skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"First to file" only describes what happens when two conflicting patent applications get discovered for something that is patentable.

Inventions that are already publicly known are not patentable because they're copies of existing ideas; not inventions.

The only exception is that in some jurisdictions, the creator of an invention can wait up to a year between making their own invention public and filing a patent for it.
Forking a chain is trivial. There are websites that lets anyone do it with a single click.

You can't realistically expect exchanges to trade all possible fork coins.
I wish proper advise on posture was part of the school curriculum. Even when exercising in the gym, nobody pays much attention to correcting postures and strengthening posture muscles. Over the years, I've come to realise that without proper posture corrections, most musculoskeletal pain reoccurs. There needs to be more scientific research on Alexander's Technique, Pilate, and ayurvedic massage therapy (that many in India swear by).
Total raw values: 148,068,974,592,000

Too many raw items to process.

Any good guesses what this is about?

EDIT: Got it, the number of strings confusable with the input.
But on an FPGA you can probably implement super fast and effective compression.

If it is far enough above the curve of speed Vs ratio, then it will pay for itself in saved storage.

Remember there is no need for said FPGA to be in every machine - in a data center with ten's of gigabits of bandwidth to every node, you can send data to another machine for compression and receive back the compressed data to store.
The difference is that your dog isn't a member of a vulnerable population that the government and society has a political, social and economic incentive to kill.

Living in the US I can easily imagine our lawmakers and business people reading about this and staring longingly out the window at the homeless camps, wondering how to implement this here. Particularly in Seattle and San Francisco (which are already low-key at "war" with the homeless).
We recently switched to Klaviyo https://www.klaviyo.com

The UX is simple and integrations seem much easier to use than MailChimp, it's also a bit cheaper.
I usually judge arguments on their merits, but on this case I'll make an exception and judge by the credibility of the author: that article is not worth reading. David Gerard is a permabear who has been criticizing crypto for about a decade now. Everything that happens in crypto is bad according to him. Ethereum moves to PoS? Bad. Ethereum doesn't move to PoS? Bad. There's no event in crypto that would be positive according to him.
Perhaps we could approach the issue with intellectual curiosity, as HN asks us, instead of dismissing it (complete with a psychoanalysis of the author).
The T414 was the first useful but affordable Transputer.

It was 32 bit but lacked the floating point hardware of the more expensive T8xx series. Later on there were even cheaper T4xx chips, which were relatively easy to get on a PC expansion card with slightly crippled tool chains for occam.

I still have a couple of T414 boards. I mostly run Helios on them: a parallel universe version of Plan9.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6613697/

A parasitological evaluation of edible insects and their role in the transmission of parasitic diseases to humans and animals

The prevalence of parasitic species was determined for every insect species.
Parasitic developmental forms were detected in 244 (81.33%) out of 300 (100%) examined insect farms.

....and in 91 (30.33%) cases, parasites were potentially pathogenic for humans.

During the research in individual farms, we observed unethical practices of individual breeders, such as feeding insects with animal feces from a pet shop, feeding insects with corpses of smaller animals, or feeding insects with moldy food and even raw meat.

In our study, Cryptosporidium spp. were detected in the digestive tract and other body parts of all evaluated insect species. In our opinion, insects are an underestimated vector of Cryptosporidium spp., and they significantly contribute to the spread of these parasites.

---> I'm sure it will be fine, just fine. The wealthy elites around the world will be eating their steaks, fine meats and aged wines, while we the plebes, thanks to the 2030 WEF agenda will own nothing, eat insects burgers that will give us parasites and disease and drink our recycled urine. Happy days.
Regulations go hand-in-hand with creating a safe and functioning civilization.

Just look at the crypto market and imagine if we all had to use those zany tokens to do things. We couldn't get anything done.

That used to exist back in the 1800's.

Our financial systems are very stable and far more resilient than we recognize. We take that for granted.

When is the last time depositors arbitrarily lost a pile of cash while not investing in risky things?

That's a 'new financial innovation' largely enabled by laws and oversight etc. that your great-great grandparents didn't have the luxury of having.
An if statement can replace doctors. But then insurers, hospitals, and drug companies would lose money.
Isn't that a bit paranoid? Do you have evidence for it? Such attacks are a great - and common - way of changing the topic from the merits of the issue.
> Further, if Russia wants to use the power for itself they likely have some work to synchronise this power plant with their network that is running a different frequency from the Ukrainian one.

