skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a reasonable world, benefit of the doubt shouldn't be given to the patent holder when there is genuine confusion. It should be incumbent upon the filer to describe their invention in a way that is clear to experts in that relevant field.

Sadly I suspect the world we live in isn't so reasonable.
My experience with my teammates is the same.

I’m the sole member of my team that moved out of the Bay Area during the pandemic. I can’t imagine moving back, but my teammates (all 10-15 years younger) can’t wait to get back in the office.
School != the subjects supposedly taught in school. Anyone can learn math, writing and history from any number of sources. The author’s point, which you clearly missed, is that school often attempts to impart these subjects in a manner that is completely divorced from where and how they are used in real life. The student is a vessel to be passively filled with knowledge, rather than a willing participant.
As pointed out below it’s a pretty arid geography, but things just got worse for Lytton - an evacuation order for the village has been ordered[0][1] and “the whole town is on fire”[2] according to the mayor.

(Edit: links)

[0] https://twitter.com/tnrd/status/1410415425146458114?s=21

[1] https://twitter.com/emergencyinfobc/status/14104142964507484...

[2] https://twitter.com/cbctanya/status/1410415894979698689?s=21
> Another common critique is that the pull requests encourage reviewers to only look at the code. They never even pull down the changes they are reviewing!

I see some people pulling down code to check for "correctness" but I don't think reviewers should be testers. I see the focus being on architectural feedback, sharing of knowledge, etc.

I can see within some specific fields pulling the code to do a UX run through but that isn't all fields of software development that that is even needed (99.9% of the time I've never felt the need) and mostly I see authors posting screenshots or screencasts to help reviewers with this.

> There is a sense that pull requests actually might make it too easy to comment on a line of code. This ease might be leading to the conflicts and hyper-zealous commenting that frustrates many in our industry.

If there are a lot of comments, I usually find its because of either a disconnect between author and reviewer that should have been addressed before authoring the code or there is something that needs to be automated.
We compete with a business Intuit acquired, and the Quickbooks online API is blatantly hamstrung to make sure you can't get that kind of data in and out of their systems.

They had published spec'd out endpoints before the acquisition that just never happened. It's outright abuse, and harms their customers, but there's nothing we can do about it.
My first child is due any day now and I’ve been thinking a lot about the central problems presented in this article. But I don’t know what to do about them. Should I keep my son home with me, allocate mornings to academics and afternoons to more practical endeavors? Should I teach him to cook? To garden? To build cabinets? To train a dog? To do his taxes? Should I send him to public school but supplement his learning with what I believe he should learn, topics like statistics and probability and finance? Should I teach him Latin? JavaScript?

I personally feel like I am capable of providing an “agentic” education but I almost certainly won’t have the time nor the persuasive powers to convince a (hopefully) rebellious 7 year old that, say, grammar matters and gardening is dope. Seeking any suggestions.
You can't patent a concept. You can only patent a process, a machine, an article of manufacture, or a composition of matter. And the invention must be described sufficiently such that a practitioner skilled in the relevant art can reproduce the subject matter.
Do you understand that that's the reality we're saying we want to make happen?
There are all sorts of limitations on what minors can do, including limitations on constitutional rights. This is a pretty well established exception and not at all comparable to taxing people for exercising their rights.
> If I own a gun, pay premiums, and my child kills themself with it, do I collect the payout?

If its a liability policy (whuch seems to be what the suggested mandatory insurance would be, as are most insurance mandatss), no, because you can't have liability to yourself, and liability insurance pays out if you incur a liability.

Conceivably, gun insurance could be offered with additional non-liability coverage and liability coverage beyond the mandate, same as car insurance today is, but that’s outside of the requirement. The existence of the requirement would make it more likely that carriers would develop policies with add-on coverage and use mandatory insurance inquiries as upsell/differentiation opportunities.
I ran into an issue regarding repairing a combo amp for my guitar recently. This brand poorly attached the 1/4th jack so mine broke off but the circuitry was still attached internally. Much like in a motherboard where you hook up the USB ports (that big rectangle shape), it hooked on to maybe a 1x2 inch circuit board. I just needed to replace that. The circuits that connected the actually amp, onboard computer, and speaker were basically in brand new condition.

Know how much it cost to replace the 1x2 little circuit board? $120. Know what the price of the amp new is? $220. The most miniscule and unimportant part of the entire product besides the knobs cost more than half the price of the amp. Do you know why? The manufacturer will only sell the ENTIRE circuit board (meaning the computer and all) along with that little piece that I just need.

