skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why the argument that lack of privacy is justified for good intentions is moot. Time moves on, ideals change and people in charge get replaced. There is no guarantee that principles held when collecting information will remain. Every single piece of information about you can and will be used against you by people in power if it hampers their agenda. The only reasonable thing to do when it comes to privacy is to share nothing, unless the situation absolutely needs it. Anonymous identity is very critical for the functioning of a healthy society and the biggest evil Google and Facebook have done was to really erase this off the internet.
This is interesting, thanks for the link!
Sure, getting Linux to run on hardware you purchased is equivalent to poaching. Very reasonable take.
If you have a pressure differential, a fluid will jet from high pressure to low pressure, where the difference is converted to the velocity of the fluid. If you have a moving fluid, you can use it to drive a turbine and generate power, which in turn reduces the fluid's velocity. Since there's a huge difference in pressure between the ocean 2km down, and the surface, you could build a pipe and a reservoir that lets you "push" the byproducts of electrolysis to the surface. Say your surface reservoir is 150 bar, and the original is 200 bar -- that gives you 50 bar of pressure to get the hydrogen to the surface, and drive a turbine to generate power for electrolysis.
The Fierce Legal Battle at the Heart of the Fight over Reclining Airline Seats
Your hypothetical scenario requires everyone being irrational.

The company probably doesn't want to sit on their IP for 30 years and not yield any profit. How does that benefit them.

They'll try to bend some arms, and if this fails, they're most likely to drop licensing prices until they meet market demand.

And yes, there's demand for efficient AC. I mean, come on.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25714093
>Anything they're likely to get in a rich country will be safe and effective.

Can you show me a rich country where all vaccine AEFIs are strictly reported and followed up and serious ones investigated?

If not, then I am not sure how you can make that claim.
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"its not a bug, its a feature"
follow up read

Interception Capabilities 2000, Submarine cable interception

https://fas.org/irp/eprint/ic2000/ic2000.htm#_Toc448565536
Wow. That's a Windows 98 level of "school kid" privilege escalation bug...
Could Cyberwar Make the World Safer?
That's the thesis in this article. But it's non-sense BS.

Even an idiot can put two and two together and conclude that if their business value depends on programs, then programmers create business value.
Oh, I'm very aware how safe things are compared to the past. This does not actually change the fact that the environment is fundamentally dangerous. Nobody controls whether they'll still be alive in ten seconds. I think it's the type of thing people will either accept or not, based on their wisdom, not an argument.
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In the article, the efficiency section give numbers for how effective the car is to extract energy from gasoline vs extracting energy from the electrical grid. They also give the efficiency of "fossil fuel power plant", but not oil specific.

IC car = 15-30%

Fossil fuel power plant = 50%

Electric car = output of power plant * 0.77

Taking the average we get: 22.5 for IC car, 38% for the electric car. A 15.5% more energy.

I have no idea if those numbers are correct because the website you linked does not straight up comparison between the oil being burned in a power plant and the oil being burned in a car, in order to travel a certain distance.

As a strategy for combating global warming, IC to EV has several numbers to consider. The benefit in the power grid which depend on the country in question. The growth rate of cars. One should also make a comparison to do a similar transition with the power grid itself. And finally the required reduction in emissions to prevent global warming.

My own conclusion is that we need to do both. Doing just IC to EV without removing fossil fuels from the power grid won't be enough. EV will make the car more efficient and allow for more cars on the same amount of emissions, but its an incremental improvement rather than a full stop in terms of emissions.
They like money!
From another article[1] about this lawsuit, the Sonos side comments:

> "We believe that most people involved in wireless home audio today infringe on our patents in one way or the other."

So, either:

- most people are stealing their technology, or

- most people have come up with the same solution independently.

For some reason the second case seems more likely to me. Unfortunately for the patent law it doesn't matter if you invent something independently - you're still infringing.[2]

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/29/21492671/sonos-google-pat...

[2]: https://www.patentprogress.org/2019/08/23/protecting-invento...
> The only platform publishers can count on is the open web. [...] Any publisher that is dependent on Facebook, or that trusts Facebook, is out of their goddamn mind.

I'd have thought that the instinct for self-preservation would be more common, but that's not the first time I was wrong.
I'm not in Australia at the moment (my parents and many friends are), but my understanding is that a decent % of infection cases are caused by people breaking curfews/"lockdowns" deliberately because of DILIGAF x YOLO mentalities.
> you can't just assume they're the same size

I did not. I am stating: one can not assume that the set of the unvaccinated who take strong precautions against the infection is negligible. As I wrote, it would be irrational: those who are hesitant about the vaccine for health reasons must also be very wary about being infected - plain logic. Many are are hesitant about the vaccine for health reasons, so they must also be very wary about being infected, if not insane.

