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Someone should review what happened in Microsoft v Motorola here: if Nokia knowingly withheld information about patents they owned that will affect H.264 licensing and Nokia is on the H.264 WG, then what will happen is that the patent is not invalidated but not enforced (effectively enforced royalty-free licensing) if a manufacturer wants to make a conforming H.264 decoder (as H.264, H.265, VP9 and AV1 is defined only for decoding and the main reason that encoders may vary in their quality and performance). For encoding, any patent that is not necessary to make a conforming H.264 stream (in other words, to enhance H.264 quality and performance) is negotiated outside of FRAND conditions (but in common H.264 practice is also available to licensing through MPEG LA). If the patents are solely used to enhance H.264 encoding quality or performance, then Lenovo doesn't have any chance here (as these falls out of scope in the WG contract Nokia signed with ITU/ISO), but if the patents pertains to the decoding side (like Microsoft v Motorola), then Nokia will not be able to enforce the patents, at least for the H.264 standard.

Edit: Personal opinion: this is H.265ing H.264 and I hate it.

Edit edit: Lenovo is trying to pass some contested patents that was properly declared by Nokia before ITU/ISO as not properly declared: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25398403

Final edit: I gave up reviewing Nokia's declarations after finding matches in the filing. Apparently, the so-called contested patents (at least those that I have checked) were called differently when Nokia submitted the declaration (Lenovo's legal reviewed the patent numbers but did not looked if they matched the filing number). I have looked at some contested patents and it seems that Nokia did declare them properly as far back as 2002, so I genuinely don't know what Lenovo is trying to claim here. Accordingly, I let others complete the review here.
And the fact that it was "discovered" which makes it sound like it was found in a dead person's lab or something. The article really gives the impression that she's dead, which is odd if that's not what is intended.
That’s both inefficient and ineffective vs browser fingerprinting, so you might want to just use a privacy focused browser behind a VPN to hide your IP address.
What you have said so far isn't consistent enough to make sense. You said boxes of the vaccine, now you are saying test kits. Test kits have been publicly available, there is no reason a company or a person couldn't buy them. That is not the same as having someone sneak a vaccine out of a -70C warehouse while keeping it refrigerated.
It is, indeed... I was just pointing out how they draw attention nowadays (ever?).
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Would be nice to try it if it only ran in a web browser.
Not a big difference. A few thousand. A drop in the bucket compared to the 250K and any more ahead killed because many Americans are making a religion of intentionally refusing to limit their spreading of the virus.
My first thought was seeing the 90% cut despite (presumably) traffic not having to transit your network.

My second thought was hoping traffic actually does get proxied through your network, and isn’t pure P2P, to provide anonymity between users.

My third thought was that I should sign up regardless, as this could be useful!
Whats more disconcerting is sectarian violence fomenting by propaganda, even to the point of the breakup of a nuclear armed state, the US. That is disconcerting to me. Preventing it is of the highest priority.
This reminded me of the “nuclear silhouettes” or “human shadow of death”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Shadow_Etched_in_Stone
What does that have to do with the population distribution and the fact that most of the land and people are in the northern hemisphere (and therefore, objectively not in spring)?
I work with Japanese developers who I would struggle to hold a basic conversation with in English. They're about as curious as anyone else you'd find here and do read similar articles - but in their own language. There's a whole world of articles and open source out there not available in English.

The link between language learning and curiosity sounds tenuous at best. I would also add that having access to media in a particular language doesn't mean a lot unless you're prepared to put some effort in. I know expats who've lived in Japan for 20 years and can only speak a few words of Japanese despite being surrounded by it everyday.
Indeed, give them the rubber boot!
In case anyone else hasn't heard of or used :x

> Like “:wq”, but write only when changes have been made.

https://til.hashrocket.com/posts/2fdb6afb66-difference-betwe...
My understanding is that he was forced out by some sort of community disfunction in 2005, long before Red Hat took charge.
Without plugins Visual Studio Code in principle is just an editor. Yet even without any plugins or language-specific support it still a better tool for development out-of-the-box than Vim or Emacs. It can quick open and search across a development tree with thousands of files with no configuration.

So as an editor for config files and small projects Vim without plugins is OK. But that basic Vim experience just does not scale. One does need plugins with Vim for anything big.
Used it for a few years, and heavily this year with several daily screen sharing sessions, calls, meetings, ad-hoc group calls, both internally and with external contacts since Covid-19 hit the streets in March, and I've never experienced any of what you mention.

Never heard any issues from my colleagues either, including the less technically minded at sales which usually come running if something doesn't work.

While I think it has room for improvement, for basic stuff it just works for us.
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Hell, there are companies who use this time of year for a big push for loot boxes and each year they tweak how it works to further their income.

