skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't understand how this company managed to get a patent for what amounts to using coordinates to look up words in a table.

It's also not the first todo this, there is prior art.
For example this person was asking about what they would need to do to invalidate it because they built basically the same thing, but using 5 words before this company even had patents.
https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/13629/i-had-inve...

Also on the OpenStreet Wiki, the EU seems to have doubts on the patents Validity.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/What3words#Patent_Validi...
BlackBerry phones had those holster cases, and I remember my dad's first cell phone (a Nokia, around year 2000) had this fabric and clear plastic case that the antenna pokes out of (like the sibling comment describes). Even though that phone was indestructible, with big rubber buttons and a plastic screen.
When I was a kid, our family went to a drive-in theater in the family station wagon. I decided to watch by sticking my head out the back window. My dad decided to close the window; thankfully he realized my head was there before he finished. I'm glad I never got to find out if there was a plastic gear in the mechanism.
Oh please make people pay for facebro.

Make the Twitter users pay to tweet and get distribution.

End these monopolies of stupidity
They share it with anyone willing to take a risk and buy a share.

Working at a job doesn't automatically give one ownership rights, any more than the mechanic who fixes your car gets a share in the proceeds when you sell it.

Many companies, however, do provide ownership rights to employees in the form of stock purchase plans and stock option plans. I don't know if Amazon provides such to warehouse workers, but I'd suspect it would be good business to do so.
What3Words is only a business due to the stupidity of the US patent system, in which, apparently, you can claim to own anything.
Thanks, I'll pass that feedback along to Luke :)

It is indeed a very interesting and somewhat unique problem space. Our current "killer feature" is simply powering the cross references for internal google code search / IDE / etc. But we're always thinking about ways to expand.

We are sort of trying to stuff it into CI/cloud stuff, though there are some hard problems around dealing with the enormous variety of build systems out there. It works okay in bazel/blaze, it can work for gradle or maven with a lot of work, and a few other systems. But, the amount of custom build tooling that projects use make it difficult to wire up the entrypoint for Kythe in a generic way.
like a magnet
Humans give greater credence to those expressing negative opinions. The media and politicians take advantage of this to get attention and votes. In the past the limited competition in the media allowed the voice of reason to prevail. Now the race to the bottom has made that a losing proposition for running a business selling information.
I'll just point out: if you need 60 hours of income to survive you actually increase risk by having it split between several jobs. That is because having a portion of enough rent to not be evicted is equivalent to having not enough rent to not be evicted. You only need one of your jobs to collapse for you to only have a portion of your rent therefore the more jobs you have the more likely you are to have one fail and to be in that position.

In other words diversifying your income only decreases risk when you don't need all of it, you'd be hard pressed to argue that that group includes those earning minimum wage.
Hi, I’m Bayan, author of the post. I would love to hear if you agree/disagree with the definition of a unicorn product analyst or you’ve met anyone who fits the mould. Keen to hear your thoughts.
This is somewhat similar to Zettelkasten[0] which is a way to
take note.

Here's a quote from the book "How to Take Smart Notes" by
S. Ahrens[3]:

Notes build up while you think, read, understand and generate
ideas, because you have to have a pen in your hand if you want to
think, read, understand and generate ideas properly anyway. If
you want to learn something for the long run, you have to write
it down. If you want to really understand something, you have to
translate it into your own words. Thinking takes place as much on
paper as in your own head.

One of the differences is perhaps Zettelkasten notes does not
necessarily linked by topics. Instead, notes in zettelkasten are
linked by tags[1]. Another diference is separating bibligraphical
notes and permanent notes[2]. Explaining it in your own words is
the best to make it stick in your head. Linking ideas by topics
and objects may lead into your own new ideas.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20210126003640/https://zettelkas...

[2] - https://web.archive.org/web/20210423224947/https://zettelkas...

[3] - https://books.google.com.ph/books/about/How_to_Take_Smart_No...
> Right to repair.

The interactions between a silicon chip and software drivers has nothing to do with right to repair. Never has been.

> Alternatively maybe anti trust, since using your monopoly on hardware to get a monopoly on software

Apple doesn't have a monopoly on any hardware, except insofar as any company has a natural monopoly on their own products, as made explicitly legal by copyright and patent laws.

Furthermore, one has to remember that there's a world outside of commodity PC hardware. The notion of hardware and software being separate is the rare exception, not the rule. Other than commodity PC computer hardware, nearly every product sold is both software and hardware bundled as a unit, with no marketplace expectation of end users replacing the software with an alternative. Whether you're talking about a car, washing machine, television, digital camera, microwave oven, garage door opener, CD player, indoor-outdoor thermometer, label printer, or an air conditioner, the software that comes with it is seen as part of the product.

