skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some interesting details on how the H.264 patents are priced, from an article [1] about how much Google pays. Google had threatened to pull H.264 support circa 2011, but ultimately they decided in 2013 to pay a few million bucks/yr to keep it.

IIRC, H.264 is one of a few non-Google technologies that is included in Chrome, but is not included in Chromium.

> So, how much does those rights cost? Under the terms in place for 2011-2015, the royalty rates are the same regardless of whether a product is part of an OS. There's no royalty for the first 100,000 units of a licensed product; sublicensees pay 20 cents per unit up to 5 million and 10 cents per unit above 5 million. The current agreement includes an annual limit: “The maximum annual royalty (‘cap’) for an Enterprise [is] $6.5 million per year in 2011-2015.”

What happens in 2016? Under the MPEG LA license, the terms are "renewable for successive five-year periods … on reasonable terms and conditions.” The per-copy royalty rates "will not increase by more than 10% at each renewal.” If rates go up by the maximum 10% for that five-year period, the cost of 10 million licenses will increase by $150,000 from a current rate of $1.48 million to $1.63 million.

There's a small gotcha in the new MPEG LA license agreement. Footnote 17, which appears in tiny print at the very end of the summary of license terms, notes that “Annual royalty caps are not subject to the 10% limitation.” Although that sounds like a loophole, it really only affects the largest players in the market.

1: https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-closer-look-at-the-costs-and....
Riding my bike to work kind of filled in items 2 and 3 for me, since work requires me to show up, and I usually have nothing else going on in the morning that can interfere. In the evening, well, now I can only get home if I ride.

Eventually it got to be a habit and then something that is hard to live without. I've substituted taking long walks while working from home.
What about older people who couldn't even have their daily walks for several months? Should they be squatting in their tiny apartments holding water bottles instead? I'm sure there are plenty of people who can work out at home, but I believe there are plenty of people who can't, or at least is a lot harder, for a variety of reasons.
I honestly don't understand Brexit. My usual assumption when strange things happen in politics is game-theory-compatible: there are strong incentive structures driving the behavior. A roughly equivalent statement: some (possibly large) group of people is going to get rich off it, and they're directly or indirectly driving the change.

But here? I can't point to obvious actors with enough pushing power that would benefit from this. Not on the UK side, at least. Brexit feels to me like a meme that got out of hand and drove behavior that's against everyone's self-interest.
Mods, headline suggestion: Robot made with ice; goal is to make one that can repair itself
Researchers have made the first observations of biological magnetoreception
I agree completely, language plays a huge part which is why I'm always advocating for a European lingua franca. I've started writing all the learning resources I produce solely in German and French (whereas I'd always write them in English before for the sake of openness) but it's a drop in the bucket. Honestly I don't know how we're gonna get there.
One possible candidate drug I’ve read quite a bit about but have not seen anything on HN about is high-dose melatonin, and even typical melatonin use is associated with a lower chance of testing positive. There’s a bunch of papers discussing how it _could_ be useful, there are several studies underway but none have been completed yet.
If you're attempting to equate the contexts of systemic, on-going race-based manslaughter to someone fabricating a conspiracy theory (while offering no evidence, threatening other elected officials, rallying supporters, etc) then that is - purely in an academic sense - stupid.
I’m not in denial of that at all. The topic is can the media and tech silence the President of the USA, and the answer is apparently yes.
Multris- Cooperative multiplayer Tetris clone
Nanoparticle Vaccine for Covid-19
This is a bit incorrect.

"La Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière" was their first documentary they projected in Lyon publicly. But already a few years ago, 1893, the Edison Kinetoscope was used to produce the first short films, viewable only through a peephole. Several other such apparatus existed in Europe before the Lumiere's. The Kinetoscope was a huge success, Lumiere's projectors also.

