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Did you try Jever Fun? Does taste like real lager.

https://www.jever.de/biere/jever-fun/
If there were a political candidate whose sole platform was "dismantle the US Patent Office," I could look past almost any other position in my conviction to vote for them. That's how harmful I believe the current patent system to be. Innovators should not be afraid to be sued over trivial implements by non-practicing entities before they can even get their business off the ground. Patents kill innovation, 100%.
For musicians, cryptocurrency will be as disruptive as MTV
No. There's a reason: it communicates extra information very cheaply and in-band with the code for people who are intimately familiar with the mathematics involved. This can be better than comments or documentation in some situations (and also doesn't preclude also having those).

It's becoming a pet peeve of mine how HN conflates a solid, classical mathematical education with some kind of gatekeeping club. Anyone is welcome to join. Anyone is welcome not to use this language if they wish. But please don't dictate how us mathematicians are supposed to communicate.
As most things in school, it's an artificial situation that bears no resemblance to the real world.

IRL:

- people has much higher stakes, while in school tanking a class project is no big deal for most slackers. IRL, they can get excluded, isolated, shamed, fired and so on.

- such group would exist rarely in the first place, because institutions filter people;

- if you are in the rare situation it happens, you can get out of it, but you it's very hard to move in the school structure, not to mention out of it.

Anecdotally, I've seen the scenario playing out many times in schools, but rarely in a restaurant, a dev team, a NGO or a sport club. There are productivity differences, sometimes immense, and an occasional slacker, but that's not the same order of magnitude at all.
I've never personally seen that. I've seen cases where one person writes four pages, and one writes one page claiming it was the hardest. I've seen cases where one person writes the code, and one writes the paper about the code. The only case I've seen where one person does all the work the person who does all the work refuses to allow the others to help.
When I was studying 3D on the web, I saw an example by Mr. Doob (three.js) and I tried to do something similar.

https://victorribeiro.com/voxel/

Very rustic, don't work 100% on mobile but an attempt was made.

I think keys 0-9 selects tile. Shift click deletes and clicking and dragging on the sides of the screen rotates the camera
I think it goes beyond simple academic test results -- even successful parents take pride in their children's accomplishments, so they want to be able to say "Johnny grew up to be a successful lawyer and he's going to take over the family business". So they are doing what they can to set their children up for success.

Unless they are uber-wealthy, then they'll just say "Johnny is sailing our yacht around the Mediterranean (and when we say "sailing", we mean there's an 8 person crew running the boat)"
presumably means that Apple is the one violating the patents instead of you, right? It's hard to say.

Maybe Apple is even licensing the patents. It would be kinda nice to think that the system was actually working as intended, for once. Somebody invents; somebody else wants the idea; the license is made available at a reasonable price and they get paid for it.

Probably not. But a guy can dream.
Yup. A friend worked for a now-extinct tech company that strongly encouraged employees to patent as much as possible. On his desk, he had one of those drinking bird toys. [1] When the head got sufficiently wet, water would drip onto his desk. He made a little celluloid collar for the bird so that excess water would get dumped back into the cup the bird was drinking from.

On a lark, he wrote it up as patentable innovation. His boss thought it was funny and approved it. So did the lawyers. He ended up with one of the little plaques they gave employees for patents. And maybe a cash bonus? It was long enough ago that I forget. But apparently that's what IBM does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17835839

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_bird
What I'm saying is that A list people will use these same techniques to make QUALITY movies at a budget that makes it economically viable to release to a smaller streaming audience.
That is incorrect. JVMCI is still in OpenJDK and is the only thing required to run Graal. You need to put Graal as jar from Maven on the upgrade-module-path since JEP 410 since it's no longer there by default but this is the only thing that changed.

