skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patents are a pertect example of something that did make sense back when they were made. It was a trade off for having people share new knowledge which would benefit society as a whole. But as a price they got "monopoly" on using it for a while after sharing the patent.

But like many other things, it has been exploited, especially by big corporations. And the patents no longer work as intended. And the big problem is that theres so much money on the line that is it not easy to change. I would assume large corporations already spend absurd amounts of money on lobbying for the patent-rules to work in their favor.

Patents as a concept I am all for. It is a good way to make sure that new entrepreneurs can make it to market before "big-corp" steals their idea and just push them out. But they would have to change how they work to stop patent-sharks and the big exploitations by said big-corp.
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There's very little security for account cancellation on Cash Application, so erasing a friend or family member's record ought to be simple. If not, the help group can help you.
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I didn't know this one. Suddenly the Penguin Cafe Orchestra's piece "Another one from Porlock" makes slightly more sense.
The point is, defining something through its purpose, is sometimes nonsensical, as you have shown (on purpose?). Sometimes - I would say most of the time - a causal definition makes a lot more sense.
No patents for trolls and giants.

Startups and labs should be able to patent so that they have a chance to make it in the market.
A slow blink predates to felines and beyond most likely.
I would like to have a breakdown of individual vs. organization-backed inventors. Quite a lot of - but I don't know how much, relatively - patent applications are filled by individuals with help and in the name of their employer; there are companies who are proud of the number of patent applications they file per year - and those are mostly bona-fide inventions, not patent trolling.

(It's entirely expected, if you think about it - a big company employing skilled specialists doing actual[0] engineering is bound to become a patent mill, as those workers have to invent their way out of new problems.)

I suspect that this might be the primary way patents are applied for and awarded, and it's different from the usual narration, that patents are either small inventors wanting to ensure the market rewards them for their hard work, or evil megacorps buying them up as a part of peace-through-MAD balance with other evil megacorps.

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[0] - Traditional, "trad", not-software engineering. I know this is just a stereotype, and this[1] series of articles does a great job debunking it, but... well, I haven't fully internalized these conclusions just yet.

[1] - https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/; thanks 'Twisol for bringing it up (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28192650).
How to make finance more efficient?
Not even sure its worth commenting on the irony of this, that ships long sailed
Because they can go get it back any time they want, and leaving it behind gives cheap tracking data and analytics.
True, but, state craft also had paid snitches to watch, and report on state/king/etc unfriendly talk, which would sit in pubs, or just wander around listening.

They also had people spreading state policy/thought, too.

Before wide scale monitoring, such as phones, then computers, then internet, massive numbers of people were paid to listen, even in modern times.

Mass media was surely an important change, but our ancestors didn't let things go uncontrolled, for, while all of the above was being done internally, external enemies were spreading propaganda to crush foreign kingdoms.

This sort of stuff has likely been happening since the dawn of humans, two villages rivaling over local hunting grounds or some such.
Because they thought the ANA could potentially hold out for a while and maybe even arrive at a negotiated solution with the Taliban. If you stripped them of equipment, then the probability of that happening goes to 0%, instead of 25% (or 60%, or whatever the estimate was at the time).

The above is obviously assuming good faith.
It's not just more data, it's more unique scenarios with more samples of each. More edge cases to train on, that's got to help when training on more complex dimensions on the existing model.

They're not just going to bloat the dataset with straight driving.
> You can look at how regional UK dialects affect employability and education outcomes.

If you apply for a job in China and you only speak broken Chinese, resembling a pidgin language, it’s not “discrimination” if you are not hired. Similarly, if you apply to a position where you are expected to speak standard English and you only speak a lesser known dialect, that is not discrimination either. It’s not meeting job requirements. Yes it’s unfortunate that those who don’t have the skill of speaking standard English cannot obtain those jobs, just as it’s unfortunate non-Chinese speakers cannot obtain jobs in Chinese-speaking areas. The good news is that we have brains that are capable of learning new skills.

> My claim was that prescriptive approaches to language facilitate and magnify discrimination and have historically frequently been used to justify and enforce discrimination.

This is just false. Discrimination is a social phenomenon that itself is causal to your so-called prescriptive approach to language, not the other way around. In other words, the pre-existing discriminatory attitude causes the exclusionary behavior in language not vice versa. It’s silly to blame racism/classism on the promotion of correct English. Especially when the existence of a standard for correct English makes it clear and unambiguous for new people entering the English-speaking world how they can most effectively communicate with existing English speakers.
Thank you :)

Re: the feeds, it passes w3c validators:

https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fep...

