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instead of fixing patent law?

Why not "just" change the way patents are granted, so that it can only be granted to actually non-obvious patents that don't have any prior art etc?
Why not build facilities similar to old school burger drive-in places like Sonic [1]? While charging your car, get served food or whatever else you like.

Since we will be stuck in the car for longer time, it seems like a field ripe for disruption.

Don't forget that even today, gas stations do not make their profit from selling gas, but from the convenience store.

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I am going to be honest, I can't figure out if the cutexterm README is trolling me or not. You list some features that cutexterm has, but don't make it clear what advantages it has over existing terminal emulators. Sixel support is nice but maybe show examples on why we might want support for it. I don't know what I would use it for.

If it was not intended as a troll, I suggest not to referring to linux enthusiasts as Millenials (sic) with Stockholm syndrome.

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That newspaper scene from Men in Black. I’ve relived it a number of times over the past year particularly.

Local mainstream “fact checkers” have even called Covid-19 a “right-wing conspiracy theory” in early 2020.
Early in the pandemic Trump was given secret intelligence briefings which indicated that the lab leak theory was a real possibility.
If you have an actual table with tabular data then your should be using an HTML table. That's what it's for.
> I don't think people manipulating char[] representations of strings are ever at risk of forgetting that it's just an array of chars

and yet, when people start adding unicode text under this representation, and the program fails to work properly. Or when counting characters, and assume the glyph count would match the char array length.

or any number of other string issues.
The course is taught by both Yann LeCun and Alfredo Canziani. In fact, it is hosted on Alfredo's webpage. Can you please choose a suitable headline?
This reminds me of levitating fluids over air by vibration, which Steve Mould made a nice video about: The Levitating Liquid Pendlum - https://youtu.be/gMAKamGIiMc

The paper that is the source of the footage in the video: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04777
IT can't be looked at as a cost center anymore. The constant pressure of cost reduction is what causes these failures to happen in the first place, because nobody running the infrastructure really cares. If something goes wrong, they're out of a job anyway.
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> the "default way" is so inefficient

A big reason why I say screw map, filter, reduce, etc. and my "default way" never stopped being ordinary for loops.
When I was there back in 2016, it was sold openly but not nearly in the quantity that you'd find beef, chicken or pork. It was more of a specialist item like rabbit or venison is in the West.

I don't know for sure why they don't farm it, but I can't see the economics making sense. Stray dogs are common, and farmed dogs would need to be fed meat. You'd almost certainly get more pork per kg of feed, and pork is more desirable than dog as a meat.
just one example: deno has webgpu support. whatever mentality you hold now, however you think if he today, I expect almost all of us need to loosen our preconceptions rather quickly.

as for what the browser ought to be, I again think you should lower your preconceptions & not be so opposed to the browser exploring we data crunching roles. especially as folk explore moving away from big cloud being near-exclusive means of computing.
Body parts? That's playing around with press machines. Panels are so basic. Suspensions, coiling steel. Could you call any of the above serious manufacturing?
This is an example of "anything Trump says I must believe the opposite" logic that has plagued our country for the last 5 years.
It's impossible to build a safe airliner, but we can get pretty damn close. Airline engineers know one cannot create a component or system that cannot fail. So the question then becomes, assume a system fails. Now how does the airplane survive?

With software systems, instead of demanding a perfect defense against the root password being compromised, think "if the root password is compromised, how do we prevent that from bringing it all down?"

In other words, think in terms of redundancy and isolation between systems.

And the largest piece of hubris and madness in critical systems is allowing over-the-internet updates.
Check out 'https://millionshort.com'

It gives you options to remove the top X number of most popular sites from your results.
I wrote this comment in the past - but while I wrote it - I was in the present
The 1st version of LTSC was released 6 years ago, the latest was released 3 years ago, what's new about it?
You can't assume a coverup proves a crime, though. Is it bad? Yes. Do agents of totalitarian governments cover things up routinely because they assume something bad was done or they don't want to be blamed for it, even if no wrongdoing was behind it? Yes.

(i.e. politically punished by the west for covering up facts is fine but scientifically concluding this proves a leak is not.)
Are you referring to the team led by the WHO's Peter Ben Embarek? If yes, please note that he said explicitly that it wasn't an "investigation", despite the media widely using that word:

https://twitter.com/Peterfoodsafety/status/13683225920635576...

They reviewed summaries of data provided by Chinese scientists. They generally did not review raw data themselves, let alone physical samples, and took no steps (analogous e.g. to a financial audit) designed to uncover deliberate attempts to mislead.

