skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time a chain hardforks like this, they basically create a new currency and everyone starts calling the new currency "Bitcoin", "Ethereum" etc. While in theory it is not.

What would happen if a Bitcoin fund like Grayscale would say that their customers are only entitled to the "original" Bitcoins in the fund. So investors would be left with pretty much worthless stuff?

What would happen if they don't, but the original coins keep being traded at say 10% of the value of the new ones. Who pockets those 10%?
I can't imagine how What3Words is actually useful. According to [1], 5 decimal places in Lat/Lon coordinates gets you 1.11 meter accuracy at the equator (more accurate than the 3m w3w claims). If you're in a densely populated area, your cell phone would provide the location in most circumstances. If you're really lost 100 meters, or 3 decimal places is likely all you need. That's twice as many words (three before the decimal, and three after). But I'm sure if you break it down into syllables, Lat/Lon coordinates will likely win or at least be enough every time.

Once you factor in the ambiguity of what words are being spoken, words you don't know how to pronounce, and language barriers, I can't imagine a use for W3W. To use an example from the article, "circle.goal.leaders" is six syllables and could easily be interpreted as "circle.go.leaders". Of course, if you count the dots or pauses, lat/lon wins pretty much every time. And even a lot of Americans can count to 10 in multiple languages.

[1] http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/Decimal_degrees
Progressive JPEGs work well for this too, so you could have the same file used for a tiny thumbnail and large preview and full sized photo by sending different range requests. However you need to know how many bytes to request.

I'm surprised this isn't used on mobile browsers to lower data usage. I'm sure with a little research you could figure out what a good mapping from pixel size to byte size should be to give good enough results.
What is this, a subreddit for ants??
Many people seem to beleive the justice system behaves like a set of if...then clauses. I blame the mass production of crappy US courtroom drama - people start thinking it's how the real world works.
Because the relativity principle applies to non-accelerating motion relative to other objects.

A planet orbiting the sun is accelerating toward the sun.
What do they do the rest of the time when they're only able to fly a minimum number of hours?
"You’ll be broke, and therefore defeated by default, long before you’ll be vindicated."

Unless maybe the ACLU or EFF take up their defense pro-bono.
AFAIK it's primarily abused in software because software is so easy to "create". Again that's why algorithmic patents weren't supposed to be defendable in court.

Outside of software patents which I don't think should exist, I don't see a problem with buying and sitting on a patent for something truly innovative. The original creator was rewarded, the knowledge becomes public, and the buyer can sit on it as they like for ~15 years. If it's a profitable concept they are wasting money by not developing it.

The problem comes when courts uphold illegitimate patents. Fortunately there are companies who will stand up to this, such as Newegg and Cloudflare.
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Is there anything beyond the universe?
I suspect they never thought they would win. And when they did win, and saw the amount they won, they somehow didn’t think it would be fair if they took it.
> Patents, by design, reward innovators and contribute to the public good by exchanging information for protection.

Patents are politics. Politics is always a murky morass of compromises, and it's hard to say what is by design. (And, no, you can't trust the name of an act or even its formulation to tease out the real and differing intentions of the lawmakers who proposed or voted for it.)

> IP rights allow the company to defend their interests and pay larger salaries.

I can believe the first part. But I don't see how IP rights translate into higher salaries?

(Yes, in the trivial sense of _allowing_ them, perhaps. But not in the implied sense of making it more likely.)
There is still _so much_ untapped demand for programming that I'm not terribly worried about partial automation. Just look how many manual processes exist is governments or large corporations that would be more efficient and less error prone if a computer assisted, but the necessary programming is still too expensive to switch over. Sure, programmer wages might decrease in the future to more reasonable levels, but I don't see mass unemployment looming.
That really isn’t not doing marketing though. That’s just piggy backing off your competitors but the product itself is still being marketed by your competitor.
What is your source that price and quantity were unchanged for a decade?
Hector Martin believes it will be possible. https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1383964656058781703
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Working on Cloud that is exactly what happened. Many countries have federal regulations to host services in data centers inside their geographical boundaries. Instead of having a Cloud provider, these larger corporation asks Google, Microsoft and AWS to build and deploy services in these zones. A very dangerous path for European companies. Excellent article
"They've raised $39 million dollars in funding"

Who's funding them?

A boycott may be in order.
Carbon brushes are normal motor design. Replacements are available at real hardware stores that haven't completely devolved to housewares.
Alas, not being in the US does not protect against the American legal system.
Right... but landlords don’t pay those gas costs.

