skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you’re a garage inventor you either are making something or have ambitions to.

Let's personalize it:

Fulfilling that "standard" for my own personal patents would require me to register as a financial institution and employ people with all the licenses, some of which not one individual can hold all of simultaneously, actually run that institution, launch products, get traction on those products and then pat myself on the back because all is right with the world.

All because I had a particular idea in a niche market first, which only I consider an improvement and worthwhile at the priority date, while nobody else would or did.

So as someone with much more immediately lucrative and interesting ideas, I'm clearly not going to pursue that path. So.... are people proposing I just drop the idea when I had it, or what would the other incentive to share it with the world be? I should just let others independently come up with the idea an unknown number of years in the future and just say "hey look haha I had that idea a while back", or even worse, risk allowing reality to go in a completely different or less improved direction?

I feel fortunate that I was even able to afford to make a record of my idea in the compliant and uninfringeable way. I know plenty of people that are too segregated from the system to even attempt that. It is insulting to think "ah fuck that person [with $20,000] because they didn't build a prototype in their modest garage!" The gatekeeping, how does that even make sense?

Okay so now there is a document saying I had an idea first (speaking on behalf of all patent inventors), and even more rarely and privileged is that fact that I am not having to assign all my ideas to an employer who then owns the patent.

So what is being proposed here? I'm a "non practicing entity" and all my paths to monetization are invalid because of it? Should I leave it rhetorical?

Should I say "hey cool awesome tech or fintech firm, I really admire your work, you should buy my IP" because that works so well?

Should I say "hey cool awesome tech or fintech firm, cease and desist now" because that works so well?

Should I say "hey well capitalized company in the business of monetizing intellectual property, I'm trying to recoup costs so that I can build a workbench in my garage because people on the internet will respect me more so what kind of arrangements do you have for patents again?" thats likely whats going to happen and is the path people take

So what do you and anyone passing by actually propose? Because what is suggested doesn't really make sense and hasn't really factored in what individuals do and why
Suggested alternate title: "I didn't know how to write about my sister's death, so I used big data-powered autocomplete to do it for me".

I am as nonplussed about this as if the author bought a stock condolence card from Hallmark. Some people know how to write from their own personal feelings and emotions, and other's don't. That's why the greeting card industry even exists.

I'm sure the greeting card industry will be all over longer-form condolence messages such as this using big data powered autocomplete systems like GPT-3.
We use balls that are made for togs and wound t be suitable for a game of tennis. However, after 1 use he isn’t interested in the ball anymore and insists on a new ball next time.
According to this site, Microsoft's profit is divided into thirds:

https://www.investopedia.com/how-microsoft-makes-money-47988...

A third is for Office, a third for cloud, and a third is Windows.

IMO Microsoft is a trillion-dollar company because of their long monopoly with Windows. It's so entrenched that their "punishment" for abusing their monopoly position (according to the DOJ) was to give all schools free copies of Microsoft Office, thereby forcing every parent to own a copy of Microsoft office to be able to read reports from their kids' schools. Ingenious!

You know why they would fuck with developers? Because developers have choices now, and Microsoft doesn't like it when anyone has a choice besides Microsoft. They are remedying that.
No. I downgraded to 89, but you could also downgrade to 90 and still disable proton.

You can use policies.json to stop Firefox from nagging you to update Firefox.x
You don't need FB to comfortable communication with friends.

So there is no reason to use it.

If you know what FB is about, and still use it nonetheless (actually for no reason), that's highly irrational.

"I want to communicate with my friends" is just a very lame excuse for feeding the machine.
A rain drop forms in the sky and begins to fall. What path it takes, no one knows, but that it lands, we can surely assume.

Meaning. Some precise things are hard to predict, even when the outcome is easily knowable. We can't predict where an individual molecule of O2 will be in a minute, but we know that if there is a pressure differential between two rooms, they will begin to equalize.
How many of those are actually privately owned but are only managed by the big bad corporation? It is often very hard to tell the difference.
25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0
Hm.

I can see where the article is coming from. Some configuration files grow beyond classical configuration and end up being more like programming. With configuration being "Put the right connection / path strings into the program, enable some subsystems/feature toggles" and programming being along the lines of, e.g., arbitrary metric transformations in a metric collector, or programmable ACLs. With some systems, I very much end up wondering why I couldn't just load lua into the system and do the transformations with that.

However, configs in json/toml/yaml come with a lot of tooling. With a custom configuration language, you suddenly need to roll your own syntax highlighting in many editors, maybe linters, pretty-printers, ... Your config can't just be computed by a configuration management system and deployed via `computedConfig | toJSON`, instead it'll be necessary to wrangle templating. And users generally know those languages.

