skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article.

I was actually responsible for invalidating another maps-related patent from the 1990s, in Germany. I was in Patent Litigation and I also remember having a "ART+COM" folder in my email, but that's about all I can remember. I don't think the case was very active by 2014.

Anyhow, there's something Avi said that I have to comment on:

The test for patent-worthiness is: “would it be non-obvious to someone who is skilled in the art?” I’d been doing “stupid programmer tricks” like this since high school, as have many others in my field.

If only it were so simple! You would think that "hey, that's just a stupid programmer trick!" would be enough to render something obvious, but you'd be wrong. That's what my paper [1] is about.

No, to call "obvious" the combination of references A and B, there usually has to be some "teaching, suggestion, or motivation" in the literature that it would be a good idea to combine A and B. There are nuances to this statement, in case anyone's feeling pedantic.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2399580
Intel Unveiling 12th Gen Alder Lake Unlocked Desktop CPUs and Z690 Platform
The nuclear proliferator who was never indicted
Weave S-1 (YC W14)
Why Nano
One element of a feature set that may be used as part of a broader forensic analysis of writing samples...or for obfuscating the origin of one's writing.
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Experts say that the facts and science support cutting your penis off to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
"Do they all get absolved of responsibility because Powell gave a speech at the UN?"

No, obviously not.

"Did he know some of what he said was not sustained by facts, or even that they were lies?"

If he didn't know all the facts perhaps he should have had the moral fortitude to not beat the drums to a war machine that resulted in so many innocent deaths
Dropbox's persistent account upgrade prompt
Hazel Scott: The Gorgeous Face of Jazz at the Mid-Century
Transplanting the Mac’s Central Processor: Gary Davidian’s 68000 Emulator (2020)
Hmmm. 1986 I think it was.

boss: "You need to learn vi"
Me: "Why, this Sun has a text editor on it"
Boss: "We own more than Sun workstations, go do this job on the Pyramid"
Me: "rsh...ok I'm in. Ok. Uh, how does vi work?"

Not sure it's a real necessity these days when Nano exists but vi or its modern equivalent is on OSX, all(?) Linux distributions and generally shows up in WSL on Windows.

The Vim mode in VSCode is...OK I guess but you do need to be a bit careful with cut and paste, as the paste menu item doesn't necessarily give a hoot about the Vim mode you're in and stuffs things wherever you right clicked rather than where the need the text to go.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/issues/323

Created an issue for this for anyone interested!
That covers one direction of errors, putting an await on a sync function, but doesn't ensure that you put an await on async functions when needed.

Async specifies that a function has two different behaviours: starting and finishing. You could assume everything is async, in which case the problem goes away, but that also moves the problem from code and into your head to remember whether something can be just started without completing
There's some good stuff on the regenerative ag Subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/RegenerativeAg/. Land Core is a leader in the space, as is the Soil Health Institute.
It’s the regulators doing the defining, not any HN commenters.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/230.501
Self-documenting code is great, but it's not the only documentation needed.
I need some more exercise in my life. (Long pandemic + desk job = ailing mentally).

Is a rowing machine a good way to go? (Like so many people, I have temporal, spatial, and monetary constraints -- I can't imagine spending $1500 USD on a piece of exercise equipment, doubly so given that I don't know whether I'd stick with using it.)

I really, really wish something like BlackBox VR (https://www.blackbox-vr.com) was available to me. It looks phenomenal.

