skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They "hold many, many patents" (usually worthless) to have an "unencumbered range of motion to use them offensively" against similar entities.

If the whole idea of using bullshit patents to defend against someone's threat of some other bullshit patents gets buried at last, then everyone wins because not having to trade "portfolios of bullshit patents" back and forth lowers costs of business for everyone.

This was obvious at least 30 years ago, where have you been?
That seems to be a more generic issue with access of out-of-bounds region of memory which other (non-graphics) drivers could also do.
It is illegal. The question is who will be liable, NR or the customer, at first glance it probably will be the customer even though NR is the one causing the violation. Regardless, this kind of move should be punished by customers cancelling en masse.
Erlang is decades old, a highly successful (for a relatively niche language, anyway) proof that the actor model (or something approximating it) can be a great tool.
> Source?

No, thank you

> could actually make alot more teens go outdoors

That's not society's problem. I'm not trying to come up with ways to incentivize Lil' Jimmathy to see the great outdoors at any cost. People can go outside and respect others' desire to enjoy peaceful, beautiful nature, or they can stay inside and scroll on their phones.
The people I know who are into crypto (not many) maintain custody of their keys.
You should check out Coase Theorem:

> A candy maker had had the same property for over 60 years when a doctor moved next door. After eight years passed without incident between them, the the doctor built a consulting room right against the confectioner’s kitchen. The doctor then found that the noise from the confectioner’s equipment interfered with the doctor’s ability to work, and in particular to hear with a stethoscope. The doctor filed suit to force the confectioner to stop using his equipment. The court recognized that the confectioner might suffer some hardship – thus admitting to the reciprocal nature of harm that Coase would later recognize – but it argued that to avoid even greater (unspecified) individual hardship and inhibiting land development for residential use, the confectioner must stop (9.)

> Coase proposed considering how the parties might settle the dispute in a market transaction once the court made its findings; for space reasons I will present a simplified version of Coase’s argument. Though the doctor had won, in a market settlement he would be willing to allow the machinery to continue to operate were the confectioner to pay the doctor a sum that was greater than the doctor’s loss of income from having to either move or install sound abatement material. Conversely, had the confectioner won, in a market settlement he would have been willing to accept payment from the doctor to stop using the noisy machinery if the amount were greater than the confectioner’s costs to move the equipment or install sound abatement material.

https://michaelbrennen.com/2014/04/12/externalities-2-ronald...
Now might be a good time to check out Dynatrace if you are a current New Relic customer.
https://www.dynatrace.com/
Could someone please explain this ? I don't understand what he means:

"I don’t think they [Flatpaks] have the security story and I also don’t think they have the ability to deliver the same integrity of execution over time that Snaps have ‘cos we built those things into Snaps"
Right, US mortgages are not portable.

Going back to the Canadian mortgages, they have terms of 5-10 years but they can be amortized over up to 25 years. So their standard practice is effectively a balloon payment of up to 80% that is expected to be refinanced at rates in effect at the end of the term. This still financializes housing over up to 25 years (similar to the US) but without subsidizing the interest rate optionality.

In the US, balloon payments are heavily discouraged by federal regulation on what kinds of mortgages can be financially supported by the government.
AMZN p/s is less than half of MCD
Do you use Svelte? Make component rendering easier with ReSvelte
The easiest way is then to simply not track your EU customers. That takes care of 99% of the problem.
Your mistake is assuming that your pet cause is the thing people should be channeling their skepticism-driven effort into.

You’re basically asking me to try to solve world hunger with car manufacturing. I can see the merit in solving the problem, and am perfectly happy to help contribute to solving it, but your chosen tool has literally nothing to recommend itself as a solution.
They're not needed, right? Investors buying a larger share of homes, so you wouldn't need as many mortgage brokers, right? Also, some developers are simply building homes to go straight to rental property. They wouldn't need Rocket mortgage to be involved.

