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You're already an employee. I'm talking about requirements for candidates. As far as I see it is a relatively recent innovation, which I thought would be blatantly illegal in the US until I saw it myself - I suppose the AMZN lawyers found a loophole.

When people talk about glass ceiling - well, now i know what glass bottom feels like :) If any requirements you don't directly match you can try to make a case in say cover letter to substitute - education vs. experience, etc., there is no way though how one can "decrease" the number of the years.
Set a cap on the number of patents issued each year. Like 500, max, across all industries. Or set a limit of 10,000 active patents, with new ones only accepted as old ones expire. If you want a chance at a patent you file with the PTO (under NDA, in case the patent isn't granted) for a nominal processing fee and at the end of the year the best 500 are selected from the perspective of "most useful disclosure of information", "least likely to be reverse-engineered or independently reinvented", and "lowest cost to the public in being restricted from freely implementing the patented invention for the next 20 years".

Variations: Let the filer pick the duration of the patent, with a shorter duration improving the odds of being selected (lower cost to the public). Or replace the monopoly with a one-time cash payout to make the invention freely available for the public to implement immediately.
Not sure what the damages are exactly.
Maybe they should ask the people of Haiti, what they think about this "pure" symbol. They really shouldn't talk about misuse without transparency in their own company. https://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-re...
I always thought green cross means pharmacy.

But I also spent a lot of my youth in France, where it means exactly that.
"Man cannot stand a meaningless life", Carl Jung. I've spent twenty-five years coding, solved some problems, made some money for myself, more for others, but what have I accomplished? It's unlikely it will be through a stackoverflow answer or a post on HN, but I quietly maintain the hope that maybe someday, through Free Software or otherwise sharing my knowledge and code, I might actually accomplish something meaningful. The economic value you're talking about has little meaning for me.
I think this quotation best summarizes the article

"When someone misuses the red cross,(the video game industry being just one of many), we seek their cooperation in ending the unauthorized use"

The red cross is a protect trademark so this seems reasonable.
Did you even read the parent comment? It's not $18/mo; it's $18/mo/theoretically-schedulable-substrate-CPU. For people considering running this on an IaaS, that'd literally be "$18 * [number of CPUs in the entire datacenter emcompassing your AWS/GCP/Azure zone] per month". That's a higher OpEx than pretty much any single service is worth.
> Pure rent seeking

That's just a categorically false accusation, since the whole point here is that they don't want the symbol to be used at all in certain contexts.
Interesting! Where is this? In Amsterdam I know one theater that's showing old films and that's the 1% I was talking about ;)
> Under the Charter Act that was adopted in 1900 under the Geneva Convention (and later amended in 1905 and again in 1910)3, the American Red Cross has the exclusive right to use a red Greek cross4 on a white field, with the only exception being that any user of such an emblem prior to 1905 would continue to have the right to use the emblem. Registrations owned by Johnson & Johnson for red Greek crosses date from 1906 and claim first use dates of 1898, and thus its right to use those marks were grandfathered based on the American Red Cross Charter Act. J&J continues using similar trademarks today...

https://www.bradley.com/insights/publications/2012/04/one-cr...

In my unprofessional opinion, the red cross should go the way of "tissue", "google", "coke", etc. It's too common, hasn't been enforced. You lose the exclusive right to it.
That's where I'm confused. I see the issue with products appropriating it as a sort of brand hijacking...like the example of a first aid kit with a red cross.

But tv, movies, games, etc, just showing an accurate representation of real life, within the media itself seems...normal.

I think if they have to, the least confusing thing would be a red square with a white cross inside it. That's what a lot of first aid kits seem to do. Though perhaps the Swiss wouldn't be thrilled. Maybe a white cross in a red circle?
No, unfortunately in kernel land this isn't buggy. It's perfectly "valid" to dereference null. You'll read garbage but it won't panic & the null check on the following line prevents any issues (assuming the compiler isn't exploiting UB optimizations).

Sure. I agree with you in principle it's cleaner to have the nullptr check before. However, it's also important to remember that UB & the compiler optimizing around it is a relatively "new" phenomenon & the compiler going out of its way to punish you for it (for a perf improvement that likely doesn't matter in many/most cases) seems punative & not helpful to most C/C++ codebases (with the exception of some heavy math or HFT applications that could probably be better suited with their own language/dialect). IIRC the standard relaxed to allow this in C99 & the consequences weren't well understood until about 10-15 years later once compiler authors realized what the standard was allowing them to do. This is also the most innocuous case - there's plenty of even more subtle issues that UB can cause.

