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Patents are constitutionally mandated.

Article I Section 8 | Clause 8 – Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution. [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.”

The Register in this article gets it wrong.

Under the Department of Commerce, the USPTO's core mission is to protect intellectual property, or IP. Creators file patent applications in hope of keeping competitors from copying their inventions without permission, and patents are supposed to allow businesses to thrive with their own novel designs while not stifling wider innovation.

The Register's focus is on the protection of intellectual property for businesses. The Constitution however mandates patents and copyright to promote the progress of science and useful arts [for the people] and offers a time-limited limited monopoly to inventors and authors as the means progress is promoted. The concepts are quite separate and distinct.
> Fortunately, plugin developers were given over half a year to port their plugins, so most have already been ported.

I do admire this optimism and good faith. But no... many will not have ported until users start complaining that X plugin no longer works. Expect a few more months.
The company in question if anyone is as interested as I was:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/longtermcapital.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management

Interestingly the Nobel Prize winners' advice was ignored in some cases:
"As a result, LTCM began investing in emerging-market debt and foreign currencies. Some of the major partners, particularly Myron Scholes, had their doubts about these new investments. For example, when LTCM took a major position in the Norwegian kroner, Scholes warned that they had no "informational advantage" in this area"
Oh, I have no idea about it. Thank you!
It's important to check the time on the way down from the third floor though, clearly. Need to have your watch on whilst in motion.
US officials said they would recognize Taiwan, no matter of consequences. For China that is a readline.

If there are sanctions or war with China, we will have much bigger problem. Current regime may even go nuclear.
> You're quite a moron, or willfully ignorant, if you can't identify the second biggest country on the European continent

I could post links to video clips of quiz shows where privileged citizens (public figures) of countries which owned very large parts of the world literally could not (exactly the case you point to, and much more - not even their own former and present colonies, not even after wars...).

So, while I agree with your statement (which I would not have written in those terms), do not underestimate the dire situation of societies.
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I don't know the details other than it has to do with the long term climate the car was in.

I posted because many people now simply claim bias or "it's political" whenever they are investigated by a government organization. If we allow that to happen then it's a free pass for corruption to flourish.
To me it seems in bad faith to use a word that draws a line in a roughly agreed upon place, and then claim you have freedom to place that line wherever you want, and thus are always correct in asserting that it is "made in bulk". Using your argument, you could claim that 1, or even 0 watches are "made in bulk", or that 30C is "cold" bc you draw the line of "cold" at 40C, etc. Throwing away all understanding of concepts that has ever existed in order to win this one point seems pointless to me
Gladly. Since the beginning of the war, Germany and the EU as a whole have pushed to ban Russia Today and other state press it deems dangerous [0]. More worryingly, Germany has one of the most repressive social media censorship laws ("NetzDG") in place [1]. Through this act, they have attempted to prosecute Telegram from giving Germans access to pro-Russian content [2]. It has also issued a draconian rule, where any German posting pro-Russian content - in this case, the "Z" symbol - would be prosecuted [3]. You might think that this is alright but legitimate political discussion is also being banned under the same premises - here is an example of that [4].

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/russias-rt-sputnik-ban-raise...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-rt-media-telegram-ukr...

[3] https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-to-prosecute-use-of-...

[4] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/30/pers-m30.html
For the people blaming Steam here in the comments.

This is an Ubisoft title, meaning, Steam is just a glorified launcher for Uplay which then launches the game itself. The only fault Steam has in this, is not being clearer in the store front (which is still Ubisoft editing).

Ubisoft is the one not providing refunds.
Ubisoft is the one shutting down online servers.
Ubisoft is the one who asked for it to be delisted.

There's a lot of things to be angry for against Steam, but this isn't it.
Even peer-to-peer multiplayer was very common. That is sufficient server software was included in the game itself. No need to download or run it on a server.

Online-matchmaking becoming more and more centralized really made this starting to go away... It has both good and bad sides. One is much larger player pool and automated matchmaking. Other side is losing communities and more custom servers with custom maps...
Ask HN: How do you host your Postgres DB in 2022?
Hi HN, just a fellow indie dev here,

What Postgres DB providers do you use or do you self host postgres and administer it yourself?

Just wondering how HNers here usually hosts their production databases in 2022.

