skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The patent system is just not fit for purpose. Even for pharmaceuticals and other long-development-cycle products in the real world it has been corrupted beyond reason; I worked on battery materials for a while and even though there was plenty of prior art, a couple of players had basically patented every metal oxide possible under the guise of a cathode material, even though most of them would be utterly useless. Until there is some penalty for such time-wasting chancers, nothing will change. The software world makes it even worse by removing the already low bar for a proof of existence or actual benefit.
It happens because business are optimizing for resources that are ultimately more expensive or slower, which is staffing levels and the ability to respond to the market so the business can grow or survive longer. Inefficient computing architecture as a side effect is a worthwhile tradeoff in light of that to them.

But as a craftsman, it is definitely nice :)
All of those projects have something in common. They are big and centralised. I agree with you that it's not just billionaires that have this problem, but billionaires are one of the entities that do.

> The amount of the financial reward measures how much you are winning. The juices produced when you win 20$ and those produced when your leveraged long in biotech stocks make you 750k are not the same.

I suspect the world might a better place if we gave fewer people who are motivated in this financial manner, and more people who are motivated by the impact of their work (of whom there are plenty, and they're just as good as the financially motivated ones).
Fine, except the statement is not true. All the cases we know about are consistent with airborne transmission.

About the only disease we know of that transmits only airborne is tuberculosis. We don't need another word for tuberculosis. We have that one.
I suspect you are being downvoted because this isn't really related to standards.
Countries have closed their borders to casual travel, but not to shipping.
I don't know about "sharks"... The only reason the IMF gets involved in a country is because the government asked for a loan from the IMF.
I don't create swap space on servers anymore. If I run out of RAM, I'm likely dealing with something that's out of control and I'm going to run out of swap also, it just delays the inevitable.
For 250K you’ll find shitty property that would require a 2-3 hours of daily commute that will cost around £5000 annually per person working in London…
It's solved to the level that additional changes and advancements won't make a major difference to the company as it is right now. Those advancements might end up being a major component later, but someone else could solve that problem and they could license it just about as easily. At this point Netflix is a multimedia company that runs their own infrastructure, not a tech company focused on delivering multimedia.

Netflix could swap out all the underlying tech for someone else's and update their players to use that and nobody would really notice, except possibly for the very few interactive experiences they run. That's why they're not a tech company anymore, they've matured the technology, and so have their competitors, to the point it's a commodity.
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Thanks for expressing interest!

You can use the "density" URL variable to multiply the number of volumetric raindrops, like so:

https://rezmason.github.io/matrix/?volumetric=true&density=3...

The full list of parameters is in the README.md at:

https://github.com/Rezmason/matrix#readme

The similarities you point out are probably because of my recovery of the original font, which is also in the repo, and may soon need some expansion :D
Let's look at your claims again:

> The fees on Bitcoin, on chain, have been less than 75 cents the entire year of 2021.

The average transaction fee on April 21st was $62.779. You are wrong.

> The average tx on chain the past 9 months has been about 10-15 cents.

Clearly wrong. The data you cite is the median transaction fee, not the average transaction fee. For the lowest median transaction fee the chart shows 22.9 cents. Even that is above your claimed 10-15 cents.

Good for you that you spent less on your transaction, doesn't change the data though.
> IT as cost center versus profit center may be a useful distinction.

Or perhaps "has a software engineering department".
What the patent actually covers is governed by the claims at the very end of the patent, and most of the rest of the document is generally irrelevant, per my very limited understanding of how patents work.

That said, I've reread claim 1 a couple of times and I have no clue what it is actually claiming.
HBO Max performance seems to be platform/tv dependent.
It works fine on my Ipad but is absolutely dreadful on my Samsung televisions. Super slow and crashes every single time when viewing content that is 30+ minutes.
Thanks for looking closer!
Counterpoint is action movies where the conflict with the villain is not the primary conflict. e.g. True Lies; sure there's some terrorist stealing nuclear bombs, but that's not what the audience cares about.
Badly. Acetominophen works badly.

As I understand it, it makes you oblivious to suffering, incidentally including your own.
The effects are quite different for most people due to the lack of first-pass metabolism with inhalation which converts digested THC to a different form. Dry herb vaporizers might be a better suggestion.

A friend of mine who's a daily smoker finds the edible effects completely unpredictable and challenging to dose and enjoy compared to smoking or vaping.
Humans used for compute is also central to the Hyperion Cantos, IIRC.
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Excellent nit!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/inte...
People don’t pay them back no one can pay back 40% after 5 years assuming they bought in London.

If they do pay it back they do it by remortgaging so the builders win, the banks win, the tax payer pays for any HTB loans that aren’t repaid and the tax payer gets shafted with higher housing costs.
I lose my wallet (3 times) far more often than I get a virus on my phone (never).