An example, Wargaming which runs World of XXX games of which World of Tanks and World of Warships are the biggest tells players of their Warships game that containers can contain one of any one hundred and six premium ships but players noticed patterns and soon determined there was a short list of ships you had to roll first before the rest were available[0]. While they offered a refund after being called out they did not advertise such a refund in game or even on their own site. Duplicate premium ships used to reward the premium currency but that was replaced with another roll last year.

Their World of Tanks sister game operates under more generous rules but that may be more from their primary market is in a different region. Neither publishes odds but a version of the game on consoles does publish its odds because that platform requires it however there is no play against PC

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfWarships/comments/k6ivy5/how...
From today’s guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/12/britis...

This is a global trend
Yes, Java is still important. The vast majority of user-generated content on servers is pretty much Java only. I also believe Java is still the authoritative version of the game (i.e. things come to Java first, before eventually coming out to Bedrock) - the lead game designer for Minecraft is a Java dev.
I was thinking the same thing. I know people who claim all kinds of provably false things and they even form clubs.
There is already an ELO system that ensures players will play against people of their skill level to keep your win rate around 50%. And EA has shown that all it takes is a shiny new card to manipulate people into buying packs.
Remember when the Challenger shuttle was ready to launch so they skipped the final checks of the frozen O-ring data analysis?
To add to your point, onnAndroid Firefix can even be the in-app browser (what Chrome calls Chrome Custom Tabs), and you can verify this by checking the menu as it will say Powered by Firefox.
Why the downvotes sir, arent we all up for gig economy in VSCode?.. :(
That's pretty interesting! I'm also using a CI-built Docker image add my development environment. But this one is less ambitious than yours by being CLI-only

https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/docker-developer-shell/
I'm feeling like, outside the small circles of OSS lib developers and FAANG-level companies employing rockstar front-end devs, there is less and less appreciation for UI as an area to invest talent and money in. Perhaps this is due to boilerplate designs becoming good enough, at a fraction of the cost of custom solutions.
I mentioned FZF (with Rg) with IMO is a great plugin to use. With it you can explore huge projects very quickly without requiring any language specific setup. Vim also supports tags files by default which can be quite nice when browsing large projects, just run universal ctags and you can cross reference symbols for most languages.

Actually the only project-oriented Vim plugins I use are FZF, editorconfig and fugitive (git interface). The rest are just editor tweaks such as vim-unimpaired and vim-surround. And I regularly deal with very large codebases such as the Linux kernel, so at least for my use case it scales reasonably well.
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If 90% of users are on IPv6, you as a content producer are unlikely to need IPv4 at $20/IP (or rather, $5120 per /24).

If 90% of content is on IPv6, you as a user are unlikely to need an IPv4 address.
A lot of discussion about whether YouTube censorship is valid or not, carries an implicit assumption that the marketplace of ideas is up to the task of sorting fact from fiction.

It isn't, at least not right now, because of technologies like YouTube's recommendation engine. When everyone thinks that virality is a signal of truthiness, an algorithm which amplifies outrage to generate virality undermines the marketplace of ideas.

YouTube isn't going to address the source of the problem because they would go out of business, or at least have a few very bad quarters. What they can do however, is pretend to moderate the marketplace and do it poorly enough that we stay focused on one another; instead of on their algorithm that literally converts outrage into money.
So I work in public health, with public health colleagues. I came up with analyses pieced together from the publicly reported information and think that piece is a little disturbing.

Sure, you can come up with some standard numbers in an hour. But it wouldn't be the most thoughtful analysis, and the decision isn't really about a single efficacy estimate anyway.

I guess I figure if you're going to go down this route of pissing matches over how fast you can do an analysis on how big of a dataset, why the hell even have an FDA anyway? Just require the company post all their information and get rid of the regulation entirely. I actually think this isn't an unreasonable argument, even if I don't necessarily agree or disagree with it. It certainly seems more reasonable to me than "we should have a regulator that just rubber stamps things."

I'm fine with the FDA taking their time. The problem with risk in decisions is people forget in high stakes high risk decision making, it's about the process. This whole discussion about the FDA taking too long will look a lot different if a year from now the vaccine turns out to have some horrible long term effects (which it could, even though I think it's unlikely, just, you know, 'cause).
6 months ago.

I let about 10 family and friends connect directly to my home server. My firewall blocks everything except for these 10 IP addresses.

I did get tired of having them figure out their IP address so now I just tell them to access a dummy page page on my external VPS and I check the web server log to see their IP to add to my firewall config.
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Yes they are. I was told by a dealer that they are iterations of the old International Harvester tractors.

They look solid, like cast iron old style tractors.

Also they are relatively inexpensive compared to like John Deere.

