things could have changed since we last spoke about it, though.
There is now an official english translation:
https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Exclusive-Spectre-NG-Multipl...

c't and heise are not known to make statements like this willy-nilly. If they say it's serious, I would assume it is indeed serious.
Would probably have considered it if you got a 12month subscription to pycharm. Otherwise you don't get their "perpetual fallback license"
Noice cancellation headset with decent leather muffs will also avoid the sweat problem, I’ve found. These are usually the > $250 models, however.
I don't, sorry, I think that's a false and very self serving equivocation.
I didn't hear the call but that article has a pretty clear agenda given how many shots it took. That was not a news story, it was a hit piece editorial. Furthermore only MarketWatch is reporting on it.
> You can't really design a perfect virus

Just design several good-enough viruses.
Young techies type faster, remember quicker, and have better eyesight. Older techies use experience to design systems that reduce the need for fast typing, top memory, and top eyesight.
Data could be placed into protected space. I think that a string literal in .text space could be exposed as a dynamic symbol.
Story time, as is often the case when "studies" talk about medical risks.

Couple years ago I started noticing these events, deja vu flashes, tingly right arm from the shoulder all the way down to my fingers, and then the inability to comprehend words for a few minutes. Never issues with coordination, because the first one I remember distinctly was riding a bike. Eventually was told they could be seizures, got an MRI and EEG and poof, there's a brain tumor, told was a DNET, in my left temporal lobe.

After issues with anti-seizure meds, which are really annoying with so many side effects, I went with surgery to get the tumor yanked with the hope of them snagging the part causing the seizures, which apparently aren't caused by the tumor itself. A few weeks after the surgery, I was called back and told the tumor wasn't a DNET as expected, but a low grade glioma. Not the GBM as talked about in the article, but a regrowth where I'm on the schedule of MRI every three months to check to see how if it's growing back yet.

I'm left handed, holding the phone to my left ear where the tumor was / is, which would fit along with what they're trying to show here. I'm 27 now, I never talked on the phone much, and I'm not going to sit here and try to find something to blame. Like casually mentioned at the end of the article, I'll go with saying it could be from "fallout from atomic bomb tests in the atmosphere", or, you know, bad luck.
Perhaps a framework for minimal effective documentation would help. Requiring documentation that starts with "As a {role} I want to {verb}" might not be as effective as saying an application can be defined as a set of features, and each feature is described by it's list of acceptance criteria -- each of which map to one or more unit tests. In addition to all of this would be something in free-form prose from a business operations person describing why a feature needs to be added or modified. "Our competition is kicking our ass because they have feature X in their product and we don't -- we need to fix this." I'm not sure every feature should have something that looks like a mission statement but it would certainly elucidate the motivation for adding/modifying the feature in question.
C++ still does multi-threading better than rust, just that go does it better. Similarly go does perf better than rust, just that cpp is even better. So yeah, if you want the worst of all worlds coupled with the pains associated with a brand new language (try compiling rust for a armv5 soc) rust all the way!
> may offer a unique perspective towards problems and solutions

This is my impression on why diversity generally works well. Unique perspectives and experiences often generate more original and creative approaches to some problem which in turn is much more valuable. Additionally, and especially for FAANGs, having the organizational awareness of a diverse set of perspectives allows you to create solutions that are broad and can adequately meet the inherent diversity in the world.

People often want to look at software engineering as this super technical line of work, but in practice it really isn't. How, What, and Why to engineer something varies significantly. Everyone will probably have a different approach to solving a problem. More diversity means a greater net to catch which one might be the most optimal.

Plus, you might want to create services or apps that specifically target a need. I would honestly question how well an app for women might be if is made by all men. I would question how well a app for rural living might be if it was made by people who only lived in a city. I would question how well an app designed for use in America might be for use in Africa. There are cultural differences and use differences, needs and wants, infrastructure, etc.

It would be assumed a highly diverse team would be much more suited to trying to solve those problems. And I would also believe that a highly diverse team would be the result of authentic merit based system anyways.
Check out entrepreneurial networking events in your area! Also, give Facebook groups a try, they're booming right now.
No.
That is at best a question of damages, not infringement.
Aerodynamics are aerodynamics, I'd argue it's an attempt to patent part of well-known physics.

Likewise, Tesla already has full windshield design in their other vehicles, and it's logical they'd extend that to other vehicles in their fleet of offerings.

On a side note, I don't know what patents Nikola has. They obviously don't have the brand recognition of Tesla and Elon Musk, and so they're clearly scared. I feel for them, however with the laws of economies of scale, in this day and age you aren't creating to support a whole ecosystem you won't be able to compete as efficiently.

