skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only once each of the thousands of impossible problems that need solving in order to stream reliably have been solved.

That's the problem with software. It solves problems so well they stay solved, and only constructed problems such as IP ownership remain.
> Also it can be good to understand that the reason the C64 was such a success was that it pushed 8-bit as far as it could go, specifically in audio and video.

You seem to be saying that the Commodore 64 had audio and video equivalent or superior to those of the Casio SK-1, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and the Tektronix 4014. This does not seem plausible to me.
I don't know how we affect major change on this sort of issue, besides a vote with the wallet. I tend to encounter it most in areas which are already underserved - therefore you can choose not to pay but you're likely punishing yourself with a worse competing product.

The temptation will always be present for (some) organizations to use Open Source as a crutch to underfund development and support. I think it is a phenomenal way to grow your product in ways that you initially didn't expect from your customer base, but it cannot be the way in which your main support is bolstered.
I like your spin on this, if a bit quirky and strange.

Is “consciousness” as a pursuit useless only because we don’t know what it means? Or just a pointless endeavor?
It is the network effect. Inuit is very aggressive in killing any competition and they are widely used by CPAs and accounting firms. My CPA told me flat that if I don't go with Quickbooks, she would have a harder time playing with a more "fancy" system. So unless the CPAs and accountants are onboard, it is tough to kill Intuit.
That seems to be what's happened so far.
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related:

[1] https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=le9-Linu...
It’s common sense that inhaling smoke is bad for you. If you defy common sense, you’re unlikely to suddenly embrace the logic of a scientific study.
When reading a patent basically the only part that matters legally is the claims section. This is always at the end of the patent filing, at least in modern practice. This is on page 28 and 29 of the filing. It starts with "The invention claimed is". Google Patents has a better format than the USPTO website and makes the claims easy to see: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10599560B2/en?oq=10%2c59...

If it is not claimed in the claims it is not subject to the patent. Any analysis of this patent (or any other patent) that doesn't focus on the claims is not a real analysis. Part of why companies spend so much money on patent lawyers is because good ones know how to write the claims in as broad a way as possible that won't get thrown out by a court. This way the patent applies to a maximal set of implementations. The claims are typically hard to read, the ones in this patent are no exception.

There are essentially 3 main claims this patent is making (numbers 1, 10, and 19). These are all separate claims. So if any one holds up in court then the defendant is violating the patent. I briefly read them, but it takes a lot of effort to understand them and my knowledge of ECS is shaky. However, none of them seem to be claiming anything all that novel, so I would be surprised if they held up in court.

But to use an expression I've heard somewhere, patents aren't read, they're counted. Lone inventors almost never successfully defend a patent. They were intended to spur innovation but in modern practice patents are used as legal weapons by large corporations. That's why most major companies incentivize having employees produce patents. The companies don't really care what's in the patents, they just want a lot of them so they can successfully threaten other corporations with lawsuits. This allows everyone to infringe on each others patents, since it would be too expensive to actually have a trial. So big corporations are largely protected from patent lawsuits since their competitors are probably infringing on at least some of their patents and vice-versa. The real losers under this system are small companies and individual inventors.
I felt the same way. The way the narrator's line is obviously spliced together just detracts from the rest of the trailer for the sake of a party trick.

I really hope this doesn't turn out to foreshadow the movie as a whole.
> 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.

Correct. Only the contents of the Claims system matters to what is actually patented. Also, claims are subtractive/intersection, like all bullets have an AND function applied. So if you have a widget and it matches claim 1-8 but does not match claim 9, it does not match. That is, unless you specifically call out your "unions" - this usually looks like "the method of claim 8, but abc", "the method of claim 8, but def". That's how you do "unions." Kinda.

This is a gross simplification.
You are right that for that place in the game this probably exposed a bug in the original game.

Normally testing the sign of a floating-point number that is the result of a multiplication or division should always be preceded by a test for zero, unless you intentionally want to take different paths for zeros with different signs.
Even Epik says the Texas abortion “whistleblower” site violates its rules
It's also a failure on schools to prepare their top students for the useless signalling rituals necessary to get the job in the first place. Either it's a life skills class in high school teaching you how to fill out paper applications for a part-time job and an interview that will take anyone with a pulse who doesn't mouth off to the interviewer or it's a career development department that is optimized for getting business majors management internships but either clueless or 15 years old advice for getting started in STEM fields.

Good programs exist in this space, but they're the exception (and no single person can possibly create a properly comprehensive survey without resorting to opinion polling).
> I'm curious what linux distros don't have either some version of perl or python.

