skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say I'm some random individual, and I have a great idea, and I patent it. Let's say it's the patent on interval wipers on cars. But I'm not an auto company, so what I do with it is, I try to license the patent to auto companies. But they say, hey, this guy is a non-practicing entity, so we can invalidate his patent on that grounds alone, so why would we license it?

That gets us a world without patent trolls, and without interval wipers (and everything else invented by an individual inventor who wasn't in a position to start a company to implement the idea). Is that a strictly better world?
There are a number of big developers in my province most of which have generated substantial returns to their investors. In the current environment where property values are high and increasing holding onto land is quite profitable. All developers do this. They also create proposals to develop land and that activity has some returns to it as well. I agree that building housing is productive, I just see large numbers of proposals and projects in my region to the point that many stakeholders in the community want to see less development not more. Economic theory says developers are making enough money to continue to propose developments so I don't see why we need to change taxation laws to make those developers generate even higher returns at the expense of homeowners. Property tax in my region is a sizeable expense for many homeowners and seeing it undergo a sizeable increase would be a hardship for many in the community.
Indeed, and that's really a bad motivator anyway. Accomplishment is a goal all by itself.
One of the most powerful DDoSes ever targets cryptocurrency platform
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376

Musk himself claims that the only curtailment is "what is prohibited by law". This isn't some tweet dragged from his history, either. It's from two days ago, and is on this topic.
Senior....

* Accountants doing company liquidations

* Trial lawyers

* Performance artists

Others I cannot think of. Pay rates over $1,000/hr are surprisingly common. Many of the recipients work fewer hours as a result
It should be noted that "Red Alert: Remastered" is open source (but not free as in beer, probably not free as in freedom either).

If you buy "Red Alert: Remastered" on Steam, there's a directory that lists the entire source code of Red Alert: Remastered.

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They probably did that because OpenRA was so popular, and that people would be curious how the original was also coded. The "Remastered" edition only came out in 2020.

Warning: Red Alert: Remastered includes a bunch of x86 assembly files for 64-bit MMX SIMD. Some ugly, 90s-era assembly language there for pathfinding...
Sounds like a civil matter and it would be hard to prove damages
New York is doing pretty solid, IMO. SF seems uniquely bad.
According to the Gnome website they didn't have to pay their lawyers, so I'm wondering where that money went.

> GNOME was represented pro-bono by Matt Berkowitz, Kieran Kieckhefer, Joy Wang and Larry Crouch from Shearman & Sterling LLP.

https://foundation.gnome.org/2020/05/20/patent-case-against-...
It's an extension of this (granted) patent which was filed in 2008:

https://patents.justia.com/patent/8204437
It’s just a short-cut, you can easily examine the script and run it later. Most of the time I’ve seen a fair warning to always do the same.
You can't reason people out of a position they didn't reason themselves into in the first place
We need regulations, and more so constitutionalism, to set boundaries for the free market economy in favor of humanitarianism, environmentalism and liberalism, or those who vote with their pocket will vote us all back into feudalism by selling their vote to their oppressors for short term tangible benefits.

And they looked from their windows at the angry masses and asked: "What do they want?" - "Well they are unhappy that Disney only streams to certified firmware, that banking apps don't work on rooted systems, and that their devices report to the secret police" - "I don't understand" - "They say their bread is moldy and rotten" - "Then why don't they eat cake?"

Supporting ethical companies is a good thing and you should totally do that. But i doubt the emergence of surveillance capitalism can be solved by that alone. By no means stop advocating for it, it does bring change, but some business and government practices must be regulated. And some existing regulation must be changed to favor humans instead of corporations and government agencies.

Note the thread is not about a "right to repair" but a "right to repair democracy"
My primary computer is a raspberry pi 400. I use an SSD, usually, but also find the SD performance to be pretty good. I'm running raspbian lite with sway, and use moonlight to remotely operate a more capable workstation, when needed. The pi 400 is my favorite computer yet!
The article says a lot more about this.
Suggesting Tough Love Arena: https://toughlovearena.com

Brilliantly simple fighting game that runs in the browser with online and offline features.
Rolling the mortgage into the new property seems interesting. From what I understand, this is very rare in US mortgages, right?

I do wonder, if we just had 10Y mortgages, would home prices just crash? People won't buy what they can't afford (I mean, sure, they do to some extent, but not if their monthly payment would double), so sellers might just be forced to sell for less. The first "generation" of 10Y-only mortgages would be disastrous for current owners, as their existing 30Y mortgages would be underwater. Or maybe people just would stop moving...

I just glanced at the article you linked, and realized I'd read it back when it was posted, and agreed with its conclusions. I just don't know what the solution is.
I'm not sure why we went with our own license, but we did.

The full legalese is here: https://fusionauth.io/license
For what? Breach of turo agreement? No damage to award
Tin whiskers also occur on earth at ambient temperature and pressure.

