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In case any engineer reading the linked patent is confused about what the patent is saying ... that is a feature of the patent ... not a bug.

Patents are written to be vague. They don't need to teach anything. They just need to look "sophisticated" so a jury of yokels in rural Texas thinks that it's very "smart". Then you get an award of Billions of dollars for something you cook up on a whiteboard over lunch with your lawyer.

After seeing the breakneck pace of innovation in Shanghai and Shenzhen I'm convinced that a free for all is a better state for an economy then what we have in California with patents. Patents create a system where you need to get a thousand permissions from people ... spend millions on lawyers ... all for what? All because we are worried that someone somewhere might have done the thing you are trying to do first. I say so what? Yes its sad if someone makes something and they don't get paid for it because everyone else does the same thing. But is that a bigger tragedy then what we have now where trolls shut down whole industries and approaches? Where lawyers live parasitically on the backs of engineers, doing nothing but causing friction in the system and adding no value.

I know formerly good engineers that no longer do engineering. They just spit out endless amounts of bullshit papers for lawyers to turn into patents, which will then be used to harass those of us that are actually trying to build useful products.

A society that incentivizes parasitism instead of productive work will end up falling behind a society that incentivizes useful work.

Between the policies of the Fed that have pushed so many smart people into unproductive speculative jobs (like flipping houses) and stupid laws like software patents, I've become very bearish about America's future prospects after visiting China. Everyone in China actually seems to be working at a breakneck pace making useful stuff. Everyone in America seems to just have their hand in someone else's pocket, or they are buying some asset in the hope they can sell it for more tomorrow.

How can we continue to make progress like this? This is so insane.
Nothing about this ever made any sense. Any pedophile with an IQ over room temperature already deleted their iCloud at this point, with all the media buzz about it.
That’s a fine goal, but let’s not then call a system that has nowhere near the acuity, resolution, or dynamic range, and is not hooked up to a (trained) human brain, “Full Self Driving”.
It never had to be like this: the Git “index”
iCloud uploads are encrypted in transit and on their servers, but they are not E2E encrypted. Apple has the decryption keys
OK, can you provide some statistics with sources? How many police cars were hit on the side of the road last year? What is the breakdown of the Make/Model that hit them?
Why are you comparing energy and power numbers directly? Without a time component I can’t tell whether those numbers are ridiculous or impressive.

If your 500TW laser only fires for 1 nanosecond then you’re only putting in 500kJ so you’re getting 200% yield. If you’re firing your 500TW laser for an hour, well that obviously isn’t as impressive.
Longtime HN lurker here, finally something I can chime in on, as I was involved with the development of the Covid19 tracing app for my country.

> limited deployment – any technology requires a
sufficiently high number of users;

Sure, yes, that's true for anything.

> security and privacy concerns – many weaknesses
and privacy leakages are documented

I am yet to hear of any such cases, when it comes to tracing apps based on the google/apple tracing API.

> lack of reliability – BLE-based apps are prone to
errors due to the usage of signal-strength measure-
ments to infer contacts;

We did extensive testing and the only issues we found was that BLE couldn't tell distance very accurately, but still, we could, with high enough confidence, tell that two phones were within 5m of each other or so. There was also the issue of BLE signal going through walls, which meant you might get a false positive with a neighbor, by placing your phone next to a wall, but that's really an edge case.

> data governance – there exists a double standard
in governing users’ location data, with fine-grained
tracking of device location available only to private
companies such as Google or Apple

Plain false. Apps based on the API do not have users location data, only proximity data and even that is only stored on the users device and never transmitted elsewhere.
GApple covid19 tracing api is based on the DP-3T tracing protocol, the (very human readable) whitepaper of which can be read here: https://github.com/DP-3T/documents/blob/master/DP3T%20White%...

There was a lot of disinformation regarding contact tracing apps, both from tin-foil hat wearers, incompetent (or maybe corrupt?) state officials as well as competing, centralized (and actually privacy-breaching) solutions. I can still see a lot of this going around.
Floating point arithmetic in an algorithm that can land you in jail? Why not!
> (Or there are externalities: techies will work for less money if you let them work on space travel.)

I guess the salaries are about the same in companies like SpaceX etc, but I would guess that working hours etc are not. Some engineer working for a bank will probably demand quite relaxed hours, negotiate low pressure tasks and have some holiday time with family, while with the same salary guy working for SpaceX will be busting his ass off and working weekends multiple times an year.
Deadlines are always negotiable.

It's taken me so long to realize that people just want to know you're on top of something. Simply saying "This was deprioritized this week/month/quarter in favor of other work, but I'm still on top of it" buys you a lot of trust.

