skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points.

However, I think 35 USC 103 (non-obvious requirement) could be used knock out the X plus Computer claims these days.

E.g., If X is not novel and computers are not novel -> no invention because it is obvious to combine them.

Also, I agree that USPTO (and courts) should require more proof of invention/implementation. This could be handled by increasing the requirements for meeting 35 USC 112 (enablement). For example, I think it would reasonable to require more explicit disclosure of pseudo code, data structures, protocols, sequence diagrams, state machines, experimental proof of claimed performance improvements, and such. Quality software patents tend to have a lot of this stuff already. The idea here is to prove the inventors have actually invented the innovations they are claiming not necessarily restrict the invention to one particular data structure or protocol.

Some bio/chem patents have additional requirements when compared to gadget patents. Software patents could be improved similarly.

I would also be open to considering changes in the length of patent terms for certain types of software patents. Not sure how that rule would work though, because there really is no such thing as a software patent. Inventions in so-called software patents are usually described as being part software and part hardware with the assertion that some or all of the software parts could be implemented as hardware or vice versa.

We got into this current mess, because courts latched on the subject matter arguments instead of looking harder at novelty, non-obviousness, and enablement. I am not sure why they didn't rely on obviousness more when they started down this path. The early software patent cases screwed things up back when no one knew how to handle them.
Yeah, httpdito is similar to those, but maybe with less security holes and definitely with less dependencies.
I also think TablePlus is the best option by far right now, although sadly not open source - would be great if they'd consider Open Sourcing at least the code base licences have already expired passed for.

This looks like a great contender though. Would be useful to have a few more filter options.
A New Concern: Locusts
The number of people who believe stuff like this is vanishingly small.

Unfortunately, it's not.[1]

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-05-0...
The nyc.gov link magicalist posted reports:

11460 confirmed covid-19 deaths
5213 probable but unconfirmed covid 19 deaths
10964 not know to be probable and not confirmed deaths (all non-covid deaths)

Which adds up to 27637 total deaths.

Your graph shows ~ 20000 total deaths. That's significantly different.

Also, the sources for the graph you posted are:

1. https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html
which as far as I can get it to show, only counts deaths from pneumonia regardless of cause. So I really don't understand why they listed that as a source for the graph as that information isn't displayed.

2. covidtracking.com
Which could be the source of their numbers for covid deaths but that leaves no source for their totals.
Fine, but you still have no right to promote the spread of a disease that will kill hundreds of thousands of people. If you're going to downvote on a point, downvote on a substantive one.

Here is what was actually written by Holmes:

> The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

I maintain that my argument remains unchanged based on the full quotation. Your rights do not trump (hah!) public safety.
CL is not cash settled, it is physical delivery. It is traded on NYMEX.
Sure, it's totally reasonable for somebody to dislike these features. I just object to the claims that it doesn't do anything substantially different than what it did 10 years ago.
Maybe a fun side project I did in Python a while back: a small source-to-source transpiler. I find it beautiful for the simple fact that it feels idiomatic and good python code, based on some inspiration I got from other (senior) codebases back then.

I think (for me at least) it has a lot to do with what I see what good™ programmers are doing. If it matches that, then I allow myself to consider it good. But it's so rare for me to feel that... That's probably why I prefer working among less experienced developers. That way I can see myself as comparatively better and feel good about myself.
I'd like to believe that. Is there any evidence to support the assertion that number of Americans that believe provable falsehoods is "vanishingly small"?
Road safety: Motorists using touchscreens in cars are being distracted
About to open a repo and tag you
Honest question: are there really that many conspiracy theories about Biden and Ukraine? From what I've read of first-hand sources, there's a whole lot of evidence in the public record that demonstrates Biden's willingness to withhold a billion dollars military aid if he did not get what he personally wanted. That's not getting into the hiring of his son to the board of a fossil fuel giant, a position of which he was extremely under qualified.
Just tried it on my 2012 $1k laptop. 2s for full page load; about 1s to load up a chat, about 1s to open a friend's profile.
Probably because a Twitter close isn't even close to a complex application. You can build one in React/Vue just as fast as you would without them.
Covid-19:WHO calls for clinical trial of Madagascar's virus cure
The war in Vietnam was not exactly unifying, especially not with the working class whose sons were being drafted.

