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Many people DO eat themselves to death.
"A weird throwback to some past society" rings true, especially insofar as the world now has a central knowledge repository—the Internet.

Stopping software patents as a first step would set a precedent and provide a beachhead.
In 2013 it cost $33,000 to file a software patent: a startup I worked for was trying to file one. There's no way a starving tinkerer would be able to afford a patent.

But assume s/he did afford one.

Now comes the theft. Amazon steals it, and now our tinkerer needs to cough up millions of dollars to go after a one-trillion dollar company. It lingers in courts for decades. Even pro-bono legal advice would eventually give up. Futile.

Patents exist only for companies to wage war for monopolies.
> Bootstrap has 98% of utility classes that you need for most projects.

Including responsive classes? i.e. make this div X rem on mobile, Y rem on tablets, and Z rem on desktop? With 3 class attributes that require no config?
True, but Hasselblad is a bit of a unique situation, especially compared with Zeiss. Also, Sony and Panasonic do not disconfigure their lens hoods to accommodate the Zeiss/Leica logos.
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Yup. I am switching browsers from Firefox now.

I feel like this is an April 1 thing that accidentally shipped in November: a fabricated nonsense world coupled with an abhorrent and unavoidable eyesoreness to every page.

Baffling. Well, at least Microsoft Edge is usable these days...
Yes, this could be jittered out of existence, or brought so close to frequency that there wasn't enough error to measure.
It's probably because it's a large company, this kind of failure occurred.

I bet they'll find the scapegoat, while the whole chain of managers will keep their positions and/or get promoted.
I'm not a lawyer but I think any unique text you write you own the copyright to by default. It's a different question whether this should be so or not.
The polio vaccine was given away for free.
PDP-11's (LSI-11's) were originally limited to 32k 16-bit words (64kb) but were exanded to 18bit addressing allowing up to 256Kb. The PC is only 16 bit though so 64k of code directly addressable at any one time (ignoring the reserved area for memory mapped hardware). The MMU was pretty simple so easy enough to access the extra memory without relying on the OS (simpler under RT-11 than RSTS/E).

I still have shelves of DEC documentation (and a few PDP-11's).
of course not. before you show any text, you have to download and display all of the ads first silly.
Could we release a couple of tigers in your house for the greater good, or would they mainly inhabit places with higher contentrations of paupers and other such undesirables?
I'm in 100% agreement and generally dislike information asymmetry jobs, but it doesn't mean they can't help your prospects when you are talking with them. Your judgement of a recruiter as a person isn't generally relevant to job seeking, but it doesn't work like that the other direction.

If you're looking for a job and talking to recruiters it's foolish to then treat them coldly, if you hate it so much find other means, I've had plenty of success with personal network referrals and cold applying also. It's like working with a realtor but then trying to avoid telling them why you moved or what type of house you're looking for and only giving them your budget. It makes no sense to me.
You're assuming that once you have a patent, you're protected. When in fact, you still need capital to defend your patent in litigation. It's turtles all the way down.
The Free Software Foundation is biased.
So Minerva is like a distributed datastore, specifically for python object storage ?

Interesting. Do you think you would do this today with a Cassandra/Hbase? Can it be done - let's say take python 3.10 and the latest Cassandra (or even better - something like Firebase or Cloud Spanner).

Just curious that in a post AWS/Firebase world, can something like Minerva be built, without investing in writing the db store ground up.
At this point the threat model for you CI system should be to assume it it comprimised if you havent patched.
> There is nothing that says increases are inevitable.

Several trillion dollars in new spending proposals make it inevitable.
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> We wouldn't have vaccines without some form of protection for scientists and their backers.

Pay them with public funds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prizes_as_an_alternative_to_pa...
> GNU/Linux
Free software such as the GNU/Linux and FreeBSD operating systems were developed without software patents. 91% of the top 500 super computers run GNU/Linux.

This is misleading. Linux has all sorts of stuff in it that used to be under patent protection but isn't anymore because the patents expired. The entire argument for patents is that they incentivize both the creation of new things and the public disclosure of them, with the idea that eventually they will become part of the public domain. There is a complicated cost-benefit analysis here that has been studied by academics for years, which the FSF just ignores. This is fine if you view this as an advocacy piece, but not fine if you want to actually learn something about the issue.
Patents are an exchange. I share my invention, you provide protection so I can recoup the costs of creation.