I’ve personally experienced tin whiskers growing between adjacent TQFP pins (resulting in product failures).

We successfully mitigated this with (1) electronic redesign so the whisker was likely to fuse (self-destruct melting via resistive heating) if it made contact with the adjacent pin in question, and (2) urethane conformal coating.

NASA studies such as https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/reference/tech_papers/2010-Pan... show that urethane conformal coating is effective against tin whiskers. But that does add another chemical and processing step and its own hazards.
It would not compare to my proposal directly because:

“I try to license the patent to auto companies”

Many patent trolls never even attempt licensing, they just wait to sue or settle. This would not remove all trolls but would be a first step.
neat tech. although i think i prefer toys for children that encourage appreciating things that are created or earned rather than simply possessed.
People are suggesting emailing users that have signed up which would be the best way imo. I also suggest creating a twitter account for your site if you dont already have one. If someone tweets feedback, questions, etc, you can direct message them there as well.
Please don’t turn HN into Slashdot.

I regularly downvote comments that make no points, are solely there to make a gag, and add no substance to the discussion.
Apologies.

Taking the poster's statement in isolation, interpreting it as a younger/diminutive person is a fair reading as well.

In this case, the full context is of a casual/informal retelling here on HN so it changes how it should be interpreted (or at least, put in consideration).

Plus he was complimenting her; makes the diminutive interpretation less likely.

All nitpicks in the end as result of lossy text comms over light, no big deal :)
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Be careful what you wish for. I've had the 'second coming of Jesus' email me, and an ungodly amount of abuse, also a lot of people who I think don't even know what a computer is, and lonely people who just want to talk.

Talking with your customers lets you build relationships and brand loyalty which is valuable, but I'm also not sure if that outweighs the downsides.

But for your situation just create a survey with Google forms or something and send it out to everyone. If you don't have many customers yet take the time to personalise each one.

Since your product is a journal, maybe have a public forum/journal to build a community with as well?
e's too busy freezing his precious peaches to worry about interop
I remember there was this science barge that had a solar panel that passively tracked the sun by being mounted on a metal tube that had some gas in it that expanded and somehow tilted the panel more towards the sun.

I wonder how much more accurate your system is and whether the tradeoff is worth the added expense of a motor + the additional maintenance cost of moving parts.

I wonder why solar farms don't use active tracking, is that added maintenance + equipment cost just not worth it?
"Although researchers are still unsure of the precise mechanisms by which acrylamide forms in foods, many believe it is a byproduct of the Maillard reaction. In fried or baked goods, acrylamide may be produced by the reaction between asparagine and reducing sugars (fructose, glucose, etc.) or reactive carbonyls at temperatures above 120 °C (248 °F)." [1]

And that is why California is an object of mockery by the rest of the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide#Occurrence_in_food_...
I can't figure out what any of this has to do with the fediverse. It sounds like you're complaining about the web3 grift. They have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
It matters because it means the technology exists and is therefore much more likely to come to a product at some point.
UPD: 2 hours ago stand-up comedian tweeted:

> Bombs fell 900 metres from my apartment in Kyiv one hour ago. Three hours ago Dara O Briain repost my stand up. What a day.[0]

About stand-up:

> This is my stand up from a bomb shelter in Kyiv. Sorry for mistakes. I wrote it in a week and my English level is military-intermediate. My goal is to collect donations for Ukrainian army. Here you can see a couple of jokes. Full video is on Youtube, you can find link in my bio.[1]

> Links with donation info below YouTube video. Standup with Ukraine.[2]

[0] https://twitter.com/_Tymoshenko/status/1519739969362923520

[1] https://twitter.com/_Tymoshenko/status/1519651401173020672

[2] https://twitter.com/_Tymoshenko/status/1519651799841611779
There are lots of expenses in a legal case besides just the lawyers, like expert witness, process servers, etc..
That's very true those peeps for sure exist just not on this forum.
Student loan borrowers will get help after an NPR report and years of complaints
Source? I think the want to take a cool shot from a drone could actually make alot more teens go outdoors. I don't like drones either but incentivizing going outside through social media is an interesting concept and certainly beats them staying indoors.
Isnt that exactly the scenario that op is describing?

Lack of flexibility at precisely the right time?

Owning in any large city + servicing debt during the pandemic when you must move elsewhwre that is sane (and less risky to your health) would seem to have a premium attached to it
Good idea! "Great art comes from great pain". Not sure if I would create anything special, however, being able to express yourself is a bliss. Care to share anything?
> The problem is when you emit CEO that has been absorbed over hundreds of millions of years and fossilized in oil and gas all within 100 years or so.

This typo made my day.
No one really does make decisions like that though. The world is not a lab where you can control all the variables. Nor can anyone have the breadth of knowledge to understand all relevant research. We just adopt a set of heuristics based on our own experience and understanding.

