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Good golly, you're right about the space and page down keys. I've seen quite a few websites with this scroll-dependent content, and always found it pretty annoying to have to strain my middle finger to keep scrolling. Scrolling by page makes the site much more accessible. I feel pretty foolish now.

On the other hand, I still think it's a bit silly to make a site that you have to navigate using such a unique way (relative to other websites).
I have an old phone that I install their app on. Their app isn't even available on the app store anymore, you have to download it directly from them.

I know that doesn't answer your question regarding ethics, but I absolutely don't trust them from a security perspective. Very good product, though.
> Without patent protection, there's very little financial incentive to invent new pharmaceuticals.

Of course there is. The government would have paid a company a whole bunch of money to do it, for COVID.
I feel all coworkers keep this wall between them and everyone else. Everything they say is like they cc'ing HR when they say it. You see those stock photos of smiling, that's how they always smile, fake and obvious.
And 90% of your typing was probably trying to figure out how to exit?
If they wanted, they can expand easily to a lot more - which is probably what happened to them inside facebook anyways.

Even then, they can still be insanely profitable per engineer.
>> (much less incentive to know)

Just riffing here, but I think a lot of times we do optimize just because it seems like doing good work, polishing things up. If it would feel cleaner, faster, and if we have time, we go back and improve it. Sometimes we even test that concept by running some piece of code millions of times even if, in practice, there is virtually zero speed difference. And I think we probably do that because we want to really know our tools better and more closely than just having the divorced sense that the computer is doing something we don't completely understand, under the hood - shaving off the milliseconds of difference between .map and .foreach and for(let...) or reducing what you need to some arcane series of byte array operations is what does give us the sense of control, that we're not just functionaries in a big REPL. I mean, I do take the time to optimize when I'm approaching a tricky problem as a matter of principle, not as code golf. But the underlying principle holds that, as you said, when lag for a given program approaches zero, so does the incentive to improve it. If I were still writing programs in BASIC on a TRS-80, you can be sure I'd optimize a whole lot more. So when you stick hundreds of such programs together into a framework, and each has its own authors, the collection or platform will tend toward maximizing the available hardware until the very last program, the new one, the one you're trying to write, has to find a way to optimize. And then it will optimize just enough.

I guess you could phrase this as: Software tends toward filling or exceeding hardware capacity over time.
Dear Apple, can we please have headphone jacks back on at least one model? High-quality wired headphones can create a business incentive for headphone jacks.

Bonus points for a physical switch to disable all radios (Bluetooth, UWB, Wi-Fi, cellular).
Hmm, this article seems to disagree.

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Semglee, a biosimilar form of insulin."

"As a generic, it can be automatically swapped for the price brand-name versions to help patients save money."

https://www.verywellhealth.com/fda-allows-generic-swap-for-b...
Thanks, but I've been wearing glasses for 45 years now. I've made my peace with the fact that the contacts thing ain't gonna happen for me.
Most of those several trillion dollars of spending proposals are spread out across several to the 10 years, and many of those proposals are paired with revenue increases that will offset the spending costs.

So, no, the existence of spending proposals absolutely does not make it inevitable.
Is it really always 30%?
For example, wolves eating deer meant more deer (because losses to illness decrease when sick deer are caught and eaten before they can infect others).
> The “Software is Math” is both poorly reasoned and probably not desirable.

Hey! Don't you know everyone programs in Coq these days and every CSS style sheet is backed by proof? /s
Yes, and gay people were pissed about it, too. Your point? It was an unjust way to treat homosexuals, it's an unjust way to treat supposed "bigots". Especially when it turns into vulgar Gesinnungsschnüffelei combined with double standards, and reading inner motivations and beliefs into snippets, because "it could be".
read up on free software movement vs open source thing. you are only looking at "open source" when the argument being that the software should be free for users, not the developers in the middle.
when i write AGPL code, i expect "end users" to be given source of that code in whatever circumstance they might get to use the software. now here comes a developer who uses my code, puts it in a private fork in your words and denies his/her users access to source code, what happened to my giving that dev license to use the code?

what you are referring to us those MIT/BSD license where the developer is expected to heartlessly work to build software which can be forked by anyone, used in a proprietary code and users cant do anything about it. you are talking about freedom of the "developer" while free software people talk about freedom of end users.

obviously "fake open source" is there because something like SSPL is not a "open source license" but it is in essense the superset of AGPL and that is what Free software guys want. you use this code, the users MUST get source, the dev has no say in that
As far as I’m aware while it’s illegal to fly a drone from open space (either OSMP or BoCo), it’s legal from Boulder Parks and Rec. So any of the more urban parks are fine. And most (but not all) of the national forest land is ok as well.
Above comment was addressing all patents, not software patents specifically.

