skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For reasons I don't totally understand, the platform vendors are themselves constantly invalidating the information in users' heads, so there's simply less in there for application developers to build on anyway.

To be honest, I'm not sure this is true. macOS has had pretty much 1 major redesign in recent memory (Big Sur), and even that is mostly a visual update -- functionality is all still there and works the same. Toolbar buttons are still toolbar buttons, you can still drag and drop them around, etc etc. In practice, the amount that actually "churned" is pretty small.
To complicate things one further layer down, what about games (Escape From Tarkov's AFAK for example) having products in them that do hijack the red cross, which is somewhat common in real life.
Andy Jassy used to lead AWS before becoming Amazon's CEO.

AWS has a reputation of being a difficult place to work, even more so than Amazon's other divisions.

So no, I don't think anything will change.

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/companies/2021/02/he-l...
I understand the point you are trying to make, I'm just pointing out that the example that you were using is actually one in favour of patents not against. I'm positive that the steam engine would have been invented with or without patents, but it's certainly possible that it's invention was accelerated by strong intellectual property protections. The vast majority of inventions are the product of profit-seeking endeavors, and patents help justify the immense capital required to invent. The idea of the lone inventor building something creating something purely for the joy of it is a romantic image, but not really how invention works (certainly not at scale).

Also, the technological explosion of the steam engine was partly due to public disclosure of the invention's function as required to obtain a patent. No patenting system, no disclosure. And maybe it takes society longer to figure out how the machine actually works, thus delaying innovation. If the patenting process did not exist, perhaps the inventors go to measures to secure their intellectual property themselves by intentionally making the product's inner workings obscured. A world with no intellectual property protection is a world where everyone attempts to hide and obfuscate their innovations from the rest of society. This is not an environment where innovation thrives either.

I'm certainly not trying to make the argument here that the patenting system is flawless or even good. Only that intellectual property protections of some kind or another are, and we shouldn't throw that baby out with the bathwater.
Water vapour re absolves the IR akin too blowing on your sails however it's affect is reduced when it's cloudy can still function just not as well
Video Games are still priced extremely high, like home video cassettes were in the 80's.
No, the limit is does your business create or use intellectual property that is also a line of business of the company. This is how its actually handled in contracts with people who perform this kind of work.

A photographer who works in commercial ad photos and shoots weddings on the side does not compete with his employer. If he did ad shots on the side, he would. If the illustrator publishes books and helps a friend with a book (for money) that isn't published by that company, you're in a grey area. If your friend is Microsoft and Apple pays you, no grey area.
James Last‘s version of Aquarius has a bassline that puts you in a trance. Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/tv1bDDdyvEk
Thanks for the info. I come across more and more of these articles that paint a grim picture of Amazon's engineering departments. But as an outsider I get the feeling that's it's better than your average mid sized startup where you will be lucky to make 1/3 of what an Amazon engineer makes, while working more hours and getting your performance reviewed by equally sociopathic middle managers. I still wonder how it compares to other FAANG companies though.
> is a bit much

not really. they've got a zero tolerance approach to the appropriation of their symbol because the mission is so important and from their perspective it is all downside risk to them. they don't care about your video game, all they care about is misuse of their symbol.

and they're protected by the geneva convention and have all the weight of law behind them.

if they ask you to stop using their symbol its very simple and you need to stop.

the clarity of the rule means that they don't need to debate which usage is or isn't sufficient to produce the effects, it all simply needs to be removed and then they're assured it is not being diluted.

that is actually a perfectly reasonable perspective.

the fact that it doesn't allow for subjective arguments over the magnitude of the harm being done by the particular violation is a feature, not a bug.
We have a neat theater in the town I live in called "Brewvies" (it's a pub/theater) that on weekends often shows classic old cinema matinees for free. There's also a group that shows "classic" movies in the parks for free, too. Much fun!
Right, it sounds like we're on the same page. My point is that those apps are _worse_. They're just also cheaper to build.
A nice non-alcoholic drink I stumbled upon (I probably didn't invent it, but I discovered it independently through experimentation):

Ingredients:

Spicy ginger beer (the spiciest you can find, since we'll be watering it down in the next step).
Frozen blueberries.

Preparation:

1) Fill a small glass nearly to the top with frozen blueberries - don't skimp on these because it definitely makes a difference.
2) Slowly pour the ginger beer into the glass until it's full.
3) Let the drink stand for about 5-10 minutes to allow the blueberry flavor to mix with the ginger beer - give it a few stirs during that time.
4) Enjoy!

