skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most basic scientific research is done at public universities financed by federal grants from the NIH, NSF, etc. U.S. Bayh-Dole law allows universities to exclusively license this taxpayer-financed research (it's a complete ripoff of the public).

For example, in the pharmaceutical world, basic drug discoveries made at universities are transferred to large corporations who typically finance further clinical drug trials, before getting approval and marketing the drug.

Note also, this creates pressure to push the new patented expensive drugs, even if much cheaper out-of-patent drugs work just as well.

Also, a lot of industrial R&D is about improving in-house processes. This kind of research may or may not produce 'intellectual property' but it tends to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Ideas are cheap, don't let the monopolists corral them all and prevent independent technologies from flourishing.
This is very cool, I'm curious if you can give some details of the best use case you've seen?

We're developing hardware prototypes with our industrial designers, and I get 3D CAD designs from them. They can take the time to turn the CAD into visual design, but that takes time. Would this be a good tool for them to take the CAD, take a photo, and create demonstrations for how the product would look in the real world?

Curious if that's a realistic direction, and how else you see it being used. Nice work.
a reasonably functional supply chain won't let this happen.

No reasonable supply chain will withstand panic buying
from the article:

> Mr Madderson said a government media leak on BP’s earlier decision to restrict fuel deliveries to about 100 of its 1,200 stations had been largely responsible for the mayhem.

> “That leak to a broadcaster has brought about the quite catastrophic situation we’re now in, where there is panic buying,” he said.

the UK has ~8500 petrol stations... around 1% had a shortage before the media amplified everything
Dog eat dog vs dog entrench power (and not be eaten)
The App Servers prediction is actually a lot more accurate than I first thought:

> You'll abstract most applications with a DSL, structured of applets or formlets operating on an abstract client API. The same app can then be 'compiled' and served to multiple mediums - as a web-page, an android app, a Chrome app, or even a desktop app.

This is effectively React with Electron, React Native, etc. Of course the author was overly optimistic about how polished and effective cross platform apps would be, but it's still the same idea. React is a UI DSL with a reactive runtime that can run on many different platforms.
According to the article, they're not actually sending any images through the satellite network—instead, the Pi sends a small notification message through the network if it detects a person in the photo.
Play a different storyteller. ;) Plenty of mods bring with them much fairer storytellers. I like Sara Spacer from Save Our Ship, who scales based on tech level and research completed.

Nobody I know plays the default ones regularly except for Randy, and Randy won't hit you hard enough to break most skilled players.
I'm still surprised very few sources are talking about the third possible origin - WIV scientist(s) contracted COVID19 when doing research in/near bat caves with insufficient PPE. You see researchers wearing what look like surgical masks, which is likely insufficient. And this is post-Covid Chinese media, so it's probably sugar coated. I remember reading a translated article (sadly can't find it at the moment) which reported lab techs in Yunnan working in terrible conditions, getting bat urine and blood on them trying to catch bats, with barely adequate masks and goggles.

https://algulf.net/2021/06/09/2019-video-shows-wuhan-scienti...
Which is why I put “though not completely! I’m not arguing for that.” It’s probably helpful to not have your ego in the drivers seat absolutely all of the time, but also to check in with it. Kinda like a really close friend that you may spend a lot of time with but nonetheless still know when to step back from and not mindlessly follow.

Edit-aka “mindfulness”
It gets easier! Keep fitting in those 20 minutes here and there, and soon enough it’ll be 30, then 40, then… Life gets back to normal. One day it happens!
If you don’t want to pay the 10 minute YouTube attention tax, here is a text version of the story: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/wwii-...
The "tyranny"--of not filling landfills with junk because I don't like impossibly slow arugula eaters, apparently!

Why are hackernews posters so awful and weird about food? Do you even listen to yourself? I mean, jeez, just put a wet towel in the pack like a normal person to get an extra couple days out of it instead of ranting about "tyranny" because somebody thinks that maybe it's okay that your spinach goes over in five days instead of eight and you should just buy less and get over it.
How many vacant homes is the right number? If there are very few vacant homes, then every time someone needs to move homes, they have to be shuffling homes with someone else. That's not efficient or tenable.
Why don't they raise the price until supply and demand balance?
> Using tor, different email addresses and separate identifies for social accounts should be ordinary.

Is this even enough at this point? I wouldn't be surprised if it was possible to somehow deanonymize these people.
Please don't cross into internet psychiatric diagnosis - it never does any good and is basically a form of personal attack, even if you didn't intend it that way.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Yet repeated attempts by authorities to spread calm and urge against panic buying have had the opposite effect.

