skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a fan of IPAs, but the calories and alcohol content make them something that I don't like to indulge in regularly. I've found that Athletic Brewing's IPA has a great taste, is super refreshing, and only 70 calories. As someone who likes to run, too, it's a great way to have something tasty without the negative dehydratic effects of alcohol. It's great, I'd love it if my local stores stocked more types of NA beer from them.
And you can have a cold one while you are driving!
Its on the "dev ring" of the insider build reserved for the jankiest WIP builds and they even warn you when using it. We just love to hate Microsoft so much that we attack unfinished software for being unfinished.
See the other big picture 'setting the agenda' perspective, co-published and similarly paywalled: "Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science" at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03659-0 . Authors for both are high profile, I am guessing these are aggregates of position papers for a conference panel.

Both are part of a Nature Computational Social Science special, https://www.nature.com/collections/cadaddgige ,
in part covering the network science conference Networks21, https://networks2021.net/ .
We're arguably repeating history, where 100 years ago film was the upstart (but rapidly growing) business and vaudeville was the established incumbent. Film offered far more creative possibilities and were dramatically more immersive than the entertainment it replaced.

Today the film industry is the incumbent - profits have peaked, and the upstart video game business has already eclipsed it. Once again, video games have far more creative possibilities and are dramatically more immersive than the films they're replacing.
I quit beer in favor of cold sparkling mineral water.

I don't miss hops. I don't miss the buzz. I don't miss my belly. I don't miss hangovers.

I realized I was drinking beer and looking beyond all that makes beer what it is and focusing on the qualities of the water (softness, minerality, etc.) and bubble characteristics (small nitro bubbles or big bursty ones) and finding no limit to the quantity I could consume, no scarcity in variety or imposed limits on where I can refresh myself.

I've gone so far as to consider adding hop essence and some barley malt for lulz, but probably have turned that corner for good.
I wish 1% or 2% beers were more readily available. I like to drink beers socially and I like to take a little of the edge off, but it'd be nice to lower the amount of alcohol I consume.
Plus there are frameworks like JGoodies and everyone should look at Filthy Rich Clients book.

The biggest issue with Swing is just bad defaults. Except for NeWS, Sun wasn't really into the desktop business.
>Majority of laptop users won't need to hook up their computer to a TV?

I would be very surprised if even 10% of people connect their laptops to TVs. For those that do, thunderbolt to hdmi adapters are cheap.

> And M1 still is inferior to having a gpu.

I am sure it is, but average person sees no utility from a GPU, but they do utilize long battery life and less heat from reduced energy usage of M1.
Owning the rights and licensing the rights are different things. This policy is horribly restrictive, but if you grant Amazon a perpetual license as described, they can do what they want, even after you quit. But you can do what you want also.

If they demanded ownership, you still couldn't do what you wanted after you quit.
Probably many movies you can think of from the 90s/00s that were not blockbusters, especially romcoms.
It's not a TPM issue - TR 1950x has TPM2.0. Microsoft currently has a list of qualified CPU's which the 1950x isint on thats the issue. Seems anything 3.5 yrs. and older is getting left behind regardless whether it qualifies (hence the list) BUT this might only be applicable for the beta testing and not the actual release. WHich makes more sense that MS is focusing testing on only the latest hardware. The Windows Health Check tool that people were using was pulled down a few days ago (dont know its current status).
I've had one since last November..

I finally realized I use it more like a Kindle. Unfortunately I'm busy and I'm almost always on my work MBP (Intel) so my usage of the M1 is light.

But we have a Surface Pro (i5) that gets the same style of "light" usage. The difference with the M1 is crazy. I don't bother to plug it in very often. It uses so little battery in light usage that it doesn't drain much, then it's suspend logic is so well done that it doesn't lose much for days and days sitting there. The Surface Pro goes right back on the charger pretty much immediately when you're done with it by comparison, cause you can't trust it's going to have battery if you don't, and when you use it even for something light it burns through lots of battery by comparison. My i7 MBP for work of course chugs down battery at an incredible velocity compared to both, but it gets harder usage.

So in effect it gets treated like a kindle, I plug it in every week or two. That's very new, and it seems weird and took adjustment.
This used to be true but it doesn't reflect reality. Yes if you want to play the latest and greatest games at 4k you do need a gaming laptop. But a lot of games coming out nowadays work pretty good on even Intel iGPUs at full hd medium graphics.

I'd wager you could easily game on an M1 if the game has support and you are willing to make some graphics concessions.
Friday Fun: Svelte-like variable reactivity in 7LOC with with Proxy
Taxi companies (note the plural) were obviously not monopolies and the medallion systems generally required diversity of holders. That is not at all what Uber was up to. Uber was doing what used to be called dumping to destroy the incumbents.