I don't think this is a sign of a bubble bursting but more of a sign that unless you currently own and can hang onto it, you'll be a renter soon no matter your status.
It's not unbounded, but it can be surprisingly high and variable, especially if some of those objects have things like handles to kernel objects and freeing them requires IPC etc.

Still, it usually works out, especially when lowering peak memory increases performance on its own.
> Maybe people are finally starting to buy local again?

I'm sorry i dont know how to read these reports, but do they have numbers for usage of amazon prime? My guess would be people aren't buying local or online, they just aren't buying a lot of things anymore because of inflation.
Advocacy
Swedish PM says integration of immigrants has failed, fueled gang crime
Not super rational for market rates act surprised at RIVN contribution since the RIVN stock price is available to anyone who cares every second of every day. No reason to drop it after hours today for that.
> It's kinda sad because it bleeds into everything now - it's no longer acceptable for someone to be like "well let's think about it together.. " and have any discourse.

> Is it not the best option to deal with science deniers is to talk to them about it?

It'd be the "best option" if not for the asymmetry of effort. It's trivial to make things up. It takes more effort to find and understand sources. It's slower still to do original research.

You may claim that 'it's worth it' to invest the 5x or 10x the effort to debunk a falsehood than it took to make the falsehood, but whether it's worth it or not "A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots." (Mark Twain)
Apple extends share buybacks by $90B, raises dividends by 5%
If it brought a lot of value, people would be using it everywhere. If the name carries a bad reputation, people would just use a different name. (Naming never stopped the adoption of a technology; it being hard to apply has, but I'm not sure how much it applies to blockchain.)

The problem is that the "social ledge" value of a blockchain is hilariously expensive, to the point that governments look cheap in comparison. And a private ledge doesn't bring a lot of value into any application (but where it does bring a bit more of value, it is getting adopted, like version control systems).
Fair. But do most companies know whether the 638 child dependencies on <insert JS library here> affect them or not?
Yeah the “create your account” part of the install should expose a few more settings such as the above, or perhaps a more generic “user account settings” pane in the major DEs to show the most common environment configurations for user accounts
Intel wins on single core performance as well as price though.
Yeah, non-bank lenders are generally not going to offer locks nearly that long. It's very costly for the lender or the mortgage investor to hedge against interest rate volatility for that long.

Banks often consider mortgages to be a loss leader to acquire customers for other services. They often don't have the best rates when rates are low, but they might have other perks like custom loan programs and longer locks.
Check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography if this is your thing
Trained Russian Navy Dolphins Are Protecting Black Sea Naval Base
As someone else mentioned, the intended videos are 30 seconds, which I think is reasonable. The battery last 5-8 recordings, so at most 4 minutes. It's really not a big deal IMO
> I don’t think bread gets that hot.

It does when they bake it. Bread is baked at an average of 200C. How do you think the crust forms?!
Activation of Human Brown Adipose Tissue by Dietary Components Systematic Review
I've found the rust discord nice and respectful (although I'm also a young adult). I also don't think [edit: PL] reddit is particularly a cesspool, at least compared to HN.
Hmm, actually I wonder the true level of quality of life difference between top of that list and bottom of it. Probably not great predictor inside the list.

Still I agree that between top and bottom there is huge qualitative differences.
> Perhaps it's time for the law to adjust to the point where the
stakes for the troll are high

Take that further. The stakes should be high against all adjacent
patent holders. Ultimately if we want to keep a working patent system
it's too much work to rely on piecemeal independent cases like this,
albeit a great success. The system has to self-police to be fair, and
perhaps the best people to keep trolls and mischievous opportunists on
a leash are the bigger players with legitimate patents. They must be
fiven a motivated interest in eliminating trolls.

If you sell a gun to an unstable crazy who shoots up the neighbourhood
then some blame lies with you. While the transfer of patents between
concerned partner companies and subsidiaries seems okay, the market
for trading patents simply as value assets needs destroying.
Ultimately its probably better if we move to a world where a lot of
"intellectual property" expires with it's holder and passes into the
public domain.

