skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may fall under the definition of "established business relationship". If you have purchased or transacted with a business within the past 18 months then there is a relationship between you and the business, under the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule (US law only - EU mileage may vary).
It's worth noting that patents cover a particular method and not its result.

If the method would work in general, then yes, the inventor with the patent can wield them against anyone who implements that method - even if the inventor wasn't able to build the apparatus due to expense or difficulty; that's part of the original goal of patents, so that the inventor can fundraise for building the device without the funders just building it themselves after being convinced that it will work.

If the method is bullshit and can't be used to achieve the intended goal, then the patent can't be used against someone who succeeds, since they would succeed with a substantially different method that's not covered by the patent.
Pasting block quote for mobile users:

"Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore profit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there."
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - Chapter 11
(translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English)

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(YC people: it is very telling that you can't find the will/resources to fix this blockquote on mobile problem. I would say it is damning of the whole ethos of YC/HN, in fact, but I'm marginal.)
That site does work great with WSJ.
>Yeah, AR is going to find it’s first killer application in the next year or two.

My money is on something like Nexar [0]. AR enhanced driving is going to save commercial fleet operators incredible amounts of money while we're still reliant on human drivers. Real level 3+ autonomy is still years away, but AR HUDs are going to be huge very soon, and the mapping data they collect will build the basis for those autonomous systems. MapBox just released their new Vision SDK that does deep learning based AR locally on mobile devices that is going to have some amazing applications too [1].

[0] https://www.getnexar.com

[1] https://blog.mapbox.com/vision-sdk-d47486656821
No, something that has multiple parts -- "g" (i.e. not requiring demonstrating external domain knowledge already known before the test), tests of domain expertise in whatever common body of knowledge a university wants, and a section which demonstrates previous effort to study/prepare. All 3 of these are worth knowing independently -- for some degrees programs, IQ alone would likely be sufficient. For others, a moderate level of IQ and a high level of willingness to study. For short certificate type programs, showing extensive pre-existing knowledge could be a big factor.
It's worth noting that remaining unmarried, in that era, was itself a pretty loud social signal.
I just recently learned about the parole system in the US, do I understand it correctly, that he wouldnt be allowed to leave the country until the 20 years are up?
Interesting this is on the front page, yet no comments. I'm very curious as to others thoughts. We are about to start a new react native app and are considering flutter. It will be webrtc based also. Extensive experienced design team, but no dart experience. Any thoughts?
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This is largely in part to the same reason New York's subways are stuck in the 20th century: Unions. While they serve a vital function to prevent labor abuse, nowadays they are abused to prevent innovation.
> Again, if you know what you're doing, it's pretty easy to tell tell the difference. ... The counterfeit listing is actually more convincing than most, but wait, "sold by suiningdonghanjiaju Co Ltd?" Hmm.

What you apparently don't understand is that Amazon co-mingles inventory from everyone who ships them a particular product.

It doesn't matter if you buy an "Apple USB Power Adapter" from Amazon, Apple, or Shady McCounterfeiters. You get a random sample from the same pool of goods. And that pool of goods often contains counterfeit products (in this particular case, about 90% are counterfeit).
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that. Seems like it's 3h 55m now; when I did it was at least six hours, I think.

I hope you don't miss out on seeing the incredibly scenic Bavarian landscapes and villages. I could do without looking at the mostly industrial landscape further up north though.
What makes you say Australia is arguably the most backward-looking rich Western country?
Seems to have no usable documentation and the github repo has basically no activity in a long time
While automation is removing some jobs, we are far from a fully automated society. I obviously don't know about the specific job markets where your data centers are, but in general, the ones having the hardest time finding a job aren't the ones with years of work experience in running data centers.

They might have to retrain and if they live in a small town they might have to move/commute to find something new however. This can be hard enough for some people that they won't be happy about it.

In the end, I think it's hard to argue that we should keep being inefficient just to save jobs. History haven't been nice to that kind of companies.
Perhaps you've just forgotten.
Some are working on truck loading/unloading, like this company:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS0Rcgh9-Qw

It's probably just a matter of time.
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This doesn't answer your question, but in England all trusts who perform rapid tranquillisation (mostly mental health trusts) need to have a policy. You can see some of them here.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?source=hp&q=rapid+tranquilli...

These are bureaucratic documents aimed at NHS managers and external auditors so they're full of jargon but some things to note are:

1) They often talk about the impact on SUs of rapid tranquillisation

2) They talk of the need to reduce and prevent it where possible, and link to external auditors (CQC) or national guidance.