So you can continue to use Graal as your last tier compiler or to compile Truffle languages on OpenJDK.
This is the root of the problem. The examiners have to meet a throughput quota and that creates a perverse incentive to approve garbage. The USPTO is also dependent on filing fees which adds another perverse incentive to help the trolls with their patent spam.
One of Zoom’s most intensive CPU tasks is continuous H.264 encoding/decoding, which Apple has hardware accelerated and presumably made power efficient; so it isn’t valid to compare a VMware/Firefox workload to a Zoom workload in a vacuum, especially if the attendee is mostly facemuting (which saves further power in both encoding and webcam) or screensharing video with audio (which makes my 8-core Apple desktop turn on the heat-venting fans). Both workloads are possible, even just within a Zoom-only scenario, and anecdotes are generally insufficient to tell which is the case.
Maybe something on my end but the video didn’t work. Wrong encoding for iPhones?
New June record for deforestation of Brazilian Amazon
Okay that's the idea, but do they do that today? It seems that today the more common story is: "big guy" patents everything under the sun before the fact and locks it away in a drawer, while "little guy" actually builds the thing and tries to sell it but gets crushed in the process. Or at least that's the one I hear told more often, maybe it really is the case that patents are promoting innovation. But we can't just assume it's working out like we thought it would.
> What argument can one make when the burden of proof is to show cultural regression?

First, you will need to give examples of what kind of movies you find "creative" that were done in the past and there is no current equivalent for that level of creativity.

"Jojo Rabbit", "Parasite", "Blade Runner 2049", "Coco", "Lady Bird", "Arrival", "The Nice Guys", ... that is the past 5 years with one almost missing because the pandemic. Is any of that any good for you?

What do you think that it was so creative in the past and has no comparation today?
When Musk says "nobody has done/thought of this before" he actually means "many people have thought of this before but didn't do it for reasons I ignored." (https://www.usgs.gov/energy-and-minerals/mineral-resources-p... literally the first search result)

EDIT: See also this research paper from 1985 exploring various methods of extracting lithium from clay, including using a non-acidic bath: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10663/cdc_10663_DS1.pdf?down... which provides an even cheaper way to extract lithium from clay using baking soda.

Further, an important caveat for those buying Teslas for environmentally conscious reasons: this "new" method requires strip-mining areas of lithium-rich clay, which is significantly more environmentally damaging than the current method of extracting lithium from brine, and that is why nobody else currently extracts lithium from clay. Because it's still possible to mine lithium without destroying the f#$ out of the environment to save a few bucks.
As others have said, just dive in. If there's no legacy tool in place, getting started is easy -- spin up a docker image of Wiki.js, an instance of MK docs or whatnot, set up a backup methodology and you're off to the races.

The challenge with wikis is always long-haul maintenance and relevance. Information rot and information overload, at scale, can quickly overtake the value of the effort, so understand what you're potentially getting into.
Sorry I didn't mean to be shallow or dismissive. I'll elaborate:

As a application developer you have the luxury of relying on the underlying frameworks to do most of the leg-work for you. As long as you follow basic principals within the framework you can have a reasonable degree of confidence that your application will run and the end product will probably be OK. Things like iOS development are so heavily streamlined that sticking to the docs will mean from a technical perspective the app should be fairly solid.

Of course, it does depend on the application because you could be solving complex problems that are outside of the framework, so I'm not dismissing the engineering definition entirely, but generally speaking I think most developers are developers, not engineers. Developers leverage existing systems and build on-top of them.

Juxtaposing the idea of a web or iOS developer with an electronic engineer that is building a physical product with a microcontroller. The application is written in a "bare-metal" embedded environment which generally only relies on a Hardware Abstraction Layer (which basically just maps memory locations and may provide initialization code for various peripherals) and virtually nothing else. The application will likely need to employ interrupt handlers with safety (Mutex/Semapores etc) that must execute within time restrictions or the system will crash, complex DMA buffering techniques and integration with other hardware using physical layer protocols (SPI, I2C, I2S, 802.11 WIFI, USB, etc).
The transfer protocol chosen will have its own trade-offs, such as speed vs noise and then noise compensation techniques will need to be used such as increasing the spacing between PCB tracks, using ground planes etc, but these then also have trade-offs because your device may have space restrictions.

