skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The delayed windshield wiper case is not cut and dry (no pun intended). With solid-state electronics (SSE), a delay circuit using capacitors is relatively easy to create. Patents are supposed to be "non-obvious". SSE's were relatively new in the early 60's, but once people got practical experience with them, a delay circuit is obvious to practitioner in that line of work, which in theory should make it non-patentable.

It's kind of like "doing X on the Web" patents where X itself is common and/or unpatentable. Adding web-ness shouldn't change the patentability of X, but for some odd reason it has. When new parts and tools come along, they make the mundane possibly seem innovative for a while until people or judges understand that the new tools are not magic.

The web-based-auction patents are an example. They simply automated manual auctions; any programmer/analyst with industry experience can do that. Running it in a browser didn't make it special, but that apparently bedazzled patent reviewers. (Copyrights can cover look and feel, but I'm talking about functionality.)

The patent office simply does not take seriously, "must be non-obvious to persons having ordinary skill in the art". If 90% of experienced programmer/analysts can code up a web auction system, it's not obvious.
“What Is Programming Languages Research?” The Talk – The PL Enthusiast
> I'm fascinated by both how far humans have come, and how peaceful we've become.

If you told an ancient human about, say, genocide, do you think they even be capable of reactions as cold as, say, these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18102401

?

We live in a world were wars of aggression are still sanctified, and phrases like "fun sized terrorist" are still invented. Playing nice with murderers is not peaceful, at all. The gap between rich and poor is still growing, the arms race against the invidual is only just beginning and the individual is already DOA -- all that is also not to have a nice surprise in the end. This calm before the storm isn't even very calm, but the storm will really be something.
Whether or not the rules in the App Store are "capricious" is widely debated, but it's probably safe to say that they're coming out looking pretty good vis a vis malware and end-user experience as a result.

>Apple's rent seeking on iPhone/iPad accessories.

People who dislike Apple love to say things like this, but I've never really seen anything that qualifies. Is Apple stuff more expensive? Yes. But you tend to get more for your money. The only laptops I ever had that rivaled my MacBook Pros in longevity were the pre-Lenovo ThinkPads, which were ALSO often maligned as being overpriced. LOL.

(Candidly, I think THAT might have been true -- I had a ThinkPad back in the 90s that was so over-built that it was still solid and perfect WELL after its last point of technological viability, and in an era when "well, just put Linux on it and use it for something else" wasn't really an option yet. Great laptop for about 3 years though.)
I stand by the idea that the worst thing about the new logo is that it's not angled anymore. Even just tilting the new logo looks better.
I don't understand how this works - why would couriers want to work for something which has no provable value?

I mean until (if ever) it has a stable and reliable value you would essentially be working for free.

I guess you could use investor money to buy back the generated coins thus ensuring value at first but it doesn't seem like a sustainable business model.
Sure, but what that suggests is that the existing established understanding is correct (or at least still plausible): even if the particular trees studied here aren't CO2-limited and don't grow more with more CO2, total plant biomass will or at least might (outside of climate change denial fantasies this doesn't mean increases in CO2 will automatically be neutralized by plant growth, because it doesn't imply that the size of the effect is necessarily sufficient to clear the additional CO2 once long-term equilibrium is reached, doesn't tell you how long it takes plants to reach the new equilibrium when CO2 levels have reached a new plateau, and even if it did all that wouldn't help when CO2 levels are constantly increasing and plant growth can't catch up.)
I don't know, I assume it's better than the more expensive open air golf cart that i'm comparing to though.

edit: What i'm trying to say is, why is a fully functional car (even with bad crash safety and emissions) cheaper outside the United States than a golf cart is here? The answer seems obvious to me. Making it illegal to import cars has stifled competition and hurt consumers in the US.
Deutsche Bank is a work of satirical genius
Few people here ever heard of Gopher. I’m 36 and while I’ve heard of it, I never used it.