And here is a good example of this in action. The optimal way to connect a nuclear power station to the grid is with a big overhead power line. Except that you would have to build it in a scenic area. Millions of people have a heuristic that make them believe thag powerlines damage the environment. There is no scientific basis for that. But you put the cable underground anyway at huge expense. The objective is to generate electricity, not deploy an absolutely optimal solution. And a piece of infrastructure built in the world has hundreds of issues like that. The only solution we have to that is politics.
I loved kitesurfing on Lake Michigan before I moved out to the gorge this year. I was out in Indiana and usually rode MC, Lake St and Wolf. I made some great friends and have some awesome memories of my time there.
I'm just here to say, this is a very thoughtful response. Thanks for replying to the criticism and providing context.
The Watch, Mac and iPhone are doing great but the iPad lacks ambition and doesn't seem to have a direction. Who is in charge of the iPad division at Apple?
Can't really speak for desktop or web, but I have a series of mobile apps that I have a 'contact' button that pops up the email client with some prefilled data and lets them fill anything in. I find if people are enthusiasts, they'll reach out to share. It's a mixed bag of emails. I get maybe 20-25 emails a month of suggestions, appreciation, and mostly questions on the content. It contains an in-app purchase for almost $50 and if the user simply asks, I'll give the unlock for free (and ask for an honest posted review, well worth it imo). Past a certain point, I don't really care about the money, just to make it better without being confusing. They do quite well without marketing or ads anyway.

I used to deal with and include all the tracking, analytics, logs, etc., but it's all just bloatware for me since it's relatively small apps. I don't require login or accounts and don't want to spam and make everything voluntary in the end, and not force it. It will take time, and the focus is on being as non-predatory as possible. I keep things slim and simple and people seem to like that. Making sure a user has a good experience with software that I write is always #1. All of these points collectively I feel is inviting for people to socialize their thoughts to me.
Hide a photo inside another photo
the wars in former yugoslavia
I encourage anyone who wants to read more about the history of the Great Lakes, in terms of human activity and wildlife, I highly recommend The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
I would argue that is the point of federation. Despite the fact that most of the users are on gmail, they can still email anyone anywhere else, without issues. And I've never heard of one of the big name providers blocking emails from another large provider, with the possible exception of spam heavy domains.

It's a lot better than social media. I feel like the analogous situation would be being able to follow someone's twitter feed in your FB feed, or send a twitter DM to someone's facebook messenger account, and how likely is any major social media platform to allow that to happen?

Despite the concentration of power, email's federation makes it much easier to choose which provider you want to use, avoiding the network effects that come from walled garden services.
Yeah, APM is the only reason to use New Relic.

There are other options out there, but surprisingly few open source ones. I know APM is hard, but...
In 2005, Mexico implemented the "FIEL" (Firma Electronica Avanzada or Advanced Electronic Signature) [1], which is uses PKI assigning a public/private keypair to each individuals for taxes purposes (SAT, the Mexican IRS implemented it then).

Now, more than 50 million people in Mexico have generated their "eFirma" public/private keypair and use it every year to pay their taxes. It is also being actively used as a legally binding digital signature.

[1] http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/cys/v23n2/1405-5546-cys-23-02-4...
That's a nice approach!

The chain of libraries to update is usually the hardest part for me, especially something like that react-navigation jump. That one sucked. Of course, you often have to update RN to support the latest OS versions properly so there is often no choice but to update libraries too.
> Most production-quality ref counting implementations defer tracking references on the stack to minimize ref count churn. That significantly improves performance but it means you can no longer claim that the system always reclaims memory "immediately".

Swift doesn't do this, if I understood what you meant properly. I suppose you might want to defer freeing some things to idle time but it's usually not a problem in my experience. I'm honestly surprised it always comes up.

There's "autorelease pools" in ObjC but they aren't used to move releasing to an idle time, rather it's to handle cases where nobody knows what the precise lifetime of the allocation is. Swift has a better ABI that doesn't have that issue.
I’d be concerned if the bread actually contained any acrylamide.

"""It is highly toxic, likely to be carcinogenic,[6] but its main derivative polyacrylamide is nontoxic. The possibility that this innocuous bulk chemical contains traces of its hazardous precursor has long attracted attention.""" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide

I note another comment saying this has indeed been found in various foods, typically when heated for long periods over 120 C. I don’t think bread gets that hot (when it does it’s called toast).
They got that for free. What the $150k was spent on seems to be anyone's guess.

> https://foundation.gnome.org/2020/05/20/patent-case-against-...

https://foundation.gnome.org/2020/05/20/patent-case-against-...
That's a great point. We've been mostly outbound so far, but this will be a bigger issue for us moving forward. We're thinking about how to lower the barrier to entry for this -- for instance, we can try to publicly release some docs and let anyone try out the system in a local container.
There are two separable issues:

* Disney's status as an "independent special district" in Florida. (Note that there are 1800+ active special districts in Florida, so Disney's not unique in that regard.)

