skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because if the patent applicant keeps the technology secret, there is no patent. Meaning the road is open for other companies to invent the same technology.
Arctic Code Vault
Couldn’t agree more about everything said here and there is still so much more you could complain about.
I was raised in a small german village near the rhine. which also has a big project to reintroduce salmon: https://www.salmoncomeback.org/ and https://www.iksr.org/en/icpr/rhine-2020/salmon-2020 as far as I know salmon was back since 2016 in these regions which was a huge breaktrough.
Their customer service was not great for me: my work mbp16 failed within 6 months due to apparently some display cable breaking. Apple kept the laptop for over a month and I had to plead for status updates, which generally fell on deaf ears. When they did ship the laptop back, they got my name and address wrong in spite of confirming it multiple times, which caused further confusion and delays. I remain convinced that a vendor on Alibaba would have done better than Apple in a similar situation.
I think most browsers typically enforce a maximum duration.
Local TV News managed to interview a neighbor from directly across the street where the explosion occurred[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8
You boy, what say is it?

Why it's Christmas sir

The spirits did it all in one night! Of course they did they can do anything.

Take this commit key and go get me the silliest linux port you can find, someone on an old mips even perhaps.
It appears this is cost-per-lumen, not just cost-for-any-level-of-illumination. So it makes sense. The bottom of the page has this information:

>Method: This project is a visualization of a 1990s paper[0] by William Nordhaus, wherein the economist assessed the amount of illumination that workers could purchase at various times in history. I’d recommend the paper even if you’re not a fan of academic writing; it’s approachable, and Nordhaus is the type of Nobel prize-winning overachiever who goes so far as recreating a Babylonian oil lantern to assess its illumination capacity.

[0] https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c6064/c6064.pdf
Nothing to dispute. Cubase was also available for the Atari because Atari was still the big platform for audio at the time. But it was programmed on Windows, for Windows, and the next version of Cubase (the famous one, which introduced VSTs) dropped support for Atari altogether.
There are reports of human remains at the scene.
I've been wondering if it's one of the 5G weirdos who got tired of burning down antennas on the street and started thinking bigger.
Maybe the real targets were the pigeons on the sidewalk?
When are we going to reign in this kind of corporate propaganda?

Oil companies are doing this, cigarette companies did this, asbestos companies did this, lead companies did this, opioid companies did this, sugar companies are actively doing this...
Nobody is talking about closing borders to cargo.
>Maybe letting the certificates expire would have actually helped to secure the IoT.

You would also have hundreds of millions of people who can't connect to most websites anymore:

>Let's Encrypt says it was added to Android's CA store in version 7.1.1 (released December 2016) and, according to Google's official stats, 33.8 percent of active Android users are on a version older than that.

Not everyone can afford to buy a new phone every 4-5 years. You would alienate a lot of people from smartphones, from websites that use Let's Encrypt, or maybe even websites that use HTTPS.
It's news if there's anything notable about the strain. More deadly, faster spreading, potentialy resistant to the vaccines.

So far UK and South Africa have two strains that are faster spreading (and hopefully that's the only difference). If there's nothing special about the one from Japan, I bet that this is just getting attention because the other two are in the news. Either news orgs jumping on a bandwagon or HN readers expecting that it's similar when it's not.

But maybe this one actually is notable too, I don't know.
How do we punish the poor?
Ok I should have clarified that, I meant available Linux GUI's in reference to OP and IRIX. You'd have to create something from scratch. I don't think you could cram a GUI on par with IRIX in 4mb.
To you, the fact that their methods section didn't loudly announce they're cherrypicking might be enough evidence to trust them.

To me, the fact that climate science has made its fair share of vast, vast mispredictions, such as the prestigious Club of Rome's 1972 model saying we'd run out of petroleum in ~2000, means that the default assumption is mistrust, not trust.