The Internet moved on, it’s time to adapt, otherwise you sound like a grandpa missing the good old days, which are never as good as people remember.

Yes I remember the web of year 1996, of 1999, or of 2004 and it was shit.
I’m not so sure this is how locomotives brake. After living beside a train track for 4 years I can tell you the cars are not using regenerative breaking to slow down. They use air brakes that are audible due to the brake pads and air.
Code Geass, Death Note, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Shingeki no Kyojin, No Game No Life, Steins; Gate (these are top notch)
Boku no Hero Academia (Season 1 and 2), Sword Art Online (first 13 episodes, maybe 25, but after that is terrible), Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Full Metal Panic (season 1, FUMOFFU, Season 2).
Psycho-Pass, Made in Abyss, Accel World, Ga-Rei Zero (these are just amazing, but not top)

Be careful with FUMOFFU, leads to death due to laughter

They cover a wide variety of range, not all of them might be of your taste. You also need to get used to some things that are Japanese culture in animes (their way of being fun, their way of being embarassed by stuff that is not in your culture and so on).

Insane plot (like REALLY incredible):
- Code Geass
- Death Note
- Steins; Gate
- Shingeki no Kyojin (not completed, season 4 coming soon)
- Made in Abyss (not completed, season 2 coming soon)

Epic (you feel hyped):
- Sword Art Online
- Full Metal Panic
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (this anime is amazing, but I recommend watching it only after you've watched quite a few animes. Rewatching it leads to improvement. It's like when you try wine for the first time and it sucks, then it turns great)
- No Game No Life
- Boku No Hero Academia
- Accel World

Laugh:
- Full Metal Panic FUMOFFU (requires watching the season 1 first)

This list is purely based on my taste, but I watched over 200 animes (lot of bad stuff too, sadly), so for a beginner it's a good baseline.

Good plot (not like the insane ones, still good):
- Psycho-Pass (AMAZING soundtrack)
- Ga-Rei Zero
- Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Not all humans. That’s the big kicker for me. A lot of the shit is being generated by a minority, and there is another minority who are genuinely good people That, IMO, makes it harder to accept the fact those who do generate the shit are also “a natural part of humankind”.
Hah, looks like I bought this book back in 2011 and never read it! Time to give it a go.
The cars already have heat pumps in the form of air conditioners. They could be designed with minor modifications to also be used for heating, improving the energy efficiency of cold vehicles a lot.
The positive and optimistic side of this is well-documented.

The darker side is that making all publicly-funded software public would also mean making all weapons software public. That could have disastrous consequences.
> Do you have some questions you would like to ask instead?

For example, regarding smaller players in the ad industry buying from a dozen tracking companies: does it really work? If yes it would either mean you have tremendously good algorithms to correlate anonymized data, or the data isn't really that anonymized to begin with. I mentioned google in the last paragraph because for them it's easy: they can track users better than anyone else and use it to show ads. It's all under the same hood. You dismiss the OP as a complete idiot, but doesn't it sound a least a bit likely that many smaller players just try to be google again here? Oh, google has so much data about the users to do ad targeting, we absolutely must do the same! There are so many places on the web where you have a pretty good idea about the demography of your visitors. Start from there. Most of the versatile places where you don't know who your visitors are are places like google, YouTube, Facebook, twitter, but they already know who their visitors are because they can do their own tracking, they don't need to buy any tracking data. So in the end I'm still wondering why there are two dozen trackers on CNN.com. who is buying all that data?
Totally agree with a lot of this, especially the part about making it harder for badges to flip. I went to re:Invent this year and if the security drones are going to yell at you to turn your badge over as you're walking through their nonsense gates to nowhere, and they ARE going to yell at you, then the badges shouldn't flip over in the first place.
Except we're supposed to be intelligent.

Early on in my life I felt something, I never get angry at nature, no matter harmful, but disappointment by other beings hurts deeply. Nature doesn't pretend to choose, it just is. That made me a lot more at ease with objects than people.
You definitely use frame deltas when updating things (I mean, how else would you know how much time has passed), but when doing physics, that frame delta is constant for the lifetime of the simulation.

