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> But the hybrid practice seem antithetical to open source agriculture.

I disagree, open source ag is completely compatible with hybridization. And if open source couldn't somehow deal with the benefits of hybridization, then open source ag is not a route we should follow.

Farming is a transformation of inputs into food. It's not about seeds and propagating seeds every season... that's just an attachment to a practice like being super attached to, say FTP as the only way to transfer files and deploy a website.

Open Source Ag is completely compatible with maintaining two strains, crossing them, and then distributing those seeds. Having widely distributed access to these seeds, and information about them, gives the chance for more innovation in the crossing, too. The question is whether somebody can get compensated for the efforts in discovery...
I'm trying to build OSS tool that will help fighting on-call fatigue so if you hate it let's talk and tell me how can I help

https://calendly.com/d/zkv-4f8-jgj/keep-intro
I do not know of a better source for RISC-V news than r/RISCV
i think google must've just turned the dial up because i have almost _no_ email at all so far today -- noon east coast on friday. i don't think i was getting deluged before, but say, 50 'job' emails a day, mostly lists that i didn't sign up for.
Ah ok interesting I need to dig into this.

Ye well I knew the overhead was really small.
I agree that the cut is too big, but its entirely reasonable to think that setting and keeping the cut at 30% is the rational profit-maximizing course even in a long run that includes new laws throttling them to some lower number.
How? You mean a wrapper around GnuPG?
Ideally it takes a full year for them to realize that you're not competent, at which point you hit your 1 year cliff and can snag 25% of your options or RSUs before you get PIP'ed out.
So the whole rigid box thing is kinda a "they dont make em like this anymore" myth. Here's a 1959 Chevy crashed into a 2009 Chevy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_r5UJrxcck. They both crumple, but the 2009 only crumples in the crumple zones. The crumpling on the 1959 impala is more spread out and you can see includes more of the interior
This just means the letter will include the wording "last resort" and "we tried everything to avoid this"
I think you misunderstand. It's the opposite; it's that our non-work relationships are more meaningful, not that we are unable to form friendships at work.

Way too many people (mostly when young) fall into this trap of making their work their life. Don't be one of those people!
HN Folks. Hi.

I'm not sure how many here would be interested in or know about CMMS (computerized maintenance management system).

Simply put, When something in your office building or factory or favourite restaurant needs repetitive maintenance or totally breaks down, it is the CMMS software that is used to raise a work order and keep track till the thing gets fixed. It's something similar to bug management - but for the real world things around us.

A good CMMS software keeps the AC, Coffee Machine, Elevators, Water Supply ... and the whole modern way of life humming along. SuperCMMS achieves this by making things super easy (like, really really super easy) to use for frontline staff and managers.

SuperCMMS was originally built for and battle tested at large scale wind and solar plants. Now it's available for almost any industry that needs an easy to use asset management and work order system.

Happy to answer questions.
Then he acted in a way that made it clear he was using the patented materials without a license. Specifically, spraying his fields with Round-up that would have killed everything that was not patented.

You can shrug and say "Oh, it was clearly an accident, Monsanto is evil". And Monsanto is certainly evil. It's just reasonably clear why the judge would view this behavior as deliberate and knowing infringement of a patent.
Because most people gaming on laptops are using beefy headphones.

Quiet operation is a luxury anyway. You don't buy a laptop to be quiet, you buy a laptop to perform the workloads you need (for which you need performance). People who are budget constrained usually want the best possible performance for the price.
Isn't your complain about integers the reverse of your complaint about nulls? I think it's reasonable to want better semantics for precisely specifying common types (I'd add dates to that list) but it seems like in both cases what you want is a way to say exactly what your source and destination types should be rather than having silent lossy conversion.
Well that is indeed the legal question to be answered. The post I replied to asserted the derivative nature.

The ability to copyright-launder via an API will lead to some interesting consequences for sure: I wouldn’t want to be elastic search or mongodb relying on source-available licensing if it comes about.
A very similar place:

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

The bones belong to about 40 thousand people. Realizing that this enormous boneyard is, by size, equivalent to 0,6 per cent of the Holocaust, is extremely sobering.
Gadzooks!

I hadn't expected this.
I think use cases like this are the right ones for generated code from language models.

I'm pretty sure the vast majority of training data is more buggy than not and literally writing the code is only half of what it takes. The other half is comprehension of the problem it solves which is usually missing from documentation at the level of mere snippets.
This just isn't true I got my name on patents working at small companies.
I mean this stuff is literally laid out in the Creed which is recited at every mass and various times besides. There are various other Creeds used that make things even more explicit such as the Athanasian Creed. And nothing really is unique to the Catholics, the Orthodox are onboard for this stuff.