I've done Ring Fit Adventure, and I like it. I've tried some of the VR fitness games, and, well, they're okay. I had a running buddy (who has moved away), and that was good, but we're now entering the long season of cold, short days, and it was always hard to get enough umph to go out in frigid weather before dawn, but I need to do something again.
Well, like so many people, I've not given much thought to what I'll do if my laptop "pops", because I've had this one for 8 years now, and it's been pretty solid all that time. Presumably if it blew up tomorrow I'd use my phone to pick up a used laptop of some kind and restore from backup. Right now that's an MBPr. In future I hope my FreeBSD Framework. As for sharing, I believe I can run what I need to be productive under FreeBSD. But time will tell. (It would be nice if a FreeBSD guru would volunteer to baby the Framework crowd with a guide. I would click the paypal donate button.)
With the caveat that achieving results anywhere close to his requires, um, anabolic support. Which is not to discount the very hard work that goes into his exercise routine. But he's 50... as the saying goes, he's as natty as a microwave.
3x% is kinda mediocre for a SaaS company at those revenue #s though.
Yes, as neutrons have a magnetic moment. Neutrons are not affected by electric fields.
A concept2 ergrower costs $800-900 shipped
Perhaps this is the real reason behind the "crack design team" jokes? A wholesale internal switchover from liquid-based stimulants after one too many accidents?

/s
An excerpt from the highest ever recorded dosage of LSD.

"Eight individuals who accidentally consumed a very high dose of LSD intranasally (mistaking it for cocaine) had plasma levels of 1000–7000 μg per 100mL blood plasma and suffered from comatose states, hyperthermia, vomiting, light gastric bleeding, and respiratory problems. However, all survived with hospital treatment and without residual effects."

https://maps.org/research-archive/w3pb/2008/2008_Passie_2306...

In short, even on the rare occasion when people have taken 1000x what they should, they didn't die.
Generally decay rates scale with the energy release (Q) which is relatively small here compared to the W decay. Decay is a tunneling process so less Q generally means a slower decay since there are fewer final states available (but the details are complicated).

Fermi's Golden Rule in principle allows you to calculate the decay rate. In practice we dont know how to calculate all the relevant quantities since QCD is hard.
I personally like more intense cardio basically because it's over faster. I'll take 16 minutes of suffering over 30 minutes of boredom and discomfort.
Didn't see the t/io_uring script, but the branch they're working on is here https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/log/?h=perf-wip
I think that many people only decided that they didn't need these features because Apple removed them.

It reminds me of this video from awhile ago by The Onion:

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
> There aren't many examples of incumbent businesses doing it successfully

Can you think of any that have? I'd be interested to see any counter examples
Last I heard, there were graphics driver issues left to iron out.

Linux 5.13 was the first with M1 support. Dunno if that's enough for M1 Pro/Max.
Any of the Qubes-certified laptops are guaranteed to work great out of the box, they come with Qubes OS preinstalled: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/certified-hardware/
'No idea how they did it' Secret hypersonic launch puts China ahead in arms race
Why not just use restic directly to back up?
You forgot the demand that they are free to "work from home" forever since Reed is rather adamant about return-to-office, even though he's a dirty little liberal fuck that bought Newsom his way out of the recall election.

Can someone pass me the covid please?
Where did I make a statement about your comment?
My counterpoint is that for the pro market, portability and power efficiency are not always that important. Yes, for plenty of people. But many pros are sitting at a desk all day and don’t need to move their computer around.

For these users, you’re not comparing M1 max to laptop CPUs/GPUs, but to the flagship AMD/Intel CPUs. Based on early results from the M1 max on geekbench, the 11900K and 5950X are still better. And the best GPUS for pro are absolutely still significantly more powerful than M1 Max.

This makes sense, because you have to dedicate a lot of power to desktop PCs, which you just can’t do in a laptop. But I think the pro question is still often “what gives me the most performance regardless of power usage,” and the answer is still a custom built computer with the latest high-end parts from Intel/amd/Nvidia, not apple.

Obviously Apple is basically offering the best performance hands down in a portable form factor. But Apple also isn’t releasing parts like the 3090 which draws like 400W, so it’s not yet competing for super high end performance.