Without them, there is little incentive to create, and much more incentive to rip off someone else's work. The result would be a reduction of technology that would put luddites to shame.

If we got rid of the patent system today, there would probably still be vaccines 5 years from today because of the prior investment. But, in 100 years, the only people who could get vaccines would be the ultra wealthy, and 100 years after that we would lose the knowledge to create a lot of new technology because the old tech never sufficiently made it into the public sphere.
Actually they like using copyright to enforce software freedom, but I see your point.
Ok, now please elaborate on how the research and investment that was needed to develop the polio vaccine in any way resembled the amount of research and investment required for modern day vaccines?
> The Free Software Foundation is biased.

Ok? I'm not sure what point you are making. I didn't mention FSF.
Beatiful comment.
I think so too, but then I think about review spam, spoofed listings, and all kinds of other misaligned incentives that reviews attract. I think if it were as good as HN is on average, it would be an interesting subsite, but the mods and the users create something special on HN scale. I’m just not sure a HN review site would get the love it needs to be better than mediocre.

All that said, I’d still read it for the comments.
Without patent protection, there's very little financial incentive to invent new pharmaceuticals.

Anything you come up with could be copied and produced for pennies on the dollars by any number of companies. Of course, the cost to produce most medicines is quite low.

So you have to invest a high fixed cost in R&D, at great risk of failure, and in the end you don't recoup any of that cost.

When patents expire, you'll see many generics come onto the market at reduced costs, and cost to consumer goes down.

Some other system could probably work, but free market R&D would fail without protections to profit from creations. I suspect trying to replace the free market system with some quasi-public one would not produce as many innovations.
Bit OT: since I really need my calender widget and been really used to sorting my apps on Homescreen, can anyone recommend a good launcher. Currently I am using OpenLauncher but it is buggy in widget management.
Most likely use: pull disconnect before winching wreckage onto flatbed.

On Teslas, there's a marked place to cut the power cables, rather than a disconnect switch.
Where the heck are eggs 75 cents for a dozen? Even buying directly from farms in the rural south eggs were at least $2 per dozen and that was a steal.
For the most part, even tinkering inventors are simply forced to sell their big idea / invention to a company at less than face value. Not many have the capital to do anything with their inventions.
What is the concerned ape way?
I may be wrong, but I thought mRNA vaccine was only developed after key patents for it have expired.

Whether patents help or hinder innovation seems to depend on how general the patented idea is. If it's really broadly applicable, they hinder it IMHO.

I also don't see the patents benefiting researchers anymore, rather than some corporate middlemen.
The compelling argument, rewarding innovation, is the same as it was in 1789, in the United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8:

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
I’m still personally seeing quite a bit better performance on my old laptop with a dedicated gpu in Unity 21.2 - but the power draw is much much lower (consequently better battery life) on the Mac side which definitely has its place.
Just adding to these from my favourite incident:

You restore from backups to alternate hardware, but your key software is license locked to hardware. It was always the documented recovery process to contact the vendor and request a new license. Their SLA is 30 days.
Parent is probably referring to the fact that this website was created by the FSF, hence they are motivated to tie ending patents to the free software movement.
Then it doesn't make sense to include that statement on the home page. That statement never held water for me. I do think we should look at what it would take to ditch software patents. Now that I see this page is from the FSF, it makes sense. I know RMS will never give up on forcibly making all software free.
It's emulated, not virtualized, so there might be situations where the programs you copy over encounter issues[0]. It's also focused on console applications, so no GUI app support anytime soon.

0: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/issues
I'm legitimately not sure what you mean.

If I go to the site and only hit the space or page down key, it's not really any worse than a series of slides. A couple of them are transitional but the vast majority have information on them.

If I do any kind of normal scrolling, then all the animations work as intended and it's better than a series of slides.

I can't find anywhere where it's "5 screens with literally no information". Can you be more specific about what part of the page you were at? Maybe it has something to do with screen size? Mine is 1080p and it seems to act the same regardless of browser width.
The difficulty with this is choosing what to fund in what amount. Bureaucracies are quite bad at this.

