skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe we would have released open source FPGAs and the accompanying toolchain about 18 years ago if it wasn't for patents. I was getting quite into it, but the patent minefield made it financially too worrying to continue, and it also put off potential collaborators at the time. People literally warned me "you will lose your home - I'm not willing to take that risk". I didn't have a home to lose :p but it was still a downer.

And a novel high performance x86 CPU design. x86 is patented thoroughly, although now it ought to be ok to ship one that has the features from about 20 years ago. I would still recommend to be cautious!

And an ARM one. ARM is known to some in the field as a company with an army of lawyers after all.

A lot of innovation happens when patents expire.

Other people's open source FPGA designs are shipping now (and kudos to the designers - they are really well implemented!), in part thanks to many of the basic patents on FPGAs expiring about now.

I would be quite surprised if RISC-V implementations aren't dependent on a number of key patents having expired by now.

FDM 3D printing (where hot plastic is squirted through a moving nozzle) became popular when the patents on it expired. Some people into open source 3D printing think it happened because that's when people innovated. They did innovate at making it low cost, but the expiry of the patents was a factor too.

At the moment I'm building a specialised high-performance database engine, and I have to explicitly avoid some of the obvious on-disk data layouts because they turn out to be patented. It's annoying having to come up with some "clever" alternative, but I'll find a way.

I don't know if patents encourage innovation on balance, but they've definitely prevented me from shipping some fairly advanced things I've worked on in the past.

I don't begrudge the companies or the system, but I will argue that there is plenty of innovation impeded by it, and in my experience I have never worked anywhere that patents helped, only places where they hindered. It could happen but it hasn't yet.

When I discussed this with a patent attorney once, there was a fascinating gulf between people who dream up patentable (or already patented) solutions almost casually on demand when faced with a problem, and people who think this is impossible and such insights are precious gems that rarely occur. I'm sure it differs between fields, and I know there are some very clever patents. But in software and to an extent hardware, the two fields I'm most familiar with, most patents seem to cover natural solutions to a problem which would occur to anyone skilled in the area when faced with that particular problem.
One big thing I've noticed is that the language used is also completely different. The words different camps use simply do not mean the same thing. Yet people try and communicate (argue) regardless.
Paleomedicina. Zsofia Clemens, one of the researchers, has a Twitter presence as well.

They likewise get pushback from the name alone, but hopefully motivated people will look past that.
Yes this is true. They often lose money on the premiums, actually, and then make money on the float. A very simplified example: You pay $1,000 per year for 10 years on home insurance. Then a hail storm ruins your roof and it costs about $10k to replace. So they end up paying out the $10k in premium they collected over 10 years, but were able to make money on the interest they made while they held it.
South America Is Now Covid-19 Hot Spot, With Eight Times the World's Death Rate
the owners must always be made their dues. such must be done.
These are also the same people that gave us the food pyramid.
https://archive.is/CYQeM
The identical inmates that showed the need for fingerprinting, 1903
When I was a kid, TV was full of content like "Beyond 2000" were the general population was introduced to possibilities for the future, to what technology will bring to our lives, to what possibilities were out there. There were many problems, probably more than nowadays, but there was a big space for hope.

Where all that content has gone? I have found many YouTube channels that show this kind of futuristic content, but views are in the 100K never millions.

Do people have lost hope? Do people want to just watch negative content?

I do not think so. My guess, and it is just a guess, is that people want to see high-quality content that gives them hopes for the future. But, as choosing fried food over a salad, there is a short term reward that changes that decision. You could go for the salad, you decided at home that today you will choose a healthy fresh salad, but once in the restaurant you choose fried chicken and fries.

When I was a kid, people loved these programs that offered a glimpse into possible futures, kids wanted to be astronauts and technology was magical. Ironically, with so many options today, people chooses things that are bad for their mental health. But, I do not know how to change that.
Or put your data on a microSD card in a slot.

Or preferably use Syncthing or any backup plan.

Data you have in one place is data you don't want.
Hopefully there's a way to scare the whales and other larger ones away prior too.
Kim Jong Un is a great leader. The North Korean people couldn't wish for a better one.

This wouldn't be considered trolling but positivity by the study, would it?
I know that most patent lawsuits end up being filed in some East Texas District Court. Is this ruling going to change this convention, or invalidate those rulings?

Edit: More detail about the East Texas thing. Apple decided to close its retail stores in that region so they can hopefully avoid patent troll suits there. https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/22/apple-closing-stores-in...
More often than not I find modern software regress in terms of feature compared to “older” software. An obvious example is softwares that has win32 and their UWP counterpart. The UWP version usually is stripped down in features, buggy and more resource hungry, e.g. Windows 7 Photo Viewer vs the Win 10 Photos app.

