skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1) Patents enable "benevolent monopolies." Companies that can afford to splurge on fundamental research because they have a revenue source protected by some sort of barrier to entry or network effect.

The value in "benevolent monopolies" isn't the revenue source. Money is fungible. If there is something worth investing in, it will attract VC money. And if a company has revenue from a monopoly, they could just as easily invest it in real estate or the S&P 500 as their own industry.

The value of a monopoly is that it excludes free riders from improvements. The best example of this was Ma Bell and Bell Labs. If you can improve the phone network, e.g. with lasers (fiber optics), or information theory (data compression), or transistors (microprocessors), then you can invest in those things and capture the benefits directly without incurring a competitive cost disadvantage, because you have no competitors.

But the AT&T monopoly wasn't due to a patent. They never expected their monopoly to expire as patents do. The patent monopoly isn't designed to be long enough to engage in this kind of behavior in general. Which is why we see this much more often in monopolists whose monopolies aren't derived primarily from patents -- AT&T, Microsoft, Google, etc.

And the other side of it is that you're excluding the whole rest of the world from making improvements. You have to buy your phone from AT&T. No modems, no iPhones, no third party ISPs or open internet. Just the original monopoly extended into everything it touches, with all the deficits that make monopolies terrible.

That this is a net-negative is the reason we have antitrust laws.

> 2) Patents enable business models that separate design from production.

The simple version of this where you have a core design but not a fab is solved by having the fab you use sign an NDA, or you can sell the secret to the implementer outright. The version where you design part of the core and someone else improves on it or you have multiple customers is really this:

> 3) Patents enable technology sharing. Dozens of different companies have technology that is included in DVD, Blu-Ray, 2G/3G/4G, Wi-Fi, etc.

The counterargument is that it's difficult to keep a lot of these things secret. And there are reasons to enter into technology sharing agreements independent of patents, like the network effects of interoperability. You want your movies to play on every customer's DVD player and your phone to work on every carrier's network.

The patented technology sharing cartels are also currently used to exclude new entrants to the market, or impose unrelated conditions like requiring all DVD player manufacturers to not let customers skip particular ads as a condition of the patent license.

The best case to be made for patents is that they prevent free riding. But that's maybe the biggest problem with the existing patent system -- independent reinvention is not free riding but is patent infringement. Which is the root of all patent trolling.
Thank you. The difference between my differences and your differences are an intellectual construct. You can't make comparisons saying someone is doing identically the same problem you have with them unless you actually literally become them identically and can then make the comparison.
I would assume Clear Containers[1] are more lightweight solution, and they also leverage KVM/Qemu for isolation purposes.

[1] https://github.com/clearcontainers/runtime
There have been hundreds of ICOs and some of them are actually trying to make an interesting product. I'm guessing this one is above average though the return has been unspecatcular. It says 1.08x on the website in USD terms.

Zil is an example of one building something with a real purpose and non trivial technology - a sharded blockchain that should be able to scale indefinitely which is up 20x in USD. Built by university researchers rather than obvious scammers https://icodrops.com/zilliqa/

There are some interesting things out there amongst the silliness.
Yes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvEZME5ewqA

From memory it's gigapixel streaming textures with a normal map from dense photogrammetry data
And I've just found out you can get a version of Office for chrome OS. So Yeh, they are way ahead of you.
The technique has been used against other species of insects since ~1950.

There should be a horror story by now.
Holy Shit. I would have guessed 400 or so, following the news a couple years ago of Project Titan shuttering plans to manufacture their own vehicle and focus just on autonomy.

I'm not exactly sure how one would keep 5,000 people busy. They've only got 50-something vehicles actively testing on California's roads, thought they could very well have more somewhere else.

It's hard to figure out how many people Waymo currently employs, but but they had around 600 in 2015. I also know they subcontract out remote guidance, data annotation, and map-making to third parties.

But 5000? Wow. They must still be serious about making their own car. wow.
I don't see what the problem is if the for-profit companies goals align with theirs.
I guess the thing I don't understand is if you do this for some parts and not others (caps and resistors) how do you not smear their solder paste
"Repeatedly" is from your perspective and demonstrates your need to control things without actually working those things out through proper communication.

Why do you want people to change? Why is that your designation as your identity? What gives you that right?

I don't have answers for you in your life because I don't know you. But throwing out general advice to people without actually having the compassion to allow them to understand just demonstrates that you have insecurities too, and are just as unwilling to work through the really really fucking hard stuff because you can't take the time to understand the way the people you direct understand things.
This is a classic case of not understanding micro services and trying to fit a problem around a tool.

This sentence needs to be repeated for everything on the 'wrong end' of the hype curve.