3) They mention NHSLA (NHS litigation authority, the organisation that funds malpractice lawsuits) because RT sometimes causes death or other long lasting harm.

The other sources of information are NICE and Royal College of Psychiatry.

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/RT%20Algorithym%20(2).pdf

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng10

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs154

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs14

In England regulation of individual healthcare professionals is the GMC for doctors, the NMC for nurses and midwives, and the HCPC for everyone else.

The HCPC standards of practice are here: https://www.hcpc-uk.org/aboutregistration/standards/standard...

On top of those all HCPs will be expected to know and follow law.

There are some worrying interactions between English police and health care professionals, mostly around misuse of "lack of capacity" (but without using the Mental Capacity Act) or misuse of the Mental Health Act (eg misusing S136).
Somebody has to do the legwork to dig up problems. That's what journalists are for, so it's not surprising a journalist found it. There are "obvious" problems everywhere that nobody has found because nobody has looked. Such as bugs in open source software or a recent case in New Zealand where the government misread a report and gave incorrect advice about save levels of meth in houses occupied by meth users. That mistake created a whole industry of meth testers and decontaminators for something which suddenly turned out to be harmless after-all. Government housing tenants were forced out of their houses and made to pay the cost of decontamination. Landlords lost money having to clean up "dangerous" contamination - which could cost $10,000s to replace plasterboard but still nobody checked the source of that guidance to find the mistake.
CodePush was the main reason why our team went with React Native instead of Flutter. Being able to push bug fixes to all of our users in real time is incredible.
They said Austria, not Australia.

Two itty bitty letters difference, thousands of miles apart.
> One example of this was the bet we took on Mexico seven years ago; VCs thought we were nuts because they only followed headlines talking about drug violence and hadn't kept up on rising household wealth and engineering+design talent. We had very little competition in finding the best deals in the country and those deals are now ripening - one is up 300x.

It partially comes from discomfort of operating in foreign markets. Developing countries generally also offer an additional risk premium if you get it right (because there is unnecessary bureaucracy, corruption, etc etc)

As an example: I'm European. I think certain countries in Eastern Europe have particular investment opportunities that are super interesting (e.g. Ukraine) but I don't speak much Russian or Ukrainian and I don't fully understand the legal framework.

Even with good lawyers it is hard to go into a developing market you aren't at home in and don't understand and invest well.
Amazon shipping doesn't have to grow into a dominant position. All it needs to be is a big enough threat that they can negotiate better rates with outside parties.
yes they were.. found it

https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-inc-s-partners-in-bloo...
The blockquotes are fine. It’s for code, not quotes. And they have better things to focus on.
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Retrain them in AWS, devops, or something that has similar need, versus hiring from outside.
I really think the worst thing you could do is continue to run the business in an inefficient manner. Improving technology and as a result efficiency is the reason we have advanced so much as a species.

However, you don't need to be callous in your pursuit of efficiency. You should try to give these people an opportunity to update their skills and get a new position. You might not be in a position to do that however.
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How do the writers of the articles get paid if everyone bypasses paywalls? They aren’t like musicians that make most of their money touring and their recorded music is more of a show-marketing tool. Most writers are almost anonymous.

I’m just having a hard time understanding the ethics of this.
People downvote for the stupidest reasons anymore. It will be the death of good, well thought out but not conformist commentary and become a boring monoculture, just like everywhere else. I'm getting in the habit of looking for stupid downvotes and upvote. I wager at least 2 for this comment.
No pictures of what the tool looks like in the sales page?
Yeah it's a ridiculous waste of money to infringe on others' rights.
These things do not belong in Firefox.

Firefox should be a standalone web browser that focuses on security, privacy, efficiency, and customization. Not Chome+Social Media 2.0.
> As the pedant will note, neither Newton nor Heisenberg actually allow "non-invasive" power monitors.

Assuming one is not using superconducting power cables, the wire should heat up due to resistive heating, and the rate of heating should depend on the current.