I am not arguing that an electric car is not cheaper to drive than a gas car (I have one myself)....I am just saying it isn’t free or near free, so expecting someone else to pay for your electricity to charge your car is unreasonable.
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Instagram drives me nuts when you tap the search icon, then the text input, then it immediately hides your keyboard so you have to tap the text input again.

Presumably what it's doing is trying to get you to select their recommended content instead of searching for whatever you are looking for.
> I don't see how IP rights translate into higher salaries?

When a company can defend its IP, it earns more profit and can invest in itself more. One way to invest in itself is to pay higher salaries to attract talent.
It's easy to villify, but we need to recognize the top-down management culture is doing something other than what we say. It is not servant leadership, but stealing worker responsibility putting it in the hands of others, externalizing costs, etc.

The resulting culture follows from that, but is reported green upwards.
policy makers do need to be reminded of their duty to protect people even if said people don’t understand or don’t seem to care.

What's the argument for the government to care so much about privacy, if people don't? I get why we have banking protection laws. It would be extreme chaos if people's money could just disappear. But in what way is poor security and privacy practices more than a nuisance?

I think people like us weigh this problem too heavily, because 1) we want to use apps and technology like these, 2) we really care a lot about doing it securely.

But the public just doesn't care as much as us. Why should there be laws and policy just to suit our purposes?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27017728.
> As for API tokens, that's unfortunately just the current trend of basically every other site with user-generated content.

Totally hilarious that you posted this on a discussion site whose API doesn't require tokens.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API
The threat doesn't mention the patent though, they claim copyright for the code and data has been violated.
I like how Amazon has a "public list" and "private list" by default, in addition to all the custom lists you can make.

Seems like the reasonable thing to do in the above case is to have a default "shopping list", and if someone puts an item into their cart and doesn't buy it within the allotted time, it gets automatically moved to the "shopping list". Make the shopping list highly visible on all the cart-related views. Problem solved?
>Estimations can be wrong, but that doesn't mean progress is impossible.

No but it does mean, when estimations or estimators are consistently wrong, that they should lose credibility.

If estimates are wildly wrong what good are they besides gas-lighting malinvestment? Theranos estimated that it could do blood tests on a very small sample. Juicero estimated that it could sell a several thousand dollar juicer...

Biggest media farce I forgot: where the heck are Amazon's flying delivery drones?

See the fallacy "false dilemma." Estimations can be wrong and progress can be possible. Both can be true.
One other interesting interaction I found was that the org can seemingly tie certain setting to your Windows activation key. I've been using an Education license to W10 on my school laptop and it has "Some of these settings are hidden or managed by your organization".

https://i.judge.sh/heavy/Sunburst/ApplicationFrameHost_nhjT7...

https://i.judge.sh/stupid/Derpy/ApplicationFrameHost_G2GR6fW...

https://i.judge.sh/blind/Yasuko/ApplicationFrameHost_60KjQ1V...
> A planet orbiting the sun is accelerating toward the sun.

How do we know that the sun isn't orbiting the fixed earth, and accelerating toward the earth? Everything would look _exactly_ the same to everyone.

Yes, the math works out much easier and more neatly, so that is likely what is happening in reality. But from a purely relativistic framework.. you can consider any point in space the frame of reference, and all motion relative to that "fixed" point.

It makes me think that relativity is actually describing a more subjective experience, rather than the objective reality where we "know" the earth orbits around the sun.
The Air Force, or the Chair Force as it's so affectionately dubbed (by their own members as an inside joke), has the unofficial motto "hurry up and wait!"
> They use that uploaded data to test their FSD software to see if it can handle that particular route, and tweak it as necessary to either handle places it was having trouble or to hard-code special rules.

This is an approach that is doomed to fail, because trying to hardcode the particulars of a specific route will converge to working pretty well until the moment something completely unexpected happens which needs human-level AI to be able to handle in the moment.

This is why level 5 autopilot isn't really going to happen without the invention of real AI, which is debatable whether that'll ever be achieved. Most certainly not in any of the timeframes Musk keeps promising.
couldn't you just link the source code or show how to reproduce what you did? really? you're just showing everything about your work but NOTHING about how to reproduce your work?? THERE IS NOTHING I HATE MORE THAN THESE KIND OF POSTS!!!
Actually basing the legal system on money might not be the worst. Certainly better than basing it on influence and connections.

About your question: you might like this paper https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

It doesn't offer any answers, and it's about criminal justice; but it's good food for thought about unintended consequences.

