skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot measure how fast light travels in a fixed time unit without reference to time: you need to define length!
Length is currently defined
with reference to caesium time: the 2019 SI definition of metre takes "the fixed numerical value of the speed of light in vacuum c to be 299792458 when expressed in the unit m⋅s−1, where the second is defined in terms of the caesium frequency ΔνCs." (From [1].)

As far as I can see, measuring time is the foundation of all definitions of other units. And the core reason why time is used to define everything else, is pragmatic: it's just technically easier to count (photon absorption) than to do anything else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...
Not that I disagree that putting public keys everywhere is somewhat annoying, I feel like the same arguments could be made about Kerberos and ssh. And I think Kerberos handles the lifetime a lot better than short lived certificates.
Is that the case in the winter too? I just started bike commuting in SF and have been wondering how it works in bike oriented colder countries when it starts raining/snowing.
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Interesting, since they used to charge!

I suspect they also make some of the money "back" from people taking the bus to/from a Metro (subway) stop, where you now have to buy a ticket since you no longer have a transfer.
I would personally much rather have my text messages and VoIP phone calls encrypted (usually iMessage and FaceTime audio, but Signal and WhatsApp are popular with Android users), which AFAIK is only available on smartphones, than split out calling and texting from a primary phone.

I’ve also heard that Apple doesn’t allow the baseband direct access to the application processor’s memory, but I don’t know how true that is. There doesn’t seem to be much thought given to this on Android phones.
If you consider the fact that the Sherpas do all the work for the vast majority of people "climbing" everest, they may as well just install a climate-controlled elevator to the top, charge money to vastly more visitors, and give the Sherpas a break.
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The cynic in me is laughing at this right now. You've got a VC-pumped mostly-failed fad startup with highly questionable value to its deal-providers (Groupon) potentially buying a known bad actor (Yelp) in an effort to stay alive by merging operations into something that's likely to be a combination of awfulness. The likelihood of basically-extortion and strong-arming of small businesses is going to be through the roof if this happens.
And how exactly do you explain that you didn’t get the important ping of something being broken because you muted the person? Seems like a lot more problems than just telling the person to be less chatty in important channels.
I believe it's been adapted to a movie too, if you'd fancy that.
> EVERY SINGLE SYSTEM GETS GAMED. NO MATTER WHAT YOU MEASURE.

Yep. Thinking that you can just design a good incentive structure and be done with is hopelessly naive.

> IMO the only way to run things like prisons is to hire people that strongly care about the public good to run them. Hire people who want to run a good organization that accomplishes the organization's goals. Which for prisons should be rehabilitation and safety.

Thinking that you can just hire people that care about the public good is just as naive as thinking that you can just devise the right incentive structure.
I'll complain that Firefox isn't supported.

Google is the worst.
you need a privacy policy ;)
Pretty much every time, yeah. I stop at the grocery store on my way home too.
That's a good point. But it's still the case that there are superstar locations that everybody wants to go to. Pulpit Rock, Sagrada Familia, just to name a couple of newly-popular ones. I think for these the solution is to encourage off-season travel. Basically to spread the currently summer-heavy distribution over the entire year.
It'd be extremely foolish for any advanced economy to give up on intellectual property, including software patents. Which is why it's not going to happen.
Get out of that toxic relationship if it's not what you want (which it sounds like it isn't).

Replace that relationship with a social life that you enjoy, friends that care about you, and be around people that actually make you happy.
Apple didn’t design Google’s business model.
For instance, they could teach prisoners how not to get caught.

EDIT: what does it mean that I love thinking about ways of gaming systems like this?
I've been using it for... around nine years. It used to have a lot of performance issues, notably around synchronising initial state/backlog fetch on first connection to the core/daemon, but those were eventually fixed.

It works very well now, and the Android client is pretty great too, but there are still some gaps. Mainly, the surrounding ecosystem is quite sparse, e.g.:
- There is basically only a single web client for it (node-based, which is a con from my perspective)
- There are only a handful of semi-functional log searching/browsing utilities around
You can't patent a problem space. You can get patents on innovations in a problem space.

Several patents from several inventors can be directed to solving the same exact problem. It is the 'how' that matters not the 'what'
Solar sails are good for inter-planetary travel, but they aren't going to move the needle for launching off of a planet with 2g gravity! You need something that is compact and would give you a big impulse.

As a KSP engineer would say, it "needs more boosters" https://i.redd.it/zuymxc5bb7s21.jpg
That’s not true. Copyright of source code would protect your invention.

