skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very sensationalized, editorialized opinion-piece article. I would like to see something more objective, and substantive.

> So fast-forward a few years to 1981. Mr. Harvey sat down with an electrical engineer whose name was Jim Cuddihy. And together, Mr. Harvey and Mr. Cuddihy put together ground-breaking inventions in communications technology that were ahead of their time.

It sounds like they made something novel and interesting!

> PMC’s business “is to license out the technology of Mr. Harvey and Mr. Cuddihy so that companies that want to use that technology with permission can do so,” Subramanian explained. “The company has over 20 licensees, and they've earned millions and millions of dollars from companies who have paid for the right to use PMC's technology."

> To the extent that Harvey and Cuddihy ever had an idea for an actual product, it seems to have been a kind of computerized graphical overlay on top of a TV screen. At some point in the early 1990s, PMC demonstrated a prototype to some potential investors in New York City. The prototype system consisted of a VCR and a computer that were hooked up to another TV screen, which combined the video streams in some way. It wasn’t connected to the internet.

But they were given the patent for it right? And they clearly had some kind of a working prototype.

> Whatever this contraption was, it was likely pathetically out of date when it was shown off.

Oh so their "contraption" was pathetically out of date..

> PMC never made any for sale. And as the CEO admitted, they didn’t even spend on R&D. Instead, they embraced the fantasy language of the patent troll—one in which real companies, like Sony and Arris and other licensees, “took licenses in our inventions because they were using those inventions,” in the words of PMC’s general counsel, Thomas Scott.

REAL COMPANIES, like Sony and Arris and other licensees.

This is the crux of the issue right here. Basically, they developed the technology but were never able to productize it themselves. So they sold the tech to a bunch of other companies. And then later they discovered that the tech was being used by many more companies, in many more products.

This doesn't sound like a typical patent-troll case to me. Apple can afford to pay 300 mil for some tech that they didn't invent. God knows they've stolen way more than that.
It's absolutely wild, I have Chrome Canary installed w/o any addons because of some bleeding edge WebBluetooth stuff I'm working on and occasionally I'll forget which browser I'm using and visit a site with it. The web without adblock is basically unusable, it's legitimately completely insane that people will put up with it.
This is literally "The Glenn Beck".

"I didn't accuse him of being a Kenyan. I said he can't go a few months without new accusations of being a Kenyan. That is just a fact. If you want, you can go through those Google results from a few comments back and try to refute those accusations. I don't care enough about Barack Obama to try to prove anything about him."
But still, Penn and Teller often used a rifle-stop force. I think it's because when a trick is explained by a force, you've given up on impressing magicians.
I run gentoo host (with dual monitors) and a third monitor on a separate GPU for windows. I bought a laptop with discrete and onboard GPUs, and discovered that the windows VM now lives in msrdp.exe on the laptop, rather than physically interacted with keyboard and mouse. i still can interact with the VM if there's some game my laptop chokes on, but so far it's not worth the hassle for the extra 10% framerate. It's amusing because my laptop has 120hz display, so "extra 10% FPS" would be nice on the laptop but hey, we're not made of money over here.

Oh, i got sidetracked. I have a kernel command line that invokes IOMMU and "blacklists" the set of PCIE lanes that GPU sits on, the kernel never sees it, even when its in use. The next thing that i had to do was set up a vfio-bind script, that just tells qemu what GPU it's going to use. Thirdly, and this is the unfortunate part, since i forgot exactly what i did - there's some weirdness with windows in qemu with a passthru GPU - you have to registry hack some obscure stuff in to the way windows handles the GPU memory.

If i am not mistaken, 95% of all of my issues were solved by reading the ArchLinux documentation for qemu host/guests. My system is ryzen 3600, 64GB of ram, 2x NVME drives + one M.2 Sata drive, a gtx 1060 and a gtx 1070. Gentoo gets 16GB of ram (unless i need more, i just shut down windows or reset the guest memory) and the 1060. Windows gets ~47GB of ram, and the 1070, a wifi card, and a USB sound card. One of the things you quickly realize with guests on machines like this is that consumer grade motherboards and CPUs are garbage, there aren't enough PCIe lanes to, say, passthrough a bunch of USB or SAS/SATA ports, or a dedicated PCIe soundcard, or firewire. If you have an idea that you'd really like to try this out as an actual "desktop replacement" - especially for replacing multiple desktops, i recommend going to at least a threadripper, as those can expose like 4-6 times as many PCIe lanes to the host OS, meaning the possibility of multiple guests on multiple GPUs, or a single "redundant" guest, with USB ports, SATA ports, and pcie sound/firewire/whatever.

