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HN loves to focus on only one of the normative goals of patents - to incentivize innovation. But there is another almost equally important goal of the patent system - to incentivize disclosure. While I agree that the use of vague language in patent publications perverts the public disclosure goal, other forms of public disclosure may arise from it. For example, companies can openly talk about inventions, whether it be with the public, potential business partners, or suppliers, without fear out misappropriation.

I am not a fan of a bright line rule that prohibits software patents. Software is so explicitly tied with most inventions these days that it would be hard to tease out what qualifies for patent eligibility. Is a novel design of a robot arm that contains some software elements patentable? Instead of a bright line rule, I’d prefer to see a strengthening of 112 - written description / enablement requirements and 103 - obviousness requirements. Imagine if 112 required software patent holders to provide a hard copy of the implementation code (or at least a more detailed description of the invention). And as to 103, the policing function of obviousness needs to be ramped up. The USPTO should invest in better prior art searching techniques and hire Examiners that care about enforcement. Currently, the incentives of USPTO Examiner's misalign with the goals of the patent system, as Examiners are evaluated via a point mechanism that rewards churning out patents rather than tightly policing them.

Also, when people on HN argue about the "patent troll" problem, the real issue seems not to be with patents themselves, but with how the U.S. litigation system can be weaponized to extract fees from using patents. Thus, I think the key issue is trying to figure out low cost and effective ways to litigate patent issues. IPRs have helped, but perhaps we can develop other ways for companies to cheaply dispose of garbage patent suits that have no merit.
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I switched almost completely to non- and low-alcohol beers. These days there's so much good stuff to choose from. For example, Mikkeller brews some fantastic beers in the 0.2-0.3% range (Henry and His Science is my current firm favourite).
if only we could collectively realize this and reconfigure our urban spaces according to that consideration! for instance, adding many, many more street trees everywhere, replacing street parking with protected bike lanes, and converting a lane on major streets to dedicated bus lanes with synchronized/sensored lights.

but yes, for those majority short trips, the wind in your hair on a (electric) bike/scooter is likely just as cooling, and the trip likely no longer.
Indeed, I'd argue a good chunk of the experience came from the respect and reverence the audience had to the occasion. Not unlike in a church, or kind of like a primal gathering around the fire, except this time around the projections of the "magic lantern".

But the god of consumption got jealous and demanded we got things (snacks and movies alike) through our system as fast as possible while making him the maximum dime.
Appreciate the response, super interesting! What do you mean how much they make? Like how much the retail makes or how much the people visiting makes?
Saying any calc problem is a stretch. Just pull up the MIT integration bee and see how many the 89 can get symbolic results for.

I think the 89 is awesome for algebra because typing in an equation and doing an ans(1) with an operation will let you do the algebra process without making stupid arithmetic mistakes. I wish someone made a calculator that does this only and not one that does all the other CAS tricks for integration and derivatives. Oh and I wish they would make it RPN but that is a whole other story.
I'm also a super-taster, especially bitter far more than anything else. So until I discovered some German hefeweizens like Weihenstephaner (especially the kristalweiss) or Franziskaner, and sometimes Paulaner, I ghated all beers. Now I only hate ALMOST all beers. :D

Note, the hops in beer has a much stronger bitter effect than the alcohol, so I looked for beers without hops, which are the hefesweizens. Non-alcholic beer with hops tastes just as bad as alcoholic beers.
Direct link to paper:

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02515
I’m sorry but the vast majority of risk is sellers, always has been, always will be. They may not make up the bulk of fraud now, but that’s precisely because we have these rules.

Your links to checks are fantastic. Who the hell uses checks any more? Wow.

Cryptocurrency precisely shifts the risk to the buyer, their recourse is gone if the goods they get are substandard. The imbalance of power between merchants and consumers is real, and consumer protections like reversibility are there to address this.