You can call me a tinfoil hatter, but I think if one wants conclusive evidence on the accuracy of climate models they'd have to go over the body of research from that time and judge for themselves whether the researchers chose a representative sample. That's obviously way too much effort for a snide internet discussion, but the point is that if the field is mostly bullshit, that's just not refutable by pointing to the same people saying they're not bullshitting.
Army designing new futuristic goggles for US Soldiers
Mobile nixOS supports external device definitions so if enough examples of non-phones are made, I think a repo/project will begin to emerge.
I think Prof. Hewitt should one of these days actually write a working system in Erlang or Elixir. I suggest to Carl that he write something easy (and potentially useful), like a DNS server, as a starting point. Raft might also be fun, that's about 350-500 lines to do as it is in the paper, and maybe about 600 with the upgrades necessary to get a correct consensus protocol.
> an obscure niche

Are e-readers really obscure? Seems like a pretty big market.
I don't know if we are that advanced in medicine to figure out from the genome of the virus what will be the impact on a human being.
It fills me with joy the HN is sufficiently eclectic to have an article such as this. Thank you, OP!
additional angle to consider under tinfoil:

building ran telecommunications and the telecom outage affected the nashville airport, altering some flights

https://twitter.com/Fly_Nashville/status/1342566428386488324...

not to make a mountain out of a molehill, but thought experiments are good exercise.
My understanding is that people were given the choice of either quarantining in a government facility without phone tracking, or using the app. That seems more than reasonable to me.
Ask HN: How can I download the Big Sur disk image?
I live somewhere with a very unreliable internet connection. I can not get the entire update for Big Sur downloaded before it fails. If I could use a resumable download manager which I often do, I could get it finished.

Is there a way to get a direct link to the image/file so I can download it myself, outside the update manager? I am a mac developer as well but there are no links in the developer download section like there used to be ages ago.
Possibly a typo of "hb" for "homebrew"?
Jeezus. What is wrong with people? If this woke nonsense is not stopped we are going to chase away all the people who actually create things and be left only with the evil mediocrities that enforce COCs.
First thing I thought of was all the disgruntled door dashers with AT&T as their provider. For those who don't know, dashers who use use AT&T have been impacted by some kind of network issue for the last month or so. It makes it difficult for them to use the doordash driver app and neither DD nor AT&T have a fix at the moment.
Pinterest CEO is an ex Google worker and many investments into Pinterest come from Google related people.

They obviously turn the blind eye, anyone in the business knows that since Google is very keen on blackholing people or companies who use tricks like that. Just another Silicon Valley affluent people love story.
Seconding this, and also wanted to recommend the book "Make it Clear", which contains a lot of PHW's communication advice beyond just talks. https://www.amazon.com/Make-Clear-Speak-Persuade-Inform/dp/0...
The site doesn't specify it well, but this is cost for a given level of illumination, not cost for any level of illumination.

It takes a lot of firewood to produce the same amount of light as a regular lightbulb. Heck, it takes a lot even compared to an oil lamp.

I read "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" by Daniel Yergin some time ago. One of the things that struck me was just how much of an effect kerosene lamps had on society. It was the main use for oil in the early days, and indoor lighting went from expensive whale oil (or dirty, still-costly tallow) to cheap, abundant kerosene. It provided hours more leisure time every night in the winter.
Google was even 25/y when i was there. I heard they switched to monthly now as did fb
Wonderful talk and I followed his guidelines in my public speaking this year
The idea is that they encourage people to come up with a better way to do the same thing.

The problem is patents have come closer to patenting the overarching concept rather than an implementation.