Why would anyone do this? dd if=/dev/sdb of=/mnt/nfs/backups/windows-date.img . Q.E.D.
1929 occurred on the FED's watch. So did 1971, 2008, & these https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_economic_crises. So will the next series of crises currently in motion for at least the next couple of years & probably for a decade or more...

@bumpy, it's amusing that you, being the statist, are tag-teaming to downvote my comments like it even matters. It's just pathetic passive-aggressive behavior on your part...
Two very easy ones that I’ve never had fail in practice:

1. Get them to tell you to stop as you flip through the cards vertically, and then sleight the card from the bottom of the deck instead.

2. A simple counting trick like this https://youtu.be/ekPbMhJGYmc
My daughter received a donor’s heart at 6 months old, after hers had been shredded beyond repair by a virus. I’ve tried to write a thank you note to the donor family several times, but each time I’ve thrown it away. The words feel so hollow and small compared to the gift we were given.

It feels selfish to not write just because I can’t get out of my own way emotionally — but what can you possibly say?
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It works fine on all of the laptops in my house. We are running kde on manjaro.
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How's that different from the YouTube app which hosted the same content for years?
Back on my IBM 386/75MHz (yes, really), linux could only boot at 25MHz, yet its desktop environment was faster, prettier and more featureful than Windows @75MHz

Edit: I guess it was a 486 in a 386 motherboard. Windows was definitely slower at 75MHz than Linux at 25MHz though:

http://ps-2.kev009.com/sandy55/Interposer/386_upgrade.html#R...
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I would guess at least 10:1
You're 100% right. I just wouldn't give the advice that you should "open source it because it's better than it going in the trash" after a little bit of trying. Business is hard.
This is madness, YouTube needs to be labeled as a utility.
What do you mean by "pushing"? Recommending him in your home page, with no option to disable the said recommendations? Or just hosting him at all on their platform?

Do you have the same opinion about YouTube, which has every political spectrum and its polar opposite on the same platform?
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Thank you for all that info and for taking the time to write it. Don't know why people can't be bother to just follow the link and instead expect you to repeat it all here.
Youd support your government too if it massively raised yours and your neighbors standard of living within a 30-40 year period. The Nazis did that too and were wildly popular.

But evil is evil. And theres a really bad and consistent track record.
There are many startups in this area - Including the one that I am working on :)
I would love to understand your particular use case, but we have typically seen that users do not want to pay to record, transcribe and generate summarized notes for internal meetings.
If the virus were originally from the US and not China, 99% of the commenters here will be scoffing if a letter signed by MBAs,Zoologists, Industrial Engineers, Journalism students all from Russia and China were requesting total and full access to the US record, institution and land like this letter is requesting, especially after a panel of ACTUAL experts from WHO minimized the possibility of the lab-leak option.

There are 2 rules in this world. One for white-dominated , rich, western countries and other for the rest. Racism, ethnocentrism and hypocrisy have been and will be human traits impossible to eliminate.
Took even longer in Eastern Europe and the Eastern Orthodox countries.

The last country of Eastern Orthodox Europe to adopt the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes was Greece, only ~100 years ago, at the time under military administration following the 11 September 1922 Revolution, with Wednesday 15 February 1923 being followed by Thursday 1 March 1923.
1200 mutations away from RATG-13 is how significant exactly? I will propose that it is not particularly significant. One virus I work with, I have 14 variants ranging from 300 to 500 base-pair differences. That is from passing in a laboratory only. I have one variant that has a 14000 BP deletion! (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7217056/#mmi144... TABLE S2) However, it is noteworthy for that reason. That said, these are dsDNA viruses with comparatively much slower mutation rates. 1200-base differences are almost nothing.

You're comparing apples and oranges. 14 mutational sites across a virus with 17k ssDNA genome is not comparable to RATG-13 vs SARS-2, which have not just 1200 mutations different, they're spread out over HUNDREDS of SNPs.

That's the important comparator. And why it will take so long to mutate one into the other by natural mutation rates.

>The two non-canonical arginines don't make it less likely?

Not particularly. CGG exists in MERS 15 times. NL63, 29 times. It even exists twice in a row in Human coronavirus 229E. Throughout all of the known alphacoronaviruses (94 described) CGG exists 1575 times. In betacoronaviruses, it exists more times than my processor can count without hanging, and I believe it tops out at 9,999 events.

I just ran blastn to figure that out. Using these datasets: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/coronavirus/genomes/

Why is it so unlikely that synonymous mutational drift over the course of 70 years of infections in millions of viral generations could create these arginine codons that are not the most optimized but still work in the mammals this virus infects? CGG works. It makes an arginine when this virus infects its host.