I think everyone here is in agreement that software patents are harmful and not what was intended by the patent system. Software is already protected by copyright.
Isn't that just inflation in a Halloween costume?

Inflation: your cash loses real value.

Negative rates: your cash loses real value and nominal value.
Yes, it is the same thing.
Governments should probably just buy good patents and release them into the public domain. Not with eminent domain or anything like that, just offer to pay the market price for the patent. Then you solve this problem because the inventor gets their reward one way or the other but you don't have these really good inventions going ignored for twenty years because the market for the technology at the monopoly price is 2% of the size it is in the public domain.

Preposterously, we have a system that does the opposite and encourages universities to file patents on publicly-funded research.
Why no 8k support :(
Apple always has to hold something back
And those companies with the capability to do it wouldn't have existed.

There needs to be a mechanism to profit from the R&D. Point blank. It doesn't have to be through patents... We can create a new system if a better one is devised. But fundamentally, nobody will invest billions of dollars into a venture that is guaranteed not to be profitable.

The alternative is fully public funded research.
The innovators in pharmaceutical research need large amounts of money to run the studies to show safety and effectiveness of their inventions, to say nothing of the even more hit or miss discovery process. It’s conceivable we could pay for that in a different manner than patents and high US drug prices, but that cost can’t just be handwaved away.
nope. AGPL has no clause to say you have to contribute back. you only have to PROVIDE source to your users. thats all it does.
Local regulations for drone are a mess, any authority can put a sentence on their website that restricts drone usage. The one good news is that local authorities cannot restrict flying the drone within their area (but can restrict take off and landing / controlling within the area).

There are numerous apps that try to bridge the gap between the FAA rules (which the dji app does integrate) and the rest.
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Hasselblad has its roots in military optics and space-constrained imaging solutions. They have made many professional surveillance systems over the years with smaller sensors. Hopefully this is not just a slapped logo.
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That's better than no protection at all. If you have something really innovative you might be able to get a loan to protect it, or sell or lease it to companies that would help defend it.
If a company proves their vaccine "works" it would make sense for a government to want to buy it from them.
I have used upwork.com sucessfully, and also lost many jobs this way as well. So use the site as an elemEnt of a mixture
Particularyly with linkedin.com
DJI has very nice hardware, but the app was really off-putting for me ...
Doesn't that mean that all the MAC address rotation that's been added to WiFi and Bluetooth devices achieved a lot less? It raises the difficulty a bit (you probably need a SDR vs any Bluetooth device) and may have already been known but it should still be mitigated.

If the Apple AirTag things are as affected that could be a huge problem.
Biodiversity recovers at some rate, and we destroy it at some rate.

At present, the magnitude of those rates is 100k to 1.

That’s clearly an unsustainable situation.
Except rates were realistic, debt to GDP was moderate for the entire time you are discussing and now they aren't even close so thid doesn't hold much weight for me.
I'm actually more ok with pure math patents than software patents.

If someone constructively proves p=np then they deserve some term-limited profit taking.

Getting a monopoly for being the first pos to mail some legalese to the right government office about clicking a button once to order something for delivery is both not math and not beneficial to society.

The problem is software patents is not that software is math. The problem is software patents is that most patentable software is obvious to anyone without severe brain damage, and no one in the legal establishment has historically had any clue how to assess whether some idea in software is non-obvious.
It looks like it clones your drives and makes an .iso boot disk that you can stick in your computer and restore from snapshot. At least, that's what the demo video showed. The isos live on an NFS share, and I think there's a pxe-style bootloader that will fetch the latest iso for your machine from the share.

Elegant and simple, but definitely not workable for restoring a large network of ransomwared hospitals. Also, I doubt this would stand up well to ransomware either.. worms target shares and then what will you do? It's turtles all the way down! (Unless you use data diodes or write to tape or something.)
Past threads:

Calm Technology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21799736 - Dec 2019 (155 comments)

Principles of Calm Technology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12389344 - Aug 2016 (66 comments)

Calm Technology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9107526 - Feb 2015 (1 comment)

Also:

Designing Calm Technology (1995) - https://web.archive.org/web/19990225161500/http://www.ubiq.c... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7976258 - July 2014 (2 comments)
The concept of "illegal numbers" is indeed quite interesting when you consider the countability of Turing Machines.