A patent application should be required to come with [an] implementation[s] to show that every claim being made exists and has actually been developed.
Yes, that started to happen once the key patents expired.
It's more Canadian anecdotes vs US anecdotes, not an analysis. I don't live in US and never faced with US healthcare. I live in Montreal, and local healthcare is not impressive compared with the European counties I can compare. Most of my friends-immigrants had medical treatment in their home countries in Europe or India, mostly because of the wait times. Probably one would better compare with UK, FR, ES, not CA.
Compulsory licensing is already a thing in many countries. It's mostly used in drug manufacturing.
This is a great talk, thanks. There is so much potential in the idea of improving our artifacts. If you think about it it’s insane that we just use flat text for the most part.
Pinterest doesn't provide value with their image search spam hence they are parasites indeed.
Since you're already technical, I'd focus on gaining domain knowledge. What business problems are you trying to solve and what technologies are required solve them? Let that be the driver for the technologies you need to learn.
-pinterest removes pages that contain the term pinterest, so pages from a pinterest.* domain, plus articles about pinterest, etc.
People line up every year to get a new flu shot because seasonal influenza keeps mutating the part of its hemagglutinin protein where most neutralizing antibodies bind after exposure to a vaccine that carries the entire hemagglutinin protein (embedded in a weakened/inactivated influenza virus).

Sure, spike ain't hemagglutinin and corona ain't no influenza, but let's not pretend there's no precedent at all for proteins mutating to the point that vaccines become ineffective.
I really like the transflective screen of the Pebble Time watch. I wish I could get a transflective monitor :D
Copyright also provides a monopoly, that’s the whole point, if it didn’t then the GPL, etc would be useless.
Interesting. In many European countries ISDN was widespread in the mid-to-late ‘90s. There were millions of customers in Germany alone, I think.

It was slow compared to the DSL connections that replaced it, but I don’t remember hearing too many negative things about ISDN reliability.

(I bet the only real legacy of this technology is the album by the Future Sound of London which is named ISDN.)
ISDN was pretty much plug and play when I had it back in the day. The gateways were available off the shelf (IIRC mine came from CompUSA) and you could get them with either one or two B channels, as I recall.
It rarely hurts. It is certainly unusual in a lot of ways. The warning being probably towards the top. Before it was part of the news, I wondered why the initial police encounter resulted in cops immediately calling for a bomb squad.

I will admit that my initial thought was that this building was one of the windowless NSA buildings. I guess I was wrong.
See, you're using reason and logic here. That's your mistake. In practice the DMCA has nothing to do with reason and logic.
> This bombing is a conspiracy by definition.

AFAIK there hasn't been any clear indication it's not a lone attacker; without conclusive proof of some joint project it's not “a conspiracy by definition”.
In Idaho we have Red Fish Lake, named after the sockeye salmon that would congregate there, often turning the lake red due to their numbers.

In 2019, only 18 salmon returned to the lake.

Further 4 dams in the Snake River are not used for hydro power, nor are they for flood control. They were used to try to make Idaho a major sea port -- despite the fact that Idaho is several hundred files from the ocean.

https://discoversawtooth.org/what-happened-to-the-red-fish-o...
> UK gov runs plenty of trains. Even before covid, TFL took over chunks of the overground and no one batted an eye lid. Where do people get this nonsense from?

Overground is run by Arriva i.e. Deutsche Bahn who are fully owned by the German government. "TfL" Rail is run by MTR who are majority owned by the government of Hong Kong.

> And even if it were true, why not just apply the rules less strictly to ourselves like you say everyone else is!?

Because respect for the rule of law is one of the greatest strengths of the UK, both for our international reputation and for its own sake. If joining the EU means following rules that are written for Italian-style legal systems, staying out is a lesser evil than turning into Italy.
AT&T says that their services went down along with the gas & power in the area, as a side effect: the gas shutoff cut off their backup generators. That doesn't sound all that targeted.
Great explanation and wonderful read! Kudos ahubert @PowerDNS_Bert
I've been using a OnePlus One since release and I can still use the web for hours. No removable battery in this one, but it seems to work fine.
>That's another unfair comparison, when in 2020 alone over 100 journalists have been disappeared or detained in China. Assange has just been indicted and failed to appear in court.

Assange has been indicted for his journalism acts, and there has already been a sham trial to push his extradition. This follows the years of what the UN calls torture we've already subjected him to.

