skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That can be the case, but depends on circumstances. The point I was making is likely to hold up in court even without a specific contract clause in place to address it.
Microsoft awarded $13.6M to security researchers in the past 12 months
> we want to work less but expect to consume the same or more

I think it feels clear to many people that our consumption habits are unsustainable, regardless of how much we work. And I agree, "consumption" is where the rubber meets the road. Do we want to live in a place where we are simultaneously taking steps to mitigate climate change, reform labor, while also accepting that we must reduce air travel, next-day shipping, eating foods out of season, being able to get a bag of chips any time of the day, any day of the week, etc.?

In many cities of the world, it's not uncommon for e.g. the grocery store to be closed on Sunday. For sure, it's less convenient. But I think it's pretty reasonable to plan around it.

I'm interested to know 1. what you mean by "looming debt crisis", 2. who stands to gain from worsening the crises.

> It’s like voting for class president because they will put in a soda fountain and free candy.

I appreciate that you are using soda and candy as a metaphor for frivolous changes. On the other hand, I can also see it as a metaphor for "improving material conditions". People do care about how much time they have left outside of work and I think that that is appropriate and expected. That is a concrete, material aspect of life that people understand. National debt is not.

To add an additional nuance, I think promising a 4 day work week [and to hell with productivity] is crucially different from promising "clean coal" jobs [and to hell with the climate].
Chip shortage sees smugglers cling-filming CPUs to their bodies
"I’d go ahead and marry the girl."

Opposite for me
You can point them at you if you only have front seat passengers - if that is comfortable for you. If you have folks in the back seat or want to keep your groceries coolish, whole cabin cooling is much better.
That said, given how much larger high-level position compensation is in many companies... maybe it could be a source of revenue.
From the OP:

>> The study particularly wants to find examples of where a patent has been denied in the US but accepted in other jurisdictions, which will be a key area for European electronics companies.

The question at hand does not seem to be what the title of the OP indicates, but rather about patent applications denied in the US but approved elsewhere. Looking briefly at [1] too is hinting that the interest may rather be to relax the patent eligibility criteria so that more of patent applications in the US are approved. Note: IANAL.

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[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/09/2021-14...

Excerpts: "Last year, after a split panel decision concluding that a method for manufacturing drive shafts was patent ineligible, ... The questions presented in the petition are: (1) What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a claim is directed to a patent-ineligible concept under step one of the Alice two-step framework?; and (2) Is patent eligibility a question of law for the court or a question of fact for the jury? ... The Senators indicated a particular interest in learning how the current jurisprudence has adversely impacted investment and innovation in critical technologies like quantum computing, artificial intelligence,[6] precision medicine, diagnostic methods, and pharmaceutical treatments."
Completely agree. I've run the gamut and probably used every language out there. I'm 40,000 LOC into F# and I love it.
> the impact of patents on areas such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, precision medicine, diagnostic methods, software and networking

Look no further than data compression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding#History_and_...
Just curious, why the down-vote?

The title of the article is clearly referring to the book.

Also, the band took their name from this title. Calling them ancient is perhaps not very nice, but they were one of the first groups that were called bands.

These are all probably just factoids, but why actively down-vote it, instead of making better comments or waiting for others to make them?
I don't get it: why wouldn't I just use a Dockerfile? The Earthfiles look the same. Dockerfiles run the same way every time and Docker supports caching. I just see more complexity on top without value add.

If I want to move beyond local builds then I'd use something like Garden or Skaffold. Skaffold builds the same way every time and supports remote builders.
Here you are arguing people don't need any power because all they do is "basic spreadsheet, web browsing, photo managing, email, word processing, or other similar purposes" in which case they can get 3-4 windows laptops for $199-$299 for the price of one air. If you have 3 teens that all need a laptop to do "basic spreadsheet, web browsing, photo managing, email, word processing, or other similar purposes" you can cover them all for $900 if you go non Mac or you can spend nearly $3k if you go mac.

I'm posting this from a Mac but my sister is unlikely to ever decide she's willing to spend 3x to 40% more for a laptop. She can get 2 Dells with 8gig of ram and 256gig of storage, same as the Air for under half the price of the Air. I'm not saying the Dell is as good as the Air and neither is a Kia as good as a BMW (probably) but a Kia costs 1/2 the price and will still get you from point A to point B and a $300-$500 Windows PC will also still do "basic spreadsheet, web browsing, photo managing, email, word processing, or other similar purposes"
I find your last sentence troubling, all the cost is on the individual.