Thanks.
> Samsung is easily the worst appliance manufacturer in North America

> LG's not too much better

Any sources for these blazing hot takes? Or are we supposed to take your hearsay at face value?
Hmmmm I wonder if they will try the bulk model. Americans have very large fridges and grocery shop once a week. Grocery stores are often a 20-30 minute drive away. In my European country people have small fridges and may buy groceries several times per week. Grocery stores are a 5-10 minutes away.
In the short term yes, it will create problems with energy acquisition, but in the longer term it provides a direct lesson in the need to reduce your dependence on foreign supplies. Even 20 years ago, there were few avenues to doing so. These days with renewables, the domestic supply could be significantly increased at relatively reasonable costs. It also becomes a strategic/national security imperative to reduce dependence on foreign energy sources. For a long time now, Europe had this idea that as long as they strengthened their energy economy ties with Russia, they could prevent this sort of conflict. That fantasy has largely been shattered now.
Any widget made in Europe ... will now become even more expensive to make.

Sure, but that's always the case. The question is, how much more expensive. And that's going to vary a lot depending on how much the natural gas and electricity required is part of the overall price.

No doubt we're in for a rough transition, which we should have avoided by embarking on it twenty years ago, but I see any evidence for long term ruin. Not due to loss of energy imports from Russia, anyway.
"Why would any of those things be considered a "bug"?"

As stated in the sentence, it would be considered a bug if the program was intended to portable.

Why would it be a "feature" to write non-portable programs that only compile on some but not all UNIX-like operating systems.

I can think of some reasons but none of them benefit end users who like the freedom to use a variety of UNIX-like operating systems.
You can see in the article that this year is much different.
The article links to another article by the same author about a restaurant and its secret to success in keeping staff 20-30+ years being autonomy:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-restaurant-owner-gives-tech-...
uh...no. They are not stirring the pot. Proposing rigorous processes that approximate observed phenomena is a very common line of research. Many of the phenomena in financial markets that I cared about when I was trading had researchers coming up with models/modifying existing models to attempt to generate the same observed risk premia.
Ah I get it, the dons are the gatekeepers and they aren't incentivized by donations so meritocracy prevails. Thanks for the detailed reply.
I was more thinking about countries like Italy, that don't feel a direct threat from Russia; quite the contrary they feel they have everything to lose by keeping the current stance.

I have a declared fascist father in law, and he sided with Putin from the very start (his opinions are generally an unimaginative mirror of what he reads in the major Italian newspaper he reads)
To arrest you they have to move closer anyway, so, this complicated scenario is not even needed.
> This is a bad example; the Putnam is designed as a competition and scored in a way to distinguish the 90th percentile from the 99th, not the 40th from the 50th. The median = 0 just means that the scoring system throws away everything below the median to better score everything above it.

Another example of such a competition is the global innovation economy. If you’re in the 50th percentile of GPU companies then you’re not nVidia, and economically speaking you can just go home.

I understand it sounds harsh, and it is. But it’s the truth.
https://cuelang.org/
This page might cater to that situation?:

https://help.uber.com/riders/article/i-think-my-account-has-...

Interestingly enough it also says:

> We are currently seeing a high number of requests come through this form.
It makes your lips literally buzz [1] (if it's good quality sichuanese peppercorn (huajiao)), I remember reading study while I lived in China that it literally cause movement. Licking battery is petty much salty and you can feel something in your lips, but nothing close to real buzz caused by huajiao.

They are not really spicy, but they create this nice buzz and have very nice smell, for spiciness they need to be combined with chilli peppers (see the most famous Chinese dish - gongbao jiding (incorrectly called kungpao chicken) - chicken dices with chilli, huajiao, spring onion and nuts).

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.168...
I strongly suspect it's the extra services that third parties sell through them. Like the vacation packages, air conditioning installation, etc. We almost got a Puronics filter through them, but stopped short when we found out that it was $9000 at Costco, but $6000 through an independent installer.
Files are free in web3 too.. lots of NFTs are using Creative Commons and you can just right click save. the “assets” in web3 are not files but things like domains and records of purchase and ownership , which are not free in web2 and usually come with strings attached like a company revoking your asset on a whim.
The paper itself:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04184.pdf
This is just human nature 101.

We care more about things that happen closer to us than far away, and more about people we can relate better with than people we relate worse with.

There’s no point in being mad at people housing Ukrainians for not having housed Syrians.
As a reviewer, I feel the pressure to leave five star reviews even when I did not have a five star experience because it seems like even just leaving a four star might hurt the venue since nothing lower than 5 is acceptable. I try to fight this urge and manage it with Google reviews, but with AirBNB it is hard since you talk directly to the owner a lot of the time and feel a sense of obligation to leave overly positive feedback.

So I don't think we have so much of a 1-star review problem, but more of a polarised review problem. Everything is either 1 star or 5 star with not much in-between.
Whose breath are you breathing?
Why does she support the invasion of Ukraine then? Because she considers them to be 'our brothers that strayed'? Or because she considers them to be less than, after all, they're just hohols?