And writing parsers is a pain. And generating parsers is also a pain. And using bad parsers is also a pain. I've worked too much on parsers.

Those are some pretty big hurdles to overcome and if you don't, the user experience just starts off worse.
... but it is a marathon you have to sprint. The older I get the more I realize this. But you are right. Net worth is what it is now and there is something very weird with the economy and company valuations at this point.
Fun factoid they are a major migraine trigger for many.
Your argument applies to all kitchen sinks, regardless of whether they are considered one application like VSCode or an operating system withs collection of applications like Unix. Both still have all the capabilities for text editing, syntax highlighting, version control and executing scripts. You can spread complexity around in different ways but you can’t eliminate it.

Personally I find GUI discoverability to be like the hunt-and-peck model of typing, vs touch typing being CLI, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that touch typing and CLI go hand in hand: you never leave home row. You think about what you want to do and type the command, instead of looking through panels of icons or more exotically arranged buttons (which in the newest web apps, constantly jump around as the page lazily loads, new elements appear forcing layout changes, fonts load causing text reflow… I frequently tap the wrong menu item because what I really wanted got pushed down by a new appearing element as my finger approached the screen.)
I recently read a blog post on putting the Crafting Interpreters book together, and there was an interesting tidbit about visual pdf diffs (under Proofreading the proof) - https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07/29/640-pages-in-1...
So to you a social justice protest that is met with armed LARPer counterprotestors becomes a LARP event.

Got it.
More seriously there seems to be many parts shortages. I have a big crack in my windshield but there are no replacements available until some unknown date
Even 128 MB works great for a debian vpn.
> Democracy mostly works

I am not encouraged by what some US politicians are doing with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic right now. Why should I be more optimistic about their responses to the global warming situation?
Better GDPR enforcement would be an incentive.

The GDPR introduces the principle of data minimisation which means that you must collect the least amount of data possible to deliver a particular service (unless the user consents to sharing more which should be opt-in, you can’t force them or use dark patterns to make them opt-in).

But considering even basic violations that are trivial to rectify such as the Facebook SDK or Google Analytics being everywhere are not punished, there is no chance they’d go after cell carriers.
While you're correct, what they "left" is actually a non-programming legal foundation (other than Sawyer X), and so the commenter is actually correct that this ultimately does not have the impact on the Perl community that the article suggests.
You are probably right.

For example, within the EU, there is free movement of people and workforce, which sucks out the best and the most talented people from the peripheries like Andalusia or Bulgaria and lands them in the very prosperous regions of the north-west where they can find good and well-paying jobs.

This is a major problem that cannot be solved by spending extra money on building infrastructure in the peripheries. Infrastructure is fine, but a new highway won't heal anyone's cancer. Lack of doctors and engineers cannot be easily countered with development projects that tend to be mired in corruption.

Not even immigration can help that, because highly qualified immigrants won't stay in the periphery, and unqualified immigrants cannot provide the necessary work.
GraphQL simplified the frontend by making the backend 100 times more complicated. So many fewer requests, though! Problem solved. Big names made and books sold.
It's bizarre that they use USB-C to charge their laptops now, their magnet chargers were much nicer and if you have your laptop in a bag you'll likely have a charger with you so a custom charger is no big deal.
Companies are not required to share data. Have you ever tried getting anonymized network traffic traces from a company for the purpose of analysis? There is a lot of open source data available (thanks crawdad.org!!!) but I doubt you will have a private company share data with you if you just go and ask them.

The same with Facebook. They're just paranoid that the data will make its way into places it shouldn't. Same with any other company.
Software Dev Can't Be Automated – It’s a Creative Process with an Unknown Goal
Not to mention all the effort that goes into studying how different food constituents affect human consciousness and behavior, which results in products that are habit-forming and increase impulsive buying.

I’ve often wondered how many secondary impulse buys are made because someone makes an extra trip to the store to satisfy their primary craving for tobacco, coffee, energy drinks or just sugar.
The blog posting looks like it went through a PowerPoint to blog converter.
DoorDash Recently Held Talks to Buy Instacart
Isn’t sales just a form of storytelling?
>I guess there's no accounting for taste.

I guess there really isn't. To me this reads like a kindergartener proudly listing all the body parts they know. Or some program repeating words it was given (which is what this actually is). It's not deep or touching at all because it's so comically bad.
I hope for the day when there are more options than stay or leave, when users of a platform have more voice to determine the direction of the platform.

Leaving FB (and IG and WhatsApp and GIPHY) seems like moving out of a country and never seeing or talking to many of my friends again. I'd much prefer to stay in the country and have more power in determining the laws governing how we interact with each other.
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That you don't have to use NAT, especially carrier grade NAT, anymore.
The addresses are not owned by those in the list. They are allocated for an ongoing yearly fee.
The notable thing is that there was never a land bridge to the Philippines, so the denisovans would have swum or most likely traveled by canoe to the Philippines.
>Companies use the term "Human Resources", literally. Without translation.