Another side note, patents although seem to have some benefit, however it's arguable that they are holding back innovation and a higher quality of life for everyone - potentially suffocating innovation while extracting excess value from everyone, and funnelling money to those who already have the most money to invest to begin with.

It's obviously a difficult subject to navigate as we don't have an alternate system to compare to, well, except perhaps in part the ignoring of patents in China allowed their economy to boom.
In a sprint review recently I brought up the issue of, "Hi Phil." This is where someone IMs you with just "Hi Phil" and then you have to sit there and look at the "X is typing", "X is not typing" for 5 minutes.

I don't mind people asking a question, but just put it all on one line, "Hi Phil. This is the question..." That way I can sometimes just fire back a quick answer and it's not as distracting.

It makes sense too - you wouldn't walk up to someone, tap them on the shoulder and then make them wait before asking a question.
Can someone ELI5 the major challenges of delivering "broadcast quality" video over IP compared to cable? It seems crazy that pushing HD content over a standard aux cable is faster than downloading HD over IP. We have been pushing HD content to our TV's for 10+ years, but many people still have trouble streaming an HD movie from Netflix.

Is this simply due to the overhead of IP transport supporting bidirectional communication? That is, a TV broadcast only needs to support a fixed set of N unidirectional flows (channels), but IP needs to support a dynamic set of N bidirectional flows?
Up! Great one, thanks for reminding me of it.
It's really hard to play the system.

Here's someone who was signed off work for heart problems. He had to have an independent medical (because DWP doesn't believe doctors) before he could claim disability benefits.

During the independent medical he had a heart attack. The healthcare professional had to stop the assessment and call for an ambo. The ambo staff arrived, and took him to hospital.

To you or me this is proof that he wasn't faking his heart problems and he is genuinely ill.

To the DWP it's failure to complete an assessment, and he was sanctioned for this non-completion.

(Read the Debbie Abrahams comments here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm13... )

There are literally thousands of these.

So, while it's possible to defraud benefits it's not easy, and it's not common. It's certainly much tighter than it used to be in the 90s.
> It's not a reserved address

I know. That's why I wrote "tradition" instead of the RFC numbers. Way to miss my point though.
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Yeah that's what it looks like on Android Firefox too. Algolia powers HN search and it's always worked fine for me.
"Banks are usually quite bad at exposing that functionality to clients"

And here are those technologies properly exposed:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pt.sibs.androi...

Immediate transactions between individuals in the traditional banking system.
Bogus patents like this are granted constantly. Prior art usually only comes up when there's alleged infringement, when it's used to invalidate the patent.
Nothing in this article shows that mobile phones are the cause. Headphones, Bike helmets or avocado toast might be just as likely. Only thing for certain is that a particular type of tumor has increased.
Point taken. I don’t know if the SEC would care, seems possible, but you’re right, it hadn’t occurred to me anyone would deliberately under report R&D, there probably is latitude in that direction.
Before rushing to judgement (which is easy to do given just one reporter's perspective), it's a good idea to read Scott Alexander's experience with institutional review boards:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/
Wonder why they didn't use DPDK instead of rolling their own MLX specific thing.
I thought this was interesting given the rise of remote work and the belief that remote workers can be just as effective as in-office workers. My impression from working with remote workers is they can be effective, but there are additional frictions that occur with remote work since you can't as easily track down people you need to get a hold of and it's harder to hold people accountable and get them to deliver the things you need from them on time. So remote workers are slightly less effective than they would be locally, but this might be mitigated by getting higher quality workers overall.
I didn't know about that one, so thanks!

I was thinking of the horse figurine found in the Vogelherd cave: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogelherd_Cave
> If I am saving up for a Europe trip I want to add some value to a pot every month not gamble so i might make the trip in 2 or 20 years based on luck.

You'd most likely not save for this trip in gold.

> a farmer that sells his crop needs to insure he can buy fuel in 11 months for next harvest. Having a little more is nice, but having a little less is really bad.

Also I don't know any farmers using gold as a store while waiting for harvests.

Look at some the gold fluctuations here, mainly large double digit swings:

http://onlygold.com/Info/Historical-Gold-Prices.asp

Gold is less volatile due to multiple financial instruments allowing trading/hedging on top of it, millennia of usage as store of value and that governmental institutions also back it as a store of value. Even with all that said it still took dips and swings of:

2015: -11%
2013: -27.6%
2010: 30%

Those seem volatile.
"My original comment was based on the reading of the title of this thread and the first few sentences in the referenced article [...]"

"[...] when you don't take time to even read what is written."