For a specific example, what is your opinion of the WIV's virus database? This is a database-backed website that went offline in September 2019. The WIV has cited "hacking attempts" as the reason for this. Do you believe their explanation? If so, why are they still refusing to provide it in a different format (e.g., a dump on a flash drive) that would obviously present no computer security risk?
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They use array of tokens as their collateralized assets. I don't think they even include the tokens you mentioned.
ex: As GPUs can now have 40-80GB RAM, it'd be great to create & move around big buffers, esp. using optimized i/o interfaces like cuFile. But way before then, we should be able to allocate a big buffer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8974375/whats-the-maximu...

ex: gpu programming quickly gets into things like controlling reads/writes of data across warps as soon as you leave stuff like doing recursive fractals and wanting to do data structures designed for data parallelism, with some of the most elementary benefiting from this being things like on-gpu creation and manipulation of trees and graphs. I don't expect people learning/using webgl2 to want to do that, but I 100% expect the frameworks they're relying on to be doing it for how they implement things like reductions.

I was checking the spec every year or so to see if it supports basic memory model pragma equivs but still no, so basically still a basic opengl mindset, which is fair, just not letting webdevs do late 2000's style gpgpu. I tried working w/ khronos etc. on standards here but Google & HW manufacturers killed it for effectively competitive + resourcing reasons. That was ~10 years ago, and main issues are still true.

Nowadays, I'm more focused on areas we can control, and aren't subject to these standards bodies. NodeJS ecosystems are not restricted, and the ecosystem is incentivized to compete on advancing HW/SW in the data center. So instead, I get to work on questions like "so each PCI card gives us 16-64 GB/s bandwidth to a GPU, and the new SSD arrays give us 12 GB/s per controller, so if we do a few cheap GPUs on a box, can we do interactive visual analytics on that?" And "Is on-GPU decompression faster than sending uncompressed when all same-node?" I wish standards were building for this kind of stuff, but maybe you have a better idea on how to make it happen...
What a great story. Thanks for posting. And being a tall poppy.
Natural origin and lab leak are in no way exclusive. The lab was collecting viruses and creating new ones - either one could have leaked.

I don't have strong views as it's incredibly difficult to prove a negative (that it was not a leak), essentially you would have to identify and prove exactly the actual vector and even then it might be difficult to be conclusive. Lab leak seems however like a very likely scenario and it is crazy how people try to dismiss it without any actual evidence either way - and China's approach to handling the investigation and information flow definitely should cause anyone to be suspicious.

I guess at this stage thr only way we cam find out is if in 10-20 years there's a whistleblower from the lab.
> This seems more like people declaring victory because they're finally getting a hint of public support for their suspicions, rather than some truly damning evidence.

I think this is the main thing driving these comments. Instead of being totally against the idea, these articles are providing a shred of hope (despite not having any new proof as far as I can tell) for the people who are locked in on the lab leak theory. Definitely people getting overexcited about it and trying to claim they were right the whole time and were being "censored".
People have been discussing a possible lab leak for well over a year. For the most part commenters here on hackernews have been close-minded, arrogant, dismissive and probably wrong. disgusting.

I don't actually care much about the lab leak hypothesis. So I don't have a dog in that particular fight. I think contagion itself is a myth. See the work of Dr. Tom Cowan if you are interested. I just don't like the arrogant attitude I see on display here all the time, on so many topics. People wielding beliefs, opinions, and "scientific consensus" as if they were facts, and there is nothing left to discover about biology or wider sciences.

Guess what people, human understanding of the natural world is moved forward by those who DO NOT AGREE with scientific consensus of the day. The heretics are the interesting ones to follow, not the rest of you lot.

I'm quite frankly glad to see a bunch of you eating crow right now. You should.

Good day.
I think the prosecution needs to be put to proof of every charge that's suddenly dropped where the dropped charge is the most appropriate and the charge the accused pleads to whether of their own accord or in bargain. It is absolutely not in the interests of justice to convict on secondary and tertiary charges for the purported purpose of punishment for a different unproven crime that is the crime society wants to deter.
I did not see that coming, well worth the read if you just came here for the comments. I won't spoil it for you.
Yes, materials science, lithography and chip fabrication are the real wizardry of the information age. A 20nm chip is badass on its own yet old school now.
An example of this would be the Marburg virus (unrelated to CoVs): leaked from a lab, but of natural origin, through an infected lab animal caught in the wild
One thing I'm curious about is how do you get the data to the browser. Particularly if you are interested in doing it in a low latency way with frequent data updates?

For instance what do I need to do if I want to have a chart of timeseries data that is being updated in near realtime, say every 5 seconds, appear on a webpage?

In my Org data originates from Operational Historians which are essentially ring buffers for time series data and look a lot like SQL databases. How does javascript communicate with this sort of data efficiently. In "old school" Non live updating R world I would use a JDBC connection. What is javascript way of receiving the data?
Sergey Tselovalnikov is not Brendan Gregg.
Bombardier Canada had/has chronic funding problems, so those are combined funding/engineering milestones, which is not similar to US development programs with their unlimited budgets.