My inclination is to deliver either good news or no news at all – I have to work to fight this.
Yeah I think internet + Airbnb really opened some spots up. Like in the 90s, how did you find new spots? Mostly word of mouth on the ground I would assume. Less/no remote workers constantly traveling and sharing their opinions, etc.
GP mis-wrote it a bit- "We aren't going to pay you [anymore]". Meaning that they stopped paying her.
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You’re just blaming the victim. Reigning in these exploitative practices is the role of government, not the responsibility of an individual worker.
A city may be more efficient than lower population density on a per-capita basis but that is only tangential to the problem. A city in the California desert is not a good reason someone in NYC should have to endure a washing machine and dishwasher that are so stingy about water usage they are frequently ineffective at their primary task.

>As for water usage, think first of agriculture, then industry. Only after that do cities come into play. Cities are relatively small water consumers.

Where do those agricultural products get sold and eaten?

<insert screeching about "taxing muh negative externalities" here>
no lol job providing theory learning are exceedingly scarce, at most you get some practical level stuff and off you go. all the learning you do on the side do help, but formal learning is a completely different thing than running two courses off udemy
Tritium is a pain in the ass to get certifications for because it is so difficult to contain. Even in an airtight setup, it will leak. If you spend a substantial amount of time in lab with a tritium leak, and are inhaling the stuff over months or years, yes it's dangerous, but hydrogen doesn't remain in your body long enough for a single brief exposure to do anything.

Mercury vapor is very hazardous, that doesn't mean a mercury bomb is an effective weapon.
We all know that to combat climate change sacrifices will need to be made like fewer cars and smaller houses (for compact, accessible cities).

I can't see the US ever being willing to make these sacrifices though. If you compare the $/sqft for housing in the US vs. Europe the difference is shocking (even in big cities like Seattle vs. London), same for gasoline prices, etc.

The US has become accustomed to unparalleled comfort and luxury, with central air conditioning and multiple cars practically the norm. If anything, I imagine they'll try to enforce strict emissions controls on developing nations to have the pretence of doing something.
On a phone you're right. Not on the desktop. Compositing isn't that heavy a task, but it does use some energy
While it's true that most things in a prenup are also in law, this overlooks one benefit. I would say that the benefits would be marginal if the two parties have similar assets and incomes (and being rational helps).

The laws are generally guidelines. Judges can basically do what they want and make exceptions. There can also be fights in the undefined areas and proving ownership of specific items, etc. I would think business ownership would be a big one for many people on this site. If divorce under the law was straightforward, then it wouldn't cost tens of thousands of dollars in lawyers fees to navigate the system.

If you have a prenup, the terms are more settled and more specific to the individuals. Courts are generally more compelled to honor the terms under contracts that are consistent with law than making those same determinations through examination and application of the laws alone (I've witnessed many incompetent magistrates and judges). This can also avoid some of the nastiness that can come up in court testimony that may impact/involve any kids involved.
> You can use folder-by-feature structure alongside with separation of technologies, it's just not that common to see it

Angular is a pretty good example of this. The HTML, CSS, unit tests, and code are all in separate files, but they have the same base name and are grouped together in the same place.
“20 healthy young individuals” “given tablets to take over two 10-day periods”. Mkay…
And this is why it's useful to check the literature, individual results might provide misleading anecdotes.

> This paper reports on a review of the European literature about the impacts of having an electrically-assisted bike available to use, together with results from a trial in the UK city of Brighton, where 80 employees were loaned an electrically-assisted bike for a 6–8 week period. In the Brighton trial, three-quarters of those who were loaned an e-bike used them at least once a week. Across the sample as a whole, average usage was in the order of 15–20 miles per week, and was accompanied by an overall reduction in car mileage of 20%. At the end of the trial, 38% participants expected to cycle more in the future, and at least 70% said that they would like to have an e-bike available for use in the future, and would cycle more if this was the case. This is consistent with the results of the European literature which shows that when e-bikes are made available, they get used; that a proportion of e-bike trips typically substitutes for car use; and that many people who take part in trials become interested in future e-bike use, or cycling more generally.

The real key is that e-bike users will ride further, which expands the range of trips that the owners will consider via bike.

> John MacArthur was the lead author of the NITC report, and told the Electric Bike Report, “While many of the rides we surveyed were for recreation, on average we found that the average trip on an e-bike was nine miles,” adding, “historically on traditional bicycles we see a trip of more than five miles being a barrier.”

> Additionally, the electric assist of the e-bike helps to generate more trips, longer trips and different types of bicycle trips. These findings are represented by the high value attributed to being able to avoid or tackle hills easier, ride farther and faster with less effort, and being able to carry more cargo or children when needed.
You really don't understand the difference in scale distributed sensor netwise between the two different capabilities do you?

Server centric is the primitive that gives you periodic batch. Client resident let's you build up a real-time detection network.

