skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'd factor that into major limitations with the space based laser systems. Only think I can think of that could work around that is if one used an array of lasers that could constructively interfere during boost phase that could cause some kind of major turbulence at the point of intersection (maybe along the lines of the laser collisions here[0]:

"Fülöp and colleagues argue that the energy problem could be overcome by splitting the laser pulse into two equal-energy pulses, which then hit the target simultaneously at different, precisely calculated angles of incidence (see figure). Through simulations, the team showed that when the laser pulses collide, a standing wave forms inside the solid target that increases the peak electric field. With the same pulse intensity used in previous experiments, their calculations suggest that the technique can double the energy of the proton beam and produce five times as many protons — all with far more flexible control parameters than required before.").

[0] https://physicsworld.com/a/laser-collisions-could-boost-prot...
Makes for an interesting story. Apparently you can scam yourself to the top of the world and cause death and suffering all around even if you are not a big blue eyed turtlenecked white woman with a really deep voice.
I used to live near the first Tim Horton's. A tiny, smokey storefront on the east side of Hamilton.

You could taste the cigarette butts in the crullers

The coffee was so weak it tasted like the cardboard-and-wax cups it came in. There's a reason why they marketed ordering "double-double" (double cream, double sugar), it's the only way to get any flavour!

In the early nineties they opened a fancy new non-smoking one in Westmount, and the donuts were freshly baked in-house. I would go out of my way to visit that one, the crullers would melt in your mouth, and the chocolate walnut actually tasted like chocolate and walnut.

It wasn't too long before the donuts were centrally distributed, and with that they became completely artificial. Nowadays every flavour tastes the same - sickly sweet with lingering sour-chemical note.

Personally I'd rather have the cigg butt taste back.
This is exactly the kind of informaiton that would be manipulated on Wikipedia, IMHO.
You realise this suggestion would not have changed the situation under discussion? In fact it may make it worse (if a side-effect of this was to remove the 20 year limit?)

Then we have questions about juristiction - does one have to pay this patent fee everywhere, or just in the US?

And of course we'll ignore for the moment that this heavily skews the playing field in favour of large corporations with deep pockets and basically makes it impossible for small companies to enter the patent space.

Lastly it removes patent protection from small companies serving very small niche markets well.

Personally I don't like patents at all, but I see the need for them, mostly as protections for small market entrants. But your suggestion does not solve the problem being discussed, and comes with a raft of unwelcome side effects. So on the whole I would say your suggestion makes things worse not better.
I wish their was a website were people uploaded their ffmpeg commands and people rated them.

So many bad ffmpeg commands, it's hard to filter them by quality
> The backlash to #MeToo has long been under way. Now it’s here

I thought #MeToo was against domestic violence and sexual abuse, not against men in general. And Depp is alleging domestic violence. Wouldn't that make this a continuation of #MeToo, and a recognition that men can also be victims? Not even the first such recognition, as it is preceded by Kevin Spacey.

> On Wednesday, the case’s verdict came in, finding that Heard defamed Depp, acting with “malice,” when she described herself as a victim of domestic abuse. [..] [The British judge in a different trial] found that Depp physically abused Heard on at least 12 occasions.

Court A gave a result that conflicted with court B. This is proof that court B is wrong. It's also strange that in the 13 paragraphs of text, the author couldn't fit a single word about the abuse Depp allegedly suffered.
It's not just you, and it's not just people who are self-hosting. The agressive spam filtering at Gmail/Hotmail is an industry-wide issue and while most of us get by, there's no denying that there's a lot of false positives.

The Mailop mailing list has a nice note about it on their Best Practices page:

> If you want to send mail to recipients who have accounts at big email providers, be aware that all of the above cannot guarantee that these providers won’t reject your mail, put it straight into recipient’s spam folder or just silently discard it - they just impose their own rules on anyone and you virtually can’t do anything about it.
there's a recent video by Louis Rossmann on "the myth of passion" that I think is very relevant to this: IBP3ZF2ljGU

personally, I think the meaning is in the relationships you form, not in the work itself (unless it's charity? haven't done that, wouldn't know), or maybe on what the compensation allows you to do (in your personal life)

as an example, I met a guy who was one of the top software engineers in a startup (he might have been one of the first members), he was in it purely for the money, so he could afford to pay for aviation classes/certifications, from the beginning he wasn't interested in the work, but it allowed him a [financially] comfortable life, and the aviation stuff
3.50 USD?? Luxembourg is 30 bucks :/
This is exactly right. Elon Musk can do it, this random street magician can do it, Elizabeth Holmes can do it. We hold these millionaires up as if they're some sort of super geniuses. Nope, they're mostly just charismatic. The world is yours if you can talk a big game, even if it's mostly bullshit.
“Lexicon” by Max Barry is another good novel that plays with this premise.
> a lot of people were forced to install the app just so they could collect an occasional free coffee/doughnut.