Lemma 1: The computation performed by any program or function (algorithm) operating on a Turing Machine can be represented by an initial Turing Machine state and the rules of turing machine computation

Lemma 2: There are countably many turing machines

Lemma 3: Therefore, a unique integer can be assigned to each Turing-machine program that could ever possibly exist.

Lemma 4: All implementations of a function, regardless of language, can therefore be concisely and uniquely represented by a particular integer.

Contradiction: Implementations of a function can be copyrighted, and yet integers cannot.

Contradiction: Abstract algorithms can be patented, and yet integers cannot.

Computer programs and algorithms are very akin to numbers. Most of them are useless, they don't perform any useful computation, many of them are not "correct", and most of them never even halt, most likely. However, there are certain "interesting" numbers that have useful properties due to emergent properties of the mathematical systems in which they exist. This is highly akin to, for example, prime numbers. Can you patent a prime number? Well, I can patent computer program 389355935, and just by giving you that number, I've given you all the information needed to implement that particular Turing Machine.
People will ignore new information when they've already made up their minds or are too attached to their own reality (pretend sleeping), but can easily change their minds if they accept/are aware of their ignorance (sleeping).

The use of "wake" here also implies an intention to /convince/ the sleepers of something, which doesn't really jibe with the rest of the article for me, where he equates humility with lack of desire for validation, but I think it could be interpreted more passively as well, eg. enlighten.
Photography itself changed. Not many photographers are shooting for fashion magazines and you could probably get the job done with a Canon 5D which cost a fraction of what a Hasselblad did. Canon and Nikon were still kind of slow adopting new tech like mirrorless cameras and lost matket share to Sony. Leica instead concentrated on selling cameras to dentists and other well off types, making lenses for other camera systems and mobile phones. They're still here today.
And it turns out, oops, your thing infringes upon 62 other patents that another company happens to hold. You can either desist or have a nice cross-licensing deal where they get to use your patent for free in exchange for now suing you.
It is false to tell people that self-hosting has to be that hard. If you know what you are doing and put the services in a jail / VM only not being exposed to the internet, you can leave things unpatched very long, and only update them when bug fixes or new features of recent versions are needed.

If you are a 50,000 people company where your own employees could be the adversaries maybe not. But in this case you also have the budget to have a proper security team. Apart from this case, with proper virtualization and no direct internet exposure, you'll find out that 99.99% of CVEs are not a risk to you.

If you are under-budgeted, it's fine to neglect such internal services and check vulnerabilities once a year or less. However always stay on top of the CVEs of internet facing services.
My point is your message is basically the propaganda of cloud services "doing it yourself is HARD", "email is HARD", "this and that is HARD" lol.

Self-hosting in jails not being directly exposed to the internet is a productivity booster as it allows you to not fix what works FOR YOU. Just keep using this 4 years old version if it works well for you. But make informed choices as much as possible, try to stay on top of CVEs even if you decide not to patch these internal services 99% of the time. But even if you can't stay on top of your non-internet facing jails, it won't be a real risk 99% of the time.
The tech specs page [1] has some numbers, that might help.

I think 8 m/s ascent rate and 5,000 m max service ceiling sounded impressive.

[1]: https://www.dji.com/se/mobile/mavic-3/specs
Where are you backing up to? Are you sure ransomware worms won't attack your backup machines too?
Excellent example for what we mean: Our article doesn't discuss anything about "What is needed to register for service X." Discussing this is perfectly valid; however, it isn't about the article.
There is no principled reason to stop at software patents, they are literally theoretically equivalent to any other patent. Industry has already abandoned them in any case.

In software, we’ve already returned to the state that patents were designed to avoid. Everything of value is treated as a trade secret. In several domains of computer science, virtually everything that is state-of-the-art is never published and is instead slathered in NDAs. And for good reason, patents on computer science have been effectively unenforceable for decades. So instead, no one publishes.

This isn’t speculation, it is official policy in organizations I work with. The end state is that public computer science is mediocre compute science. I’m agnostic about it since it doesn’t affect me either way, but I recognize the suboptimality.
You’ve picked one large-molecule therapeutic which has significant variations between different products and much higher production costs. The vast majority of drugs are nothing like it, and they follow the pattern of a dramatic drop in price once generics can be legally sold.
> Do other countries warn against using American products and services?