I would not call what I have made and again follows 'assumptions': positively both tail exist, that is easy to prove (as above. We do not need to prove the other tail, it is evident and loud). I do not know what benefit is brought by drawing proportions. I am not sure what gain we get by assessing the average.

In fact - but this brings us elsewhere -, I am already extremely diffident towards the opinions of the average. I believe by experience that the distribution also of intellectual resources is in general paretian. I start already by believing that Average Joe and Median Jack "will be a mess". But of course, given that, I also insist that the average and median cannot be representative of the whole.

So, for example, calibrating policies on the median would be a Procuste's bed for the healthy part. "Please open your purse Sir, and let me check your items: the median customer is a shoplifter" - I am very wary of this kind of perspective, I have met it instanced many times in my life. This is also in the area of what I meant with «fallacies of generalization at rights».
Great. Apple patented a rectangle (https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3614506/apple-patents-rec...), some dude patented a way to update a sports game (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/january-stupid-patent-...). I am not even getting into the whole patent trolling and companies suing each other because they are infringing upon each other's patents and then settling.

But no, for all the evil patents are we must have them, because some guy found a new way to make milk foam. Jesus ducking christ hacker news, this is almost as funny as Paul Graham writing an essay about why VC is great.
This is basically what PHP is. PHP can be deployed in several ways, CGI, FCGI or as threaded module in apache, but that rarely matters from the perspective of the programmer, the code will work the same regardless what you put in front of it but still keep CGI-like execution. This is why PHP is a perfect match for the web.
Do not carry devices with sensitive data around if not necessary, simple as.
All this hidden user stuff will go nowhere.
Have the data encrypted on a server and access it remotely.

Anything else is simply not safe at all or might cost you prison time, check the UK laws on this.
Facebook has a monopoly position on being the social network that connects people, but not on monetizing video content. YouTube, TikTok, Netflix, Disney+, movie theatres all need and provide great content, but it's a hard business to be in and stay in.
Or at least claims to do so. No reason not to trust them about it, right?
Good point. I think we need to be careful in recognizing that strenuous exercise does not enable us to make better considered decisions. It is gentle rhythmic exercise (eg. Walking, Tai-chi etc.) which does not tire out the body that is so important for brain health and better decision making.
"freedom to run"
>~/.duress

A project that's 2 days old should be using $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. My home directory is where I need a clean slate, not your clutter.
When I was doing my Open University computing degree one of the modules was on systems thinking. During the course I got told (by tutors) that I have a tendency to think more systematically than most people. So I should've been able to pass the module easily? Nope. That was the only module I abandoned; I got so angry with the way it was being taught, the assumptions and arrogance displayed by the tutors (very much "us against the reductionist world"), that I lost all interest in completing it.

At that time, the module was a required component of the computing degree. By abandoning it, I had to give up the single-subject degree. Instead I opted to take some creative writing modules and ended up with an OU open degree. Turns out I was much happier writing and creating stuff than drawing clouds and pipes and stuff.
Interesting, OPs posting pattern certainly looks like something an intern at sciencemag, guardian, BBC would do :)
Depends what you count as “unchallengeable” (how do you see the house of Tudor in the Kingdom of England alternating religious views at least some of which were very strongly enforced?) and “mass media” (do you count the Gutenberg press?)
I think the process of accepting patents is broken, at least with software. If a reasonable practitioner could read some head-line and come up with a few solutions, there is not anything worth protecting. Ideas themselves should not be patentable in software.

On other hand I do think there is still need to protect innovation in more physical things. Like new manufacturing processes or material innovations like using novel chemistry.
That's not the approach they are taking though. There are no maps, only the trained NN is deployed to the vehicles. Making the system handle any unpredictable scenario without ever relying on precomputed maps is likely far safer.
Certainly, Morse code itself isn't patentable. It's more the specific combination here.
The main problem with patents today is that the patent offices validate too many patent applications that do not contain anything new or non-obvious for any professional in their field.

Moreover, there are also many patent claims that are accepted and that refer to things that are either impossible or non-economical at the time when the patent is issued, but they are put in the patent to cover future devices that someone will be able to make after the current technological problems are solved.

In the distant past, most patent offices required a demonstration with a working device in which all the patent claims were embodied, so such bogus patent claims against future competitors could not be accepted.

Now, every year more patents are issued than anytime in the past, but most of them are just garbage that was not patented before just because everyone else would have been ashamed to attempt to file such patent applications.

The number of truly valid patents issued per year now is actually less than in the 19th century or at the beginning of the 20th century.