I agree with the sentiment of the first sentence, if we simply say the blast radius is the the product(s) level you're working on.
Some intersection of "The users that gave the most interesting or thoughtful feedback" and "The users who are closest to the original intent of the tool."
I really wish Standard ML had a bigger (I'd settle for active) community, a package system, and modern IDE support.

Rust feels like the closest thing to me in terms of overall practicality/ease of use.
Right. I was a waiter once. We had to learn to use the computer. It wasn't hard but it was work, and customers don't want to do it.

It's not even clear that it would be efficient for the customer to learn it, even if they were willing, given how rarely most people eat out and how quickly memory degrades with disuse.
We need to do what we did with pharmaceuticals - provide a period where the patent has to be licensed so that the owner can be remunerated for their research. Should that be 7 years, 10 years, 15 years or more - I don't know and that's a good discussion to have. Meanwhile I think we can all agree that patents should have an expiration. That seems to strike the balance of incentivizing innovation while protecting research investments.
Ask HN: Are the salary ranges on Colorado job postings low?
A recent Colorado law requires companies in Colorado to post salary ranges on job ads. I've been reading postings similar to my current job for several weeks and they all seem lower than what I'm currently at. Are companies listing salaries lower than they are willing to actually pay? Or am I just making an above market salary?

I'm curious to hear if anyone else is watching the salary ranges and to hear their opinions on them. Does anyone have stories of applying for jobs in Colorado and negotiating their salary above the posted range?
This new Executive Order seems to be an omnibus tackling of many issues dear to HN readers/members as well as U.S. consumers. More here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27785964
Matt Ridley seems to think so in his book on innovation.
Soda to drink while coding – helps me focus
> The two were attempting to smuggle a total of 256 Intel Core i7 10700 and Core i9 10900K CPUs

Surely the number couldn't be a coincidence?
> Honestly I don't think I can fault students who cheated during the pandemic, it was just so abnormal that most people did whatever they had to to cope.

I beg to differ. Saying that dishonesty is acceptable in certain scenarios will only motivate them to further partake in bad acts. In extreme cases, the child will end up as a criminal.
Speaking from experience listening to corporate sales deals, those listed prices are just like at the street bazaar.

You only get them when lacking negotiation skills, or failing to understand the whole political process from enterprise sales.
Somehow, I still can't wrap my mind around working less and producing more, as I have never found this to be the case with myself. I don't want to dismiss these results entirely, so its an interesting study nonetheless. Maybe the real takeaway is not that they productivity wasn't impacted, but there was less time spent being unproductive?
There are not really any effective counters. You can assume most major tech corporations have moles from most major intelligence agencies.
Google has you sign an NDA to interview. I wonder if I've just broken it.
I had to re-read this several times to even understand what they were asking. That's absolutely insane.
Love it. I'd watch this movie.

In the real world, I suspect most corporate threats require significantly less effort.

When I first started interviewing candidates I was surprised at how readily some people volunteered confidential information about their previous employer. I frequently have to ask people to stop sharing confidential details about their current projects or even problems their current employer is having.

I've long suspected that the easiest way to extract confidential information from a company would be to pose as a reputable recruiter from a glamorous company with high wages, then simply get in touch with a company's employees and ask them what they're working on.
Others have already pointed out that thesis defences and hiring interviews already use this format. I'm not an educator, but I can see some downsides:

• Unless it's recorded, you can't easily get another opinion on how to grade it, except from those at the event

• Some students will naturally be better at interview-style exams, independent of their skill in the relevant material. This is also the case with written exams, of course, but I imagine the 'skilled bullshitter' types might do better in an interview-style exam, and a nervous student might do much worse.

• I imagine it would be tougher on students who don't speak the language natively

• The 'imprecision' of a wandering organic conversation might make it harder for the student to know what to study

• Different students don't get the same exam, which might raise questions of fairness in itself, but it's worsened by that the examiner's mood is likely to change. (With written exams, an examiner can mark all students on the first question before moving on to marking the second question, to protect against this.)

• Physical appearance and deportment might skew the examiner's judgement. (This is widely believed to be an issue with juries, after all.)

• You can't hide the student's identity from the examiner, as a measure against favouritism. With written exams this can, and should, be done
The difference here is that doctors are making the decisions. Developers are generally pressured or overridden by the business they work for.
Such a boring and forgettable film, but now in 4K!
You're right that creative accounting games could be played to try to keep money made on the patent from being considered profit. While harder, I suspect creative accounting could be used to done to make it look like there was no revenue on e-ink screens despite millions of devices containing them had been sold.
That's how you get piracy.
> 1. Write the GUI natively per platform. This is best from a UX perspective but is expensive and you probably need different developers working on different platforms. Other downside is that really advanced functionality is harder to implement and sometimes the performance of native APIs is poor and hard to improve (Apple has this problem frequently).