Box2D User Manual > We also don't like the time step to change much. A variable time step produces variable results, which makes it difficult to debug. So don't tie the time step to your frame rate (unless you really, really have to).

https://stackoverflow.com/a/21273467 (Bullet) > maxSubSteps: Should generally stay at one so Bullet interpolates current values on its own. A value of zero implies a variable tick rate, meaning Bullet advances the simulation exactly timeStep seconds instead of interpolating. This feature is buggy and not recommended.

Edit: The archived version of the (404-ing) Bullet Wiki also says "Bullet maintains an internal clock, in order to keep the actual length of ticks constant. This is pivotally important for framerate independence. The third parameter is the size of that internal step."
Nothing is wrong with the market: Slack may have decided that this is the best way for them to create liquidity. There is also a cap (2000) on the number of shareholders a company can have before they have to abide by what amounts to the same reporting requirements as a publicly traded company.

Slack also get the advantage of the usual market pop of acquiring companies share prices that usually amounts to a significant % of the cash value of the transaction.
Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to imply that. It's difficult to describe... - The archive unzips and the files seem to be OK but the checksum fails, maybe?

You should feel good when you do good deeds, but there are other motivations to do good too. When depressed, you can process things like understanding enlightened self-interest, but the evolutionary reward system fails to fire.
Alternative Funding Options for SaaS Startups Cheat Sheet
Depression expresses itself in a lot of unexpected ways. While severe depression can lead to the symptoms Hollywood has introduced us to -- total inertia, not getting out of bed, etc. -- somewhat milder but chronic versions include anxiety, low-intensity anger, disturbed sleep and appetite, among many other things.
It says something about the system of rolling out companies with high valuations that don't seem sustainable outside of major changes that alter the product's desirability.

But people will buy this and other stocks regardless so I'm not sure there's any incentive to change that.
“If it compiles, it probably works.”

This has been so true in my experience. I find that it does take longer overall to write something in Rust, but I almost never have to root out strange errors from my code. In shorter files, I almost never have to use ‘cargo run --debug’ twice.
You wouldn't need an equivalent capacity in supercaps as batteries, only as much as the vehicle can use or create in a short amount of time.

The UX would be invisible: If demand is greater than the supply available from the battery pack, drain some energy from the supercapacitors. If it's less, gradually shift some energy into them. If the driver is not in the vehicle, drain it all out, when they come back, recharge the supercaps.

The problem is that these capacitors and transfers add cost money, space, weight, energy, and complexity.

Looking at some numbers, batteries are ~20x more energy dense in both volume and weight. Batteries have 1/10th the power density, but efficiency drops significantly with discharge rate and they have fewer lifetime charge cycles and poorer temperature response. Batteries also have much, much lower self-discharge, and cost a lot less per kilowatt-hour.

Right now, lithium-ion batteries are simply good enough and supercapacitors are not that much better, so it's the cost-benefit analysis says it's better to take the costs you would have spent on supercaps and just put in a few more batteries.

That balance could shift, though, with improvements in supercap technology, or - paradoxically - with improvements in battery chemistry. If a battery with much better energy density and/or lower cost was found, with a reduced discharge rate that was sufficient to cruise but insufficient to accelerate or do regenerative braking, you could add supercaps to make a vehicle based on that battery feasible. It's similar to the electric grid - the base load would be handled by the slow batteries, similar to coal or nuclear power plants, while peaking loads would be handled by the supercapacitors, like a gas turbine.
Because in modern-day cloud systems there is a lot of service-to-service communication, L7 becomes really important (i.e., you're building a distributed system). Istio (and other meshes) try to abstract away the nuances of distributed computing away from developers, by magically adding timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, observability, etc.