The same as for new movie scripts, it becomes more and more difficult to find something really original to which nobody thought before.
I guess it's just which one has more people calling it...

Add a +1 from me that The Epoch Times is basically a hate group (known anti-homosexual agenda among other things), and the propaganda arm of a cult that literally believes aliens from outer space have infiltrated society to instill progressive values.

Yes, the Chinese communists have tried to eradicate them, but that doesn't mean that they are such a great group because of it.

If you've seen the Shen Yun ads across the US, that's also from them, and if you've ever actually gone then you'd get smacked in the face with heavy propaganda (just check the yelp reviews).
Still very happy with my CHAMP-stack (CSS, HTML, Apache, MySQL and PHP).
> I’m so worried this project will get 95% of the way there, and then all the fun issues will run out and the M1 will be just another MacBook with WiFi, Bluetooth and sleep issues.

You are right to be worried. Getting all the nitty-gritty details about modern hardware without access to documentation is impossible. In the end this will somewhat work but will almost certainly have worse performance than MacOS with higher energy usage and be otherwise rough around the edges (like sleep problems, lack of support for fingerprint scanner and other issues typical to hardware that are not directly supported to run Linux by the vendor).

> The obvious issue is to pay someone to do the work, and I am, but I still can’t shake the fear.

I don't think just paying someone is going to help unless Apple provides documentation (which they won't do).
In my experience, human interaction is always complex. It’s only in sitcoms and Dwayne Johnson movies, where people are 1-dimensional. Everywhere else, people (and situations) are a bit more complex.

This means that I have found “hard and fast rules” to be of limited utility, and I always need to exercise discretion.
HIV also would be non-existent if everybody stopped reusing needles when injecting drugs and used condoms with anal or vaginal sex. I think Afganistan has very low HIV prevalence. Gays and injectable drug users are thrown from rooftops and that largely solves the problem.

In the same way lockdowns are not effective because complete compliance is not achievable for one reason or another. People will rebel and unless you are prepared to completely crush them Taliban style, it won't work.
>>> Redis is the leading real-time data platform

I'm gonna need a citation on that.
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That's regular device driver reverse engineering stuff, and not a bad analogy BTW.

But what marcan is doing is another level of awesomeness altogether. The m1n1 bootloader that runs the rest of MacOS in a VM for logging purposes is a hail mary move of such epic brilliance, it brings tears to my eyes.
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Having `display: none` is not required for the tooltip container.

The container is an empty div which is not visible, and even after adding children which are not directly visible `inside` this div keeps this container div invisible.

You can check out some examples in https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui/issues/27879
> are currently successfully utilizing science to legitimize knowledge

I don't understand the problem here. Isn't science - as in Poppers falsifiability - the only way to legitimize knowledge?
They could also insert some kind of remote detonation device so the cables can be cut in case of war.

Tapping the cables is so last season, everyone knows about it and should use encryption.
I know this sounds like dramatic, but this is why I decided to self-host (DigitalOcean) MkDocs + Material and use plugins and other add-ons to create the self-publishing platform for my book: https://learndevops.com.au

I don't want to put hundreds of hours into something and then an algorithm changes, the policies of the platform change (or its direction), or it simply shuts down.

I believe in some cases it makes sense to self-host and go bespoke.
A patent is required to explain the invention to a level of detail such that those aware of the prior art can implement the same. So the _how_ portion can only be skipped if prior art already describes that.

So while there may be a difference on software and hardware patents in practice, this is not a valid difference in terms of what the legal provisions are.
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I think this is quite the wrong way of looking at Walking. It is the relaxed, ruminative, mind-wandering state that the mind and body get into while Walking that is so essential for Creativity. By providing it with more attention grabbing stimulus you are actually distracting it.
Bitcoin’s energy usage isn’t a problem
Whenever I was learning for exams I would learn while randomly walking through environments. This helped me so much because I could connect the topics learned to the places I walked through, so afterwards I'd just have to walk that walk again to remember the topics in sequence.

Walking is generally a good and inspiring pastime and I am glad I live in a part of the planets where my environment is both walkable and safe.
People acquire natural immunity by being a danger to themselves and others. This professor is effectively and advertisement campaign for covid Parties to get back to work without needing the acceptable risk by being an insanely negligent factor in public health. I don't see any point in creating a public health process to find people who have safe levels naturally acquired by no negligence of their own to not cause more problems by performing this testing.
Why are regenerative brakes uncommon on e-bikes
Kings had secret agents and diplomats fooling around, sure. But you need the technical/societal advancements and the production surplus brought by modern civilization if you want to be able to run a totalitarian state.
What I've learned is that "lockdown" is a broad term, not a binary one. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lockdowns :

> Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions colloquially known as lockdowns (encompassing stay-at-home orders, curfews, quarantines, cordons sanitaires and similar societal restrictions) have been implemented in numerous countries and territories around the world.