Further, in 2020 alone over 100 journalists have been detained in the US.

https://freedom.press/news/2020-report-journalists-arrested-...
This is, of course, cool. No doubt. I have an EverDrive 64 and I’ll probably test this out later today or tomorrow.

I am skeptical that this would be the preferred way to port emulators or graphical games. You’re not getting a budget SGI workstation out of this, because the OS kernel itself is only a small part.

The N64 is built around a chip called the Reality Control Processor, or RCP. This contains the RSP, stripped-down MIPS CPU core with a fixed-point SIMD vector unit, and the RDP, a rasterization engine that does simple trilinear texture interpolation and color blending. This is the hard part of programming the N64, and it’s not something that’s addressed by swapping out the OS kernel.

There are… a number of major challenges you will still have to face if you want to make homebrew software for the N64, unless you are okay with just having something on the CPU and writing to the framebuffer.
Okay, this is the first I'm hearing about a bombing attack in Nashville, and the article kinda starts in media res - was anybody hurt?
Please link directly to the source rather than to Reddit. It does not display on most mobile browsers
This is not a report about a new variant, but that they found 5 cases of B.1.1.7 (the UK one) in Japan.
It’s easy to say that in retrospect but to anyone working on it I’m sure it felt more important for the outcome of the war than being able to put 1000 songs in your pocket or whatever.
Why should I invest in R&D then
Twitter? Really? If you judge by the stuff they put out publicly it’s mostly google and fb. Even linkedin has kafka. What did twitter ever put out? Mesos? (No, thanks)
Hybrid clouds will rely on magnetic tape for decades to come
Many, many thanks for your reply!

> Building and doing things with my hands (like playing an instrument, cleaning around the house, or even playing with LEGO) seem to be the most effective ways for me to overcome it.

Same here, even though LEGO can stress me out sometimes! But playing music is always a great source of peace! Reading even, as long as it's fiction. Asimov seems to redirect my attention to a single target, and that helps!

> Work is also a good distraction for me sometimes because I enjoy what I do

This also is the same for me, but there's a minor part (let's say 20% or 30%) of my job that I don't really enjoy, and that really sets me back, every single time...

I will try following your suggestions, and I will focus more on different activities that can distract me in a positive way!

I wish you all the best, and I hope with all my heart that 2021 will bring resolution to your issues!

From you username I would guess that you like Haskell, I also love it! :)
Anxiety ("anticipation of future threat") can be rational. It exists to prepare you for threats.

Disordered anxiety is reacting when there is no threat.
Ideas are global though, and the patent system isn't.

In order to turn a patent in to a literal recipe for a competing product all you have to do is step out of a registered jurisdiction.

So people who actually come up with something meaningful have the financial burden of registering in numerous major jurisdictions at a minimum.

However, each comes with its own quirks, costs, and processes, some of which can be slower (eg. Japan) or qualitatively different (actual novelty checks performed vs. only cursory inspection) and thus vary from verging on legally dubious (more like "option to expend lawyers on creating problems for competitors in the future" than actual patent) to total lockdown.

It's a mess. Mostly it only keeps patent lawyers in business. We need to get rid of it.
Three people, none seriously. All in hospital in a stable condition - https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion/in...
The reports I linked to argue that (i) demand has been significantly reduced. The paper I replied to argues that (ii) a reduction of demand is significantly correlated with a reduction of poaching. Not only is there no "outweighing" of the former by the latter, but the former depends for its point on the latter (i.e. there is no reason to care if (i) is true unless (ii) is true).