Also, as they say in the financial world: past performance is not indicative of future results. No one would have thought to do so because this step hadn't been done. Now that this step has been done it is an easier to sell prospect. This is how the slippery slope works.
>> useful for areas where Apple really doesn't want to even look at the actual material

Correct. It has plausible deniability built in. Apple is unable to verify that the images the government are looking for are actually CSAM. They could be political. They could be protest images. They could be Winnie the Pooh. Apple can plead ignorance as it blindly scans for whatever the requesting government asks it to scan for.

Nobody really minds that this system is going to be used for CSAM. What everyone recognizes is how ripe this system is for abuse, how easily it can be leveraged by oppressive governments. And Apple can play the innocent.
I'm not the one you responded to, but did something similar and feel like sharing:

- Desktop: Manjaro Gnome, for that amazing macOS-like desktop. It even does the 3 finger swipe up to see all your apps with Apple's Touchpad.

- Phone: OnePlus 8T with microG variant of LineageOS (alternatives: Pixel line-up), because that allows me to still receive push notifications. I have over 40 apps and only found 1 that didn't work so far (which is Uber Eats, because they seem to require Google Advertisement ID). I pushed a modified Google Camera app to it, so my camera is better supported. I think only 3 out of 4 cameras are working, but I don't care.

- Watch: Amazfit GTR 2e with the official app. Alternatively it should work with Gadgetbridge if you don't want to use the offical app ("Zepp"). Amazfit GTR 2 is a better option if you want it to have WiFi and want to store music on it.
The remaining 6% is still orders of magnitude larger than would be involved in a typical space opera.
> PM: well, I’ll provisionally set the deadline to 2 weeks and then we can revise it. Me: whatever.

A PM doing that would be a red flag for me.

Clearly the PM isn't trying to manage the project in a tranparent, sustainable manner. They're trying to politic, manipulate, and pull the wool over everyone's eyes. This will only erode trust on all sides over time.

I've seen this poison tech orgs in the past. It turns them into a soured marriage where nobody seems to understand the other side and feels like actual communication is impossible.

Fix the incentive for the PM to play the games. TFA somewhat addresses this (bargain scope, not time), but it doesn't really address the underlying political forces the PM is acting under.
There used to be a visual form builder. Nobody used it to build applications, so it was eventually removed. Nowadays, GUI stuff for most applications are written in the GML language, which is Serenity-specific. You can look through the source code to see examples.
This says more about conditions for PhD students than about the Falklands.
That's an incomplete statement.

Currently, they must comply with warranty requests by scanning if they have the ability to scan.

If they have no such ability (say, because they designed their phones from a privacy-first perspective), the law makes no requirement that they create such a capability.

And that's what pisses people off about this.
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Start making computers that are actually personal again. Personal computing used to be all about the computer as a tool to enhance your life, they aimed to be discoverable, understandable, and as simple as they could manage. They sought to allow users to create their own workflows for their own needs, and attempted to on-ramp beginners into increasing levels of programming to suit their needs.

But today, personal computing is dead. The computer is owned by Microsoft, Apple, or Google, and the user is cattle to be farmed for ad revenue and saleable data. Discoverability is non-existent, and increasingly we're told that there is a wide gulf between "normal user" (almost universally framed as only slightly more intelligent than a chimp), "power user" (who are expected to put up with hoop jumping, bad abstractions, and overcomplicated nonsense), and "developers" (who's time is so sacrosanct that 1 second saved for them is worth 10B seconds of wasting user time).

People don't understand computers because software these days works very hard to keep them from understanding them. It isn't profitable for a user to actually use their computer for their own needs when it is much easier to addict them to social media and show them ads.
Very few people are running the faucet anywhere near full blast when dish-washing.

My faucet is very slow, about ~1gpm (I timed it once upon a time because I wanted to be able to put a number to how slow it is). When hand washing I run at maybe 1/4 or less of that. Everyone else in my household runs it at less.
> An earlier version of this article stated omega-3 generally only occurs in animal products. The article has been corrected to make clear there are three types of omega-3 fatty acids and that one of these, ALA, is found mainly in plants.

"very little ALA is converted to EPA and even less, if any to DHA" (Sanderson et al., 2002)

The only vegetal source of bioavailable omega-3 fatty acids seems to be algae oil. Unfortunately, very few vegans are aware of that.
This is correct. The company I used to work for hires a lot of contractors and would furlough them as needed. They also hired about 200 contractors to get a big cloud based project done and they were all let go at the beginning of the pandemic.

Later in the pandemic they started layoffs and only then did the news outlets pick up on it.
Quite true. However, in the case of FCoE, given the performance issues with the Fibre Channel SANs I worked on a few years ago, tail latency in the fabric was the least of the concerns we ran into. Customers would wonder why their persistent messaging rates tanked when the system started pushing messages to disk. Meanwhile their SAN can't even sustain 100MB/s of sequential writes.
They successfully took over a New Hampshire town a few years ago. It didn't go well...

