skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. Unfortunately it's a nontrivial source of revenue.

In 2018 they sued Groupon for $167m and got $83m.

Interesting quotes from an article [0] reporting on it include:

> In 2017 IBM generated about $1.2 billion in revenue from its licensing activities.

> An IBM licensing executive testified that Amazon, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter have each paid IBM $20 million to $50 million as part of cross-licensing deals that gave them access to the patent portfolio.

> IBM lawyer John Desmarais told jurors the company had no choice but to sue after Groupon refused to take responsibility for using IBM’s foundational technology.

> “The verdict is a vindication for IBM’s licensing program,” Desmarais said by phone.

It looks like they've been at it for a while, too. They sued Amazon in 2006 [1]. Quotes from that reporting:

> IBM alleges that Amazon.com knowingly exploits its intellectual property by infringing on several patents that cover, among other things, the presentation of applications in an interactive service, the storage of data in an interactive network, the presentation of advertising in an interactive service, and the ordering of items from an electronic catalog.

While doing some digging, I stumbled across this [2] super interesting scoop on how IBM views and remunerates successful patent-applicant-employees, from 2001. Makes sense to give out bonuses for patents, when they weaponize them this way.

Gross. :/

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ibm-groupon-lawsuit-idUSK...

[1]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2547652/ibm-sues-amazo...

[2]: https://www.eetimes.com/ees-want-a-bigger-piece-of-patent-ro...
Yeah I read the forum expecting to find a false positive but then it turns out the build included malware and the OS worked as expected to identify it?
There’s a range of flexibility offered including many homes that have free cancellation until 5 or 1 day before check-in. Some are on Stricter policies that are more strict than what you would find with hotels but homeowners also have different risk profiles and the policies help balance that risk out.
I would say that is not a very sustainable model because idea of the article is to point out class of issue a group of people are facing, not a single person. Sending the money to that one person who faced the issue may give instant gratification and uplift one person/family but it won't help the cause.

And in a country like India, there will always be people who will game the system and the "send me money" button less credible.
> No family is perfect but most keep their kids safe

Curious, what percentage of families, on average, do you think are "Not perfect"?
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I think Photoshop is the best tool that specifically shows editors on how to edit in Photopea. It is the best alternative to Photoshop, I guess. I'm enjoying it. Great work! Thank you so much for this alternative tool! I got so much out of it.
I didn't think that needed a /s
> the ability to infer causes from observed phenomena

So 'reading the room'. In social settings you can't follow logic and rationale blindly because there are these things on two legs full of meat and organs that don't like it.
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I'm glad to hear the qualifier "first" used in that case. Hope things are better for you now.
The actual browser.

I am only running Pi-Hole on my network but then again if that was a problem it would not have worked on my MacBook either
Ignoring the lack-of-any-progress-towards-AGI elephant in the room is presumably the main reason the AI hype train happily speeds on its pointless route throwing out it's cute tricks and tools with no actual destination in sight.

Best not to ignore.
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PWAs are terrible, but that debate has nothing on the real gem here:

> ...Then why does Apple advertise its products using Google Ads?

Congratulations, this cracks top 5 oddest Apple hater argument ever posted in this land of many of 'em.
Ah, simply have separable battery modules that you drop from the plane as their charge is depleted. Put pop-out wings on them and use gps guidence so that they glide back to recovery centers on the ground, which you've had the foresight (and funding) to build in sufficient density along any likely route your plane might operate. Problem solved.

I'm joking, mostly.
How could I have forgotten. An excellent reference, well done :)

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I can’t quite figure out how a Geiger counter would make sense.

Typical Geiger tubes (and high voltage generator) would be too big to fit in an iPod.

But why would they need such tight integration with the iPod itself? The data isn’t big (each reading would only be an 8 or 16bit int) and could easily be stored on some small flash by something like an PIC12/MSP430.

So you’d only need some simple trigger, which might be a hidden menu item which flips a GPIO to take a reading. Or even just tap the audio output and trigger on a specific frequency being played.

Audio recordings might make sense. I don’t think the iPod video had a built in mic, so one would need to be added. That doesn’t ring totally true to me either though...

The whole thing seems quite weird. I can’t really see any good reason for such tight integration with the iPod.
> although the circumstances they allow you to help with might not be the exact ones that first attracted your interest and concern.

Yeah, well, I'm human enough to have those impulses but also know it's good to help anyone, really, and that satisfying myself isn't the point. So thanks for the link, I'll check them out.
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You'll notice that when Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay colluded for years to keep wages artificially low, their final penalty was far less than they saved in costs, and none of the corporate people involved faced jail time for their illegal actions.