The train arriving in La Ciotat was a bigger production, because they had to travel some hours to the south, and was something they wanted to present in Paris. But I would count the Blacksmiths or Fred Ott's Sneeze more of a movie than the first Lumiere docs. And they are much earlier.

Eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope
You claim that they’re ignoring facts, but provide no facts of your own beyond “some companies use it in production,” which is undoubtably also true of Haskell.
https://collanon.app collaboration tool based on threads with temporal anti bias anonymity in mind. Good also in business scenarios.
80 Cubans would be a better choice, but if circumstances are right, 70 people is plenty to make good on threats such as lynching the vice president.

Just because they chose a bumbling buffoon as savior figure doesn't mean they can be dismissed as harmless.
"Take your fine people on both sides argument" I had no idea I was even making that argument or that was a topic of discussion. But I believe your summery of what happened is not exactly accurate.
I tried to do the math as well and I can't see how 60k steps on average works. From what I can see online your 2 steps per second is somewhat on the slow end but even at an ideal speed (apparently 180 steps per minute / 3 per second) you are still looking at 5.5 hours of running.

This seems achievable for someone very fit who wants to burn the weekend on an ultra long distance run but there is no way they are doing this daily.
So that's why they killed the audio jack on modern phones.
So all the lies have been a ploy to copy this setting?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2147684/violence-erupts-across...

Or to fulfill this "promise"?

Pompeo Promises 'A Smooth Transition To A Second Trump Administration'

https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/1...

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https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-99178053752
Bitcoin holders barred from depositing profits in UK banks
Kamala Harris directly funded the defenses of violent rioters: https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/31/meet-the-rioting-crimin...

It is a tried-and-true tactic of the left to provide legal services to rioters to embolden them in their terrorism.
I'm more concerned with the data being in the hand of an unaccountable private company than with the facial recognition itself to be honest. I remember that Clearview AI itself was associated with far-right individuals last year, so having them police a far-right insurrection from their personal black box system is more than suspect.

If it happens, it should be done by an institution that is under the supervision of congress and staffed by public servants. This emerging, largely unaccountable surveillance industrial complex with ties to extremist political figures worries me more.
TLS on Spring Boot 2.4
Freedom of Association is a fundamental freedom in many countries, for good reason. I'll happily avoid services that happily and stubbornly provide platforms to white nationalists and similar wretches, like Parler and Gab, and it certainly does not bother me that such platforms may not welcome me.

Cults and similar certainly do use their ability to sever association to control their membership, but making that step and severing those bonds frees those same members from the harm of the cult.
In my country (Brazil), go out and socialize.
Climbing is an awesome sport. I used to occasionally climb w/ a guy in his 70's. I'm 56 now and hope I can climb for another 20 years. The big problem is lack of access. With the pandemic gyms are closed. The few climbing spots around here are hours away. I don't have the space now, but the house I'm designing now will have space for a climbing wall or Kilter board.
That was two years and 22 billion dollars ago. Actually the current bull run began the day the tether folks were told they had until January 15th to provide evidence in one of their many ongoing proceedings. Circumstantial? Totally.
> We must have law and order

Absolutely

> that requires accountability for Trump and his enablers.

Absolutely not. It's words like that that truly frighten me. Have you lost your good sense?

What truly worries me is this part: "his enablers".... what exactly are you saying? That voting for Trump was a crime? That supporting Trump was a crime? That protesting for Trump (but not engaging in violence nor tresspass) was... what.. Terrorism (as the media is now trying to suggest)? No, no it was most definately not. It is very dangerous to use loose words like this which can be interpreted in too many ways, especially now. If you mean to say that Trump committed a specific crime and had co-conspirators, explain it that way and name the conspirators. Otherwise you are going to have a huge percentage of the population believe that you intend to "round them up into camps" or "line them up against the wall" or other things that other very dangerous people have tweeted. Trump supporters will defend themselves, potentially pre-emptively (just like how the war between the states started) and nobody wants that.