Point being, I think Intel and AMD aren’t really left in the dust yet.
There is a lot to discuss about crypto but this is clear overreacting by an AG. Won’t stick
Female author Mola revealed to be three men at €1m prize ceremony
Its always so interesting to me to run into people conditioned to have a blanket juvenile “anti drugs” view, especially if they are US citizens

They cant even tell the difference between substances to say why or why not

If thats you, why is that? And is there any specific authority you would need to hear from to take another look?
I have washed my AirPods pro twice when I forget they were in my pocket (outside the case), full washer and dryer cycles, and they still work.
Chemical Properties of Dioxygen Difluoride (1962) [pdf]
> If Powell is the one responsible, are you absolving Donald Rumsfeld and more importantly Dick Cheney of responsibility

Nope, responsibility is not exclusive. All of them bear undiluted responsibility for their actions and the deliberate and forseeable consequences. Two people collaborating in a murder aren't each half-murderers, they are both unqualified, unmitigated murderers.
I assume Dell still offers dozens of laptop configurations, so it’s easier to find your preferred combination of features (if you don’t mind researching).

Apple keeps a much more streamlined lineup than any other major laptop manufacturer.
This was in around 2012, maybe attitudes have changed. This isn't my thread, but shows what responses to the question were like at the time: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2805582
You're right, this one was focused largely on the work of one organic farmer, although I would argue that much of what he does is actually regenerative in the sense of regenerating local commerce and economies. And he was one of the first to grow his own soil nutrients by planting dryland alfalfa as a cover crop, and rotating his cover crops.

I would also say that while you're right about progressives moving to Montana, this is not one of them. Bob is a third-generation Big Sandy farmer. In the book Liz Carlisle co-authored with him, she said he was a republican.

My idea was to show how through organic, he'd added value to his own farm, to many others, and to rural communities. And that meant creating infrastructure and new markets. Regenerative, now 40 years later, can learn from that as IT aims to create new markets.
In northern border cities in the US, you can get CBC on terrestrial AM and FM, with zero advertisements or donation solicitations. It's pretty great.
It doesn't matter when you start the clock, just that you count at the beginning and end. I doubt scattering plays a big role here at these kinetic energies.
Colin Powell dies, trailblazing general stained by Iraq
I found it difficult to follow on many levels, probably because the author has been so frustrated that it became a really passionate piece.

> When you write “self-documenting code”, it’s self-documenting to you.

When documenting code, it is also documenting to you. Just as there is no way to predict what will be obvious and not when writing code, the same applied to documentation. We all had to wade through piles of documentation that means nothing to us because the person writing it has a completely different framing. That's not an argument for either side.

> But even though comments are garbo, they’re still the only means we have of interleaving code with expressive human-to-human communication.

A lot of people engaging in these discussion completely ignore that most of the code we write now is versioned, and switching on/off the blame display on a file is enough to bring a ton of context on any single line. And if it's not enough, just get back to the merge request with the explanations and the comments, eventually discussion of the whole feature.

To me this currently the single best mechanism to switch from just following the code, to trying to get the context, when it was written, by who, for what ticket, for what release etc.

It looks to me the whole "better documentation" the author is looking for is in that meta system that is not just versioning our code, but he doesn't seem to care to jump back and forth, and everything absolutely needs to be in his editor. That's pretty alien to me.
> English language puts "please" every time you are telling someone to do something

As a native English speaker: no it doesn't. Whoever told you that was gaslighting you, a corporate-politically-correct shitheel, or both. (Or being sarcastic, or cargo-culting something they picked from one of the previous categories, or some other breakdown of communication.)
Cans have an extremely high recycling rate because (unlike plastic) it costs a lot more energy to get the stuff out of the ground than to melt it down and reuse. Cans are also fairly easy to get back clean (unlike plastic), and they don't degrade as much as plastic does.

In the US, which is not very good at recycling at all, the EPA estimates that 70% of cans are recycled: https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-...

