skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our current IP system is remarkable in that it is both very complex and, despite that complexity, it is entirely reducible to a system for allocating fees for entities to pay. Using you own IP? You pay your fees to your legal team. Using IP owned by someone else? Pay your legal team and their legal team and them. Except for the situation where you are much larger than the IP owner - then they get nothing from you and pay their normal fees to their legal team.

There's a cottage industry of infringement on social media where 'enterprising' companies outside the US take art they don't own and put it on merchandise. Large brands routinely duplicate small artist styles or simply trace their work. Often single individuals at the larger company choose to illegally copy the work of another, but the bulk of the benefit accrues to the corporation.

Personally, though I am a software engineer and much of my "property" is intellectual, the whole system feels wrongly conceived. It focuses on allowing commercial activity to continue around IP instead of keeping creators in control of their creations. In general, the best way to make money is to excise any humans from the IP as quickly as possible (like cutting away an un-wanted growth) to best shape the IP for future needs and markets. It sucks, even if I understand all the decisions along its path.
The problem is I'm pretty sure this needs to be fixed at the national legislative level. There are somewhere between few and no electable congressional candidates who actually care enough about patents to stand up to lobbying. And there are very few people outside the microcosm of the tech community who care enough about patent reform to prioritize it above other mainstream issues. So what's the practical game plan that doesn't take 20+ years?
Watch The Patent Scam, by the X-Plane's (flight simulator) founder Austin Meyer.

https://www.thepatentscam.com/
Sway is in top-up form and is basically just i3 on wayland. Even the config is largely compatible, so do give it a try, if you haven’t (recently)!
> you can likely thank the NY AG

If I recall, the military had a heavy hand in that. When the payday loan industry has cut into military readiness to the point the generals are talking to Congress about it, it's gone a bit too far.

edit (add ref): https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-109shrg50303/html/C...
I mean a less cynical reading is that this is like nginx handling https->wsgi for your Python application. You can deal with a unification of your auth stack and not have application development be disrupted
>What can we actually do. How do we start fixing this problem?

Do the hard grunt work of getting enough of a broad base of political support for Congress to enact reform. Seriously, that's what it comes down to. And it's not some impossible thing even for a minority so long as it's focused. Precisely because majorities don't really pay much attention to such things and these days are fairly fixed, even a fraction of a percentage of the vote that always votes and will do so based on a single or very small set of issues can have an outsized impact.

In this case, the goal would probably be a few very targeted things. My nomination would be 1) Eliminate software and "business method" patents entirely, with the argument that software is already covered by copyright and vague ideas shouldn't be patentable, and 2) actually fund the USPTO to a much higher degree and give it more teeth so more patents can be taken down early.

I don't think it's an impossible dream. It's an issue that doesn't fit into typical polarization, since there are major business benefits both ways. There are easy outrageous examples of patents that will strike the average person as obviously wrong. It's something Congress can do without the slightest question. There will be economic interests against it, but there are ones for it as well. And the tide has been turning a bit on IP maximalism.

I've written my Senators at least, talking about some of the personal harms I've seen as a developer. I got replies. If nothing else, everyone should do that and not just post on the internet. They certainly are unlikely to immediately change their stances, but they absolutely pay attention to letters because so few write them. If they start seeing enough people concerned about an issue, they will if nothing else give it some much higher level attention. Unfortunately I don't know of any national advocacy/lobbying organizations devoted purely to patent reform. The EFF does some good work there, but they've got a wider umbrella of critical issues to fight as well. I donate what I can to them but it'd be nice if there was some place just for this too.

Still, I hope to see some progress in my lifetime on reigning them back in from when they were invented in court in the 80s.
I can recommend two books: Tartine I and Italian Baker. There are many like this but these two I used and liked.

https://www.amazon.com/Tartine-Bread-Chad-Robertson/dp/08118...

https://www.amazon.com/Italian-Baker-Revised-Countryside-Its...
Its from the July 2019 event in Southern California. Neat video!
What Is the True Cost of Cryptocurrency?
I like the analysis.

But rail is unpopular in US for political reasons, not practical ones.
Throughout history the way these pandemics were dealt with was through quarantine. The fact that people were going into stores at all during this thing seems to be an affordance we never had in the past so I'm okay with arbitrary restrictions until it's proven wrong.
You can download Messages backups from iCloud.
Huh. I'd be interested in hearing your experience with it
Weinstein and Wolfram have lots of common.

They stopped dong physics early and spend their career doing other stuff. Getting middle aged and achieved their other goals, they wanted to get back into physics.

