skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's taught in kindergarten.
Every student's case mentioned made it seem like the goal of tutoring is for the student to acquire elite status and prestige by going to highly selective schools through the planning by their neurotic parents. The material learned was less relevant.

I want to teach my students how to follow their passions, how to strive for the life they want, rather than for hollow symbols of success.

It seems like hollow symbols of success are what the parents and institutions have agreed to create though. The number of schools and slots for students has apparently not changed much but the number of students across the globe who are competing for slots in a few, elite western schools has gone up enormously. That drives the value of the degree up through scarcity which seems to be what people want for their children, is ways to be more elite than their peers.

It's probably not surprising then that bribery happens. The schools aren't really selling an education anymore and the parents aren't really looking for one either.
If I have to work in some other field to be allowed to retain rights to the work I do outside of work, that's going to be their loss. I couldn't get anything more than extremely vague assurances that my unrelated side work "shouldn't be a problem" from my former employer, while there were IP assignment clauses in the contract. They weren't willing to put anything in writing to exempt it, so development stayed on pause while I worked for them, I resented them for it, and eventually I had to leave because my motivation was sapped. (For that and other reasons, but largely that.)

Salaries should buy a job well done and come with some boundaries to protect the company and any IP it has a right to. Salaries shouldn't buy the rights to my first born child nor the thoughts I have in the (24 * 7) - ~40 hours that I'm not working for them every week. I applaud Mr. Liu for walking away, and while I've always ignored the AWS recruiters, this policy ensures I'll never consider them.

It's like saying to employees: we'd rather you don't have any external motivators for caring about software development as a topic.
> we quit en masse when our employer wouldn't let us stay remote

I don’t think “we held our previous employer to ransom” is the sales pitch I’d go with.
> Of course we as a company are also cognizant of the IntelliJ lock-in

There's your politics. Kotlin is succeeding because of it's ties to a very popular Java IDE, so developers already using IntelliJ tend to trust it.

It wouldn't do nearly as well without that built in base of support.
I'd say that psychedelic dub is a bit more fitting.

CONNECT.OHM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKFPdxZjc4&list=PLRpXl5QdzS...

Carbon Based Lifeforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQE29az48gM

I can provide a playlist if anyone wants more of this type of music. Blood Music label contracts and supports a lot of these artists.
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Does China or Russia sponsor any US patent troll companies? And if the answer is no, why not? It seems like a dead simple way to stifle American innovation. Use our own toxic legal system against us.
I believe all vaccines, other than 3 Chinese ones with names starting with "Sino", target the spike protein and all indications I've seen have been that two doses of different protein-targeting vaccines work well together.

The bigger issue would be if "Original Antigenic Sin" [0] could impact the immune systems response, but that would be part of the testing prior to releasing the booster I'm sure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_antigenic_sin
I put emoji in my JavaScript all the time.
Historical passive cooling methods usually involve using shade and high thermal mass like a stone floor - basically simulating a cave.

More sophisticated historical methods include wind catchers used in Persia.

But historically stone houses weren't cheap - poor people lived in straw huts, and most people probably just put up with the heat the best they could cope.
Bad idea for patents. The public is vastly benefitted by patent expiration. It's also why we can have generic drugs, etc.

Now, exponential cost curve for _copyrights_ is interesting. And arguably already a thing... considering that Mickey Mouse is approaching 100 years old and is not yet in the public domain.
I have exclusively signed NDAs for jobs before final interview stages in the UK. And now in Finland come to think of it. I don’t really see it as particularly controversial- obviously I can’t expect to walk into an office and tell the world about what I saw and the projects and clients a company had, and yet I’d quite like to know about them before committing to work full time there.
Because someday you're going to want someone other than yourself to work on the code. Or, even if you don't want it, the company will.
IANAL…I always wondered about how small businesses play into this.

By that I mean, if I have an LLC and I assign intellectual property rights of my side project to it and claim that my LLC was the author, can’t that get around restrictions like this?

Amazon is employing me as a person, but my LLC wrote the side project software, in the same way that any software I write for my employer is copyrighted by my employer and not me personally.

I am pretty sure this is NOT how it works legally but it would be nice if it was.

Another idea that might be workable would be to make the source intellectual property worthless to someone without an unwritten secret. Perhaps encryption or obfuscation could be employed. Here you go, here’s your unlimited and perpetual license to my unreadable blob.

(Or just don’t work for Amazon)
I think this interview that gets at a broader point that I find depressing/scary: that the availability of so much data and analysis has ended up "quantizing" creative endeavors to the point where formulaic output is just much, much easier, and that any truly innovative or "misunderstood" productions become much harder to sustain.