The Town That Went Feral | The New Republic - https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int...
You are correct and it's weird that so many people are disagreeing. The backstab connectors are more prone to wire breakage than the traditional screw connector.

It is a relative thing though. We're talking about more likely to break after 10-15 years of the repetitive stress of plugging in stuff.
You can ask an (abstract) artist to make an abstract likeness of you, to serve as your profile photo.
God what a shit article.
I wouldn't watch a slideshow going 9 slides per second.
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Extinguishing EV fire is not hard, you just just need a lot of water. The problem is that it will re-ignite after a while. So you can't just leave it after that, you need to move the wreck to a safe location and have some firefighters wait until if reignites, drown it in water and repeat.. The alternative is to drop the car in a container of water, but has it's own drawbacks.

It really depends on what kind of risks we willing to accept. Since people sleep well in homes with pipelines of explosive gas

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2021/07/20/plano-home-explos...

I don't think EV fires are going to stop their adoption.
Lots of towns have already done this. Berkeley did it years ago. It doesn't matter at all. The fact that Berkeley bans certain land uses means that the town next door, Emeryville, falls prey to fiscalization and simply makes their whole urban strategy be making money off of encouraging all the things Berkeley bans. The effect is that there are probably more gas stations than Emeryville than there would otherwise be in both Emeryville and Berkeley. The same goes for big box stores which Berkeley also banned. Emeryville is just a long endless chain of box stores and gas stations right next to Berkeley.
The hash was supposed to not be altered by minor perturbations to the input. This requirement assures that the hash can never be cryptographically secure, collision attacks therefore are trivial the moment the "security by obscurity" aspect is broken.
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>NIF, remember, is funded by the DoD. It's not a civilian reactor research program: it's a device for testing fusion reactions in the lab now that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty means that they're not allowed to test H-bombs out in Nevada.

*DOE’. There is a quasi-separation of powers, where DOE ‘owns’ the weapons and the DOD ‘uses’ them.

‘See for example the NNSA.
There are the Channel Islands, but perhaps you could claim that the Channel Islands were the ones to occupy England and not vice versa since they were part of Normandy!
How is the US spending $2 trillion and sending over 100's of thousands of soldiers to defeat the taliban a betrayal?

Maybe if the Afghan people actually united in opinion to support their armed forces they would've actually fought against the taliban and defeated them.
Tell HN: Some of my favorite CS content creators
I would like to share some of my favorite computer science content creators:

Jacob Sorber; operating systems, programming techniques; YouTube

Abdul Bari; very good explanation videos on algorithms; YouTube

Jorge Rodriguez; game math; YouTube

Gabriel Gambetta; computer graphics (fundamental rendering algorithms); his personal website

Jason Turner; C++ programming; YouTube, Twitter

Jonathan Blow; game development; YouTube, Twitch, Twitter

Martin Kleppmann; distributed systems; YouTube

John Carmack; game development, programming, advice/trivia; his keynotes on YouTube, Twitter

Christopher Okhravi; design patterns, software engineering, web development; YouTube

Peter Shirley; computer graphics; his CG book websites, Twitter

The CS folk from the University of Nottingham (ComputerPhile); computer science; YouTube

Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau; operating systems; their OS book website, their lectures on YouTube

Yan Chernikov; game programming, C++; YouTube

Key:

Who; what; where

(All of them create relatively good content with a relatively high signal-to-noise ratio. I generally avoid influencers and clickbaiters.)
The thing to remember is that things starts by 'oral/spoken' numbers then by written numbers.

When we speak we don't really use big endian nor little endian, we say 'six thousand one hundred' not 'six one zero zero' and obviously we prefer to start with the 'big' part because it's the most important for the listener:
I don't really care if your price is '6 thousand and one' or '6 thousand and two', the listener hear '6 thousand' and then switch off..

And then written language followed oral language of course..
> Deadlines are always negotiable.

If you already have trust from those who enforce the deadlines. As you point out, a deadline is an accountability mechanism. But if you're otherwise accountable and trustworthy, the deadline isn't really the metric that matters (most of the time).
>... and FedEx/UPS checking your outgoing packages for drugs.

Interesting USPS isn't mentioned there. Another example of 4th Amendment workarounds through private industry? Or are you just not aware of what the USPS equivalent program would be?

Genuinely curious.
Much like elevators, computers are fundamentally better at controlling the system than humans. I assume you ride in computer controlled elevators? Do you understand that they were at one point controlled by humans manually? Did you know that there was a transition period where the computer control elevator was not as safe as it is now? In 50 years the idea of letting a 85 year old or a person walking directly out of a bar control a four thousand pound machine moving at 60 miles an hour will seem insane.
I believe they were suggesting that they aren't intimately familiar with the US legal system...