The list goes on for a while, and every decision that is made eventually enforces a limitation somewhere else in the system. Engineering (in my mind) is about the balancing of these decisions/limitations to ensure the system runs harmoniously and within the defined constraints.
More of a thought experiment. What would satisfy me to accept an agreement where every thought I have while employed is owned by my employer.

Trying to come up with some compromise that would justify them giving a yearly full-time salary (2087 hours) while at the same time they expect to cash in on all of my non-work hours.
Because it's funny and implies that they don't take themselves too seriously?
So you would choose not use the vaccine and let covid run rampant for 2023?
Looking at the examples you've provided, I'm pretty sure the Linux kernel's codebase dwarfs their combined codebases into insignificance. Since it is very hard to not have NP-hard asymptotic complexity when formally verifying a codebase as large and as demanding (in terms of performance, etc) as the Linux kernel, I would expect that if you tried to rewrite Linux in the languages you've mentioned and formally verify the rewrite, you will be able to keep the entire AWS cloud (globally) very busy for a very, very long time. On the other hand, if you were to do the rewrite in Rust and use some hypothetical formally verified Rust compiler to type check it (which is mathematically equivalent to such a formal verification in, say, F* limited to only verifying certain properties), it'll probably type check in minutes or even seconds on the laptop I'm currently writing this reply on.

For a less hypothetical example. RedoxOS has a codebase that dwarfs Sel4 (but it is still much smaller than Linux in turn), yet it type checks with much less compute cost than it takes to formally verify Sel4. Or heck, Redleaf actually formally verifies in a tiny fraction of the time it takes to formally verify Sel4, because the Rust type checker not only significantly reduces the amount of requirements that still needs to be formally verified but also reduces the complexity to verify those requirements to linear to the codebase size due to the restrictions that the Rust type system and module system puts on valid Rust programs (with a little bit of care when writing the code). Of course, until you have a certified Rust compiler there might still be miscompiles of Redleaf and until all the features of Rust used in the Linux kernel is formally specified, we cannot do the same with the Linux kernel as for Redleaf even if somehow all of Linux got rewritten in Rust. But in Rust at least it is conceivably possible given sufficient resources and sufficient time. I very much doubt it will ever be possible without help from a sufficiently expressive and practical type system.

Oh yea. Then there's another problem. Most (all?) of the examples you've mentioned have requirements that are well specified and pretty much set in stone. The requirements fro the Linux kernel... aren't quite as obliging.
Gordon bell specifically designed the PDPD-6 and especially the -10 for Lisp: the machine word is a cons and many lisp primitives are machine instructions.
We just fundamentally disagree on whether the Bill of Rights grants people legal rights or restricts the actions the federal government can make. I get that you probably don't think there is a difference, as even I think the difference is largely semantic. I still see it as a difference.
The real test will be the M1X or whatever they put in the 16" (hopefully) this year. Rumors say up to 64GB RAM among other things. I'd settle for 32 again (I'm on 2018 15", i9, 32GB, and whatever the best graphics card was) and I'll buy the 16" M1* immediately when it goes on sale as long as I can run 3-4 monitors (ideally 4 but I'll settle for 3).
I am surprised that nobody mentioned non-alcoholic wheat beers. They really taste better than other kinds of non-alcoholic beers. Bavaria for instance is really tasty.
In practice, what would be the risk here?

