skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's already how this works, basically. You have to keep paying a fee to keep your patent, and the fees increase with each year of the patent.

The fees are fixed, but the effect is pretty similar to what you describe.

In some jurisdictions you get a discount on the fees if you declare that you are open to licence out your patent. Then everyone can use your invention without having to ask for permission,as long as they pay the license fee.

EDIT: I looked it up, in Germany (§ 23 PatG) the patent office can set the licence fees that others have to pay, so you can't play games by just setting the fee to a trillion euros.
I do this all the time and have done with every boss I've had over the past 25 years. None have ever objected. The phrase I use with my current CEO is "I'm not sure what you're asking for, can you clarify?" With my line manager this is shortened to "huh?" But then again I don't work for Americans who seem to be much more into hierarchy in the workplace and not asking questions.
Notice how shi*y companies always seem to find that "unfairness" needs to be "fixed" by removing the benefit?
Wouldn't this further entrench the patent problem? Companies with a lot of money would be the only ones able to fend off patent trolls. Patent trolls will be more easily able to aquire patents through a regulated system, and likely for cheaper, since people may list them low just for "holding" since they can't afford to list them high and pay the patent tax.
> and from the bottom by those who have yet to grapple with the fact they dont have friends or hobbies and need you in the office so that they dont feel like such embarrassing losers.

I can see why office culture doesn't appeal to you, you sound like a grump who doesn't enjoy the comraderie you can form with people that you spend 40 hours a week with. If you can enjoy the cognitive dissonance of socializing with black squares in a zoom, that's great, but I'd rather enjoy the time I spend working, not merely tolerate it. I don't think that makes me a loser.
Yeah, I know that I tend to avoid the broken stuff in my own code and/or only test it along happy paths because I know how it's supposed to work. I can work around that, sure, but IME there's a certain kind of blindness to things that comes with familiarity - a fresh set of eyes is a good way to mitigate that.
Interesting idea, but I think Pete is suggesting a bad solution for a very real problem. Code reviews tend to be slow, and reduce development velocity. But the solution isn't to merge un-reviewed code into master. The solution is to create a culture where people prioritize unblocking one another and doing code-reviews promptly.

I once worked in a team where people did code-reviews within 2 hours of a pull-request being published. We moved so much faster as a team than any other team I was a part of. I bet there is a high correlation between team velocity and code-review latency
I worked under a C-level person who was otherwise a pretty sensible guy, but he had participated in a workshop about this, in a 1000 person company. After the workshop he instituted a RTO policy. The policy was more lenient than the company policy, but still needlessly strict. In personal discussions he stated that in the workshop they discussed that all people would slack away from work given the opportunity. He seemed agitated about it. I guess this was how the C-level was "motivated".
Courts getting involved over something like that isn't realistic. A more likely outcome is board members getting fired.
My language sensor is always tickling when I am seeing "ask" used as a noun. So I looked around and found this:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4246/can-or-shou...

Just in case others are similarly affected.
That used to be true, but now, and specifically with diamonds, not so much: https://www.brightonsavoy.com.au/why-does-a-diamond-have-no-....
Support can be pretty rare even when new devices support it. But not even all new iPhones (non-pro) support it, and zero old ones.
This sentence has too many negations even for me.
I am assuming the GP also implies taxation on the value claimed for the patent. Tangentially, I would also love the equivalent option the other way around, I.e. in property taxation, where the government decides the value of the property, to also be obliged to buy the property at that price if so asked by the owner, an option contract of sorts.
>One of the ideas was a system of property tax system in which you pay property tax based on a property value which you get to declare (rather than some assessment by a third-party or government agency). The catch is that you are required to sell to anyone who offers your declared value.

Reminds me of Folkrace, a Scandinavian form of motorsport where they use a similar system to enforce cost caps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkrace
> the fact they dont have friends or hobbies and need you in the office so that they dont feel like such embarrassing losers

You must be a great person to work with if this is whats going on with your internal monologue about the people you interact closely with.
You need analysis to make sense of infinite series, indefinite integrals, exponential functions, etc.
It is "as volatile as ever" - the swings may not be as high, but they're of more "value" ... 20% of $35k is more than 90% of $5k :)
Could you point to how this is implemented and how it can be used? From the sound of it, you're trying to do something like rsync's running-window comparison?
A manufacturer tried the 4-day workweek for 5 days' pay and won't go back
LinkedIn posts are not usually known for their technical merit of factual accuracy. In fact, there's an entire subreddit dedicated to calling out the worst offenders of this genre, which may be amusing to peruse: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
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> would that be an infringement of the patent on the mechanical device?