The propaganda in the last two-some decades is just the latest stage of russian propaganda against Ukraine. It started centuries ago. The czars peddled it, the soviets peddled it, now the 'federation' peddles it. Le plus ca change.
yes, youtube has slowly commited suicide for years now by removing everything that made it interesting.

I'm surprised you're mentionning conspiracy stuffs, since they've also been removed a lot.

With the direction they're taking, all amateur content will soon have completely disappeared, making it undistinguishable from an on demand TV channel.
This isn't a problem because a single bad review doesn't outweigh many good reviews.

Something I think the next generation of reviews should take into consideration, though: places change. A place that used to be good can take a turn for the worse, and a place that used to be bad can improve. Besides an overall rating, I would like to see how the most recent reviews assess an establishment.
Because you don’t want yourself or the journal your are editor for to be used as a weapon by right wing extremists (i.e. so called conservatives). Even if the research would be true and we could use the knowledge to improve society, the right wing will pick it up and use it to promote sexism and racism.
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Yes, good times' correlation with a ruler may be total coincidence. But then again, it may not. You're strongly suggesting that the correlation is almost certainly total coincidence.

But in this case, it's easily refuted by looking at data. India and the PRC started at roughly the same time, same population and same GDP. (Actually PRC had it worse than India, GDP- and infrastructure-wise.) Now compare them today. Chinese are not inherently smarter than Indians.

Heck, look at emerging democracies in the past 30 years. Which ones have grown like China and have been able to give their citizen good lives? Not one. If you look at South Korea and Taiwan, then you see that most of their growth and development came during a time when they heavily relied on industrial policy — the same strategy that China today employs.

Thus, there is a strong case to be made that China's success is for a significant part contributed by its government. To believe otherwise and ignore the data is to just cling onto the hope that the CCP should not have any legitimacy.

Regarding blaming Chinese people for being "bombarded with misinformation": so say so is to remove Chinese people's agency. We aren't mindless drones, we can have a legitimate opinion that's different from yours, for legitimate reasons.

Furthermore, there is a power problem here. If you say that you blame the Chinese people, then you leave people like me no choice but to become more supportive of the CCP. Because foreign actors won't act in the best interest of China: they claim they do ("freedom", "democracy", etc) but at the end of the day we empirically observe that the actions that foreign governments take, harm not only the Chinese state and the CCP, but also regular Chinese people. Despite all its faults, CCP is the only party that actually stands up for the interests of the Chinese civilization.

Disclaimer: I make no comments about Russia. Just China.
The gorgeous thing about these was that, the thing that sold a game was clever playability. Even the games that tried to create an immersive world had to span 4-6 floppy disks, and mostly had to lean on imagination, and your ability to see a fantastic world in colored pixels. I learned to code on a vic-20, then a C128, though the C64 had basically all of the fun software. When the Amiga came out, you had to pay $500 to get a C compiler to build software on it, but it was a dream. When Commodore finally tanked, I looked at the 80286 and Win 3.11, and nearly gave up on computing. Then: Linux. But for all of them, the beauty came because you could "touch the bottom" of the virtual world they offered.
There are areas where Ladybugs are welcomed. I had to resort to other means to clean lice from my sour cherry tree.
You're quite correct, but as you point out, that doesn't make my statement false. If anything, it paints the GP as even more of a banal moron.
My experience of physics stackexchange is getting three mutually exclusive answers to one question, and another question of mine getting a dismissive non-answer reply that outranked the actual answer.

I don't think it's meant for people like me.
Not use Windows / AD. This is the only solution that works.
Presumably they kept your credit card on file and are aiming for free rides? Seems risky from their perspective if you can get their phone number.
I think this take is too cynical. Many executives are by definition good with people -- politics included. There are negative forms of this, but there are also positive forms. I've had really good managers who could work across orgs and manage expectations and drive results. Tech ICs typically don't have this aptitude. Andy Grove's book "High Output Management" explains how good middle management ought to be, and I've experienced it first hand.

The Peter Principle is widely known and modern orgs are designed to account for it (American management is constantly evolving) -- for instance, promotions today are based on personnel already performing at the next level rather than them just showing good results at their current level.
He did use its power for good. It is a good introduction to information theory and encoding.

I was going to write something very similar, now I can use that time better.
If people said their real feelings the results wluld be about 99.9% sex
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Isn't the Côte Bleue a bigger secret? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Côte_Bleue doesn't even have a real Wikipedia page. Of course the stress there is on coastal, for anything bigger you would need to go to Marseille.
Do you really think a criminal organization such as Pfizer doesn't have its own propaganda fund? This is a company that knowingly lied to its users about the efficacy and dangers of its drugs, and opted to cover it up and eventually pay a billion dollar fine, rather than actually address their failings.