One would associate modern to something that is improved, better, faster. But that’s not the case with current state of software.
Firefox. Never needed anything else, and few browsers allow me to customize or harden them as much as FF does.

I also use Chrome for testing my apps at work though.
Regarding the notifications and 2FA I was thinking along the following lines. Every device is unique. In order to get an unlock key and get the phone to unlock itself you need some signed payload by Apple. In order to obtain the unlock you would need to prove you own the iCloud account attached to the phone. That is where 2FA comes in. The notifications will go to all your other devices similar to the “your iCloud account is now being used on device x” messages.
Thanks for pointing this out, the distinction wasn't obvious from the linked video - that makes a lot more sense. I haven't been to CVPR since 2014 so it has been a while.
Samsung new upcoming phone Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3
The article suggests that eliminating suffering rather than sufferers is the common sense way to go.

Is that any better? That sort of thing makes me think first of the horrifying disorder where people are unable to feel pain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pa...

And Jack Williamson's "With Folded Hands" which is sort of a story of another kind of paperclip maximization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands
This and Lyme are my main(ly irrational) reasons for never hiking outside of, like, Hawaii. And I'm sure a more seasoned HNer can scare me away from that, too.

Any news on whether exposure treatments like those for peanut allergies have any effect on alpha-gal allergies too?
>Not coherent, in that it doesn't cohere. For instance: your argument accepts implicitly the fact that you can be fired just for being a jerk (as happens every day in every field), or otherwise hard to work with. But if someone commits an actual sexual assault, an organization seeking to terminate them assumes a heightened burden of proof. That doesn't make sense

Well, yes, there is a higher burden of proof required for criminal accusations. Why do you want it any other way?

> An irony here is that the law actually provides this person with a tool, if people have stopped associating with him commercially because of false statements of purported fact ("he groped someone", or "he attempted to have sex with someone too intoxicated to consent" certainly qualifies, per se in fact, as both are crimes): he can sue for defamation.

Sure, unless the person making the accusation simply responds with "that was my opinion, which I stand by". You can't win a slander/libel lawsuit in many jurisdictions against someone for holding an opinion.

It's also free to make the accusation, while it is costly to defend - the element of fear is what makes the mob powerful.
I swear I had this like 2 years ago after getting several tick bites. I got hives and nausea from eating flame broiled burgers at a certain restaurant and generally felt bad after eating most meat after never having issues my whole life. Seems to have gone away after a course of antibiotics strangely so guessing it’s bacteria related.
yes. people have lost hope. the US life expectancy is declining year over year. wealth accrued by young people is declining compared to prev generations. housing is unaffordable nationwide now. education, healthcare, and housing costs are eating all productivity gains. people choose "vices" because poverty is literally painful.

fix the material conditions and people will want the future again.
I don't have experience with W10+HDD, but note that modern HDDs have started to adopt SMR which can lead to slower writes. It's possible slowness comes from that direction and not just W10.
The idea of this makes me shudder. Not because of any sense of fairness about the idea, but rather that government never seems to understand that their well-intentioned ideas always have unintended consequences. Cue the footage of politicians patting themselves on the back for passing student loan legislation.
I was sure that money would be effectively eliminated by MLM (multilevel marketing) plus six-degrees-of-separation, aka affiliate networks.

I figured that once MLMs could be automated they would replace advertising. Folks would make money connecting each other to products and services through a kind of generic MLM network. Word-of-mouth on steroids. Heck, I still think it could work...

What else?

Flying cars, and flying cities (see Bucky's Cloud Nine), fusion power and atomic tools, robots that could wash dishes and do the laundry, factories that build and delivery whole houses (Bucky again: Dymaxion Home), arcologies (ecologically harmonious mega-cities designed and built as single buildings, Paolo Soleri), Moonbase ("Welcome to Moonbase" by Ben Bova), and those are just the plausible things, linear projections of the capabilities on hand. Not even talking about nanotech, longevity drugs, elctrogravity, etc.

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It's much easier to think of things that did happen that I never expected. The first major divergence was Twitter. I don't think anyone predicted Twitter. Then there's Facebook. If you could travel in time to, say, the 80's or a littler earlier and you tried to explain FB to people they would think you were stark raving mad. "Put every detail of your life in the hands of some corporation? A voluntary spy network beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi or Gestapo? Yeah right." But here we are... I never thought JS would still be with us, let alone turd-polished to such a gloss. People spreading lies and misinformation, that's not what the internet was invented for. It was supposed to put the world's information at your finger tips, not be a mighty bullshit engine. "Phones" that excoriate minds, no one predicted that (except the Church of the Subgenius: the "white stone" came as prophesized.)
How is the school teaching kids to go the speed limit (instead of 30 miles over it) proof that the government is “bad.” School is supposed to teach kids what they need to know and once they have a basic intuition they can further look into things (like hardship extensions, etc.)
No, it's still the same as you described.
yes, if only people would get good, perhaps their OS would speed up.
This is my favorite kind of Google story. It doesn't happen all the time. But I've seen it...where a person studies the problem for a considerable period of time, followed by a minimal and precise solution. Those are often followed by mass deletion of newly superfluous code. And those are generally worth a team celebration!
I haven't seen it at all. I do see it as a talking point of his political opponents.