In Japan, recycling rates for cans are about 94%. https://recycling.world-aluminium.org/regional-reports/japan...
Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules
This was back around 2012, and it looks like not sleeping when the lid is closed is officially an option in the power settings now, so it sounds like things have changed. Although I don't think overheating was ever a real problem in the first place. With my 2012 MacBook Pro when the screen is closed, the air from the vents can still escape out behind the screen.
DNS – The First Distributed Database
Great read by the author of Redis. Here's an excerpt:

"Many believe that comments are useless if the code is solid enough. The idea is that when everything is well designed, the code itself documents what the code is doing, hence code comments are superfluous. I disagree with that vision"

See http://antirez.com/news/124
> who started this trend of having to login to read stuff (maybe Instagram?)

Quora?
I’m a big fan of `enum class IsFoo : bool { no, yes };`. I find it to be a great balance between type safety and conciseness. If you want your own unique Boolean-like type, that one line is all you need (unless you want operators, etc.)
If I wanted to obscure my identity via text, changing my word choice, slang, colloquium, etc, would comprise my first naive attempt. I find myself changing the punctuation I use when pretending to be someone else, or trying to convey some personality traits that aren't natural to me. For example, one of my friends always puts a space before question marks and exclamation points.

I once ran Satoshi et al.'s writings through some simple stylometry service. If I recall correctly, my search pointed to Nick Szabo. A quick Google search shows that others have come up with Szabo, Finney or Dai. I am now super curious as to what the results would be if punctuation was analyzed exclusively... Unfortunately, I don't have time at the moment to pursue this tangent.
'No idea how they did it'.

Oh? The CCP wasn't more interested in court martialing people who didn't want to learn CRT? CRT as you all are well aware is descendent from CT which is again from Marxism and Marxism holds materialism as a core tenet.

We've known for a hundred years that materialism is verifiably false so this whole CRT thing is just pure fraud.
One of the things I dread is using two program windows side-by-side when doing code reviews.

Most of the arguments are in the full screen hiding the notch with a black title bar. What if you don't use it FS all the time? The notch would be right where two windows overlap, unless you manually resize both windows every time. Every day for 8 hours+ for everytime you open a code editor

Extra screen real estate is great, but I am sure they didn't have to go all the way to top. The point is getting moot because now the chins are unusable space as well all the time.
I know nothing about hardware, basically. Do Apple’s new GPU cores come close to the capabilities of discrete GPUs like what are used for gaming/scientific applications? Or are those cards a whole different thing?
Awesome, thanks for the lengthy reply. Heroic is usually considered at least 5g - there's a saying you can meet God at 5g; so it was probably an equivalent dose to that in synthetic form.

I am curious myself if there are other diagnostics, health metrics that are easily/non-invasively measured to help determine or predict what experience a person will have for their first experience or to give an idea of how many sessions may be necessary for what level of "breakthrough."

Sounds like a good practical list of things to do - to develop multiple angles of "attack" to build more weight towards the goal, to reference for yourself as support to counter the strength/weight of urges.

In part reminds me of "psychological flexibility" practices - to help allow thoughts to be less rigid, to offer more fluidity to thought - perhaps you already had that open-fluid mind and so you simply needed the practice/guidance for the practice to then benefit from that value; an example is perhaps you normally would tell yourself "I feel happy" but then that might trigger a stress or feeling of cognitive dissonance, and so instead you'd train yourself to acknowledge all aspects of you in that moment and instead say "I feel happy AND sad;" perhaps not the best example or explaining of similarity. I wonder if the researchers first created a survey to determine the level of this kind of psychological flexibility a person has, and then see how those different groups perform in the psilocybin research - if and how the outcome of different groups differ; could perhaps divide it up even further by providing psychological flexibility training to part of the different groups - and see how all the numbers conclude.

Fun fact: the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous actually wanted the first step to be everyone do LSD/acid.
> It's not the chip, it's the packaging that is massively unfriendly to the environment, stupid.