The whole marketing angle behind GraalVM is that it's a drop-in replacement of your JVM. If things go wrong down the road, what stops you from switching back to an OpenJDK distribution from a 3rd party vendor? Nowadays there are enough companies involved in maintaining OpenJDK and Hotspot... including some that aren't exactly friends with Oracle.
When will this FUD stop? Any concrete example of said thing happneing? And don’t get me started on the Google fiasco, as that’s entirely different and everyone knows about it who doesn’t live under a rock.
Be that as it may, they've still offered more evidence than you. I don't take assertions from random HN commenters without any supporting evidence at face value either.
Rumors yes, there were rumors of people getting caught cheating, but I didn't know anyone personally.

The people I knew on a personal basis weren't the kind to do that or really care about it enough to do so and without going into a story about the people I know and how we're all doing well in life you'll have to take my word for it.
Maybe it's not necessary to define truth for this. Considering metrics that you want to influence might be a better way - hate crime arrests in locales, negative/divisive message content, donations/volunteering for positive causes, etc. But I'm a pessimist and I think moving these metrics in the right direction would adversely affect the $$$ metric that shareholders care about, so it's not going to happen.
My story is an exact contradiction to your last point.

By the way, you're*.
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I think both you and the GP are conflating the movie and music industries a little too much, but I agree with your points more. Music is indeed going through a renaissance, and tech has very much helped with discoverability of indie artists. Movies I feel are a different medium as they are more capital and resource-constrained. It's more difficult to cultivate a long tail of indie films that can match those of the blockbusters (whereas music quality between major label and indie is far more fungible).

On the other hand, if one was to lower the definition of "movie" to moving pictures entertainment, there is a bonanza of content on YouTube and other video streaming services. But they are not in the same format of traditional movies.
Exactly.
Missing mobile means they missed the area of the market with the most explosive growth in the last 10+ years.
Likewise they never got into GPUs which have also had a lot of growth between crypto, data science/ML, and of course gaming.

Intel may have had enough $$ for R&D.. but competitors raking in margins in the ARM/GPU side of the world probably had more, and were more successful in iterating their product line more rapidly.
I'm just so terrified that for the next generation they use this low-power advantage to slim down the battery/machine down back to their typical target of "8 hours of wireless web" (=2 hours of coding in Xcode Swift) in favor of being able to say how thin and light-weight the machine is. With my Intel 16" MBP I currently have to carry around one of those gigantic Jackery-style 220 Wh Li-ion batteries to get 6 hours of work out of it
I've been drinking hop tea and hop seltzer from HopLark. It's not trying to replicate beer. I like that with the exception of some limited releases, they're just carbonated tea and hops or carbonated water and hops. Unsweetened and have both caffeinated and caffeine free variants.

My favorite so far has been a spruce tip tea with sabro hops.

I haven't quit alcohol consumption entirely, but I limit it to once every few months if I feel like having one, typically with family.

https://www.hoplark.com

Also working on just making it myself, with tea, hop pellets, and using a "drink mate" (like sodastream but can carbonate any liquid, not just water) to carbonate it.
WhatsApp beta 2.21.14.16 comes with ‘Image Quality Options’
Why are so many coders musicians? [video]
How does checking if the client claimed to do something possible answer questions about if the player had the skill to actually do what they could have possibly done?
That's an interesting point. Certainly the zeitgeist among the millennials seems to be that things are bad and they are only going to get worse. Maybe Star Wars seems hopelessly optimistic since civilizations will implode well before they invent hyperdrives.
I think the mini and iMac both serve as indicators that this isn’t true - they have identical performance. I’m willing to guess that thermal transport for the SoC isn’t all that good and while a fan would help likely not as much as you’re crediting. ASIC teams design for a specific envelope.

I was really hoping the iMac would do as you say.
Interesting timing, as tomorrow I will be presenting on this very topic.

"AI programmer: autonomously creating software programs using genetic algorithms"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3449726.3463125
I soured on the superhero franchise business due to a combination of factors (the out of character Man of Steel, that first boilerplate Thor film, the ghastly Green Lantern, and finally reading Worm made everything else seem shallow by comparison) and have stepped back to look at it as an industry in a kind of spiral of intolerance to risk.