All that being said comparing them to big John Deere tractors is like comparing a golf cart to pickup truck. They don't make the massive sized ones that are responsible for the bulk of production field activity.
Use Teams for Video conference. It is a life saver.

Never faced issues on the things that you mention - screen sharing, uploading of a video or image etc.

Perf no issues, conduct internal as well as external conferences with college hires and interns (session attendance can go up to 70-80 people).

Yes there are some usability issues - the most notorious among my colleagues being the very clumsy meeting link share.
Just curious on what bot framework you use
I absolutely do not buy into the idea that "poor Slack" failed to "overcome giants" and that any harm was actually done.

$27bn is actually successful for a company that's just a few years old.

The competition that was stirred during those years ended up with Microsoft developing what is now a good product for 80% of use cases, with integration with tools (Office) that 80% of companies use, and all those companies benefitting from it did not have to shell out a single additional penny.

From the eyes of consumers, I would call it a success of competition rather than a failure. Sure, it has now run its course, but making $27bn out of it is not what I would call a bitter end - the dream of independence aside. But that's a for few individuals to dream about...
Curious to know how it evolved/infected prior to Dec 2019
There are a lot of replies in this thread but yours is the only one worth reading. You gave really valuable advice and insight instead of the usual "game making is lottery" and "don't do it" babble that does not give any reasons at all. I hope the OP reads your post.

Just commented to say thanks for the quality post :)
Brave of you to admit. This community needs to come clean on this, we have so many outspoken, autistic individuals here whose input morphs others' views on what is normal and socially acceptable.
Huh? Awesome for new chars? Like a super awesome weapon for lvl 10? You loose that weapon like 10 mins later?
Funny that this is on the front page today, I switched my project from preact to react in the afternoon. The main culprit : meteor supports react, not preact. I found a workaround at first but when getting a bit more serious it made sense to switch over to the mainstream and avoid unnecessary pains.
Migrating from preact to react was easy, except for the render method arguments that I had to manually move over. Overall I like preact for small projects with little dependencies, and react for larger enterprise project where your just want as little pain as possible. Most react libs have to be forked to work with preact.
That’s not even true. Bose QC35 ii measure objectively very well for headphones. They, like other high quality ANC headphones, use the ANC mic to EQ themselves to a good reference target.

Also no one uses closed back headphones for studio work. What does “mid range studio quality” even mean.

The vast majority of professionals use speakers in a sound treated room for mixing. Those that use headphones do so very carefully, using EQ to get them to sound right (or getting used to the sound profile of the headphones). The most commonly used are Sennheiser open backs in this area - a pair of HD650 is probably most common. In general it’s fairly challenging to mix with headphones accurately though.
Tbh I hate hybrid apps where you’re clearly dealing with a html inside a container. You’re always getting a sub standard result with it.
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> The legislation has limitations. The general public won’t have access to the ownership data, a disappointment to anti-corruption campaigners, who say public scrutiny would help combat criminal activity.

Looks like the data will only be available at the Federal level and not open to the public.

> In another transparency setback, the law also exempts some entities from the disclosure requirements, including domestic investment funds that are advised and operated by a registered investment adviser.

Sounds like the practice of using Registered Agents will still be allowed to continue.

So it's a new law that will change how the Feds can access and prosecute organized crime, which is a good thing, but won't help much in allowing us to learn who really owns that new shinny LLC.
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No I assume pollen's fine, I would maybe double check literally at the point being administered with personally, but the news was about severe reactions, anaphylactic shock, people that need to worry about what's in what they eat. And it came up 'in production' because they didn't have anyone in the trial with such an allergy; surely they had plenty of hayfever in there, statistically.
Ok, but I don't think it's different from so many three-letter agencies.

People say that they were "investigated by (the) IRS" or "got a letter from (the) DMV" all the time. One reads in the press about companies being "fined by (the) EPA" or people being "detained by (the) FBI". Dropping the "the" doesn't look that weird.

Looking at https://www.cia.gov they use both forms "work at the CIA" and "work at CIA" (google returns twice as many results for the former than for the latter).
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A shitty test with 60% accuracy can make things worse than they already are.. People are making decisions based on results that are right barely half the time. I don’t blame the FDA for saying “no”.

I love HN who is normally vehemently anti-business (with good reason) suddenly flips and says “well Pfizer said the vaccine was ok, isn’t that good enough?”

No. It’s not good enough. The reason we spend billions per year on the FDA is because we want an independent, critical and evidence based body making decisions on drugs given to hundreds of millions of Americans.

I mean, hell, Trump was bullying the FDA (which was stupid) and HN seems to be arguing for that exact thing.
How does it eg googles re2?