I really see this issue everyone nowadays, from movies, TV and music to things like the Olympics. Two good examples: to fix problems with subjectivity and unfairness (which were definitely problems) both gymnastics and ice skating moved from 'fuzzier' 10.0 or 6.0 scales to a 'code of points' model where every element has a fixed value. The result has been that the types of competitors that can win in this model are only the ones that can do the most impressive spins/turns/jumps etc. I mean, I'd be willing to be that you will never again see a 2x "women's" olympic figure skating champion, because you have these young teenagers doing quads now (who almost always lose this ability as they age and develop), but who retire from the sport before they hit 20. These feats are surely impressive, but they also crowd out other types of competitors.
Seeing a lot of "big tech" takes on the order but if you read it, "big tech" is a minor focus of the order. It's the last of five named industries and you literally have to scroll all the way to the bottom to read about it. That seems fitting to me, since America has dozens of problems that are much more serious than the fact that Google has web server logs.
This seems to be another element of the "overproduction of elites" theory by Peter Turchin that was discussed here a few days ago.

In a world where the upper middle and upper class has grown to all time high numbers, there is ever more adepts for prestigious titles and prestigious jobs.

But the Oxfords and Harvards of the world do not multiply themselves, and they have no incentive to. If the product that they sell grows in value and price, why should they do anything to reduce that value again?

We often criticize greed of capitalists, but top class universities seem to be engaged in something very similar, while mostly escaping the negative attention.
> I think that means this code in particular is not catering to the lowest common denominator of people using the algorithm

Maybe the title should have been 'Algorithms that look concise and beautiful to people who already know them'.
> I guess Zoom might substitute

Yes, but not for everyone. I used the pandemic as a chance to get back into classroom and ask a lot of questions, and even deliberately chose my spring courses to be online every evening from Monday to Friday, wouldn't pull that off with commute. But I'm sure other people can get much more in-person, when the interaction starts with eye contact and not only when the student is bold enough to unmute.
How to get MVP to the market faster by setting the right goals
Your goal for MVP defines how it will work, how much time it will take, and how much it will cost.

Do you agree?
In California you can register a business in literally minutes yourself (https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/f...).

If you paid a third party to do so...that's on you. You weren't required to use a third party agent for service of (legal) process. Moreover, if you decided to register in a second state (Delaware), that's on you as well. If you don't want to pay taxes for your business in the places where it does business...then why did you register in multiple states in the first place?

I also have to file physical paperwork with my local city (despite no physical presence) and pay yet more fees.

This makes no sense. How do you not have a physical presence in your "local" city. The physical presence is a pretty key part of the "local" bit. (Note that "physical presence" includes employees (and employee-owners) not just dedicated offices or facilities.)

Basically, you're complaining entirely about self-inflicted problems.
365. Oof.
Apparently liquid oxygen IS in fact, magnetic!

But -- also observe that the liquid oxygen is not "pancaking" on one of the magnetic poles!

Instead, it's acting as sort of a "bridge" -- between the poles!

Compare this effect with the effect of creating a high-voltage "bridge" -- between two adjacent beakers of water at room temperature:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZzuFGw4XCg

Now, the $64,000 Question:

Are these two effects related?

?

Oh sure, one of them deals with an elemental fluid which is supercooled in a magnetic field, and one of them deals with a compound fluid at room temperature in an electric field -- but aside from those relatively minor (but actually somewhat major!) differences (and adjusted for scale, frequency, temperature, etc.) -- is the underlying phenomena (the underlying Physics!) -- the same?

Why or why not?

?

Well, I for one, as of the point in time of this writing, do not know! <g>

But...

As I said ("as I alluded to earlier!" <g>)...

That's the $64,000 Question! <g>
I'd argue it increases your importance but decreases your value.

You become a single point of failure for the org, so you're more important, but you're removing value from the org because you're making it more difficult to scale the organization.
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So the “simple” failures are due to the very hard problem of reconstructing a “mental” model from multiple 2D images, and actually attributing different properties to objects recognized? Like you don’t have to stop at a plastic bag?

People learn these things for a long time and we actually have a proper model of the world for exactly that reason.
The maintainability problem is a political problem, because it's hard to maintain because it's hard to find developers that know the language or are willing to invest in learning it.
It would be morally justifiable to sign the contract and then ignore all that shit.
Develop an intuitive understanding of polar codes
Jumping T Rex can answer this. Also, probably one of the most popular titles in existence.
Hm, looks like math formulas... You could use any programming language and use one letter UTF-8 variable names and try to fit everything in one line...
How does this work with dynamic cloud workloads. If I can effectively tack this on to my AWS cost with the same granularity then I could use it only where I come out ahead. But if the whole monthly core licensing thing means that I effectively have to make an all or nothing decision on my entire cloud fleet on a month by month basis that’s far less likely to be worth it.
> Likewise, e-ink devices have largely had no innovation due to the patents of the e-ink corporation being used to stifle innovation.