Read the OP and see for yourself.
>Sometimes I look at macOS, Windows 10. Apart from some UI facelift I dont even remember a single user feature

The user "feature" that comes quickest to mind for Windows 10 was the first run of calc.exe showing a popup notification begging for a 5-star rating in the Microsoft Store.

The fucking CALCULATOR. Literally the first and most basic function any computer ever had, which has had NO ui changes in the million software and hardware permutations for 70 years, because it's already perfect. Something has gone unfathomably, fundamentally wrong with how Microsoft works internally.
> Do people have lost hope? Do people want to just watch negative content?

Most people are too tired of the never ending rat race. They use content to escape from reality of their lives. The alternate fantasy world where everything is blamed on incompetent leaders is appealing. And deservedly so.
It seems like it advocates the benefits of focus, but I dunno if the article's conclusions are quite that extreme. How do you feel about the differences between his early and later works? Which do you thinks seems more scattered, or more reliant on tired tropes?

And how do you feel about Murakami's works compared to other authors who focus on magical realism? Borges, maybe Gaiman? The genre can sometimes be heavy-handed in leaning on mythology as a narrative shorthand.
So I studied as a scientist (physicist) and have a high bar for what constitutes a meaningful scientific study and scientific result. A food frequency questionnaire, of the sort this study's results are based on, means very little scientifically. No meaningful result can be drawn, and I consider it borderline immoral, given the type of affect this could have on people's behaviors, to assert a conclusion based on such poorly conducted research.

Asking people to quantify their eating habits over the previous several years and expect to have meaningful quantitative results is impossible. I can barely quantify my eating habits over the last few months. There are just far too many variables that cannot be controlled for in such research as to render any conclusion impossible.

We need meaningful nutritional research, desperately, and this just isn't it. It angers me deeply that this passes as science that will get reported on, used as "proof" in justifying recommendations, etc.
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Ask It No Questions: The Camera Can Lie (1990)
This is the first time I hear that usage of POST to update is common.

Around me I cannot name one backend developer who will design an API with POST used for update. We did it in the past when browsers where not implementing PUT or PATCH but still sending method=PUT/PATCH as param.

Of course this is my experience and I might be in a bubble.
I've been watching developments here since FLIF days and I wanted to say thank for you for taking the serious time, effort, and tireless communication to see things through the standards processes. That takes perseverance!
This is a bailout more so for landlords than renters.

IMO this should be done via a non-refundable property tax rebate. Don't pay property taxes? Then you already get your subsidy on an ongoing basis.
Living arrangements with restricted access to water (e.g. relying on RV or boat tanks or off-grid) may utilize a dishwasher to save water, and also save on energy to make hot water.
Good! Given that the mortgage interest rate deduction exists, and it handsomely benefits wealthy homeowners, it's nice to see impoverished renters win for once.

We should do more Jubilees.
> They can be full time employees if they want to get paid.

I think a lot of them would take that deal, if it's offered. They can always come back to school after their sports career is over. Right now they get a shitty education (because who has time to study when there's practice?) and no pay.
The article explores this a bit, specifically with ticks.

> Ticks that cause alpha-gal syndrome are believed to carry alpha-gal molecules from the blood of the animals they commonly bite, such as cows and sheep. When a carrier tick bites a human, the tick injects alpha-gal into the person's body.

> For unknown reasons, some people have such a strong immune response to these molecules that they can no longer eat red meat or products made from mammals without a mild to severe allergic reaction. People who are exposed to many tick bites over time may develop more-severe symptoms.

More an allergy than anything else. Allergies can go away over time, but it'd be a surprise if your case was specifically remedied by antibiotics if you had alpha-gal syndrome.
There have been multiple instances where submarines surfaced right inside a carrier group, some in active exercises where a threat was expected. Even the Chinese did it at least once and there is a high chance that the Chinese did not surface on their first few encounters.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492804/The-uninvite...
I mean, the same apps on Arch Linux don't slow me down at all. So in some ways it must be a Windows issue.
50% is much, much better than 0%. Also there is a reason some vaccines need to be administered as 2 doses. It is irrelevant to mention the antibodies after the first dose.
> the likelihood of people ending up with a HLA-dissimilar partner was no different to chance. We might have a preference for certain smells, and there might be a genetic reason for that, but we don't act upon smells when choosing who we marry.