They weren't forced. No one held a gun to their head. They willingly traded their privacy for a donut.
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Yes and: Facebook's algorithmic hate machine is the paper clip maximizer of understanding the human psyche. Facebook understanding of hate and fear are unsurpassed, at the expense of every other human quality.
Almost certainly not. In aggregate - may be, but looking at individual user search history without strong business reason and approval would be a quick way to get fired.

Generally, people have very little to be scared of big tech rank and file employees. It's not worth losing our job to satisfy morbid curiosity.
Yes, but those likely to read ToS updates are not going to be the demographic that likely falls for scams; proper scammers target the population that is less adept at technology so they don't notice they're being duped.
Xonotic[1] is excellent (Named Nexuiz in the past, but that name was essentially stolen). Hours of Quake like fun with beefed up graphics and a bunch of interesting gameplay twists.
One the mobile side there is Shattered Pixel Dungeon[2], also to be found on F-Droid. The polish behind that project is insane for something FOSS and the hours I put into it are something to be embarrassed about.

[1] https://xonotic.org/
[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.shatteredpixel.shattered...
Takes me longer than 2 hours just to download it :(
One great Open Source game that comes to mind is definitely VVVVVV.

- https://thelettervsixtim.es

- https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV
very cool to see postmarketOS doing well.
Thank you for sharing that experience with us. It makes me think also of static arts like (minimalism, IIRC), where the creation - or the viewer thinking about the creation - is part of what's expressed.

My thinking in the GP was that every time that happened before recorded music, it was lost - writing it down, even if possible, doesn't capture it.

> It’s often been said in this regard that fictional literature is the original form of simulation modeling.

I've read about the other parts, but not this implication of it. Do you know who said that? I'd like to read more about it.
That's a bad argument because almost every floating point operation loses information of some sort of another. Should we ban all floating point operations on those grounds?

Moreover in many cases int * float is an intrinsic, so on the hardware level there is no conversion operation interposed into the operator.
And if you have two different DLLs that offer this pattern, but they overlap in the interfaces they register? The downstream consumer has no way of saying "I want my IFoo to be a FooA from assembly A, and my IBar to be a BarB from assembly B". And this may depend on a configuration setting! Real example: we have a bunch of useful Azure functionality in one DLL and a bunch of general useful web functionality in another; they implement many common interfaces and are alternative services you can pick depending on your deployment. But it's not as simple as "when on Azure, pick all the Azure stuff" -- it depends on which Azure services you've configured for that individual project.

If they overwrite each other, you might be able to get away with calling the god-registration-functions in the correct order (which you can determine only by reading the source code of the two functions, which are probably in different solutions), but if you really have a well mixed set of needs from A and B, this is probably not possible.

So you say: "okay, well, in this case maybe those concrete services should be public instead of internal. Obviously in this case we'd go back and do that." So your logic is: use "internal", except when it turns out we shouldn't have used it, then don't. So what purpose was it serving to begin with? None. The last lesson is that if you find yourself saying "in this case", you're actually talking about every case. That is to say: "special cases" are a symptom of a weak mental model. Good models don't have special cases.

So indeed we've identified several ways to improve, all stemming from the fact that you are using the "internal" keyword!
Either way, the upvotes were unironic.
RIP Dave Smith, thanks for everything. The Korg Wavestate is great and there is an excellent software version now, Wavestate Native both standalone and VST plugin, for Mac and Windows. You can import your own samples: https://www.korg.com/us/products/software/wavestate_native
I see where you are coming from, but one of the things that I didn’t understand until recently, when I got an OB-6, is how much these synths are music instruments (vs. something you can use to make a track). They are closer to a guitar or a violin than they are to a any of the VST. I love playing the ob-6 way more than any other digital thing that I have owned, but I don’t feel like sequencing it as much.