Interesting.

When it arose there must not have historically been anything similar commonly seen.

Could be all previous German engineering success has been best accomplished without anything resembling an American-style HR approach.

After all, today's HR designation took root during the belt-tightening of the '80's under Ronald Reagan, and as we have seen has declined in usefulness from there continuously over the decades.

No translation was given back then either, and that was in the USA :)
Never understood the need for social media. Seems weird to me to be concerned with what others are doing in their lives. FOMO? Really? But, I'm a social assassin. I'm also a grammar and spelling Nazi. To wit: alot should be a lot.
Also, NAT gateways don't support TCP or ICMP fragementation. Not always a killer, but when it is, it is.
The same way we have text classification for the spam in our mail inbox, couldn't someone train a model to classify issues as actionable bugs vs. noise for large projects like the one mentioned in the OP? Data would come from closed issues:

- if the issue lead to a commit, or a merge is mentioned in the thread, then it is actionable,

- if the issue was closed without any code change, then it is noise.
Hushpuppi Drama: 31 Northern Lawyers to Come into the Defence of CP Abba Kyari
I'm co-author of this research (with my colleague Paul) -- happy to answer any questions.
It is well possible that Sapiens were black and Denisovans white.
Can’t really ship perishables from China. What’s the shelf life of lettuce or strawberries? One week at most? Other crops are protected by tariffs or pest quarantines like sugar, garlic, onions, citrus fruits.
Roger Ailes created FN specifically to extend and expand the ideological perspectives of the Nixon Republican faction using tilted mass media. It worked because there was demand for existing believers and also a malleable, susceptible audience.
Debian does not have release candidates. The installer does though.
>What are the advantages of IPv6 from a practical standpoint?

There are a whole raft of advantages:

1. NAT/CGNAT[0] becomes irrelevant (although you can still use local/non-routable prefixes if you wish), eliminating many of the issues around port forwarding and reachability of services;

2. While IPSec is broadly available for IPv4, encryption and authentication are baked into IPv6;

3. The enormous size of the IPv6 addresses would allow every location to have their own 16 bits (or more, if necessary) of routable address space;

4. Despite NAT, we have already run out of IPv4 address space[1] across all regions.

There are other good reasons for IPv6 too, but those are the most important IMHO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion
Where is the line at to be drawn between nationalism and fascist ultra nationalism? The rise in nationalism in many countries is one thing, but as that nationalism becomes stronger it is too easy to see it as drifting into fascist territory.
I consider myself a nihilist in that I take a side eye whenever anything is described as "truly" something. I find it much easier to see the world with no universal meaning and instead its something we each find personal meaning in. Most (if not all) things are just concepts. No tables exist, there's just a lot of matter arranged in a way that fits my concept of a table and I have breakfast on that.

People often find the term nihilist detestable though. It seems like most people get frustrated or anxious thinking this way.

That said it is mildly frustrating to talk about. The arguments on both sides are very unconvincing to the other.
> But no desktop operating systems are well suited to being used primarily by professionals

I love macOS and I’m a professional. I mean, I get paid for what I do. I’m a professional, right?
If you don't surface newer comments all the upvotes will skew towards older comments. I expect there's an element of randomness. Number of replies, whether the uploader put their badge on it or replied are probably also taken into account.
Read this part of the thread again: https://twitter.com/MoNscience/status/1396243452099170305

Gain of function proponents are ignoring research that indicates it's not possible to generate a virus dangerous to humans without leaving specific telltales. While this study isn't necessarily conclusive or a door slam in the face of lab leak, it's pretty huge data point that makes it far less likely.
IF you can choose please use the github sponsors instead of patreon :). It's better percentage wise then patreon.
Maybe when you are young... I always wanted a lot of money not to spend it but to do whatever I want. So freedom. And for me freedom is cheap so I have always been rich in my mind. I want to work with people I like, take off when I want to etc but I do not care, at all, about having stuff or luxury.
You mean all 700 miles of it along 2000 miles of border? I would guess nothing at all would change. No comparison to the German wall with minefields, self shooting devices, etc.
Avantek also sells a few workstations that are basically Ampere ARM server boards stuffed into desktop cases. Very powerful CPUs with up the 80 Neoverse N1 cores, lots of PCIe and RAM slots, very expensive.

https://store.avantek.co.uk/arm-desktops.html
Eating only one snickers isn't impossible - I do this. It is mostly habit. I'm used to eating about a half of a candy bar at a time, but I'm also basically just having a bit of candy when I want a bit.
I've read that sweeteners still affect insulin levels even though they're not metabolised.
Racket (CS) produces machine code. Yes, it packs the runtime along but that's certainly not your 'vanilla' interpreter. For example, it compiles a parallel GC profiled to your app along too. That's pretty hardcore, IMO! In fact, Racket is very similar in spirit to the GraalVM.
The live images with firmware are here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/image...
I've been in a place where lots of things were flaky and sub-optimal, and leadership could not prioritize, because only P0 CRITICAL was ever actually addressed, lots of dumb stuff had to be marked P0 CRITICAL to have any chance of consideration, and lots of little easy bugs reported from reasonable developers were never fixed.