Both have talked about their theory for a decade or more. Weinstein's paper and Wolfram's books and project are just outline of their ideas. When they do their grand reveal, it turns out that they have not done any work or progress. It's all still all just a vague sketch. Both are in the "everyone is selling, nobody is buying" idea market. Ideas are cheap, working them into something that is consistent is hard.
What would Apple benefit from in porting iMessage to Android?
That can work for the 1-3 top issues in the country.

This issue is maybe in the top 1000.
Except in this case your sperm can also get you pregnant and you wear the same ejaculate covered pants day after day that numerous other strangers have ejaculated on as well.

And you put those ejaculate covered pants directly on your face.
> use it as intended

You mean that it's possible for some people to use it in a personally beneficial way.

That is true without any need to get into intent. I think it's unambiguous that the predatory application is the actual intended usage-- since their business model doesn't make sense without it, they have a massive default rate that only gets paid for with the windfall customers that stay on the treadmill for a long time.
Surely the ublock devs are not writing WASM directly? It would be possible to have the source code available for audit with some way of proving it generates the assembly that is being shipped.
Good man. Do you boil them in "Lauge"? That's always the tricky part where things can get soggy. And getting something with a high enough pH is sometimes a bit tricky.
You spend an awful lot of time attacking me and not very much time attacking my arguments. That's not very scientific of you. I said I had no way to know you were actually a virologist, which I didn't. It isn't really important to the discussion though, as I said. Can we talk about this like adults? Thanks.

I'm only gonna address the science in your post from here on out. I want to make it clear I never insulted you or attacked your character, I only said I had no way to know you were a virologist and only could go off of your word.

I get your hypothesis now that you have fully stated it.

And here are some questions that need answers.

Where did they get the virus? It's not anything like any coronavirus we know of before SARS-CoV-2 emerged in humans, it's 1200 away from RATG-13.

What experimental question were they trying to answer? We already know that the furin cleavage site is necessary for some aspects of pathogenicity, but not the ones canonically thought important (cell entry for SARS-1 for example, since furin doesn't actually cleave SARS-1 or MERS). Why would they test a random unrelated coronavirus' site? Why not try the SARS-CoV-1 site? Or the MERS site? Why was it a furin site in the first place? And why did they do it on the weirdly promiscuous SARS-2 ACE2 and not in a virus like RATG-13?

Re: cleavage site, I go into extreme detail about how possible it is for cleavage sites to evolve in nature here and here:

-https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26757881

It's really not that unusual for a cleavage site to evolve in nature, and especially not when we consider that furin cleavage sites are mutagenicity islands. It absolutely could have evolved from recombination with a distantly related coronavirus that has an extremely similar site.

Also, the cleavage site isn't even that long. Short stretches of nucleotides like that, upwards of 15-30 nucleotides, can absolutely evolve over the course of 50-70 years. Happens literally all the time. In influenza it happens on much shorter time scales. I provide evidence to that effect in the above posts.

Yes I actually address the idea of using recombinatorial cloning to make SARS-CoV-2 at several points in my post.

Nothing about the furin cleavage site makes it more likely to be unnatural than it is natural?

And so far, I don't see any compelling reason to believe that anyone would take a completely undiscovered and undescribed virus out of nature, not describe it or publish on it at all, and then start inserting random furin sites into it from random other coronaviruses.

Why would they be doing that? Is it technically /possible/? Yes, but I see no reason why it is more likely than a natural emergence.
> Is a “broken business model” one that requires you to pay for extra additional features?

Yes. Who actually likes being segmented into markets? We want to pay a fair price for products instead of being exploited.

> If Nvidia enabled all their professional features on all gaming SKUs, the only reason to buy a professional SKU would be additional memory.

So what? A GPU is a GPU. It's all more or less the same thing. They would not have to lock down hardware features otherwise.

> Today, they make almost $1B per year in the professional non-datacenter business alone. There is no way they’d be able to compensate that revenue with volume (and gross margins would obviously tank as well, which makes Wall Street very unhappy.)

Who cares really. Pursuit of profit does not excuse bad behavior. They should lose money every time they do it.
Count on driver updates breaking this workaround
Genius, want to upvote twice!
More like a gun with a 1000 round magazine.
Why 11 days disappeared in 1752
In 2020-1 we've seen people making 100%+ returns on ridiculous investments everywhere, so i can see how certain people are falling for to-good-to-be-true schemes.
Yes, XMPP software is active and keeping up, even leading development; you just have to follow them
craftinator wanted a way to log his/her own keyboard events.

