skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well suppose the valuation mechanism for determining the relative value of patents that the escalating fees were levied upon was implemented by requiring IP holders to declare the price at which they were willing to permanently release the discovery into the public domain in exchange for a one-time payment.

The result of such a scheme might be that is nearly always cheaper to pay the patent office to permanently destroy your competitor's patents and release the discovery into the public domain for everyone then it is to hire lawyers to go to court with your competitor in order to obtain a settlement and mutual licensing agreement.

So whenever large tech companies have disputes with each other they might start destroying each other's patent arsenals rather than going to court, which would level the playing field for everyone else. And if a large number of smaller startups were being harassed by a large company they could crowd source the money needed to pay the patent office to destroy the large firm's patents without spending any money on lawyers or legal fees and without having to halt development.
What incentive do they have for producing longer-lasting bulbs? If they make them more expensive, will the general population buy them? A lot of people buy the cheapest option.

I could imagine enterprising individuals shipping Dubai lamps in smaller quantities. I've orderer high CRI LEDs from abroad, so maybe there's a similar niche market (that's simply not worth Philips' time). But AFAIK, the Dubai lamps are only available in cold white, and in temperate climates, it seems that warm white is preferred. It's possible there's some export issue there though with UL/ETL listing.
US post-war neighborhoods built after the advent of cars, were mostly designed for them. It's not madness, as much as it is the inevitable result of consumer demands for what was at the time, new housing.

> Does this not represent a huge opportunity for someone to start a local grocery store business?

Those stores do mostly exist where they are viable. The limiting factors are:

1. many of those neighborhoods don't have commercial space, and are filled with people who live there specifically because they do not want to live by commercial property, and support zoning regulations to keep grocery stores from being built besides their property.

2. because many people do have cars, neighborhood grocery stores are sometimes at a commercial disadvantage, because many of their potential customers can easily drive to stores with greater selection.

I do like living in more lively neighborhoods, and I picked one where I do have two small grocery stores within 15 minutes walking distance. The thing is, they're both ethnic grocery stores with limited selections. I try to support them when I can but to get everything that I want to buy in one shopping trip, it's much quicker and easier to drive out of my neighborhood to a much larger store.
Well, most faraway places tend to be a lot worse off than we are on the vaccination scale. This is why I think it'll take much longer.
We've been doing that in France for almost 20 years now? Most of us get more days off. Some work 35h a week. Work is more intense, less coffee breaks. I think there's still some fat to trim but the equilibrium seems OK.
People don't tend to react well to feedback from a random internet person, no matter how respectful or well-intended it is. Especially the ones that also don't react well to a minus-one fake internet point from an unidentified user.
Looks to be a different source from the OP, but let's go down the chart for 1980 past the top ten:

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1980/

Kramer vs. Kramer (book)

Ordinary People (book)

Popeye (comic)

The Shining (book)

Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (sequel)

Caddyshack (original - franchise starter)

Friday the 13th (original - franchise starter)

Brubaker (book)

The Jazz Singer (remake)

Flash Gordon (sequel/remake)

Bronco Billy (original)

Raging Bull (book - biopic)

Maybe you should go back a few decades until you can find a time when the top 20 were mostly originals. Would have to be before the Star Wars/Jaws blockbuster era, probably.
I’ll try make the point one last time then let you be.

“Brilliance” is a human attitude towards technology. It is not an intrinsic property of technology.
They should probably create a more distinctive logo to avoid that, it’s a lot easier to think the Red Cross is public domain than something more distinctive.
Managers with good teams may bypass this by partaking in a "hire to fire" scheme where the newest joiner is guaranteed to be at the bottom of the performance list, shielding those with longer tenure.

This works for a while - until word gets around, then you find your hiring funnel drying up.
Not necessarily a "regrets" post - but sometimes you just don't know any better. Had you more information you might have made different decisions. That is all.
It's funny, I keep seeing this era the same way. There used to be such a different structure behind things. Everything was more expensive but we went to grab them because they were so superb. Also it imposed some kind of order.. those who managed to fabricate large things in front of the random nature of workgroups, social trends and audience desires got to grab the hero / fame status (for better or worse).

Today, available means flattens the whole landscape, you can indeed do everything at a fraction of the cost but so the goal vanished because there's nothing of greatness now ? (and many groups are in the "availability is key for .. whatever" .. I find the idea too naive)

This weird tension, or contrast, is interesting.
[Claiming/insinuating] that using the Red Cross as a generic logo dilutes its symbolism, which could potentially lead to deaths is clearly a weaker statement than [claiming/insinuating] that its use in video games has caused specific deaths.

It doesn't matter which the verb is, the second half of the first sentence is a much weaker, and more defensible, statement than GP's "vague insinuation" of a concrete incident.

