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Ask HN: What is the protocol for when someone gets stuck in an elevator?
Questions: What happens when passengers get stuck in an elevator?

Context: My building recently replaced the pulley system in our elevator. The replacement caused more problems than it solved, and I've been stuck twice in as many months.

First time, we were there for 2.5 hours. We rang the alarm after 5 mins when we realized it wasn't moving. The call box didn't give a response so we used cell phones. We called the building and they sent someone over. The man banged on the door for 20 mins but failed to open it. We didn't call the fire dept because we were worried (correctly) that they'd break the elevator to get us out, leaving it offline for months. After 1 hour we insisted that they call the fire department. After this it took about 40 mins to get us out. We were fine since neither of us are claustrophobic, and understood that elevators have redundancies.

2nd time, we were in for 20 minutes. We called the building and told them to immediately call the fire department. They sent a worker over who opened the doors and (perhaps against protocol) told us to hurry out by climbing up the 3-foot ledge. They said they would take the elevator offline until a technician arrived, but I saw someone else get into that same elevator an hour and a half later.

With those situations in mind:
- What might be wrong with the elevator? Snapped cables? Mis-calibration?
- Does/should the building have a responsibility to call 911? Should the elevator passengers?
- Is a building fined by the fire dept when they need to let people out of the elevator? I got the feeling that my building was reluctant to call, and I'm curious about why.
- The 2nd time, were let out by a building employee and not the fire department. He seemed to think he wasn't allowed to do this. Was he right?
- Anything else interesting you all can think of regarding getting stuck in elevators?
Software patents protection racket is a morally bankrupt "business model". It only exists because of the broken legal system that allows such parasites to slow down progress.
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All these people do more harm than good. Their formats should be abandoned in favor of royalty free formats, for example like AV1.
Name one example where Google has made an actual attempt to build housing and was actually stopped by a local government.

One?

They give lip service regarding the general concept but have yet to put so much as a specific development before a planning commission, let alone a city council.
If you accidentally click on that button while you are amid reading or something....it can be a great frustration as it will land you to the top. So, sometimes I too find "back to top buttons" frustrating.
Being able to amortize an investment over the productive life of an asset is a subsidy? Under what definition of the word?
While software patents may be broken in many instances, I don’t think video codecs are one of them. It’s not like MPEG-LA is suing people for using independently-developed designs that just happen to infringe. If you’re infringing the MPEG patents it’s likely because you’re purposefully building on their work.

And that’s okay in my book. I much preferred the old days when everyone just paid Sony and Panasonic for a license than the current model where “free” codecs are bankrolled by spying on everyone’s email and helping Russians fix elections.
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I don't understand how this is related to ProtonMail. It reads more to me like "never use Chrome [if you care about all of your web content being sent to Google]". Sure, ProtonMail is likely to have personal, private stuff in it but so does a bunch of other things, eg. internet banking.
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Employers still ask them, so we still gotta answer them. Reality for most devs. Many complain but only a few can realistically opt-out.
> You know, a very simple answer would have to do with the idea of constant movement but within a rigidly defined set of constraints and also with the idea of two and twoness and things moving back and forth between two sides in such a way that a pattern is created.

Huh. Never thought about that before.

Wonder what connections to this idea that I am missing in the deeper themes of Infinite Jest. Does anyone know if there are any good websites for this kind of literary analysis? I'd be interested if there's a hub where people go to share the task in putting in the kind of "work" required to understand deep fiction that Wallace talks about. It would be nice to be able to read about the many other deeper symbolic connections that I missed...
Of course they want this. This is how they make money - by developing novel video specifications, usually highly competent ones (H.264 was so much better than WMV9 it was silly, and Thora came much later). H.265 isn't quite as good as VP10 in picture quality, so they're developing a new format to fight for marketshare.
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> It’s not “extortion” to charge money for people to use technology you developed

They aren't charging for use of their technology, they're charging for use of their algorithms/patents.

The extortion part comes from making it an industry standard, we should never allow proprietary protocols to become (official or de-facto) standards.
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Are you operating at a loss? It's hard for me to see how this is financially stable. Obviously its a non-profit, but you still need to pull in money to maintain the non-profit.