Patents solve this by using the market. If you patent some garbage, nobody buys it and you make no money. If you invent something ingenious that everybody wants once it exists but nobody else would have thought to offer a prize for before it existed, you make a lot of money.
What, precisely, are “software patents”? It is a suitcase term that includes unrelated things. Technically, it tends to conflate business method patents and algorithm patents, which have different legal rationales. Most egregious complaints are against business method patents that are largely unenforceable anyway. Algorithm patents are enforceable globally because they are directly reducible to electronic circuits, and electronic circuit designs are patentable and treated as equivalent.

The concept of IP is built on top of convenient legal fictions. It was never intended to be consistent. Nonetheless, it recognizes the implications of the cost asymmetry of generating IP versus copying it. There are no trivial economic solutions to the optimization of IP generation, it is an extremely difficult theory problem.
> These cameras are hot rods rather than tools, which benefits nobody

For what it's worth, I was thinking about getting this. I'm not a photographer, but I'd really like to try flying this around and trying my darndest to take cool pictures. I don't necessarily care about modularity or repairability. I don't have the expertise anyhow. It seems like it might be beneficial to my demographic.
I really wish it had a thumb trackstick instead of that silly micro-touchpad.
Oh I didn't see that. Well this is dead in the water then, in my opinion. Using verbiage that sounds like abolishing copyright will never fly anywhere outside a very small subset of software folks.
I want to know how to counter this effect.
Many mask studies are based upon the real world in the field, such as the Bangladesh one, as well as the Korean subway study elsewhere linked to. So it's simply not true that all of these are somehow in lab only.

I have no idea what mask behavior is like where you are, but it's known that masks are asymmetric -- they prevent transmission better than they prevent catching COVID (unless N95). But that doesn't mean you wearing one is 0% effective.. it's still a diminished amount. It also gives an example for behavior for others for them to emulate. Certain regions (like SF for the most part) have very good adherence on average. You also do the most important duty -- significantly reduce transmission from you to others! What better thing could you do to 'save the situation' than prevent covid?

If you're concerned that your mask previously had covid on it, then you should use a different mask next time and either throw the previous one away, wait for the virus to die, or otherwise disinfect it depending on the mask type.
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Well, the system doesn't seem to function that way, which makes it feel less compelling.
> If you have had a relatively comfortable job during the pandemic, it might now be time to worry.

> The more culturally specific your knowledge and skills, however, the more protected you will be. Doing math and writing code are universal skills. But if you are a wedding consultant, even an online wedding consultant, you’re probably not going to lose business to a competitor from Zimbabwe, no matter how sharp. On the whole, more people will end up in jobs that feel very “American,” for lack of a better word. Legally protected sectors — law, medicine and other professions requiring occupational licenses — will also get more crowded.

> Among the winners will be American managers, shareholders and consumers. Managers will be able to hire the world’s best talent, at least from the English-speaking world, while productivity gains will translate into more profitable companies and better and cheaper products.

> Big business will likely benefit more than small business. The larger companies have the networks and the brand names to attract the best overseas talent. And if a worker overseas cannot perform all the functions of a particular job, a larger company can more easily fill in the gaps with other talent.
Don't worry, I was downvoted too!

America has produced by far the most medical advancements in the modern era.

What people don't recognize about the lower cost of drugs in countries like Canada is that they effectively have government price controls. If we were to do the same here, it would greatly limit R&D into new treatments.

However, there are of course other ways to reduce cost to the consumer without harming the rich ecosystem of biotech.

Important to understand this dynamic when adjusting laws, because it would be very easy to totally kill medical innovation
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Of course you’re right; low cost is the main selling point of these classes of computers, secondary to basic functionality beyond booting to desktop.

It almost feels like the low end tech is just a grab bag of cheap spare parts to keep the assembly lines hot between higher profit margin product runs. But most of these weird third party PCs aren’t made by well-known OEMs, so what is really going on here? How do these smaller OEMs make money?
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There’s nowhere to go that wasn’t claimed and reclaimed by force.
Except that today, the promotion of progress of software is most advanced by open-source, and most damaged by patents.
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I just ran into this tweet for Intel:
https://twitter.com/DeepSchneider/status/1456314755380097027

They move everything that isn't foreground to an efficiency core, which is awful for compiling or video processing.