That really depends on the software though. I develop a media software and my users are adamant that they want the exact same look&feel across the three main desktop platforms (to the point that I had to use freetype everywhere for font rendering - thankfully easy with Qt). Also had the same case for a customer at a previous job - I remember comparing screenshots across macOS and Windows until they matched in a pixel-perfect way.

On the other hand, if you're writing, say, a productivity app, calendar, notes manager, most likely it is better for it to fit to each platform.

Although I personally also prefer to use the same apps across platforms, e.g. my main combo no matter whether I'm on Linux / macOS / Win32 is Zim for note-taking, Strawberry for music, Qt Creator for IDE, Seafile for data exchange, Telegram and ripcord for chat, Krita for image manipulation, Darktable for raw photo processing, Digikam for photo collection management ; DaVinci Resolve for video editing.

With the exception of Zim and Darktable which are GTK, all the others are Qt-based.
Puget Systems bit by patent that references their work (2014)
In my experience these reviews are not technically detailed, so much as about scope. The closer what you want to do is to what your company does, the more detailed the discussion is likely to be.

> I can't see any benefit to this system at all for the employee.

The real benefit to an employee is to have on paper agreement that they can proceed with a project without fear that the company will claim it later.

I suppose it could be done terribly, but my limited personal experience (on both sides) it's been fine.
I think firearms related patents are an instructive example. It has long been standard practice to patent new firearm designs. For the most part it works well, the patents prevent companies from immediately churning out cheap clones of successful designs.

However, every once-in-a-while a patent becomes problematic, like the infamous Rollin White revolver patent. White patented a revolver design using then new metallic cartridges. The design itself was not commercially successful, but the patent was construed to cover any revolver design where the chambers were bored completely through the cylinder. It turns out this is the only reasonable way to make a revolver using metallic cartridges so it lead to many years of legal battles and bizarre designs attempting to avoid the patent.

I'm not sure how to reliably identify Rollin White type patents, but there certainly seems to be a distinction to be made between beneficial and detrimental patents.
"As part of your employment agreement, Google most likely owns intellectual property (IP) you create while at the company. Because Google’s business interests are so wide and varied, this likely applies to any personal project you have. That includes new development on personal projects you created prior to employment at Google."

So, a "we actually own all your stuff but we might be nice enough to agree to let you keep it" policy?

"The IARC process is only open to full time employees in good standing. The IARC only assigns the copyright in your project upon approval—it does not assign any patent rights or other IP rights Google may own. ... IARC review is a voluntary service Google provides to employees and it is not required either by the employment agreement or local labor laws."

"Enlightened."
> I'm surprised customers wouldn't go for tablets if it meant they didn't have to pay the 15% tip.

They don’t have to tip to start with. And the ones with the most problem with it won't, or will tip less.

And people go to places that aren't fast food because, at least in part, of service, which iPad’s don't provide the way servers do.
That is part of what they targeted, there was even committees that formed to figure out how get rid of things like meetings.
They might be able to afford it, but money is money. The question would be whether the cost of keeping the patent outweighs its potential profits.
Patents also mean that the big co that copied your idea can sue you out of business for violating one of their myriad of patents, and that your patent is actually a derivative of one of theirs.
Yes, but it solved a very poignant problem for society.

It is illegal to knowingly build an unsafe structure. It is illegal to build something that does not comply with relevant regulations (let's ignore the issue of spotty enforcement for a moment that enabled things like the 737 MAX).

Software engineering has no way to to constrain or enforce the upholding of the public interest in not being victims of crappy, malicious, or otherwise unsafe/insecure software.

How it'd actually play out, is you'd have Software a PE would sign off on meets "code" (think building code), software that doesn't, and boundaries drawn around functional areas or applications that should only be implemented with software that meets "code". The closest thing we have is some DoD standard I think whose name escapes me at the moment.
And further, even if it had been invented five times over, would it have been known about by the right people had the patent not forced a public documentation of the design?
I haven't been fired. I am in a weird limbo state where part of the bureaucracy thinks I've been suspended but other parts know that this is just an administrative error and are trying to fix it. So I'm still being paid, I'm just unable to actually do any work because my security credentials were accidentally revoked (because part of the bureaucracy thought I was due to be fired because someone entered the wrong date into the system) and no one seems to know how to restore them despite the fact that everyone agrees that this is what needs to be done.