Does the error say what the problem is?
Not from the US, but here at a bank I worked with: If you trigger the silent alarm they'd have reason to suspect you are threatened and would take you to custody to make sure you are safe and release you once it's sorted out (probably an hour or so).
If you were running a country, when will you implement a Covid lockdown
Some options you can choose from or any other option with explanation -

A. As soon as a single case is detected

B. Hospitals reach a pre-determined percentage of occupancy

C. If >50% vaccinated, then no lockdown

D. No lockdown irrespective of the on ground situation
It depends on the perspective. From government's perspective it's working as intended.
Hackers are those recognized by other hackers as hackers. It's like the tech equivalent of an artist. Describing yourself as one usually sounds pretentious, unless it's clear other hackers/artists recognize you as such.
I wonder how that is going to pan out with JBL and Apple.
Troops who left more than 5 years already said at that time, we will be back fighting our own weapons. They were right.
These urls are blocked for me, but, from what you've said, it's about maintenance in paid gsuite, which doesn't mean more than one account per user.

Google gives free storage, etc per account. I wonder, if you exceeded that and had a second, how quickly they'd say 'one account per person'?
Someone should organize a day of (inter)national strike against patents.
A simplistic view that deserves an equally simplistic dismissal.
That is why the argument is a poor one.
So does the Notes app, at least for Google accounts.
I thought the “Labs” name was pretty cool.
You know, as regards young female hackers - and reflecting on what sustained me as a boy - there is some element of self-reinforcement going on. If we work on the basis that it's more common for boys to show an early interest (for whatever reason), then their overwhelmingly same-sex friends are more likely to be showing an interest, and that's more likely to lead to an obsession of the type which turns one into a "hacker".

But equally, having tutored programming in my late teens, the boys were self-starters whose parents recognised that they had no friends who were interested, so perhaps this argument is not quite right. They seemed like they were on the spectrum a bit.
That's an important part, yes. Morals are ideas, and as such evolve in an environment that makes them thrive, with the ones more adapted to the situation gaining more weight. If only because a population led by maladjusted ideas will disappear.

Ideally, scientific facts thrive by surviving to experiments that fail to disprove them, but this does not exclude them entirely from that dynamic of social evolution. What experiments are performed is decided on the basis of what is desirable to investigate, according to the beliefs of the type of research that is deemed appropriate.
We're not here to discuss this particular news outlet. If you have problems with their specific reporting of this story then post it, otherwise this is off topic.
Is the heart still growing until age 25 and that's why you think it's safer then to avoid damage to heart tissue?

I think there's potential that the vaccines are harming everyone's hearts but it's only strongest immune responses of teenage boys that are sounding an alarm like a canary signal.
Yes and no. Specifically, Mac was lifesupport marketshare until Intel. Bootcamping or VMing Windows was a huge selling point at the time. (But maybe in the long-run, it turned out that UNIX was more valuable after all.)

With apple silcon, Apple is dropping what was a huge feature -- Windows. Ability to run Linux distros on Mac hardware is like rounding error hacker stuff.
I found out the hard way that a job I had once (DIY store) had a hidden panic button under the counter. I was just fidgeting while we were closing up, hands found it and did their exploration thing.

I mean it happens, the security company sent out a van already (as they should) and called to confirm. They charge a fee (just over €100 I believe? Or €250? I forgot) for false alarms, but that's fair enough. Better safe than sorry.

Anyway, a DIY store with at most 100K in the safe (weekly takings at the time, most of that was probably electronic) is probably a lot less serious than whatever you were working for, to have it surrounded by law enforcement.
Exactly! We need more efficiency, and heat pumps/air conditioners are already very efficient at what they do. Of course further efficiency improvements are welcome, but they are small gains.

We need to look at where big gains can be made, and improving the thermal efficiency and air circulation of buildings holds a lot of promise. You don't have to go full passivhaus, even just improved insulation, double/triple-layer glass, sun shades and well-placed foliage to provide shade can net much larger improvements than some tweaks to AC design.
NYT is a zero-credibility outfit. If they have a problem with any particular source that's a positive signal for that source in my view.
Because then it's more steps and more things to go wrong, I'd assume.
Did you just use a slippery slope argument to justify slippery slope arguments? Impressive. How deep can we go?
These devices, like most of the equipment the Taliban captured, was in the hands of ANA troops and was abandoned during their surrender/retreat[0].

This equipment was purchased by Afghanistan from the US (using US funds, obviously). So technically, it wasn't US property.. and they had no right to destroy it.