They want product, they want it on a pipeline, they want guaranteed returns and they do not want to gamble about it. This has been true for a long time but we're seeing a difference of degree here. Movie production is not merely evolving but speciating -- and I think the new species is going to look like a subscription streaming service (with tie-in product) that releases dopamine-tweaking algorithmic product on the kind of tick-tock schedule for which Intel longs.
> The games also need to be ported to metal and optimized for apple hardware

The games or the game engines?

If Apple gave a bunch of money to port Unreal, Unit, etc, would that help the situation?
You, if you look at very large customers of ElastiCache or Redis, or just companies like Twitter, they all use a very large Redis clusters to store Terabytes of data. You can also use"Redis on Flash" and save a lot of money when compared to DynamoDB and others for similar size of data. https://redislabs.com/redis-enterprise/technology/redis-on-f...
Yes, they could. Look at Dell XPS 13 9310. It has the battery that's not glued in (using screws) which you can get a replacement for 70-150 bucks and change youself. It has trackpad and keyboard that are replaceable separately. And the SSD is slotted so you can upgrade the drive or recover data when stuff happens and your motherboard dies. Meanwhile, it has great screen, is very light (1.1kg) and thin. The battery life is on par with Intel macs as well.

In 15" laptops you additionally now get a slot for a second hard drive and upgradeable RAM without sacrificing much in terms of thickness (look at XPS 15 9500).
I think the "official" history is that the Elevators and Jefferson Airplane independently and simultaneously invented psychedelic rock. I'm impressed you played with (a couple of) the Elevators.
and innovative entrepreneurs don't let their competitors see them as competition
sounds polarizing.
I wouldn't decrease your connection upon downvoting, but I would increase connections with others who downvoted. I would only decrease connection over time without similar ratings.
The Met has made every image they have that's not under copyright accessible under CC0.

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documen...

Museums in general have recognized that digital images don't replace the museum experience—and they'd rather provide good images of the art than have people rip off poor-quality ones. Not every institution, and artist copyright remains a huge barrier, particularly for contemporary art, but a LOT of artwork photography is out there in the public domain.
It took me 5 minutes to figure out what eproctoring is
Schools (at least American public schools) are one of the last bastions of Taylorism in the west. They treat students like uniform widgets on an assembly line.

You can read for yourself:
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED566616.pdf
https://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue3_2/rees.html
It's true, and yet even with a lot of people not being gamers[1]:

> Global videogame revenue is expected to surge 20% to $179.7 billion in 2020, according to IDC data, making the videogame industry a bigger moneymaker than the global movie and North American sports industries combined.

So the fact that there are still lots of people who aren't gamers just means that the video game industry has plenty of room for growth.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/videogames-are-a-bigger-in...
I was hoping for some meat to back up the grandiose title but this article was nearly content-free.
Conceptually, it should help protect innovation. In reality, it inhibits it. Small guy has a brilliant idea. He files a patent, and starts shipping. Some other guy copies the idea. Small guy has 3 options. 1) invest in better products and out innovate copycat. 2) invest in marketing to create brand appeal. 3) get lawyers involved.

#3 is the most expensive for the return on investment. #1 or #2 are likely the better path, but patent protection helps neither of these paths.

On the dark side of patents is patent trolls. They only seek to extract value for infringers, almost always via legal system intimidation (see #3). Again, the system intended to help innovation is killing it.
Yes it quite the fantasy but also feels reasonable to me. I don't think an employer would feel the same way.
I liked every limited run TV show you mentioned that I've seen (Russian Doll, The Queen's Gambit, Watchmen), so I think maybe I should watch the rest.
That's kind of similar to how copyright works - it's about whether something is "derivative work". A similar principle could apply for patents perhaps?
In mechanical engineering class, there was squiggly, and double squiggly. I don't remember which Greek letters those correspond to, but it's easy enough.

Its not like anyone could draw them properly by hand either