Perhaps PayPal is not the best choice for person to person transactions. I am sorry your friend got ripped off, but perhaps as a seller he should do his research about who he’s selling to. Without reversible mechanisms, every buyer has to research every purchase.
Another vote for Athletic Brewing. My wife and I are huge beer lovers who quit drinking recently. We both agree that the benefits are completely worth it but I'm not sure we would have gotten through some recent social functions without drinking (including 4th of July) unless we had a NA beer in hand.

We've tried a few others, the Brooklyn Brewery Special Effects was pretty good too. Totally different flavor from any of the Athletic stuff.
It might correlate it with other vendors and signals (e.g., your trail of visited web sites, completed purchases, etc.) and also deduce it by monitoring your geo position to find where your “home” is (wherever you spend most nights / wherever you use your apps late or early in the day) and then use zip code area demographics to get the average income for that area.

Oh… and, credit card companies selling data (to these same data aggregators) on their members’ buying habits and most probably demographics as well (age, income, etc.)
> Amazon instructs managers not to tell office employees that they are on a formal performance-management plan that puts their job in jeopardy unless the employee explicitly asks, according to guidance from an Amazon intranet page for managers.

This is distinctly not a "Performance Management Plan", as the plan involves the employee and provides clear guidelines for success. If you're concealing that they're on a PIP at all, it's not a PIP, it's literally just the declaration that you intend to fire someone you deem low performing.

edit And I'll add, I don't think they're legally obligated to tell a person they're not performing to their desired standard, as at-will employment, but it just seems silly to call something a PIP that is actually not at all a PIP.
> Talking about energy efficiency: if your car trip is <15 minutes, then ideally you shouldn't be using a car at all!

That depends on where you live. It take me about 5-7 minutes to drive to the nearest store (a "Dollar General" store). That store is about 2.5 miles away, so about a 5 mile round trip. Average walking speed is about 3.2 mph, so a +2 hour trip walking it.

The next nearest store is about 10-12 miles away (a grocery store). Most of those miles are on a road with a 55mph limit but these are curvy hilly roads so probably closer to a 40-45 mph average. That's a +6 hour walk.

Riding a bicycle is akin to death wish on those 2 lane roads with no shoulder.
It seems like the current movie business is mostly just a parasite on the back of 50 year old content (Marvel Silver age, Star Wars universe, Disney catalogs, Netflix 3rd party licensed content, et al.)

The long tail of good content is very long. I wouldn't be surprised if Casablanca still generates annual royalties in excess of it's entire original cost, 80 years later. A great movie is a piece of artwork and like the Mona Lisa centuries later, has a timeless aspect to it.

I don't disagree with Diller per se. In fact, "They ain't movies. They are some weird algorithmic process that has created things that last 100 minutes or so." is one of the best descriptions of modern film I've ever seen.

May it is just because of the limits of the article length, but I think it's far more about short form content and limits of human attention. I'd rather watch several 10-20 minute videos from niche Youtube creators in a week than one two hour movie most of the time, and I can't do both.

In that sense, Katzenberg /Quibli were probably onto something. You have to remember Diller created the anonymous content conglomerate of IAC and is commenting on Quibli from that perspective. He admits himself, at the end, that he's working on backing Broadway productions so he's not satisfied with the content landscape, either. Maybe someone will figure out what it means to make something that squares good content with the time/format demands of a modern viewer.

TL;DR: I'm sick of Fast & Furious and Marvel franchise spin offs. Feels like someone made the film analogue of discovering that kids like candy and will preferentially take it over healthier food when offered.
> Honestly I feel kotlin doesn't add much to modern java

In that case, I hope you won't mind that I'll be ignoring the rest of your opinions on this particular topic.
Personally I don’t enjoy the sensation of the air blowing against my skin. It’s distracting and usually moves my hair around when I’m trying to focus on the road.
Barry Diller is just having a "get off my lawn" moment.

It's like Bob Lutz saying the car business is over, which he did a few years back.