That is what I fear will happen with right to repair. It's not actually going to be good, but just really shady. Sure you can repair something, but that part that costs $2 to make in total, yeah that's gonna be $50 because we don't sell that part individually, you need to buy this whole kit. Knowing how America works, I can't imagine any politician is thinking this through thoroughly and it will just be another PITA that won't do anything. I wish I wasn't a jaded American, but I've always been let down from every single government initiative that has occurred in the past 10 years.
I don't remember if they promise 99% cost saving as you mentioned, but even if that's correct it's about Starship, at some unspecified point in future once they have flown regularly. They definitely didn't promise any such saving for 2021 launches. If Starship hasn't flown, how can they be "nowhere close"?
I've wanted to do this prank ever since I saw it on XKCD, but I think it's largely obsolete now, with the widespread use of HTTPS.
I think it is a filtering problem. Back then game companies would advertise on the manual. Local ads got posted. You heard about something and picked up a phone.

In the online world, job ads are not hard to find. People apply to them en masse. You might as well just set a harsh limit so you only consider the best and don't waste your time. I guess the other approach is to just hire the first 'good enough' to walk in. But everyone wants value for money.

It's the exact same as having a UAI/TER score to get into University here. Sometimes it indicates required intelligence, but often it's just a popularity cutoff. They can't accept everyone.
They dont want to reveal the locations of their security cameras?
I use olt.com to file online taxes and they are much better than intuit and cost like $15 (compare to $100+ turbotax crap).
they also provide free file
AirSend is able to invite guests for audio like discord/Slack huddle. Not only that external customers can join public online meetings (audio/video) without an account using AirSend.
(Note:https://www.airsend.io/blog/index.php/2021/06/30/create-publ...).
Please stop commenting to me with these sorts of posts.
Interesting. So Sauerkraut and Sushi have similar roots. Sauerkraut was also fermented in the old days. Now, vinegar is used, which btw kills any useful fermentation bacteria.
Not everyone in the world practices animal husbandry, so the "cattle" metaphor doesn't make a lot of sense to some of us, like me.
I have no idea how "cattle" should be treated, other than they are killed/used for resources.
> First, the State has asserted it is on the side of the First Amendment; the plaintiffs are not. It is perhaps a nice sound bite. But the assertion is wholly at odds with accepted constitutional principles. The First Amendment says “Congress” shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. The Fourteenth Amendment extended this prohibition to state and local governments. The First Amendment does not restrict the rights of private entities not performing traditional, exclusive public functions. See, e.g., Manhattan Cmty. Access Corp. v. Halleck, 139 S. Ct. 1921, 1930 (2019). So whatever else may be said of the providers’ actions, they do not violate the First Amendment.

This assertion has come up so many times on HN, I can't help but gloat a little seeing it spelled out so clearly by a justice of the courts. Compelled speech is not free speech! Facebook is not the government! My only sorrow is that the utter incompetence of this legislation will keep it out of higher courts.
How did you learn to read the claims?
But are the trees this article is talking about are not planted by rich people personally? If you live in a poor neighbourhood you can't just "invest" a public park into existance.
My best hack is a longer story that involved getting global access to the entire school district's network, which was a years-long exploit involving some clever brute forcing and some lucky finds along the way.

My favorite was writing a fake/clone Windows 2000 login screen in Visual Basic and installing it on select library computers. It would capture the usernames and password and upload it to an FTP server. The login screen was pixel perfect.

My partner in crime took it too far one night and enabled the "snow day" version of the district website homepage for a few hours in the early morning. Half the kids didn't show up to school the next day. Some people insisted the website said snow day at one point but nobody could prove it.

I was 16 or 17 but thankfully I had the good sense to follow advice I'd heard from an older mentor: "don't do any harm because that's when someone starts investigating and you get caught"
CVPR officially bans social media discussion during the review period
Why? Does it upset you each time I remind you how wrong you were?

But yeah, you are clearly not interested in having a productive conversation. Nobody can stop you from taking your toys and going home.
You have some values stated for these lessons, but I have a hard time imagining a teacher finding ways to bridge the gap with a student or the class & make seen these somewhat adult perspectives.

This last is way off in the weeds, but formenting insurrection is often a noble & virtuous thing, change often is direly necessary or more worsely overdue. There is a huge amount of fumbling & failing that often prevents good execution, that ruins follow through, & we see in history so many pendulums of society swinging & counter-swinging wildly around one another: this is purely my personal opinion, but I for one don't de-rate the attempts just because it keeps being really really hard (& often woefully mis-done!!). I think the effort to try is gloriously humanistic, challenges be damned. No, hungry for the challenge, the chance to improve. An agency of last & too often necessary resort.