Of course a custom extension can also be created for this use-case, in which way the compositor can allow/deny access for keypresses to specific windows. But to be honest a central hot-key manager where apps can register new bindings (and with compositor managed multiple bindings resolution instead of the ad hoc way under X) would be a great target.
If the "community" wants to get vaccinated and be immune, all the power to them. I still don't see why I should get vaccinated if the people at risk are immune.
He was a homophobic recidivist. It's problematic to celebrate people like him.
Rust's RFC for clamp has specifically tuned the definition and handling of NaN to be able to generate good assembly. I'm glad people have noticed and appreciate this.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1961
No, just increasing gross profit over time.
Wow this is from a different era. I haven’t heard developers speak that candidly or passionately since my coworkers and I had to deal with writing CSS for IE6.
that equilibrium only holds as long as your competitor doesn't offer it.
Mathematics as a Science of Non‑Abstract Reality
Some web maintainer is going to get a call about someone ordering something that was supposed to have been removed from the website, but was still reachable through a search engine.
What do you mean by that? Is there a point where if you're on the left of it on the political spectrum you're in favor, and otherwise against?
For anyone curious about the mean of the 100th power of the sin function: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/24533/find-the-aver...
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 don't support any UBI policy that leaves anyone economically worse off compared to existing welfare. In fact I would expect people to be reliably better off after you factor in secondary benefits such as a reduced time burden upon individuals (time can be a scarce resource when you're poor) and increased ability to prioritise your own needs. The last thing poor people need is fewer resources.

I also don't support any UBI policy that attempts to supplant programs which address disability as opposed to straight poverty.

In my mind the essential benefits of UBI are:

• Less fraud. It's much harder to game a system when everyone automatically qualifies for it.

• Less stigma. It's much harder to be ashamed by reliance on a system when everyone automatically qualifies for it.

• Less disincentive to earn more. Most welfare programs cut out out after you exceed a particular income threshold, so many people have an incentive to keep their income low. (Or to lie about income.)

• Less complexity. It shifts the burden of economic rebalancing away from welfare programs (written by politicians and administered by gate-keeping bureaucrats) and towards a system that already exists: progressive income tax. While everyone qualifies for UBI, high earners are progressively, functionally disqualified by having the UBI clawed back in higher marginal income tax rates.

• Increased mobility and increased incentive to migrate to areas with lower cost of living.
> I'm not sure where you got the idea that the American experiment is about making the government synonymous with the people.

It's a common mistake to conflate the Gettysburg Address ("government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth") and the Preamble of the US Constitution ("We the people...")
Or dont do patents at all.
Except that the difference is that I explicitly stated 'first generation of Apple Silicon Macs'.

Apple is known to frequently update their Macbook line up every year so I am in no hurry to upgrade my Intel Macbook, until they eventually 'start' the process of removing Intel support which by then a third or forth generation Apple Silicon Mac will be available.

Plenty of time to wait and use what already works, rather than jumping on early tech and then finding out that the software support is still WIP or in preview state.
You don't deserve your freedom
Sorry anything is possible, but your comment is a bit hand wavy.

Reproducible builds are non trivial.

And then what - the reviewer is now supposed to build your software and verify some Hash?

Or were you thinking something else?
So far, Brave hasn't done any of the things that caused me to abandon Mozilla. My browser is a tool, not a political statement. Mozilla has taken positive steps to make that tool less and less useful and waste more and more of my time.
Yeah you dont know how the organ donor system works.
Not consistently (thankfully). Don't, if you're not asked.
That's a very interesting idea for exploitation, I bet a lot of things are vulnerable to that.

But anyway I doubt that people do it even though they should.
What year(s) was this story remembering?
Somewhat true. Passenger rail is not seen as part of "infrastructure" on the right.
It entitles them to a say on how things should go and a share of profits.
The worst thing that ever happened to unionizing was the AFL and the CIO.

The value compromising was great for short term growth but here's where we are now.

I've long thought the Samuel Gompers strategy was the right approach to coalition building. I've really started to question it probably just this week.

The short term gains are substantial but it bites back hard

I mean look at all these comments. Most people want the political power dynamics of syndicalism. But our compromised manifestations soured their dreams
if "patent trolls" would only go against monopolies, I would be fine with it...
The people who do this job at large companies are called Staff or Principal engineers. One reason startups might be less likely to have them is that they are extraordinarily expensive.
This comment is so encumbered by snark that it's not clear what you're even trying to say.
Any discussion at this point is unproductive because it’s too soon.

In the US, all things are aligned with Team A vs Team B. Better to collect data and present next year.
Makes sense since there is only about 2 miles of runway traveled at either end.
Not at all. What I said was significant enough.