If this looks like just a weird way to eat blueberries, you're kind of right about that! The drink itself takes up very little volume in the glass compared to the blueberries - and so you'll need to refill the glass from the same single serving bottle of ginger beer several times. Do keep in mind that ginger beer contains nearly an entire day's worth of sugar, so you probably don't want more than one of these in a night.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-06C
https://phonedb.net/index.php?m=device&id=2871&c=nec_medias_...

NEC Medias smartphone from 2011, removable battery and IPX7 which is waterproof up to 1m deep.
It is 8.2mm thick.

The Iphone 4S was released that year @ 9.3mm thick.

It is possible to make phones that do it, the companies don't want to.
Biden signs new order cracking down on Big Tech
Having lived in Bavaria for years, and drunk beer for many more, I am of the opinion that nothing beats sub-6% helles, pilsner, or hefeweißen.

Hops and alcohol are like white pepper - great but just a little too much ruins the recipe.
I suspect they use something like a TXV (thermostatic expansion valve) that is found on newer household AC units.

This acts as sort of a regulator for the system, which ultimately ends up reducing the load on the compressor as the evaporator is colder.

So while the compressor runs at one stage in the sense of it being directly driven by the engine, the resistance to spin the compressor varies based on the load of the AC system.
Memory corruption / safety issues related to memory are not only typical C problems like use after free but also type errors. Optimizing Java for performance means using only primitive types which is significantly less type-safe than C++ classes / structs.
News Corp gives up on its ‘Knewz’ aggregator after 18 months
Isn't alcohol-free wine just, like, grape juice?
I'm still irked about the declining availability of caffeine-free diet soda. It's getting hard to get caffeine-free Diet Pepsi or Diet Coke, and I haven't been able to get caffeine-free Diet Dr. Pepper since Febuary 2020. Shelf space was apparently needed for the various new flavors of Coca-Cola.
Actually, many famous food products, software products, cars, and other things were created by people who did work at their former competitors. It's been the subject of many lawsuits. Reese's were invented by a disgruntled employee at Hershey.

No one has ever tried to control all of anyone's hours. All of my arguments are about the nature of the work and the intellectual property components it carries. If you are hauling boxes for Amazon or hauling boxes for Coke, none of this is relevant.
The claim is not only about video games. And it makes more sense to be proactive about protecting their brand, rather than only reacting once an issue arises.

Also how would you even prove such a connection? What combatant is ever going to say “I’m sorry, I shot you because I thought you were the enemy’s medic and not the red cross due to decades of brand dilution”.
The reign of quantity and the sign of the times.
IMHO this what Thor: Ragnarok got right.

It was one of the few Marvel movies that seemed to remember its comic book origins. Quick pace--individual comic issues are short, snappy (not necessarily quippy) dialog--because there isn't space on a comic panel for walls of text, colorful and interesting character designs, and a good dose of humor sprinkled in.

It would probably get old if every Marvel movie were like that, but all in all I think the formula works. Guardians of the Galaxy also did pretty well in this regard, but making most of the characters assholes in one way or another undercut the theme somewhat.
There are a lot of recommendations for real-beer tasting brands in the comments here. But. What if one is a recovering alcoholic or pregnant or want to stop, but like the taste and feeling of beer? Why call it a marketing trick? If people get some repeated enjoyment from NA beer?
Yeah I just have no reference. Here villages spaced 30 km from each other doesn't happen. It's usually walking distance.
The Allen and Co. Sun Valley Conference is winding down.

The pandemic forced a lot of reaction to, realignment of, and reflection on, all of the current paradigms. But nobody was able to meet last year and many conversations that needed to happen were left hanging in abeyance.

As the many attendees represent organizations that pull heavy carts as it is, there is no doubt an eagerness to get the wheels turning again. The sooner the better. But they have also had a year to completely evaluate what was causing them to be so laden prior to February 1st, 2020.

This year's conference will be remembered as a watershed moment. Great food and real-world golf scores notwithstanding.
End up? It's a circle. The rich will just hang out in their New Zealand bunkers until the chaos subsides, then back to square 1.
We try to furnish your apartment based on your taste and needs, the two case studies or the sample proposal on our website aren't the full picture (we're working on more photos from some of our other apartments). We first get to know you better (do you work from home? live with a partner? like colors? etc.) and try to send a very personal proposal.

That being said, I agree that the Scandinavian style (warm, wooden, etc., what you refer to as "WeWork") is overrepresented in our photos, so we'll definitely work on changing that.
https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-americ...

it wad made 150 times more likely due to cc so far, hence the 1/1000. so we can expect those odds to get more likely - even if we stopped emitting today, those odds look bad.
For anyone looking for a fun and surprisingly heartwarming indie gem, I can highly recommend 2017's One Cut of the Dead [1]. Budget: $25,000. Worldwide box office: $31,200,000.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7914416/
World Kilowatt Dollar
The Raon Secure Driver's License Solution Running on Eosio
I've been wishing for something like this. Can I generate AWS CodeBuild buildspec.yml files from an Earthfile?
I haven't figured out how I can upload videos to Odysee without buying LBRY (which is also not that trivial).