Some things have changed. The difference between "movies" and "TV" has narrowed considerably. Production values for TV are up, and there's not the big distinction between "film work" and "TV work" that there used to be. After all, today "film" is just 2K or 4K video projection.

Another thing that's changed is a few huge franchises sucking up the attention supply. This seems to reflect the Disney mindset of getting a franchise going and milking it for half a century or more. (A Mickey Mouse live-action movie is scheduled for 2022. Really.)
It's not a drop-in replacement if you want to do native image builds. That can require significant changes to a codebase. That would be wasted effort, at least some of which you'd probably want to reverse, if you later find that GraalVM is not a good option.
In this case, the small-co or independent inventor acts as a member of the public.

It's really about established players being able to invest in controlling the regulators that are specific to them, while new players considering entering obviously don't have this advantage. Structurally it's similar to NIMBYism.
Happy to see this exists. I had a freaky dream about software like this a few weeks ago. I'm glad it was just passively synthesizing background noise. :D
Philip Glass talks about this exact thing here:

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/philip-glass-on-co...
I’ve never worked for an ethical company. People are always good in the company though. It’s a very odd thing.

Hate to get all Hitler-ad-reductio, but I can imagine how Nazi Germany or the CCP can happen. It’s the same pattern in business across companies.
> "Amazon instructs managers not to tell office employees that they are on a formal performance-management plan that puts their job in jeopardy unless the employee explicitly asks, according to guidance from an Amazon intranet page for managers."

The fact is the PIP hasn't put their job in jeopardy, it was their not meeting expectations that put their job in jeopardy. The reality is once you're there, it's (a) probably obvious due to your manager's consistent displeasure and (b) almost impossible to get out of either way because even if the manager is wrong the employer will side with the manager. The PIP itself is, as you say, just procedural backside-covering to paper up a decision that was already made.

> Lack of discussion is concealment.

With that in mind, is it really better to torture an employee with a set of steps you know they won't execute to your satisfaction anyways and dole out false hope? It seems far more humane to let them know it isn't working out and to put their stuff in a box.

I bet my lunch money that an employee is far more likely to shape up and deliver in line with expectations when they aren't afraid each day they walk into the office may be their last. I think this gives employees more chance to succeed, not less. More transparency isn't always beneficial.
Optimizing for projects is just one of the unintended consequences of a policy of "get rid of the bottom X%".

There are many others such as,

- "Hire to fire" https://archive.is/3Bdv7

- Overworking of employees, especially the ones who are on H1B / L1 visa since they are dependent on Amazon for their visa status.

- Code is written and architected with promotions in mind.

- Code is reviewed with bring others down since comments on code reviews are considered a negative metric.

- No one trusts their manger.
Are you saying that you don't think startups seek to displace middle men and create monopolies? or are you saying companies with monopolies don't exploit those to overcharge people as much as possible?

Because neither of those statements is exactly controversial.
Humans were giving away their service to the church for promises of forever life.

Mass delusions are easy to propagate as they require little emotional nuance; a salute, tattoo, incantation… those used to be enough to bind large groups.

Groups are out though. We’re leaning into enabling humans as atomic agents and automating away the utilitarian social obligations, and work of biological survival to get there.
Broadway celebrates revivals, but Hollywood is almost ashamed of remakes. There's a Tony award for best revival, but only a Raspberry for worst remake.

Both are a form of unoriginal profiteering, on at least a business level. Maybe it's the permanence of a film compared to the ephemerality of a live performance, but the vast difference in how they're received has always bugged me.
States Abortion Restrictions Reach a Record in 2021
What happens if an Employee of Amazon who is in a country that has a data regulation that allows them to ask for and legally get any data pertaining too them?