In practice, Istio is pretty complex and not for the faint of heart. You can think of Istio and its cousins (Linkerd, Consul Connect, etc) as the spiritual successors of the original Netflix OSS stack and Finagle.
Short answer: They aren't, except for certain roads with speeds under 35 MPH. This isn't a "car" in the traditional sense an American would recognize, it's a cart.
It would take a lot more than that for me to switch from Firefox.
That seems like a dumb reason
When people refer to intermittent fasting, they generally mean a water fast which means you're not eating anything and only drinking water for your fasting session.
we have a problem with CO2. The level of CO2 assumed as atmospheric was 275ppm, this assumption was altered to reflect reality, the new reality of atmospheric CO2 accumulation. When gas physiology experiments are conducted it is now proper to assume atmospheric concentrations of 300-350 ppm. these are global average numbers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmosphere

Excessive CO2 concentration in the surrounding atmosphere of a phytostoma -the little pores that plants use to admit CO2 into the mesophyll will close up and occlude further gas translocation, this mechanism is very simple -acidification of the cytoplasm of guard cells about the stoma by way of CO2 reacting with cytoplasmic water and making carbonic acid thus reducing the p[H+].

This is a regulatory mechanism as a plant must regulate CO2 assimilation in check with N~ assimilation in accord with developmental state.

if we expose our plants to excessive CO2 then the stoma close up shop until leaf mesophyll allieviates the p{H+} status which we often do with a circulation of atmosphere.
we open a window, or turn on a fan or if we have a LOT of light apx~4000+ Watts/square metre and a signalling frequency of 420nm, the stoma will reopen and we can approach a photosynthetic saturation point - a physiological limit of chloroplasts themselves. there are other particulars such as optimum electrolyte content and composition of root media ; temperature cline and gradient between root and crown, O2 concentration, red, and infrared light intensity , and frequency.

this is a large laundry list so far but when you get used to it its no worse than wiring in for a coding session.

summary is that artificial intervention is required to promote continued uninhibited photosynthesis, and biomass production under a regime of high {> 320ppm} atmospheric CO2 concentration.

Where does all the extra CO2 go to? Our oceans are becoming acidic due to absorbtion of this CO2 and shellfish corals and all other species dependent upon soluted carbonate are having a hard time extracting Ca Carbonate. We are knackering the planet :_{
This is slightly off-topic, but someone mentioned that it would be a good idea to check out BurntSushi's solutions after trying it yourself which seems like a fantastic idea.

It would be cool if there was some resource that linked well-written, idiomatic solutions for other languages as well. Anyone know if this has been done?
I don't feel good about the surprisingly large number of "if you complain about the Slack logo you don't care about justice or the welfare of others" takes.
The "cash" who has? The employees don't have cash - they have stock. You can't pay rent with stock.

This is a good move by Slack to provide a return to the employees who have stuck with them.
Some that have ligatures state it after the year they cameo out.
For fonts that don't have ligatures on their own you could use something like Ligaturizer. This adds ligatures based on the Fira Code font to any other font. These ligatures are taken verbatim from Fira Code though, so some will not match perfectly with their non-ligature counterpart.
Humans can't bring the level near 0% because they would die long before that. Humans need between 19% and 24% O2. Below 19%, humans can't exert much energy without passing out. Above 24% increases damage from free radicals.
In which case it's a pointless diversion, as you are just saying "there is no absolute certainty on anything". Well, yeah, true, but also irrelevant, as science still is by far the most reliable method for obtaining a working model of the world, while religion is completely worthless for the purpose.
I agree with you.

I would like to have a double-sided badge, one with and one without my name, and be allowed to decide which to display.
Castlevania backgrounds in season 1 are really ugly, the animation is poor.
Season 2 did some good upgrades to backgrounds and the fight scenes where surprisingly good. I think they used the whole budget for that, because I was surprised by how good that looked.

The plot was interesting, I love castlevania, but the quality is still incredibly low from my point of view.