The EU warns against US based cloud infrastructure.
One way to side step the issue - trust the hiring process. I haven't seen very many issues, but Meta seems to give people multiple chances, on multiple teams, under multiple managers, before doing a pip (or whatever the equivalent is).
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Alphabet/Google Sidewalk Labs has kiosks on NYC streets, each with dozens of sensors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16214791
Almost, but not quite. In the US you're legally beholden to fly according to the guidelines of a "community-based organization", which often include generic guidelines like "don't fly wrecklessly" and "don't pose a danger to people, vehicles, animals, or disturb the peace". Should someone call the police on you, it's easier to argue your compliance when your drone is tiny than when it's big. Smaller also tends to be quieter, so you disturb people less and are less likely to get in trouble in the first place.
It is trivial to prove that all patents are theoretically equivalent. There is nothing special about algorithm or software patents in this regard.
Isn’t that like arguing you shouldn’t be able to copyright a book because the text could be encoded as a number?
edit: actually per the sibling comment, this is not true!

There are not countably many possible books that could ever exist.

Therefore, I can't tell you "I just wrote book 394343" and have that convey any useful information. You can do that with computer programs.

Computer programs are integers. At least for Turing Machines. "Useful" computer programs are like "primes" or other "interesting numbers", they are scattered around the (integer) number line and they need to be discovered, but they are emergent mathematical properties of the system, not novel innovations. The innovation comes from deciding that particular computation is useful - like primes can be used as a basis for cryptography.

Cryptography is patentable. The primes that go into it are not. Those are just numbers that happen to have some useful property for this application.
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> You have to put up good reasons or custom needs to use something else.

Its bloody too complex was a good enough reason to move off it to ECS.
Sorry that you got blocked by her. However I can only imagine the level of online abuse she is getting daily. Her stuff is interesting, the tech stuff is real and so are the videos of daily life in Shenzen but the soft-porn and silly drama quickly gets too much for me.
> Governments should probably just buy good patents and release them into the public domain.

Patents expire after 20 years. There is no need to buy them. You just invite more corruption if you tell the government to pick and choose which ones are "good".
> can't stick around because of personality clashes

No way to know this, and Im sure any experienced candidate would ever say this
> But what you are missing is that many modern companies, and especially software companies (2/3 of labor expenses are R&D), have capital that is basically IP created by their employees, and so just as it's a good idea to sell equity to buy some metal stamping machine, and this does not dilute the equity of the firm or cheat any shareholders, so it's also a good idea to sell equity to hire the person to write your application, or create a vaccine, or design a new engine, and this also does not dilute equity or hurt the company.

This is a useful way to think about R&D expenses, but it’s not a justification for different treatment of cash and stock comp for employees. It’s more like an argument that R&D investment should be capitalized - and it sometimes is. But whether you capitalize R&D shouldn’t depend on what portion of the expense is stock vs cash.
This comment is both true and not. Absolutely right that you can’t count on a patent to magically protect you without litigating (or at least credibly threatening to).

It’s not true that you will always need to put up the money yourself. If the patent is sufficiently valuable you can enter into joint ventures, or contingency agreements to have someone else bankroll the fight.

Having a large company infringe on a patent also makes it a desirable purchase for any other company with a bone to pick with the infringer.
> There is no principled reason to stop at software patents, they are literally theoretically equivalent to any other patent.

They're not. Software is already protected by copyright.
He has enough money now and wants to do what he loves.
OnePlus has had fake Hasselblad for a while as well.
You probably talk about Vagrant, which is only one of the Hashicorp tools. It's probably the most developer centric of them.

But Hashicorp has a lot of tools which make sense as building-blocks in a software architecture or in CI/CD pipelines.

Most of the tools I would put in the DevOps space, so they enable people to build, deploy and release more consistently.
It's nice to read all these comments about the first console. I'm so glad people have happy memories and are sharing them, it's exactly why I picked video games to be the centre focus point of the website.

The website voxodyssey is named after this console there is a story behind this if you are interested if not I leave you in peace friends
Didn't mobile OSes start randomizing these device addresses some years back, or was that just for wifi?
There's a trivial bijection between the natural numbers the set of all strings.

Every patent application is a finite string.