And I forget my wallet (all the time) more often than my phone dies without a charger (maybe once every six months)
Sure but the IMF has been no friend of poorer countries for a while now. And accepting Bitcoin as legal tender is _probably_ not a nationalist/isolationist move.
For web backends people just use process/vm level parallelism behind load balancers, like with Node, Ruby, Lua etc.
Smart devices suck for deep focus productivity and organisation. Ultimately what works is either the desktop Outlook application or some offline gadget that can sync to your PC.
So today, the low priority (and for the past few weeks) has been sitting at 6-7 satoshi per vByte. If you do not understand and watch the blocks to realize you can simply set to around 3-4 sats/vB and get in within 2-3 blocks when a block comes along with merely a few hundred transactions in it, sure you're going to pay about 65-75 cents. But I'll pay 10 cents and still get in, while you pay 75 cents. It's not zealotry to tell the truth about using Bitcoin regularly and those that use Bitcoin all understand the fees have been 10-75 cents max all year long. My own sources don't back me up? Anyone using Bitcoin at least once or twice per week the past solid 9 months can attest that transaction fees have been floating from 3-8 sats/vB and you can comb through ALL the blocks you want to figure it out. Or don't figure it out. You're here to spread FUD quite clearly, anyhow.

The fee was NEVER once $62 per tx in ALL of April, I sent numerous transactions all that month long for mere cents.
It looks like a nice idea. Definitely add a feature to change the shortcut. I want it to behave more like a regular window. The full screen version can't be un-maximized. The Groups in the workspace can only be expanded horizontally. I want to be able to pick a color for the box too.

I think this will be great once you have added some more features.
Wow, this is amazing. It really shows how complexity should be managed in the tool so that the user can do the naive thing and have it be accidentally optimal
Freedom of religion > public health. The Supreme Court certainly has a creative interpretation.
Programming for the Expression of Ideas – Gerald Sussman
Planetside 2 holds the Guinness world record for the largest online FPS battle with 1158 players: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/101165-mo...
That's definitely a possibility. Hugo said he read and wanted to be part of it despite some initial reticence about going back to the franchise again.¹ I guess we'll see. I'm surely not betting on being as good as the first.

¹https://www.gamespot.com/articles/matrix-4-hugo-weaving-spea...
One data point disproves that it can't be used for purposes other than tax evasion and money laundering, it doesn't disprove that is commonly used for this purpose and little else.
> And on unpatentable subject matter (i.e., being an abstract idea), there is a pretty good argument that this improves the functionality of the computer, not just uses a computer to do something known

That's not really what is getting folks riled up with respect to patentability. The techniques mentioned (as interpreted by some) are considered not at all novel, being widely known in the prior art.

That's my take. I haven't dug too deep.

Update after briefly reading the patent. I like to read claims backwards, because they almost always build upon each other, with Claim 1 basically claiming the broad domain, and each subsequent claim narrowing the scope. Claims are "subtractive" - each has to match, unless you specifically call out sub-claims (e.g. "8. claim 7, but also ABC; 9. claim 7, but also DEF").

Here's a plaintext link for those following along: https://patents.justia.com/patent/10599560

Claims 17 and 20 are the real kickers.

> The method of claim 10, the operations further comprising:

> determining that an entity of the set of entities within a first archetype has been modified;

> based on a determination that the modified entity corresponds to an additional new archetype, adding the additional new archetype to the set of archetypes, building an additional new memory chunk for the additional new archetype, populating the additional new memory chunk with data from the set of components included in the modified entity, and deleting data corresponding to the modified entity from the first archetype;

> based on a determination that the modified entity corresponds to an existing second archetype in an existing memory chunk, populating the existing memory chunk with data from the set of components included in the modified entity, and deleting data corresponding to the modified entity from the first archetype.

Woof. That's really dense, but it sounds like it's basically describing inheritance based on composition. To update an archetype and all entities of that archetype, create a new archetype in memory, move some pointers, and you're done. No reallocation beyond that updated archetype node.

> 20.20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein each component data array of the set of component data arrays is contiguous with a next component data array of the set of component data arrays.

So this isn't just about ECS, this isn't about archetype ECS, or even OOP-based archetype ECS. This is specifically about an OOP-based archetype ECS using some fancy memory layout method, which lays out contiguous chunks in such a way that modifying archetypes doesn't result in large reallocations. I think. It's super dense.

Even with all that added specificity, I still think it falls short of clearing the bar of novelty beyond prior art. This is such a performance-relevant part of game engines that leverage ECS, that somebody out there has to have already thought of ways to improve the memory management of entities.
Hey! I wrote this for myself
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/external-app-...

it is fairly crude, but I use i daily.