To apply a leverage point analysis, it's probably time to reexamine
and change the rules about the transferability of patents. Does the
purchaser have a legitimate justification to hold the patent? If no,
it forfeits.
> You can use PoW as a sort of captcha, for example. If it costs a little bit of CPU to submit a request to a website it's not a big deal for a human. However, if you're running a bot-net suddenly it starts to hurt!

That's exactly what HashCash was conceived to do (to fight email spam). It was a neat predecessor to Bitcoin.
Those are not hobbies, they are part of his "job". I'm not taking offense, but I'm glad my parents gave me some discipline and I wish they did more of that.
Do they have a free tier, or are they "enterprise only?"
I skimmed through the article to get an idea about the premise of the book. I don’t see how this book would manage to include large scale space battles. I have therefore concluded that this cannot be the best novel of our generation.
E-Ink is a ton more visible in direct sunlight compared to traditional displays?
Thanks for highlighting the line for everyone of us here. Unfortunately, please don't make HN comments similar to the Reddit ones... :')
Why wouldn't they? They make their moneyy from Patent Fees. If they stopped granting Patents their revenue stream dries up. They have no incentive not to approve patents.

I'm wondering why companies don't sue the Patent office when the patent used against them is invalidated (often some companies are still paying fees because they settled. )
> It's perfectly valid to trade off correctness for gains elsewehere.

Agreed, but no-one is disputing that, right? The problem is that very often saying correctness was given up in order to gain velocity and simplicity is simply a lie. Incorrectness can easily lead to slow development and tons of complexity.

It’s only fun when the trade-off is actually a trade-off.
> Fire retardants which are known to cause cancer or birth defects, I'm not so sure.

On the other hand, they’re very good at stopping you from burning to death. Even the ones we have banned (or will ban) and replaced with others are very good at preventing a really really bad way to die.

Also, quite a lot of toxic things are also organic, regardless of if you’re using that word in the chemical sense or the “it’s natural” sense.
As was this explanation
Satellite mapping finds correlation between B.C. wildfires and floods
he's got plenty of playtime, but that's not gonna teach him any work ethics. I don't need to MAKE him play xbox for 5 hours during the weekend, he's perfectly capable of doing that on his own.
Exactly, more studies are good. Third party review is a cornerstone of science.
A new Total Annihilation could be pretty awesome. Especially if you could zoom in and control a unit first person
Sorry, what are Go's "streams"? Thank you!
Who said anything about US police? The license prevents selling to any law enforcement agency in any country
The second mouse gets the cheese
Brain fog that goes on for months (and possibly forever) is a serious illness though.
And where on the planet do you find oxygen in such concentrations? It doesn't build up in the environment to a lethal degree, unlike most local pollutants.

CO would be a better comparison, and we have actual detectors for it in houses.
Back in 2015 I noticed SaaS companies asking for in-app feedback and started compiling screenshots. Here are 51 examples from companies like Shopify, YNAB, Customer.io, Stackshare, Mailgun, and more compiled over the past 7 years:

https://www.savio.io/blog/how-saas-companies-get-in-app-prod...

At my co we ask for feedback:

0. When someone books a demo (email)

1. When a user signs up (in-app and via email)

2. When a user converts from trial to paid (email)

3. When a user cancels (email)

We also:

1. Use Intercom and lots of feedback comes in there

2. Have several in-app callouts to vote on features on our voting board or contact support

3. Close the loop with customers when we ship a feature they asked for, and ask for feedback

We could definitely do a better job on the in-app feedback collection side.
Man I also live in Michigan and I've spent every moment I can trying to get out. I mean, good for you for figuring out what you want in life and making that happen but you couldn't pay me enough to come back to this place if and when I leave.