Surely they'd first have to build/divert transmission lines towards the Russian grid? And if the objective was to steal Ukraine's electricity, it's probably easier to just take it from their grid directly rather than a single, specific power plant?
> - But if the malicious actor owns 2/3 of validators, what does he care what other nodes do ? They effectively control what block is accepted

As I understand it, anyone who owns that amount of ETH would probably be interested in contributing to the trust of the Ethereum blockchain.
Couching it as a "demo" is such a good suggestion! It implies you haven't wasted too much time on it, demonstrates that you are trying to creatively problem solve for the good of the company, and brings your manager in the loop to help promote it or head off any political faux pas. Do THIS!

(Quick edit: trying hard to leverage this to get any special credit or $$ or other goodness out of it is a non-starter. You did this with company data probably on company time with company tooling. It's for them - and that's ok! You are demonstrating that you are there for the good of the team on this one. Many points awarded.)
Reminds me of 1185 by Ihor Mozheiko that is still waiting for an English translation.
I understand the intention here but really, do people not see globes any more? All projections suffer from issues of some sort, and the globe is by far the best way to understand that. We were taught about this in grade school.

Even on a computer display, you can use Google Earth to replicate the effect.
To much rationality or filtering early on in creativity detrains your mind from being creative.

No dopamine on discovery of the new, prevents that circuitry from running after a while. Write it down, filter it later. Celebrate even ridiculous ideas and approaches, consider them not "failed" nonsense, but in-between-steps as your subconcious works on the next, better solution. Let self-critique not be negative "Ridiculous, never would work with the physics we got" but more "constructive" -"that would be great if we could get it to fly".

Also remember, that your subconscious works with the knowledge it got. It needs input, to create strange mashups. Get your input way outside of your field to not be stuck in the solutions of your peers.
Welcome to corporate America. No one cares, just don’t be left holding the bag. As the new guy you’re the default bag holder.
Hello, thanks for your comment! I didn't know that Kaffy was inspired from the Django admin, I'll definitely try to use integrate Kaffy in one of my phoenix projects now :)
I think I remember reading that most tv was also accelerated like 1% or something so they could shove 1 more 15 second add in it. Also why the credits run by at 20x at the end of a film. :]
What’s the alternative? The old way (which is still used by many projects) is to send patches to mailing lists, which I find more difficult: you need to learn how to generate the patch from your source code repo, send the patch as an e-mail (needing weird hacks like `git imap-send`), and then configure your MUA not to mangle it somehow. Then you also don’t have a centralized search/tracking interface.

Some good reasons not to use GitHub is because you’re familiar with standard/traditional tools, or because you prefer not to use centralized services. Both of those are fine reasons! But “the traditional way is easier” isn’t.
This seems like a problem for educational institutions, not for industry. We're already inundated with mediocre programmers, many of whom have CS degrees, which is precisely why the industry looks at job experience more than credentials [0]. I don't see how this is going to further reduce the supply of competent candidates.

What it will do, however, is make it difficult for CS departments to evaluate students based on homework, and it's not clear to me that this is such a bad thing. My experience with university CS courses has been that assignments are largely auto-graded, with systems akin to unit tests. In the common case, an overworked TA quickly spot-checks the source code to look for obvious signs of academic dishonesty, but that's it. So, universities are left with the following choice: give everyone an A, or grade differently. In the optimistic case, this might even produce a grading strategy that improves the value of a CS degree as a predictor of programming competence. It likely won't, in which case we have a status quo.

[0] This is a problem in its own right. I recently referred a grad student as a job candidate in my current company. I'm the most senior backend engineer, and this grad student was a highly competent contributor to my open-source project, which currently plays a strategic role in our backend. Said grad student is unusually bright and productive in a complex specialty (distributed systems), and I had to push our VP Eng very hard to hire him. His initial reaction was along the lines of "he doesn't have any industry experience, so we don't know if he's good". It gives me nausea to think about how many outstanding, 2-sigma engineers are rejected because companies don't know how to evaluate their talents. In the end, we ended up hiring him, but only because I stated that I would take full responsibility for his productivity. I regret nothing. </rant>
The inventor who introduced the Gaia hypothesis leaves behind a rich legacy
Lawyers have power if you give them power. You can just endlessly delay negations and simple build the rail and deal with lawsuits when the rail is reality.
I agree that's the way the world should be, but it isn't.
As far as I understand it both forks have the same ledger, its only the transaction validation method thats changing. The PoS fork is mirroring all of the PoW transactions so no double spending or extra coins.
I've always thought these "ranking" websites to be complete bunk - is there any evidence they aren't?
So if they don't use your marketplace are the royalties not collected?
It’s a good question. I don’t really propose we eliminate markets. But I think we can insulate individuals from prices by letting small cooperatives worry about that where individual cooperative members can just follow co-op rules.