Who are you calling stupid? If you're going to call someone or something stupid, don't do it in a stupid way.
To me context of software patents; is like patenting a how to use hummer, and not novel innovation of hummer design. More simpler analogy can be applied to wheels, imagine patent where wheels cannot be turned left on any vehicle, because of patent. In context of wheel, I have no issue if someone invents and patents better rubber type and production technology, but patenting how rubber generally can be used on the wheel is simply wrong, it has not benefit to society/humanity.
College students love the idea of diversity - until it ruins their football team
Most of this comment is untrue & unnecessarily hyperbolic. This is an updating of the old Soviet FOBS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment...) with a glider, not a brand new technology and definitely not a 'Sputnik moment'.

'If China parks a bunch of these in space it would mean that any US naval task force or ground force anywhere in the world is now at risk'

No, there is absolutely no indication that FOBS is even close to being that accurate. Past experiments by the Soviets regularly missed their targets by dozens of miles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment...
Same here, 1% about fits. Most of the time I only use !g for when DDG once again decided to ignore what I search for, and even then, about 80% of the time the only difference is that Google actually tells me they ignored what I searched for.
I have never understood that compulsion, why do people here constantly vandalize anything unsupervised. What is the motivation of these people they don't get anything out of it. Why break something when it wont benefit you to do so. Why do people rub feces all over public restrooms, break vending machines or graffiti hate filled messages on others property. why make to world a worse place for everyone including yourself for no gain.
1. If you're a gamer, this seems comparable to a 3070 Laptop, which is comparable to a 3060 Desktop.

2. If you're a ML researcher you use CUDA (which only works on NVIDIA cards), they have basically a complete software lock unless you want to spend an undefined number of X hundreds of hours fixing and troubleshooting compatibility issues.
I think the argument for Cloudflare successfully "disrupting" AWS is wrong.

I'd imagine that Cloudflare's master plan isn't to render Big Cloud obsolete (in a Christiansen/MBA case study sense) . They want to become the edge compute equivalent of Big Cloud (AWS/MSFT/GCP).

They've already invested in the physical prescence to do so (similar to the massive fixed cost that it takes to build hyperscale data centers around the world), in a manner that's most valuable to their customers (low latency compute, storage and egress).

This isn't disruption: it's new market creation. It just won't be obvious that's the case for another 10-15 years...
> or leave spaces before punctuation marks

I've picked up the habit of doing this (in chat messages at least) from working with a lot of Europeans for years (I'm American). I like how it gives extra emphasis to question & exclamation marks.
If the percent sign comes before the number as in %10, they are Turkish or Persian.
Your argument is that Powell should not be criticised because whataboutism?
I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make. Florida had more than double the per capita deaths than California during the delta wave. It also has lower vaccination rates.
Yes. The company should never have given this option in the first place. Instead they should have given the workers a fair share of the profits (or hopeful profits in case of a startup), and then increased everyones wages in porportion to how the value of their work increased.

It is not in the interest of the worker to gamble their salaries like this, and it is often used as a tactic to pretend you are paying more then you are... Most options given to workers amount to less then two weeks of traditional salaries but the average worker experiences it as far more.

But again all of this is besides the point. I started out with critiquing multi-million dollar companies (not startups) with paying their shareholders and CEOs so much that it is just as likely to result in higher consumer prices as high worker pay. This critique still stands.
I've recently appreciated the "human" nature of comments. The funny bits, the exclamation marks, the "hack" warnings. These comments truly make the code easier to grasp. Subconsciously, I think: "Hey, a human, just like me, wrote this. It can't be that difficult".
Dropbox delivers strong Q1 results as it targets upsell in mid-market
The people who are doing that are generally not thinking rationally in the first place.

Mental healthcare in the US is absolutely awful, and so is the safety net.
I've played with Neuron too, and liked it. I'm using org-roam at the moment, but will keep an eye on Emanote.

One of the better advertisements for Neuron is the author's own notes being posted online as exported HTML.