See also the excellent http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Legal%20Systems/LegalSystemsCo... as parodied in https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/30/legal-systems-very-dif... and reviewed in https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/13/book-review-legal-syst...
Wow, it really is most of his posting history. How tiresome.
I still have a debian machine on my home network but gave up installing any linux on my primary engineering laptop. Mostly that was prompted by some windows only toolchains for an embedded device I was working on. Then I realised I just no longer have the time to chase down fixes for networking or the display on a laptop. I am not super happy with windows 10 pro but at least it gives me more time for working.
Using 'Free' could also be a nod to the fact that there are a lot of very similar sounding words in the What3Words system [1].

The What3Words word list is 40,000 words long. It is important that words in this list cannot be confused, otherwise they may be communicated incorrectly. For example band/banned, bare/bear, beat/beet are easily confused.

A quick inspection of their word list finds the following words that sound very, very similar to one another:

equivalence equivalents
incidence incidents
incite insight
incompetence incompetents
independence independents
innocence innocents
instance instants
intense intents
lightening lightning
ordinance ordnance

[1] https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...
Decentralization/trustless aspect of Bitcoin is the utmost important thing, without those, there's no need for it, we can just use fiat.

Once you've accepted that premise, the next question is how do you achieve the most decentralization? The answer is by having the most nodes. How do you get people to run nodes? Make it super cheap to run. It's simple really, people are not paid to run nodes (miners != nodes). It's not about storage space, you also have to consider network latency and propagating those blocks across a large adversarial network.
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You can call me whatever names you want, but I believe the core disagreement is your approach is cure/treatment and I'm looking at the root cause/prevention. This is not to suggest zinc deficiency is the culprit, but various deficiencies in the American high calorie diet. From the NIH.gov website:

"Evolving and compelling evidence exists that proves that zinc is implicated as an important cytotoxic/tumor suppressor agent in several cancers. For example, that cellular zinc levels are markedly decreased in prostate cancer is well established" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291177/

Zinc: A promising agent in dietary chemoprevention of cancer https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3102454/

"Many epidemiological studies have shown a relationship between the zinc content in the diet and the risk of cancer" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6835436/

" In addition, zinc contributes to the truncation of the Krebs cycle and inhibition of citrate oxidation, which further prevents cancer cell growth and proliferation, as well as inhibiting the invasion and migration of cancer cells" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7216164/

"The present meta-analysis suggested that serum zinc levels were significantly lower in lung cancer patients than that in controls." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6503426/

"In conclusion, we found that highest category of dietary zinc intake can significantly reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer, especially among American populations." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5463257/

"Increased risk of cancer mortality associated with cadmium exposures in older Americans with low zinc intake" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23151207/

And the list continues: https://www.google.com/search?q=nih.gov+zinc+cancer
> This is to prevent people who aren't paying enough attention from ruining their day by putting diesel in their car.

FWIW this also protects against ignorant drivers who through no fault of their own have never filled up gas. Many countries are full service, as I believe are some US states?

Beats me why filling up gas is made out to be such a difficult task...
At least the delusion is very real here.
andy grove (of intel fame) has written quite a bit about the dangers of over-outsourcing over the last 20 years. one of his more interesting points was that running a manufacturing operation made intel better at designing chips in unexpected ways. unfortunately, every link i find is either dead or behind a paywall.

oof.
Paging never really passed 1980s technology. Sure, its easy enough to en/decrypt short messages now with nearly zero battery use, but it was probably deemed unnecessary at the time.

edit: looks like someone bolted AES onto FLEX: https://americanmessaging.net/elite/
It didn't work. I originally wrote "feeble and doomed" but then felt embarrassed for using 4 adjectives in 1 sentence.
There was a comedian who successfully opened a coffee shop in the US named "Dumb Starbucks", logo and all. Every menu item was copied verbatim from the actual Starbucks menu but with the word "Dumb" added as a prefix.

Despite a massive social media campaign that would have certainly caught the eye of Starbucks, they received no legal threats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_deCOd1HU
If you want to make a case about something being "ahistorical", you should post thoughtful, substantive, informative comments, not flamewar rants. That would have the nice side effect of making this place better instead of worse.

> If you see multiple "offenders" in the same thread

This is the internet; that's the default. We're trying for something other than internet default here. That takes energy—we have to spend energy asking commenters to do better, and commenters have to spend energy doing better and resisting their default instincts. Please do better.
The way I avoid that (forced questions) is to enter no password during setup. Then add the password later in settings. This was also how you avoid setting up a pin in a previous version of windows.