What I would judge might-be insurrectionists on though is their cause. It's easy for groups to be riled up, to let one's group escalate itself rapidly towards inssurectionist climax, to mantle oneselves with cause. Whether you search for some objectively worthy (legible) truth or cause is important. Having a strong epistemic basis is important.

I liked almost nothing about what has recently happened & I think we probably agree a lot about how history isn't/might-not-be useless, & that modern times have shown some real grade-A fuck ups vis-a-vie that all. But still, it feels important to me to not condemn insurrection so widely. As a communist, it certainly seems like insurrection remains necessary. Outcomes haven't been good but the revolutionary spirit dwells in all our hearts, amid the beautiful, high-agency/highest-agency better-possible selves we might have had in us.
IANAL as well, but you would possibly have a case for a civil lawsuit against TurboTax
Cargo-Supply-Chain
> The basic life script we all seem to have in western society seems pretty awful when you think critically about it.

On the flip side, if you step outside the bubble of comfort that Western society generally affords people, you'll find that life is "nasty, brutish & short" as Hobbes put it.

We've come a very very long way in a short time towards raising our standard of living and our expectations for what our lives can be - especially for regular folk from humble beginnings who aren't born into huge advantages.

Not to say that we can't improve things further for Western society, but just to say that the script we are generally given is pretty damn good compared to historical averages.
Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever
> Now that others are not working in the office, I hope that communities realize that we are drastically under-creating shared spaces and push for significantly more of them.

The lack of of "community" is not due to lack of concrete boxes, in my opinion. How busy is your local library? From the odd occasion I've been, mine is not very. And seemed to be almost entirely frequented by people who had come to use the free computers/internet and were pretty solidly absorbed in facebook / paying bills / online shopping / whatever.

I don't think people like to invest a lot in public shared spaces because antisocial behavior from a few can easily ruin it and is difficult to police without being extremely restrictive.

Private clubs, groups, organizations are much more successful, and those are everywhere and (in my small experience) have good community spirit. You just don't necessarily see them easily because you can't necessarily walk in the door and start doing what you want.
This is a good and important essay. I was crazy-lucky, being born at a time and place when kids could be left alone to build stuff and play with real technics when still young. I built hovercraft, rockets, ballistic devices, and hacked with vacuum tubes and transistors and tesla coils and radios and early computer stuff. It was wonderful. Oh, and biotech, too. All before high-school. Now in my sixties, but still like a crazy kid with tech. The tech helped me learn the complex stuff - the math - but it also taught me early I could get help/assistance and better faster results working with smart people. Doing - not just reading about it - but doing it and testing and trying again, and failing and then nailing success - this is so powerful and good. We got airplane crazy for a while - and I built no-airfoil Laminar winged models which flew fine. There were no video games - we built stuff and hacked it and sometimes had accidents... But I learned most of what I needed to know in life doing - doing and failing and fixing and then getting it to work.. This is the algo for life. You will have silly setbacks and make awful boneheaded mistakes - but when DOING you learn quick that nothing is final. If you didnt get killed, you can try again.
I never heard this called "agency". But doing - and learning to think, and plan, and then act, and then evaluate - this is really key. Many folks who just write and talk - they never experience true harsh failure of the system. But nature is a really good teacher. She shows clear truth - and you can learn just by keeping your eyes and brain open - and remain curious and driven to know the why and the how.
The studio is maybe the kitchen table, or the basement. And maybe the library and Google and DuckDuckGo. But build something. Build a car. Build a go-cart or a rocket. Build a working computer from a bag of parts bought online from Mouser or Digikey. Build a working fusion-generator ( you can buy "lecture bottles" of non-radioactive deuterium. ) Learn to program, and hack together a working version of mplayer from source code, and get it running on a Linux box, and listen to streaming Radio Caroline (the original pirate-radio in the UK from the beginning of open-source hardware). The author here is wise,and makes a very key point. DO something - MAKE something - pull together the bits and pieces of stuff and knowledge that transform nature and get her working for you - instead of you being a slave to her. I remember school was pretty awful... It had to be endured. And it interfered with my experiments. :)
I built a TEA laser in my basement. You need a DC power supply, and a bunch of stuff you can buy at Staples - plastic sheets, aluminum foil, etc. It was first written up in Scientific American in 1974.
And I also built software machines to hack the markets. To my great surprise, they seem to work. If a dullard like me can do it - any sufficiently motivated person can. :)
Do things and make things. You will learn skills that can be used to make the things you want to happen, actually happen. Good essay. - Russel F.
TPM can be emulated without hassle, as QEMU/VMware does.
QA also works best for features that the user can meaningfully interact with. The more esoteric, interconnected, or complex the failure is, the more it gets muddled with other reports and weird conditions (it breaks on 3pm when the moon is in equinox and I have my mouse pointed north). That’s an over exaggeration but the sentiment is accurate. QA will frequently lack a deeper understanding of how the software works and is connected. That ignorance can be valuable (finds blind spots) but has trade offs (assumptions are made based on imperfect observation of cause and effect where human biases lead you down dark hallways). Speaking from experience with lots of manual QA which is actually a rarity these days.