Couldn't we non-intrusively monitor this heating via IR, and from this infer the power usage?
From the UK regulator, the company may be able to use "legitimate interests" to send marketing mail.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

GDPR does not force consent, even for marketing. And if it's not legal under GDPR it was probably already illegal for the past 15 years under PECR.
The crisis that Hossenfelder is addressing is that there has been no significant progress that's been experimentally verified in fundamental physics since the birth of string theory in the 1980s. Yes, there are a lot of big open problems, but they remain open. Yes, we have recently found experimental evidence for things like the Higgs boson, but that was first predicted in the 1960s. Yes, we can rule out some versions of string theory thanks to LHC results, but there are a vast multitude of string theories, and that's not a lot to show for nearly 40 years.
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I don't think that's really true, in the sense of signaling homosexuality, even if being single was very slightly risqué.
No, it's not the same structure as a Bloom filter without empty slots. It's the same structure as a Bloom filter with only one hash function. Bloom filters use multiple.
No opinions, just facts:

So, what's wrong with SBT?
http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html

But there's hope: https://www.lihaoyi.com/mill/
Few of them run major criminal operations. Hence the presumption of safety when traveling to "safe and civilized" countries.
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It seems to me that this article is concentrating on the wrong thing. The biggest problem in the incidents in question is not misbehavior by police; it is misbehavior by EMS workers.

Consider: a police officer and an EMS worker are dealing with someone who is difficult to subdue. The police officer -- who does not have the expertise to know whether it is a good idea -- requests that the person be injected with ketamine. The EMS worker -- who does have the expertise -- does so, knowing that it is a bad idea.

What most needs to change here is the EMS system.

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EDIT. I guess I mean to say that the people involved here (as opposed to the article) are concentrating on the wrong thing. The police are the ones that have changed their policies. But it seems to be the EMS system that has the more serious problem.
Async-Await = Generators + Promises
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human error is a bitch. happens all the time and cant really blame people. happens to everyone unfortunately but costs a lot.
I remember the hoopla about SOAP web services when they were still emerging. Lots of promise, eventually they had their place and now pretty much bygone.

I feel the same about serverless. It just doesn't feel like it's really going to change things in a big way, but seems it will get some traction.

WDYT?
Or they could do the socially correct thing and not automate.

Or, all that automation is just vaporware outside of marketing demos and the unions will be fine.
The article is really long so I've just skimmed over it, but overall I think the biggest change is the non-ad-driveness of Netflix. When I recall, how I've spent 15 minutes watching ads, for each 45 minutes of movie-time, I'm really horrified how anybody could waste their time like that. (and people still do)

At the same time, I think this encourages higher-quality content overall, because in standard television, the product are ad-views. You put up content only so that people watch the ads. Like clickbait articles in the internet. This is especially so, as people got used to the formula of the television dictating when to watch your movies.

Here they give you quality content, because the subscription payment is the actual value for them, and they know they'll lose it if you don't put up good enough content. (to keep up the analogy, it's like subscription based online magazines like NYT or nautilus, the content differs diametrically)

On another note, I really like the data driven approach described here. The metric of people turning off an episode of a series midways, without ever coming back to it.
None of those places have anywhere near Bar Area salaries: London, by far the city with the highest salaries in the West outside of the US, has salaries that are 70% of the ones you'd get in California before counting a significant amount of extra income and sales taxes and almost similarly ridicolous housing.

On the other hand, the private insurance in the UK that's usually included in big tech companies' work is absolutely top-notch.
Dude's OPSEC game was pretty weak. If you're going to do stuff that could get you imprisoned for life, you'd think you would be more thorough.
None of what you say contradicts that HEP Theory is in a crisis. That word was thrown around before the LHC confirmed the Standard Model, it's become more acute since.

The crisis is that the foundational ideas about how to make progress in physics: Elegance, beauty, naturalness, symmetries... are not yeilding any insights on the questions you raise. And yet CERN still argues that HL-LHC is important for detecting supersymmetry in their press release today.

The technical core of Hossenfelders argument is here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02176
As sibling comments have pointed out, you don't necessarily have to flood the market; but there are price regimes where it would make economic sense to do so.

Suppose it costs a terrestrial mining company $1000/ton to extract a material, and the price is $1005/ton, and you can bring the same metal down from space for $100/ton, and sell at $110/ton. Under this set of facts you can make a better margin than the terrestrial miners make, take over the whole market, and everybody except the terrestrial miners will be better off.

Your only competitors would be other space miners, and the capex/research investment required to set up a space mining operation would constitute a significant moat (though certainly not a permanent one).

Who knows if these hypotheticals are remotely close to how this will play out, but I think this is an interesting scenario.
The dilemma of intolerance is that tolerating intolerance makes you intolerant.

Some forms of intolerance: believing in gender superiority, a caste system, exceptionalism based on ethnicity or country of origin. If you believe in those things, you might have a tolerance problem, no matter where you are from.