Uhm... I work in the display industry and have never heard this. They seem to be a typical display manufacturer progressing at what is decent or maybe even above average for display industry products. Could you clarify what patent you're referring to and what exactly you mean by no innovation?
Yeah.

"...the fight started after a single player controlling a space station in the N3/PL-controlled star system B-R5RB accidentally failed to make a scheduled in-game routine maintenance payment, which made the star system open to capture."
> some get paided per interview

I guess over a large enough number you’ll find people doing anything, but with a long history with the recruitment industry in a couple of countries, I’ve never seen this. With good reason too: there is no end to the number of fake developer CVs I could generate.

> some you have to pay

In many countries that’s illegal, and I’m also yet to see this in the Real World
To add, this Video in German from last March:

https://www.zdf.de/politik/frontal-21/dokumentation-turbo-te...

It describes how Tesla goes on building things without permits, on a protected area that provides drinking water to the region (“Trinkwasserschutzgebiet”), which they of course chose because they want that water, then proceeded to bury poles [“Pfähle”] going all the way to the groundwater, which is explicitly forbidden. That parts starts at 23:21″, but this video player does not let me link to that point directly.

So they start putting the poles there, illegally, then the regional economy minister comes saying that he talked sternly with them, and that they will have to pay a fine, says “I believe they have learned their lesson”, but later they just got a waiver from the environmental regulations and put all 560 poles in place.

There is a fight between different parts of the local government, with the economy minister courting Tesla, and the environment minister resisting the pressure to just let them do whatever they want.

So yes, it seems that this is not an isolated incident, but a pattern of behavior by Tesla, enabled by part of the local government.

Edit: copy of the video in YouTube, where you can use the automatic translation to English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQa3uW3qBgo&t=23m21s

Edit2: that attitude is quite a contrast with how hard Elon Musk is kowtowing to the CCP these days: https://youtu.be/oQ4Xqki6VqQ?t=3126
I was under the impression that Edison was actually more how you describe a 21st century shop, and was more of a CEO type, but I admit that this isn't based on deep knowledge.

I often wonder how many of our rosy perceptions of the past are due to a lack of granular information. we kind of know that those exploitative structures exist now because we have access to perspectives at all levels; an inventor or other employee can tweet about this stuff, but if I had created something for Edison and he stole it, he has access to newspaper publishers and I don't.
Apple spends more on buybacks than on R&D like Intel has done recently?
I'd be OK with defaulting to higher performance modes for benchmarks if it was 1) explicit and 2) configurable for any app.

It's their sneaky behavior that really bothers me here.

That, and with it not being configurable, it's basically impossible to get the full performance from that expensive CPU. They might as well go with a cheaper CPU at that point.
What did he deliver on? He is the definition of a marketing scam.
I just have to point out, it was really easy to find these. Like took me 30 seconds.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080043317A1/en

https://patents.justia.com/assignee/e-ink-corporation

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9341917B1/en

https://stks.freshpatents.com/E-Ink-Holdings-Inc-nm1.php
It's an interesting comparison, law and code. GitHub's AI gets a sense of what you're trying to do, and tries to move the ball forward. Sometimes the context it has is enough to do that. It's better with verbose languages.

Law can be pretty verbose. Given half a paragraph, how often can an intelligence (artificial or natural) deduce what's next?

Of course the coding AI has the advantage that coders write (and publish) comments.
Yeah things can get a little wild sometimes with all possible interpretations. I'm pretty sure there are a few equations that use 'i' as both the imaginary unit and an index at the same time.

I've noticed physicists can be a bit fast and loose with their definitions, somehow you're assumed to be up to do date on what concept is given the symbol "R" in that particular context. Though they do tend to agree with each other which concept should have which symbol.
I've been writing small programs for fun in F# for the past couple of weeks. It's nice.

My main frustration with it is its lack of community. The Elixir forums are absolutely terrific; there is seemingly tons of knowledge sharing going on between passionate members of the community. The same with most other languages: if I Google how to solve a specific problem, an answer or an answer to an adjacent problem will pop up. That's true for Swift, Go, C#, Python...

It's not true for F#. F# seems to me almost like a dead language judging from the lack of relevant Google results, zero YouTube presence, no jobs where I live (northern Europe).

Is there a vibrant F# community somewhere online that I've missed?
Yeah I also had a TI-89 and you could directly type in most calc problem and get a great step by step answer. The symbolic solver on that thing was great.
My experience with backblaze has been dark patterns and and customer hostile practices. They get recommended in every thread about backups, and I started using them because of these recommendations. I’m not a customer any more and I wouldn’t use them again.