Surely you see the irony here?
I know this probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but it might be worthwhile to maintain a parallel fork to enable these options for yourself/others. That way, folks that feel the same way you do can have their cake and eat it too. I realize that it's not an ideal solution though.
I answer my emails immediately it stops the calls. I prefer this.
Of course - that's why this "exposes their pricing model", which is charging for services.
A man is not usually at risk of any physical danger, though.
Just to note:
These are design patents, not utility patents.
They protect look and feel.
IE you'd only infringe by having a windshield that looks the same, not a windshield that does the same thing or operates the same way, but looked different than the protectable parts.
Even with custom allocators, this is old but may still be relevant:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/25cdar/im_a_ps4_xb...
>who had ever heard of 'Nikola' before this

They came up pretty regularly on HN months to a year ago. I would wager that among people who follow details of everything that happens in the EV industry the name is known.
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Thanks. No more post before coffee.
Thanks. Yes you are absolutely right. It is of course a JS library, but its API is full "HTML". So you only need to do things to your HTML to control it. Actually we think that the concepts of layerJS are pretty much in line with the HTML concepts esp. the box model. So maybe one day all this fitting and transitioning (==linking) will be natively supported by the browsers and then really no JS will be needed.

The video (actually an animation) had some trouble on safari where the container background was on top of the 3d elements. I hope its that one. This is hot-fixed right now

The chat window should actally open only after a minute. I know it can be a bit nasty but we need feedback (:
Ignoring the Great Firewall of China (2006) [pdf]
BBC R&D are participants in one: https://www.nmos.tv/about_NMI.html
I think, for most people, the damages are all that matter. Whether you are theoretically infringing on something is not what you lose sleep at night over. It's whether you're going to be sued and lose a lot of money.
Exactly - getting matched is a big problem, and is the main way that bookmakers are able to prohibit winners. Most people in the UK have had their stakes limited after a couple of winners, and it's almost become a joke.

Betfair and other exchanges provide more opportunity, but if your Kelly output is telling you to put £5k on a horse on a Tuesday evening AW track race, you are going to have to spend some time thinking about how you _actually_ do that without having the odds spiral in: markets respond to liquidity, and you are liquidity.

There are some papers on how to deal with this, but none of them have a solid answer. My solution was to put in the amount Kelly advised and if I didn't get fully matched, c'est la vie!
"Gres" isn't a word; I don't understand why you abbreviate PostgreSQL as "PG".
Slack at least tries to use platform notifications so you can use your OS' Quiet Hours / Focus Assist tools for immediate help with it.
These are design patents, not utility patents.
It's not a patent on all wrapped windshields, it's a patent on windshields that look like nikola's. The fact that someone somewhere made wrapped windshields once is irrelevant here (but would not be in utility patents)

To use a slightly crappy analogy, it's like patenting your ui, not your algorithm.
Was that employee Mark Zuckerberg?
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Regarding appts
regarding commentary about use of fuck word..
who cares...also americans have no problem discussing bathroom habits and vomiting i find these disgusting
I disagree with people who think Rust is a savior, but it does have plenty of advantages in some areas over C and C++, especially for novices.
"Specially designed for two-men or husband and wife teams"

I just wish someone would design a truck that two women could drive as a team. That would be a truly revolutionary design! /s
can you post a screenshot at developers@layerjs.org? and which device are you using? Thx!
Got a good laugh out of me. Upvoted. We'll probably both get downvoted though.
Definitely invest in a business idea of your own. Alternatively, invest in real estate.
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We do this, with Mondays and Fridays being commit/celebrate days respectively (work still gets done on those days but the meetings that set/review the sprint goals are held on them), and the three middle days of the week being "focus" days. It's worked well for us so far.
It's only "half the price" if you ignore the cost of Confluence itself. The Atlassian people are also historically awful at building out features that make hosting their products easier (for example, they've ignored a request for a "read only" mode for about 12 years now [1]).

The simple fact that it is a product that is made by someone other than Atlassian is a huge selling point.

[1] https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-6390?page=com.a...
Not when you can get funded to make an app that implements AI and ML to create a sorted message queue that increase business resiliency in agile environments. In all seriousness I'm looking forward for the announcement from a startup that boils down to "We made email again"
Also. live TV. Live feeds over IP have always had their issues. Slight delays, even the concept of buffering, is not acceptable. Packets have to come in and out of the system at roughly the speed of light. Any drop of anything will be seen on screens. Parity can help, but that requires processing that is very difficult in the acceptable timeframe. A typical TV studio could have 20 different live feeds coming in and four or five going out. They need to switch between and/or layer any number of these instantly and seamlessly. The bandwidth demands quickly become insane.