I don't associate with a political tribe, I didn't like Trump, and I left America long ago. But I've cautioned my mother who still lives there and who supported Trump all the way (she believes all the nutty theories, but isn't a bad person) that she needs to plan an escape route into Canada. Because I truly fear for her life at this point. Biden and the media keep wrongly using the word "Terrorism" in order to (I'm quite sure) invoke special governmental powers that allow them to suspend all civil and human rights from... who? ... all Trump supporters? And PATRIOT-ACT V2 has landed, all premeditated and prepared, ready for a huge draconian power grab.

Nobody has demonstrated that Trump has committed any crime (AFAIK). I'm sure there will be attempts. But nobody has even pointed to a credible suspected crime (AFAIK). Well respected constitutional lawyers like Alan Dershowitz have weighed in with clear opinion that Trump doesn't need to pardon himself because he has not committed any legally cognisable crime. And that his speeches were not incitement to violence... and Alan gives a long history of speeches that resulted in violence... and America has always punished the violence doers, not speakers, being extremely hesitant to invoke "incitement to violence." In this case it's laughably far from such.. he said walk, he urged peace, he only called for a protest.

But I'm positive many people will attempt to "require accountability for Trump." Go ahead, do so via the court system using the laws of the land. Both political tribes will support that.
Where did you get the 10,600 number and the percentage that were peaceful?

Where is the proof that damaging riots were deliberately organized. I mostly saw white people looting under the cover of black people marching.

Where is the proof that it was primarily minority owned businesses that were damaged? Why would it take decades for these businesses to file a claim with their insurance and replace their merchandise and windows?
States can run their own elections. So long as they abide by Article2, which indisputably, PA, MI, WI, GA did not. NV did use their legislature to make the changes which is why they weren’t a defendant. Texas’s position was that they states didn’t follow the constitution and the winner of these federal elections would effect rule and law in Texas.
> The topic does not need to focus on government or the US constitution.

Exactly.
One way or another it always gets you!
I’m not sure why 1 is critical - regular soft drinks sure, but diet soft drinks are fine.
If this is a crime then there should be an investigation in progress and some court orders made to prevent more criminal activity. Not an abrupt decision by... We don't even know who exactly made that decision.
You sure about that? How many cases were thrown out on their merits vs. procedural grounds?
Sent you an email today :-)
Not sure if they still do it this way, but some thirty years back we use to treat B-cells with Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) to cause them to immortalize. You basically shredded the red blood cells and hit the white blood cells with a heavy concentration of EBV. From there, you would look for antibody production for what you were after and then isolate those cells as they replicated.
The bonus is what makes this writeup silly. I've always seen mmap presented as a way to reduce copies. If you're not using it for that, then yes, it's not a given it will be faster.
> What about older people who couldn't even have their daily walks for several months?

Why can't they? Health officials have said that outside walking (with a mask if near others) is reasonably safe, or you can pace walk in much smaller spaces if one wished.

Plus walking isn't the only exercise available to older people. They don't have to remain sedentary simply because their normal walking route closed.
It is what the comment I was responding to was discussing. It acknowledges in it's second sentence that it's possible to get some kind of exercise but states that it's different enough that it makes perfect sense to say that COVID caused some people to become sedentary.
Trivially, it's effectively 0 for LenPEG 3. Answering this for LenPEG4 may be NP-complete. Any significant research into answering it for 4 is bound to drive up AMZN in the short term due to the inevitability of using all of S3's available space.

Maybe the better question is, "how long can on-disk compression protect humanity from LenPEG 4?"
The “kuberbetes as a reconciler loop” for CRDs pattern is its must useful quality to us at Heroku.
I'm not sure that's true in this case. China can't attack America because they'd be nuked into radioactive dust. But if they attacked Taiwan would the USA escalate to nukes? Especially given China is a nuclear power? I kind of doubt it. There's a limit to how much you stick your neck out for an ally.
How does one increase mobility in one's upper ribs?
This is not a defense of anything. That's something you projected onto the comment on your own.