In other words, that collusion was profitable for those companies and for upper management like Eric Schmidt who participated but face no real ostracism for their illegal actions.

That law has no real teeth.

Compare that to, say, UC filing charges against UAW Local 2865 following wildcat strikes at UCSC claiming that UAW Local 2865 didn't do enough to prevent the strike UAW Local 2865 didn't authorize in the first place.
Just within the process. Between processes or process and kernel, there are already runtime checks, so Rust isn't contributing safety so much quality.
Does it require to have AWS account?
I would definitely argue there's been substantial progress towards AGI. We've been seeing increasingly impressive AI results with increasingly more general architectures. Which criteria do you have for progress towards AGI that aren't being met?
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Yep, all those exact reasons are why I noted it's unfair (issue a group of people are facing, not an individual) and would be untenable as soon as it became any kind of system or recurring practice on any scale whatsoever ("there will always be people who will game the system"). Those are precisely the problems with the notion.
Man, I really love my Macbook pro. Such a nice piece of hardware, and the OS is a joy to use. But the more and more I learn about about their business practices, the more I wonder if they are really in line with my own values, and the more I think about how much benefit I really gain from the OS.

Probably not as much as I used to think.

I'm starting to realize something. I'm almost certain I would be just as happy with a Linux capable laptop, loaded up with Ubuntu 20.04. I'm pretty sure my next laptop purchase will not be another Macbook pro. It will surely save me a ton of money, and I'm just not convinced the walled garden is adding enough to my life to make it worth it.
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This isn't really true. Try surviving 40,000 years as a 600 lb diabetic. Yet modern medicine asserts "that fitness function is dumb". In fact, modern medicine asserts __all__ fitness functions are dumb. I can't name a single one where modern medicine says "Yeah, that looks good. Kill them off."
I can't decide if I think this is a good idea or not. Conceptually I like that I can get a s3 bucket/rds db/sqs queue by using kubectl but I'm not sure if that's the best way to manage the lifecycle, especially on something like a container registry, that likely outlives any given k8s cluster.
It was always in the cards. At one time a high-school degree was advanced, then mandatory, then college was minimum, now masters, soon phd's then multiple phd's. The issue is physics, the universe is too complex, see the three-body problem [0] (if the entire universe consisted of just 3 particles, that would already be too much for us to calculate). Complexity explodes exponentially. We reach computation barriers immediately. Which explains why stuff like true self-driving doesn't even come close to meeting promises and similar.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem
My observation is that the industry ("we") as a whole is slowly but steadily making progress, without throwing our hands and say we need AGI. A big part of this comes from the upscaling of test fleets, which now generate data with enough quantity and variety that you can leverage the existing data tools to analyze and give developers precise and actionable feedback. While Tesla might seem like a popular punch bag in the ADV world, they are a big practitioner of this paradigm and did get good value out of it. That, and the trend of replacing more and more hand-crafted rules with fuzzy numerical models designed to "blend together" the rules (therefore retaining explainability).
CalPers had returns of 4.7%, 6.7%, 8.6%, and 11.2% for the past 4 fiscal years. This is better than a 60/40 portfolio, which doesnt seem unreasonably conservative for a pension fund to me. Of course in hindsight you can see how they could have done better, but they certainly could have done worse.
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This isn’t necessarily the case. It’s true in a model in which everyone is equally susceptible, equally likely to interact with any other given person, etc. Modeling an epidemic this way is like modeling a cow as a sphere.

There’s an idea that is almost as oversimplified, makes a big assumption, and comes up with a much lower percentage: suppose that each person is just as likely to interact with any other given person, but that people come in two types: susceptible and naturally immune. Then the initial R0 in fact represents a more contagious disease than the first model (as the probability of infecting a susceptible contact needs to be higher for a given R0), but the disease stops increasing exponentially at a lower infection rate. In particular, once the entire susceptible population has gotten the disease, it’s over, and that’s less than 100% of people.

Both of these models are hugely oversimplified, and neither one is likely to be fully correct.
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We have over a thousand people a day dying of this thing. What is anyone doing about it? The only people I see doing something are dems.
Black newborns 3 times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors
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What you're calling misery is literally just life for half of the world.
Likewise, wanting other people to sacrifice their interest againts your interest is selfish too.
I could make the argument that fuels that burn are unsuitable for automobiles which crash into each other frequently.

But yeah, I think it would need lots of development to get battery technology to do something like a ny-tokyo flight. It might only work for short hop service.