For another example, see this real world practical example in India where a single facility gives out 50,000-100,000 free meals every day. There is a real economics to this, and it’s something I want to study. I presume they have a multitude of funding sources including donations of money and product, probably some government support for the free meals they send to schools, and volunteer labor. But they have an organization which across India gives out over 1.2 million free meals a day. It’s well worth studying how they make that work, but they certainly do make it work.

https://youtu.be/qdoJroKUwu0

But imagine you are part of a co-op that owns an automated farm. How do y’all determine who gets what? Well that’s up to the members to decide. But I think it’s an eminently solvable problem. On a larger scale different co-ops might trade using money, or might have sharing agreements between co-ops. Again, it’s up to the members.

And then for things that are reusable, libraries are a great source of inspiration. The Oakland public library has a tool lending library where you can borrow all kinds of common household tools for free. I think there’s a great number of possibilities for how to share wealth without the exchange of money, and in other cases money can be handled at the organizational level.
This reminds me of the nerve-biting period up to the James Webb launch. The devs put off this transition for so many years trying to plan for every contingency, but we still can't be certain they didn't miss a crucial flaw.

In a system where the only thing holding back malicious actors is technical constraints, it only takes one bug or one misaligned incentive for a vicious cycle to take down the entire Ethereum ecosystem. An exploitable detail in the PRNG used to select the validators, for instance.

And like a space telescope, there is no opportunity to realistically experiment with the change beforehand, nor an easy way to make adjustments after launch.
Any node that did this would have their stake slashed by the rest of the network, because it would be easy to prove that the chain was invalid. The network finalizes the blocks that are added to the chain, there are no deep chain reorgs like in bitcoin - so any significant alternate history is easily identified.
Show HN: Linkly
Hi folks,

My friend and I wanted to show a macOS app we wrote. The app allows users to search their Chrome history and insert a link from the search results in any text box. Think the macOS emoji box (Ctrl + Command + Space), but for your Chrome history.

For the frontend, we use a combination of React and Electron, mainly for developer velocity. We used Figma to iterate on the visual design.

One the challenges was getting the pane to appear next to the user’s caret as they are typing. Currently, we place the pane at the user’s last cursor location. You might notice some quirks in Linkly that are also shared with macOS' emoji box. For example, in many apps, you'll end up with two flashing carets: one in the app's text box and another in Linkly's text input field.

The Chrome history files are SQLite databases, stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/. Each Chrome profile has its own history file. We make copies of these SQLite databases and build full-text search indices using SQLite's FTS5 module (https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html). The actual search query is a bit of a hack. We just split your query on whitespace, append "*" to each "token", and send it along to SQLite. This somewhat mimics VS Code's search functionality where each token is treated as a substring. In the future, we might parse the entire query per SQLite's grammar and rewrite it so it more closely matches VS Code's behavior and so we can disable some of SQLite's search capabilities that don't make sense for Linkly (e.g., "my_column:x").

Please let us know what you think!
I used Mailgun before and at work we have Postmark. Both good.

I also made the following table for myself some time ago:
https://nts.strzibny.name/transactional-email-providers/
whats the difference between float16 and bfloat16?
> Magically blinking away the US military would not change any of the above consideration one iota.

Let's flip the question around: what happens when oil producing countries try to sell in non-USD? US military has entered the chat
I hate the feeling of forgetting an idea but also have a hard time finishing something before a new thing comes along. So it’s a bit of a catch 22. I want to write down the ideas, but if it’s written down I tend to start researching and figuring out code structure in my head.
A bit of both. Some people I know, say sporty types, never got a computer ever in their life. Others were older and never got one either.

For a lot of humans, their phone is their ‘computer’. Especially for services like banks and government agencies. It’s important for them to be secure in a way that pcs have a hard time being
That's categorically untrue. But understanding why would require reading the article I linked earlier.
You put it jokingly? But distinguished people should definitely get some state managed perks like politicians do.
Regardless of official terminology, there are two levels:

1. Map a character to a unique number in a character set (in Unicode: called codepoint)

2. Map a number that represents a character in a character set to a bit pattern for storage (transiently or persistently, internally or externally). Unicode code points can be bit-encoded in various ways: UTF8, UCS2 and UCS4/UTF32.