Why couldn't it be a recombination event between SARS-2 and one of the known coronaviruses with an extremely similar cleavage site? We know already coronaviruses have recombined with viruses totally outside of their family on occasion: https://www.virology.ws/2016/10/27/genome-recombination-acro...
I stopped reading this when I realized that it doesn't actually engage with Weinstein's theory or physics at all.
> What do people turn to when the legal system fails them?

This doesn't mean anything. It's just cynicism masquerading as fatalism. We thankfully don't live in an absolutist monarchy. Laws can change, and in fact do change all the time. Election upsets happen all the time. But like a sibling comment said, no one wants to actually go out and do the grunt work.

Whining on Twitter is certainly easier than canvassing a neighborhood.
Unions have a long track record of working well to raise wages and improve working conditions. But I suppose that's not easy to know if the only info a person consumes about the topic is right-wing propaganda.
My possibly flawed understanding is that copyleft requirements can be an issue even if your code isn't available to the general public (for example if it's delivered to a foreign government partner or shared with a contractor)

On top of that, NASA does release some open source code. In general, government code is supposed to be released when the least restrictive license possible which usually means something like Apache or even straight-up public domain. If you're bound by the GPL you're no longer able to do that.
No, as this discussion points out you should use the browser version if at all possible. The snap version would also offer a little bit more sandboxing probably if you're willing to edit the config for how much access it has to your system.
Actually, CRISPR/Cas is a fantastic example of lamarckian evolution.

What I'm trying to say is that it's not pressure into with evolution, but rather, random mutation + purifying selection = evolution of new traits.

Organisms can't determine what they need to evolve to. There is no guidance of "evolve to this", but rather - "entirely random evolution maybe I won't die yay" - everything that isn't useful dies.

So saying that organisms can evolve to something is a little misguided because they have no specific objective in mind.
> Calling UBI a "libertarian wet dream" is unnecessarily reductive. Personally I try to shy away from using any partisan labels to describe any policies because they are rarely (if ever) necessary. And their meaning rarely translates between people of disparate political views.

I was responding to:

> For all the criticisms of UBI, I think it would be a net win simply because it eliminates the significant time wasted in maintaining welfare entitlement.

The exact wording of the libertarian wet dream I was recognizing. I wasn’t labeling UBI, I was labeling an identifiable expression.

And I called out where this particular attitude would have starved me and apparently HN would prefer I starved.
>Now do whatever you can to repair the system. depends on what broke.

What needs to be done to fix the system may not be obvious and the fix may not be simple. Furthermore, the trial and error for fixing may leave a trail of new issues.

And that is why I use NixOS. I have to wrestle with it to get something working, but once I'm done I can guarantee it will keep working until the heat death of universe. Compared to that, Ubuntu and others let me get off the land fast but I never know when I'll crash or if I'll able to fly back from it.
There may not be many, but there are some upsides. It may incentivize small inventors who believe there will be a value for their invention even if they themselves are not capable of productizing it. Shouldn’t they be rewarded by being able to sell their creation to the patent troll?
this pulling rank thing might work better on reddit, but if you want to make an argument you should give your audience the courtesy of actually making one
Ask HN: Hashcash as a Service?
Is there a service that will compute raw sha256 hashes for me (basically let me rent sha256 ASIC hardware)?

I want to mine blocks of my own Hashcash-based blockchain that has a custom block structure and difficulty.
i saw a kind of circularity between so expanding it becomes nothing and so attractive it appears as nothing
afaik, or can even imagine, there were no land routes across the Pacific at even glacial maximum.

If you know different, tell.
You should checkout NextDNS
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In politics controlling narative is more important than the truths. PRC govt paranoids US will control the narrative into another iraq's WMD. The PRC looks at this issue differently US.
I'm baffled by why this answer is downvoted. It matches my experience precisely, and articulates the proper approach for isolating `unsafe` code so that the safe code around isn't so tricky to write.
The Nazis were not wildly popular, they were a minority government, and they definitely did not improve material conditions for their people. World War II fucking sucked. They barely held on by being at war, stirring things up against foreign enemies, and getting lucky against assassination attempts. Peace would have ruined them.

The Chinese government is not at war. They are vastly less at-war than the US is. They have no rally-around-the-flag effect and yet their people still like them better than we like our government.
> Yeah if you're deleting bugs older than 2 weeks then they're just gonna resurface

I mean, maybe not—you might lose the users impacted by the bug. Which from a company PoV is probably a loss, but depending on how broken incentives are may not be for the dev team.
This has been my experience too. No amount of self-help books, videos or workshops really help. They may actually end-up hurting if you go overboard with investing time, mindshare and money.

The only way I've been able to improve is:

> The only thing that works is to start the work. I wish there were something else I could tell you, but that's it. Just open the book, open the editor, open the document, whatever.