I guess the easiest way is to ask someone to donate me some, but I don't know anyone on LBRY well enough for this.
I don't understand the negativity in this thread about Oracle and the pricing model. GraalVM is an amazing piece of technology that enables many new applications. Oracle has the courage to invest heavily in this research, provides a community edition for free, and asks a very reasonable fee for the enterprise version. The pricing model is admittedly a bit complex, but from what I've been told it is a fairly common pricing model in this industry. And if you use the enterprise version in a way that is not allowed, you risk facing the consequences; no surprises there.

Disclaimer: You guessed it, I work at Oracle.
I would also like to know how!
An alternative interpretation of what happened to Nortel is that they made a lot of money, got complacent, stopped innovating, sat on their laurels, utterly failed to adapt to changing demands from their customers, or to keep up with competing vendors, imploded, and then the C-suite covered for its numerous failings by blaming China.

"Hackers stole our sauce" may be a plausible explanation for why a competitor got a jump-start, but its not a plausible explanation for why your business fell apart - especially considering that Cisco, Nokia, RIM, and many, many other western communication vendors continued to thrive after Nortel's disaster.

Nortel died because it couldn't adapt, the same way that RIM invented the smart phone, and then died, because it couldn't compete with Apple.

Also, worth noting that Canadian tech firms don't pay well, so all the talent goes south, and then those same firms grouse about their inability to compete with the valley.
> The argument is that diluting the mark can cause confusion, and that confusion can cause death. "Videogames cause death" feels like a bad-faith oversimplification.

I was being terse, not bad faith. In particular, "videogames cause death" is not a less robust argument than "trademark appropriation can cause confusion which can cause death". Moreover, I'm specifically being charitable and saying "I don't think this is what TFA means because it's so ridiculous, but I can't identify a better likely meaning".

But apparently there are a lot of people who think the "trademark violation => death" (again, brevity, not mockery) argument is serious, so I invite them to support their position with examples.
Everyone’s pushing an agenda these days. I didn’t post that as an unbiased source, but as a counter argument to the unified front against vaping amongst the mainstream teleprompt readers. If you want an unbiased source for this discussion you’re going to have to have a bad time.
This is what a post-scarcity society is supposed to be. A world where everyone has enough, and they do things (programming, art, whatever) for the joy of it.
And, importantly, those platforms with the symbol are not allowed to be armed, or even armored. A vehicle with that symbol must have absolutely no other use than medical. Even something like bulletproof glass on an ambulance might make it useful as a troop carrier. A non-armored ambulance can only ever be an ambulance.
Comedies are supposed to be mid-low budget affairs. They are supposed to be able to ignore the international market because they can make a profit on just the domestic audience.

This sort of ties in with what a previous poster was saying about the mid-budget movies disappearing because the money flows to the top and the bottom end is full of recently graduated art students trying to out-serious one another.
>Tesla et al come to mind for companies that like to hire this type. I don't get that to be honest. Your family and life are not worth whatever they're paying you, even if the work is 'fun' and engaging. YMMV as always.

On the other hand these companies are producing some great results. I religiously watch the teardown analysis of the Tesla cars vs others like the Ford Mach-E and the Tesla is just so much better designed in pretty much every regard(except things that require slow methodological improvement such as fit and finish). Whats more, all the Musk companies are moving at the speed of thought. They are so much faster in implementing any new innovation that any competitor makes that they dont have and incorporate it into their product faster than any other company does.

>Then there's what I would consider the proper position on the gradient line. You do your work, you do your best, every day without question or being 'made' to. But in return you ask for the company to be reasonable too. Proper pay and benefits, flexibility, nice perks but not the kinds of 'perks' that are just designed to make you 'live' at the office, mandatory 'fun' etc. No BS 'do this yesterday because I say so' requests. The list goes on.

Don't you think these companies are going to eventually be eaten by the companies that have the demanding work environment? For better or worse all else being equal, those companies get more done in the same amount of time.

I am experiencing this at my company, an old bloated payroll company. They have superb work life balance, I get my work done but I know the company is sinking to Silicon Valley rivals, its just a matter of time. The product is old and competitors are just doing a better job. Im currently in a dilemma where I get paid fairly well but not doing any advanced projects, that will bite me long term but the freedom and 0 stress is just so good. I get my stuff done and have time to take hour long breaks.
This has always made me super grouchy— I even have my house plumbed for hydronics!