IMO academia should research this. There are probably enough events + news on those events in this world. If the research is already done then I urge policy makers + mainstream media to read such research carefully.
>You think that doing good only because you are being watched

Never said "only because" of being watched. Being watched is an added measure.

> Atheists do good because it's the right thing to do

Many atheists, from personal experience, most don't really care to do good when no one's watching. Not saying it applies to all atheists, but for many. It's simply not rational. Why do good? For "karma"? So, the atheist has replaced "God" for "karma"?
I believe it's just the comparison to how seizures used to work, where someone would show at your home, workplace, etc, with a warrant, so you knew about it immediately.
The good news is you can only really fill up once. You’ve got to use the fuel, so this should be a short-term thing,” he said.

But you can fill up gas cans, 5 gallon buckets, even plastic bags and buy a months worth of fuel in a day. Last time this happened in the USA I don’t even know what people were going to do with what they were buying, like a 250 gallon tank of fuel… resell it?
Google Sverdlovsk Anthrax.

It requires one heck of a lot crazy state system to do something that crazy. Not saying that such crazy states don't exist.
wow who knew that sand (silicon) could potentially invent new things? /sarcasm

but on a serious note, why do people say things like "humans are nothing but complicated biological machines"?

i mean, why do you really want to replicate the human brain?

i don't get it. is it alienation, loneliness? projecting your hope for connection and understanding onto something you program? is it to stay in control and avoid disappointment?

today too many vital feedback loops of science and technology are withheld from the commons by the propertied class. imagine what we could do if all science was mapped, further developed and universally shared in the open; no longer monopolized behind corporate walls. that's something that excites me a lot. not black box 'AI' owned by Musk, Zuck, Brin, Page, Cook or whomever. seriously, science fiction about this whole AI thing is unrealistic
and dystopian.

when we start to realize most science and technology was publicly funded, will we seriously consider ditching the criminalization of knowledge sharing (intellectual property laws)?

“Many of the problems being faced today by the [US] are due to the fact that US taxpayer...do not realize that corporations are making money from innovation that has been supported by their taxes.” That they are not aware of the benefits to competition seems to be a triumph of free-market ideology over good sense.

How many Americans are aware that Google’s basic algorithm was developed with a National Science Foundation grant?" [1]

do we really want to destroy the world so we can have a 'Free Guy' Ryan Reynolds -like fake AI friend?

"90% of machine learning is burning down a forest so that you can train a computer to do phrenology" [2]

— @cooljqln

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160204223931/https://nybooks.c...

[2] https://twitter.com/cooljqln/status/1441577367416098820
> This business model should have collapsed in the face of this technology. The market would have been forced to adjust to some new model

This very obviously did occur, though perhaps not as quickly as it might have otherwise. The market of CD and DVD sales has absolutely collapsed, and streaming services have taken over, regardless of that fact that this was initially resisted by the industry. But this new paradigm, which offers a much better product to consumers, is only possible because of IP rights. Piracy is no longer the existential threat to this industry that it once was, because legally licensed content has been able to offer a superior user experience (in most cases). But if I was allowed to set up a Netflix clone, host anything I wanted on it, and undercut their prices, then capital allocation to content creation would evaporate immediately. The thing you’re trying to promote access to simply doesn’t exist without these protections, and those protections don’t prevent anybody from crowdsourcing something if they want to.

> In practice, trade secrets don't usually stand up to sophisticated reverse-engineering efforts, and patents frequently and consistently fail to disclose implementation details that are important to how something works.

The ubiquity of out-of-patent technology in the market place seems to undermine the idea that the public doesn’t benefit from capital allocated to IP R&D. You don’t have to think about it for very long to realize that without these protections, allocating capital to innovate production and synthesis processes that can be maintained a secret becomes the most appealing investment for capital that would otherwise be going to patentable R&D.

A stance against IP protections in general is extremely fringe and extremely short sighted. If a system has problems, advocating for abolishing the entire thing isn’t very sensible, especially when it’s a system that has already provided so much benefit to society.

You might hypothesize that those benefits would have been realized even without that system. But that hypothesis doesn’t really stand up to much scrutiny, especially when we know for a fact that the value this system has created is directly quantifiable.
Ok, we've taken "at scale" out of the title above.
Where there's obviously no reason to panic you don't need to go on TV and say, hey, don't panic.
Toto/Brondell/Bio Bidet - I hadn't picked one exactly, the Toto C5 was where I was gravitating.
IBM too
Only for a while. Eventually density starts becoming just as expensive as land.
I assume everyone is aware that copyright != patent. They're different. DMCA applies only to copyright. But you knew that.