If you fail, try again.
Without explicitly supporting the theory it is a loosed weapon, I think your estimation of technology is off. Typically military technology will lead by about a decade, maybe more. So all of the rest could be explained, a little paranoically, as intentional action.
Or to alt, as the Flying Spaghetti Monster intended. Earlier keyboards had ctrl next to the space, which is why it's such a used modifier key (thumb is stronger than pinky, and is quite easy to use both left and right keys).

Not that I personally do that, I'm too used to ctrl mapped to caps lock. If I could go back in time to before I started using emacs though... I would learn emacs with vim bindings.

As a more general recommendation, getting used to both right and left control (whatever it's mapped to) is a huge ergonomic improvement. When you need to use Ctrl with a key in the left side of the keyboard, use right ctrl, and left ctrl when using a key in the right side. This avoid having to crumple your hand to reach, eg., ctrl+a.
You looove beans.

Definitely a bit of extra work but can be minimal if event tracking is centralized in one area of the code.

But yeah, not saying I recommend you do it, just saying it’s possible and not something that should be seen as a waste of time, especially if you truly believe in creating privacy focused software.
I wish there was a good “how to” guide for patent trolling.
Okay, but does it add 5 times or more value? We're not talking about a 10% difference in price tag. Both are a long term maintenance drain, yes. But one has wide potential use, the other is niche. One is civilian commuter only. The other is civilian commuter, commercial cargo and even military transport (the amount of convoys using I25 in that area is extremely frequent). The city got donations and grants to widen the highway because of wide usage. While I do see your argument that a rail can lighten the traffic load for I25, is $1.8B worth it? It already wasn't worth it when thinking in terms of 50k usage. You're now saying it's going to have less and that's still good?

Local gov don't get to treat money like the fed. They ultimately do have to act like a business with profit and loss ratios. While their profits are to be used for expanse of civil and social programs, they can't operate at losses indefinitely. Detroit is a fantastic example of what happens when a city doesn't do responsible fiscal planning. Just because it isn't directly "your money" doesn't mean you can dumpster fire it on super sexy ideas. HSR is all about the dick measuring of, "Look what we have. It doesn't do much, but we have it. We're just like Japan and Europe. We so cool." It's like that $700 Juicero, over engineered, wifi enabled juicer that squeezed pre-juiced drinks into a glass. Packets of juice that could be squeezed by hand or just cut open with $5 scissors and poured into a glass. Fuck, you had to provide your own drinking vessel to that Silicon Valley stupidity. At least Bolthouse drinks don't require anything more than unscrewing the cap. Just because something is cool, popular and sexy doesn't mean it's the right solution.

It makes more sense to expand the highway and just fully subsidize the Mustang service between the two cities for poor commuters. It'll be far cheaper on the tax payers and still provide the benefits for the local community. This is the point. Why spend $1.8b on something when there's a more effective $350m solution?
They garbage it up more under the pretenses that too many people are blocking, denying them ad revenue. If they made it less obnoxious then less people would feel the need to block ads. The worst ones for me are the fake virus ads that basically hijack my browser. If you can't keep those out of your ad ecosystem then I'm forced to block it all.
Probably only one.

There is strong tertiary evidence that patient zero was a Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher named Huang YanLing 黃燕玲, this has all been scrubbed from public memory. The wayback archive links still hold up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU (links are at the bottom of the video description).
Yeah, honestly, I'm coming around to the opinion that what the US needs isn't necessarily High Speed Rail but electrifying existing rail.

We can do traditional catenary, but there's a risk of the high cost of US infrastructure eating up the budget.

Might be worth considering a hybrid system where you electrify the most busy corridors and then use battery-electric trains for much of the rest (but charged using a sort of overhead catenary), allowing you to reduce the amount of infrastructure significantly (but with locomotive capital costs to consider... including battery cars).

And yeah, once we have more experience with overhead high voltage heavy rail in the US, with upgraded commuter rail, we can then do HSR with some sort of rationality.

Because you only really need HSR between cities. In a city, you want good, electrified rail. HSR doesn't really do anything for city traffic (and could make it worse, actually, if not done at the same time as conventional rail upgrades).

In fact, Amtrak is not even necessarily better than flying. Amtrak gets like 56mpg per passenger, but airliners can easily get much better than that (particularly if you fly economy class): https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704901104575423...
(and this article is using 2009 data... newer airplanes can get much better)

(This would be surprising unless you noted that Amtrak has low occupancy compared to airlines and has to maintain a lot of routes to underserved places and that trains have to carry a lot more weight per person because, in part, the trips are a lot longer... it's a bit better for short commuter trips)

So rail isn't even better for the environment than modern planes unless we electrify rail. (Which we need to do anyways, as we move lots of our cargo cheaply by rail.)