No, they are not insinuating that the use of the Red Cross in video games can be directly tied to specific deaths. Yes, they are insinuating, fairly clearly, that making the logo generic could lead to less recognition of the unique neutral status of the Red Cross, and this gradual loss of recognition could potentially lead to more deaths.
Doesn't Walmart do this?
So so true. Imagine a plumber turning up at your house and fitting you a new bathroom as their open source project. But then again, if they charged a extortionate ‘support’ fee for years thereafter for doing nothing then that wouldn’t be as crazy. A bit like Red Hat in that sense.
https://archive.is/cnJZ7
I didn't experience this while working at Amazon and I'm an old fart.
I don't even see a downvote button on desktop. Do y'all do it by altering the link behind the arrow to include "?how=down" ... ?
Here's a previous fairly large discussion on this from 2015

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9559376
The bell ringing Santa Claus is the Salvation Army, unless they both do it.
> If we slap red cross symbols on people with medical equipment that you see in video games, it'll just dilute the meaning and maybe next time someone sees a vehicle with the red cross symbol they'll think "oh, that's just the enemy's medics" and throw a grenade that way.

The red cross is used by the enemies medics. It's one of main allowed uses.

The issue comes with a distinction not commonly used in video games, true medics using the red cross as a logo are designated non-combatants, while they are armed they are only to use their weapons in protection of themselves or their patients and under no circumstances are they to directly engage in offensive military operations.

It's also part of the reason why combat medics in the US no longer use the symbol, without it they can act offensively

Also the Taliban have no qualms about destroying an ambulance or shooting a medic.
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So there were video games in 1935 that caused the Dolo air strike? I think the issue is around why (or whether) video games cause this, not if there were ever assholes who tried to bomb them.
NA beer is made just like beer but with the added step of having to remove the alcohol. It is real beer, it just doesn't get you drunk.

Of course that makes it not as popular, so economy of scale comes into play.

You might want to check out Athletic Brewing company, which has a line of hops-flavored seltzers.
There’s a min karma threshold for it. I think it was 400 at one point. Not sure if inflation has adjusted that yet.
> “Should I tell an employee that I entered them into Focus?” the question reads. The response: “Do not discuss Focus with employees. Instead, tell the employee that their performance is not meeting expectations, the specific areas where they need to improve, and offer feedback and support to help them improve.”

> “If the employee directly asks, ‘Am I in Focus?’ you should answer honestly,” the response continues. “However, remind the employee that the use of a specific product should not be their take-away from the conversation, as there are important performance gaps they must address.”

That doesn't sound like mandated secrecy. That sounds like they think the employee shouldn't care what the specific product is called.
You might try reading the book before arguing against a straw man of it.

With respect to drugs we have a big issue that we have a fundamentally flawed system where we only fund proper studies for drugs with patents. There are many cancer treatments with much more promising data behind them than the latest drug company drug. But these treatments can never get a large clinical trial funded to really prove that they work since there is no way to pay for the study.
> the results will be purely based on algorithm efficiency

With much respect for those who have to hammer them out: The algorithms are full of bias, they have to be. They are essentially just a pile of hacks. Machines cant understand articles. Even if they could they would have the same problem a human reviewer would have when asked if article A is better than B. You cant switch off your own bias. Even if we could do all that you may end up with a category dominated by the writings of [say] 50-51 year old Caucasian males which forces you to ponder corrections that may or may not be terrible ideas if or if not applied. And then you have to chose which bias to apply and we are back to biased search results.

People are the sum of their experiences, if you remove that nothing is left.
Actually GPT-3 is a Markov chain. A Markov chain is a very general term. Just because the simplest ones are stupid, doesn't mean there aren't smarter ones.

A Markov chain is a model where: (1) there is a state, (2) the probabilities of the next state depend only on the current state.

That could describe anything from a wet fart to a deterministic computer to GPT-3 to the human mind to quantum mechanics (the real one, not a simulation).

If I unplug the Internet and all USB devices, my computer is a Markov chain with at least several trillion bits of state, so 2^(several trillion) possible states. And there is one next state, which has a probability of 1, and all other possible states have a probability of 0. That's a Markov chain.

GPT models choose the next word probabilistically, with the probabilities chosen by feeding the previous N words into a neural network. That sounds like a Markov chain to me!
I love the idea.

Yesterday I gave up building something locally and just got CI to do it because to run locally you have to kind of make a poor mans .travis.yml file out of bash locally then play spot the difference (I never figured out what was different that was breaking it locally, resulting in a k8s deployment with a missing mount/volume).

This might sound weird but when you inherit some legacy code you’ll know what I mean.

