skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The patent is indeed expired (there's a website that will tell you that date, but I forget its URL), but they can still sue for infringement that took place before the expiration date.

If the total damages are small (as it appears), then you are probably costing them more than the suit is worth. So I'd expect them to offer to settle for a token amount, to avoid having an official loss on the record. But IANAL and this is not legal advice.
> The act of creation causes imagination, not the other way around.

I think this sentence is almost correct. The act of creation does wonders and induces imagination, but that is not the only way to achieve imagination. The act of just going deep on a thought and abstracting away the frictions of the real world can do wonders. Imagination is probably most readily available to a brain that is operating at its most abstract level.
I like to bring up the Theory of the Firm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

It makes no sense that employees exist, right? Why not just pay everyone as consultants, gig workers, piece-work, etc?

But employees do exist, possibly because the best way to manage most people is to pay them to be in a room where all they can do is work.

Do you have a great idea to save time? Well you tell your boss, and you're pretty confident that this won't result in you losing billable hours, because you're an employee.

Are the requirements kind of bullshit? Not a problem, figure it out, you're paid to be here.

Do you need a break? Have a break. Maybe chat to some colleagues, that might even add some value.

All the anti-office folk seem very set on believing that they should be paid for the value they add, not the hours they are in the office. This is fine if you're delivering pizza, but for a lot of jobs this just isn't easy to measure.

Yes, there's some consultants and B2B, not everything needs to be employees, but for a lot of work and a lot of workers and managers it's paid salary that ends up being fairer and easier.

A lot of employees became more productive in lockdown, but I suspect this is partly due to novelty (change often has short-term benefits), partly due to there being nothing else to do, and partly due to all the uncertainty that the business might have mass layoffs.
NASA reaches for graph DB to find people, skills for Moon and Mars missions
Naughty boy.
> but I can't choose my beliefs

You couldn't be a scientist then, for example. You wouldn't be able to change your beliefs when faced with new evidence. The ability to choose what you believe is a perfectly ordinary requirement we place even on fairly average people.
Will switch to farming fulltime.
Got it. So for my semantics, your review process for PR's sucks, lacking engagement, and you have to have meetings to get it done right.
OP got the ego title instead of pay.
Economists just try to explain things. They don't make economics. The nation and enterprises big small in concert make an economic system. But, go back far enough in the past before nations and businesses and economics were still in play.

It's like numbers, it exists even if we are ignorant of it.
The problem in my experience (with say a typical < 25 year old) is that they just don't care. Really. Like: "So what?"
"Watch all they want, they can see me on TikTok."

It has become normalized and it doesn't connect with something undesirable.
compelling testimony.
Yep, nothing novel about it
I agree. I just was curious if that was the only difference. The way it was phrased it sounded like it wasn't.
Such a promising introduction about the importance of agency, and then "blah blah kids these days blah uphill in the snow blah". "A reawakening of meaningful work"? Come on. Tell that to the child coal miner or factory worker of Carnegie's era.
What if your GDP is little more than military dominance?
It's more subtle than than "no side effects". Take Python prior to version 3, for example, which made possible the most egregious violation of referential transparency I've ever seen: `True, False = False, True`

Python code (pre-v3) that branches cannot be referentially transparent by definition because runtime context (the state of True/False bindings) is a hidden input in every boolean expression. You could have millions of lines of side effect free code and it will break completely if that one statement is run before the rest of the code.

Programmers depend on the referential transparency of keywords like "true", "false", "for", etc whether they're writing pure functional code or imperative spaghetti messes.
Agreed, I came to the same conclusion. Both my PC laptop and MacBook Air have glossy displays but MacBook one reflects back less light which makes it easier to work with.
The largest citation I found in a cursory search on mobile contradicts the claim, generally with orders of magnitude more citations than the articles that support it.[1]

Other research convolutes the issue, but many studies seem to focus on a very specific subset (e.g., highly educated engineers).

An interesting article does support the claim, but only with the distinction of of differentiating between "entrepreneurs" and "self-employed".[2] Under this distinction, a Bill Gates is an "entrepreneur" but the local carpenter or food truck vendor is not. IMO, this skews the context in favor of highly paid businesses.

There's quite a bit of research out there and it's not my field, I just thought it was interesting how often the folksy wisdom gets touted that "you'll never get rich working for somebody else" yet there seems to be a disproportionate amount of research contradicting it.

[1]Hamilton, B.H., 2000. Does entrepreneurship pay? An empirical analysis of the returns to self-employment. Journal of Political economy, 108(3), pp.604-631.