While I agree there can be nuance in viewpoints, I'm not sure what the 3 you are talking about are. Generally there's the pro-UB & optimizing assumptions around it which is largely populated by compiler authors & "performance at all costs". I'd say Chris Lattner, Linus & DJ Bernstein hold a largely similar point of view of UB = bad decision by the C/C++ standards bodies & probably only differ on the solution (Chris = "switch to a different language", Linus = "give me back the behavior before UB was introduced", DJB = "define all current UB").

Personally, while I'm a fan of performance, I'm not convinced that UB has proven enough of a performance gain that it's not better as sitting behind a flag like `ffast-math` - most software would benefit from removing most of the UB optimizations & it's not clear to me that they performance impact would be all that significant.
For all the alcohol-free beers that I have tried, none tasted anything close to a real beer.

It was always a kind of disgusting caramel taste.

Alcohol-free is just a marketing trick of the beverage industrials to pretend that there is a product worth buying at a price higher than soft drinks to target non alcoholic drinkers.
I was going to say, if it's low alcohol and low calorie maybe you're just better off with a nice soda water.
Maybe combine this with a decreasing cap on royalties making patents less profitable over time?
Note that this has been problematic because it's been inconsistently enforced. It's also not a new issue. From 2017: https://kotaku.com/video-games-arent-allowed-to-use-the-red-...
There are definitely times I would love a non-alcoholic beer that was good. There are many a work nights where on the one hand I could really go for a beer, but on the other hand I'm not interested in getting drunk or even buzzed. I'm a big fan of this.
Pharmacy in Australia
It is common for Chinese people to drink hot water if they don't feel like tea, so you can still have hot drinks.
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They also sponsor a climber close to my heart, with a themed LGBTQ beer - AND as a sober person myself - I love that company.

but a lot of 'non alcoholic' beers do have alcohol in them which is a problem for some. A good amount more than a kambucha in some cases..
Yes, it's used in many places. It's very commonly used to indicate pharmacies throughout Europe. I've also seen it used in the US on various medical supplies and defibrillator stations.
> An alternative approach might be to let subscribers browse a warehouse of inventory

This is closer to Feather (YC S17) which is ecommerce + rental furniture. For us, the interior design aspect is a large part of our offering because you don't have to imagine what your apartment will look like with all of these items. Plus, we can offer better prices and spend more on acquisition since we have a large ticket (an apartment or at least a room worth of furniture rather than renting a single chair).

> Finally, a lot of people only buy new furniture because they are afraid of pests hitching a ride

You're right, this is food for thought. We already fully insure all items in the customer's apartment, so day-to-day wear-and-tear and some pest control can be fixed for free. But yes, we'll definitely need to think about this more when we refurbish furniture and put it in another apartment.
I mean they rang the doorbell. They could see that the traders were active, meaning that they were supposedly in the office. But the door was locked and nobody answered it.
Before streaming, a movie studio actually had to convince an audience to leave their houses and buy a ticket to make money from a movie. This meant the studio had to pour a lot of money into marketing for each movie. The cost to market a movie could be up $30M to $50M range for a blockbuster movie. For a mid-budget drama like Meet Joe Black or A River Runs Through It, you could be looking at a marketing budget that matches the production budget ($30M production + $30M marketing). These big marketing costs for every movie meant that the quality of those movies needed to be pretty high to justify the marketing costs. Streamers don’t have to convince people to go out and buy a ticket for every movie they release. They just have to keep the existing subscribers paying and get more people signing up. So the marketing cost per title goes way down. This takes some pressure off to make quality content because the risk per title is lower. Also quality movies on streamers don’t necessarily get the marketing and fanfare they would have before streaming.
Europe commits environmental racism in the American south. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Bragging rights plays a bigger role in patent filings than most people recognize. Yes there's some business value to Microsoft/Google/etc. having patents, but if you look at why a given team patents something it usually comes down to bragging rights.
At least in my opinion this combination is very common and beats many similar alternatives.

Also, Redux does make working with TypeScript slightly more difficult and verbose, at least in my experience, but I may just not be doing it correctly. The paradigm behind Redux and the Boilerplate that I end up with is what drives me to look for alternatives to Javascript and Typescript.
If someone is trying to cut back on alcohol consumption I don't think that's necessarily good advice. Sweet drinks like lemonade are so easy for me to suck down without thinking.
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> all the cost is on the individual

And all the salary too. I really don't see the issue.
Why Youtubers (and everyone else) can't stop writing essays
Putting those two sentences together is how you insuate such a thing.

EDIT: There's a really big issue here with the public perception of the Red Cross. I expect most people think of the Red Cross as a purely benevolent organization. They're the folks with the bell-ringing Santa Clauses, for example. Who can argue with Santa Claus? So while most people are going to see this as "don't pick on the little, helpful people", if you're more familiar with the history the Red Cross, you'll be remembering some scandals they've been involved with. Some of that is accountable to the fact that it's a gigantic organization and corruption is not unavoidable at such a scale. But also, the stakes are so very high that you'd hope they had a better handle on it.
The fact that an experience is stereotypical doesn't meant it is also inaccurate.