No because a patent has to describe the mechanism (the non-obvious inventive step). If there are multiple ways to achieve the same thing then in practice it's hard to protect and the patent is probably worthless, if not too obvious to be granted in the first place.
>Following that rationale, why haven’t we kept using H.264, when H.265 started existing?

If my memory are correct at the end of 2020 90%+ of all online video were still on H.264. We are still pretty much H.264 only simply because it is good enough for most things.
> merge first, for the sake of high velocity

I think what constitutes high velocity or best practice is going to be highly dependent on the context.
What's the risk and consequences of a mistake, for example?

If you are making some Crud SaaS and you are in an early/startup setting then obviously you can probably correct a mistake pretty quickly. Perhaps you haven't even shipped the product publicly. Worst case a service is unavailable or some data is deleted that can be recovered from backup. Bad day at work but you'll recover.

But what if you are in a security critical business? What if your code is deployed to customers and it writes files using a file format that must be possible to read forever, and this code contains a bug making those files incorrect?

So: your review process, source control workflow, testing method, CI method, etc. will depend on the context, just like the best architecture. (insert Simpson meme with "-Say the line senior developer -it depends").

Anyone who tries to offer "best practices" without caveats is either misinformed or selling snake oil (LinkedIn is the place to go if you want both of those).
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No. It’s a security risk and nobody has perfect code
Methinks the "blocking" is step one in a negotiation with Netflix over licensing.
I'm not quite sure either, but AV1 seems to be the free format alternative to HEVC. However, it lacks the level of hardware support the latter has achieved, which is very much relevant for TVs and such, seeing as software decoding (of both HEVC and AV1) is expensive and may not be good enough in a lot of consumer devices out there.
I wonder why people try to read this book when it's not really comprehensible?
> I've watched direct reports operate as a "human command line", requiring precise syntax before they'll act.

Nope, I absolutely want to be this type of person. I don’t want any level of responsibility whatsoever.

You get to hang yourself if you can’t give good orders.

I am an employee. I don’t win if the company wins so I refuse to incur any risk.
Some combination of strategies. Grabbing an old Itanium Developer's manual, the suggested rewrites include making loops branchless where possible, balancing instruction depth for branches that can't be avoided, doing more comparisons in parallel rather than if X -> then if Y, and so on.

Obviously, this doesn't apply to every general purpose problem. Just noting there were some narrow cases where writing for Itanium produced something close to the promise.
AutoCAD for DOS shipped at some point with a cool NASA Space Shuttle demo, I remember seeing it render (can't remember if on a 286 or 386) without a co-processor and it took several minutes, as each line slowly rendered on screen.

The same demo with the same machine now equipped with a co-processor, it took just a few seconds.

As a kid, I knew nothing about FPU nor math co-processors but that incredible speed bump had a long lasting impression on me.
This makes sense if you see programmers as cogs in your code factory that produce exactly 1 coder day of code per day.

If, however, you see them as humans with different skills that can be shared amongst each other, then pair programming makes a lot more sense.
Curious how this compares with Automerge/Automerge-repo [0]. Looks like Automerge is at 2.0.

0: https://automerge.org/blog/2023/11/06/automerge-repo/
This is crab bucket thinking. Dragging people to the office doesn't improve the plight of other workers.

Keeping more people away from commutes though does reduce traffic for those who need to get around.

Central commercial real estate could actually provide useful things, rather then "places people sit at computers they could do anywhere".

Distributing the work force out means more mixing of class and profession. Service jobs can be closer to where people live because they're more distributed.
followed the "Draw" link and played with the thing there, but didn't see a way to demonstrate this functionality? Is it a paid feature or something?
The ideas in the article are solid and I agree with most of them. I would only counter by adding the following: those who get used to providing quick direct responses to owner/manager/executive inquiries become incredibly valuable and can get a seat at important tables they would otherwise not be privy to. This is part of the informal signaling that good managers use to identify talent and leadership to grow.
Well no, that's my entire point, it's not about what work best for _me_, it's about what somewhat works when scaled to a whole country or continent. It's flawed in many ways, and corrupted in other ways, but it's better than the alternative

If I really wanted to do what I want whenever I want I'd live in a hut somewhere in the woods. Law is rarely about _individual you_ it's about the society you live in.

Why do I care if you have your seatbelt or your motorcycle helmet ? Because if you get injured you'll cost millions to the community. Same exact principle here, it's part of the social contract, you enjoy a lot of neat things and in returns you give up some other things.
You might be interested in reading some of Bert Hubert's articles, specifically "DNA seen through the eyes of a coder": https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/amazing-dna/
I'm not the kind that takes advice from books at face value or with a dogmatic "this is what the expert do" attitude; I think the biggest lesson of that book is a great explanation of "what complexity is", which is something I've seen lacking in many colleagues
A breath of fresh air keeps drug-producing cells alive longer
If you are in a positive office space, you need to understand that you are incredibly lucky and part of a tiny minority.
FYSA: "Requires ChatGPT Plus" account.
I really enjoyed the 4 minute YT/ClimateTown video that points out that the following entities all support theories of human-induced climate change, and publicly state so within documentation/websites:

All major gas extraction companies, all US insurance providers, most chemical societies, most academics.