Something where you can run the CI locally is such a boon.

Also CI providers do have downtime. If you can run locally, you can’t deploy your app!
> such as a scene involving army medics

This is actually a completely inappropriate scenario. The point of the Red Cross symbol is that it indicates an internationally neutral organization that is very specifically not associated with any country.
But the current state could include all of the last N output tokens.
Highly recommend Heap [1] - they have a neat approach that doesn’t require you to ‘decide’ which analytics you want to track ahead of time.

Disclaimer: I was an early engineer at Heap.

[1] https://heap.io/
Not seeing where videogames caused these...
You hit the nail on the head!

Army medics != Red cross, and that's a big difference.

If a red cross is taken to mean just army medics, they might be considered to be "just" the enemy's medics, a "legitimate" target for some, unlike the Red Cross who are neutral and help everyone.
Show HN: Homer – A tool to build interactive textbooks
Hi HN, my name is Rahul Sarathy and I built Homer (https://usehomer.app), a tool to allow creators to build more interactive digital textbooks.

Right now the software supports image based scrollytelling with a roadmap to add interactive components such as annotations, animations, backlinks, and more.

You can check out a demo of an interactive history book here: https://usehomer.app/demo
Here's another short example of how a personal finance related book could look like: https://usehomer.app/rahul/8

If you're interested in checking out the UI used to build the demo above, feel free to sign up at https://usehomer.app/signup and create a book.
IMO, this list is missing one of the most important:

- Not staying focused, e.g. trying to solve too many problems at once.

Related to above:

- Shiny object syndrome

Pivots sometimes are necessary and when necessary need to be done swiftly and fully.
Oh my goodness. I didn't even see that, probably because my brain regards it as impossible - it's the punctuation equivalent of the gorilla walking across the basketball court.

Extreme comma tension now relieved above.
> This naturally means the same people that are content to allow these problems to fester are also politically dominant at the state level.

In the 1920s, Californians would complain about hobos hopping trains to LA and San Francisco (The Little Tramp stereotypes weren't completely baseless). This was when California was predominantly run by Republicans. During the Great Depression, California then attracted a bunch of jobless/destitute Okies and so on...

If the problem has existed for more than a hundred years, maybe it's not the politicians and residents enabling it. If California wants to get rid of its homeless problem, they need to change their weather (or get fixes on a national level, but with the current Republicans in place, probably changing the weather would be easier).
I don't think there is really a goal to votes/downvotes other than democratizing the content that people want to see (see: digg.com's genesis)

If people wanted to leave a comment then they would, but forcing one is going to incentivize drive-by quick "dunks," so that they can hit whatever minimum text limit that is set, and then move on.

If you say something factually wrong but honest (in terms of arguing in good faith), I've found that you usually get a lot of replies on popular topics with people correcting your mistake. If you get drive-by downvotes but minimal replies, it usually means you are not on the same page as the rest of the users you share the site with, or you've made a comment that is a hot mess (or very off topic).
In that case, from Red-Hat,

https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/cloud-native-apps/what-is-q...

https://quarkus.io/guides/building-native-image
Yep, we've seen homeowners or long-term renters especially interested in the buyout option. Fast furniture is a big climate problem, and although IKEA tries to show itself as sustainable, it's really the other thing. This is we only offer high-quality furniture, the kind that you won't replace every few years. That, combined with full insurance, things last longer and can be refurbished when you want to move out.
> No one wants to work for you anymore.

You're in quite the bubble. Lots of folks I know would work at Amazon. Friends have joined the computing groups (Lambda, ECS, EKS) to work on observability, scale, security. It's important work with broad impact.
I assume this doesn't go on in the UK, as it would fail to meet the ACAS code on performance management, and likely lead to successful constructive dismissal or unfair dismissal claims.

"If issues do arise, employers should make the employee aware of the shortfall in their performance as soon as possible. The employee should then be given a reasonable timescale to improve.

Employers should provide their employee with any relevant support and training in order to reach the required performance standard. They should then monitor and review the employee’s progress throughout the period assigned for improvement."
And, in case you haven’t heard, California is set up for (yet another!) historic fire season.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfgate.com/bayarea/amp/fuel...
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>their production actually emits CO2

To be fair, so does the production of renewables.

I think the bigger reason is that CO2 sequestration is more compatible with human psychology. It reminds me of a study that looks at three ways to convince homeowners to conserve energy (sorry, this is from memory, I can't remember the actual study):

Method 1: educate them about how much money they will save.
-Result: Little to no effect on consumption

Method 2: educate them about how much better it is for the environment
-Result: Little to no effect on consumption

Method 3: inform them that a majority of their neighbors are conserving energy
-Result: A significant reduction in consumption

Now that doesn't seem particularly rational to me, until you frame it as most people are simultaneously selfish and also social creatures. But that framework helps understand why carbon removal gets more coverage than conservation.
There are teams building cool things, used by large customers, where you're paid decently.