In fact, what Bombardier accomplished is so amazing that Boeing had to crush them or have the 737 market eroded. The A220 is rocking,
When i was at uni (definitely nothing as high powered as standford) we had one ethics class. It was the most useless class i have ever taken.

The prof seemed very uninformed about the computer side of the material (it was taught by someone from philosophy dept). Examples were from like the 80s (cyberstalking people logged into the mainframe via finger and w) and just generally had nothing relavent to any actual ethical conundrum.

But i did learn being a cartoon villian is wrong.
If he did the media would say he was a madman firing people for not believing a conspiracy theory. He can't win with you folks.
Wouldn't a standard database with a merkle tree provide the same kind of features without the bad parts of the blockchain?
Programming punditry makes a lot more sense if, when you see someone talking about the code being more readable, you understand that most of them are lying to themselves about what they really mean. Which is code that is more writable. In other words, something that's easier for them, the lazy person who is punching keys and derping around in a text editor.
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IE11 is officially supported for another year. IE compatibility mode is supported in Edge until 2029. Large organisations move very slowly.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/i...
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Doesn’t it seem likelier that zoonotic transmission from an animal in Yunnan would infect a local and result in an initial local outbreak, which we have no evidence of? What do you think the ratio of locals in Yunnan are to visitors from Wuhan or potential visitors to Wuhan are at any given time? 100 to 1, 1000 to 1? I have no idea, but excuse the incredulity. It’s less likely that a virus from Yunnan would break out somewhere other than Yunnan, perhaps by a couple of orders of magnitude or more.

I mean sure, anything’s possible, but we have only circumstantial evidence right now and this observation isn’t a smoking gun, but it ain’t worth nothing.
You are trying to rationalize the usage of “black” and “white” while simultaneously seeming to agree with my point.

I would say this to you: if you believe a diverse set of skills, experience and personality are important (I believe they can be) then use categories for that.

Skills categories are judged from education and practical work tests.

Experience is judged from CV and references from earlier employments.

Personality can be assessed from tests and judged during interviews.

These aren’t perfect either, but they are far more relevant than: “oh, you seem brownish, how nice”
I already checked. The flaggers were well established, responsible HN users who understood exactly which site guidelines you were violating. This "communist agent" stuff is childish. Please stop now.
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I saw the videos but they weren’t on YouTube. There were pastebins listing dozens of links to videos and photos BUT there was also zero proof it was connected to the virus or any timestamps, so who knows.
Aerion closed in March. I pasted a link in this thread earlier.
Great read, curious to hear what happened after the demo.
http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ is the best implementation of this pattern. It’s sad how browser’s select element usually grinds to a halt with a dictionary of words whilst dmenu feels instant.
Setup for failure it is, then.
> Energy being vibrated at a certain frequency

"yeah science"
Can someone elaborate on why he takes a weird detour in the middle of the post to discourage forks? Is there some particular issue with supporting bpf tooling forks?

As someone who has spent a lot of time in open source, forks are not a problem, they are indicative of a problem.

Don’t cry when people fork and go a different direction, try to figure out why and see if you’re willing to change the project to accommodate them. Dropping chastising “more wood behind fewer arrows” platitudes is pointless when half of the wood wants to break off in a different direction anyway.
> You list some features that cutexterm has, but don't make it clear what advantages it has over existing terminal emulators

cutexterm is just a configuration of xterm. I tried to make the best out of my Linux experience by spending a lot of time working on what I perceive as commandline usability issues. Hopefully, it will save some time to other people, if only by showing the limitations of the approach.

In the end, I give up, because it's a dead end. This is why I will do a KVM GPU passthrough: to get a proper terminal experience with proper font support, sixel support, etc. thanks to mintty on Windows 10.

> Sixel support is nice but maybe show examples on why we might want support for it. I don't know what I would use it for.

When I ssh to a server, running gnuplot remotely saves me a lot of time. When I need to check a video file, I run mpv - and so on, so proper sixel support is very important to my workflow.

Maybe it's not important for yours. Or if your terminal emulator did not support it, maybe you never became dependent on this feature?

Personally, I couldn't do without it.

> I suggest not to referring to linux enthusiasts as Millenials (sic) with Stockholm syndrome.

Uh, that's just my personal judgement. I can't explain otherwise why someone would prefer anything besides mintty if they have had the opportunity to use it on Windows 10.

With Edge running on Linux (and even syncing works now!) I have less of a need to run Windows 10, but I still prefer it. So I'm going back while keeping the good things I gained from ZFS :-)

If you are not annoyed by the Linux terminals, I guess we just have different tastes/preferences.
' My Elixir was Scala '

So...not Elixir.