The other thing to consider is, if you’re careful, user feedback can be obtained more quickly. If you can keep things stable, then you won’t upset your users too badly and you’ll avoid the need for QA to act as a stand in.
I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that the designers and contractors that built those buildings assumed that regularly scheduled inspections and maintenance would happen. How do you design a building that can withstand 40 years of neglect? Now, how do you do it and have it be affordable to build?
say no to scroll jacking
Thank you. I'm glad I stopped by HN today. You write well.
Preparing soil before planting is key to successful root growth of fruit trees
Immutability isn't so difficult to do with Python language itself for any object. The push back is culture and practice of "we are all adults here" and that influences the language to make it forcing immutability awkward.

For example, let's assign a constant variable to a sequence; should you do use list or tuple (FOO = [1,2,3] or FOO = (1,2,3) )? It doesn't matter, the constant capitalization discourages you to mutate it.
Does https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id675248567 work on an older macOS version? If not I might have to agree with you, I previously used the link in my Purchases page simply as the fastest way to find it.
I really think the "0 new features" was a fluke of history that elided with marketing. Wikipedia better describes it as, "no new major visual changes." [1]

- Finder was completely rewritten in Cocoa

- Microsoft Exchange support was added

- QuickTime X introduced

- Grand Central Dispatch introduced

- OpenCL support added

- and a bunch of other stuff

Each one could have caused issues, but thankfully didn't. However, Snow Leopard did have an issue that could delete all user data [2]. The accident of history is the transition from paid upgrades on physical media to free updates via the web and an increased release cycle. Previous updates were $129, Snow Leopard (Lion and Mountain Lion) was $29, and Mavericks was free. This also was when the 2-3 year release cycle moved to an annual one. The App Store was added as a point release of Snow Leopard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard#New_or_c...

[2] https://methodshop.com/snow-leopard-bug/
You can patent a software process or machine running classes of software in the US as long as it doesn't conflict with Alice Corp's test which is analogous to what I mean by concept in this case. And his patents are extremely well documented in the patents so that they can be reproduced. I guess if someone manually cranked through the math for each video's set of pixels they wouldn't be infringing, but oncologists aren't really ok with waiting a year for results. Any practical implementation would be infringing.

And like I said, I'm pretty anti US structures around intellectual property (including software patents), but I'm not for the only ones being able to circumvent the legal process being entities with large banks of capital.
Aaah - a tilt of the karmic plane!
Tom would be very interested in that! You should post something maybe on his site? https://www.starfleetproject.com/
Your argument is easy to turn around and apply to abortions, but I'm sure you don't want to open that Pandora box.
Red Hat is all gsuite and runs all of its own systems like HR, etc.
Don't know where you live, but here in the Bay Area there are several brands of naturally fermented sauerkraut that you can find in any decent grocery. Just looking in the fridge I see some Wise Goat and some Farmhouse. Very tasty and all naturally fermented!
I suspect we are all the prisoners of long-dead economists. Their ideas of people as atomic resources were useful abstractions in some ways (I agree with the point below that their work has led to great material prosperity), but they have also influenced entire generations of overly bureaucratic and inhumane policies. People are treated as "things" to be "managed," and as a consequence they develop learned helplessness.
Show HN: Captain Stack – a parody version GitHub Copilot
Moving the goalposts much? "Nobody's been doing that." "On the contrary, here are some examples." "Yes, but those are justified!"
We've got a pretty solid diff view now, notes at https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/18/the-wayback-machine-figh... and an example at https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20170118202526/201701200403...

Re slowness, we're able to do a lot with a little, but there's always room for improvement. If you're interested in some of the specific infrastructural challenges, I did a presentation in February:

https://archive.org/details/jonah-edwards-presentation

and my colleague did a fantastic presentation detailing some of the internal workings of the Wayback Machine just last week:

https://archive.org/details/bridget-bell-presentation