Anyhow:

It's impossible to talk about patent reform without first separating software from everything else. Otherwise, you're trying to make standards that apply equally to bankruptcy and stand-your-ground laws. They're just different.

If Congress and/or the courts made software not patentable once and for all, then the patent system would look completely different. Most HN readers would stop thinking about patents altogether and move on to copyright.
Any normative claim that suggests an individual or group is morally less-than or unworthy of participating in society if they don't wholly affirm or adopt a specific worldview. Consider contemporary discourse surrounding gender identity, the legitimacy of the nation state, border controls, and other political wedge issues.

Information control has been one of the chief concerns of our social institutions, because certain ideas have been deemed unfit to even be considered in our discourse because we're concerned that exposure alone is enough to potentially corrupt someone who might otherwise be a moral and decent person.

The thoughts we allow in polite society are always bounded, and it is always painful for those outside of it whether they're coming from a priest, a teacher, a parent, a corporate bureaucrat, or a government official.
One way to know is reports on the web like you are already reading. Business ThinkPads with integrated GPUs tend to have many good models, for one concrete direction if you haven't found a starting point yet. Asking your sales rep, certifications, trying a live USB stick of your preferred distro at a friend/coworker/shop/it-dept owned machine can work too.
IMHO, this is a specious statement. [Edited to remove flamewar].
I don't buy it. I know people who have worked for patent firms, and independent artists who have tried in vain to enforce the rights they're supposed to have when someone sells a T-shirt with their art on it without asking, attributing, or paying for it. Industries from software to biotech to agricultural equipment have been abusing patents for decades, and the lawyers involved all know that the name of the game is to go as broad and nebulous as possible to as to lock down huge swaths of potential applications of some general principle. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are even perversely incentivized to rush new, exotic, poorly-understood chemicals and genetic variants of plants to market and capture prescribers because they can enforce monopolies about it, or patent the treatment of new conditions with public-domain drugs. Where exactly is IP law functioning well?
Where is the revenue coming from? Locally, globally, from a single country or highly diversified? You can't optimize much in terms of taxation, but this is highly dependent on where you live.
One of the most common is marching cubes, although I think voxels can also be used directly, either with Ray tracing techniques or rasterization.
> That might be true if the people developing and testing the vaccine were the same people belittling natural immunity.

Why does it need to be confined to that group?

> Lumping them together is just the same behavior of which you accuse them, political.

Where do I accuse a group of something? Where do I “lump people together”.

> Should we be suspicious of you?

You are free to be suspicious of whoever you choose.
Pspg – Unix pager designed for work with tables and use with PostgreSQL/MySQL
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28656023.
I found one by asking friends who operated a local accelerator. They usually know someone who is startup-friendly, i.e. more patient with newbies & poor bookkeeping, gives some good advice for free, knows how to get around the laws and implement typical startup stuff.
You saying that new construction condo towers being a "dystopian hellscape" is quite telling.
Then fine Huawei. Oh wait, you can't, you already cut them off from the US market.

Unless your argument is to start imposing US law on foreign citizens operating on foreign lands, I think you understand exactly why this is problematic.
This is one case where patent law has the idea more or less right, even if the implementation is nonsense for software:

The person who had the concept of the invention is the inventor. Not the employer who paid him/her, nor the lab assistants who experimented until they got the concept to work.
I looked around a bit. Seabrook (nuclear) provided 60% of NH power. [1] 899 MW out of 1654MW 54%

As of 2021 it's claimed that NH solar generates 141 MW [0] 8.5% Natural gas was 493 MW 30%

Apparently wind energy is about zero, since it's about equal to renewables in [1] ??

[0] https://us.sunpower.com/home-solar/states/new-hampshire
[1] https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=NH#tabs-4
That personal shot was just childish. The moderators chose to ignore the flag, but it was deserved anyway and that's all it deserved.
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. The unsubstantiveness of this comment, combined with its argumentativeness, pretty well guaranteed that. We want the needle to say in the thoughtful/curious range here.

You perpetuated it too (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28657137). That's not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28655948.)
it's not so much the cost of providing services so much as what is driving the property value. in highly desirable locales, the value of a property is affected much more by what people are doing around you than any improvements you could make to a private dwelling.