[2]Levine, R. and Rubinstein, Y., 2013. Does entrepreneurship pay. The Michael Bloombergs, the Hot Dog Vendors, and the Returns to Self-Employment.
But wouldn't this summary document be better as a form of comment in the source code rather than a separate document that will become out of date the next time someone else makes changes?
I'm hoping that the current Oxford 'principle' trial will in time, lend enough social-proof to the existing weight of data showing Ivermectin efficacy in preventing spread and preventing death of Covid19.

We need this treatment in addition to the vaccines.
> One of the leading critics was the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, who argued that computers, who have no body, no childhood and no cultural practice, could not acquire intelligence at all.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0494-4
Worst case may be an unforeseen condition or outcome where she's alive but worse-off than before or without.

But I agree. In the same position, I would do the same.
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Anyone who makes such a comment is ignorant. IBM has far more access to the highest levels of the biggest companies and governments than just about any other IT company. Just because they’re not hosting free email doesn’t mean they are irrelevant.
I wonder what the middle ground agreement might be. "Blue team will let red team keep guns as long as red team lets blue team kill babies (but only if unwanted)" or "Red team will abandon guns if blue team allows unwanted babies to be born (barring unmanageable complications)"?
Cheer for such move.

I have 2 Mac Pro, and 1 mac air dedicated to 10.13 forever. Sometimes things work well and you do not need to or cannot upgrade.

Guess same for someone with some old computers.
Amen. I’m a sober alcoholic, and if I died tomorrow I’d be content knowing that I did at least one worthwhile thing with the time I had: I helped another alcoholic, a 23 year old man who tried to kill himself shortly before I met him, get sober and start working and move out of his mom’s basement and stand up straight and look other people in the eyes and then go and help a few other people stop drinking.

Not a single professional accomplishment is within an order of magnitude of that level of fulfillment. Just help one f*cking person become more than they thought they could be and you’ll die happy—why didn’t they tell us it was this simple?
So a Fortune 50 company is “unimportant”? In what way?
Conspiracy theories are a subset of false beliefs. (Well, except where there actually is a real conspiracy.) The target need not have actual power - as long as the belief involves some form of "people are colluding secretly" (aka "conspiring"), it's a conspiracy theory.
> They screwed up, but did they deserve the "largest penalty ever?"

Yes, and hopefully that penalty record keeps rising dramatically.
They could have just used their own open source code, of which they now have plenty, in many languages.
I suspect making that harder was one of the main motivations, since I highly doubt Google would actually care so much about app sizes in an ecosystem that was already insanely bloated from the beginning. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15442743)

Weakening adblocking in browsers and churning the web "standards" to the advantage of its browser, the increasingly "ignore the user's request" attitude of its search engine, and dumbing-down and hiding information in its products --- it has a technical argument for every single thing it does, but don't let that convince you to think that's the real reason it did that. Google is extremely good at rationalising otherwise anti-user decisions with a technical and positive spin --- it's an ad company, after all, and persuasion/reinterpretation of the truth is what marketing is all about.

Android is still comparatively open as far as mobile devices go, but with each change it makes I can see the walls are slowly rising around its garden.
Google warned last year they were deprecating APKs on the play store. I didn't think much of it at the time as I had a much bigger problem when they insisted everything shift to 64 bit, a painful process if you have native libraries.

AAB files aren't suited to local installation like an APK though, they are more like everything google needs to build APKs themselves for installation on different devices. I think we will still build APKs for direct distribution.
Through the confines of scheduling, I once found myself in the lowest level of biology and AP biology in the same high school semester with the same teacher. At first she was perplexed, wondering what the hell was going on. But once she got to know me, she realized it was a scheduling thing and that I did not really belong in the low-level class. It got to the point where I just napped through that low level course and she didn't care at all. She was a good teacher.
From my reading of the windows 11 coverage, they're relying on APK sideloading or the Amazon app store for distribution. So no, Microsoft will likely not be able to use the new AAB format (although I'm sure there's some ongoing negotiations around this. Never say never...)
> devices that cant have rootkits installed

And jail cells are just very secure apartments. There's always going to be a guard around to let you out, why is everyone freaking out?
I think what you're referring to is the exemption from generation-skipping taxes, and subsequent assessments of estate taxation. IIRC, these instruments are still subject to the regular estate tax when they are first set up, which is why they would typically be funded with an amount that is exempt from the estate tax.
How Covid-19 vaccines were made so quickly without cutting corners
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A fool and their money are easily parted.
Kickstarter for JeVois-Pro: Open-Source A.I. Camera
>Modern western society is awesome compared to what nearly all of our ancestors lived through.

Any sane person would agree with you in the sense that it's definitely better to be alive in 2021 than 1621.