So, this doesn't always work, it can just be a way to kick the can around, and end up in the same place but with lots of extra junk flying by.
Real-Time Neural Radiance Caching for Path Tracing [pdf]
Lay's Potato Chips. I remember that one. Pringles was Once you pop, you can't stop.
the machine it broken on was prehistoric, vs. the Microsoft approach for Windows 11 of not supporting machines less than 5 years old

also: Debian and its derivitaves likely runs on more machines than Windows does
I have this “ready with tests” PR for almost a year now, and every time I get a notification it’s either the bot or someone who really wants the PR to be merged bumping it up for me. I don’t even care so much about it any more…
Don't make it possible to get your system into broken state?

Why everybody assumes every developer doesn't know what they are doing just because most of them don't?
This may be because of local laws or city council rules. In many cities the developer of a complex today is forced by law to have a certain percentage of the development dedicated for rental (Munich I think may be the leader here with a proposed 80% for rental). The only way to achieve this is to have the apartments owned by the developer or handed over to another management company (or investor) for rental only.

It's also why you sometimes see a development with a several rows of houses meant for sale flanked by one or more apartment buildings with a far smaller footprint but enough floors to equal roughly the same usable area in order to get the project approved.
Turning off the air conditioning would drive away customers and non-customers alike.
that's exactly the part where i lost it. The code samples talking about reentrancy and its various quircks in some proposal discussions really made me wonder where the whole thing was going..

its seems to me having an async public interface with a sync internal implementation is the most straightforward architectural design for actors, but obviously they thought it was too limiting. Do you have any idea why ?
The kernel tree was already shared; pre-M1 releases of the XNU kernel for Intel macOS already had (only partially censored) support for Ax line CPUs on iOS devices :)

You can build a completely open source XNU kernel core for M1 and boot it, and iterate kernel drivers, yes. All of that is fully supported, they have the KDKs, everything. It's been self hosted since release (well, things were a bit rocky the first month or two in the public version as far as custom kernels).
My early 2015 Macbook Pro can be a little sluggish when I have lots of stuff open on my 4K monitor, but I think it'd be a little harsh to judge a six year old machine for that! This laptop's done very well really, it's definitely going to have an afterlife as a media server or something after it stops getting macOS updates because I'm loathe to get rid of hardware that's still doing a fantastic job.
What are today's stupid business ideas?
A lot of good businesses started up as stupid ideas. What are today's stupid ideas?
No other approach is sustainable.
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Yeah the Sapiens arriving into the Philippines were almost certainly dark skinned. You might want to check your biases.
Several threads on this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
If you think that problematic language doesn't matter, consider this story. I promise there are no "SJWs" in it, rather just the opposite:

When the Linux OOM killer decides to eliminate memory hog processes, it prints to the kernel logs a message of the form "Kill process [...] or sacrifice child".

Currently there are panic memes spread by idiots on Facebook about their crashed smart TVs satanically demanding the sacrifice of their children (like the ATM in American Psycho demanding a dead cat).

The language that you use to describe things in computing matters because you don't know who might be reading, how they may interpret it, or how important that person is to the future health of your project. The religious right is still tremendously powerful in the USA, open source still smells like communism to them, and open source that demands the blood sacrifice of their children may just mobilize them to attempt the complete destruction or discrediting of Linux itself and any manufacturer that uses it.

The "parent", "child", and "kill" terminology in terms of Unix processes has been around since forever ago. And they still cause alarm! There's a strong case to be made here for changing the terminology. Think, then, how much more alarming more loaded terms like "master" and "slave" must be. That is the thing that angered Spek to the point of using the N-slur -- which is itself intolerable in a professional context.

We all must work together in order to make our software more accessible to all. That means that hackers working closely with the DEI people -- and listening to their concerns -- needs to be table stakes for any open source project if you want broad adoption.
A few of the open Danish nihilist declared their intention to run for parliament a few years back, with The Nihilists People Party (or something like that). The thing is, you need around 20.000 signatures to get you party listed at the next election. The Nihilists party knew this, but didn't really cared to collect the signatures.