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Hi ilaksh,

Google has a significant patent attorney preparation and prosecution team on its payroll, and they can afford to draft patent applications which have all the enablement and "possession of the invention" text in their patent applications. At the intersection of biotech and AI, this is a significant hurdle to overcome for the solo or bootstrap inventor/innovator.

Applying algorithms to a variety of biotech platforms (genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), mutation, etc.) is a real challenge for a number of reasons. First, the difference amongst us human beings (a difference in phenotype) is a real challenge for algos to train on, and is dependent upon the underlying datasets or combination of datasets. Second, it's difficult to integrate the algos into existing Hospital Information Systems (HIS).

You can check out these following links for some explanation on this technology convergence and patent prosecution strategy:

https://torreypineslaw.com/convergence-technology-patent-att...

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/01/27/artificial-intelligenc...

https://www.thepharmaletter.com/article/artificial-intellige...

Google has solved some of these problems, whether from its dominant capital position or deep patent prep/pros team, so can successfully obtain granted patents in this technical field.
Opinionated. Just because we are productive doesn’t always mean we are doing all the work - we use better tooling. There are work places and companies that follow this type of thinking and keep their employees on their toes, by putting them on a short leash and expecting something from them every few minutes. This is absurd. People burn out and die early! World may change but don’t lose your wits over it. If you are in top 10% of your profession, you have no need to have a panic attack
Everywhere is. There's a shortage of homes (reduced build the past decade due to surplus at the time), and the rock bottom mortgage prices + remote work requiring more space means a lot of people looking to buy. High demand + low supply = rising prices.
Those who left SF Bay Area, do you regret it? Why or why not?

I'm currently thinking about moving to a different state as it makes sense financially, but I have an attachment with the Bay Area and what it offers (especially as an immigrant), so I'm hesitant to move. I'm interested to hear experiences of people who recently left.
I'll give a caveat - many of the classics suffered by being translated. They're translated in a Victorian or pseudo-Victorian style that takes all the pizzazz out of them.

For instance, the Odyssey never gripped me until Emily Wilson's translation. Beautifully lucid, so clear my eight-year-old niece easily followed it, the story pops again.

By this measure, book quality and release date may have a lot to do with each other.
> San Francisco will probably always have this problem to some extent

But why?

Other cities don't. For example Liechtenstein has literally no homeless people in the entire country. They had to close their last homeless shelter... because it was empty.

Many other global cities have single-digit homeless per 100k population. Why does San Francisco have literally ten thousand homeless people and why are the numbers still growing?

"will probably always have this problem" is bat-shit insane.
I’m glad SF and tech exists, met my wife here and made an unimaginable amount of money.

Was a C average student in high school and debated even going to a mediocre college.
What an incredibly useless article.
We are in for a bumpy ride, just heard from a security person that Amazon is inadvertently selling iot devices that must call home (to China) or they stop working.

Great foundation being laid.
While I think all that's true, tons of people manage to deal with states with snow including metros with major university systems. It's not a deal-breaker for most. Furthermore, there are lots of ways people can get together and collaborate. I even live near a local office that I rarely go into. I mostly meet people when traveling.
The HR guy was probably looking for an answer that wasn’t “we hired this nonwhite person specifically because he was cheaper than someone in the United States.”
> Americans stuck in their homes have set off a surge of orders from factories in China

It's not because they are stuck at home but because $3 Tn was given away in 2020 and people have been buying crap with that gifted money.

Like elsewhere, this chaos has been caused by the US government. And additional $1.6 Tn will be given away soon, causing more inflation, more waste, more government indebtedness and more shipping congestion.
> Single-quotes don’t support interpolation but aren’t any more performant

Wrong!

> Single quotes are 2x faster than double quotes because you don’t have to hit shift when typing them. Half the keystrokes, double the speed

https://twitter.com/tenderlove/status/1353048163096031236
I'm not so sure that's even possible. The city reduces every single person's available personal space, naturally tensions will increase as a result.
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This is super informative!

In my case it’s different since Git isn’t accessed by users directly, rather I’m working on some tools that work on top of Git (on user’s machine). Data is primarily text-based, though sometimes binary assets come up (options for offloading them out of Git are being investigated).

So far there were no major issues. I predict degradation over time as repos grow in size and history (Git is not unique in this regard, but it’ll probably be more rapid and easier to observe with Git), so we might start using partial cloning.