Also, "more violence" is an understatement. Race riots in many major cities creating white flight, and thousands of domestic bombings a year.
A good subset of it, yes.
Similar argument also applies to English. English isn't phonetic which makes it hard to pronounce correctly unless you are learning from a native speaker. But I don't see written English to evolve in a way that makes it easier to pronounce for new learners.
At what point will it be “is not GitHub, GitLab, or SourceHut”
For example MISRA C disallows dynamic memory allocations completely and still pretty complex applications have been written to that spec. Similar guidelines are pretty common in other high reliability or safety critical software specifications. Another example is "JPL Institutional Coding Standard for the C Programming Language", which specifies "Do not use dynamic memory allocation after task initialization"
Alive in the long run: The enduring legacy of John Maynard Keynes
Maybe sometimes they do?
I wonder if they fixed the bug where if you visit the site with Safari on an iPad, when you try to type a comment, every space becomes two spaces. Also, I wonder if paste (command-v) is also randomly blocked at times.

I use mbasic.facebook.com as much as possible. Occasionally I'll use m.facebook.com. I've had the mobile apps uninstalled for ages.
> First, they were gonna make the jump to be an autonomous robotaxi service

Anyone who fell for this is a fool. Nobody could answer the question, “How is self-driving cheaper than exploiting human drivers like they are now?”
> Example: air travel is down 95+% even though there are no laws against flying places.

not a great example. people don't just fly for fun; they are going somewhere to do something. you're not allowed to do most of the stuff that you would travel for in the first place.
I'm not recommending USO or oil itself as an investment, and I agree that you will be paying money to the ETF manager if you get involved in it.

But I don't agree that USO is _more_ dangerous for a casual trader to trade than oil futures, for the reasons I mentioned.

Removing the overall fluctuations of the oil market, the relative problem with ETFs is that they bleed away value over time. That's a real issue, but I wouldn't compare that to juggling a live hand grenade.

Edit: you did not say it was more dangerous, my mistake. I do think that ETFs are less dangerous, for the reasons I mentioned.
They're the last bastion of hosted hg support, if that's of interest.
Looks at the data by state or city. VA shows a huge spike over normal in early April. NY and NYC show even bigger spikes.

And the data is only through April 1. I suspect the excess death rates will be higher nationwide from April 1-May 1.
Haha that's how I started my business 15 years ago. I was still in school and I got a few old ThinkPads with broken displays so I installed debian on them, put them in my shelf and sold webhosting.

Good times. I did a writeup 5 years ago how it looked like: https://blog.haschek.at/2015-my-company-just-turned-10.html (down at "Our Hardware")
Esoteric language indeed!

Is there a way to load an example? I can't figure out how to get anything to work.
It doesn't render on Chrome mobile.
By that definition of hysterical I'm pretty sure the media were hysterical during WWII as well.
Maybe, or maybe it's increased suicide, domestic violence, other coronaviruses, and even covid. Suicide for example is about as deadly as the flu during a normal year and peaks right about now. The excess mortality does require an explanation though, agree. I'm sure some heart attacks and strokes are happening at home, but 60-80%? Seems unlikely.
No idea why you're being downvoted for this. You are objectively correct.

The farthest left elected officials at the state senator level or above have basically 0 connections to violent left wing groups. This is not the case for the right wing at all.
”This activity is cache- and atomicity-unfriendly (in the presence of threads).“

Indeed it is. https://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/iacoma-papers/pact18.pdf states reference counting takes 42% of execution time in client programs and 15% in server programs.

Luckily, they also present amore cache-friendly variation on reference counting that halves that overhead.

They modified the Swift compiler, so I think there’s a decent chance we’ll see this added to Swift.

Swift also, I think, is somewhat designed around the inefficiency of reference counting by promoting the use of structs for small objects (structs in Swift are value objects and not reference-counted in the language).
The Feds could, you know, do something to help.
I feel back then people were divided about topics. Now I feel the whole division is propagated by parties and people adjust their view on topics accordingly.
Given that it should have less opportunity to evolve, isn't this not a particular concern?
Darknet Sellers Build Trust
as a 3rd world developer now living comfortably on the 1st world this is exactly my experience, people in the developing world are in general more ignorant on technology, so even if you are an excellent developer it is still going to be a hard sell to ask for a US dev rate. The emerging economies are not technology driven in most cases. In my case I had to look for work outside my own country first to more reputable South American countries and eventually in North America.
There is this old story in the same vein (and of course also [citation required]): https://thedailywtf.com/articles/special-delivery
Similar arguments could have been made against deep (multilayer) neural networks (DNNs) for a couple of decades.

No one knew for certain in the 70's and 80's if DNNs would pay off, yet a handful of then-obscure researchers persisted. And for quite a while DNNs were kind of a research backwater -- some researchers moved to Canada because they couldn't get funding anywhere else. As a close approximation, "almost no one" was interested in DNNs until Alexnet won ImageNet in 2012.

Just because we don't know which research directions may or may not pay off decades from now does not mean such directions aren't worthwhile and should be abandoned.
You literally do have the right to do that, at least legally.