In fact, this is even true for many computer components—companies like Nvidia aren't being any more helpful about their GPUs as Apple is with theirs.

Apple's computers straddle an interesting boundary between consumer devices and commodity PCs. But make no mistake, Apple isn't obligated to do anything here. You're not entitled to something because you want it.

> using your government granted monopoly on creating the exact hardware (copyright), or some of the features in the hardware (patents) to get a monopoly in an adjacent area (running software on that hardware)

Obviously legal. See above.

> Alternatively an interpretation of the quid quo pro of intellectual property

Obviously legal. See above.
The problem is they last only a couple of years before they leak or dry out which means they never work when I actually need them

Of course, the other solution to this problem is just as in the apocryphal story [1] about the origins of the space pen... use a pencil instead.

I keep a couple pencils and a $2 sharpener in the car. Of course, there are some situations where a pencil is not ideal (like writing a check), but if you really need to write something, it's always going to work.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-write-stuff/
I think they mean less of the "Facebook is evil" and more of the idea of any kind of regulation or personal responsibility/liability with regards to tech workers.
Additionally it will impose a tight chokepoint on all life, with little time for them to adapt.

Adaptation usually happens over the course of generations, but thethe changes occurring are happening over the course of a single organism's lifetime.

Our ecological systems will lose so much diversity and genetic history.
Yes, it helps on chain privacy. It’s currently really easy to spot a lightning network channel funding transaction. In the future these will all look like normal transactions.

This softfork also provides the necessary tools to make pay-join economically advantageous.
So customers usually cue off of visuals before written text and weight. Companies for this reason and tooling changes being expensive are more prone to shrink contents before raising prices or changing packaging.
I suspect because it’s a lot easier to send a DMCA takedown notice of questionable legitimacy than to litigate patent infringement.
But the market cap of gold is vastly more. What you're saying is that the market cap for shovels would be the upper bound of the real number we are looking for, as there are other uses. So we can simply be more sure that gold has returned more economic value to those who obtained it than those who created shovels.

The truth is, what I said doesnt make any sense at all. I never thought it did. But thinking about it for a few seconds makes it obvious that it's unlikely selling shovels is actually a better business than digging gold. The major gas companies make more money than the companies who build rigs. Selling shovels is a lower variance method of capitalizing off a gold rush. I prefer to do both.

Most every successful startup is essentially someone digging for gold in a new gold rush. Rarely are they selling shovels.

Digging for gold or oil is kind of a misnomer as the important thing in both cases would be owning land with the appropriate land rights.

The common saying is misleading. It should be, "you're unlikely to lose your shirt, will have a higher likelihood of success and stability, and an overall easier time selling shovels in a gold rush, but with lower overall gain than the outlier winner gold miners" but that doesnt quite roll off the tongue.
There's no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
IANAL, but since you aren't actually in court, nor are you benefiting financially from the situation, couldn't you just...lie and say you don't have the contact information of anyone you sent it to? Or hell, just lie and say you didn't send it to anyone?
I just found out that yes, they in fact have that as a patent.
A case like this usually means you've screwed so badly, you're going out of business anyways. Again, cops do not enter a house without a warrant, and lawyers don't get anything for free without getting a subponea. It's not a hard thing to stand up to make the opfor at least do the leg work, and then make it as expensive for them as you can.

Once you do receive a subponea, you get to then see exactly how it is worded. Converting all of the data to hex or binary, and then printing it out at a 4pt font on greenbar paper with one character per line might not be explicitly stated as something not to do. If the request comes in as "delivered exactly as it is stored electronically" providing binary would seem apropos.
Same situation in the Philippines
My unwanted opinion on that is their "lot of time" would be better invested in upgrading their skills so they can get a higher paying job.
what3words is an app which, when installed, will provide 3 words which correspond to a location, but the location can only be decoded by someone else who has access to the what3words name resolution service or has the app installed.

They've raised $39* million dollars in funding and they're "helping improve businesses around the world, and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations" [1]. Because developing nations really want to use a 3rd party app with a 'proprietary naming convention' to help them map and develop their land.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/what3words
In India when it comes to technology we(majority) use english almost everywhere, from TV menus to phone apps to the tiny cybercafes in a remote place, everywhere it is in english even with the option of choosing our own language. This is due to a couple of reasons: we have been accustomed to the use of English with any tech product you can think of since it was first launched in India, also no one wants to go through the settings and change the defaults. Also the english dialect here is English-India. Kannada is its own language. I also came to the same conclusion as the author here, EN-CA was the first on the list.
maybe this tech needs to be conceiled by all actors because if the theories behind the weapons becomes mainstream, anyone could start making powerful weaponry just repurposing home magnetrons.
"For as long as there's been national news, it's been dominated by a few headline sources. ... I don't know what the difference is today."