I believe in one God,

the Father almighty,

maker of heaven and earth,

of all things visible and invisible.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,

the Only Begotten Son of God,

born of the Father before all ages.

God from God, Light from Light,

true God from true God,

begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;

through him all things were made.

For us men and for our salvation

he came down from heaven,

and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,

and became man.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate,

he suffered death and was buried,

and rose again on the third day

in accordance with the Scriptures.

He ascended into heaven

and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory

to judge the living and the dead

and his kingdom will have no end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,

who proceeds from the Father and the Son,

who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,

who has spoken through the prophets.

I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.

I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins

and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead

and the life of the world to come. Amen.
it was a successful strategy for VMWare when approached by a German developer about improper licensing for his open source code. VMWare managed to get the original case tossed on a technicality, as well as the appeal, which bought them enough time to drop the linux code entirely and avoid a discovery where they would most certainly be found in violation.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-developer-abandons-vmwar...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-sued-for-failure-to-com...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmlinux
Most crypto developers don't work on the cryptocurrencies that work as currencies because they're established and they want a higher return so they make yet another alt-coin.

I'm not saying there aren't good new ideas in new alt-coins/etc. I'm just saying if we're making a big deal about the number of devs, the above is the main factor.
Space helicopters: the future of low-cost space exploration
Do they? Any adult I've ever talked to sees patents as anything ranging from "a necessary evil" to "literally the worst thing". No one thinks it somehow helps the little guy stick it to the big players. The little guy isn't interested in sticking it to the big players, they're interested in selling to the big players.
Maybe a faulty assumption; my AC-less home has a ducted oil furnace, and we still haven't removed the ducts after installing a heat pump. Another house I lived in 12 years ago had ducts for oil furnace heating but no AC. Both were 100+ years old and in the northern US.
I'm very close to the IP abolitionist end of the spectrum. For copyright, give works 20 years of protection. Beyond that you have to start paying hefty fees for 10 year blocks. The fee can double every 10 years. You want a Mickey Mouse ad infinitum copyright? If you're prepared to pay billions for it, go right ahead.

Patents should generally not exist. Software patents should absolutely never exist. The fact that companies game patents so we still have insulin under patent 100 years after its invention by doing minor changes is not just a bad actor, it's a bad system.

GM crops are particularly egregious because seeds don't stay in a field. You can infringe a patent because some animal decided to eat a plant and then relieve itself on your field.

There's another angle though: not only are seed subscriptions (let's face it, that's what this is) just another way to extract the last few dollars from farmers, it's downright anticompetitive. You think the farms Big Ag are operating are paying those fees? Of course not.
Some of the marketing mentioned private keys so I stupidly assumed a per transmission negotiation mechanism but of course they probably just mean "symmetric key". A per tag key extraction would be annoying though presumably.
The PUK mechanism is very interesting, I'm interested to see what you find in the firmware...

For the display, this poster has something similar and talks about a datasheet - there's even a pinout for the flex cable (and it's supposedly SPI) [0]. It's for the 2.6" version not the 2.7 though so might be totally different. A comment on the post (by this person [1]) claims that they have working cleanroom CC2510 code that drives the display but who knows.

Great project anyway - I look forward to part two (and what you find on that flash chip)!

(Edit: sorry if you know this already, but there's a manual for the labels themselves [2] implying the setup page is permanently stored in one of the 4 slots - hopefully in that external flash chip)

0: https://epongenoir.blogspot.com/2017/10/

1: http://andreiprojects.blogspot.com/

2: https://fccid.io/2ACQM-EDG1-0260-A/User-Manual/User-Manual-5...
Another source, No paywall: https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-410683...
A lot of what we consider "elite" US cities were losing population well into the 1990s. While I don't think the WFH trend is as widespread as people in some bubbles think it is, it's probably an open question whether the latest young college-educated cohort will move into cities for a while like some of their predecessors did.
See also this lightweight alternative to ES: https://github.com/zinclabs/zinc
I'm not so sure on whether or not it's completely acceptable to train a LLM under GPL, for example.
To bring the point home, reverse engineering efforts follow the clean-room design technique. This is done in an effort to not infringe copyrights.

Would love to see this being done on decompiled proprietary code. Training done on it. And released into the wild.

But the amount of data necessary, and computing power to do it might not be available for the common person.
Compulsory licensing of patents as well. I'm a huge fan of compulsory licensing in many industries.
On the other hand, the lightning socket has the springs which fill up with dust and detritus and are a nightmare to keep clean with accidentally bending them.

I think USB-C did the right thing, putting the conductors on the expensive part and the spring contracts on the cheap part.
Many people would love to own a major sports team.
Ask HN: Separate Up and Down Vote Count
I've been noticing an increasing trend on my comments where the "score" oscillates rapidly up and down by a few points with a slight upward trend over time. From observing it, it looks like the comment is getting 100s of ratings but might only have a net score of 20.