Funny enough though, you sound very similar to my friend who moved back to Michigan from Portland also because of his first child, so who knows? Maybe there's something to Michigan for raising a family
> The surface syntax is responsible for some grouping, but not all. This requires that the parser understand the program’s bindings and expand macros to get a complete picture of a program’s structure. Interleaving the parsing of a token stream with macro expansion in this fashion is called enforestation, and it allows macros to extend the syntax of conventional languages. The Honu research language pioneered this technique.

Rhombus takes inspiration from Honu!
People saying that this can’t compete with DJI are missing the point.

This product knows its target market (hint, not the people who browse HN) and, based on my initial first impressions, I think it’s nailed it.

Forgive me for a slightly contrived analogy, but if a
DJI Mavic is a DSLR, and a DJI Mini is a portable point-and-shoot camera, then Pixy is a Polaroid. It’s certainly not got the highest picture quality, doesn’t have good altitude or range and the 30s flight time sounds laughable, but it’s a nice looking, approachable device that looks like it could be used by anyone to take videos they currently can’t with the devices they currently have (the mode dial is a brilliant idea.)

I think this thing will sell very nicely. The big question for me is whether the Pixy wireless streaming to the phone allows exports out of the Snapchat app, if it does then all the biggest TikTok stars will buy one immediately and it will explode in popularity.
Bezos retired less than a year ago.

Circa 2017 he owned 20% of AMZN. Presently he owns 10%. Back in 1997 he owed 42%.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2021/06/24/heres-...
>> For example OP track his calorie intake, it is a lot of work, and it is not really usefull at the end. It is unlikely to correlate with any other measures he is doing (apart from weight).

Tracking calories is very very simple if you use an app like MyFitnessPal. For most foods you can scan the barcode or you can just enter the calorie data from the label.

Secondly, isn't weight a pretty important measure to track? It can impact a lot of things and therefore if you see you start to have too many days in a week that are above your calorie goal you can catch any gain before noticing it on the scales.
Amazon is a large company. Experiences are going to vary widely.

I work maybe 2 hours a day. Oncall is pretty light when I do have it. Fulfilling team and projects with great career opportunities. I have no meetings Wed-Fri. I have under 3 years of experience and my compensation this year after reviews went from:

164K base -> 218K base
Total compensation: 220K for 2021 calendar year -> 305K for 2022 calendar year -> 378K for 2023 calendar year

I'm pretty happy as an employee personally though I realize not everyone is.

Edit: Some commentators seem to be implying that I'm chasing money and bringing down the culture of Amazon by not working more - that seems ironic to me given Amazon has historically been criticized for its sweatshop reputation.

To clarify, I work 2 hours a week because that's all I need to work to deliver my projects on time and I was rated TT this year - so why would I work more?
Is AI an Eco Disaster?
yes, this is what i meant. i should have been clearer in my original statement.

here is what happened in the airbus air france incident:

- one pilot had the sidestick full hard nose up, the other full hard nose down.

- neither pilot realized what the other pilot was doing.

on a boeing airliner:

- the controls for each pilot are physically linked.

- if pilots try to put “their” yolk into an opposing position, they will start having to physically wrestle for control.

- this type of failure mode of the air france crash wouldn’t have happened in a boeing airplane; the pilots would have realized what was going on within seconds.

general note:

- when flying, it is highly unusual for both pilots to be giving input into the controls at the same time. one pilot “has the airplane”, the other is there to assist, help with the radios, planning, etc. the handoff between who “has the airplane” is very deliberate. this was another failure mode of the air france flight.

- but my point still stands, the fact that the controls are linked makes the gp point a bit moot.
Fair point. I clearly need to call this an early night.
You're the pianojacq.com guy, right? I love the idea of the site and wish there was a way to use it with my accordion. I've been meaning to hook up my MIDI keyboard and give it a proper try. Although I play pretty much only by ear, being able to read sheet music well enough to use as a reference or guide would be a good tool to have in my belt someday.