The original code points permit the same character to be represented in various ways, which makes equality checks non-trivial: for instance a character like "ä" can be represented as a single character or alternatively as a composition of "a" + umlaut accent (2 characters).

So far, this is all about plain text, so we are not talking about font families or character properties (bold, italics, underlined) or orientation (super-script, sup-script).

Ken Lunde's opus magnum is the standard book on representing text in various languages other than English, with a focus on Asian languages:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/cjkv-information-proces...
it's a very neat map
One does not typically return to undergraduate study after gaining a first BS degree. If you have a BS (or in my case a MS as well) in a not-directly related technical field and wish to study CS, you get a graduate degree. This often requires extensive additional coursework, in my case about 12 additional semester hours. Thanks for ranking people like me lower than someone with less education; I doubt I would enjoy working for you anyway.
I didn't know different binary numbers could map to NaN. That is interesting.
One persons worth of medical waste vs multiple patients’
Not if they're doing mobile game development in my experience, still lots of us developing on macs.

Ableton works fantastically on my Mac, and for that matter so does Da Vinci. Anecdotal but nevertheless.
Your response made me laugh, but the book is actually more narrow than the post title suggests

> 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
Resources for learning networking for back end development
Hello everyone, I am a frontend developer and I am trying to shift to backend development. I am studying directly from Node JS docs but I have realised that most of their networking modules are hard to understand without have a knowledge of networking . So searched google for resources but didnt find a single resource. All resources were in depth covering those OSI layers that a backend developer would not need. So anyone please suggest me some resources(videos, books, articles anything) for studying networking but for a level of backend engineer.
Omnisend, the best support there is.
PyPy is written in pure python and transpiled to C++
FTA: New York Jets Coach Robert Saleh expressed concern that players would grow accustomed to “the soft blow” and use their helmets more, leading to increased risk of head injuries

I think that’s a real risk, especially given that the new caps only are required in preseason training (¿and, possibly, even forbidden in competition?)
Securing private keys is much cheaper than securing physical property.
FWIW, I got leary of Gnome Boxes (probably because I usually need to run a commercial OS like Windows) and found myself pretty happy with quickemu/quickgui - https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickgui
The majority of mosquitos are "good", they are food for species and they pollinate plants.

https://www.npr.org/2016/02/19/467395225/mosquitoes-what-are...
Honestly, I don't think this is true. Tech people tend towards a libertarian bias in my experience, and I'm old. I've been a professional programmer for about 30 years now. I've met more libertarian tech people than progressives, by far.
It is order of magnitude easier for them to make changes after launch since the code and developers are here on earth and not floating in space.
I described precisely this case even before my edit and said it was an exception.

There are a lot of people coming with 4+1y or 4+2y purely CS/SE. That's who I'm talking about.
Mailcoach, https://mailcoach.app
Say I have a few GPUs churning but my payout date is late 2022. Should I just give up now?
To be fair, I really am pretty stupid.
Is that the man who did the introduction to category theory for programmers. Although I never grokked it as much as I would like, I appreciated that video series, for trying to make the subject so accessible.
>"Copilot is different, he said, "It actually generates novel solutions. Not like they're super-crazy, sophisticated, genius solutions. But it makes new solutions that are superficially different enough that they plausibly could have come from a student.""

virtually every cheating student has always slightly altered their solutions. At best copilot saves you the five minutes of Googling and refactoring. For the committed cheater who wants to avoid a week's worth of homework and learning that's hardly meaningful. And in fact probably not even that because you still need to actually read what copilot outputs because it makes obvious bot-like mistakes quite often.
Answer: nothing. No country has been invaded by the US military, or any other military for that matter, after selling, or even attempting to sell, oil in non-USD. Not Russia, not Iran, not Venezuela, not Iraq, not Libya, none of them.

(And I include the last few because there's no evidence they even attempted to sell oil in non-US currencies.)
You are right. I sleep on the sides but with pillows, and suspect I am a mouth breather too. But if you don't use the pillows, the mouth does naturally remain closed. However, I am still sceptical about this as without the pillow to support the head / neck, I think breathing is bit more laboured. Moreover, in my experience, sleeping on the side puts a lot of pressure on your neck and shoulders and you often wake up with sore muscles in those parts of the body.
Let me tell you about a little thing called the Pareto principle. 20% of the homeless cause 80% of the problems.