I imagine that DamnSmallLinux or TinyCoreLinux possibly don't have them by default. Their focus is to be as small as possible in order to download quickly and fit in a USB drive or CD. Their small size was more important back when speeds were slower and drives were smaller. They were also good for when you had a limited number of storage options and you wanted the running OS to fit completely in RAM (back when RAM was smaller).
You are free to speak your own opinions and the government won't stop you.

You are not free to speak from consequences from other people.

Everyone else is free to decide that they think you're an asshole that they don't want to work for.

That is what actual FREEDOM looks like.
Difficult to understand how to extract artist information reliably. This is a flat data set so to do a proper ETL into a relational database you'll need to normalize as you go. But each piece of information about the artists is stored in a separate array, and the arrays are not all of the same size. So assuming you can rely on the arrays all being ordered the same (dubious assumption) there's still no way to map reliably.

For example, how do I create Artist records with the correct bios assigned to each artist from this record? (Nationality is easy, if the sorting assumption holds).

{
"Title": "Zhar-ptitsa, nos. 1-14",
"Artist": [
"Léon Bakst",
"Ivan Bilibin",
"Leonid Brailovskii",
"Sergei Chekhonin",
"L. E. Chirikov",
"Natalia Goncharova",
"Boris Grigor'ev",
"Boris Kustodiev",
"Mikhail Larionov",
"Georgi Shlikht"
],
"ConstituentID": [
300,
23753,
23754,
14602,
23755,
2229,
14632,
23756,
3389,
23757
],
"ArtistBio": [
"Russian, 1866–1924",
"Russian, 1881–1962",
"Russian, 1881–1964"
],
"Nationality": [
"Russian",
"",
"",
"",
"",
"Russian",
"",
"",
"Russian"
],
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The POSIX specification includes awk, but not perl or python. The world of UNIX and UNIX-likes is larger than just Linux distributions. Depending on the utility you plan on building and the platforms you expect it to run on, it may be wiser to reach for awk than other PLs.
Your comment doesn't make sense, Youtube still show those videos in the current system it just doesn't run ads on them. So if it was an issue then it would have already happened, the fact that it doesn't mean that it isn't an issue.
Privacy is a human right.

I support providers that believe this as well, and act in accordance.

Your model more treats privacy as something to be earned or attained through technical knowledge. No thanks. Journalists and whistleblowers need others looking out for them when no one else will.

If Protonmail doesn't solve this by the time my account is up for renewal, I will not be renewing.
Group DMs will be encrypted as well
I don't get it, the article doesn't say anything about geminis.
As a patent lawyer, can you explain what that claim means? Why does it seem intentionally confusing?
vi todo.txt

the same file served me well for over a decade. :)
It's aggravating that parents are purposefully written in a language that makes it harder to read.

What I could gather from it is that this is just an implementation of archetype-based ECS. Which just means that entities with the same set of components (that is, the same "archetype") are allocated together.

But I don't know whether they are patenting archetypes in general or just a narrow usage.

Now I have a question: is it possible that things published before the date of the patent (24 march 2020) are infringing on the patent? Or, on the contrary, things published before this date can actually be prior art?

Because, there are Rust ECS libraries that use archetypes, like for example legion https://crates.io/crates/legion/0.1.0 - that had its first release on 9 march 2019. And even at this date, the concept of using archetypes to optimize the memory layout of ECS applications is not novel. More about this here

https://csherratt.github.io/blog/posts/specs-and-legion/

I would say that the google v8's Javascript optimization, where they create a new struct layout for each possible combination of object fields, might as well count as prior art. It doesn't use ECS though: but I don't think that prior art needs to check all technology boxes. I argue that, in light of v8's trick to turn objects with dynamic fields (traditionally stored as a hash table) into objects with statically known fields, then ECS archetypes are not novel enough for a patent.

(And I don't even know if the v8 optimization is itself novel)
I wouldn't consider myself part of the lower denominator of action movie fans. I like a wide range of movies and I look for positive things in even the worst movies. I am generally along for the ride no matter the premise or film quality or even acting depending on the situation. I just like stories.

The last two movies just aren't that great. They aren't terrible, but they leave a lot to be desired. The second movie is fine, it gives us a lot of cool ideas, but the pacing is a bit off. It tries hard to manage being a cool sci-fi movie all about the concepts and an action movie. They just don't nail the balance, but it's not a complete miss as a blockbuster movie.

The third movie is where things really fall off. Everything setup in the second movie is ruined with this movie. They are balancing too many things; The Matrix world and the real world all with multiple subplots, and the concepts with the characters and action. They try to force in new characters that don't have any time to really develop, so we don't really care. And the last fight scene is just a bit dumb and the CGI is pretty bad. It's really just a lazy ending and fan pandering trying to capture the fight scene from the first movie. And because this is tying up the stuff we get in the second movie, it just makes all the cool stuff of that one sort of lackluster.