The difference is that a diverse, global set of individuals are becoming content creators, and a potentially global megaphone is being passed on to them.

Early on in the Internet's history it seemed that this emancipation of the individual voice from corporate and government control was going to be permanent, but governments and corporations have proven to be very adept at adapting and clawing their way back to positions of control.

And, in a twist that few expected, most individuals were happy to cede control back to governments and corporations for the sake of convenience and because they wanted to be protected from the speech of other individuals.
Reduce bandwidth usage of PNG transfers over HTTP with this one weird trick
Theories of Unnatural Selection
I'm reading through his tweets and don't see much interesting on the subject. I may have missed it tho. Can you point me to a thread where hes vocal on it?
I know that's what you meant, but it's also a little silly because electric is fungible. If you hadn't bought the PV system, you could have invested the money in the stock market and (potentially) gotten "free" charging that way, too. The EV/PV logic makes sense on the surface, but it's less interesting when there's a stable electric grid and market.
> Dimebag Darrell, for example, liked his solid-state Randall sound very much. Who are you to argue?

Dimebag was paid to play Randalls. When the deal expired, he swtiched to tubes.
We have an analytic number theory book club at https://antmeet.github.io/. The reading sessions occur at 18:00 UTC from Monday to Friday. This is a book club though, not a reading group. We meet online and go through each page of the chosen book together. During the meetings, we illustrate the theorems with concrete examples, work out the intermediate steps not explicitly specified in the book, and then discuss any additional insight the club members may have to offer. See https://antmeet.github.io/boards/ for notes from the previous meetings.
> The problem is they last only a couple of years before they leak or dry out

Are you not following proper protocol of swapping out for new pens between space missions?
Think of the 3 words like a phone number. They could try to sell access to the only phone book that exists. Requires some kind of critical mass, but I've heard of worse business plans.

They could also probably sell novelty "phone numbers", like every professional sports team buys the equivalent of "boston red sox" for the location of their stadium.

No clue what their actual business model is, I'm just spitballing.
ime, not actually a great job, even with native english speakers. Let alone with accented english. And Zoom et al have a hell of a lot more resources than clubhouse, which per linkedin is currently 42 people.

Microsoft didn't buy nuance for $20B because accurate speech-to-text is easy.
Interesting write up
Sets of Impossible Size and the Birth of Measure Theory
It's a very common experience on EV user groups to find people that planned on putting in 240V into their garages but never bother because they end up finding 120V to be sufficient. Yes, it takes 4 days to charge an empty battery, but if you're averaging under 50 miles a day, the 120V outlet will have you leaving with a full battery almost every morning.
Maybe you just haven't done anything dangerous enough to warrant that sort of attention so you can have the luxury of that unchallenged opinion.
Inflation is calculated from the increase in prices. It's a measure of the drop in buying power post facto. The earlier definition is incomplete as it does not take into account velocity. For instance, if you print a $1T coin and hand it to me, then I throw it into a vault, supply went up but nothing changed with respect to prices, because velocity went down commensurately.

The earlier definition does not match observable reality.
Windows 10 is an abomination.

It’s incredible how much grief Windows Vista got in comparison.
There's a lot of low quality and high quality jobs there. The high quality jobs are posted the same way as low quality jobs - no pay range, lazy job description. Recruiters seem fairly lazy too.
How was Basecamp's reputation built on social justice issues and fanning flames on internal message boards? I thought their rep was based on good product development
I've seen a couple of ways industries change on this. One is when a funded startup comes in and brings the necessary progress. Another is when the industry forms a group and tasks a neutral third party to carry out the R&D.
Copyright infringement aside, naming the project "WhatFreeWords" seems to teeter very close to trademark infringement. The legal term if I recall is "deceptively similar" which the OSS project arguably is.
This is pretty much exactly what we do to serve aerial/satellite imagery maps.

We convert the imagery into Cloud optimised geo tiffs and store them in S3 https://www.cogeo.org/ then the browser can request the tiles directly from S3.

Even the big imagery providers are now storing their imagery as COGs, eg https://registry.opendata.aws/sentinel-2-l2a-cogs/
Something’s Rotten with Test Automation (2017)
This is the approach I took with http://github.com/protomaps/pmtiles , though it's optimized for the very specific use case of going from Z/X/Y integer coordinates to binary blobs, and takes shortcuts to accomplish that (fixed-width keys and root index page)
Personally what I find most frustrating is the two-facedness of it. State your bias. Maybe each reporter should have a visible profile above the article below the headline stating their “political compass results”. Why does CNN/Fox News continue to claim they are objective reporting when they have been caught so often failing to do so.

At the least, maybe explaining the other party’s perspective (as still flawed as this would be).

Ex: situation at the border

Republicans call it a crisis, they cite x, y, z. Their main argument is that illegal immigration causes X....