However if someone else wrote their own code to do the same thing, it would not be protected, which is the point.
> multinationals

What is that supposed to tell me?
What was old is new again. Plenty of European towns and cities tried schemes like this in the late '60s/early '70s. Most of them eventually floundered under financial pressures. In my UK area, a selected few bus routes are currently free; they are the first item on the chopping block at every spending review, and it takes effort to defend them. Schoolbuses here have just been downsized to save some money.

This is not meant to discount the effort - better public transport helps everyone, even people who don't use it (by reducing congestion). I'm just skeptical that it will last, without a serious acceptance that something else will have to give in the local budget, or taxes will have to go up.
The Marble Machine is a musical instrument designed and (currently being) constructed by this one determined and very talented guy.
No need to speculate - the EU, Russia, India, South Africa, and New Zealand have no patents on pure software - I'm sure there are other places too.
Absolutely. This thing is a work of love.

Original video that inspired this Minecraft recreation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

And the rest of his WIP videos for the "Marble Machine X": https://www.youtube.com/user/wintergatan2000/videos
As is duktape if you for some reason you need it to be JavaScript.
> If such a method existed then the system would indeed be broken

Yes, I think that is the fundamental problem with depending on 'mixers' against state-level actors. We both agreed earlier that the tech is theoretically possible. It seems like we're disagreeing about whether someone exists who is motivated enough to build the tech, and whether that person is also motivated to keep their tech under wraps.

> they can't exactly hide the results

It's a known method that US law enforcement has done in the past. Parallel construction is absolutely a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

> the idea is to make all the transactions look the same so that even using your best graph theory tools you can't narrow down the possibilities enough to reasonably investigate all of them

I just don't get the impression that it's successful. There's a lot of 'metadata' that could be used to narrow the candidates down: geography, time, transaction amount, method of accessing the exchange (API / browser / desktop app ), age of wallets - I don't know which is specifically relevant here, but there's a lot of similar information which could be used to narrow the possibilities down, and most of it could probably involve 'fuzzy logic'. I just don't think that a threat model which includes state-level actors should ignore the possibility that transactions could be traced through mixers.

By the way, I'm really enjoying this discussion. Thanks for playing. :)
Patents are a tradeoff between granting a monopoly (generally negative) and creating a public good (generally positive). They're time limited for that reason.

If you find the patent valuable enough to license, you have the advantage that you have a description of the idea sufficiently detailed that you can recreate it after paying the license. The patent owner gets a return for their very chancy investment (well-prepared patents are expensive). After 20 years everyone can use it for free.

The alternative is that nobody shares anything with anyone. You still wind up with monopolies on ideas, but no incentive for anyone to convert their ideas into a public good after a fixed term.
came to say this. +1
> In today’s world, if a boot camp (which didn’t exist back then) could have gotten my foot in the door, it wouldn’t have made any difference.

I delayed my degree while the first dotcom boom was in swing.. I did the only relevant classes before I delayed it, and not having the paper did make a difference. I could have argued my way into the same position I transferred to after getting the degree, but they would have delayed things, delayed upping compensation, maybe given me lesser tasks or been less convinced of my work in some cases. They also would know which other companies couldn't be competing for me.. again loss of compensation.

I would be very surprised if that 1996 degree isn't on your resume, equally surprised if anyone checked if the school is accredited and surprised if many of your choices were slightly fewer/different options leading to accrued path dependent losses on average. I.e. a first team lead isn't suggested leading to no path or a significantly delayed one to team lead on your resume.

I used university as a bootstrap back then, and then had the company pay for the rest of the degree. This could probably work for bootstraps and a degree today.. but the only reason I see for that path over credited time toward the resume item is if you needed to convince yourself of whether you want a tech job.
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The clock drift of A1 and A2 could be correlated for some reason that we don't currently understand.
I don't agree with your individualistic vision. This is the exact kind of mindset that brought us to where we are right now. I can tell you politics won't fix climate change, especially if people start to not care at all...
There is brain eating amoebas and flesh eating bacteria. You pick.
It stops Apple from putting another search engine first if they want to deliver the best results by default.

Apple’s business model is about providing the best experience to their users.
Why Fixing Software Bugs Should Be the CEO’s Problem
OCD gang rise up. OCD sucks man, it's so debilitating.
I currently have retroactive jealousy and I feel it slowly destroying my relationship, already affecting my mood and productivity every single day for over a year now.
9 sessions of psychologist so far.
I swear my partner and I are just incompatibility, which sucks because before I knew certain information which triggered me, I was the happiest I was ever been.
I can't talk to my partner about it because she feels personally attacked. I can't talk to my friends about it because they don't understand, and it's simply "get over it" - I would if I could.