I wish I could tie the AC units into that, put all the rads in bypass during the summer, and use the hydronic water to preheat shower water before it hits the gas-powered on demand system.
Montessori schools are so weird. I'm convinced they're mostly buzzwords to get rich parents to send their kids there - at least around here. I know a couple of teachers and all of them say that the Montessori schools around us don't actually follow most of the philosophies of Montessori.

In our area they seem to be for over-achievers. Want your 4 year old to learn to read, write, and do math? Send them to a Montessori. At least, that's the reason all the parents I know send them there.
I recall the CVS app requesting Bluetooth permissions when I installed it. I can imagine them implementing something like this, but couldn't they just passively listen for Bluetooth beacons from people's phones using the devices in the store, without needing the app to be installed on a customers phone?

I suppose I'm not familiar enough with Bluetooth - I figured phones with Bluetooth enabled are constantly sending out some kind of "hello" beacon.
This is actually a principle of training medics: Learn one, do one, teach one.
It's only >100% efficient because % efficiency is defined in a goofy way: benefit/cost, instead of benefit/(cost+benefit). (Moving 3n requires moving 4n and wasting n: 75% real efficiency).

This difference only matters for A/C, when cost is not much larger than benefit.
From what I've seen released from 2020 onwards I've particularly liked:

Black Bear,
Possessor,
Palm Springs,
Love And Monsters,
Psycho Goreman,
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,
White Tiger,
Moxie,
The Mitchells Vs The Machines

Going back a bit further:

Saint Maud,
Color Out Of Space,
Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood,
Midsommar,
The Lighthouse,
Crawl,
The Personal History Of David Copperfield
I think the idea is great.. but it would only be attractive to most users if the furniture was rent-to-own.
"The sheer waste of energy to keep that hotel cooled down to those temperatures and golf-course playable year-round is just ridiculous."

A similar temperature differential exists in Minnesota and Wisconsin (and elsewhere in the US) for months in the wintertime.

Unlike air-conditioning which can be powered by solar and wind produced electricity, most heating is done by directly burning fossil fuels on-site.

I think we should all be very cautious with our energy scorekeeping ...
Every art has its why. Check out the wonderful work by @MadMaraca [1] as an example of what one can do with voxels. They're truly stunning. I think that the limitations of voxel art are also its expressive power.

Pixel art didn't replace at all painting, nor did it aspire to do that. But it founds its beautiful niche, and there's beauty in that.

[1] https://twitter.com/MadMaraca
> What can the USPTO do with the information, other than just not hand out patents in that area?

They could require the IP holder to declare the price at which they were willing to permanently release the discovery into the public domain in exchange for a one-time payment, and levy an increasing maintenance fee on a % of that price due at the end of each financial quarter.

This may eliminate unnecessary court costs and legal fees and supply chain interruptions resulting from legal disputes, while still ensuring that the original inventors are compensated and that there is an incentive for disclosure.

Suppose a defendant is notified of patent infringement and pending legal action. Instead of hiring a lawyer or halting production they could crowd-source the money to pay the inventor's fee through the patent office. The patent office then forwards the payment to the original inventor, the patent is destroyed, and there is no basis for further legal action.

Large companies may find that it is always cheaper to pay the patent office to permanently destroy each other's patents than it is to go to court, which would also level the playing field for smaller firms and startups as the discoveries would be placed in the public domain.
Thanks for posting. I like reading the responses to these. Admittedly, in part to see if I'm on target with my goals of min-maxing life compared to other's experiences.

Though, I suspect that a side effect of taking good general advice from those more experienced than you is that you might miss out on, or never learn to identify exceptional specific advice that few are able to provide.

Since starting a business is a common topic I see in these threads across the internet, my two cents: 27 for me is just flipping the calendar back. I started a business in my late 20s. I still should have done it sooner.

But, I believe there's a threshold. You need the experience to do the business, but you still want to be in a place where you don't have enough experience to get up and run the business when you start without doing some homework along the way: I don't think you want to be figuring out LLC paperwork, general liability, and payroll in your 30s.

You can do all of that in your early 20s, and if I were to give advice to my younger self, do it before you turn 25. As young as possible, even if you're still in high school and keep working full-time jobs as an employee into your 20s for household cash safety, stuffing away as much as you can.

I think the latter owner of Designer News started his ventures at 18 and mentioned to members there that his progression simply looked like delegating more and more to others until he got where he was.

In general, I think these threads are useful to young people, but they're not a source of exceptional advice.

They're a source of good foundational advice like spend time with your family, don't spend beyond your means, save, work hard.
Just remember, your friends/coworkers are not a random sample.
I think it was in reference to my 2.5% comment. For me, the sweetness of most juices isn't a good thing, so it works for me. ymmv