This is a classic case of not understanding NoSQL and trying to fit a problem around a tool.

This is a classic case of not understanding OOP and trying to fit a problem around a tool.

This is a classic case of not understanding dynamic typing and trying to fit a problem around a tool.
This headline is weird. I thought it was going to be about doing computations client side since it says "serverless", but what they mean is "without a dedicated instance running all the time" (about halfway through the article, I figured out what "lambdas" are in this context).

So if there goes so much effort into calculating costs for PBKDF2 on servers (ahem, "serverless"), why not move it to the client side? I like client side hashing a lot because it transparently shows what security you apply, and any passive or after-the-fact attacks (think 1024 bit encryption decryption which will slowly move from 'impossible for small governments' to 'just very slow' soon) are instantly mitigated. The server should still apply a single round of their favorite hash function (like SHA-2) with a secret value, so an attacker will not be able to log in with stolen database credentials.

But that's probably too cheap and transparent when you can also do it with a Lambda™.
In case anybody is reading this post and wants an idea of how to get started with the basics of logic programming (upon which one might build toy constraint solvers) I recommend this:

https://codon.com/hello-declarative-world#programming-paradi...
If it's not sterile, it's just a regular mosquito, of which they already have plenty in Australia...
The low hanging-fruit of longevity has been picked by modern science and technology.

Socrates lived to 71. Meanwhile today NPR reported that rubbish pickers in Mumbai live on average to 39.
> ...which means there's no incentive to develop truly fast bikes.

UCI compliant bikes are "fast enough" for the sport and have many practical considerations in addition to normalizing design features.

It really is mostly about the training, the athletes and the teams.

In cycling, performance is result of the combination of many factors of which equipment is but one.
That's because the PTO is granting garbage patents, even in the case of legitimately patentable inventions. It a main problem with patents today (along with the lifetime of a patent which was originally chosen during a much slower time for humanity's intellectual advancement).
A California mall operator is sharing license plate tracking data with ICE
This is only going to get worse. I see literally no counter force putting any kind of barrier against the incentive to e.g. overfit in order to get exaggerated results. The lucrative reward is too large not to fall for the use of shady tactics (which are sometimes not even consciously obvious; not being critical enough of your own work is a form of model loosening which acts in favour of more impressive results).
An Intriguing Failing of Convolutional Neural Networks
Yea it does. But if you fraud multiple companies you're increasing the odds one will detect you.

This is why companies don't rely only on their own data, they do credit checks, and buy data from third parties.
A frugal engineer on an $98k adjusted salary can pretty easily make $10M over a 45 year career. Not accounting for huge windfalls from stock, etc.

The median salary for an electrical engineer was $97,970 [0]. If you invest $50k/year at 6% return you get $10M in 45 years.

Of course this requires pretty massive discipline. But it’s easy in the sense that if you go to a good stem school, get a job and keep it, and don’t get sick, anyone can do it.

Of course 6% is super conservative as the total return of the s&p over 90 years is 9.8% [1]. If was you could get that rate somehow, you only have to save $15k/year.

Of course this is really hard in the sense of willpower, discipline, etc. And there’s certainly bad luck that make it not 100% certain, but it’s an open path to anyone in America (and other countries). Even for $10M.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/mobile/...
[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...
Polar,  as Strave has been hacked
Ask HN: Proven workflow for maintenance contracts?
I'm overseeing an agency team who manage several webdev client accounts with ongoing support retainer contracts, all in a relatively similar tech stack and vertical. I'm working on optimizing our workflow with our project managers.

The tasks vary quite a bit and range from very minor cosmetic fixes, to resolving critical issues, to larger tracks of development.

This is my second time giving oversight in this scenario and I still feel as though I haven't seen a best practice for 2 core issues:

1) The correct way to triage tickets from many clients, with varying complexities, across the team.

2) Preventing developer burnout. The work doesn't involve a lot of innovation, mostly changing or fixing things, but some of it needs a pretty experienced developer to resolve. And the tasks often need quick turnaround time.

I feel like this is maybe a solved problem in other industries, but I have yet to be able to find a good resource on the best approach for web dev. Any tips?
The short answer is no, the internet doesn't have any centralized authority to kick people off, or even to set rules, let alone monitor or enforce them. Each Autonomous System has the autonomy to set its own rules for who it connects to.
> I find that this article leaves the main question unanswered: what happened to just building a JAR?

What happened is that the world has turned polyglot. Many of the things that Java pioneered in the wider industry have been resupplied in different places at different levels of the stack.