It was too good to be true.
Good luck with you rOCD sir, I hope you find peace.
This is the only intellectually honest case for ending software patents.

Methods have been patentable for as long as we've had a patent system--why should they become unpatentable because they're machine-implemented?
Arendt later recalled Heidegger as someone who "fell into his own trap." AFAIK, Heidegger was not an ardent Nazi, who joined the party anyways for practical purposes. As Sarah Bakewell, author of "At the Existentialist Cafe",[1] would characterize him as "lacking personality." He wanted to reform education, but failed to gain enough political influence within the party to do so. Even after WW2, he never issued an official comment on his affiliation with Nazism.

[1] Recommended read. Touches on interactions among existentialist thinkers like Karl Jaspers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sarte, Edmund Hurssel.
>It allows wildlife to freely roam

well good to know that the wildlife is going to have more privileges than the people. Truly a humanitarian technology company. We sure do live in interesting times.
Author.

We don’t sell anything related to what’s in that post (actually we don’t sell anything right now). It’s all open source. We believe everyone deserves good PKI; that it’s an underutilized technology with bad tools. We have plans to make money off other stuff once that’s in place.
If the government does not want to run prisons, don't send so many people to prison. Prisons and other core governmental services should never be outsourced.
But an American travelling from the other side of the world emits a ton more CO2 than someone coming from Sweden, so just raising local prices don’t take into account the externalities.
If you think there's anything clear about the demarcation between patentable vs unpatentable subject matter, you haven't read the caselaw. It's an unintelligible mess.
> Farms generate a hefty carbon footprint. Raising animals in California emits 8 percent of the state's total greenhouse gases. That's more than all the state's oil refineries combined.

Ummm...

This is readily explainable by California having a lot of cattle ranches (it's an agricultural powerhouse in numerous categories, cattle ranching being among them) and relatively few oil refineries. Curious how this would compare to, say, Texas (which has an abundance of both, last I checked).
There's no difference between this and any other fashion choice like car styling, clothing, shoes, house painting, hairstyling, or furniture.

Whatever "technological" or "UX" advantage marketed via blogposts like this is simply a veneer over the standard human competitive strategy: 'what I have is more fashionable than what you have, so pay me.'
Foolish for the companies currently on top, yes. Not necessarily foolish for consumers, that are harmed by competition being stifled by patents.
There is an implicit assumption that the status-quo in the US can't possibly be bad, because people wouldn't stand for it. Of course, when people do choose to stand against it, it's branded as uncivil.

Anything to manufacture consent for the economic degeneracy of the bourgeois, even if it means covering for the fascists.
somehow messed with Cs
absorption line

In a simple case yes, but if all other time keeping mechanisms would also be messed with by dark matter, there might be no way of saying which one is the right own.
Cruises need to die, they’re horrible for the environment and local economies.
> ideas area not patentable

Totally wrong. Ideas are exactly what is protected by patents.
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the "on a computer" days are long past. And, soon the remainder of those crap computer-related patents from the early days will expire anyway if they haven't been invalidated already.
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"Our sun for example is emitting enough energy in all directions to power the world for 300 years (over the course of 300 years), and most of it misses us"

I think you're saying any amount of energy can be produced by any amount of power, if the amount of time is unspecified. Which is true, but not substantive.
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If 'it' is patent law, then yes. If 'it' is software development, then no.

Do we want to encourage the development of patent law, or of software?
I'm in the middle of an amicable divorce after about 3 years of marriage due to similar reasons. I now realize that I've always been bad at setting boundaries and I acquiesce until a given situation is no longer tolerable for me.

My partners have always been type A while I'm more of a type B personality and somewhat quiet and introverted, but not overly so. Like you, i don't mind listening to other people do most of the talking, take the lead on activities, etc. I generally go with the flow. But in my marriage, I ended up giving up way too much space and when I tried to claw some space back it was too late - no matter how simple my requests were and how kindly I asked for them. For my partner, it was like I was upending the relationship.

Anyways, this was somewhat my fault but at the end of the day it was a toxic relationship and I was on the receiving end of a controlling relationship. Within just a few days of splitting up I felt like a weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. I was worn out from living how someone else wanted me to live rather than how I wanted us to live. Not to say it was a horrible relationship or nothing positive came from it, but being relatively young and childless I quickly realized this was for the best.

I went to therapy for a bit and it was helpful just to confirm that my feelings before and after splitting were normal. The main lesson for next time was to be better at setting boundaries from the outset. It can be hard to see these things when your in such a relationship. I saw my mom fail to set boundaries with my volatile father as an attempt to keep him from exploding, but I didn't realize until after the fact that I was doing something similar in my relationship.