Code lives here https://github.com/DavidVentura/Firefox_External_Application...
Russian businessmen being approached by the local mob was more common back in 90s (that much I know from experience, because my parents ran a small business back then, and had to deal with all that). But the country as a whole was less authoritarian than it is today.

As far as doing something that the ruling class doesn't want done - if you mean politically, there are plenty of comparable countries, such as Singapore, that are similarly considered authoritarian but not totalitarian. Totalitarianism normally means total control (or at least the possibility of it) - not just of political participation, but of all spheres of life. Russia may turn totalitarian yet - there are certainly plenty of ideologues advocating it - but it hasn't crossed that line so far.

And yes, of course it's all a spectrum. Totalitarianism itself is a small subset of the much wider authoritarian spectrum.
Japan is a big counterexample to this hypothesis. Sky-high compliance with the NPIs which are supposed to help reduce transmission, and also lots of transmission happening.
Anything busybox-based. I'm not sure busybox awk is very complete, either.
The culture may have changed, but the way I meant was first, with small IPOs is that the founders may expect exponential growth post-IPO, and that gets cut short, and second, it’s much easier to hostile takeover small companies. Whether it’s Amazon or Dunkin Donuts. Instead the company’s older, founders are more tired, the payout’s higher, and (I assume) being more expensive, they’re less common.

I would guess companies now keep voting power among insiders after IPO with special share classes instead of incorporating in odd states, if they’re inclined to avoid a takeover.

When it comes to the modern day version of this sort of drama, the first thing that comes to mind is pre-exit startup founders losing control. That’s still a thing.
Well, that's not actually what he wrote. You might want to read that section again. He said his dream setup is simpler than carrying three computers, cameras, an ipod, and other oddments. What's wrong with that?
Technological bottleneck might be passed but HDD manufacturers intend to keep prices up [1]:

> Value-based pricing

> This led Sivaram to discuss pricing; “Disk capacities are scaling beautifully. We want to move towards value pricing.” Customers are getting substantial added value from the linear scaling in disk drive capacity to the current levels, according to Sivaram. They would get even more from future capacities.

> With larger capacity drives the manufacturing cost in $/TB terms comes down. He suggested that, perhaps, it is time to think about moving from manufacturing cost-based pricing centred on $/TB towards value-based pricing: “$/TB is no longer the right metric.”

> A customers gets more value from a larger capacity drive, he said. “They can monetise more data.” This extra value could be larger than the sheer savings of the lower $/TB cost that WD can pass on. In that case WD could pass on only a proportion of that cost-saving to the customer and so charge for some of the extra value

[1] https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/12/17/western-digital-disk-d...
True, maybe not back in the day, but ~10 years ago I still used hdds in some machines and resizing was definitely possible and reliable.
I don't see anything new even when considering the entire context. I have worked on similar data-oriented entity component systems for over 10 years. Unity was actually very late to the game and Sony had to push them to give it more priority.

Edit: Some examples, including the use of chunks, or what I call batches:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/15414523

https://old.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/6nxfzp/going...
Ah great tip thank you!
Our server was seized by the police. Nobody was arrested (well, they didn't really know who we were). We weren't even asked to make the server start up for them; we certainly weren't asked to circumvent the logging suppression; and had we been asked, we would have declined.

But then we weren't a corporation. Between us, we had little to lose. We didn't have to help the cops. Protonmail is a business, so I suppose they are much more likely to roll over. Still, I'm pretty disappointed; their whole sctick is security, and they pitch to the likes of whistleblowers. It looks pretty bad to me.

The IndyUK server was seized from Rackspace, under the directions of the FBI (this was in Manchester, UK; I guess Rackspace US were leaned on by the feds, and HQ leaned on the Manchester datacenter). I think the feds kept the disks, which were encrypted.
It seems the general public of UK already lost the war on terror.
Apologies; I wasn't able to read the article and it seems I didn't interpret his statement correctly. My comment is left for posterity, and because I don't like editing after other's have replied.
The CDC is sending fatally mixed messages. A few there have caught on, but apparently most have not.
But perl was already the "standard" for other system/config utilities, no?
The evidence that sars 1.0 was airborne was already in medical journals. I am not a scientist or a doctor, but I found it on pubmed in feb of 2020.

While the history of science aspect to the denial is important, we cannot discount good old fashioned greed. If Airborne Covid is the messaging, then people don't want to shop, fly, or do lots of things where they spend their money. If however we have messaging about 6 feet apart, wash your hands, etc., then folks will still spend money.
Wait just one second... they managed to actually get a completely generic description of ECS into the claims?

EDIT: yes, yes they did. What you see above is in fact clam 1, in it's entirety.

This is worse than usual. Usually "X patents (common thing)" headlines actually mean "X patents (common thing with weird twist)," which is a great deal less severe. This really looks like Unity got an actual patent on the actual ECS design pattern, the one that every game has used for the past 40 years.