I've heard of other ventures similar to this that would take a percentage of the students wages after getting them successfully hired, but even that seems to have fallen out of the news.
They're not slowing down progress AT ALL - their patent is remarkably easy to understand, their reference implementation is available, and if you wanted to reimplement it, they will send you a complete spec by email! They are using patents for their intended purpose - they're making money by licensing the method of doing something they figured out how to do better than anybody else.
>I wonder how this squares with the NBN, given that, once activated, the traditional phone line ceases to exist, and you use VoIP instead. And that the POTS will be entirely deactivated (in theory) once rollout is complete.

Talking more about citizens phone lines than medical stuff now, but...

Surprise, surprise, all of a sudden there's no warrant necessary for wiretapping.

Wonder how many of our elected representatives are working long hours to fix that curious oversight?
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I don't know what kind of people run this place but everything in my post is the same as all the others.

Some kind of inferiority complex at work. This place seems full of bullies. Facts are inconvenient huh.

Could be racists here as Fort Monroe accepted any slaves who could make it there.

It is also the largest stone fort in the US.

Maybe moderators should read a history book instead of thread bullying.
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An easy way to favour an industry is to allow them to write off assets faster than they're actually used up.

So while the amortization itself seems fair, many oil companies have lobbied for these types of changes, which together amount to hidden subsidies worth billions every year.
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MPEG-LA are actively trying to impede development of open codecs, or slow them down with FUD and threats. They are acting like a classic racketeer thug. I'm surprised some are trying to whitewash their behavior. I guess glorified mafia is the way to "move things into the future" according to MPEG-LA supporters.
I really enjoy watching The Big Bang Theory. I think that you’re being overly cynical.
I have no idea where you're working at but if you've ever looked at Google's public diversity report (one of the largest companies in the valley), you'd see that your Silicon Valley career does not reflect what the majority of people in this very large company experience.

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Age, dose, length of time on it, the person's natural sensitivity level, and other factors will certainly factor into how a person responds to getting off of a medication.
> Isn’t it ironic that the rates of poverty are increasing in possibly the wealthiest region in the world?

Not really - a natural side effect of corporations not paying their fair share in taxes, alongside employees who are compensated in ways (stock options) where large chunks of their salary are untaxable by local governments.

(It's my understanding it's much harder for local governments to tax stock options as capital gains go to feds, please correct me if I'm mistaken)
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Most of it was shot in front of a live audience so there is no version without the laugh track.
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If you don't know how software patents are slowing down progress, there are a lot of materials that explain it in detail. Some might be proponents of that approach (for the sake of profiteering), but claiming that it's helping progress is hypocrisy.
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> Anecdotally I've heard that we need a lot less fire fighting these days because fires don't spread the same way anymore.

Hmm. In California? No.

[Ok, the bit about "spread[ing] the same way" may be relevant, but not in the implied direction. And yes, the need for large numbers of firefighters in an emergency undoubtably makes planning/costs tricky.]
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I don't understand the Big Band Theory hate. Maybe it looks weird and exaggerated to most tech people for people to act like that, but I've definitely seen that type of behavior with the people I've spoken to in academia. It's also a pretty funny show IMO.
For the past 5 years i am working remotely and i am single. I don't think this advise is for everyone.

Good social life doesn't mean you need to be always around someone. I do catch up with my buddies over weekends. My mom is a cancer patient so remote work provides me quality family time.
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MPEG-LA members built the algorithms, at great expense. These aren’t Amazon’s “one click shopping” patents. And what’s the alternative to bankrolling protocol development with patents? It has worked just fine for decades, including for really fundamental things like memory interfaces. What’s the alternative monetization model? The web? Where the pretense of standardization has been dropped and the “standard” is de facto driven by compatibility with a browser that is developed for the sole purpose of spying on people and peddling advertising?
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State machines add a lot more safety if the usage of them is safe! I wrote a similar library that tries to leverage TypeScript for type-safety.