Blind faith in authoritarian institutions is not a good way to direct public health policy - especially when those institutions have a long and sordid track record of human rights abuses and outright criminal behaviour.
this was always obvious to me from day one. i didn't need a leak to notice this. it was flagrant and blatant at the time.

everyone was so busy being a fanboy it drove me a bit mad... especially operating without licenses and looking as if nobody had done the basic due diligence on what was needed to operate at all.

honestly the entire "genius" of the idea itself is "ignore the law and do whatever"
It isn't HWND per control indeed, it does its own composition, hence why i mentioned Swing and JavaFX with an "especially the latter" in parentheses (but Swing also does bypass the underlying window system aside from the toplevel stuff for per-control functionality whenever that'd make sense).
hah point 6 in their review is interesting.

>It seems exceedingly unlikely that the v e r y difficult
problems of intelligence can be solved by "hackers" without a deep
theory.

Guess they were very wrong.
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A cyber-attack on a steel maker in Iran
Nuclear against who? The US?
There was a very real possibility that political opponents would like the result of the paper.

Thus giving weight to the political opponents claims that academia has an unfair bias towards one political position and is willing to distort the truth to accommodate this bias.

I really don’t want academia to be driven by politics and shit like this retraction just encourages it.
How about using Qubes OS, where everything runs in its own VM by design?
>If you put it in absolute numbers. In 1970 among 1000 people 40 had degrees and of those 40 20% so 8 people had parents with degrees. On the other side you have 32 degree holders to 960 non degree holder parents, so just 3.3% of their kids got degrees.

>In 2020 among 1000 people 200 had degrees and of those 200 66% so 132 people had parents with degrees. On the other side you have 68 degree holders to 800 non degree holder parents, so just 8.5% of their kids got degrees.

You're confusing the total number of people who have degrees with new graduates. The only thing we can calculate with the numbers given is the ratio of new graduates who have parents with degrees to those who have parents without degrees.
I used my apple watch, it’s not the most accurate but provides a good idea.
This is particularly an issue with Solaris where the POSIX binaries are in their own directories.
>>Here's something that makes me angry: We (as in Europe) were in a refugee crisis for a long time. And yet, many countries washed their hands clean of it - with the most demeaning and undignified rhetoric.

And I actually agree with you. I'm absolutely abhorred by how Poland has treated refugees in the years prior to this. Even just in weeks prior, at the Belarussian border - it was an absolute shitshow and I hated my country for it.

But at the same time, I don't think this is helpful right now in any way.

If I had to explain it right now, I wouldn't say it's because Ukrainians are white christians - I think(and this is my personal opinion) that it's because we look at what's happening in Ukraine and we recognize all the awful shit that Russia did to us in the past. Forcing Russian history and language on us? Check. Kidnapping and moving citizens deeper into Russia for "integration"? Check.

I have equal amount of stories from my own family about suffering from the hands of Nazis as I do about suffering done by the Russians.

And then on top of that - that conflict is really close to home, while the Syrian one just.....wasn't. The Russian advance to the West through Ukraine strikes fear in the Baltic states like not many other things.
Except that right wing trolls will pick up literally anything for their own purposes. Trying to avoid that by playing politics about scientific matters is a fool's game, it only compounds the problem further.
It's already crowded during the season. All of HNs audience going there at the same time would not stick out.
A tiny population rarely in control of their own future, and ethnically + culturally acceptable to the US.
A significant, welcome and overdue document.

As well as providing some carefully worded definitions that are really
useful in discussions, it sets out a stance of the IETF against
massive commercial centralisation.

> Despite being designed and operated as a decentralized
network-of-networks, the Internet is continuously subjected to forces
that encourage centralization.

Practically the first words in any network course I teach these days
are to explain to students who think "The Internet" is Facebook and
Google what a catastrophe "Mainframe 2.0" really is.

> call into question what role architectural regulation -- in
particular, that performed by open standards bodies such as the IETF
-- should play in preventing, mitigating, and controlling Internet
centralization.

IETF rightfully challenges (a decade too late) what this deviation
from design principles really means, including the threat to its own
relevance.

> The primary audience for this document is the engineers who design
and standardize Internet protocols.

A problem here is that without a civics/ethics foundation contemporary
engineers may not understand the deeper nature of a protocol versus a
black-box platform. IETF may be moving into a new educational role to
explain why a protocol is more desirable.

I am still reading but so far I have not seen the key issue of
resilience (availability is mentioned) including the impact on
national infrastructure resilience.
Against China!