The tweet is from this month. The NG article is from 2018, but the WWF article postdates the Nature article.
Oh ye well I agree to that a lone wolf would be no conspirator. Forgot about that possibility.
I can’t use Rift S, and neither can you. Virtual Reality issues
Don't people and goods mostly travel separately?
Of course if you're in a completely dark room any LCD is going to be bright. But in that scenario you can't use an eink screen either. The point is if there is some light, you can probably find a brightness setting such that your LCD is emitting about as much light as an eink display will reflect, making them (at least subjectively to me) equivalent.
Timing on Christmas and the lengthy list of security systems that rely upon ATT.. makes me wonder. Some variety of a Heist? Seems it wouldn’t be market related given mkts already closed. This is far fetched, yeah. Maybe it was just someone who hates 5G.
it is still hit and miss, and usually silently undone with Windows Updates
Not until font rendering is ever fixed https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2017/04/were-all-e...

I find no occurrences of enbubbled in the ngram viewer.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=embubbled

This new word is poised to liftoff into the Twitter Sphere.
I often see "copy this country" but often, it is simply not possible, policies are usually a result of each country specificities more than the other way around. For Taiwan.

- It is an island

- It has an effective, well centralized surveillance network

- It has (presumably) an obedient population, or at least, one that don't think personal freedom includes the right to spread the disease

- They were well prepared thanks to the their experience with SARS

- A good enough welfare system to allow people to quarantine without starving or getting ruined

- A good enough police force to make sure they stay quarantined

- Enough masks and hand sanitizer, with domestic production

This is pretty much the opposite of the US. Which is highly connected, with a loosely connected government that has little control over the private sector that runs the country and a highly individualistic population.

Also, maybe there are some populations that just do better for a mix of reasons: climate, race (genetics), culture, average age, health and population density,...

Final note: closing borders is only effective if you contained the epidemic and others didn't.
Parent is probably talking about SLS (selective laser sintering). Patents expired in 2014.
This is actual cheating rather than “cheating”.

I like things where people find ways to automatically compute facts and probabilities, but this is about as close as you can get to just recording the cards dealt to each player.

While the steps taken to work around some difficulties are interesting it just doesn’t seem as fun to me.
Liquid actually makes a lot of sense for airplanes. You can even use simple styrofoam insulation, as the consumption rates would still exceed the evaporation rates. The drawback is that if for some reason the plane can't fly but has fuel, it would have to be bled off to not build pressure.
getting rid of the adware, spyware and bloatware which come with Windows
Hehe, I’d watch that stream for sure.
> Systems are dynamic and complex, but that doesn’t make them unknowable. If complex systems were impossible to model science wouldn’t be a thing.

Not quite. It can makes them unpredictable, not unknowable... more specifically it can make them computationally irreducible which means we cannot find a simplified description of their behavior without having to compute every step, even when we understand the underlying rules that govern them. In fact we often cannot model them very well, an easy every day example is the weather, which we desperately want to know, but our methods are a significant compromise - that may seem like an unfair analogy but it really isn't, the atoms of society may be fewer but they have far more dimensions and more complex individual interactions.

It doesn't always apply, even within the same medium, it depends on the context e.g predicting weather requires some kind of simulation of fluid and pressure, yet in a different, more narrow context it's not necessary to attempt simulating the underlying mechanisms in any way or form, instead the overall behavior can be simplified to a set of descriptive equations (Bernoulli's).

It's funny because this does touch on a core issue for science - we still mostly hold this traditional view of it based on a history of going after the more easily obtainable nuggets of behavior with nice manageable reducible descriptions, but we have been unwittingly selective.

> what other complex interactions are resulting in a new strain becoming dominant over an existing one?

It does not need to result in a new _variant_, this right here is the misunderstanding. These two things can happen and not be related.
Self-assembling atomic-scale nanowires can now be produced at scale
> officers and witnesses heard a broadcast coming from the RV giving a dire warning: “Evacuate now. There is a bomb. A bomb is in this vehicle and will explode." Then, the voice started a 15-minute countdown. Metro Police Chief John Drake said the six officers at the scene quickly began to evacuate the area, going door-to-door. They redirected a man walking his dog along the street.

This is surreal. Almost a scene from some Sci-Fi spy movie, in which the protagonist/antagonist performs a surgical attack on a strategic target while preventing unnecessary civilian death...