Stop defending Uber. Even if you work for them it is incumbent on you as a citizen to be honest about what they were doing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp
I'd love to hear at what budget/price point you would be comfortable to use Pabio. I ask because our ultimate goal is to make interior design affordable for the masses.
Better to pass on this, as Samsung and LG appliances are subpar
Patents have a good intent, the real danger is non practicing entities (patent trolls).

I think that you shouldn't be allowed to acquire a patent (via acquiring the patent owner) unless you are in the business of the patent, or you go to market with an application of that patent within a limited amount of time
> I think its too easy to get a patent

I'd modify that to say it's too easy for a large corporation to get a patent. I've heard quite a few acquaintances who work for large companies mention offhand that they just were awarded a patent for something or other.

Meanwhile, at my tiny company, we have I think one patent and another that got hung up with the examiner due to completely unrelated things. I think we finally stopped protesting it.

Patents are pay to play.
Orders took forever or got lost, etc. The servers looked stressed as hell and were running everywhere.

The prices werent any lower they just had fewer staff. Presumably the owner thought they could collect higher profits.
The good news is that an indie film on zero budget from the 90s was much more technologically limited than it is today, so access to fancy cameras matters less than it did then, and it lets talent shine more.
What I don't get is that the intel based macbook pros allow you to get 32G of RAM and 4TB hard drive. While the M1s only allow a max of 16G of RAM and 2TB hard drive. I'm not taking a hit on these other, in my opinion, much much more important specs to gain an extra battery life.
Arthletic Brewing offers some really amazing Beliner Weisse beers and IPAs. I made the partial switch to NA beers over a year ago and it's been amazing. Only problem is that hoppy NA beers still trigger my GERD...
Living in an expensive area like Vancouver, a home theater might not be an option. Most of my friends rent a room in a sharehouse where they're not allowed to have guests, or where the TV is a communal area. Others live in basement suites with noise rules and can watch TV by themselves but not with friends. The theatre is much better for watching a movie with a group, unless you're very wealthy.
If they claimed ownership, you couldn't do what you wanted with the IP after you leave the company--they would own it.

They can do what they want with the IP after you quit--they require a very broad license--but so can you. And that is the difference.
I'd kill for alcohol-free Bourbon.
I saw this first hand while working for a high-end landscaping company. The first team sent out to a job site would be the A-Team and they would do about 50% of the work, whether they were done for the day or off to do another job. The next day (most jobs took 2 days ATL, some took more) another crew of less experienced workers would work the site until finished, then the owner would come inspect. The owner was on the "A-Team" and his work was amazing; I was on the "B-Team" and though I always put 110% into my work when I physically could, I constantly worked with slackers and corner-cutters who also came and went. It made sense the way it was explained to me, which was that the people working odd jobs who don't really care will get bummed out by the B-Team labour and pay, and if they don't they're added to the A-Team after a few months of good work and some more training.
Simplest fix to me would be to reduce the time of validity. We aren't in the 19th century anymore and extremely complex things can be build within months.
He's right and it's sad.

One positive note though is that 2 hours is very short - often not long enough to explore a story.

Series formats mean they can take the time they need.

That said, often they end up being filler.
My patent attorney used to tell me: "Patents are like nuclear weapons. I want to be on the side that has the most."
Bloom's 2-Sigma Problem: students getting one-on-one instruction perform 2 standard deviations better than those learning from ordinary instruction methods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
I don't agree that this is measured. It has a few big problems.

1. Basically no developer actually wants it to wrap. This is almost certainly a logical bug that just pushes the problem a few statements further into the program.

2. Defining it to wrap means that you need software checks for architectures that don't support hardware wrapping on the same width as the integer type. This means that all programs get slower when targeting these architectures. This isn't a "sliver of performance". It is a software branch at almost every integer operation. This approach is not especially well loved in the C/C++ communities.
You try first with lower accelerations in planes and simulators/centrifuges, and you get a good idea of the maximal g that a normal person tolerate and which positions/chairs are the safest.

Then you select a moron^W hero and put her/him in a rocket and cross your fingers.
This link from the article explains how to submit your comments:

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

The USPTO will not be reading our comments here, so if you feel strongly about this issue, please do consider taking the time to submit them formally as well. There will very likely be astroturfing from supporters of restrictive laws, and while they’re good at detecting that, it still makes a difference!
Absolutely. The design of the patent system needs to be significantly updated. Every single new thing seems to be violating an assortment of patents, most of them for extremely obvious or common things.

When Apple introduced the LiDAR sensor on iPhone, lots of people started building apps to map out the interior of homes to break the monopoly that Matterport seems to hold on that part of real estate technology.