I remember a neat feature of re2 was you could give it a bunch of regex, and get it to check for all of them at the same time. Made all the difference in an early spam filter I built.
but $20k is like, a year's tuition at a University. Did parent also rent a mansion to live in while attending?
Is the 3% fee to "cash out" earned on your end or PayPal? It just feels a little disengenuous to advertise a rate but the only way to receive payment is at a loss of 3%. ...or is the model that the sharers are also customers and you encourage them to use the service while discouraging "cashout"?
These guys are really amazing. I have been following their work for quite some time, starting with my interest in unikernels and thus OSv. Take a look at Seastar (C*) [1] and ScyllaDB [2].

Some companies are powerhouses!

[1] http://seastar.io
[2] https://www.scylladb.com
Fewer and fewer people are able to get an IPv4 address - that's the main reason for IPv6 !
I seriously wish these kind of displays were more prevalent, not only for readability but for energy-saving.

I'd probably be willing to get a WearOS device if there was one with such a display and with a battery lifetime of more than two days. It's a reason why I stick to "dumb" smartwatches like the Pebble and Amazfit Bip, I don't really have to worry about battery life while still providing useful data.
When there is an option to pay for faster progress the developer is incentivized to make the overall progression slower and grindier in the hopes that more people buy those boosts. See EA Battlefront 2's original hero progression system or to a lesser degree AC Odyssey.
Mueller found Russia attacked the 2016 election and the Senate Intel Committee report found that Trump’s campaign manager was feeding internal campaign data to a Russian Intel Officer. Roger Stone was caught and convicted for lying to Congress about communications with Julian Assange, and the whole lot of them including Trump lied to the American people about hundreds of contacts with Russian nationals (some of whom turned out to be spies and Intel officers).
I would argue what makes the world a better place is ensuring companies have to innovate on their own. That’s what leads to breakthroughs and new things. Constraints often breed innovation. What is the incentive to sink billions into R&D if someone can sit on the sidelines and just take what you have developed? Look at the situation right now: we have multiple vaccine candidates from multiple companies because they all had significant incentive to develop them not because they were necessarily going to make a lot of money off this particular vaccine, but because they could accelerate R&D on tech they can use for other therapies. Some of these vaccine candidates appear to be mediocre at best. If we didn’t have a competitive marketplace we wouldn’t have gotten the best vaccine possible in the shortest timeframe possible.
I don't belong to a high risk group so I don't think I need it for now. There are priorities. Also I'm not risking my otherwise good health with a beta vaccine to prevent the low risk of dying from COVID.

I totally trust science but not companies and governments that are in a mission to save "The Economy" and their fat-arsed pockets.

I'm not saying that a company shouldn't care about making profits. But let's not forget some pharma companies' scandals from the past. Would you rush to consume some magical piping hot medicine/vaccine someone made? Is it ready yet? Is it tested enough? Is it safe for everyone?
Surely they don’t care about it all the time — only when they wish to sell it. One would think that managers who make decisions based on business value — rather than stock “narratives” — would create the most value for long-term owners of the company.
It's also interesting that PARADICE appears in this message twice. One time is spelled backwards (ECIDARAP). Probably he did this because how his first cipher was cracked withing hours/days.

It was cracked by the wife of this high-school teacher. She thought the cipher would start with the word "I" and it would also contain words like "KILL". She found these words within the message so with the help of his husband, they guessed the key and the whole message.

I think Zodiac learned from his mistakes and decide to make it more complicated spelling it backwards, so the same symbols won't appear twice. He probably thought code-breakers would also be looking for important words he included on his earlier messages, such as "paradice" or "slave/s". Having a long sequence of symbols that appears twice and transposing them to his most known words could have led to break the code really fast.
I started reading the intro to that Show Stopper book and can't stop. Great stuff, thanks
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I’m a Vim user and proponent so don’t get me wrong here, but is “creep” in the title intended to be a description of what Vim does, or of the Vim user/protagonist? :)
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Depending on the university that might not cover a semester. Still, within 6 months of making money at that level, your post tax earnings are going to be enough for even the most expensive undergraduate programs
Man. This is honestly every Vim user story. How I despised Vim/Nvim in the early days of me using Vim. Now, its all past and Vim is my workflow. Browser, TUIs, etc etc you name it.

Once nvim-dap starts working well. I am not going to even install VS Code. For now, debugging is a real pain in the ass.
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I very much like Path of Exile because it goes against this grain.

The vast majority of MTX items in that game are cosmetic, adding new skins to armour, new skill VFX, etc. Some of the MTX is different in that you can purchase more stash tabs (though you get quite a few for free already) but it very much feels like ethical MTX, in as much as this kind of thing can be ethical.

https://www.pathofexile.com/shop