The comment is simply pointing out the hypocrisy and double standard that pervades this discussion.

If pointing this out makes you angry, that's not an issue with the comment, but an issue with your ability to handle information that undermines your constructed narrative.
Inside the CIA, She Became a Spy for Planet Earth
This is good. Taiwan, like any place, has the right to self determination.

Sigh, it's just such a pity the clown shoes shit show of US politics this week knocked the story of 55 democracy activists in Hong Kong being rounded up.
The maximum damage of those riots is a handful of people killed and businesses burned down. The maximum damage in the capital invasion is the loss of our democracy and way of life.
From the U.S. perspective is it really still prestigious to work for them? I think these companies have been causing lots of ethical issues and having negative impacts on society lately all in the name of profit.
Jellyfish Create a 'Virtual Wall' to Enhance Performance
thanks for posting this, I've been meaning to start looking into program synthesis as it'll be useful for a program I'm working on at a later date. What kind of search methods are useful for this? Is it just a case of using hill climbing type searches to get closer to a solution or are there more program-synthesis-specific search techniques?
iPhone (First Generation)
The article is from Nov 10, 2020 - in case you missed the year in the title.
Today’s wind turbine blades could become tomorrow’s bridges
It's been time for a long time to stop pretending Taiwan is not a critical ally of the USA and that we would ever allow the CCP to absorb them. They deserve our recognition and support on the international stage.
If you look at per-police interaction statistics the narrative changes. All kinds of people die during interactions with police.

Now, what we can claim is that historical injustices have led to increased ratios of police interaction by different populations. That’s true. However, per interaction, the police are not more likely to be fatal to one group vs another. That’s a misrepresentation.

See: Simpson’s Paradox.

Given this it should behoove media and leaders to institute root changes that improve the “interaction” frequency.
Rust Parser and State Machine
Carter's decision to recognize the mainland at the expense of Taiwan seems more and more like it's one of the most consequential unilateral decisions ever made (as in single person, not single nation).

It's hard to know "what could have been," but what aspect of current life/ society/ the world wouldn't be significantly different today?
You are reading way, way too much into what I actually said. This is obviously a political issue for you and I have no desire to engage any further. Good day, sir.
You are absolutely right, of course. What I meant is, as an officer, your assessment whether the order you receive is lawful or not is based on a personal judgment, there is no lookup table you can go and check the legality of the order. In most cases, not obeying an order will result in investigations later on, and the legality will be established by various legal experts.
Hours later after the plot had already failed.
All Aboard the Pequod
I think we'll see more actions like this in the next few days. It's like when Obama set a date to allow transgenders serve in the military after he left office.
@demifiend, then don't reply to their comment with a comment of your own. Why don't you quote it in your blog or email them instead?
> the kinetic energy

Please explain how a cartridge with less powder ends up generating more kinetic energy. Alternatively, explain how it's worse to have less kinetic energy.

You can reference this visual comparison of rifle cartridges to see what I mean: https://1source.basspro.com/news-tips/hunting-information/74...

Assault rifles were designed to allow soldiers to carry more bullets. It started with the Germans in WWII, who found that with mechanized warfare, infantry engagements were at closer range so they didn't need big heavy cartridges anymore.

Note that the .30-06 is a hunting cartridge today but it was also used in the main American battle rifle in WWII, the Springfield 1903. There's also the .308 which is commonly used in hunting and also various military battle rifles and sniper rifles. No infantry soldier would claim either is less effective than the 5.56.
There is no "what if" in history, you just cannot argue from that position. There were events and there are facts about those events and participants. That's what matters and it should be investigated, tried in court and punished accordingly.
I used to believe it was only a matter of time until China is militarily able to take Taiwan. But it's not true: amphibious landings are notoriously difficult. Taiwan only has a few, easily defended beaches that can host an a landing. The rest of the coastline is jagged and rocky, and the Taiwan Strait hosts many typhoons and bad weather.

