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I had the pleasure of working with Jay doing the character illustrations on his indie space shooter, a couple of years before I started coding professionally. This was the article that always stayed with me, especially at times when progress was difficult (which became especially poignant 18 months ago with my ADHD diagnosis).

These days he works for a VR company, but his main creative activity has been writing sci-fi/fantasy/horror novels for some years now, and he has his own series.

PS. I was going to say this article was from way further back than 2014, but on reading the post it appears it was his own repost.
Yeah a lot of these articles seem to be a lot of people who are very opinionated and don’t want to consider any other side. I guess that’s a lot of articles these days in general…and probably past days too but I wasn’t around then.
> That's misunderstanding the argument: it's not "They poached our employees and that isn't fair!", it's "Clearly our technology was legitimate and innovative, they had to poach our employees to duplicate it!"

This seems a pretty thin argument. Hiring some people who already successfully did it has a higher chance of success than hiring randos, even if they have to do a clean-room re-implementation. So of course you're going to hire them if you can.
As someone who used to admin a 30PB+ LTO library I love me some tape, but unfortunately it’s not that simple of a value proposition.

Bit rot is less of a thing with LTO, but still a thing.. I.e. you will at some point need to update your LTO system and it’s storage media.

The robot I owned was the library storage for movie frames at a major motion picture studio. We would upgrade every other release, so while I was there we were upgrading from LTO-5 to LTO—7.

The robot was big, and would write data to two redundant tapes. One copy would be sent to Iron Mountain, the other stayed in the robot.

Creating a backup like you are isn’t really protecting much if you don’t have a good facility to store the tapes in.

Part of the point of paying for a service like AWS Deep Glacier is that it’s an offsite backup.

An LTO backup has no advantage over a hard disk if your home catches on fire.
I imagine an individually customized vaccine would still be expensive even if produced at-cost. Things get cheap when they can be mass produced.
Thanks to the magic of the Gig Economy, those people can still deliver pizzas, but with the added bonus of making much less money and having no benefits!
HTC probably lost the phone game due to Samsung existing more than anything else.
Is that a problem?

What is the evidence?
Deadweight loss of needing to maintain a patent portfolio to defend against other infringement cases?
Yep, also the free range and organic ranchers are the ones who are hardest hit, which makes it more expensive.

This issue is just way more complicated and nuanced than most people want to make it. As an environmentalist I have a natural reaction against the ranchers, but having dove into many of these types of issues, I've been amazed at the complexity and second, third, and fourth order impacts and unintended consequences. Hot takes on HN are aggravating to read for someone who is actually informed on this and other issues.
Living out in the middle of nowhere, I can appreciate having animals that used to live reintroduced back to their habitat. Except mosquitoes. Mosquitoes can all go to hell in a burning hand basket.

My fear is the "scientific hubris of today". It goes like this: "Yesterday everyone was evil and dumb, and destroyed <insert your personal pet agenda>. Today, we are much smarter, and we are enlightened and know all things that needed to be done. Our intellect is leaps and bounds over those troglodytes from last year."

Then, a few years down the road we find out again that those brilliant minds were not exactly aware of all the details, and have made things worse. (Or, as now it is starting to trickle out, those brilliant minds lied and falsified their studies.)

e.g., you know why we switched to plastic bags from recycled paper bags in grocery stores? Allan Savory in Zimbabwe and saving the forest by killing elephants? Monarch butterflies and the wrong milkweed? The Osborne tire reef?

(Of course, I know I am an outlier. I make weighted matrices with dozen or more rows to decide which vegetable I should ferment next. It is likely going to be green tomatoes, but carrots are mighty close this year.)
They’re just trying to muddy the waters.

Just shouting that someone has an “agenda” is enough to make some people uncritically drop any facts that are uncomfortable.

In this case it’s honestly silly. News publications started widely publishing articles on gas stoves when research papers came out a couple of years ago indicating they posed health risks. They didn’t all simultaneously develop an anti-gas stove “agenda”. At worst you could argue that they’re being sensational for clicks.

This compared to gas industry publications. They actually have a pro-gas agenda because when people buy gas they make money. They and the people they lobby have an actual financial stake in making sure people use gas stoves.
Time to seriously upcharge on those apps. See how inelastic the demand is.
History of Alice and Bob (2017)
> If Germany called them in like they did the Syrians

> Hamas may shoot people even for leaving bombed areas

Citing unsubstantiated rumors and conspiracy theories may indicate that you are not arguing in good faith. But I want to address your main talking point and clear what seems to be a misunderstanding on your part.