0. https://www.pri.org/stories/2021-08-19/us-biometric-devices-...
Why were so many Swedes in Lombardy?
A treadmill desk might be easier to obtain.
/** Half the number **
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/** Copy the number **
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** Stores a copy of the number in a new variable
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float y = x;

/** Pointer cast **
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** Take the address of the number,
** cast the pointer to a pointer pointing to long,
** and dereference that pointer,
** then store the result in a new variable.
*/
long i = * ( long * ) &y;

/** Subtract and shift **
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** Shift the number one bit position to the right,
** then subtract the result from the constant 0x5f3759df
*/
i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );

/** Pointer cast **
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** Take the address of the number,
** cast the pointer to a pointer pointing to float,
** and dereference that pointer,
** then store the result in an existing variable.
*/
y = * ( float * ) &i;

/** Multiply twice, subtract and multiply again **
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** Multiplies the number by itself,
** then multiplies the result by the other number,
** then subtracts that from the constant three halfs (1.5),
** then multiplies that by the number.
** The original number.
** The first number.
** You know what I mean.
*/
y = y * ( 1.5F - ( x2 * y * y ) );

/** Multiply twice, subtract and multiply again **
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** Multiplies the number by itself,
** then multiplies the result by the other number,
** then subtracts that from the constant three halfs (1.5),
** then multiplies that by the number.
** The original number.
** The first number.
** You know what I mean.
** This can be removed.
*/
// y = y * ( 1.5F - ( x2 * y * y ) );

/** Return from function **
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return y;
>Yet they did better than the US, UK and Spain which also engaged in lockdown measures.

I don't know about the US or Spain but the lockdown measures in the UK were halfhearted. Somehow we managed to have the worst of both worlds, the biggest economic hit in the OECD and the worst health outcomes.
Can someone explain those you waive away your moral rights clauses? What's the idea behind that?
At that time, so many extraordinary things were found in the world, that to not believe might be more foolish.

Most of today's fruit and vegetables originated outside England (e.g. potato, corn, avocado, tropical fruits); consider Australian animals, like the Kangaroo and Platypus (thought a hoax!); consider inventions like gunpowder, noodles, hot-air balloons, steam engines. Some of these were late 18th century, but signs of the times.

If all these fantastical things were true, what other strange thing might also be?
demo is blank in firefox.
> using Facebook and FB Messenger have all shifted coms to WhatsApp

So... from Facebook to Facebook?
That makes sense. Sorting things out takes time. But trying to create an illusion that no alarm was triggered to prevent criminals from gaining knowledge: not a reason to imprison an innocent person.
I'd only bring a burner device, keep code and the like (company secrets) on HQ's server, and memorize some passwords.

I mean yeah, a blank laptop looks suspicious, but they can't keep you for having a blank laptop.

edit: not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. The US puts people in dehumanizing concentration camps without due process.
"This service still tracks you even if you opted out from tracking" How is this legal???
China formally implements 3-child policy
You can write Christoph Strauch:

https://twitter.com/c_strauch/status/1428290953035538436
I've worked in data science and most of time, "more data" is just more noise.

The guy from comma.ai says the same thing.
Reminds me of the time Gregg Allman showed up in my usual scruffy pool hall, sometime in the mid-90s. He was a big guy, in a white suit and snakeskin boots, and wherever he sat down it was like he was on a golden throne, spotlit and surrounded by writhing angels and giant lizards. Weird and memorable.
This is of relevance:

"To get rid of the dependency on the radar sensor for the pilot, we generated over 10 billion labels across two and a half million clips. And so to do that, we had to skill our huge offline neural networks and our simulation engine across 1000s of GPUs, and just a little bit shy of 20,000 CPU cores. On top of that, we also included over 2000, actual autopilot full self driving computers in the loop with our simulation engine. And that's our smallest compute cluster.

So I'd like to give you some idea of what it takes to take our neural networks and move them in the car. And so the the two main constraints that we're working on there here are mostly latency and framerate, which are very important for safety, but also to get proper estimates of acceleration and velocity all of our surroundings.

And so the meat of the problem really is around the AI compiler that we write and extend here within the group that essentially maps the compute operations from a pytorch model, to a set of dedicated and accelerated pieces of hardware. And we do that by figuring out a schedule that's optimized for throughput while working on very severe SRAM constraints.

And so by the way, we're not doing that just on one engine, but across two engines on the autopilot computer. And the way we use those engines here at Tesla is such that, at any given time, only one of them will actually output control commands to the vehicle, while the other one is used as an extension of compute. But those rules are interchangeable, both on the hardware and software level.

So how do we very quickly together as a group to this AI development cycles? Well, first, we have been scaling our capacity to evaluate our software neural network dramatically over the past few years. And today, we are running over a million evaluations per week on any code change that the team is producing. And those evaluations run on over 3000 actual full self driving computers that are hooked up together in a dedicated cluster."
That's a big proviso in parenthesis. I would go as far as saying that most functionality is not available, unfortunately.
Thanks! I've skimmed the ones related to vibrations/Morse code, I'll look at the rest later.

At the risk of forever poisoning myself for related work, I guess. Whose bright idea was with that "you look at it, and you and everyone you know is now liable for 3x more damages for accidental infringement" law?...
Afghan woman gives birth to baby girl on US evacuation plane
> Plus, the proposal of registration fees based on mass+volume seems to be better in all aspects, cause it is both more granular and more fair

It's more granular and still unfair.