or alternatively, you could consider it a tax on the opportunity cost of you having exclusive use of a piece of land. your neighbor with the bigger lot is not consuming (much) more services, but the opportunity cost of not building more stuff on that lot is proportionately higher.
Recovering lost btc now possible
Stolen bitcoin can be traced and recovered; You'd be surprised how often you are actually able to trace bitcoin through forensic techniques to exchanges and other point of intersection where KYC is conducted.All you you need do is provide evidence of the theft to Paramount Forensics via reclaimcryptoguru@engineer.com
You can not do it yourself because blockchain and most crypto networks are very complex and miners can not reverse transactions that has been processed. Also work on using better and stronger passwords with mixed upper and lower case to reduce the risks of hacking
Please do not take HN threads further into religious flamewar. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Whenever you hear a cabinet minister saying "let me be clear on this...", you know things are going down the tubes.
> All of these regex patterns will tell you that a string looks like a URL,

yeah that's it that's what they're trying to validate
That sounds very nice, do tell us if you have come up with or know of a (successful) business model where you do not have to collect the data of users. Nothing comes for free.
It started as an in-person meetup and moved on-line because covid. We now have more out-of-town members than in-town so it will probably be on-line forever. We may have the occasional in-person get-together, but I doubt it will ever go back to being regularly in-person.
I like the simplicity, nicely done. On the homepage there is a giant empty spot on the right, not sure if that was intentional or something isn't loading. If there's nothing there now, maybe a screenshot of a sample show would be a nice way to introduce it.
I’m not claiming anything with regards to math model people.

With regards to the law, you’re saying, because we assume that one day we should have a complete simulation of humans, or at least a model, therefore, we should update our laws NOW, to prepare for this?

A story of premature optimisation if I ever heard one.
We do have a theory of physics which is likely to be able to cover all the phenomena of biology[1], but that is beside the point. If you think that human behavior cannot be reduced to equations, then you think it cannot be predicted mathematically. I can only interpret this as a claim that there is something about human behavior which is supernatural.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07884
I think a bigger issue is that retraining isn't deterministic (ie bitwise identical) across different hardware, IIRC due to differing float behaviour. I guess folks interested in ML reproducible builds will have to ignore small differences in model float values, but I wonder what affect those differences on model outputs.
Sometimes you're given an arbitrary bag of bytes with best-effort well-formed data. Regexes are gross but quite good for those cases where you need to try to rip out some bits from the data abyss.
I can second this experience.
You've posted a ton of flamewar comments to this thread—not just religious flamewar but nationalistic flamewar too. This is badly breaking the site guidelines and we ban such accounts.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. And please, no more flamewar comments of any kind and certainly not these kinds!
+1. I interned for them in '99. Everyone was talking about the stock and buying new houses. A few years later I had to get a letter from my previous manager for immigration purposes. It was difficult finding anybody from my previous team within the company.
What will programming look like in 2029?
Inspired by this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28656204
SWE first and pilot second. It’s both a little sobering but also very mind-clearing to think that no one outside the airplane is going to bring the airplane safely to its next runway.

I find it interesting that drivers could stand some more of this prioritization. (Texting is communicating; it can wait until the driving is done.)
There hasn't even been a single crash by a driver using the full self driving beta yet. And they have a screening system in place before people can use it that will filter out bad drivers.
Its honestly not that hard to predict, with a bit of statistics and some insights into early deep learning, its obvious that alot of data with discernable patterns will produce good results.
Your math is wrong. It’s 2.6% of total properties, not 2.6% of total population.
How do you know that they are performances from 1984? Where did you get that?

I just found something before clicking submit. From another video:

> Confutatis K.626 - Scrolling Score

> Performer & Album Info - 7:35

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMwaiA581AQ&t=455s
Laravle – Lightweight implementation for hasMany relationship
A lightweight implementation for hasMany relationship.For lazy developers.
That's not what most people want. Most people want a third party to store their messages. Look how most people react when they switch phones and their message history isn't there, or the change devices and there is no message history.

Or how livid people get when their photos are gone. Most iPhone owner's backup plan is "iCloud".

Most people don't care about privacy, they care about convenience.
about the same as in 1980
When it can do my job for me without my boss knowing the difference :)
Analogies, analogies...

"Aviate, navigate, communicate" is meant as a simple guide for pilots in distress. Distress on a plane can be extremely busy and demanding time and it may not be possible to think rationally - the situation may require the pilot to revert to rely on instincts and habit like the above rule. That is why training is so important for pilots.

Our normal lives are rarely as busy. I don't think it is wise to rely on very basic instincts to drive what could more efficiently solved with high level reasoning.

I would even go as far as to say that if you catch yourself to go a long time on what I call "autopilot" (doing things instinctively without stopping to think) you should stop and evaluate your situation.

This sometimes happens to me, especially on a busy project towards the end. Not a good idea
Housing prices don't need to beat inflation to be a good investment. If I don't own, I pay rent. Rent will go up with inflation but my mortgage is a fixed cost. By paying a mortgage instead of rent I save money long term.

Since buying a house comes with a large opportunity cost it may not be the best investment even if it is a decent one.