That we as a species are not hugely impacting our planet's inhabitability (for ourselves, minimum) is nothing more than political theater.

YT/ClimateTown link: youtube.com/watch?v=mK5TbGvvluk
Apple is a bad example to go on. They eschew (especially) NIH standards until the point when it's beneficial to them, especially when it's beneficial to another (competing) platform to have interoperability. RCS, PWAs, etc.
If you're not going to review the code before merge, then you certainly aren't going to review it after it's been merged.

It's one of the reasons that I write my tests before the code, I know that if I write the code first then I'm less likely to write any tests for it.
> The longer we bemoan being forced to go to work in order to get paid, the more the rest of the population becomes convinced that the professional class is entitled and a bit spoiled.

My experience is that the rest of the population has very little day-to-day contact with people like me and remote work only reduces it, so they simply don't care.

I get some vague interest in the details of my life when salaries are mentioned, but when I explain what kind of hoops you have to jump and what kind of lifestyle you have to lead (desk job and learning after hours) to get to these figures, interest is usually lost.

Overall people are way less interested in how strangers live their lives and visibly less envious than one would think. For most this line of work is boring and soul crushing and they don't think the salary makes it worth it.
*Every company
Sustained antidepressant effect of ketamine through NMDAR trapping in the LHb
Setting the Record Straight on the SEC and Sunburst
RDIMM

Also if you look at the picture, there's five columns of packages per channel.
What is the value in that disclosure? No software developer has ever looked at a patent for inspiration or to learn how something works.
That's clearly an hyperbole. They don't need nuclear weapons to exterminate everyone in Gaza.
I meant some scraper using it to cache videos for its users. Sorry wasn't clear enough.

But you could also do private caching for a solo user.

Like the VCRs of old people used to skip ads. And later the hard drive equiped variants.

Hopefully someone will make such a service for YouTube if they block adblockers. Worst case, run YouTube in Chrome in a VM and record the screen.
A libertarian would say that purveyors of poison would face civil and criminal liability after the fact if anyone was harmed.
I agree. The only frameworks I’ve found about as productive as Rails are Laravel and Phoenix.

Django and Sails.js both seemed like they were a step down in terms of general productivity, though each had a unique advantage of their own (admin out of the box, websockets & realtime features).

I haven’t had a chance to really give RedwoodJS a trial run, but it's the JS-based fullstack framework I'm most curious about.
The Kitchen Sink Conundrum and Simulation's Balancing Act
Some thoughts:

* Employers should pay the cost of employee travel to work, at least count the time spent traveling to work as work hours. If I'm driving into work it's not really my free time.

* If I lived near my workplace, I wouldn't care about working from home so much. Society has done something seriously wrong where most people cannot live near where they work.

* By getting the professional class off the roads, traffic is better for those who have to work in person. By tearing down the offices that aren't really needed and replacing with residential and other mixed use, we might have a shot at rearranging things where the people that need to be physically present at work can live close to work.
Maybe they could start paying top management like normal employees.
> One of the ideas was a system of property tax system in which you pay property tax based on a property value which you get to declare (rather than some assessment by a third-party or government agency). The catch is that you are required to sell to anyone who offers your declared value.

A refinement would be that the government agency / tax office also needs to submit an appraisal value, with the catch that they are required to purchase the property for that value if the owner wishes to sell. This balances incentives on all sides to submit realistic values. The final appraisal value would then be the average of the owner and the government appraisal value.
Why do people spend their entire lives studying the Bible looking for 'meaning'? It's the same thing: academic pursuit/something to do and, frankly, there is nothing at all wrong w/that.
Investors have invested in companies that just happen to pay rent to the....investor (now landlord)?
Moving Pictures came out in 1990, and this only came to a head in 1994, so _probably_ a coincidence.
Do they? Odd how coordinated so many companies reach the same conclusions, policies, and follow the same trends.

Could it be that the board members of these companies are in that nebulous investor class?
I think this interpretation puts too much weight on experiences. Hedonic treadmill shows that experiences have little long term impact on people's ability to suffer life. Her earlier behavior including posing as man idicates that she was far from the average human from the get go.
If you look at RTO mandates coming out of places like IBM and Yahoo during the Before Times, there was clearly an "increase unforced attrition" aspect to them. Layoffs without the pesky WARN notices, severance, etc.
If a restaurant line cook could work from home they very well might want to. Software work can, most of the time, be done from home. So the question of if it should be done from home is valuable and worthy of discussion.