That would place Amazon to legally disclose if such an employee is on any list or anything else they have on them, be it paper or digital.
If you tap a video in Newpipe then swipe left/right on the bottom area of the screen you get comments, description and related videos - is that what you want?
CA Labor Code Section 2780 includes a fairly broad exception:
"except for the inventions which: Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or anticipated research or development of the employer"

For a company like Google or Amazon, I'm not sure that there's very much that falls within 2780.
The main thing is that, in many cases, it's evolved from mostly being whatever raw materials (syllabus, lecture notes, pointers to resources like textbooks) could be pulled together to often being closer to a course in a box more akin to a MOOC.

As I mentioned in another comment it was originally pitched as a resource for would be teachers rather than for students directly.
I don't see any conceptual difference between the methods used to interface with the OS. It's more one of detail.
Oh, yeah, it's great for that niche. But it's hard to break out of that niche.

It's also hard to grow that niche. If 20% of people in the bar are ordering NA beer, it would seem to reduce the pressure to be drinking beer at all, or perhaps going to the bar at all.

If we time traveled to the future and you saw 90% of patrons drinking NA beer at the bar, you'd think it was a historical reenactment.
I don't mind alcohol, especially at the low amounts that it is in a regular beer, but I wish calorie-free/low-calorie free beers were more common. I know they exist in the US but not really a thing in EU.
Out of curiosity, have you given up on hot drinks entirely?
Thanks for checking it out.

I've not tried this and I'm not very familiar with TeamCity but it should just work. If you are running the teamcity builds inside of containers, you may need to switch that off, as Earthly brings its own containerization.
altnews is the definition of a propaganda channel.

Almost all their debunking is "BJP propaganda is false." That's fair, but they barely even touch similar propaganda being spread by opposition.

it is a classic case of lying by omission. Especially when you call yourself a 'fact checker'.
Meanwhile Amazon recruiters keep spamming me to join their cult.

No one *wants* to work for you anymore. You don't need to recruit. If someone is desperate enough they'll let you know.
If you don't trust the merchant don't do business with them.

As a merchant, you have to accept all customers and hope they don't commit fraud, barring expensive fraud filters.

As a customer, you have multiple options which business to patronize and you can screen them based on reviews.

Or how you replied, we have literally a millennia of evidence that people cannot be trusted, merchant or not.
That article is a few years old and the laws have changed in at least CO. Grocery stores can now all sell full strength beer so there's no 3.2 any more here.
I'm fine with some diversity of opinion on HN but I can't help but notice the majority of your comments involve pro-China news.

The link you posted is from Chinese state media. It is comical for China to assert that Australia is weak on maintaining rights of individuals.
you're implying that there is something incorrigible about such feelings, and that it's useless to point out other, objective factors that can impact decision-making (and habits). if that were true, we'd be a way more predictable, and boring, species than we are.
> Call to action: Programmer, wake up.

The article also mentions - "head of AI products at the St Petersburg office of JetBrains, a Czech developer of programming software, sees time savings of 10% to 20%. "

and the subheading says - "The software engineers of the future will, themselves, be software"

um, how seriously should we consider the fact that "skilled" software engineer/programmer solving really complex problems are at risk?

Can't say if making just another simple CRUD app is not at risk but the statements and their propositions made in the article are too generalize too plant a seed of insecurity in oneself.
> My guess is we're seeing the stick with all mention of any carrot very carefully edited out. I would further guess Amazon is providing some kind of interesting carrot, perhaps a great big pile of free AWS time or free marketing.

Amazon doesn't give free AWS time or free marketing (or really any marketing) to employees. It's not frugal.

Some additional context: this is the newer, better version of the policy where you can work on games. Previously, employees could not work on games at all.

Amazon doesn't really care about people doing stuff on the side, they want your extra hours to go into amazon.

> not define as per the unknown Amazon definition of a "Personal Game".