I started researching that stuff for a tangentially related idea that I have, and if you want to go from a LiDAR point cloud to a set of polygons representing a room, it seemed like you would have to violate a dozen of Matterport's patents. Truly ridiculous stuff. As I dug into the documentation around it, I realized that Apple will actually do the spatial reconstruction for you if you want, which is nice because that presumably means that Apple is the one violating the patents instead of you, right? It's hard to say. I wonder if even a lawyer could give you a straight answer to that question.

Similarly, maybe I want to make a better kind of 2D barcode. QR Code patents supposedly won't be enforced against anyone implementing or using them for QR-compatible codes, if I remember correctly, but... a few years ago when I looked into this, I saw that the company that owned the QR Code patents had continued publishing new patents seemingly in order to extend their hold over QR Codes (and similar 2D barcodes) in perpetuity.

So, if you make any kind of 2D barcode that is even remotely similar to a QR Code, talk to some lawyers or... good luck?

And those are just two examples of things that I have run up against as an individual with ideas who would love to innovate, but feels restricted by the infinite number of patents that exist.

I think some serious reform of intellectual property rights could spur significant new innovations and societal benefit, while still protecting people who are actually innovating and applying those innovations.

(Keep in mind that I am not a lawyer.)
I’ve read a few articles (not bookmarked) in Chinese that talks about it. I think if we live in a westernized country we may have limited information available to what’s happening locally at other countries.

This is just one article that talks about it. Even though it cites the Australia study that showed no big difference, it also says it’s a small sample size and due to its safe history and other studies that have shown it has positive effect, we can experiment it. Again I’m not arguing for it to be used for the light symptoms but rather the ones that are already on their deathbeds.

https://finance.sina.com.cn/tech/2021-06-23/doc-ikqciyzk1306...

Also the Indian Bar association has sued WHO Chief Scientist - though I’m not sure the latest on this
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/indian-ba... (English)
Drinking an entire 6-pack of 0.5% beer is equivalent of drinking 6oz of a "normal" 6% beer. And I suspect people who drink non-alcoholic beer generally don't binge drink them. But I guess it may be important if you really can't drink any alcohol at all. But there are also beers labeled as truly 0.0%, not just "less than 0.5%"
I see little evidence of that latest claim.

China doesn't recognize software patents and it's rife with cheap copies and clones of existing products and produces very little innovation.

The US recognizes patents and is the most innovative country on many fronts (not just software).
Patents clearly kill innovation. Like, that shouldn't even be a question.

Fun fact: when the US entered WWI they had to buy warplanes because they didn't have the capacity to build them. Why? The original steering patent related to Orville and Wright was used to stifle innovation [1]. This was such a problem that a patent pool had to be created.

Likewise, e-ink devices have largely had no innovation due to the patents of the e-ink corporation being used to stifle innovation.

I'm relatively OK with pharmaceutical patents... within reason. The big problem in the US is you can't import that same drug from another country where the same company is making the exact same product. I realize they do this for price differentiation but this has gone way too far and is a big reason why US drugs are so expensive. In the very least you should be able to legally import such drugs from any developed nation.

But look at something like a smartphone and there are literally thousands of patents that apply to that product. That's... ridiculous.

Business models shouldn't be patentable. Software shouldn't be patentable. Obvious hardware innovations (eg applying more than one texture per clock cycle) shouldn't be patentable. Software can be protected by copyright.

The US PTO and the US Federal Court of Appeals are clearly in a state of regulatory capture at this point (so much so that the Supreme Court has taken to routinely slapping down the excesses of the US FCoA) so I suspect any feedback on this will be used to justify that yes patents do protect innovation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war
For shutter (and aperture) blades I have used electronics contact cleaner. It's fast and is unlikely to remove lubrication from parts that require lubrication.

It is recommended as a first step in a Fix Old Cameras video linked in another comment.
I do think Julia is uniquely poised to provide a new kind of trade-off between concision, performance, understandability, etc. because of multiple dispatch, and great syntax for things like broadcasting.

Sometimes a practical algorithm does not look like a textbook algorithm, because they're different algorithms, but I think the main reason that there is such a discrepancy is:

1. math notation is many times quite ambiguous

2. there are a bunch of performance optimizations that end up being unsightly

I am not claiming it's easy work, but I think it's nice to try to find abstractions so that at least somewhere, the algorithm looks simple.