Students today do not have it easier. They are working less hard at school because they need to work harder in other areas. Grades don't matter. Everyone gets strait-As so as long as you meat that standard there is little point in trying harder. Even Going to a good school matters less and less. The things kids have to do today are very different than I faced. For me, grades were enough. For today's kids grades are only the starting point. For instance, social media presence is now very important. I never had to deal with that when I was applying to universities.
First, no, you can't force "respectful".

Second, here's someone who leaves a lazy, drive-by comment. It's two words long. It took them five seconds. It has no actual thought, and therefore it's not the kind of comment we want on HN. How long should someone have to spend to be able to downvote it? If it's longer than 5 seconds, that's a problem. That puts the lazy, thoughtless commenter in the advantageous position. So what will happen instead is that users will flag the comment instead of downvoting it, because that's faster (under your proposal).

Even if it's a more worthwhile comment, it can be factually wrong. You may want to downvote it for that reason, but you may not have time (or mental energy) to explain why it's wrong for every such comment that you see. (The explanation is better than a bare downvote, of course, unless someone has already given the explanation.) But a downvote with "factually wrong" (and no explanation/details/evidence) isn't really going to raise the level of discourse much. I mean, it tells the original poster more than a bare downvote does, but not much more.
A Machine Learning Approach to Safer Airplane Landings
"I am totally unappreciated in my time. You can run this whole park from this room with minimal staff for up to 3 days. You think that kind of automation is easy? Or cheap? You know anybody who can network 8 connection machines and debug 2 million lines of code for what I bid for this job? Because if he can I'd like to see him try."
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.04010.pdf

"...The presence of snow and ice on runway surfaces reduces the available tire-pavement friction needed for retardation and directional control and causes potential economic and safety threats for the aviation industry during
the winter seasons...

...To activate appropriate safety procedures, pilots need accurate and timely information on the actual runway surface conditions. In this study, XGBoost is used to create a combined runway assessment system, which includes a classification model to predict slippery conditions and a regression model to predict the level of slipperiness. The models are trained on weather data and data from runway reports. The runway surface conditions are represented by the tire-pavement friction coefficient, which is estimated from flight sensor data from landing aircrafts...

...To evaluate the performance of the models, they are compared to several state-of-the-art runway assessment methods. The XGBoost models identify slippery runway conditions with a ROC AUC of 0.95, predict the friction coefficient with a MAE of 0.0254, and outperforms all the previous methods..."
In my limited experience it’s more of a southern European symbol. For example in the US I’d associate it with cannabis.
You are allowed to reduce hours by law (at least at above 20 employees (and after probation time))
there are controls for both speed and temperature, as well as vent direction. it's not difficult to find a comfortable combination.
Right - but part of the difficulty and expense in hiring teachers is that we've segmented it off as an expert population with high barriers to entry. If everyone who learned was also expected to teach, you scale the teaching population with the learner population. You can actually see the dynamics of this play out with flight training, since you get your CFI at ~300hrs total flight experience but nobody will hire you with less than ~1,000hrs, so you have this massive pool of certified teachers with 300 - 1,000hrs of experience available to teach as a consequence of the design of the system.
Have you tried a shandy? Easy to order in a bar, easy to make at home, and if you use a sugar-free mixer then you’re cutting the calories in half too
It's a joy to hear that someone else has made sense out of what has been rumbling around in my own head a lot lately.
It was them getting kept in check, because they quickly corrected the behavior. And as far as I know, never repeated it. Explicit punishment is not the only way policing happens. Indeed, I think the most important parts happen well before that.
Managers are required to disclose focus/devlist status if asked directly. But they're not supposed to tell you without you asking. At least not until you get your PIP papers.
> I don't want to have to watch three previous movies and two TV shows to fully enjoy the movie that's in front of me.

I recently started watched Loki on Disney+, 3 episodes in, I still have no idea who Loki is, where he comes from, what his intentions are and what he is capable of...

Same problem with WandaVision. I agree, it's exhausting.
Bait and switch is not necessarily bad?

You are defrauding the client by not providing the service and/or personnel advertised. How is this not, at a minimum, a criminal act?
The problem is that it's not just governed by national trademark, but by international treaty.
If that's true, we might not see it getting back to pre-covid levels for another year or so if it's going to happen. I think most the stuff we've seen over 2020 and now are things that were already in the pipeline or delayed. The lack of new projects during 2020 and early 2021 will likely affect the industry until mid to late 2022 at least, from what I've read that seems accurate.
Obvious irony here is that someone in management failed to keep secret what was supposed to be a secret plan about keeping secret perf man plans. Management should put themselves on a performance management plan.
Occasional feel-good stories might not be enough to balance all the complaints around energy consumption and money laundering.