* The government's retaliatory actions in SB-4C that the government has said pretty explicitly are due to Disney's public opposition to the "Parental Rights in Education" bill (see https://mobile.twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/15172454664...), which is in direct violation of the first amendment.

These should be argued separately because they each deal with very different matters of law, governance, policy, etc.
Brave/BAT. Micropayments and a new model for advertising. It probably has the largest userbase in the crypto space.

https://brave.com/transparency/
Of course. Implied in the senior developer's solution ("migration") is a plan to navigate those challenges - technically, politically and socially.

What I tend to see is ignorant management insisting that there must be an easier way, rejecting all empirical evidence to the contrary, even going so far as to reject the concept of engineering tradeoffs entirely. It's as if the experience and accumulated wisdom of the senior ICs is valuable only insofar as it makes them slightly more productive code monkeys, merely speeding up the existing plan put in place by management without any say in said plan. Why even hire senior employees at that point?
Interesting, but growing fungi requires large amounts of water, yet this resource has been omitted this input from their "impact" diagram. At scale, the "manufacturing" process for this product likely will require an insane amount of fresh, clean water. With potable water already a constrained resource in many areas, how big can a single factory be scaled before running afoul of their local community?
> US is broken because of this blind fantaic faith in free markets deregulation simplifications.

The US is broken because we somehow believe that a highly regulated market is "free" as long as the government isn't paying for it. We literally have the worst of both worlds.
They could issue shares to raise capital. That shouldn't actually affect the stock price as now company is more valuable. Question is where to use this capital? Also currently debt is very cheap, so it might be simpler for them to take on debt.
Dr. Hewitt typically chimes in on these threads to emphasize some of the differences between his model and Erlang. I don’t recall his username to locate some of those.
I have no idea what the hell I'm reading, but it's full of stuff like this:

> And if you want to engage in some open-field swordplay and smack some defenders to the ground, you might just load the whole damn front -- b1 through b11. Catching one of those is like being hit with a big sack of nickels.
Most recent (known) visit is from 2019 by the Russian missile cruiser "Marshal Ustinov"
http://web.archive.org/web/20191107152059/https://eng.mil.ru...
> You mean "unreadable code divorces us from context". "Density" doesn't have anything to do with it until you get to the point where your code is so dense as to become unreadable.

As density increases, the difficulty of parsing also increases. At a certain, relatively early point, that difficulty rapidly exceeds the costs of scroll-and-scanning.

> Moreover, "physical distance on a screen" is a strawman. The options aren't density and distance, they're density and not being able to see the code on the screen at all - between which, density is objectively better.

Well, we know density is not "objectively better" because scrolling exists (granted, if you have a hard requirement on a code editor that doesn't allow for scrolling, then you should definitely stick with the densest language you can find), and a little scroll-and-scanning is better than parsing dense code.
Eh, if only people were never bad actors and only used drones for that.

I was at a soap box derby a couple weeks back and they had to pause the entire event for fifteen minutes because someone was flying a drone down by the course area.

A couple hundred people were waiting on one person to remove their drone. Even after the announcers were asking the person to remove the drone they continued to keep it there.
We recently moved into a house with large garden out the front, so I thought I'd grow some vegetables this summer.

I started to till the soil and noticed there was a lot of plastics. I dug deeper and soon realized that our yard was once an area where the previous owners incinerated their rubbish as I started to dig up very old and rusted steel drums which was the incinerator. I spoke to neighbours and they told me everyone used to do this in the area. We excavated the top soil and disposed a lot of it, I still didn't trust it. but it looked nicer.

I decided to pave the area and make raised garden beds and fill them with new soil. It's basically impossible to build them out of wood without lining them with something which may have negative health effects to humans or plants.

In the end I found an old stone / concrete planter, there's probably something in there bad for me too, but I just couldn't believe that even glazed pots contain lead?
This drone will definitely get nowhere near 30 minutes.
> A nurse can hit that in 6 years easy through BSN+NP, and that's starting at literally NOTHING.

That NP is the key. Just a BSN will earn you under six figures in most of the USA. We get job mailers because my partner is licensed but non-practicing. And these are advertising nursing positions for $35-40/hr.

According to the BLS, an RN earns an median of $78k a year. $100k/yr is the top 15%.
Because it's naturally occurring https://www.fda.gov/food/chemical-contaminants-food/acrylami...
As a Vim user I agree. People who don't know about this environment variable might also not be very familiar with Vim. It helps nobody to surprise people like that.

Also I like to use Vim's terminal buffer, and it turns out accidentally starting Vim inside Vim rarely leads to satisfying results.