I guess that's how it has worked for battery electric trucks. The first one basically did short, known routes around town with lots of stop/start. That controlled the parameters and made it feasible. I don't know if battery powered trucks will ever replace long-haul trucks unless batteries get lots better or charging gets really fast.
> a worker is paid his “marginal product of labour”, which means the value of what he produces

The marginal value of what he produces. Which means that if there is a minimum wage in effect, the employer might be forced to pay the worker more than the marginal value of what he produces. Which in practice means that employer starts looking for ways to eliminate that job, since it costs more than it is worth. If employers do not do that in the presence of minimum wage laws, it simply means the laws are having zero effect because the minimum wage is below the free market equilibrium wage for that job anyway.

> The labor market is not a free market

It is if there are no laws fixing prices, i.e., no minimum wage laws.

None of the things you list prevent a market from being a free market. A free market is not a market where everyone has equal negotiating power, equal information, or equal ability to deal with some good or service not being available. A free market is a market in which all transactions are voluntary--i.e., a transaction happens only if both parties believe that that transaction, at that price, will make them better off. Any third party dictating the terms of transactions--of which minimum wage laws are just one of many examples--makes the market a non-free market. The fact that the third party believes that it is "improving" something doesn't change the economic fact that it is forcing the market to not be free, and therefore making the market less efficient.

> Companies will always push for lower wages wherever they can, without a care for the actual wealth created by the worker

In a free market, they can't, because their competitors will be willing to pay more for workers that are worth more in terms of productivity. Tech companies are good examples: they are willing to pay a high premium for workers that can create a lot of value by writing good code and more generally doing good, reliable software engineering. Companies that try to pay less for such workers simply don't get them.

> The only way to counter that push is by giving more power to the worker

No, that doesn't counter anything, because "the worker" is not one person and does not have one interest. The best way to help workers is to raise their productivity, so that the work they do is worth more and can command higher wages. But really, even that misstates it, because it treats the workers as though they weren't capable of raising their own productivity if given the opportunity, and need "help" in doing so. Which is the big problem with all the grand schemes to "help the worker": it's people with no skin in the game themselves trying to dictate to everyone else how they should play.
Maybe it makes sense for development, short-lived resources or cattle. Don't start about cross-cluster use though, having to think about where a resource is defined/used is a mess.

The same issue is with Service Catalog and the open service broker model. AWS ACK is way better in its expressiveness, in comparison. (one crd per resource) It is more difficult to generate them though, compared to simply adding existing brokers.
You'd think so but my brother started an extended WFH road trip and his first booking (after a very long drive) ended up going to hell due to the host not having the place ready and to top it off Airbnb has some crazy policies such as: if you have any issue it's a 100% refund (ok, great you think) but since there is no leeway to even attempt to work something out with a host, the host will always leave poor feedback, which (get this) you can not view unless you leave a review. Bonkers.
Not worth the trouble for people who have enough money to not want to worry about the hassle and headache.
The typing accuracy of physical is crazy! I was able to take notes in meetings without looking at the screen, can't do that on touch...

More importantly - where the heck did you get a G6 for $150??
> I guess it's kind of a grass is greener situation as I have recently been missing living in the city with all the services offered there but when I was there I wanted to live in the country.

Emotions matter. You're feeling that way for a reason, and should probably dig a bit into that.

Maybe it might help to sit down and list out what it is you miss, and why?

That'd give you a good starting point to see if you can't fix some of those things.

You can also book an AirBnB in a city and go spend some time there, which might help you gain a better sense of perspective.
"all the impressive achievements of deep learning amount to just curve fitting"
This is my biggest concern too, cross-platform game dev is just so hard to do and you even have to deal with stuff like gatekeeper. I was just thinking about giving up cross-platform entirely now and just do the web which is plain simple
> So, what's wrong, for the 3rd time, with a solo jogger on the beach, with nobody around them?

What part of "It's not the activities at the beach, but the flood of people doing activities AFTER." do you not understand?"

At this point I need to stop as it is entirely possible that I am arguing with a GPT-3 based bot.
This is great!

Are other companies doing similar things? e.g. I would love to be able to set up Cloudflare Access for services in k8s
There seems to be a slight misunderstanding regarding the ‘exam’ and ‘testing’ context in this article. I don’t know if it is translated or was just poorly written.

Just to be clear, this awesome dad was taking his son to another town to appear for the 10th grade Math examination so that he does not fail the paper. Off-topic, but I am surprised that these exams are still being conducted. Most academic examinations are suspended as of now and may resume next month.

Anyways, though the situation was like this because most public transportation has been shut down, it is still a sad state of affairs - and I don’t know what to do about it nor what can be a solution.