Perhaps we’re doing ourselves a disservice by using so much deodorant, at least while dating.
all of this was posted 6+ months ago via various urls jpeg.org, sneyers.info/jxl/ etc (with years of posts about the proposals etc)

what is new here?
ARES (Advanced Rail Energy Storage) has been trying to commercialize purpose-built facilities of this type, with the first currently under construction in Nevada. They've gone through a number of design revisions but what they're building right now seems just just be multiple-unit trains full of gravel on straight lines. They've also proposed a system of autonomous trains loading and unloading concrete blocks via switchyards, but I imagine they are holding off on this more complex design for a larger installation, and the current site is a gravel quarry so they're using native materials. Advertised efficiency is over 90% at 5MW per rail line.
> I don't apologize for my belief that..

Nobody here is suggesting it's bad to tell someone about prior work. They're suggesting it can be done without belittling the person's project.

(Also, in my case you were hardly just telling me about other projects. You said that my web app did something that can already be done in an existing native language/environment, so I should have "just" ported that whole language/environment to the browser instead of building my web app.)
Prob a decent amount, but not because they were at the site of the explosion, but because an explosion will send a concussive sound wave through the ocean much farther than air. Found this assessment by DOI online and it has some equations and studies done on all sorts of turtles, fish, and marine mammals[1]. I think the largest explosions they are looking at are <1K lbs, this test was 40k lbs.

[1] https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/migrated/deepwaterho...
Help me out, where in the spec does it obligate the API designer to use verbs other than GET and POST?
Vehicle to vehicle charging is another option. E.g. the new Rivian will support that and several other recently announced cars feature the ability to power external things. Tesla might go there too with e.g. the new cybertruck and other vehicles. And of course using batteries is also a thing for emergency charging services you'd call in if you actually do run out of juice.

The rare driver getting caught completely ignoring their car's warnings that they are running out of power all the way down to zero would have a few options beyond calling in a tow truck. Even just rolling it down a hill would work.
bogleheads has both a wiki, and a forum. r/investing has daily question threads you can hit up, where you can also get generally boglehead-themed advice.
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As an unpopular HN opinion, I love red meat, so this would be very inconvenient for me. Although, synthetic beef products are out there so I guess there's that option. Just wish they had more weightiness and texture.
Good point, but most in Congress aren't involved much in international relations; that's the President's role. Even among who are, my understanding is that Biden was exceptional. And then he was VP for eight years and was given extensive responsibilities in that area.
Yeah I tried using Mastodon for a while (decentralized Twitter clone that happens to only show posts in linear time order), and I quickly got sick of it because I almost purely saw the posts from the most active people I followed, and almost never the meatier posts from the people I followed who posted less often. I have this issue much less on Twitter with its algorithmic feed so I went back to Twitter. I'm baffled by how often I see people espouse linear timelines over algorithmic timelines like it's obviously superior; if they've actually tried it and liked it then they must follow a very different kind of mix of people than I do.
Ask HN: Recovery from burnout, what did you do?
Hello HN,

I'm a software engineer with about 10yrs experience living in the US. I've had some really bad luck with my last few jobs and despite my experience I'm having trouble feeling like I can do things within my career, even those I've previously been qualified for.

My lack of ability to positively change my situation has caused me to experience significant and persistent burnout, depression, stress and anxiety. I've been out of my chosen field for at least 6mo and the past 2yrs have been a checkerboard of mismatched employment and unemployment.

I recently took a job outside my field to try to get my mind in a better place but it's just caused further anxiety due to the financial stress it's adding to an already bad situation. It's also a very low paying job that is physically demanding... so I'm pretty much destroying my body for no good reason and I feel stuck and unable to find a way out of this job.

I find it very difficult to imagine I'm the only person in a situation like this, and I'm definitely not the only person struggling with work after COVID.

I'm hoping other people can provide some info on what they did when they found themselves in a similar situation.

Thank you for any suggestions, ideas, comments or whatever.
A real PIP always has HR involved. Note to any Googlers: If a manager tells you you're on a PIP, feel free to reach out directly to HR and ask for information about it. Or your skip level, who will be pretty surprised if it's not a real one, and probably not too happy about it.

On your second example, this is where having senior technical people in the calibration room is really important. The key there is ensuring that said technical people know about the work before they are in the room. It is really difficult to change outcomes after the fact. You can't expect them to defend something they don't know about.
Hong Kong Free Press?
https://hongkongfp.com/
If GP searched for something along the lines of "Volvo emissions cheating", then I hardly think it's alarming that the VW scandal didn't come up.