(I stand by the idea that using straight up Git for data is something to consider, but with an amendment that it’s predominantly text data, not binary assets.)
HDDs will always have the constraint that they are dealing with media in 2 dimensions. Tape has the benefit that the magnetic media is thin enough that it can be rolled up inside the cartridge to take advantage of the 3rd dimension. Unless there is a significant breakthrough, HDDs in 10 years still won't be able to take advantage of the 3rd dimension. Flash has gone from SLC to MLC to TLC to QLC, and from 1 layer to 144+ layers. I think SSDs will pull even further ahead from HDDs over the next decade thanks to improved manufacturing techniques enabling more and more layers of nanometer scale features.
T-slot is great but it ain't cheap and it might not be the most appropriate material for your shelving needs.
No, this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

Basically, home value for property taxes gets assessed once, when you buy the property, and it can only go up by inflation after that.
Get an Arduino.

Go with a sketchbook to a public place and sketch the first person who interests you, do it ten times a day no matter how bad you are at it.
Although if it was a mistake without a malicious file, I can see a libel lawsuit going.
I love this. We need to get out of the usual representations of data and get ‘out there’ a little more. Who said art and science couldn’t coalesce? Nothing wrong with a bit of wackiness. Will be following this closely.
Hot dog/not hot dog
The connection to nature one finds residing in the countryside is pretty much impossible to replicate while living in a city. Wildlife diversity, fresh air, ability to grow and harvest a garden - all of these are much more accessible outside a city and I believe lead to much more wholesome human experience. The concrete and glass of a modern metropolis do not make me feel like humanity is “better off”. Just my two cents though
> I genuinely have no clue where the high taxes go. I just find it so ironic that San Francisco is a bastion of liberalism, yet...

Have you ever stopped to seriously consider if this is the realistic end result of liberalism? This is a very common trend for major cities that have been under liberal control for decades (Philly, Baltimore, Chicago, etc). And yet somehow the politicians convince the population that this time around will be different.
I have a fair amount of experience with this in a startup setting. Unfortunately most of it I picked up in a diffuse way online. If you want to kick around ideas feel free to email me (see my profile).
Throw the homeless in jail basically.

It "solves" the problem in that the homeless are no longer visible. Whether that is a "solution" is up to the individual to decide.

Winter also self-limits the homeless in many liberal and conservative states.
Nobody and nothing, and this is generally impossible.

Essentially what you do is just encode a trusted party (or multiple) and do what they say. This way you get "trusted" data in the blockchain for scripts to use. For instance, who owns a house, or the closing price of a commodity, or who won the super bowl (or an election). As you can imagine this just makes them a target for corruption.
Maybe one of SF’s tech companies can invent a technology that would allow housing to be stacked vertically.
New construction can replace old construction. In theory.
> will probably always need to fix.

Quitter.
this isn't by a google engineering director, it quotes ray kurzweil at one point and then puts 'google director' in the title presumably for clicks.
This is a note taking app for D&D. Exandria is an officially published world by Wizards of the Coast. Makes sense to support it.
I don't know of any good reading, but I suggest you start with some proactive good listening.
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I don't think it's symbolic or virtue signalling. In the SF area, "diverse" is just an HR term of art that means "black, Hispanic, or female". (You'll often see people say things like "we'd like 40% of our candidate pool to be diverse", which only really make sense under that definition.) The idea of building a welcoming environment for people from all walks of life is usually referred to as "inclusion".
I’ve been banned by the Circumventing Systems policy before (a few years ago), with no explanation of what system I circumvented or how the ban was triggered. Two appeals via the Google system failed (with generic responses) so I reached out to an ex-colleague who now works there and she escalated it internally, and I was magically unblocked, but still have no idea why it happened.

Recently launched a new startup and decided to look at Facebook ads, set up a brand new business account and page and the ad account was instantly banned. An appeal resulted in the message “your account has been consistently promoting ads that do not comply with our policies” but I’ve never run a single ad since they banned the account before I could even create one. The whole ecosystem feels like a bad joke at this point!
It also weighs 265kg. Yeah this is probably not the ideal thing to showcase their product. I had a hard time understanding the scale of any of these contraptions. Banana for scale might have been a good move. This shelf was the only thing I could find where I could figure out roughly how big it is.
In my first job (early 80s), we wrote 6809 assembly in Wordstar using non-document mode. It worked very well for that purpose.

We had a Molecular Supermicro 32, basically a card cage for Z80 boards running CP/M and sharing a small (large at the time!) hard drive. My first task there was pulling serial cables to the engineering lab to hook up terminals. We had a band printer for program listings (aka backups) and a ball printer for docs. Good times.
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> SF is over 5x denser than Dallas

San Francisco is also 3x less dense than Paris (Paris, France).

SF could add homes for 1.5 million people and still be as livable as Paris, if it wanted to.
> SF is surrounded by water on 3 sides. Where do you propose all these new houses be built?