I get the sense that your relationship is a bit like mine was. Not so horrible or traumatic that there's a smoking gun that would cause you to leave, but not what you had hoped for or thought you were getting into, and certainly not a relationship that has your best interests at heart.

*I created an account just to reply. Will check out the book recommended below.
The exposure to the patent system for most developers is seeing egregious examples being used by patent trolls. Then there's the confusion between design patents and utility patents. So yes, I would say most folks find them distasteful, for the same reason that most folks overestimate crime rates.
Am author.

Yea Kerberos is another option. If you have all the necessary pieces, that is... you’d need managed devices, an LDAP/AD setup, DNSSEC & SSHFP, PAM & various agents on servers.

Certificates offer all the same benefits, and a few more, with less work & fewer moving pieces. They’re also more flexible since you can control the auth flow to get a cert.
Transparency would mean not making repeated sidelong denials of each facts that the investigation raised, trying to spin them down. No one cares whether he "remembers" doing what he did, since it's absolutely trivial to lie about. Better to remain quiet than to telegraph dishonesty.
It's years since it was his work.

Now it's protecting the turf of the large corporate, from any whiff of competition by fair means and foul.
There is an assumption that private prisons will perform better than public ones, and so far data does not support it. What great innovation came out of private prison system?

You we trying to optimise out the 'inefficient' government, by saddling it with much effort designing incentives and making sure they are not abused. You might as well run prisons yourself - publically.
I was busy doing God's Work (upvoting any downvoted posts) and was considering the article.

So far as I can tell, the point of the article is that this is another salvo in the war between California and the federal government in terms of who gets to run immigration law, not some sort of newfound distaste for private prisons.

Curious that all the posts are about private vs. public prisons. I did poke around a bit and the private prisons don't appear to be cheaper, and it's rather surprising that they even exist given the amount of power public unions have.

Perhaps someone in the biz could pipe up, just what is the point of a private prison? All that occurs to me is the opportunity to ramp up a facility quickly or perhaps just the need for a law enforcement organization to park people when they don't want to be in that business. Dunno.
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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/sousadouglasv; my proof: https://keybase.io/sousadouglasv/sigs/i7SVFk_Xd5e_Vi6LYP4uzgS8rT80IIWf-Fe66Su7_iI ]
So what do software inventors in these countries do with their inventions?

Edit - It seems to me that there’s clamoring about software patents without suggestions for alternatives. Were software patents always disallowed in these countries? If not, what was the overall effect of “ending” them? Was there innovation and business activity, before and after?

Edit2 - https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2470358C2/en
They are, its just stupid hard to do so.

IE: Fast Food Franchise "Secret Recipes"

https://www.uspto.gov/custom-page/inventors-eye-advice-1
All of us forget the details of the useless meetings we were dragged into many years ago . For you, meeting Jeffrey Epstein was the most momentous day of your life. For him, it was Tuesday.
> Where are people going in public that's such a secret?

How can you travel to any secret place without passing public areas?
I agree. When you’re remote you want to show you are available to others. However you are allowed to take a day and do things you need to do, just keep your average hour session up and sleep well
> This comment doesn't make sense to me (as a part time Uber driver myself).

As I noted in the comment, I use Lyft, not Uber, so I can't say if it works differently. What I can say (and what other people in this thread have confirmed) is that it does happen surprisingly regularly.

> First, the driver doesn't see your destination until he picks you up.

If that's the case, it's easy to see how even on Uber a driver might call you to find out where you want to go, and then tell you to cancel because they don't want to go there.
also r/magnetfishing
Not a privacy issue--no expectation of privacy in public and you do not have a right to drive on public roads, driving is a privilege and not a right.
> Lots of loot boxes and in game cosmetics can often be traded in the same way though?

The majority of free-to-play games from Asia don't provide a mechanism for that.
> and other Heideggerian ideas, which have nothing to do with Nazism

That's begging the question.

We want to examine his writings to figure out a) how important is the biographical question to his work and b) how bad were the Nazis and why? Maybe thinking in terms of "Dasein" leads inevitably to death camps. Maybe not. But you can't just assume there's no connection (or that there is one). You have to argue it out.
I think the point is you can't have the people you're sending the emoji to to use your open source rendering of choice. That's how it's corporate controlled. In contrast, corporations don't have as much choice in how plaintext glyphs render, without making them potentially unrecognizable.
Patent law is pretty well-developed at this point. And patent lawyers typically have degrees and relevant experience in the field they focus on. So most software patent lawyers know as much about software as you or I do.
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