Edit: yes, and Holmes was wrong — and the decision overturned. The Brandenburg precedent establishes the "imminent lawless action" test. Promoting the opening of the economy (notwithstanding the death count) fails this test, as it is manifestly not "lawless" to spread disease by living your life. If you had smallpox and accidentally spread it to me by going on about your own life, you cannot be held liable for that.
Ironically, by implying that all "dissent against the government" is not done by well-meaning people, you're the one portraying the world as binary.

Political dissent, including protests, demonstrations, boycotts, sit-ins, and marches, have contributed to the advancement of society on many occasions.

https://books.google.com/books?id=0yvPaXt3lyoC

The dissenters who galvanized these reforms were certainly well-meaning.
> maybe your first thought should be that there's something wrong with your setup

It is, but I tested in new, clean profile and it's the same. No error in Network or Console either.

It looks like to me the font this page uses ("rubik") are just showing as blank despite being a network resource.

I'm no webdev so this is the best I can do.

Edit: I think this font is just broken on Win 7: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1137, at least the version hosted on Adobe Fonts which this webpage is using.
Presenteeism premium:Japanese offices struggle to adapt to social distancing
Now I am irritable
And yet, a large part of the reason we weren't overrun is because our initial estimates of hospital beds and ventilators needed were far too high on a per-infected-person basis.

So yes, we definitely cut down transmission, but it's not clear that we would have incurred excess deaths due to capacity overrun. The biggest botteleneck is the presence of people on invasive ventilation; other clinical outcomes result in either the individual dying quite quickly (imagine a nursing home patient with multiple comorbidities), or in the patient recovering in 1-2 weeks. But there's that uncanny valley of people healthy enough to not immediately die but in bad enough shape that they need these aggressive interventions.

This is a big part of why I think we could have exposed much more people to the virus with only marginal increase in hospitalizations, by encouraging those who are not at risk to live as normally. It also makes it easier to centralize the resources where you do need it. For example it's much more feasible for government programs to handle food delivery, grocery delivery, and all these other logistical concerns when you only need to provide it for 10-40% of the country as opposed to 80% of it.

Serology in NY has shown us that we have maybe 1/8 of the population with antibodies as of a few weeks ago, which does mean that there was room for another doubling or too before transmission started naturally slowing down to a noticeable extent. So we absolutely could have had a lot more patient volume, but again the # of hospitalizations/invasive ventilation cases is much more related to the # of vulnerable people infected as opposed to the number overall.

(The classic argument here is that by fighting transmission in all members of the population, that the at-risk are better protected. For a number of reasons I think such an approach is misguided but I won't go into the full argument against that here)
I don't think so. Being a 50mm company probably includes no longer serving the majority of markets they do now. At 50mm they become a regional taxi service with phone hailing rides.

Truth is - now that they are public ~ I'm not sure what success is... for a lot of people who started there a long time ago - the IPO was 'the success' now the public is left holding the bag (mostly by their own choice of buying the stock).
What if you're compiling to JavaScript from another language, like e.g. Kotlin/JS? Does the Svelte compiler rely on some very particular JavaScript syntax, or could you run it on the JavaScript output from another compiler?
Even that monopoly-style strategy never made sense to me since the barrier to entry for a competitor to create a ride-coordination app is low (Lyft has made one, Google, certainly could) and the switching-cost to the end user is low (I have zero loyalty to Uber or Lyft).
AFAIK gaeron hasn't touched redux stuff at all for a while, and acemarke/timdorr are not FB employees.

Also same ecosystem story there: redux-saga, redux-form, etc are all low/no budget projects.
She comes from an era that predates the simplistic approach called "AI" these days. Today it's basically quasi-automated generation of the 80s/90s's Expert Systems decision trees.

A better way to think about it in this context I suppose is that it's all about thinking about the human's cognitive models and how you can 1 - get a handle on what works and 2 - figure out why to be able to reproduce it. A lot of her work for the past couple of years seems to be on the former; a few years ago I would have called her studies "anthropological".

I'm not an expert in this area (though my AI work dates back to that era as well) so am just going on snippets of what she says about her work, none of course which can include anything confidential.
Scientists demonstrate quantum radar prototype
I wrote an very concise recursive solution to one of our interview problems. Not really 'good' code because its hard to read and reason about, but I enjoy looking at it every 6-12 months.
Doing a bit more deep diving into the ICU code, it looks like the source code for the Break engine (used by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) is here:
https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/778d0a6d1d46faa724ea...

and then according to the LICENSE file[1], the dictionary :

# The word list in cjdict.txt are generated by combining three word lists
# listed below with further processing for compound word breaking. The
# frequency is generated with an iterative training against Google web
# corpora.
#
# * Libtabe (Chinese)
# - https://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1519
# - Its license terms and conditions are shown below.
#
# * IPADIC (Japanese)
# - http://chasen.aist-nara.ac.jp/chasen/distribution.html
# - Its license terms and conditions are shown below.
#

It's interesting to see some of the other techniques used in that engine, such as a special function to figure out the weights of potential katakana word splits.