Democrats argue that the situation is at the root because of Y....

Be out about the biases. We all have biases, deceptively trying to hide them is worse: be completely out with them.
Years ago I read the same about places in the US as well. And of assessors being really intrusive. People being butthurt because they feel they are being punished for keeping their house up.

I've heard California used to base assessments on comparative values so that people don't try and game the system with crummy substandard construction and materials.
> Once you do receive a subponea, you get to then see exactly how it is worded. Converting all of the data to hex or binary, and then printing it out at a 4pt font on greenbar paper with one character per line might not be explicitly stated as something not to do. If the request comes in as "delivered exactly as it is stored electronically" providing binary would seem apropos.

And if you need legal assistance to do something like interpret the wording sufficiently accurately to avoid running into further legal trouble, expensive for you as well.
Saw lots of this in southern Italy / Calabria
It's easy to get into flow when writing (like I am right now) or reading, or nearly any hobby. Heck it's easy to get into flow doing many menial jobs. But coding is very difficult, which is perhaps why flow and "deep work" is valued so highly.
> Once you do receive a subponea, you get to then see exactly how it is worded. Converting all of the data to hex or binary, and then printing it out at a 4pt font on greenbar paper with one character per line might not be explicitly stated as something not to do. If the request comes in as "delivered exactly as it is stored electronically" providing binary would seem apropos.

Do this only if you want to catch a contempt of court charge.
> The number only matters as long as it can subdivided sufficiently to buy the smallest priced thing.

Why would I even buy the smallest priced thing with deflationary bitcoin, when I could instead hoard it and wait for it to increase in value?

I think most people who have ever used bitcoin as a medium of exchange have kicked themselves when they realized how expensive that thing they bought was at current (very high) exchange rates.
If someone made a version while avoiding the specific implementation would they be alright? I think that where the author messed up is by reproducing the algorithm altogether. The original article highlighted deficiencies in the implementation. Maybe it would have been better to fix those issues with a better, unrelated algorithm and release that for free.
I'm glad you figured that out. I have a Saeco machine (Magic Deluxe) from 2004 that I've kept in working shape. Parts still aren't too hard to come by on ebay - although I'm now replacing the boiler and did end up with the wrong part before finding the correct one. Now I figure if I can get a gasket kit, I can fix the boiler I'm pulling out and have a replacement on hand when it leaks again in 5-10 years.

For the most part, googling part #s and looking at pictures will get you pretty far. These machines share a lot of parts with other Saeco/Gaggia/Philips models.
Need Text Verification?
> Weren’t they saying the same thing 10 years ago.

Doesn't matter. Physicists are often accused that "thermonuclear energy plants are promised soon since 50 years ago". Yet there is steady measurable progress by Lawson criterion, and ITER is being assembled as we speak. Estimations can be wrong, but that doesn't mean progress is impossible.
Twitter Spaces, a Few Weeks In
With default-deny { scripts, cookies, fonts }, this is genuinely one of the friendliest webpages I've read this week. I don't know whether this outcome was an intended graceful-degradation behavior, or just an accident, but it's perfect.

All I get is (compressed, transferred network bytes): 68 kB of HTML, in two files; 63 kB of CSS, in one file; two webp images totaling 628 kB; and two small favicons (one of which downloads twice due to a misconfiguration, which wasted an extra 3.33 kB but whatever). It's exactly what I want from an internet news article: it's perfect! It loads instantly, and has a flawlessly readable, distraction-free formatting. It's like the apotheosis of newsprint, elevated to the shimmering silicon screen.

I read there's an obnoxious javascript page redirect in one of the scripts. When you block 1st + 3rd party scripts both, most of that class of annoyance goes away. IMHO it's a very reasonable default for many sites.

Thank you so very much, @gorhill (uMatrix / uBlock Origin). You've saved the internet in my eyes.
https://medium.com/interdax/what-is-taproot-and-how-will-it-...

One of the big improvements is that multi-signature transactions, where both Alice and Bob have to sign to spend some money, used to require adding N signatures (number of signers) to the block chain to have a valid transaction. So it improves efficiency and should allow squeezing more transactions, but it also improves privacy, because there's no way to tell if how many parties are involved in the transaction.

Merkelised Abstract Syntax Tree (MAST) are the other big feature that allows for more complex scripting to also be represented in a compressed and obfuscated way (example in the link).
At least in recent Mexico it's not because of taxes.

People don't have enough money to finish it and they leave it for later which usually never happens. Also they leave the possibility that next generation can add a new floor.
IANAL either but I would imagine if they gather any past or future data to suggest otherwise you might paint a target on your back. Not sure if there are any terms around that per se buy at least if it does come to a court case, I imagine having lied probably wouldn't help your case.