I try to be as tolerant as possible, and do not have negative views against immigration. But if you are intolerant I will have a hard time getting along if you openly express those views or if you apply those at work.
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Amazon is already there. This article talked about sorting centers. Amazon has already got a few tens of those.
I didn't see any "harsh language" or "railing" in the article. It had a definite point of view, but it was mostly pretty descriptive about an interesting historical sub-culture.

"Hard science" journal articles often have a clear point of view too. I would be not surprised if an article about industrial environmental damage in Nature had a "certain political viewpoint" that such damage was bad, and we should avoid or mitigate it.
Odds are high that the anticipated cost savings sits largely on the folks they intend to sack, rather than on any power/real estate/bandwidth/hardware savings.
If most work is done by two people why pay more than $200K/year for any open source software
So all those US sites are just ignorant? They didn’t have lawyers actually advising them? They just unilaterally shut off access to millions of people out of an abundance of caution? “Unfounded panic” isn’t a business strategy and any non-trivial business is going to operate from legal advice. Obviously, the risk is real enough: the threat of 5% of global earnings is a pretty big incentive to be extremely cautious when dealing with an EU that has a huge financial incentive to go after large American companies.

I wouldn’t run my business with the “hope” that regulators are benevolent. If the media publishes a story critical of a country’s government, what’s to stop them from using GDPR as the basis for a very expensive witchhunt? Even if you have done everything correctly, there is still a significant compliance risk.

It isn’t the compliance itself that is problematic — it’s the compliance risk you subject yourself to when serving Europe. Given most news organizations are hanging by a thread financially, one bit of back luck from an aggressive regulator could destroy the business.

It’s the same reason many European banks have refused to service American customers: the FATCA compliance risk.
That's what Lemelson did with his submarine patents; it made him a lot of money.
Hell, even when traveling domestically to other states you should ask that question and research where you're going.
Oh, oops, sorry. Thanks for pointing that out. Probably need more sleep.
An old idea I’d love to see come back would be the mashup. There was a moment where it appeared possible that all the ‘next big things’ would be built using a mix of services. Gmail mixed with Facebook chat mixed with RSS feeds all overlayed on a Yahoo Map with contextual YouTube pops. In the end all we really got were Google Maps next to physical addresses on websites, social share buttons, and Facebook Logins. (I know there are more but wide adoption is scant).

It would be killer to see a collection of micro-mashable services emerge to expose data, manipulation, visualization, sharing and interactivity (and probably billing).

It should, for example, take a day to build a page that lets you analyze real estate deals based on proximity to McDonalds locations, crime events, R v D political donations, and mentions (or lack of mentions) of Kanye West by local Social Media users.

By the way, I’m not saying this is a good idea, it is probably a bad idea. I’m just saying ideas like this should be almost as easy to hack together as a formatted blog post.
The system needs to know its limitations and divert packages that cannot be handled automatically to manual handling.

It is too complicated to design a system that handles 100% of cases, better aim for like 90% with well integrated fallback for the edgecases.
> if running a criminal enterprise, be careful where you go.

More specifically, and more commonly, if you have or will break local laws in a country, be careful of visiting there.

In some locations, that means don't be gay, or don't be a women out of a specific outfit, etc.
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I tried it a few years ago and found a lot of stuff quite confusing.

Emacs does a lot of stuff better than Vim, but Vim is more than "good enough" for me, and it's not really worth the time/effort to learn a lot of stuff over again.
While I could never watch ad interrupted media again, some of the stuff on Netflix runs longer than it should either to pad their statistics for how much media they have or to focus on product placement shots. There's a balance, and it can swing into the "make something drag on" longer than it should territory too. But it's still way better than the old TV model.
It's context switching, I face this daily due to my OCD. The damn doorways are always a problem.

I'm not very well versed on this subject, but have there been any experiments conducted with a doorway in the middle of a basketball court or a field?

I'm sure that would mess me up for a good couple of minutes as well. It's not just doorways that lead to a different room, it's just the fact that there's a doorway present, that changes my context of things.

Maybe I'm the weird one.
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> Patents are really hard to read

There are a few patents that I've found informative and useful to read: Texas Instruments' calculator patents from the 1970s, the ENIAC patent, Astrolite, and Autotune. These are the rare patents where they actually explain things in detail, it reads like it was mostly written by an engineer rather than lawyers, and I know more after reading the patent than before. (Just want to give some recognition to the rare non-awful patent.)

Edit: I looked at a few of the Holmes patents. I'd put them in the awful category. Hundreds of pages of worthless discussion, followed by claims that are semi-incomprehensible, seem obvious, and have little to do with the earlier hundreds of pages. They have lots of nice graphs and diagrams though.