But now that you mention it and now that my post throttle is up you should consider:

Govt was wrong about:

1.flattening the curve. Not a single hospital has overflowed, even after places opened up fully and before vaccinations were widespread or places that had virtually no Covid restrictions.

2.surfaces being infectious

3.The infectiousness of the virus. Wheres the hundreds of millions of dead that were predicted? Why did more people die of car accidents in 2019 than under 55 age group corona fatalities(80% of the population)?

4. The effectiveness of masks. 'dont wear them' or 'wear them'? I can take them off while eating but have to wear them while walking 8 feet to the table, what?

Fanatically following a government without questioning them has never, in the history of humankind, led to good things.

Food for thought my friend.
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>nihilism and depression

No, that's not quite right. Someone who is depressed is not homicidal and highly unlikely to be violent to anyone but themselves. A nihilist is consumed in the thought that life is meaningless so they would not go around randomly hurting people by definition. A sociopath might but that's different.
If they break it, the people who really need this feature will simply not upgrade. Companies run decades old software all the time, this isn't going to be any different. It's just like nvidia's ridiculous blocking of cryptocurrency mining workloads. Once the fix is out, it's over.

Also I have no doubt people will find other ways to unlock the hardware.
Let's put a permanent tax on Facebook, they have too much money and they need to be fined.
I want to apply this grinding idea to hard technical challenges that could take many months or even years. For example, neural networks applications. My understanding is that the principles were around for years but the idea was largely dismissed because of poor practical performance. But by grinding, they worked out things about how to initialize and activate etc. that made it work.
Investors put more money into stocks in last 5 months than previous 12 years
> Pre-fetching, which is disabled by default in uBO, is reliably prevented in Firefox, while this is not the case in Chromium-based browsers.

I really wish ubo wouldn't disable pre fetching. It has nothing to do with blocking ads. It just slows down the browser.
> X11 is in no way broken enough to justify such a huge change

And why do you think you have sufficient knowledge on the topic to assume that? I do assume you have not read the source code of the X server, isn’t it a bit “cocky” to state such a statement, which is in opposition to what the actual X maintainers say, who actually created wayland? It’s not like a project from nothing, it was created with the shortcomings of X in mind.
This is an excellent resource. Thank you. Explains very clearly the pre-history of color systems.

Two other refs....

Kuehni, Rolf G., and Andreas Schwarz. Color ordered: a survey of color systems from antiquity to the present. Oxford University Press, 2008.

And Handprint.com

The guy that runs handprint probably knows more about color than any man alive.
> Rust-SQLite, aka SQLRite , is a simple embedded database modeled off SQLite, but developed with Rust. The goal is get a better understanding of database internals by building one.

That's not what I think of when I read "clone".
I did my whole BSc degree in CS like this, without Internet. That was in the mid 2000s. It was exceptionally rare not to have a home connection by then in my city (a big one in the EU). When I told my classmates they thought I was kidding.

My dad, a uni professor, simply didn't want me to have one as he thought it was too distracting. And I kind of agree now, but I thought he was crazy. I remember my best friend asked his dad to take his Ethernet cable away during the exam period. Instead of rehearsing, he was playing online games. And he couldn't stop, thereby failing most courses. This was a pretty smart guy that had aced university entrance tests.

It kind of worked. I got the best GPA ever in my university, and I had the best GPA across all CS schools in the country.

I must say at the time having a connection didn't bring as much into the table as it does now, with e.g. quick answers on Stack Overflow. I bought dozens of textbooks, and I had things like MSDN installed locally to access e.g. C++ STL docs. It also forced me to be quite resourceful, as I had to solve everything on my own and offline. For example, I didn't login remotely to university servers to do DB assignments. Instead, I had my own local Oracle deployment and so on. Quite an experience.
> The advantage of having an older, very wise and very experienced engineer whose job it is to document, plan and understand all the moving parts of your project

The problem being. People don’t want to hear that it’s going to take them a while to get from 0 to 100%. They’d rather hear they can get from 0 to 99% in a day, then spend a month slogging through that last percent.
Factor 5 Leiden, genetic disorder. It went crazy after a gas leak.

1 day without blood thinners and I have visual artifacts.
2 days
and my right side goes numb and I lose the ability to write.
Goes downhill from there.
Again, I apologize if it's not more clear, but you do understand that if I implied that they were crazy, that would also imply that I called myself crazy, right?

That's what the following paragraph is about, trying to explain that this could happen to anyone.
close() will fail to report a wide variety of failures.

But Cesar is right, you can't re-try it. And fsync() can be very slow on most commonly-used file systems. We are fortunate that now SSDs are fast.