Amazon has a bunch of lawyers who will take whatever you make if you achieve any kind of succcess.
No thanks. I like my water spicy.
Matthias tries a few options and evaluates them– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L2ef1CP-yw

> Experiments and anemometer measurements to figure out where to best place a fan to optimally air out the house to cool it down at night.
Thanks for checking it out. You can totally do that. We are using moby/buildkit and docker to provide this platform independence.
Chemical Brothers on acid is quite a trip
Yes, The structure of the UN allows 'voter herds' to be gathered to vote against various countries by other countries.
Some say these votes are bought and sold......
‘Considered a monopoly’ by some regulator’s definition maybe, but not in fact a monopoly in the economic sense of the term.
> And if you call FAANG salaries mediocre (in comparison)

The wording of the sentence wasn't ideal, but GP was implying you could potentially make a lot more as a private tutor than you would at a FAANG. I'd argue that is a bit of rose colored glasses as there are far more making 200k a year at a FAANG than there are million dollar a year making private tutors.
On the other hand, would you want to watch another big-budget Harry Potter side story spin-off (Fantastic Beasts), an adaptation of bad or forgettable YA novel franchises (Twilight, Divergent, Percy Jackson), Fifty Shades of Grey, or the umpteenth adaptation of some Jane Austen novel?

Book adaptations themselves are a spectrum of originality and quality.
Bazel is the best out there, in my opinion. It’s not exactly targeted towards the hobbyist, though—more the professional.
AMZN is Doomed :)
I've often played around with the idea of doing reverse interviews for finding badly needed senior talent. After some time I realized that interviews are typically done by senior talent...

So the idea is to go to good companies, make a good connection with the interviewers, and contact them later to try and hire them.
I was nearly put on a PIP when I was at Amazon. I noped out of there and went to greener pastures before that could happen.

I was severely jaded by my experience there. When I started, I immediately initiated conversations with my manager about what I could do to make sure I succeeded. I asked the more senior engineers on my team if we could whiteboard about the services we owned and who interacted with them as well as what upstream teams we depended on. The SDE3 told me "I don't know." To this day, I'm still pissed off that an SDE3 who had been on the team for 4+ years "didn't know" who used their services or how the services interacted. And it wasn't that he didn't know - he just didn't give a shit about onboarding newbies.

That same engineer, when I asked him for help in debugging an alert that I had put into a system, threw out some bogus answer and took one step back. I told him I had tried his suggestion. He then gave another bogus answer and took another step back. He literally backed away slowly and after three or four steps, just sat down at his desk and ignored me.

I recognize I'm an N=1, and I have friends that more or less enjoyed their time there, but I saw far too many bullshit patterns from engineers and managers for me to think of Amazon's approach as anything but intentionally malicious.
This was my thought as well. I have an attic fan and monitor the temperature inside to control it. It regularly gets 120+ F in there on an 80 F day. I have to think the majority of the heating of my house is coming from the attic.
How does one get one of these jobs? :-) It sounds lovely. Listen to all kinds of different business ideas and build proofs of concept. Talk to other nerds and hear about their experiences. Travel and get points (this last one, not so much).
Take anti-lock brakes, for instance. Was that patentable? Yes, it was, and rightly so. But it used some software. Did that make it not patentable?

Or take your ice cream dispenser. Let's say that I invent an ice cream dispenser with a camera. It's going to estimate the user's BMI, and based on that, it's going to decide whether to dispense regular or fat-free ice cream. (Sorry, it's a horrible example, it's the only one I could come up with for an ice cream dispenser.) Well, you know there's going to have to be a CPU in there running some algorithm to try to derive the BMI from the image from the camera. Does that make it unpatentable? (Yeah, I know, it should be unpatentable because of the overall insanity of the idea. That's not the point.)

As our physical devices become smarter, more and more of the new behaviors are implemented in software. Does that make them unpatentable? As I asked before, if I implemented the same logic in an FPGA, would that make it patentable? If so, why?
Sorry for the loss. Lost my younger brother very recently.

As for asking for help - it is a struggle. Anyone have advice?