Many—if not most—Gazans do want to flee the war zone. They do want to seek shelter in a safe harbor where their safety is guaranteed. Many Gazans have family ties to refugees which have established them selves around the world, particularly in Europe, Canada and the USA. Currently they need to go through some bureaucracy to establish legitimacy (you can imagine how hard that is while bombs are dropping around you), then they need to flee south to Rafah (again through an active war zone, so pretty dangerous), and finally they need to bribe an Egyptian border guard. Before the war the bribe would cost somewhere between 2,000 - 3,000 € but could go as high as 10,000 €. I think today it is a bit cheaper but still in the order of hundreds to thousands of euros.

People are doing this because they are desperate. They are hungry and they are afraid, they want to go to a place where they can sleep a full night and have a warm meal at least once a day.

A non-existing theoretical camp city on the Sinai peninsula proposed by the very same people who are bombing their houses, that does not sound like such a place. If your aim is to find a safe harbor, then Egypt is not a reliable option (for most people; I’m sure there are some who have family or friends in Egypt willing to offer shelter).

Finally if you are a refugee, particularly if years pass before it is safe for you to return, it is highly likely that you establish a new life in your shelter and find a new community around it. You still have friends and family back home—and yes, you do call it home—which you would like to visit on occasion, but you may still want to keep your current life where you found the shelter. Any immigrant will tell you—refugee or not—that home is relative, and you can find a new home in a new location, while still seeing your old place as your home.
I had a longer post put together, but then I remembered this XKCD comic that does a better job explaining it.

https://xkcd.com/1150/

The only difference is that when we talk about relying on things on the internet so many of us are relying on other people storing their stuff in other people's garages.

Best to take the time to have your own garage for the stuff that's important to you.
Things get messier when you start to add automatic dependencies.
For such a small project done while learning to code, it was probably a choice between stock/AI images like these, or no images at all.

I think it looks fine, and ads some visual cues for what the activity actually is.
Article is easy to dismiss Google's / big tech's recent achievements, but totally ignores the significant fraction of conference papers (e.g. NeurIPS) that come from these big tech companies.
I don't disagree that iostreams feels like a mistake in retrospect, though you have to put yourself in the time period to understand why people make decisions the way that they do. Bjarne wrote the first version of that library in 1984! And it was moved into the standard in '98.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/4854358/24817 is the canonical explanation for why >> and <<, apparently. Nearby, this is also mentioned:

> C’s printf family of functions is an effective and often convenient I/O mechanism. It is not, however, type safe or extensible to user− defined types (classes). Consequently, I started looking for a type safe, terse, extensible, and efficient alternative to the printf family. Part of the inspiration came from the last page and a half of the Ada Rationale [Ichbiah,1979], which is an argument that you cannot have a terse and type− safe I/O library without special language features to support it. I took that as a challenge. The result was the stream I/O library that was first implemented in 1984 and presented in [Stroustrup,1985].

and

> The stream I/O facility is implemented exclusively using language features available to every C++ programmer. Like C, C++ does not have any I/O facilities built into the language.

The language simply didn't have the advanced tools that ended up being used in more modern solutions yet. It was too early.
I’d speculate that if you did these offshore of river deltas where there is significant agrarian economy upstream you’d be able to capture fertilizer/waste run off, though not sure about the distance to deep water and dissipation at that distance
I have been in the same exact boat. Trying to learn vim who knows how many times in the last 15 years, but without ever able to get over the clumsiness, illogical hotkeys, constant breaking of plugins, waste of time on configuring.
They actually tried with crowdfunding, but it didn't go well.
Mostly because German laws and other things.
I honed my lab notebook taking during my time working under a brilliant geneticist, (I actually used raw yaml before I got into emacs org-mode) and really enjoyed the daily detail... and then when I got more into the startup world I kept getting "don't write that down because it's then discoverable!" but in shaded language from the in house counsels... and it was very off-putting. I ended up CYA'ing at some of those by sending slack/etc messages to myself of things like that.

Let's just say I much prefer working with scientist heavy companies and teams.
> they still haven’t come out with a proper API for implementing local user-space filesystems.

They have, it's called a File Provider Extension (0). The major downside is that it's extremely limited in what you can provide and it's an extension of the interface on top of APFS and not a proper file system in user space.

Frankly, I don't think Apple cares about creating features that would interfere with their own offerings. User space file systems (to them) are for remote storage. Users should use iCloud. Apps that can't shim over iCloud should be file provider extensions.

If your app doesn't fit in those boxes then Apple doesn't care about providing the APIs to implement it cleanly on their platform. You can hack it through NFS.