I'm still early in my journey but from what I can tell, the key to learning piano/accordion is practicing scales and chords more or less relentlessly _before_ trying to play anything more complex than Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Once you get the hang of them, and spend a lot of time playing around with them in various combinations, finding the melody of any given song by ear is quite often trivial.

And for what it's worth, the piano can be a monophonic instrument too. :) On the accordion, I'm still somewhat inexperienced so I generally only play one note at a time on the piano side. Which I can get away with and still sound decent because the bass side of the instrument is far easier to play and sound good on than the piano side. Put together, they sound passable even if you barely know what you're doing (like me!).
> This was obvious at least 30 years ago, where have you been?

Watching things like this happen:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363629/qualcomm-win-app...

What color is the sunrise on the planet you inhabit?
IL local and fisherman here.

The beaches can have algal blooms which make it smelly some days, and of course there's the history of the dead alewives (but that's not really an issue anymore).

Most days the beaches are lovely, the water clear and nice smelling. The farther you get from big cities, the more true that is. I spent a week on North Manitou Island once. It was incredibly beautiful, like if Hawaii was freaking freezing all the time.

The fish near Chicago have some issues, but it's less Mercury and more PCB's and other toxins.

https://dph.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idph/publica...
The suit always comes after they try to license (a.k.a settle) and are denied.
Again. If they are discriminated so strongly against, why do they live 5 years longer on average?

It's like you completely disregarded my comment and decided instead to just proselytize.
I take your point, but Netflix probably yes. Facebook, maybe. VW and GM, probably yes.
(C). Human behavior and societies are generally not amenable to rigorous analysis, and therefore aren't the proper subject of academic fields that purport to generate truth value and produce expertise worthy of deference.

That is not to say we can't seek to understand these things. To the contrary, humans have myriad ways to understand and respond to these things, including religion, tradition, culture, convention, etc. Academic inquiry that has the veneer of rigor--through credentials, peer review, conferences, etc.--but isn't actually rigorous improperly displaces those other ways of knowing, and cedes social power to a narrow class of elites.

The education and socialization of children, for example, is one of the fundamental pillars of society. People around the world have their own ideas of how best to socialize their kids. Unless you can bring real science to the table--unless you can create reproducible results that speak for themselves--you shouldn't be so arrogant as to act like your work can substitute for those other ways of knowing.
As others have noted, the author is no literary authority (even if they were, they'd still encounter criticism, see Harold Bloom). That said, I think these critiques overlook the fact that Jon Bois's work speaks to _the author's_ personal experience. As a result, it's interesting to see how heavily our personal lives influence our interpretations of art. Perhaps this is no surprise? In this regard, I can't help but be reminded of our reverence of religious texts, which seem to very much reflect the a priori views of the interpreter/translator.

The author may enjoy books within the New Sincerity realm [1]. They often have magical realist elements [2]. In particular, _Infinite Jest_ seems like a clear recommendation; or for less surrealism, Franzen's _The Corrections_.

I wholeheartedly agree that art allows us to empathize with the lived experience of those who are ostensibly different.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sincerity

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism
Where can patent examiners look for prior art?
> It's not a "Don't say gay" bill, it's a "Parental Rights in Education" bill

It has been commonly referred to as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, rather than the official name of "Parental Rights in Education" bill in a wide variety of forums, which I'm sure you are aware of. Don't be willfully obtuse.

Disney's special district status is not unique. More than 1800 entities ranging from theme parks, HOAs, libraries, energy district, etc., all have similar rights. Take some time to read this: https://floridajobs.org/community-planning-and-development/s...

Disney is far less of "unique snowflake" than the outspoken FL Republicans would like you to believe.
Moon Monday is a great newsletter for keeping up with lunar science and exploration: https://blog.jatan.space/s/moon-monday/archive
Thank you, that helps out quite a bit.
A = b = C, a strange consequence of operator associativity