[1] https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/6417a3b720d8ae3643f7...
EDIT: I made a really simple demo of SDx. It's missing all of the features for nicer syntax, better performance (derivation batching), and garbage collection features (avoiding direct references). You also can't run derivers inside of derivers. But it gets the idea across.

https://codepen.io/SephReed/pen/gOaeQLv?editors=1010

--------

I made it up, but MobX has some rudimentary implementations of it:

https://mobx.js.org/README.html
Agree with the table click expectation. Was surprised to find that didn't take me to table data.
> I hope 'ad hoc', 'judgements', 'csv' and 'comment' don't carry any strongly positive or negative reactions, nor stereotypes or implications.

I would very much like for us to have a written language that has the same bandwidth as a long form, in-person discussion. But we have to play the hand we've been dealt, not the hand we wish we'd been dealt.

And to be clear, I don't object to your complaint, or consider it unreasonable - quite the contrary: this is the type of conversation I think we need more of. My comment above could have been improved by adding some disclaimers to make it explicit that I am not intending to speak in an "accusatory" manner, but I reckon the vast majority of people would have read it that way, and for good reason. So, apologies for that.

The ideas I had in mind are somewhat (again, limited by the fundamental shortcomings in our written language) captured in here:

> Loaded language (also known as loaded terms, emotive language, high-inference language and language-persuasive techniques) is rhetoric used to influence an audience by using words and phrases with strong connotations associated with them in order to invoke an emotional response and/or exploit stereotypes.[1][2][3] Loaded words and phrases have significant emotional implications and involve strongly positive or negative reactions beyond their literal meaning.

(The intent, emotional, and exploit parts I do not consider at all relevant to this discussion).

The larger, more abstract point that I'd like to make is: reality is infinitely complex, and we as individuals reason upon it with far from infinitely powerful minds. Now, start layering on all the other complexities, like collective reasoning (hampered by language and a variety of other things), necessities of being forced to make incredibly imprecise/coarse group decisions on a strict timeline (our political systems), complex and imperfect incentive systems, asymmetry and inaccuracy of information, advances in some domains (science, technology, industrialization) without corresponding advances in complementary domains (psychology, consciousness, etc), and so forth...and before too long you've got a bit of a mess on your hands.
This kind of thing is normally the domain of sites you find after searching “office 365 warez”. Pretty bad.
Bold claims. Do you have any references that support any of them? Inquiring minds want to know.
In 2020, all content is marketing
Mesmer mobile app accessibility roundup for May 8, 2020
People know their friends are not on App.net, but are on Facebook.

Or in other words:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
> And the ETF will typically deal with things like rolling the futures position ahead of expiry.

This listed as making commodity ETFs more suitable for "casual investors" is the exact reason why they always lose money on ETFs. Retail investors for the most part do not understand contango or backwardation and do not understand (even though it's listed at the beginning of every prospectus) that these are not buy and hold instruments. In fact, I'd argue that it's easier to understand roll costs by actually having to roll futures contracts yourself (which is not difficult at all) vs having it obfuscated away in an ETF.
IRC was a major part of the online society we used to have, which I found more valuable at the time than the online economy we have today.
:raises hand:

I'm scared. Not enough to be curled in a ball in the corner, but enough to be taking social distancing seriously. My wife has medical history that puts her at higher risk, plus she's in her 50s (and me in my 40s) so we're both at slightly higher risk just based on age.
I have some stories about old code but this is a nice one: in my old job I've needed to write technical documentation about a GUI we had developed. This consisted in making numbered labels in pictures using Gimp, embedding the pictures in a LibreOffice document (at the time, OpenOffice) and writing what each item was about.

I soon got tired of drawing circles and numbers and decided to write a quick Gimp plugin that does just that:

https://github.com/silasdb/mark-number-circles/blob/master/m...

I new nothing about Scheme at the time (the script is written in an imperative style) but I still think it is one of the smallest and most useful pieces of code I've ever written and from time to time I get an email from a random person from the world thanking for this small script :-)

EDIT: fix English
...or "pivot" to selling themselves to GM or Avis or some taxicab company, at pennies on the dollar?
When SourceHut is big enough and there's a new underdog to support. Hurray for competitive markets!
A bag of animals killing and eating each other is united.

I wouldn't say it is good.

Perhaps the violence back then was a lot more wanton. They just wanted to blow people up regardless of why.

Now they found a way to worm themselves in power and justify their past crimes to their children.

Today we live in a very violent world. It's everywhere. Work each other to death, push and provoke, without any thought of what we're doing to one another.