If you you shorten the timespan and only look at cultural changes since, say, the 1970s, though, it seems we've sacrificed a lot of what makes us human (community, interconnectedness, a sense of wonder about the future etc.) at the altar of free market economics and received little of actual value in return (Uber Eats, iPhones, Netflix etc.).
> Something odd happened. I think today we do not know how to go about building a water fountain. What we know is how to build one thousand water fountains. But not how to build one. (I pray you understand that this is not a thought about water fountains.)

Pretty sure a good student of history of architecture would be able to answer that question. To the more general point of the author, beauty is less and less accepted as a universal. In some cases lack of beauty in the modern era itself can be a sign of virtue, namely that we are here only for one purpose (modern exposed ceiling offices), etc.
The patent holder didn't receive their patent by accident. It was reviewed by an examiner in the patent office. Patent examiners are skilled technical researchers who are trained to comprehend the matter they are examining. Once a patent has been granted, indeed, there is benefit of the doubt that the patent is valid. However - when it comes to whether the patent applies to a given invention, that's a matter of debate in a courtroom.
It offers Intelivision and Atari 2600 games in classic mode. It also offers enhanced games with better graphics and sound and Internet access.

I see it as a niche market.
Prophet is not my favorite time series forecasting package. I agree with the author’s findings.

Microprediction.com (the site that wrote this article) is a great place to win monthly cash prizes for actually providing forecast accuracy, the twist is you have to provide your forecast as a sample of 225 points from a forecast distribution rather than just providing a point forecast. This makes participation “interesting”.

Also to win you have to be more accurate than everything and everyone else that is providing predictions.
Change.org Workers Form a Union, Giving Labor Activists Another Win in Tech
Lessons learned on machine code generation
>Burt said that while Microsoft Corp. does cooperate with law enforcement on a broad range of criminal and national security investigations, it often challenges surveillance that it sees as unnecessary, resulting at times in advance notice to the account being targeted

I wonder what requests Microsoft considers too far, considering they seem to have been willing to give up politician and journalist data. I wonder of they received a request for information on Gates and if so how they replied to it.
A standard QUERY verb should fix this.

https://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/wiki/Proposal_for_HTTP_QUERY_Ver...
Attorney: Key Witness Against Julian Assange Says He Lied to Get Immunity
(Half serious) suggestion: show me an AWS Well-Architected tax system.

We do these scalable, fault tolerant cloud systems, yet the tax code is a dirty diaper in a dumpster fire on a train wreck.
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It actually doesn't matter if SparkFun designs chips. They do buy them, and re-sell them in devices. Patent law continues to apply to all downstream implementations of a product, until the claim is "exhausted" by a license. So, if the maker of the SoC doesn't have a license from this troll, then the troll is free to sue all of their customers, and in turn their customers, all the way down until someone pays up.

It's a bit absurd to imagine, but if someone has a patent on a CPU design, which is then used in a radio, which is installed in a car, which is driven by a taxi driver, then the patent holder can in principle sue the taxi driver for using their radio without licensing the patent.

In practice, patent trolls will figure out who they can sue who is big enough to extract $$, but not so big as to run the risk of them fighting back and invalidating the patent.
So I was going on vacation, and had to leave my cats at a “cat hotel.” It cost about $50 a night.

I looked it up and for the cost of putting them up in the “hotel” I could have them euthanized and buy new cats three times over.

I would never do such a thing, but I did use it to guilt them into not complaining about the hotel.

It didn’t work very well.
A problem with having engineers own the tests is that if the engineer misunderstands how the feature is supposed to work, then both the code and tests will be wrong, but because they are consistently wrong the tests will be green. So the product owner still needs to do ad hoc testing to verify that things work as expected.

I like the “three amigos” approach from BDD as a solution here.

The product owner writes the initial acceptance criteria, ie specifies the product. Then sits down with an engineer and tester to edit the ACs into sensible Gherkin so they can be executed as tests.

The tester goes off and builds the tests (implementing the Gherkin steps) and the developer builds the feature. At the end you bring them together and if the tests pass, you are quite confident that you met the requirements. (If the error is not obvious you all huddle and figure out where the misunderstanding was).

The important thing here is that everyone gets together and makes sure they share an understanding of the feature. You could skip the Gherkin and write the tests some other way. But having the product owner think through the process of specifying the acceptance criteria cleanly is a good exercise, I think. Now I don’t think that means they need to own the tests… but there is a case for it not being the engineer that’s implementing the feature, for sure.
Is republicans belief in the false flag nature of the capitol invasion sufficient to justify a neutral position writeup or, could they be presented as an assertion with (no evidence) flagging?

The underlying premise that wikipedia has bias, yes. I think in terms of gender, and English language dominance this is a given. The difference would be about qualities of "side" in these two sided examples.

There is a false equivalence problem the blog doesn't acknowledge: do flat earther views demand equality in pages about orbital mechanics. When it comes to politics things are more nuanced but in the long view, we don't write history presenting a neutral view of losing candidates in general. Their beliefs of process and equity must get reflected, but do they deserve equal ranking? Must every contested election have "we was robbed" at equal size?