A post with 20 ratings and a score of 20 probably signals something different than a post with 1000 ratings and a score of 20. One signals that fewer people were interested in the comment but those people were generally supportive of it while the other signals many people were interested in the comment but they were split in their opinions of it.

It would be cool to see these numbers for comments!
A very wide street, maybe. Not the sort you're likely to have in a 15 minute city. :)
Would there be another way to feed 7+ billion people? How many human lives would you trade for more nutrient dense food?
>got professional insurance

Can you recommend some companies that do this?

Edit: Oh wow, I just made an online quote and it comes down to about $500/year. Dirt cheap for having peace of mind.
I signed up but on the setup wizard (https://app.mrscraper.com/onboarding) I can't seem to edit any of the input boxes ("Give your scraper a name", "Enter the URLs you want to scrape"). I'm on Chrome on Mac with uBlock Origin.
Chicago neighborhoods on the near north side (which are some of the most walkable in America) have large supermarkets. They just have parking garages (either above or below them). They are slightly smaller than suburban ones, but not that much.

Whole foods has plenty of them in all big cities.

It's just a cultural reason why some cities lack them--probably because people don't cook at home as much in NYC, for example.
This is what I'm referring to: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23560097/apple-ar-vr-glas...
Did you bother to look at the link I posted? I don't think so.
The molnupiravir development story is a nice case example of what's gone wrong under the corporatization of American academics. The drug came out of reseach done at Emory University, funded by US federal agency NIAID, as their PR blurb reports:

> "The discovery of molnupiravir at Emory was supported in part by funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. (Dec 23 2021, Emory press release)."

The university then did the usual thing in these cases, i.e. the researchers involved set up a small biotech company (Ridgeback Biotherapeutics) which was then acquired by Merck. This was made possible by US Bayh-Dole law from the 1980s, which allows universities like Emory to exclusively license taxpayer-finaced research to private entities, instead of allowing anyone to develop it.

The U.S. government then dumped an initial $1.2 billion into purchases, followed by another $1 billion more recently, a little over a year ago:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-government-buy-14-mln-mo...

Despite 'promising clinical trial results' (which may or may not have been manipulated to give good outcomes), in reality the drug seems to be of relatively little benefit, only slightly decreasing length of illness and with no effect on death or hospitalization rates (Dec 2022 study in BMJ):

> "No benefit was seen in terms of hospital admissions or death rates. The group treated with molnupiravir had 105 cases of death or hospital admission (0.8%), and the control group had 98 cases of death or hospital admission (also 0.8%)."

> "The median average length of illness in patients who took molnupiravir was nine days, which compared with 15 days in the control group. After adjusting for other factors the study authors found that patients taking molnupiravir recovered 4.2 days more quickly than patients in the control group."

https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o3055

Incidentally, and anecdotally, I came down with a fairly solid case of Covid-19 a year ago, and the cheap over-the-counter medication, diphenhydramine (Benadryl being the most well-known brand) knocked down my symptoms very effectively. This seems to bear out in research, although of course the U.S. government isn't going to fork over $2 billion to acquire a supply, and this drug is long out of patent (with a good safety record, though I did end up taking one tablet every 3 hours or so, a bit more than recommended). YMMV - but this is not an ivermectin-type claim:

https://ufhealth.org/news/2021/two-common-compounds-show-eff...

The whole molnupiravir story reeks of academic corruption, government contracting kickbacks, pharmaceutical profit-seeking, abuse of the clinical trial process, etc. It also reveals why researchers have little incentive to examine out-of-patent drugs as treatments for emerging diseases.
> This is only true if you can’t see the future that’s right in front of your eyes.

It really isn't in front of my eyes, and won't be for a long time.

> <link to fantasy interfaces>

No idea why it's here. And yes you are restricted by the laws of physics and human biology.

> We also already have Quest 2 as a pretty good VR device that’s shipped

VR is a) distinctly different from AR, b) requires bulky headsets, and c) borderline unusable for any extended periods of time
Start-ups routinely massively underestimate the number of people needed for tasks though. I saw a start-up that thought they could build a Siri competitor with five FTEs. That is just so far off from any reality.
True in a lot of areas in the USA, but someday when you are in the US explore some of the less populated areas in small to mid-sized towns, far away from the major population areas.

Sometimes I think people that grew up in, and live in a big city forget that not everyone in the USA lives like that.