I won't flame you for liking all three, that's the joy of art. But I think people also have reasonable criticisms of the trilogy overall.
Well, yes. In a certain way, everything is tech. Tech != computers/engineers/algorithms/robots/HAl/whatever.

But even in the popular understanding of what a tech company is, Netflix more than many others DOES have historical and current tech bonafides. 25 years ago during dot com mania, there wasn’t a lot of hand-wringing about whether WebVan or Pets.com or Amazon or whatever were tech companies. It was accepted that e-commerce WAS tech, even if it was different than DEC/Compaq/HP or Sun or Microsoft or Apple or whatever.

And Netflix operated from a website, used technology for its logistic and delivery system (much like other e-commerce systems)and had a recommendation algorithm (that they had a contest to improve, because they saw that good recommendations reduced churn) and a focus on UX to keep the product good.

It took them more than a decade, but the goal of delivering video via the Internet was always there. Roku, which in its original incarnation was simply a Netflix streaming box, was originally ideated and developed at Netflix before the company decided it didn’t want to be in the hardware business and so the head of the project and the engineers left to make Roku. Netflix has done as much work as any single company except perhaps YouTube to optimize and pioneer how to effectively serve large swaths of video to users across the globe.

The problem with Ben Evans’ piece is that he misunderstands that Netflix has always been a tech and a content company. Even when it was a rental company with more tech and no original content, the recommendation algorithm and the dedication to buyers and curators who would make the decisions about what DVDs were purchased (eventually customer signals played into this too) always had a very strong content focus in the product.

That’s the reason Netflix works. It was the first media company to really innately understand both tech and content. Disney and HBO (WarnerMedia, whatever) have great tech stacks too (especially Disney), but Netflix was the first and is still the most successful.
Here's some prior art from 2002: https://neil3d.github.io/reading/assets/slides/data-driven-g...

Seminal talk btw IMHO
Something fun in that regard, speaking of minimal...the TRS-80 Color Computer community now has a version of awk that runs on NitrOS-9, a variant of OS-9/6809 originally written for the Hitachi 6309. (64K address space, no separate I and D space.)
Target and Walmart are still solving some interesting problems around online ordering and fulfillment. Are they tech companies now?
The pollution is happening right now. You must realize that appealing to a hypothetical future solution doesn't excuse us from our obligation to do things right in the present.
It's used in Debian system tools and in Git, so it's still in wide use.
They are completely rigged at all levels. Here, however, every single small region votes for his own candidate, so it is not enough to "tweak" votes a bit at local level, then at aggregate, then statewide. E.g. only 1 level of rigging works, so effect is much smaller.
I think the real promise of open-source is “If we die, and it’s important to you, you can keep it working.”

Also, security bug bounties natively.
You might continue to watch Netflix because the shows you do like are exclusively available there, and just ignore the rest of the library.

It's not that there hasn't been a need for other stuff to be published - it's that there hasn't been a proportional need. Which is exactly what I meant: any alternatives to established platforms are going to have the preponderance of content banished from those established platforms, in direct proportion. So if the purges on e.g. YouTube mostly target right-wing extremism, but also target some other content, then that's the distribution you're going to see on alternative platforms. But what other choice do you have, if you're interested in that other content?
I wonder if this patent will be recognized or enforceable in Europe.
Well bin Laden was something of a scholar. He actually wrote a "letter to America" shortly after 911, setting out, in a hierarchy of labelled premises (like in a philosophy paper) a systemic case for 911. It's virtually censored in the US and no major outlet has ever carried it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver

Despite the existence of documented motives as laid out here, to this day the official US position on 911 causation remains "they hated us for our freedom". I wonder if that's what's being taught in schools.
Because of how wide the margin of error still is, and the fact that lifelong debilitation is on the table.

Long covid right now is in the stage of analysis that regular covid was over a year ago. People had no idea back then how bad the mortality rates actually were, what to do about them, etc. We have a pretty good handle on that side now, which is why I'm no longer really worried about being killed or even hospitalized, as a healthy young vaccinated person.

But we're just beginning to study the long-term effects. Their severity in the grand scheme of things could be tiny, or it could be massive, because - again - we don't know yet. I don't want to roll those dice.
Wicked demo. Been looking for something like this for years. Cheers.
Cranes to Squeeze Under Bridge to Reach Baltimore
The submitted headline makes bold claims not actually contained in the article. I would recommend using the original title instead: "Hunt The Bugs With Mutation Testing."
> Calling the tech "still fundamentally a commodity" bothers me not because I'm a technologist, but because it's horribly hand-wavey and imprecise. It sounds precise, but what...exactly...does this mean?