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How are you supposed to add users and grow a network if its is constantly broken apart for ideological reasons?
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I think in both shows there are occasions where you laugh with AND at the "nerds". I think the problem is a lot of people judge BBT without even seeing more than a couple episodes.
While my reply was to a comment about BBT, I never mentioned it. I don't care what it is, but if a laugh track is used like that, then I'm not a fan of it. It's the final part of the equation of pandering to the lowest common denominator. I understand why they choose to do it. Without it, they'd have a fraction of the fan base. With it, they have/had the highest watched show. So clearly, the numbers don't lie; it's a good show. <ducks>
I saw this and was interested, but the link sadly only goes to a price chart with no discussion. It would be nice to know why it is dropping, or at least why people think it's dropping.
What happens when mining slows to a stalemate?
Detroit is a ghost town, but the suburbs are fine. The story of Detroit is one of urban decay. Detroit's population has declined, but the metro area's population has been steadily growing. Detroit's downtown is not seeing a resurgence because there basically isn't one. It's a ton of 1950's low density housing stock.

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The community isn’t asking the questions, the majority of companies hiring developers right now are. Thoughts on HN != the status quo in companies today.
> However, San Francisco is currently experiencing a teacher shortage of several years [1], so that vice versa I mentioned above is simply not true.

SF only has a shortage of teachers at the currently offered pay levels. If tech jobs paid the same as teaching, there'd be a "shortage" of tech workers too.
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I will circle back and read this over the weekend but my advice is this:

Get to 10 customers, and then double down on anything that worked.

Some ideas for the first 10:

- write an essay about something interesting that you can weave your business idea into, submit to tech blogs like hackernoon

- join a maker group that can help you in an informal quid pro quo with social media shares and upvotes

- launch on hacker news, product hunt and indie hackers. All have their rituals. Spend a little time, not too much, to get it right.

- contact all the people you talked to before/during product development (bc you did talk to people, right?)

- use an seo keyword research tool or just start searching for things and use the suggestions at the bottom of the google results. Write actual content on your website that is directed toward answering these questions. Seo compounds slowly so start early.

- find places your customers are (questions on quora or stack overflow; Facebook groups; etc) and learn about them and interact without being spammy.

These are the techniques we used to take Cronitor to 10
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The problem comes in when patents have the effect of walling off an entire subfield of computer science from the perspective of the commercial R&D world.

Classic cases in point are IBM's patent on arithmetic encoding, which rendered that entire class of algorithms radioactive in the 1980s-1990s era, and the original Lempel-Ziv patent claims dating back to 1978.

We are most certainly not better off as a society because we granted decade+ monopolies on those claims, and I see no reason to think any differently of MPEG.
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It's difficult to prosecute considering the employee risks deportation if they report.
Who needs a machine for that?
Firefox has more than two process classes. I'm probably missing some still, but it separates at least into main process, content processes (tabs), NPAPI plugin process and extension processes (at the time of his writing, I believe this was one big extension process still).

There's also a process for Asynchronous Panning and Zooming (APZ), but that probably doesn't help much with security.
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Looking at the video, the toy car is turning in-place when it gets to the boundary. There is no realistic turning radius proportional to its size.
Nowhere to be found. I kid you not, the government tried to start a nationalized crypto. Many are just using other currencies like the Colombian peso.
Time value of money, if you can deduct something in 2020 vs 2021 you get 1 year of interest on that deduction. Even if you don’t directly invest it, inflation make paying 2020 debts in 2021 dollars a net win.

However, a larger issue is percentage depletion makes it possible to write off more than the cost of the asset. If I buy something for X, then the sum of all of my depression should be X or less.
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Has anyone done this serialization with a relational DB like Postgres - which is has this hugely performant key-value store called Hstore or JSONB ?

This coupling to pytorch is very cool, but basing this on a production capable database like postgres (which has incredible hosted solutions like Google Cloud SQL, AWS RDS, Azure , etc) would be much more useful.
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OSM editors are prevented from using Google Maps because OSM prefers that we have explicit permission to use data sources. Since we don't have explicit permission to use Google Maps, we can't use it.

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Here’s how I think about it: you may feel free to criticize, this is meant to get people thinking, not as an implementable policy.

Draw a control volume around your business or product. If, during the creation, use, or disposal of your product or business, mass or energy crosses this boundary, you should be required to provide for any negative externalities caused by this material or energy.

Of course, as usual with this approach, the magic is all in the drawing of the boundary, but hear me out.

Under this framework, it may be a bit easier to see clearly what externalities we might wish to price. I sincerely believe that if we now shrink from this present task of properly pricing and managing these costs, human society will perish from this earth.