There's apparently a BIOS option that will use ScrollLock for disabling the efficiency cores entirely.
Cherry-picking dates, but the return from 1929 to 1974 (45 years, not 35) was 7.2% nominal, and only 4.76% inflation-adjusted.

https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/1929?amount=1...

Alternatively, 1972-2009 (37 years) gives an inflation-adjusted 5.17%

https://www.officialdata.org/us/stocks/s-p-500/1972?amount=1...

(To be fair, that's from lump-sum investing at the worst time, if you DCA the returns should be better than the numbers above)
Ask HN: Where do you find meaningful part-time tech jobs?
I'm planning to apply for a part-time tech job while also working on my personal project. I found Gumroad which seems perfect but my skills don't match. Are there other companies offering part-time jobs in a similar fashion like Gumroad?
The color off the sensor is amazing. I rented one for my son’s birth because I needed an autofocus for non-manual friends and family to shoot with and I almost bought it after.

The UX is perfect. Simple, direct, if you shot a manual film camera you instantly understand it. Lenses are great, but big and heavy.
The “Software is Math” is both poorly reasoned and probably not desirable.

I think the vast majority of us will benefit from software continuing to be classified as creative works so we can use copyright law to either protect commercial interests and/or as the underpinning for open source copyleft.
all of humanity stands on the bedrock of a diverse and complex ecosystem. what's tyrannical is the set of people and institutions that unaccountably insist it's their right to go around systematically poking out thousands of fresh empty niches under the world's collective feet

you're not actually concerned about the space available for new species. you're not even concerned with the species we have now. if you were concerned about species diversity, you would be concerned that we are way below replacement rates. you can't spin a mass extinction as some kind of victory for the liberty of nature.
It wasn’t about size but about fast appreciating tech stocks. This was pre cloud boom MSFT
"When patents expire, you'll see many generics come onto the market at reduced costs, and cost to consumer goes down."

This assertion is simply not true. A prime example - Insulin is 100 years old. Those who need it are paying sky high prices due to corporate greed, and many simply can't afford it. No competition, no affordable option. People are dying due to this greed.
"Information feudalism" is a good book to learn more about the origins of patents and how they affect the world economy and international relations.

That being said, fuck all patents, ideas don't belong to anyone.
Cool, makes sense. Thanks :)
In the case of the pandemic, people have other incentives than financial.

I don't agree, it seems to me that almost nobody who innovates does it for money, people do it for fame, curiosity, desire to fix a problem. (All progress depends on unreasonable men.) Rather, it's people who organize innovators who do it for money, and the question if they need to be renumerated in patents is legitimate.
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This app lets you make geographic notes in your calendar whenever you're at a place you don't want to forget.
Nix is hardly simple
In the US, the only “benefit” of weighing less than 250g, is that recreational pilots don’t need to register the drone.

All other regulation applies.
In general, it's difficult for a process that takes krill as the only input to have more krill in the output than there were in the input. If whales cause a net increase in krill, it has to be through some other means than eating krill.
Why are software patents more expressible in mathematics than e.g. mechanical ones? The physical laws that govern a mechanical device are expressed mathematically.
This sounds awesome. Crypto + data = dream
That patents expire is not a bug, it's a feature. Patents are an exchange for temporary protection.

> I also don't see the patents benefiting researchers anymore, rather than some corporate middlemen.

The researcher can't make money without some form of protection. You could spend 20 years building something and have it stolen by a huge company with no means to recoup your costs. Removing patents would immediately benefit the biggest players, entrenching existing monopolies.
No, I agree, I develop with one .scss file per component. The issue is bouncing between markup and styles.

If I've got some outer div that's a container for other, inner things, why do I need a name for it? It's much easier to just say how it should look within the context of that component than it is to come up with a name and put the styles for that name in another area of code. I want a 1rem horizontal margin? I set a class of mx-4. No need to name it, no need to jump to another area of code, I just put the styles in the context of where I'm laying out the element.
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