From the music producer perspective, your point of view sounds very true to me. Sometimes these synths are harder to get in the mix than a digital one, or a VST, as they take too much space! And using them is less convenient than a plug-in. But playing a VST feels much less exciting than one of these analogs. And I am saying this while owning a Virus, a digitone keys and Ableton Live.
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And they changed permissions to opt in.

Different numbers for different categories, but I've read anywhere between 18 - 25% on the higher end opt-in success.

But above example of weather app is a good trick though, probably gets more allow always on location than FB for instance.

https://www.flurry.com/blog/att-opt-in-rate-monthly-updates/...
The provision in the US Constitution that authorizes patents (and copyrights) states:

> The Congress shall have Power [...] 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;

Which is pretty clear that the end goal is incentivizing R&D that ultimately contributes to the public domain, with the temporary monopolies being merely a legislative tool to achieve that purpose.
Sounds like Visual Studio Code ...
I feel you. I have a bootcamp school and was a teacher myself.

But it depends on what exactly and who you teach.

What have you teaches that you find meaningful?
For the simple reason that humanity has evolved over thousands of years to consume and spread knowledge via the same tried-and-true methods.

They're commonplace online because they work.

When in 20 years, humans are literally beaming terabytes of data straight into their brains every hour, I'll still occasionally enjoy some "slow", yet rich in nuance, communications.
So this guy gave up his insane salary to write blog posts?

I mean if you wanna take a break or live life that’s already a fine reason to quit. No need to dress it up as entrepreneurship when there’s no tangible goal after 8 months.
Tim Horton's modus operendi was to find the successful coffee shop in small towns all across Canada, and open up across from them, putting them out of business.

I often wonder why it's so loved by small-town Canadians when it's done us no favours. Especially since it hasn't actually been a Canadian company for 30 years.

Side note - on a trip to Corke, Ireland I was taken to a Tim Hortons by my hosts to make me feel at home!
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I don't know about Harvard but Oxbridge is definitely demonstrably better. The courses are more advanced than other unis and where else do you get 1:2 tutorials with world class professors? They basically always come in the top 3 in UK university rankings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankings_of_universities_in_th...

The networking is not a consideration for the majority of undergrads (aspiring politicians are the obvious exception). Prestige is definitely a factor. But that prestige isn't undeserved.
What I'm about to say I know will sound glib, or... something... but I don't know what else to say, or even how else to say it, but after learning this, why do I want to say something along the lines of, "Communists are too stupid to make money and this kinda proves it."
It's our job to explain to the computer what it needs to do. Being explicit is always helpful since our minds aren't computers. I want to be 100% explicit and when I'm not I want the compiler to ask. Not assume. Writing a cast or a clarification of some sort is a small price to pay for a potentially undetectable bug.
> Thanks for so vividly exposing the enabler mindset.

Aha! You have me dead to rights. I'm an enabler, because I don't think that these problems can be solved by just dumping the problem people to the next town over.

> Do you like vagrancy, violence, drug abuse, and filth?

Less than you, since you seem to think that the right thing to do is for your community to export it to its neighbours.

> Or is your misplaced resentment of the communities that refuse to tolerate that trash some kind of extreme cognitive dissonance?

Those communities create 'that trash', and then don't deal with it. If I just start dumping trash on your front lawn, because I don't want to pay the cost of garbage pickup, which one of us is the problem?
5 years is a long long time to dictate to the world your terms. You've had a chance to make a huge impact after 5 years. If the current system, especially where no courts defend a RAND premise (reasonable and non-disciminatory), 5 years is a vast amount of human life where progress may be kept in stasis. Humanity deserves to not be trapped for even 5 years, but hopefully the limit compels action even earlier.

In general, I think information-theory and software patents are also highly highly highly bullshit & everyone involved with this unethical & immoral practice should probably be shot into the sun.
Metaverse privacy maturity lags enthusiasm for new virtual worlds
Congratulations! Which game engine have you chosen and why?
I don't think I've ever experienced such a disconnect between someones critique and my own. These "poor" examples are still completely amazing to me!
My best story of this is JS integer parsing - we were passing IDs to the frontend through C# as ints, parsed by JS on the frontend from the JSON HTTP response. We spent at least a day trying to figure out why our links weren't working and it was because our numbers were too big for JS

In a browser console it drops off after 16 digits and right-pads with zeros

> 11111111111111111111

> 11111111111111110000

Our solution was to pass all IDs as strings because they aren't ever going to be manipulated like a number will
… because you really couldn’t make a worse gRPC.