This was for windows pro, I believe they are more pushy on online accounts in windows home.

Not sure when they'll inevitably change install again to try to force more issues.
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I am unwilling to universalize a principle I believe to have only a farcical connection to the one at hand. So you're partly correct about me.
Bingo. Either more words, or fewer grid squares (f.e. instead of 3x3m grid, a 4x4m grid). I truly don't understand why they thought they needed 3m (10ft) of precision: my home has something like 10 What3Words addresses (80 if you count the yard and the other side of the duplex!). The old outhouse at the family ranch has more than one!

IMO, they also should have built redundancy (some form of error checking at least) into the encoding.
That is only because what you are interested in IS price increases.

If what you are interested in is money supply, and you call that inflation, then it doesn't matter what you do with the money, you can store it, you can burn it, you can spend it, is all the same. It doens't matter if prices go up either, that is irrelevant under this definition of inflation.

Inflation used to mean money supply. Inflation now means price increases.
People thinking they are talking about the same thing when they use the word inflation is where the confusion is coming from.
Honestly? Because I'm ignorant.

I just quickly checked DDS for a list of actual proof of stake coins, since I knew about proof of stake only as something that was happening eventually for ethereum, picked a random result on the first search results page, and then picked two choices randomly from the listed coins, using a rng.

I figured if I picked two ignorant options people would probably say that, but I'm comfortable being ignorant. Now I've heard of Cardano.
When/if used properly, no. The idea behind PCA is to find a set of features with far less dimensionality than the original data. The hope/intent with this sort of approach is that any more fitted features are just fitting noise.
Around 11 years ago, there was a South African startup called Waytag [0] [1]. It was started by some business consultant guys, who I assumed didn't understand the lack of novelty in their idea (from a patent perspective).

Their idea was similar, minus the algorithm. You could assign names to places, and people would use their proprietary system to find them.

They filed for patents in various countries, US included.

Here's their European patent: [2], status withdrawn. The US equivalent is patent US20120246195A1. I can't find its history, nor a post on Patents Stackexchange, to detail the history.

Someone applied to have it invalidated, on the premise that there was existing prior art.

My reading of the Patents question, is that this person filed an opposition in the UK. Has anyone ever tried doing same in the US? Or has some legal time lapsed?

[0] https://ventureburn.com/2010/06/waytag-changing-the-way-we-u...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10961677

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2488969A1/en
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Its not the same because you have to rebuild all the pages if you change your data source. In this implementation you can upload a new data set and it will work.

Its just a different stack.
Wait what? I thought a full node needed 200GB+… Since when are the requirements so low?
Yeah, that part makes this whole thing smell really fishy. The researcher claims it was done through reverse engineering which would not be a violation of copyright. They'll have to show that someone had the opportunity to see their code and then copied it. Patents would arguably be an easier defense since you only need to show similarity and independence of invention doesn't matter.
Your comment broke the site guidelines, which ask you not to post insinuations of astroturfing, shilling, etc., without evidence. Multiple articles showing up about a topic isn't evidence of abuse; it's perfectly normal. Any slightly unusual angle like the hard-drive thing is more than enough to explain a small flurry of articles.

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We have that rule because it's extremely easy to fall into imagining this sort of thing based purely on a few data points one dislikes. In the absence of evidence, that's likely what's happening. Moreover, the submission histories of most of the accounts that posted those threads is evidence against what you said, and that information is public and trivial to check.
My wife has mentioned this is common in Serbia as well. The idea was that you might actually extend the building upwards eventually, but... Not sure if it happens as often as the initial practice is done.
Even the main skynet portal doesn't run off a mint subsidy - it's funded by VC money instead :)

No problem on running a portal! It was fun to be part of it for a while. I may run one again in the future once it's a bit more sustainable.

I'm still interested in the project - I think we still haven't scratched the surface of what something like Skynet is capable of. That said, I'm a little less optimistic than others. I think it's going to be a long road to relevance.
> Remember that everything is relative and perspective is key. A question about speed depends on who you’re asking.

I wonder if this will work on trying to talk yourself out of a speeding ticket?
I find this very interesting, why do you think there’s opposition to it? So property owners don’t get taxed on the real value of their assets?
This is a key part of the Warhammer 40k lore too; a huge amount of tech is ancient and the technicians who care for it have slowly turned into a religious order that considers their maintenance routines to be religious rites.