All workers deserve to have a say in their working conditions.

How one talks about it can be entitled or spoiled sounding, but the desire to influence and change one's working conditions is noble and in common with great majority of workers.

When my children were small I started working remotely while my partner worked in an office still. I looked for a remote job so that rather than being in a office and going to get some coffee I was excited to instead get to see my 8 month of doing some baby biz on my coffee break.

What a wonderful privilege it was during that age of growth. How great it would be for more people to have that experience (which was very common before industrialization).
I 100% agree with you.

Early in my career, a senior colleague used to reply to complaints with the simple statement "you only get the company/boss that you deserve".

By that, he meant that if you complained, you were always free to leave and find a better fit elsewhere. I learnt to appreciate that saying as I grew older.

If you think you deserve a better office space / coworkers / manager / CEO, then go look for it elsewhere. If you don't find it, then you are probably in the place you deserve, like it or not.
No I think you are wrong and your arguments are bad.
Where it started (I believe): https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/17/broadcom_sues_netflix...
Technically, you had one on the 486SX, it was just disabled. Probably*

As I recall the "co-processor" slot on those boards was another CPU slot, with an extra pin; and when filled it took over and disabled the original CPU.

Edit: later 486SX may not have had FPU: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12109/wer...
I agree, and this is one of the things that are problematic with academia. Not that scientific rigor / work / dissemination shouldn't be rewarded--it should. But so should work like OP's.
Kinda like that "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, not."

Algorithm = documentation or specification, not software.
> (1) Everyone needs to operate in good faith. I've observed leaders ask their direct reports for something off-hand, without giving it more than 5 seconds of thought. I've watched direct reports operate as a "human command line", requiring precise syntax before they'll act. Don't be either of these type of people.

Yeah... until the 4th round of guessing what they mean, resulting in months of tossed out work for lack of the exec elaborating on what they want. think "i need a sales report". You'd think there would be a better brief after the first time.
The team is very distributed at this point and budgets pretty much preclude traveling for team get-togethers. (Which I agree can be a fairly satisfying alternative to coming into an office 2 or 3 days a week.) But as it is, probably most of the people I work with I have never met in person.
OP forgets ‘institutional investors’ is code for the pooled retirement funds of the vast majority of residents, as well as the institutions who hold much of the sovereign debt, which is generated to pay for social services, war, etc. It all comes down to those who are presently working supporting those who presently don’t.
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IDK, I don’t think real estate part is entirely true. It’s often quoted but most companies have very little RE as a percentage of revenue or whatever metric you think makes most sense. Many more are just leasing RE and could easily have exited that position by now. Even a one time write off could be spun as a positive thing. These properties can be repurposed and have continued value without their corporate tenants.

There’s no grand conspiracy where executives are helping boost the holdings of REITs and institutional investors. Executives as a “class” and a “job” just like the traditional butts in chairs approach to work. They have to think about the entire company and it’s easier to have a singular approach. Instead of bespoke approaches by team/department/title where some people are RTO and some WFH as that quickly reverts to everyone is on zoom/teams for every meeting because of the remote people.

WFH has also provided a whole host of new and unusual problems for HR. I’m sure most executives are just tired of hearing about it. In my own experience/approximation only about 1 in 3 people are can actually self manage in a way that’s needed for remote work to be effective. I think software development is a very specific job that is very well suited to WFH but most other jobs within a company are not.
Trust can exist while recognizing limitations. In fact, I would say understanding limitations is integral to trust. And limitations is why we do code review.
I'd love to see an option to have the image pincushion and introduces a buzz in the audio from an video signal that was too strong? That was one of my favorite. Everyone focuses on the interlacing, giant pixels shapes, and the fun with chroma bleed, but some of the most bizarre things could happen when you pushed the analog signal too far. The 1 volt peak-to-peak was a rule for a reason, and going past was possible. Terms like whiter-than-white from pushing the video signal from a test pattern past 100ire on a scope could cause issues with the combined RF modulated audio/video signals. The most flagrant offender was white text. If you were competent at your job, you never used 8-bit 255,255,255 for white. That was out of bounds for NTSC, so 235,235,235 was typical instead for white.

The next filter would be the infamous "broadcast safe" filter that would clamp the video signal to video was not higher than 100ire. Allowing for chroma clamping separate from video clamping would be a bonus. Hell, just give the basic functions of a TBC to the users. They don't need to understand what they are doing to the signal so much as just a few knobs to get creative!