Ok, though, that really is the point of the article. And, it’s more than fair. Really hoping for a Java version of this.
I’ve never had a single class with less than 30 students except for ones where the students dropped out mid-quarter. (Ironically one of my smallest classes was one that was for 65+ students but the instructor was so bad that we had less than 20 by end of quarter)

I went to University of Washington - if it matters.
Freakonomics did another dive into similar issues recently. The take-away was that elite universities aren't work the extra costs unless you are shooting for a specific industry that only down-selects for elite institutions.
Can someone explain this to me?

> Verdaccio

> Open Source Alternative to npm

in lieu of https://github.com/npm
DMARC is important if you want to create your own spam rules, such as "Send all e-mails from *.amazonaws.com that don't have valid DMARC to a Phishing folder".

Sure, an attacker could use no-reply@sns.amazonaws.com.attacker.domain. But most of our users have been trained to briefly look at the From: address before clicking things, so those would not succeed often. Without DMARC, we can't even catch phishes of the real domain.
Not open content, but OpenLara is a fun open source project to follow - https://github.com/XProger/OpenLara
You know that Elon's companies actually build electric cars and rockets that go to space, right?
They don't fill it. Everyone knows it's because of the baby they have to do some extra work, but it's OK cause baby's are cute and it's not seen as some ego trip sabbatical where someone is trying to find himself on Fiji while others work their backs off.
AIM added offline messages at some point, although I don't remember when. ICQ had it from the beginning (I think originally the client may have polled the server rather than running a persistent connection?, so the server had to store stuff a bit anyway; clients would do p2p messaging if both were online and could connect, otherwise would fall back to sending messages through the server)
There’s a difference between a gold rush and a mad scramble to steal everything possible before the ship sinks.
Before Cloudflare, I built a company around this called Unspam. It wasn’t commercially very successful, but it allowed you a ton of power around routing/filtering emails on a per-email basis (e.g., require senders to certain emails to pass a Turing test, add a header to others, turn up or down spam filtering by the address). I haven’t had the problem the author references, but mostly because I preface conversations with: “This is going to sound weird, but my email is…”

There’s a security benefit in making your email not-the-same across services. Yes, perhaps many of mine are guessable if you know the pattern I use. But it defeats non-targeted scanning. People target me (I was just sanctioned by Russia along with Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Benioff! Woot!!) yet exactly zero people have targeted me this way.

I’m still one of the few remaining Unspam users. Works great to this day. (Impressive given I wrote the PERL that powers it.) Actually think someone could spend a week with Cloudflare + Workers + Email Routing + Area1 and replicate the functionality+++. I’d gladly pay $5/mo for that. Wouldn’t be a big business. But an example of a bootstrappable lifestyle business that could easily cash flow enough to healthily sustain a couple developers.

Let me know if you build it:

crazyhnidea@matthew.unspam.com
I don't think ML is trivial, I never said that. I think the intent and content of your response is trivial though.
It's kind of a shame this isn't a firmware position because that would be sweet.
The fact that the baabaa/keekee effect is not cultural is very well documented.
Does OpenTTD have fully open source content by now?
There's definitely a tipping point where having language independent interfaces/protobufs and definitions of services are basically mandatory for any cross-team collaboration or work to be possible. But yeah for small teams or single products it really might not be necessary or be total overkill early on in a new product.
Meh, there's no point worrying about getting all the notes when the brass is drowning us out anyway. As long as the violin section looks busy we're fine... ;-)

When I played it as concertmaster I felt that it was my duty to ensure that at least one person was hitting all the notes though. Never practiced so much for a concert as that one... and that's why even many years later I feel ready to show up and play it on a moment's notice.
How much coffee/tea do you consume during the day? Has this amount increased, and do you ever feel "h-angry" (easily irritated, impatient, not nice with your peers) during the fasting windows? This is something I've been struggling with as a result of IF.
Screeps, the open source game for programmers. It’s really, really hard though.

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Side note: I don’t think downvotes should be for comments you “don’t like” or even “disagree with”. Downvotes should be used to discourage people from posting bad content, but on HN we try to be a bit more objective about what “bad” is rather than “I don’t like it”.