Up seems to be the obvious answer.
I'd suggest:

1. Mozilla and the Chrome clones (Edge, Brave, etc.) partner to make an (open as possible) standard for blocking and reviewing, and start maintaining their own list upstream from Google.

2. When Google adds to their blocklist, independently check it according to the consortium's own standards.

3. Cut a deal with Bing or Yandex to scan for malware as part of their crawls, to get technology independence.

4. Put pressure on Google to get onboard.

Step 4 is the hardest.
Digital redundancy requires replication, which means a global network. Redundancy isn't enough as it also requires consensus and security. Sprinkle some ownership via asymmetric cryptography and oh look, we've described destributed ledger technology.

Most Art NFTs that enter the news cycle runs on ethereum. Ethereum not only processes NFTs but a multitude of other transactions for other projects and is a order of magnitude more energy efficient and already moving to become more energy efficient. This specific platform in on the Matic L2 sidechain which is again an order more efficient. There's even a specific blockchain called Flow by the creator of the first NFTs that are designed for NFTs.
I’ve been trying to translate some of Caesar’s works into readable English, and to this day I can’t find one reason why all of these translations read like a textbook. The Latin for most of these writers was really direct and to the point, so translations specifically made it harder to read.
More people are leaving California currently than coming to it. Perhaps that isn't a biblical level exodus quite yet, but it's coming with time. Just be patient. Rome didn't fall in a day.
It’s just false to say that the people selling location data are involved in murder.

It’s a bad argument.
>It would be hosting providers jobs to police the content of their hosters.

this breaks down because there are friendly jurisdictions and/or hosting companies to bad actors. see "bulletproof hosting" for instance.
yea wondering the same thing - a lot of small companies allow toxic liberalism to linger.
I believe it’s deliberate. A human-staffed support desk will be vulnerable to social engineering by fraudsters looking to get their site reactivated. A public list of very specific policies and disclosure of which one was violated will be vulnerable to engineering too, by making sites that are fraudulent/deceptive/harmful yet somehow fall between those specific policies.
It's more than that- dodd frank made financing for building spec houses/housing next to impossible unless participating in a hud or similar program. These policies result in the exact opposite of what you would want to build class mobility/ American Dream/ generational wealth: more rentals (without lowering rental costs, since govt guarantees a min return), less home ownership, and a higher barrier to invest in the housing market.
That differs from my opinion on the matter. If two programmers disagree over formatting, I want to learn the needs of each programmer and how those needs inform their formatting preference. Understanding each others needs, and being respectful of each others needs, is a primary component of good teamwork. Those needs aren't exposed when a linter prevents the variance from ever becoming clear.
Cmon - they are just too busy trying to steal more of my data
> People aren't talking about the "weird" or quirky aspects of SF

Someone has to stand up for these aspects of the city, and I guess today it's my turn.
https://twitter.com/sxywu/media?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwc...
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I'm excited about this - tried the demo, how do I know the site is not stealing my password? Shouldn't this use OAuth to solve that issue?
My friend lived in SF for 3 years, then left for a year. He called me to say, “dude what happened to SF? Apparently it’s all shit and needles now.” I had to explain to him that nothing has changed. He was just reading sensationalized media.

I live in SF, I would like the city cleaned up, more accountability for taxes, more focus on tax payers over homeless. But at the same time, SF represents liberalism in the US so is a target for conservative media and the problems are massively overblown. People act like the Tenderloin is the whole city, or tech people who never left soma. The city is incredibly beautiful overall.

The top comment at time of writing is complaining about taxes AND how terrible it is to see homeless and we are evil. It’s a hot take totally free of substance, short of kicking people out of the city there are no easy solutions that involve lower taxes and helping all the homeless. These people want to sound compassionate but mostly sound like they want suffering out of their eyesight.

Downtown SF has emptied out because we’re still in the middle of a pandemic. I don’t know if it will last but it’s so dumb to act like people left for any other reason than a pandemic making city living awful. There’s a good chance it will bounce back.

Most of SFs biggest problems like affordability are caused by too many people wanting to live there. These are problems other cities are jealous of. The mayor of Miami literally bought a billboard right now begging people to go to his city. And that jealousy combined with hatred of democrats means people will massively exaggerate problems.

Again, I highly recommend visiting any other neighborhood besides soma or the tenderloin.
> Where do you propose all these new houses be built?

That's your problem right there, when you write "houses". Cities need apartment buildings, which allow more homes per same area than single family houses.
Don't understand this comment? Did SF encourage tech companies to locate in the Tenderloin?
The keys are fine.

The system the keys are a part of, not so much.

I want to hand anybody in my company 3 keys each (normal, backup, and emergency) and I want them to log into everything with those keys.