For what it's worth, even the US would struggle to invade Taiwan militarily.
Because the Biden administration won't do it if given the choice.
How many of those made national news?
Have to consider some of the officers killed during the BLM protests were killed by alt-right terrorists.
Truth. Though >50% of the smartest/most competent engineers I've ever worked with work in crypto.
Keep the Apidistra Flying is one of my favorite books. I first read it in High School and I remember distinctly relating with the scene when he's counting how much money he has left in his pocket during the date.
A shock would likely cause a nucleus site anyway. When people do this with water in the freezer a good knock sets it off. So when the water starts to flow I think it'd freeze in the pipes.
See also http://clojure-goes-fast.com
Freedom of speech != broadcasting rights
IRC (Internet Relay Chat):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irc
The first "At equal file sizes" heading (for the racecar) is telling.
Okay. Well I just look at the numbers/statistics. What can I say I'm a numbers guy. Can call that stupid I suppose.
I never said there are far right people on HN, and frankly, I don't really see them. There are a few trolls that get their comments killed, but I don't count them.
The minimizer should output HTML without unneccesary tags, and it should probably expect to run on its own output, so I don't see why adding unneccesary tags would help it work.
75 million Americans don't have the right to self-determination. I could care less what Taiwan wants.
>"okay I'll do it when I have X Y and Z"

This is pretty strongly related to a desire for consumerism. Most of us constantly make the mistake of thinking "I'm going to buy X which will make me start doing Y" when we already have the tools to do Y even if they are somewhat limited. Really we should only be considering buying something when we are using what we have to the fullest extent but feel an upgrade would be an improvement.
The article doesn't give any insights about what is happening at Lazada. It also doesn't share any example of "other companies".
Great to hear. I hope that this means we'll get some hardware vendors roadmapping encoding support. AV1 is great and will likely replace things eventually, but holy hell encoding is slow right now. At the moment it only seems worth it if you have limited content but immense traffic.
There are things I'm really excited about with the format though. The forced 10bit support is a big one. A unified format is also nice (i.e. not having to worry about png for screenshots / jpg for photos). Obviously file size improvements are great too. Overall though the format has a few years to go before it's production worthy except in niche circumstances.
Politicians looooove free broadcasting rights tho.
Okay that's actually a pretty large quantity compared to what I consume and I don't want to imply any form of judgment.

I found that a vape pen with oil is okay but my favorite form is 10 mg edible before a workout. I particularly love it for trail runs and for weight lifting.

When I try the concentrate I found that it tended to irritate my lungs. Plus the additional potency of the edibles due to how THC breaks down in the digestive system is nice.
Echo system?
Did i misread the article? It seems it only counts assembly workers.

Shouldnt the costs for sales and marketing, management layers, store janitors, etc. also be included in variable capitol and the stores and buildings housing them in constant capitol (pro rata)
> Doubtful

Absolutely true. At least one whole generation grew up taught in school that singular "they" isn't a thing. I was on the tail end of that and read a lot of books written by the previous generation, so it never stuck strongly in my head, but that's what GP is referring to.
What is the Secret Agreement between the United States and China on Taiwan?

https://allthingsnuclear.org/gkulacki/what-is-the-secret-agr...

Nixon's Trip to China, The National Security Archive, Declassified, 2003:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB106/

Record of Historic Richard Nixon-Zhou Enlai Talks in February 1972 Now Declassified, ~. [See listed documents linked individually, for ex: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/publications/DOC_readers/kiss...]

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/publications/DOC_readers/kiss...

The One China Policy: What Would Nixon Do? (2017)

https://thediplomat.com/2017/01/the-one-china-policy-what-wo...

Asia After Viet Nam, Richard Nixon, 1967 (pdf)

https://cdn.nixonlibrary.org/01/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1...