> your definition of beneficial might be different to mine

It's not my own: I'm trying to summarize the promises that were often made, together with cheap and fast money transfers, ease of use, better security, and many more.
That sounds much, much, much more reasonable than what everyone else is assuming.
IF you are in combat and you see a red cross vehicle, it is important for your first reaction being "that is not where the enemy is" vs firing at it.

This saves lives, and protects those who run into danger zones to save people.

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.

If I understand correctly the red cross will treat anyone regardless of the side they came in with.
> If you have defined wrapping/saturating semantics then you don't get this option, even if overflow is a bug in your program.

Well, unsigned overflow is also a potential bug, and it's defined behavior. So if you want useful integer overflow diagnostics, you already need to break the C/C++ spec.

Of course, the correct way to model this in a programming language is to distinguish between bitvectors with defined twos-complement operations and fixed-range integers.
> should be permanent, regardless of your performance?

You're assuming that the tool will only be used objectively and transiently, a big if in a tool with mandated secrecy. The real question is should the tool remain secretive so that people in power can use it completely unchallenged as a weapon against employee?
Beer is very cheap to make. Bars are expensive to run. Furthermore you're taking up a chair that they could be selling alcohol to. Making NA beer cheaper than the real stuff would be very counterproductive for everybody involved in trying to run a business.
Unless the app takes over those right? Which happens all the time on the web.
“[As an example of an increasingly unstable world,] … there have been 162 fatalities. [Therefore the value of the Red Cross symbol must be protected as it is desperately needed.]”

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Hold on … I surely can’t go and start a drinks company and call my drink coke? Same with a search engine and Google?
Sure, and that works great when you are using Linux to run Docker as you have full control over the networking. For docker on macOS as the OP is using, you only get a single network, and it is an emulated one using vpnkit into the VM. You can't attach a network adapter directly to the VM, which means the docker containers running inside the VM can't see the IoT devices.
Yes, it's always odd to me to see native German speakers putting a comma before "that" in indirect discourse in English (like "ich glaube, dass dieser Satz richtig ist" -> *"I believe, that this sentence is correct").

In English there's also a difference in comma usage with restrictive and nonrestrictive relative clauses (restrictive relative clauses, which indicate which specific entity is referred to as opposed to others, don't use commas, while nonrestrictive relative clauses, which merely add additional information, do), but I seem to remember that native German speakers will commonly write both with commas.

*The person, who was here yesterday, has come back.

Conversely, it's sometimes hard for me to remember to use that comma in German. I want to write something like *"sie sagt dass man hier kein Komma braucht".
The article is written by GraalVM Developer Advocate , it's not even written by Facebook technically.

I remember a contrat with Kong API Gateway , they offered generous deal if we agreed to sign an agreement to attend their conference to promote their product.

Very common in the industry to have those terms "legally binded".
Engineering Future Society: Taavi Kotka / Engineer, Former CIO for Estonia
Experienced that. I was under a local anesthesia, so I could hear the surgeon hissing at that poor fellow things like "no, not there! here! - this is how you cut it!".
Sounds like you could just use the Red Cross symbol to lure unsuspecting victims to your location.
I doing my part by drawing it in cartoons.
Engineering Future Society: Taavi Kotka / Engineer, Former Chief Information Officer for Estonia
July 10, 2020
I'm in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, USA.
I wondered exactly this, because to this day I've only ever seen the red cross used for its intended meaning. It is absolutely recognizable for this purpose, and in those use cases. There were cases of misuse, but they were some time ago and already have been dealt with.

I used to have a toy ambulance that had the red cross logo on it. They probably should post a policy on what they consider to be acceptable play, and what is not. This would also impact a lot of movies and cartoons.
Biden signs executive order cracking down on anticompetitive economic practices
I feel like once craft took a more dominate position, basically everything was 6%+ ABV and anything IPA was 7% or more, sometimes up near 9%. That's, IMHO, too much.

For a lot of health and wellness reasons mentioned throughout, I much prefer a 4-5%. They're often marketed as "sessionable" and I like that trend. I'm not sure I'm looking for a NA brew (yet) but I'd much rather something just as flavorful without the race to high ABV.
Nobody is talking about native images. The article is about big data workloads, specifically Spark.
Hi Paul. I must admit that I find it quite ironic that you seem insulted (or at least triggered?) by my question :)

I don't find it insulting, I never said that, all I'm saying is that if the goal of the downvote is not to give a virtual kick in the face (to use your example) but to change behavior, then I believe that this is better achieved attaching a comment to the downvote.