I don't, however, think that these code examples really make that shine at all. There are also choices I disagree with. For example, there is (paraphrasing) `map(vⱼ -> g(x, vⱼ), V)`. the `j` subscript is meaningless to me, and is an awkward combination of "point free" / "index free" notation with a higher-order function, and a more traditional spelling. Math texts love to do things like V = [v_1, ... , v_n]. That doesn't make sense to do in a programming language. instead of writing v_j, you just do V[j].
A lot of the example sprites look pretty bad, you can barely tell what they are
In the software domain, I feel like patents have mostly become a corporate pre-emptive defense mechanism, i.e. "don't sue us for your patents we're infringing on, and in return we won't sue you for our patents you're infringing on".
Self-organized criticality in neural networks
One of the things I like about code is that it's usually very easy to read. There are problems with characters like 1 l I 0 O i j etc that are addressed by font choices. But even with those problems I find it much easier to read the ASCII letters than math notation with subscripts and superscripts, Greek letters and script letters, bold and doubled, and so on.

People might deny having the same problem, but I've seen it hundreds of times where a mistake is made because two symbols were conflated or a subscript was overlooked, or a symbol with multiple uses in different contexts was assumed to be one thing when really it was another. That said it's still neat to see code using common symbols with what you'd find in textbooks.
I tried looking into this a couple of years back, and it looks like Steam has to run in the background for games that link to a library that offers Steam integration. I concluded that continuing to research a path that offered an uncertain conclusion was too much trouble, then switched to purchasing games from DRM-free vendors. The end result is saving a lot of money. Alas, that didn't correspond to a diminished amount of time spent gaming.
This problem would be a lot easier to deal with if independent invention was a defense (as it is supposed to be, but in practice basically never is) against a patent infringement claim--particularly if the owner of the patent has done nothing to actually implement it.
This covers things that don't have anything to do with company resources.

The entire point of this seems to be to allow hobbies on the side, but then requires you don't work on it with anyone not at Amazon, and no matter what you do, Amazon just about owns it (gets unlimited license). Doesn't really make a lot of sense in total.
> There is no way to distinguish yourself

If you actually learn something in a class, that distinguishes you from many other students.

I agree though, university is not a good system for determining who is capable and deserves the best jobs. It’s unfortunate that our society leans on it so much as a sorting hat.
Gruvi’s sparking white and rose aren’t still wine but are great!
My experience exactly mirrors yours. Battery life is really good. Processing speed is good, but it's not like stuff compiles instantly now. There are, contradicting reviews, waiting times. I've seen many beach balls using my MBP and it comes free with a couple of issues:

- After a few hours of developing an Angular app using ng serve kernel_task consumes insane amounts of CPU time, resulting in extreme lag and completely locking up the device on an attempted restart (not even the touchpad clicks anymore).

- Sometimes MPEG4 videos just would not play until after a reboot

That said: Besides some minor UI glitches it's really, really solid. x86 compatibility is perfect. The GPU is good (again, not amazing, but Minecraft runs at good settings).

Over all it's not revolutionary. Slow software is going to be slow on these too. What they pulled off is amazing ecosystem wise, but as an end user you can be happy about some non-revolutionary pretty good decent spec bumps.

I just worry about the SSD's life. I'm already about 20TB down after a few weeks.
That's funny. Reminds me of the time in high school where the history teacher had written "Eugene v. Debs" on the syllabus, and we all wondered what court case that referred to.
*giving :hundreds: of hours per year back to the worker.
Also I know a lot of people who have taken 1 or both doses but have said if it becomes a routinely booster shots, they’ve decided their risk profile isn’t worth taking it. So we will see a decline in vaccinations if that happens. I haven’t read the latest medication approved for in-hospital covid treatment so will take a look at that.
That's a broader cultural issue for all sorts of art today, not a movie specific thing.

The depressed/angry mood has been building for a couple decades or more, and getting more widespread. Even something intentionally over the top like Fast and Furious or Marvel has more "serious issue" stuff in many of the installments from the last 5 years than previously.

It's easier in the news to see all the bad stuff that used to get hidden behind the scenes, so until something happens about that or people just tired of seeing it both in the news and in art, I imagine it'll be here for a little longer.
Questions like this will always founder if you equate software patents with real inventions. As Joel Spolsky said, there are maybe two ideas in software per year that are really worth patenting (actually, he didn't say "per year" so I was being generous).

I wrote an article [1] about this seven years ago! It was cited in an amicus brief to SCOTUS in the CLS Bank case. Nothing has changed since then.

We should realize that our companies' top management and the professional societies are not on our side on this. Engineers themselves will have to get it done.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2399580
Backblaze is great for cloud backups. They do not backup network connected drives but will backup drives connected locally.

I'm not pretending a network drive is local, but actually mirror the important data from my NAS to a locally connected 14TB USB drive. It stays connected all the time.

I have some cron jobs that run rsync scripts, but the data that needs to be backed up rarely changes. This gives me 30TB on my NAS, of which, 14TB are backed up in backblaze for $60/year.

I can make this work in my situation because the items I want backed up are less than the working space I want on my NAS.