The tilden election stands out as one which I think gets it about right. Historians agree it was difficult.

Jfk and Nixon needs thought. There were shenanigans both sides. Equal shenanigans? Maybe it's too soon to say. (That's a Zhou enlai joke about the French revolution)
I'm confused; why do developers need Google to export an APK for them? Can they no longer generate APKs (locally) themselves and distribute them however they like?
New Formatters in iOS 15: Why do we need another formatter
At least 486 dead in British Columbia amid historic heat wave
Not sure why I have the opposite experience. We transitioned from self hosted Exchange to Office 365 and then Teams a few years ago, and I don't even remember a single instance of an outage.
What aspects of him did you find heroic?
And is there a somebody? Because if you are going to disbelieve everything the WHO does due to one highly politicized issue, you are going to need a replacement. The WHO certification is important because the WHO is the source governments use for providing travel advice and health related immigration controls.
Sure, but as far as we know, there wasn't a king or emperor that ruled from Anatolia to Great Britain at the time but they have these weight samples from all over this area from c. 1000BC.
I have lived around the Great lakes all my life and I see the research of natural History of these Great lakes as an indicator of long-term climate. That climate ranges quite widely. Right now we think that within the last 14,000 year time period the lakes are about the lowest average they usually get rn. They have before fluctuated about 200 ft in several hundred years. But they've been much much lower before. The average is about 100 ft higher. Just think of the millions of people that's going to affect when the lakes go back to normal. They're already starting to show signs of coming up massive amounts of flooding on both sides.
Minds are pattern repeaters. Creation begets imagination begets creation begets...Separating the two or holding one over the other is rather pointless.

You can tell a child they can create things. That should be enough for them to abstractly reason from there about all the possibilities, right? Or is it that you have to teach a child to create so that they can imagine what they might create next?
> just to say that the script we are generally given is pretty damn good

Honestly, it’s so good it’s boring. Not much challenge to life if the only thing you need to do to continue existing is plant your ass in the same chair every day.
It's not "rootkits" per se that are restricted right? It's unsigned code. Who has access to the signing keys?

It is solving the problem of unauthorised rootkits.
None of those are the type of things that code reviews should be focused on catching. They should be focused on things like:

- Does the code make sense to a human?

- Is this the best way to achieve the objective?

- Is the thing that the code is trying to do even something that should be done?
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Donald Rumsfeld memo (2003) [pdf]
I'd agree that many business owners are blameworthy (specifically the ones who have sought monopolies for their product or monopsonies for their labour supply), but we shouldn't forget landlords. A huge fraction of people's income goes to paying rent, especially in urban areas, yet the property tax is relatively low. This leaves a fat profit margin for landlords, even subtracting off the capital cost of the building. The proliferation of "single family house" zoning hasn't helped either. Preventing the construction of high density housing drives up rents, and benefits landlords at the cost of everyone else.
I think that kind of gets to my point though. Politicians follow what gets them elected and I think that's an argument that non-elite, non-special interest movements have made change.

Some rightfully point out below that there's always politician BS lip service, saying something during the election and not following through or doing the opposite.

But on this issue both 'sides' show the point I'm trying to make. Public sentiment, not industrial lobbyists, drove anti-queer policy (though to be fair with Prop 8 you could call the mormon's monied elites since they evidently have a ginormous secretive endowment controlled by a few white guys).

And then in just a few years popular opinion turned, laws/policy followed at a lightning fast pace. Because politicians want to get elected. Pretty amazing. I distinctly remembering talking about marrying my at the time long term boyfriend, my parents didn't realize I could get married like a year after SCOTUS opinion & they are very supportive.

i think and hope that there are many examples like this, which parent's study seems to show doesn't exist, at least affecting business/tax/money policy
Getting a trademark is not that expensive or complicated. Why do sellers not get trademarks?
There's a ton of asymmetry that makes this not work. One, patent trolls are "non-practicing entities". They don't build anything, or do anything other than sue people, so you can t sue them for infringement of patents. Two they shard their portfolio into very small chunks, often one patent per company. If you knock down one patent, you just take out that one patent. Three, they are usually run by lawyers, so their cost to attack is just their time, whereas you'll have to hire an attorney at market rate to respond. Four, if things get hairy, they can almost always just dismiss the case, and then you lose any claim you have against them, because they're not suing you any more. It's tricky to get counterclaims set up so you can continue grinding them down after they try to dismiss - and it will cost you money. And, at the end of the day, you'll at best invalidate their one patent.
Just raise them as you would a child? Give them a body, upgrade it so they grow every few years. Lets see where we end up.