Think about it this way, if all roads disappeared tomorrow, what would be your biggest problem?

In my opinion, it'd be food. I own a bicycle and live within cycling distance of a grocery store but where would they get the food?

The next thing that gets brought up is something like, "well, if it weren't for all those people driving that aren't shipping goods, road maintenance would be much less." That's true except I also benefit from commuters being able to work. All those commuters are busy driving to their jobs _at_ all the places that supply me with goods.

The idea that only the people that drive on the roads themselves are the ones using it is incredibly surface level thinking. In fact, we all know that the vehicles that do the most damage to roads are the large trucks shipping goods and the only reason they exist is to bring me stuff.
Surprised to see a thread of ad hominems go this deep.
Odd that Amazon is all "yellow", Facebook is all "red", yet they're both grade E. Not what I expected!

I was also randomly enrolled on tosdr.org's re-design experiment, and when I tried to click "opt-out" (I prefer the old design), it says "page not found"!
Even the best Unix shells are a mere toys in comparison to what Lisp machines were doing in the 80s. I don't wanna say that using a Lisp machine was "life changing" or anything but let's just say I don't like Linux anymore.
Probably just messing with the NSA taps. Spooks being spooks.
Simmer down big guy..
Socratic dialogue isn't actual dialogue. It can easily come off as condescending to explain something in a dialogue with yourself. It can easily BE condescending (tvtropes, no link: "The Watson").

This site starts off on a long winded "Socratic" lecture (and an allegory to boot) without even telling us who the author is or what he aims to convince us, in short why we should care.

And he seems to have been submitting his own writings to hacker news a lot. I'm pretty sure I saw this exact link a few days ago, in fact.

Causal statistics lecturer and old time blogger Cosma Shalizi used to start off all his blog posts with an "attention conservation notice" summary.

This author is an example of the opposite, someone who does not respect very much that the reader's attention is precious to them too.
They can also be a hazard as they can crash much easier during a storm, earthquake or hurricane. Especially if they are dry and not alive any more.

IMO solving overheated cities is not just more trees but less population density. Less buildings, less concrete, less asphalt. Less generation of heat and pollution in the first place. Less is more essentially.
Off-topic, OP seems to be new here but constantly submits new posts. Or I am reading too much into?
Patents as a whole? No.

Software/algorithm patents? Yes.
That's enough. Just move on with your life. End of thread.
So Sonos is joining Google?
> Shoulder surfing and weak passwords are both something you can control at any time.

How, exactly? And "require users to watch out for shoulder surfing and use strong passwords" does not count.

Any chance you are thinking about pretty specific circumstances here (security-aware, technical employees generally not having to enter passwords in public spaces)?
Online Publisher Dependent Upon Facebook Shuts Down, Blaming Algorithm Change (2018)
And ladies and gents, this is why I love HN. Great project.

If all TOS would be a simple bullet point list of things the provider is actually going to do with people's data and intellectual property, not buried under tons of legalese, maybe some people would think twice before accepting these TOS...
You have to admire the bravery of the Taliban using that surveillance equipment, fearlessly facing the likelihood it has been compromised by a retreating enemy...
Twitter’s BlueSky could conventionalize the fediverse for social media
> Whose bright idea

Mine, obviously. All my ideas are Bright ideas.

The patents may have expired, anyway. One of the reasons I did the patents was I was always pestering people with those ideas, as I wanted someone to implement them. So they said "patent them, which will get the ideas out there."
Or, far more likely, creating their own.
Edge Computing: Tech’s Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
You ought to read the whitepaper I linked. I absolutely take privacy seriously in both my job and my private life. What is kept on your phone in the DT3P/Gapple scenario is neither location data nor even a list of "contacts". What it does keep is a list of temporary (15 minutes or less) ids for the last two weeks - this does not reveal how many people youve been in contact with, much less who. It is as privacy respecting as it gets.
That sounds truly awful. Not necessarily surprising —- but could you give us some clues as to which company this was so that we can avoid working there?
Who is the person you believe I am attacking?
There is a guideline, to not prune more than 15-20% of a tree per season. And less if the tree is struggling.

Often urban trees are struggling, but I've seen workers still prune them heavily.
>imprison an innocent person.

Kind a hard word to use for an arrest. In many places police can arrest you for some period if they suspect you have committed a crime. This is no different. No need for sensational language.
Any law operating at the company level will just be gamed with large amounts of shell companies. You just need to take a look at some of the more common tax evasion schemes to see how well that turns out.
it's a sentence in an article, not a typo and not a quick comment on HN, I have to assume a good amount of thought went into it.
Does Java not have signbit()?