Quite a lot of analysis seems to be making people feel better about not being technical, when technical jobs are exploding in prominence, and you can sell your analysis better if you make customers feel better.
WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you talk to reports them
Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it
No Blood. I love that game.
The resurgence of the email newsletter in recent times is a sign that, regardless of advances in web and web-connected applications, on a broad timescale open connectivity protocols ultimately hold lasting appeal.

Open protocols and techniques that enable effortless parsing of information serve a growing need for users of the web today. While I’m not sure if it will be gopher or something new, I foresee significant disruption potential for whatever effectively fills this need at scale.
Trusted by whom?
I have tried KDE, but it's been a while. Maybe I'll give it a look again now that I have a nice powerful machine.
I thought I remembered an issue on your repo where someone asked if there was a way to make it into a screensaver - am I misremembering, or was it removed? and out of curiosity - is that indeed possible or not? I scrolled through the README but maybe missed it. Thanks again!
> The problem is that companies also want an objective hiring process

Usually only at a very superficial level. Enough to comply with the law. And to be fair, some companies do have good intentions with a little extra effort and money put into diversity efforts.

A truly objective hiring process would take into account that Joe and Charley who both got the same results on the coding test are not equally qualified if Joe grew up poor, with parents who never graduated high school, paid his own way through university by working full-time, and along with raising a child as a single parent. While Charley comes from a wealthy family and focused only on studying and job interview prep. With his parents passing along some of their own higher education to him as needed, connecting him to their large network for job opportunities, etc.

Joe is obviously a better candidate. His starting line was far behind Charley's and yet he crossed the finish line at the same time. Joe would be a better candidate even if he passed the finish line a little after Charley. If you want a truly objective hiring process you need to look at starting lines, not just finish lines.

Most companies are doing almost the opposite and only looking at the finish line. They want to look only at the skills and exclude the actual person in a misguided effort to be objective.

All that really does it amplify existing societal bias and privilege by rewarding those who got the most breaks in life.

> this is such a difficult problem to solve.

Agreed. And it would be more expensive. Part of why the status quo is so hard to change. You've got to spend the money and do the work. Or take shortcuts and discriminate on one side or the other.
Oh they interfere with observers a lot. It's a battle, really.

Sometimes, in some far-flung region, an election will end up being fair. Then they still find a way to ultimately "fix" the outcome — see what happened in Khabarovsk with everyone's favorite mayor Sergey Furgal. They found a court case on him from very long ago, arrested him, flew him to Moscow, then Putin dismissed him from mayorship "for loss of trust". Yeah sure, people elected him and had no problems with him, but it's lack of Putin's trust that caused him to lose his office against his and people's will.
Exactly. I end up re-implementing my scripts if they outgrow the original scripting language anyway, because it's a good time to add proper argument and error handling, logging, etc.
links ? everything is a fake js button
Absolute rubbish. You talk like there's something magical about Bitcoin, when in fact every profit-maximising firm will always use the cheapest energy available. Seriously what kind of pathetic argument is this, or am I missing something?
Your own article admits that the lack of inflation is due to other factors such as reduced lending and velocity of money. All else equal if there were 40 rubles in the economy yesterday and 80 tomorrow, your rubles have half the purchasing power they had before. The printing of the money prevented a deflationary effect that would have enrichened those who held onto dollars under a period of anemic lending and lowered velocity of money. So yeah, it really is a drop relative to what the value would have been if new money had not been printed.

"For excess liquidity to create inflation, it needs to lead to a sustained increase in spending and loan growth. So far, bank lending has been anemic while the global velocity of money and the money multiplier (the ratio of broad money to base money) has fallen more than during the Great Financial Crisis. "

"the secular trends of automation and robotization, declining labor force participation, aging population and high debt levels will continue to suppress inflation over the long-term"
Oh I see. Interesting. Thanks.
100 corporations are responsible for 71% of global emissions.

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

I struggle to find hand wringing about bitcoin's energy consumption as anything but naive or sour grapes.

Society is never going to voluntarily reverse total energy consumption. Either price bitcoin mining out of the market, or focus on voting with your wallet and regulating carbon emissions at the energy production level. Arguing about how people should spend their money on energy is a waste of political energy.

Millions of people believe that bitcoin is worth the energy costs. "Too much" energy usage is entirely subjective.
EFCC charges BDC operator over N43 mln fraud