Respect for this father who is striving to push his son at least a level up the economic ladder via education.

Decades ago, my father used to walk several miles a day to attend school. His dedication and hard work has probably pushed my family through 2 generations-worth of growth. I’d say we are upper middle-class in India right now. And I am eternally grateful to my family for their efforts.

Kudos to this father, and others who strive through utter misery to rise above the hand life has dealt them.
"Gay" originally meant "happy", and while "happy" and "joyful" are different, they are at least reasonably close.

Wasn't Nietzsche nihilist, though? Seems like it would be hard to be joyful if your science leads to nihilism.
Sure, it can be. Or it could just talk about black and white, and, say, about how black has a clearly inferior position, and be talking about nothing but chess, and still trigger an algorithm.
Nice, idiomatically!

But if the original `things` is gigabytes in size and streamed from elsewhere, isn't it queueing those all up, as they're read from `also_things`, in case they're ever read from new `things` - even if they're not?
I think that is the way to find pricing for any development activity. There is an industry standard range on price per hour, but no standard on price per feature (which is impossible).
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We went through this since Covid-19 started.
What we found was that a virtual classroom has a lot of flaws.
For our 8 year old - who is highly intelligent - the virtual classroom was a disaster.
Though he is an outstanding student, he simply refused to comply with homework assignments.
Writing short observations in particular was a disaster. He became extremly agitated and simply refused to complete the assignments. He was arguing his case with us and the teacher, trying to explain that the scenario given in the assignment does not exist as a result he won't comply. It was hell to get him to do something he did not see as real.
The continuous stress created by the Covid situation certainly was partially responsible.
Our own assessment:
We prefer to send him to a real classroom. Home virtual schooling can not be a substitute for the real thing.
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I wish I could find the article, but I think Joel on Software (?) had something once about bigger companies adding on things like how some people stand by the door turning around and checking their wallet and keys carefully before going out. or some similar analogy.
As an example, textile and manufacturing jobs being used exported to Asian countries.

It's not like companies want to pay for shipping of products from halfway across the world, but because of minimum wage it makes it more profitable to do so. Which results in jobs leaving to other countries.

Without minimum, those workers wages would have simply gone down over time, allowing them some time to find other opportunities. Instead of just one day the plants up and decides to move to Asia and you're out of a job.
This is not categorically true. E.g., South Dakota is doing fine and never locked down. Same with Wyoming.

Personally, I think the federal administration has done a fine job--most, if not all, of dealing with this situation should be up to the states, not the feds.
It doesn't really matter because they already explained the justification.
It's how someone like Daryl Davis can literally change the world

I'd forgotten about this story, but it's a really good one. Sometimes we forget our humanity. If you want to convince people, don't browbeat them or belittle them. Do your homework, understand what they believe, and just generally show you're a good person.

We need a new narrative to bubble up through the media that empowers voices of reason and calm, not voices that divide.
This doesn't really seem to offer anything useful, or even contain new information. eg:

* no corruption of, nor access to host memory.

* no corruption of, nor access to memory or other processes.

It looks like what they did is create a wasm file that generates a JS "Alert !!!" string, then blindly runs that string in the browser without any kind of validation?

It's hard to tell from looking at their code though:

https://github.com/sola-st/wasm-binary-security/blob/master/...

The html page there seems to be missing the "main.js" to see what's happening. :(

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Hmmm, it might be this main.js, which looks (without checking) like it came from Emscripten:

https://github.com/sola-st/wasm-binary-security/blob/master/...
S3 buckets and RDS instances probably also outlive your cluster if you're treating them as cattle. I want to make sure I don't delete my RDS instance while I'm doing a blue/green cluster upgrade. I can see defining SQS next to your application being handy (they're somewhat stateful while there are messages in the queue but I'm sure you can do something to ensure they're drained before destroying them).
You're comparing average/median rents with the income of people earning minimum wage. Wouldn't it make more sense that people earning the median income would pay median rent and people with the smallest wages would opt for somewhere cheaper?

I live with roommates because it's cheaper and I probably pay less than half of the average rent in my city. If the average rent in one of the least expensive cities is $600/month, there's still going to be a range of rent prices in that city. I'd expect the median citizen of that city to go for the places with about the average rent and the lowest earning citizens to go for cheaper places, or to live with family or roommates.

If you assume that the cheapest unit you can find is roughly half the rent of the median unit, then living in the median city on $15/hour seems reasonable again.
NYC data from August has some boroughs as high as 51% https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-testing.pa.... The 68% comes from this article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-.... The data appears to be from doctor's offices- not sure we can access that actual data (but I didn't try that hard to get it).