I think of Shingeki no Kyojin, that destroys Castlevania quality by so many levels...
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Makes sense, considering that most of the plants we have already match that description.
But if it's not good enough to pass US crash testing then it's pointless to release here. No one wants a golf cart that looks like a car.
The data is clear: the situation is improving everywhere. War deaths rate are tiny compared with past decades [0] and have been trending downwards after having been stable for centuries [1]. Poverty and child mortality are falling, literacy and democracy is improving (this is obviously mostly happening in the "poor" parts of the workd, because the West is pretty much maxed out already) [2].

[0] https://slides.ourworldindata.org/war-and-violence/#/15

[1] https://slides.ourworldindata.org/war-and-violence/#/6

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit...
I wish 2nd hand car prices were that low in South Africa.
It's not depressing to acknowledge anything, maybe even the opposite. Understanding why things are the way they are might help you stay at peace.
> But there's definitely a strong correspondence between idiosyncratic experiences, personalities that find such experiences appealing, and personalities that actually buy expensive luxury good. Most armchair QBs miss that last part.

Tesla has always sold itself as having a rapid plan to move from niche expensive luxury good to broad mass market everyman vehicle.

Some Tesla cheerleaders seem to miss that point.
In my sibling post on performance I go into details on the doubly-linked list problem. https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/solving-advent-of-code-...

You're right that Rust doesn't make doubly-linked lists easy. For that problem I somewhat skirted the issue. For a later problem I built an Octree. I used an Rc<RefCell<OctreeNode>>. That feels pretty gross, but I'm still not sure what the idiomatic pattern is. :(
Providing enough liquidity at scale is hard without the public market.
>your argument essentially hinges on the assumption that pulling hard back on the stick is a sufficient solution for all the problems that may happen with a plane with the exception of a fault with MCAS (the new system).

I don't read it that way. To me, it's specifically based on removal (without notice to pilots) of a function that would absolutely have terminated a trim runaway condition.

In other words, Boeing eliminated one well-known and trained-on trim runaway fix, and didn't tell the pilots. This is different from saying that stick pullback is a universal solution.
In the last year employee pressure has forced Facebook to acknowledge their cafeteria staff right to unionize, stop Google from building military tech and a politically censored search engine, drop arbitration for sexual harassment cases, get BuzzFeed to pay for time off for all the employees that it laid off.

It's true you might not get far if your only goal is to get into office. Meanwhile, there's plenty you can do at a local level. Going somewhere else is only delaying the problem.
I don't get it -- what is the business model? It looks like you are just expecting people to spend significant fractions of their time to get some altcoin which no one needs?

I have seen plenty of un-realistic cryptcurrency startups before, but this one is probably the worst one.
when i went through the chamber it got me a bit, but for me it wasn't especially debilitating... at least in comparison to some.
Guess there's a conflation of terms. I think a lot of people enjoy the "automatically play the next episode after this one ends" feature. Recently, however, Netflix has added a "blast sound out of my TV when I hover over something I might want to watch" which I never want. If I'm interested, I'll click in and watch the trailer. I rarely want it to start playing a video just cause I hovered over the title.
The more 'advantages' Google gives Chrome in the area of tracking/data collection the more I worry that websites will begin to only test for and/or work on Chrome. Seems like it could soon be a logical business decision since it has large market share, it is cross platform, and is heading in the direction of being hostile towards priacy, i.e. enables business models based on tracking and data collection.

Tell your friends and family to ditch Chrome for Firefox.
Economists assume that there exists some value V that if you offered $V to someone to quit facebook, they would be indifferent to the offer. That is, if we offered V + $0.01 they would certainly take the offer and consider themselves a penny better off, and if we offered V - $0.01 they would refuse the offer.

There's also some cost to facebook. In the first world it's probably just whatever you perceive to be the impact on you from reduced privacy. In the third world, well, I seem to remember Facebook actually provides internet to people solely for the purpose of using Facebook so in such a case the cost might be tangible. In any case, call it C. Then consumer surplus is V - C, summed over all consumers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6kwhF6hoqQ