They will be able to extort an awful lot of money with this patent before it gets overturned.
Content for them seems a desperate attempt at countering deep content firms' moats, who can now build streaming services copycatting Netflix.
Hmm, they need the GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/) of these.
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No, 2 & 3 weren't good. The original Matrix set up a story about getting people on the Matrix. The film was successful and they probably realized that was unworkable. So they shifted to whatever philosophical mumbo jumbo they had. I actually majored in philosophy, so I'm not against philosophy for the record.
But they're also ridiculously huge, so I don't consider them anyway. Also Sony did experiment with removing the jack but brought it back and markets it as an advantage.
It is surprising to people who expect them to behave like shell pipelines and redirections though. I somehow never got bit by it, but have definitely corrected other's awk scripts who didn't know about this feature.
Someone who is looking for another group. Kendi and DiAngelo’s ideas are what progressives are actually enacting.
It was because I interpreted his numbers one way, and it was incorrect, due to not being able to access the article.

Shouldn't be doing that. My comment is left because other's already replied, but I was incorrect.
Thanks!!

A few areas for improvement in the clip you posted:

I need to add better duration estimation. It's unfortunately truncated.

A lot of the community-trained voices don't fully leverage phonetic annotation, so some of the words fall flat.

I think the synthesizer has too much noise in it (you can see this in the image). The person who trained it probably used noisy data.

Finally, the universal vocoder isn't handling James Earl Jones' deep voice very well. It should be fine tuned.
Which explanations did you like best? What about them impressed you?

I'll raise the rate limit to a very high amount in a moment!

> I am still not sure of the exact business case.

You ask a good question. I'm hoping HN helps figure that out! I think it can help Senior and Junior Developers to onboard to new codebases, especially those with new concepts.
That’s not what the Supreme Court said. It said that religious establishments can’t be treated differently than similarly situated secular establishments. I.e. the government can’t decide that bars are more important than churches.

Freedom of religion is a bedrock principle of the Constitution, as you’d expect from a country founded by a bunch of people who got kicked out of Europe for being religious nuts.
I've been working on adding better support for browser extensions in Electron. It's an absolutely necessary feature for web browsers. Maybe OP can have a look: https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-chrome-extensions
Perhaps a bit meta, but between a new Matrix reboot, this weekend's Rick & Morty finale, and previously even Midnight Gospel among quite a number of other cultural themes about meaning, reality, good & evil, nihilism, I'm feeling a little metaversed out and wondering whether this kind of entertainment is a healthy thing to indulge in.

The idea that it is good to be unmoored from our senses and experiences in favour of filtering them through this flavour of intellectual dissociation seems unhealthy. When I think of the artists behind it, if you are invested in someone's happiness, "red-pilling" them is not generous or sharing, it's self interested and adding company to misery, and I am doubting that this is art by people actuated by the wellbeing of others.
Thank you, I hope you enjoy it.
Chalk up DirectTV NOW/ATT TV/DirectTV Stream (all the same product) as a victim of that too. Scroll interactions take multiple seconds to register, click activates elements other than the one indicated as selected by the UI, just an overall shitshow.

But they’re the only OTT streamer that carries the Lakers and Dodgers channels, so alas…
> and most of the rest of the document is generally irrelevant

INAL but this is incorrect. The rest of the document is mostly the disclosure and - critically - claims cannot rely on anything not disclosed.

Importantly during the review process you can edit or amend your claims, but you can't update the disclosure without changing precedent date.
I've never known a family with a family computer put it anywhere but a common area. I'm sure they're out there but I've never seen it.

Maybe boys get more screen time in families like that because they're more interested in computers? Maybe it's assumed to be a boys toy because boys show more interest in it?
Note the last element in the list: "“Website Claims Steve Jackson Games Foretold 9/11,” article posted on ICV2.com (this file contained only a single saved web page)".

What?! Well, here it is:

https://archive.is/PTdB3
Each time this is true is an opportunity for a competitor to fill a gap.
You'll find this a lot in the embedded space. As well, you'll see a bunch of docker images that don't have perl/python.
> So, I don't think this was written during WWII.

If it wasn't, it was probably written very soon after the end. It uses "this war" to refer to WWII and it doesn't appear to discuss anything post-war.
Doesn't work for me because my time zone is spoofed :)
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Mp3fs: A FUSE filesystem which transcodes audio formats on the fly
Most people reach for what they know best. I'm not sure it really proves anything about relative merits.
On different hardware how do they synchronize the playback speed? Each device has very different processing environment, so I cant imagine it would be easy to ensure that exact of playback speed. eg maybe one is playing 30 frames per second, and the other is playing 29.85 ...