And, like I said, this is not an isolated incident. I don't know if this particular problem has ever happened to anyone else, but I have experienced similar issues that have affected others in addition to myself. This sort of thing happens regularly. No one is at all surprised by it. There are multiple processes that are deeply broken with no possibility of fixing them.

Here is another example: the design group I work with has been assigned a shared storage area of 100GB -- and no, that is not a typo: one hundred gigabytes shared across a dozen engineers. And we do chip design, so we generate lots of data. Needless to say, that shared storage is always very nearly full, and we get regular emails nagging us to delete stuff that we no longer need. So we have a dozen engineers spending time triaging their data in order to save a few dollars on storage costs. Yes, it is every bit as insane as it sounds. I once tried to point out that this is insane, with the result being that I was admonished for being a troublemaker. So now I don't bother any more.

So there is no doubt in my mind that at least some of Intel's troubles are entirely of their own making, and I'm in a position to know.
I had XPS 15 before I had the current M1 Macbook, and before that I had the previous gen XPS13 for a very short while - I had to return that, I couldn't work on it at all due to overheating/thermal throttling. XPS laptops are incomparably worse machines and opting for that instead of a Macbook was my greatest mistake that I'll never repeat (I also really tried to like Lenovo machines, but that ship has sailed too - I'm going Apple only since this Dell experiment).

I never lose any stuff on my Mac thanks to the seamless integration of iCloud. And the motherboard fire that happened to my XPS15 destroyed the SSD anyways...

About the screen... Don't even talk about that. I was so angry when I first saw it - I paid big bucks for the best screen Dell offers and yet it's so much worse than the screen on cheapest Macbooks (I moved to the XPS from Macbook 2015 - even that old machine has a much better screen). It was flickering when I enabled dark mode in my editor (not a faulty machine, I tried to return it and they have shown me that every machine does it)!!!

And no, the battery life is nowhere near the 2015 Macbook Pro, and absolutely nowhere near the M1 Macbook. The ads say so, but it's totally not true - my MBP2015 still can sustain 6 hours of work with the original battery, while the XPS was dead after 6 hours of not doing anything.

And to top it all off, the whole XPS was creaking even if I just put my hand on it, and raising it into the air made sounds so terrible people around me were having amused looks! None of my Macbooks ever made any sound like that - or any other unpleasant sound whatsoever.
I think a great way to actually induce that behavior is to make digital copies freely available to encourage education about and appreciation of art and artists.
Bounties would be much better than parents, across the board.

In a world with too much consumption and work for no good reason, where new products fight for limitted demand, parents in theory even are solving the wrong problem.

Bounties mean the goals are defined up front, and the reward for putting a round peg in a round whole is you don't even need a business plan, equity-based investment, or any of that other crap.

Take some funding to hit the bounty, everyone cashes out, move on to the next thing. All the benefits of "aquisition culture" without the problem of concentrated ownership. (The bounty giver should ideally be the state and not own the thing.)
Joke country.
A cavalcade of lawsuits from aggrieved corporations is forming aready, I'm sure. For consumers, here's hoping the intended benefits of this Executive Order are real and lasting.

Here's the White House announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27785964
First to file has some advantages that are hard to ignore.

It incentivises early submission which means we all learn from it earlier.

It disincentivises submarine patents where one party deliberately hides an obvious invention until another market player has established a business and then proves they invented it first.
In theory if the two engines had feature parity it looks like that is the case. I suspect in practice it would look like you would at least have to provide some justification why it was not possible to use Open3D over Unity for your use case (perhaps some missing feature, however minor).
I'm involved with this nanovg Rust clone called femtovg https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg. It's not a GUI framework but I and several other people are using it for building GUI frameworks. Join the discord https://discord.gg/V69VdVu.

I have recently added wgpu backend that for now lived in my fork https://github.com/adamnemecek/femtovg
Patents last too long.

The time it takes to scale up an operation has gone way down, and the patent length should correspondingly shrink
The Washington Post says the order isn't coming out until later this afternoon.
For AI/ML related patents, I’m not sure innovation is stifled insofar as people mostly don’t pay attention to them.

Most of the techniques that _every_ company is using are patented, but no one seems to notice.

Admittedly I’m sure there are cases where it did stifle innovation in this space, but I think on average perhaps not.

It’s interesting to see the comments on eink patents — I was never aware of how much it stifled innovation in that space!
>You can use QuiteRSS to parse YouTube into a proper RSS feed.

Unless you are from Europe and are getting this stupid "Before you continue to YouTube" page.