I think your first and third bullets are correct, but not entirely relevant.

That is, yes, it's hard to find people that know Elixir already, but if you can take a dev and get them competent in two weeks does it matter? Your experience with Scala != experience with Elixir.

Likewise, when it comes to ecosystem - maybe it matters, maybe it doesn't. In Scala you can leverage the JVM; I feel like the ecosystem isn't really a problem then. In Elixir, you have a lot of things available both natively in Elixir, and in Erlang. Less than the JVM, for sure, but unless your problem domain includes something that doesn't exist for Elixir, it doesn't matter.

For your second...that seems more how you write code than your language choice. And a claim that Erlang/Elixir's approach to 'let it fail' means you are spending too much time writing robust code seems...false; if anything it's less than having to catch and think about Java's checked exceptions, let alone if you ever ask "wait, what happens if we go off the happy path here?"
Guys, a bit of a tangent if I may? This is not normally my lane, but I really wish we could get over this term ‘wet market’. From a western point of view if you really think about it, it’s derogatory, and likely based in racial paranoia.

We’ve all heard this term time and time again in the media. But after looking into it more, it’s not really accurate. Just call it a market. Or a farmers market as we call them in America.

There is nothing special or weird about the market in Wuhan that deserves the ‘wet’ moniker. You wouldn’t call your local farmers market a ‘wet’ market. It’s just something we all heard one time in the news and kept repeating it without much thought.
> The 6809 is a fun processor to program in assembly and still my favorite 8-bit chip. The 8086/88 was such a let down after it.

Yes! I learned assembly on thge 6809 and had a hard time believing what a step down the 8086 was a few years later when I encountered it.
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How do you get countries to cooperate that have no incentive to cooperate?

Cyber warfare, whether ransomware or espionage, is largely asymmetric. Why would these other countries want to play ball when they have everything to gain?

The answer tends to be that you make them cooperate by attaching additional costs to the actions, in order to make them less attractive. These costs come in two major forms, which we might want to categorize as passive and aggressive.

Passive costs might include:
- Sanctions
- Investigation/Arrests

Aggressive costs might include:
- Offensive hacks
- Military response

The issue here seems to be that the passive responses aren't likely to be strong enough to dissuade the other actors, while the aggressive responses are too costly. Aggressive counter hacks might just normalize cyber hacking and espionage, and the US is on the wrong side of that asymmetric gamble. Normalizing the behavior would be likely to make it worse than it already is!

Military responses go too far. You can't reaaalllly militarily respond to another nuclear power. Not directly. The potential outcomes there are almost uniformly bad. If you want to play the longer game maybe you do some poking and prodding by supporting third party combatants (IE: Soviet support of Vietnam against the Americans) or political opponents. But there aren't really that many great options on that front today for Russia or China.

So that leaves trying to increase the cost of the passive responses. This is kind of troublesome with China, since they'll just throw identical costs right back at you. It's a bit more possible with Russia, but Europe's entanglement with their power sector screws everything up. And it's not like we're lacking on Russian sanctions as it is.

You can try to play a strong defense, but that's kind of like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound at this point.

Yadda yadda yaddad, I don't know what to do but I think it's an interesting problem!

Edit: Maybe I shouldn't say European entanglement with Russian power sector. I suppose it's more appropriate to say gas sector?
I worked at a company that was interfacing with the AOL Instant Messenger network in the early 2000s. Finally the business people got a deal and AOL made us sign NDAs to get access to the official API docs. We were excited because we were using the docs that one of the open source clients had produced from their reverse engineering efforts.

AOL's docs were the same ones from the open source project, with the GPL message intact.
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Yes, but the reals (or the power set of the reals) are really a bit dodgy. The Nana h tarski paradox shows a big disconnect with reality. There is other axiom models without AOC, which allow for every subset to be measurable, but they seem to have their own problems.
I’ve also been curious what hospital these scientists went to. You would think that they might have some sort of self contained medical unit for when any researchers at these types of facilities get sick. Just to make absolutely sure they aren’t sick with something particularly dangerous that they picked up at work.
God forbid people that don't share your politics coexist on a tech forum with you.
I said it would cost 100 times as much to match the clarity.
I told you you need to investigate it yourself as I have no way to convey that information over the internet. They just sound very clear, detailed and precise. The 0.5% claim seems quite believable after you listen to them. They are small, but with low distortion.

Then tell that Amir guy to test them. I don't know him.
What are you hoping to gain by using Elixir? I used it in a non-startup years back specifically because of the reliability; we needed a system that, for all intents and purposes, did not go down, and we needed to build and support it with a small team. It worked beautifully for that.
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