Containerisation essentially creates uniformity for a lot of workflows. While Java has addressed all these concerns itself for a long time, the overhead of two build chains, two admin toolkits, two registries etc etc becomes increasingly onerous.

Some folks will have a 100% Java mandate. This project is not for them.

Others will have a 100% containers mandate. This project is for them.
Too many human lives are lost directly due to this species. I'm willing to bear the risk of adverse consequences, if any are found.
Assuming they are like some flies that has been eradicated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique , the population would bounce back in a few years. You must repeat the treatment next year lower the population to the 5% of the initial population, and repeat the treatment the next year to reduce it to the 1% and repeat it a few years to reduce each time the population until it is completely eradicated. And then a few times to be sure.

And later implement some kind of check to avoid the reintroduction. Some countries that have a nice natural barrier have checks to avoid the introduction of fruit that may have flies larva. With mosquito, I'm not sure how the larva can travel from one country to another...
You should only hire those who are interested by what they do. The others are bad and won't be productive.

If you can't evaluate if you can trust someone (for something), how can your business be successful? Relationships are everything in trade.

Embrace the risk and pick someone. The one you trust the more.
Thats how all invention works. Scaled up versions of existing tech.
Hey,

Love the idea! I've also tried for the first time escaping European winter and working remotely from Thailand. Now I've actually quit my job and as a maker (carpentry, electronics) I'm fascinated by the communities that are formed on platforms like this and workaway.

I'm definitely going to try this out.

One question that pops up, is this for temporary periods, i.e. a couple of months?
I don't know a single Arch Linux user who doesn't check the PKGBUILD of the packages they get from AUR.
Who would be in charge of the moderation?

This very article describes the closest thing to that: NANOG is a collection of network operators, and they communicate with each other about the overall state and coordination of "the internet", which realistically is just "the total set of a lot of network operators agreeing to connect to each other".

Domain registration and DNS have much more centralization because there exists a root entity for the entire (public) system and an owner of each TLD: if an entity wants to remove example.com from existence, they can go to the .com operator and attempt to compel them to do that. For IP routing, you're talking about BGP between a vast number of different entities. By design, traffic can route a variety of ways between each point.
Google have also done work on the more general idea of "read dependencies to layout containers", under the title FTL. I would give you a link but it is a maddeningly ungoogleable name.
See also: user-mode Linux. I think it's a good idea but it's not really maintained and never really worked well as far as I know.

Google is also working on a shim that intercepts system calls in userspace to simulate having more priveledges.

But user mode Linux is a real full kernel!
YES. Absolutely yes. I _hated_ this aspect of working with AWS. Also, documentation always came off as "generic" and "wordy" without being "useful" - a huge, huge article that might have the tiny sliver you need in it, or perhaps one of its dozens of sister articles would have the answer, who knows.
Another article: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/07/10/trump-supreme-court-nomi...
how is it able to handle cost of self-hostin cost ?
You know how everybody is worried about machines taking over human jobs and the resulting unemployment? Well, sort of like Calvin's rant on never being able to die, I think there will be so much demand for staffing in the field of dystopia management and prevention that the chance of that happening is really slim.
> But we certainly do know the chaos that is unleashed everyday by not eradicating viruses that use mosquitoes as a vector.

Note however that here they are erradicating mosquitoes and not the virus.
More info for those curious:

Corporations Don’t Have to Maximize Profits

Lynn Stout, the distinguished professor of corporate and business law at Cornell Law School, is the author of "The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public."

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
I must agree. Seems like every step could have been solved without jumping to the conclusion that it was because we didn't use a monolith.

I've never understood the false dichotomy of microservices vs monolith... just split things when it makes sense. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Its important to differentiate b/w the plans of a politician and the plans of research scientists who have done actual work in this area. Mao's plans seem to have been a hare-brained solution to China's problems (and they're not the only one. Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward cost more lives than both the world wars... and they were all Chinese lives).
It's more a reflection on the fact that our governments have successively cut CSIRO's funding again and again despite their demonstrated return on investment and notable achievements.
It was a legit website - here's Arm's admission and explanation of intent.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/10/arm_riscv_website/

They sure did the RISC-V community a great service over the last 48 hours ....
Humans perhaps?
It was a legit website - here's Arm's admission and explanation after they took down the site today:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/10/arm_riscv_website/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye_bread
That's voodoo perpetuated by VCs, not real value. 99% of granted patents wouldn't hold up in court.