The GoDaddy of cloud backups for me.
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I have used wxlua in the past and it's a seriously underrated feat of engineering in my opinion. It would be great if there were somehow a wrapper for wxwidgets that plays well with Rust, fingers crossed.
Wish the title-logo wouldn't contain those white cut out blotches.. looks unprofessional.

Wish granted.
https://imgur.com/a/PODd0Iv
Puget Systems popularized the concept of the submerged water computer/aquarium computer.

They released a video showing a proof of concept, but it had an obvious design flaw.

Shortly after they released that video, a patent firm patented the same thing, but with the design flaw fixed.

Some time later puget sound announced version 1 of their fish tank computer, obvious design flaw fixed, only to get forced into discontinuing it because of said patent.

So i'd say yes.
No, it’s a show-up-every-day-for-30-years job.
> The bigger issue would be if "Original Antigenic Sin" [0] could impact the immune systems response

presumably if this is an issue at all - it'd be because most people are "locked into" the spike protein as the original antigen, as opposed to those naturally infected and therefore carrying a immune repetoire against however many 10+ other proteins in sars-cov-2.
When TSystem Verifying the Integrity of Voting Software Lacks Integrity
True, but the specific combination of inversion and multiplication, with a well-known meaning, could be transformed. Standalone inversion would still stay an inversion. Algebraic identities are definitely one thing you might want to exploit with advanced compiler macros.
Note that there is an effort to fix this. A group of Julia developers have written a proposal to give Unicode proper subscript and superscript modifiers.
And then they complain bitterly when commercial entities use it without contributing back, treat workers poorly, and all that. It's not weirdness; it's ignorance and/or stupidity.
Epic Games vs. Apple: Fortnite maker wins appeal in Australia
Very cool! Smart to automate part of the rendering service. That can take a ton of time manually. What's the experience been like for users to upload floor plan and photos? Any best practices or lessons learned you could share?
Above is old info. It’s no longer billed that way.

See https://www.oracle.com/assets/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf

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> “ Amazon EC2 and RDS - count two vCPUs as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if hyper-threading is enabled, and one vCPU as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if hyper-threading is not enabled.
Microsoft Azure – count two vCPUs as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if hyper- threading is enabled, and one vCPU as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if hyper- threading is not enabled.
When counting Oracle Processor license requirements in Authorized Cloud Environments, the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table is not applicable.”

The key is that last sentence.
Many, many times I wished someone had had the foresight to record (only audio was practical at the time) the lectures I had in college.
The Economist starts writing daring pieces again. It seems that the mainstream media in Britain starts to realize the mess they have created in the last decade and throws around the rudder.

Hopefully the continent will follow.
Just as an example, IBM receives almost 10,000 patents a year. At $100,000-$1,000,000 per patent, that year of patents alone in 15-20 years time would cost $1-10 billion. That is most definitely not a rounding error and would constitute as much as 10% of their annual revenue just to keep that single years worth of patents. I think this sort of escalating pricing scheme would definitely help reduce the barriers for startups and new innovators, and prevent abuse by companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Bezos is quoted frequently using the term "Work Life harmony"[1].

Having previously worked at Amazon, I learned that "harmony" meant, if I'm not working, I should be preparing my mind and body to work better the next day.

Bezos also believes that workers are inherently lazy[2].

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/09/what-jeff-bezos-does-instead...

[2]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-polices-based-jeff-be...
>> Tying patents to revenues of licensees does not work too, because any patent licensed to Samsung will instantly become void.

I don't see anything wrong with it. Other big companies will prefer to have Samsung as a partner instead as an enemy, and small companies will have very difficult to compete with samsung at scale. And if they do it is because they have done so many other things right, which it is great for consumers
Totally agree. Generally my response to that situation is usually, "wait you did that from memory without looking it up? That's super irresponsible, check your work or use an existing ___".
Feel free to research it. But don’t put it out on the streets with the general population and don’t sell cars as if they could self-drive any more than a robot vacuum.
That can be done in a non-sleazy way. For a long while there were effective caps on what you could earn as an IC, no matter how good. Everyone talks about 10x devs, but a decade ago the only real way to capitalize on it was to hold multiple remote gigs, each where you're accurately emulating the performance of say a $150-200k dev. 2-3 of those is very do-able, and a darn nice income if you're outside the major tech hubs.

As long as you're performing akin to your salary for each position, and you read your employment contracts carefully, I see nothing wrong w/ this approach.
The risk with google is they’ll drop maintaining the project. The risk with Oracle is they’ll break your legs, and ask to be reimbursed for damages to their bat.
The weakening of patents has led to a rise in extreme trade secrets. Now, we have no idea how anything recent works. Nobody publishes much on self-driving. Nobody outside Tesla really knows how Tesla cars work. Progress relies on reverse engineering and teardowns.