For example, by "lockdown", do you include things like limiting venues to 50% occupancy?

Let's say "a single case is detected" .. in someone who just entered the country and is in quarantine, and the quarantine protocols are effective.

I would do nothing different.

Let's say that single case is detected in someone who just broke the world's record for most number of kisses in 8 hours - 11,030 says https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/68045-mos... .

Then my reaction might be a bit different.

Since the circumstances are so varied, I don't see how your question can have a reasonable answer in an HN thread.

Except for Broken_Hippo's entirely reasonable answer.
If that's what you're doing then you're not using that opportunity correctly. It's a very quick coordination between members of a team to align among one another, share important information (including managing expectations) and ask for help. It's for members of the team, and if the team don't feel it's adding value, raise it in the retrospective and decide whether to iterate or kill it. If you're using it well it cuts out other waste/interrupts.
“ Any publisher that is dependent on Facebook, or that trusts Facebook, is out of their goddamn mind.”

Or google.

Or Apple.

Or any platform.
I've never attempted to learn Morse, but it looks like a few hours of practice should do it. Anyone can learn it, but I expect younger people would be more willing to do it.

> the insight

The vertices will be on pixel addresses. The edges of the triangle will have no discontinuities themselves, and the triangles sharing an edge will have no discontinuities. Hence, no banding or blockiness. A naive renderer would just render the colors of the triangle as a straight linear interpolation. A more advanced one could look at the adjoining triangles, and render it so the first derivative would also be zero across the line. I.e. curve fit it.

The selection of where the vertices go would likely be best selected where the colors are shifting fastest, i.e. an edge in the picture.

The neato thing is one could render a low res image on a high res display and it'll still look good. You wouldn't have these stray pixels scattered around the text like jpg does. The other neato thing is more vertices can be put in the complex areas of the image, rather than wasting bandwidth on the parts of it that are smooth.

Progressive sharpening of the rendering also works, as more vertices can be added at any time.
They don't get eaten by wolves.
I bet the feral dogs mentioned in the article will think twice before going near wolf/monkey groups too, since both dogs and wolves are usually territorial.
"WiFi, Bluetooth and sleep issues."

This is true for almost any random laptop, and has been since forever.

Its obvious the M1 and its successors have a chance of becoming a well known constant since its a SoC, and not a collection of random components from many vendors (that might or might not have good inline-Linux driver). Intel Macs, other laptops have had different hardware components even for the same model over its lifetime.
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En la gama "Don Faustino" ofrecemos productos elaborados a partir de cerdos de raza selecta, alimentados con cereales naturales de alta calidad y pasto de hierba fresca.
Mm, I agree there's overlap. But not total. Vaccines are effective tools, but we can't replicate the natural ecosystem and exposure to it, not yet anyway. I agree that vaccines are the closest tech we have to doing this...but they won't replace mozzies.

If we get rid of mozzies we will then need to adopt responsibility for the role the mosquito played, and we might not be able to do that, and even if we can our solutions might cause other problems. It's sort of like saying, "fertilizer can replicate the role of funghi for plants, because fertilizer brings nutrients to plants". So if we decided to get rid of all funghi from the soil (crazy plan), we can just replace it with fertilizer. Problem solved. But not really...This is a metaphor (about the risk and difficulty of replicating a natural system we decide to remove from the ecosystem) not meant to be facsimile.

Look it probably doesn't matter if they only kill aegypti (but it might, it still might be a disaster). I just think it's dangerous to play with that kind of stuff. Let's remove the pathogen, not the vector.
Not that this proves or disproves anything, but Volvo famously gave away the patent for the three-point belt systems in cars.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbell/2019/08/13/60-years...

Sometimes companies and individuals think that it's wroth losing financially for the sake of wider safety.
Haha, you remind me of its Chinese name 大纪元. Then I think you are right. I had thought its mere reason of existence was to promote anti-CCP information. To my surprise, it also reports international news now. If you know Chinese and have lived in China for a few days, you will know how rediculous some of its news are.
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I may look like very anti-UNIX, ironically I was big into UNIX, my first experience was with Xenix.

However my university library had a very good section on all kinds of OSes and programming languages since the dawn of computing, thus I could see how the future might have been and there was definitely a much better path, specially when coupled with my own experience across Amiga, Windows and Mac OS.

It is like the bulb paradox, just applied to OSes.
>The number of truly valid patents issued per year now is actually less than in the 19th century or at the beginning of the 20th century.

This reads an awful lot like the no true Scottsman fallacy. Care to elaborate?