It's not really all that dystopian.
Your charizma certainly plays less role.

We had oral exams in university. They are less fair then written ones for sure. For the record, I did well and tendes to know what to say. Could also bluff my way when encountering edge of my knowledge.

And seen a lot of bluffing, appeals to emotion, negotiation for better grades or special advantage. Once I have seen a guy negotiate C all the way to A - and no, no additional questions were asked.

Oral exams are not fair in any way.
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I use a 3-step approach: point the vents at me while I'm very warm, then away from me when I start to get comfortable. If I actually get cold, I then turn the blower speed down.
I have come to the conclusion that climate change will have to cause enough scarcity and enough chaos to require despotic governmental changes towards environmental preservation. It's going to have to get absolutely terrible, and when it does, we'll snap very far back in the other direction and put people to death for polluting...

The mealy mouth bullshit we do now, where every individual is accountable, but the corporations behind most of the emissions and waste are not, is absurd. We'll never have resealable, recycleable plastic chip bags, for example, because that would cost someone money....

We're basically cornering humanity into some kind of horrible hellscape future where we're all going to be killing each other for electricity or waffles or god knows what...
The sum reduce example really should use 0 instead of 1 as the initializer. 2, 6, 8, and 3 don't actually add up to 20.
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The paper:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/11/e1700895

And the paper for nanoPE:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6303/1019

... TLDR, they sandwiched a reflective and emissive surface inside of a thermally transparent material. Body heat convects to the surface (so it needs to be tight fitting), and the surface is radiatively coupled to the environment (emissive surface), but not to the body (reflective surface). You lose out on directly radiating body heat through the nanoPE, but that doesn't work well anyway.

Anyway... it probably wouldn't work very well if the ambient temperature was high since it is absorbing LWIR from the environment. The article does mention MIR (MWIR) a few times, though. There isn't anything MWIR specific with this fabric, but the atmosphere is generally very cold in that band, so maybe LWIR can be reradiated in the MWIR by the fabric even when the ground temperature is at/above body temperature. The blackbody power in the MWIR at 98.6F is pretty poor, so it can't be much.

They used an ambient temperature of 22.0C in the paper, which is kind of cheating (why bother with a cooling shirt at that temperature?). The LWIR coupling will help a lot at that temperature. Once the ambient gets close to human body temp, though, it'll not work nearly as well. One could run the numbers to see, the thermal model is pretty simple.
Probably the most excited I've ever personally made PG was when he saw me make an em dash on my MBP and immediately wanted to know how.
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Those numbers seems incredibly low for a blockbuster.

I see the google info box saying the average movie marketing spend matches your quote, but they are talking about productions averaging only 60 millions in costs.

Blockbusters like transformers or large marvel movies are much more expensive to produce and market.

Hollywood reports sets the marketing costs of summer blockbusters at 200 million worldwide - in 2014!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/200-mill...
I was really surprised that non alcoholic beer seems to be so special in the US (especially when trying to find a good tasting one).
In germany, while alcoholic beer is the norm on parties, when drinking to a meal or at hot summer days non- or low-alcoholic beer is served frequently in various forms.
Personally, I am a fan of wheat beer, which comes in normal (5.5%), light (3.3%) and alcohol free (0.0%). All variations have their unique but good taste. Also, beer-mix variations are popular on summer days: Wheat beer with cola, wheat beer with sprite or normal beer with sprite.
All these variations are served in exactly the same glasses and bottles as regular beer. So if you don't want to drink you can easily do so. We even have a soft drink variations served in typical beer bottles, which is also good to fit into the social norm while not drinking. Overall, you can choose taste (sweet softdrink to bitter beer) and alcohol amount quite freely.
Definitely a thing in Finland, which is not in southern Europe.

https://www.apteekki.fi/
I don't see this as unethical because there is still the possibility that they will give you an offer that you would consider. It's just that they'd probably have to offer quite a bit in terms of compensation and opportunity to actually make you budge if you're happy with your current job.

Although, I have never done it either. I've always been too busy at work, and I view the dishonest aspect as the potential lie I have to make up to take off a day from my current job to go interview.
>insulted (or at least triggered?) by my question :)

I don't read either of these in the parent's tone. Why did you feel the need to paint them this way before responding (and add a smiley face)?
> so now I just started quickly running into the bakery, grabbing one of the croissants and booking it.

Sci-hub is more like making a copy of the recipe than stealing the croissant. Making a copy doesn't deprive anyone of the original.
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