Remember too that the feed will transit over many different IP-based systems. A seemingly acceptable delay on one system, a few microseconds here and there, adds up or multiplies as data streams between equipment.
As you said, broadcast is usually done with IP multicast, so it's not really bandwidth intensive. The netflix example is different, there you have a large group of people who all want different streams. At netflix's scale serving that many simultaneous connections from any reasonable amount of datacenters has the capability to saturate DC uplinks at peak hours. Hence why they've resorted to caching appliances in IXs.
Not exactly. This is about how to pass video between interoperable machines.

Traditionally within a broadcast house, video+audio was sent between machines using HD-SDI using BNC coax[1]. For the first generation of HD, this ran at 1.5Gb/s. For 1080p/59.94Hz, a new standard was developed to run at 3Gb/s. For 4K at 59.94Hz, there is a 12Gb/s standard.

HD-SDI routers are extremely expensive. Each input and output from a device has to be individually cabled to a router and some devices can have many dozens of I/Os. There has been a push to switch from using ridiculous numbers of cables to using IP solutions and off-the-shelf IP routers. SMPTE 2110 provides a framework for doing this using RTP [2].

4K needs roughly 12Gb/s, so to carry a single video, you need at least 25Gb/s networking. If you want to carry many signals, the network bandwidth goes up fast -- that's why BBC is interested in 100Gb/s links.

Also keep in mind the traffic is not "bursty". These links may be nearly saturated 24/7. Most off-the-shelf routers are not designed with enough buffering to handle fully saturated links on all connectors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_digital_interface

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE_2022 (older IP standard)
Reuters is covering it too. It's on the front page of Yahoo Finance.

"The price of Musk cutting off analysts? For Tesla, it's $2 billion"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/price-cutting-off-analysts-te...

> In a note titled "The Importance of 'Boring' Questions," Morgan Stanley's Jonas called into question Tesla's financial standing.

> "While they may be 'dry' in nature, we argue such questions are extremely important for a highly-levered and cash-hungry company," Jonas said.

> Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas said it was the most unusual call he had heard in 20 years in the business.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-stock-takes-hit-elon-13...
It’s time to end government handouts for corn farmers
I mean, it makes some sense if there was a big bang X years ago, that everything ends up withing X lightyears of each other.

I find it easy enough to think of there being a beginning, since we know that stars age, and use up energy, so they can't have been running forever.

Since we think the big bang was 13.7 billion years ago, we can put Y at about 2*13.7 billion light years across as a first guess. Though there's something funkey with the spacetime stretching or whatever. So maybe more.
yw :)
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I'm 30 and feel like I've been in decline for at least 6 years. I used to be open to new ideas and techniques; now I'm so confident I know what works that I usually can't even bring myself to consider the alternatives. I used to be able to hold the whole system in my head and change things fearlessly; now I rely on the types to do that for me and check in an embarrassingly high number of errors whenever I try to work in Python (a language I used to be very productive in).

Perhaps our industry moves so fast that experience genuinely is a net negative?
not necesarily to broadcast television, but to produce it. Rather than having to buy expensive bespoke hardware to fit a TV studio, what happens if it was just software running on a bunch of servers (maybe in a cloud)? This is the background of the project: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/ip-studio
> Oh, and on some random guy’s laptop, with a panel of 4 people watching me type as they sit in silence, and with 20 minutes remaining.

That part, to me, is worse then the question. Are you exaggerating, or did the panel really just sit there and watch you? If so, can you say which company so people know to avoid?
How the side door is patentable is beyond me. Apparently trucks have never had side doors before.

The others just look generically futuristic & maybe aerodynamic versions of a current semi.
not intentionally. It's scrolling inside a div and not on the body. So the reason must be somewhere there. I have to look into it.
Were it not for another tech news site, I'd have no idea that it had happened.

Seems a bit crazy to try to disappear news about this sort of thing to me.
But us logical people cannot resist fixing lack of logic. It's in our bones. By "logic" I mean that our arguments are based on an explicit line of reasoning that we can articulate. When people ignore logic and trust their own or someone else's vague intuition instead, us logical people get a mental rash.
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The fossil fuel issue is solely an issue with Bitcoin's proof of work algorithm.

There are alternatives that use virtually no energy compared with proof of work, like proof of stake, which is being implemented on Ethereum.
Not sure I agree with all the doom and gloom but you make some good points.

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I 100% agree on the speed here. I thought it was just my inability to self host Atlassian products. I tried Atlassian OnDemand and the performance was actually worse compared to self hosting.

I legitimately don’t know if I’m just bad a “tuning” their stuff, but JIRA and Confluence in particular were nothing short of miserable to use daily. Bamboo was great, but it had a lot less daily interaction than JIRA, for obvious reasons.
The problem is just 1 or 2 or even 10 people washing ashore on an island wouldn't be enough genetic diversity to sustain a population.
100% agreed. 18 y/o me was an idiot; i'd have done thing significantly differently.