Look at the garbage patents Dropbox has, and and the fact that they haven't used those patents to sue competitors out of existence or licensing fees.
https://patents.justia.com/assignee/dropbox-inc
https://patents.justia.com/patent/8855605

including "logging into your account from your phone"

https://patents.justia.com/assignee/dropbox-inc
Inside Mind of Human Artificial Intelligence with Professor Robin Hanson
China decided to change its rules on this point last April[1]. Not sure of the whole overall political reasons, but I imagine it has somewhat to do with the stronger US stance against China on trade issues with the new US president. Telsa was not going to build the plant under the previous rules and now that they are changed are going forward.

[1]https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-to-build-factory-in-...
a dozen pages and no theory or explanation in case you have not read it yet.
The answer to that is a clear yes. But we're not going to go down without a fight.
This will come across as very mean-spirited but I find the idea of measuring a novel’s “vividness” based on the kind of vocabulary it uses (or the voice of the verb, etc.) to be completely bogus.
There's two things here.

The first is layering. A goal is smarter layering without a Dockerfile. A dependency-management tool gives fairly good insight into how to arrange layers to improve cacheability and reduce layer churn.

The second is security. Going without a daemon socket is more than "pretty nice", it is a massive security win. Docker daemons have a lot of privileged access and a wide API. Having that entire massive attack surface lying around to write some tarballs and a JSON file on your behalf doesn't make a great deal of sense.

These both become more valuable at large scales, which is why it makes sense for Google folks to have developed it.
I'd rather have my cells replaced with transistors - one by one. That way I might have a chance to outlive that radio made in 1960...
>> This means, everytime you touch something under a repo, it affects everyone.

>This is horrible at scale.

I just want to reiterate this. In the early 2000s I worked in the online platform group at EA. The list of things done poorly there was long, but picture:

* 40+ engineers

* Monorepo with hundreds of thousands of classes; all code deployed to all servers.

* Hundreds of different services running across thousands of servers.

* Communication based on Java serialization, so all code had to be deployed to all servers at the same time.

* Deployments (and thus downtime) sometimes lasted up to a hour. Worldwide audience; it was always in the middle of someone's day.

* Rational Clearcase for version control. It took nearly an hour to sync to tip.

Pretty much every morning you'd come in, spend an hour syncing, find that someone broke the build, hunt them down, and resync for another hour. Generally speaking the first few hours of every day were wasted for 40 engineers.

This was a very poor platform.

Sometimes I wonder how it's going there these days.
Always interesting when a 300,000 year old species decides a 50+ million year old species doesn't need to exist anymore.

Tell me more ecologists...grabs popcorn.
thats a new record for me..

according to ghostery There were 19 trackers on a site referred by HN submission..
> Mosquitoes are unique in that many ecologists believe mosquito eradication would not adversely affect other species.

With all due respect, I read that as “many ecologists can’t imagine how mosquito erradication...” seems like naive interventionism where benefits are known and hence measured but risks are unknown and hence ignored.
Legal EU ivory sales 'condemn elephants'
TLDR: scratch your own itch
What if invisible unicorns are actually the transmission vector and they are also spreading it to mosquitos? Wow, posing useless hypotheticals is somewhat enjoyable. We must do this again sometime.
Doomsday Clock graph, 1947–2018
My gut feeling is 0603 might still work but probably not reliable, 0402 tends to get stuck to everything by static attraction so very doubtful in acrylic.
It should just show the PKGBUILD every time. If it's not doing anything sketchy it's often only a dozen lines.
> The optimum solution is a recumbent bike...

On a flat individual time trial, sure.

But pro races are really all about bursts of acceleration as well as topography. Recumbents just wouldn't cut it.

Old guys going fast in a straight line by themselves in an egg-shaped container just isn't interesting to watch.
Huh. interesting. that was not my impression, but I didn't know about the land-grant acts, so perhaps I am wrong. Vetoed by Buchanan - you don't get a much stronger endorsement of a government action than that. It's interesting, and I'm going to read up more on this; I mean, from the overview, it looks like C.P. Snow's "The Two Cultures" thing was a live issue much earlier than I had thought.

Note, I think you might be using the word "revisionist" wrong. I was being ignorant or lying, right? (I mean, I was being ignorant, but you can't tell ignorance from deception at a distance.)

Historical revisionism is a different thing; and certainly not a thing you can do without quite a lot of knowledge about the subject and the historical context. It's not just making things up (any more than the rest of history isn't just making things up) Go read the wikipedia article on it :)
"5,000 employees are working on it or know about it"
A simple improvement. add pins (even temporarily) to the PCB. Add pin holes to the top acrylic template. No need for the lower (outer) acrylic part. Plus the pin holes force very good alignment.
Yes.

Except the CTO is dead and his grandson is in charge. And oh, the original building is no longer there. Also, there's no more funding for storage. By the way, the computer systems are no longer compatible and the paper records have faded.