There are still a tremendous amount of beautiful places in all 50 states.
Looking good: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libgstreamer1.0-... :)
Can you give us an example where a smaller company was successful in court against a much larger corp?
Same. I think that I didn't go through the Rc<RefCell> phase that so many new to Rust go through because of C++ teaching me the same lessons in a much more brutal way. By the time I got to Rust I had learned to structure my code to sort of use pointers/references as capabilities, such that simply having knowledge of the bit pattern of the pointer was implicit access through that pointer since as a codebase evolves someone will keep pointers around or not go through.whatever song and dance you need to do to keep accesses through that pointer valid. That thought process translates very well to Rust.
The Rust tendency toward “golfing” is why I don’t like it. It’s not even lifetimes, but the way traits are setup. And the lack of unified function call syntax. Sometimes it’s a function, sometimes a method — that distracts a lot from the problem at hand IMHO.
"Some Rust code looks truly alien."

Go tell that to a C++ programmer!

;)
We're a small prop shop. I don't need to do sustainable in the way you're thinking. And I think we might be speaking at cross purposes. I want someone with a skillset. I'm going to hire them for that skillset. That doesn't mean they only have that skillset but that's the thing that provides utility.
> Dual Coincidence is capable of being played in this manner, although because of setbacks such as Covid-19, a global microchip shortage and a major earthquake in Mexico, it's still awaiting its full set of features – those may be in place within the year.

This is likely key reason for no gameplay footage.
So far I've been happy with using the mysa ecosystem for my smart home. It works with Apple HomeKit, its had relatively good reliability and the team behind the product have been responsive when I do face issues.

https://shop-us.getmysa.com/products/mysa-ac

From a technical perspective its just a IR remote with a wifi connection and a touch UI, but for controlling mini-splits it works great in my home.
That’s like 90% of Java that uses spring.
An annoying discord really only gets you so far
> It's difficult for Europe to trust anything made in America. It was for this reason that Richard Stallman encouraged Germans to make encryption software, the import of which America allowed but the import of American encryption software in the Germany was illegal. This is why Werner Koch started gpg.

Nitpicking but I think you got this part the wrong way around. The US had export restrictions on encryption including PGP so Europe had to create their own.
Seems unlikely we'll stay below 2 degrees warming, so either geoengineering or we adapt to a warmer world. Unless fusion becomes commercially viable in the next decade.
Bussing in the USA was a civil rights innovation to integrate schools. At the time neighborhoods were still racially segregated, so neighborhood schools were overwhelmingly the race of whatever the local neighborhood was. The only way to have integrated schools was to send many kids to a school in a different neighborhood, hence bussing.
The "limited access to affordable and nutritious food" criteria is primarily to distinguish between having a Safeway-type grocery store nearby versus only having a Plaid Pantry/7-11/Circle K where you can buy a gallon of milk and maybe a loaf of bread but it's nothing like a proper grocery store.
I presume he’s talking about the London congestion charge zone. Although he’s certainly being melodramatic.
This is clean but I prefer CircuitVerse[0] as using 0/1 seems to be a little easier on my brain. Also more options to build complex circuits.

[0] https://circuitverse.org/simulator
My family lives in the UK and they all own cars. None of them have ever had the experience that you're describing. Either you're confused, or making it up, or there's something happening as an experiment in a few cities that you're blowing out of proportion.
I very much agree with this, being quite familiar with large companies.

What's interesting is that like with most scaling problems, you don't realize that scaling a company actually means scaling people, and that the numbers can actually be very high, until you actually experience it.

In my case, the understanding came quite late, but completely transformed the way I saw my work, my company, and my management. Basically, at some point, you will need a boatload of people - the optimal number and what too many means being another question!
The saying I remember from back then is

"XML is like violence: if it doesn’t solve your problem, you aren’t using enough of it."
The farmer may have claimed they weren't trying to. The fact they used Roundup, which would have killed their crop if it weren't the GM seeds, indicates otherwise.
It wasn't, we didn't know until it happened.
> "But open source owners will get tons of questions and should be better be prepared to answer questions."

...for appropriate pay.
> However, most people don’t know I’ve also had experience climbing up the ladder of these large FANG companies, actualizing multiple promotions and saving millions of dollars in the bank from salary/stock/bonuses/benefits/etc.

I'm curious how an engineer can save "millions" over the course of a few years by just being at a FANG company?

> They pay their best engineers tens of millions of dollars per year.

This is the first I've ever heard of such a thing in an IC fashion.

Overall the post has a very naive perspective. Why companies need so many people is simple.

Peter Drucker would often say that you must "innovate or die".

Charlie Munger/Warren Buffet have outlived many companies with only a handful that innovated and are still around today.

Clayton Christensen outlines how these companies grow in a sustained or innovative fashion.

To reduce to three bullets is why I'd say it is a naive perspective. There isn't even an example of entering new markets or riding innovative waves.
We use DuckDB extensively where I work (https://watershed.com), the primary way we're using it is to query Parquet formatted files stored in GCS, and we have some machinery to make that doable on demand for reporting and analysis "online" queries.