This is so mind-bendingly difficult to implement that I simply give up every time I try.

After you kill yourself putting it all together, you can generally make logging in with the keys sorta work. And then you have to cancel and replace a key that somebody lost.

And then you realize all the corner edge cases that don't work.

Or, somebody leaves your company and they're the administrator for something on GitHub and now you can't transfer it without their help. And, if you've destroyed the keys, you're shit out of luck.

Anything to do with keys is second-class relative to the password flow because that's what everybody uses.
Each and every output of `uuidgen` doesn't have meaning.

"Value" is a human construct that requires interpretation of information to form a narrative and meaning.

In contrast vanity tor addresses are valuable.
> As a trainspotter

OK, limey. :)

Maybe you can explain the appeal of trainspotting to a US audience. Haven't heard much about that over here.
NYC actually does have a law where they are required to do just that:

https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/todays-read-behind-n...
Flash-based and hence dead :( Sad!
The Deplatforming of Father Coughlin
It's puzzling to me that NIMBYism seems so common among people who identify as liberal. It's clearly just another way of kicking away the ladder and is inherently with the stated goals of liberalism. At least neo-liberals seems to have gotten this one 100% correct.
You said:

> it’s not possible to build a crypto payment network which actually handles more transactions than a midsized Costco.

That's not true for all the numbers I outlined above.

Now you are saying:

> I was pretty clear that it wasn’t possible while maintaining the side quest that your average computer can run a full node

Which doesn't matter at all and yet is still trivial, for all the numbers I outlined above. Also you weren't "clear" you just made the assertion over and over with nothing behind it. You haven't given a single technical reason.

> I don’t think that matters but clearly the core team does.

They have told nothing but lies for years. They can't give numbers to back up what they say either. They want to sell a second layer that no one needs.

> I don’t think any of this matters though. I still don’t think you’ve demonstrated meaningful scale, visa alone supports 50,000tx/sec.

Ah, now the goalposts shift again. First it was more transactions than a costco. Then it was running a node at home. Now it's the transactions visa claims as their max capacity (not their actual transactions per second). The numbers I outlined are trivial for today's technology. Steam games download at 26,000x bitcoin's throughput. A single hard drive can hold the next 300 years of transactions. Why won't you confront these facts and explain the numbers behind your original assertion?
I don't know if having a large army matters that much in a nuclear war. I think its more a matter of who has the best antimissile defenses.

In the age of nuclear weapons having a large population might actually be a liability since you have more civilians that need to be defended.
Dissuade other people from bidding?
It makes the problem more visible otherwise the other parts of the country would deny there is a problem to be solved.
Access to full article: https://archive.vn/qNzBh
If I spent 40 hours a week fixing the same bug I'd be fired from my job.
Vertically.
It's more sarcasm than not. He's saying it was never a desirable area but tech companies moved there anyway despite theoretically having the money to be nicer places.
I’ve lived in San Francisco for about ten years and I’ve never been more excited about the future of this city. We have an incredible opportunity to build a city that works for everyone and not just a glorified dorm room complex for young tech workers. The next few years are looking very good!
You forgot the Tibetans..

they came for the Tibetans first and no one spoke up, so then came the Uighurs, and then Hong Kong ...

Next, everyone else in the neighborhood..
dang, should remove the misleading title, the article has nothing to do with any google engineering director except for a quote
> and the problems are massively overblown

For all the places I have worked in and visited through my life, including poor countries in Africa, Europe, Russia, and places as extreme as Afghanistan, the only place I have ever seen someone openly defecate in the street is San Francisco. And I've seen it many times in San Francisco.

It's not overblown. Your reference points have been distorted. It's not normal. People don't do that in other cities.
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I trust them even less than Google, and I don't trust Google
We have content addressable objects at Splitgraph. [0] And here’s an example of a “point in time” query across two versions of an image on Splitgraph. [1]

I’m on my phone and don’t have a ton of time to respond right now, but I’d recommend reading our docs. We’re working on a lot of what you mention.

(Also, we’re hiring for backend and frontend roles. See my comment history for more.)

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com/docs/concepts/objects

[1] https://www.splitgraph.com/workspace/ddn?layout=hsplit&query...
So I’m the two stroke what pushes the exhaust out? Wouldn’t it mix with the intake?

Also Is it possible to build a clean two stoke?
Knoxville here, can anecdotally confirm an increase in the number of California plates I see around town.
This is great! Any option to filter spam/hate speech automatically and not on the front-end?
We left about 9 months ago. I'm not going to pontificate and judge people. From our point of view, the policies seemed to be designed to incentivize us to leave, so we left. We'll miss SF, but we were never welcome.
Remember https://noflojs.org ?