(0) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider
We have seen how that went during covid, so dont i wouldn't hold your breath on it. The only hope is competition from China and others initiating a race to the bottom.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think Microsoft can also do something like this, but in most cases both Google and MS will only ban the account on one service.

While it's rare, it's very unnerving to think that one day, with no "due process" or recourse, Google can wipe everything you ever touched on their platforms - from everything on Gmail, to all your content on YouTube, your purchases and subscriptions on Google Play, whatever you store on Drive or Photos, your contacts, calendar, notes - everything.
Would like to mention Dang here, he is doing an extraordinary job in keeping this place sane and civilised.

I really am wondering how he can read and react to so many comments quickly.

Dang, care to elaborate? Do you see a flat list of new comments, review them quickly? Do you use a moderation tool that scans the mood / tone / aggresiveness of a post? How do you do the screening and the replies? Manually?
For cheapo, can carve up Dollar Tree foam core boards and tape together.
Carbon credits are a scam, true

But I do not think it is a foregone conclusion that "...If you dump lots of organic carbon in the deep ocean, you end up with a lot of microbial respiration of that carbon (return to CO2) with an equivalent drawdown of free oxygen,"

Have you evidence?
> failed clinical trials in the 2000s and 2010s

We didn’t start testing neoantigen mRNA cancer vaccines until 2017 [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8942458/
> When you as an individual use it to sort PDFs or something it’s really hype.

Personally speaking, anything that eliminates and reduces mundane but complex work is high magic. The real deal.

If “hype” pays for itself, it isn’t hype. It just became a necessity.
Perhaps adding a page for users to suggest things would improve location specific stuff.
Taxes are not fees for service, local governments though should be aware that if they suppress their major tax payers they should expect their tax revenue to decrease. It's counterproductive for them and the community to chase away large taxpayers. Not to mention it's illegal: one is still entitled to the protection of law even when not paying any taxes, see the Constitution, 14th Amendment.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38773426
What does the United Nations have anything to do with this article?
I don't think it's independent at all. I think it assigns the quality of good oldness to things that are good but not old. Or it refers to things that are good and familiar.
Getting very creepy vibes from this. Why “women’s” data?
It's not a general vaccine , but a tailored one aimed at people being treated for cancers that have a high risk of it coming back. So it's not something that can just be handed out to everyone.

I agree though if a general vaccine is created.

I'm really looking forward to a future where this and heart disease or just merely annoying.
I often suspect it’s the trace amounts of remaining THC that make higher doses of CBD a good time.
Let alone you have to pay a subscription fee for Apple.
Maybe in 30 years when all the patents have expired.
Can you share anything more about the project? This sounds fascinating.
> But if you're satisfied with 2fps

This is not "runs" in a practical sense. It has to be a reasonable substitute for the console.

Here's the money question: If you're the developer of this game, can you reasonably stop selling it for consoles and paying the vig to the console makers by telling people to play it on their phone instead?
What do you mean by "fully"?

Here in France, you may ride an electric assistance bike that cuts off at 25 kmph as if it were a normal bike. No license, helmet, or insurance required. You may also ride on bike paths. Just like a regular old-fashioned bike.

For bikes with assistance above that, you need a license, the "light motorcycle" or whatever it's called. Also, insurance, helmet, and gloves, just for any "real" motorbike. These things cost as much as a full-on motorcycle, so I don't know who buys them.

Anyway, I haven't heard of any increase in injuries or fatalities related to the uptake of electrical bikes that doesn't seem linked to the overall increase in cycling since covid.
I mean, it seemed like it worked pretty well with covid. Vaccine was produced very quickly, and in most countries was free.
Gonna get downvoted to oblivion for saying this but I haven't hated a tool more than make.
I guess I didn't hear about that or ask. For them not to mention it I assume that being 30+ lbs overweight and heating junk food is detrimental to that to too, so it is either improved or stays the same from eating 10lbs of vegetable juice a day.
This is news? I can recall family gossip from the 1960's or maybe 70's about $Cousin being paid $Dirt to teach at a very prestigious private school, because "that's how it works in New England".

And the economic/social pattern was probably centuries-old back then.
> a big influx of money from all countries

We don’t know how valuable this tech is. It could be worth trillions. It could be niche. Risk sharing, not cost, is the currency of deal making.

> immediately publish details and surrender any patent

mRNA vaccine production methods are tough, e.g. Moderna’s encapsulation technology. Add to that the personalisation required for these treatments, and we’re still far from economies of scale.
Just don’t do them all at the same time, and it should be pretty fun.
I've seen tons of articles/posts about this recently, but does anyone have any links to any good articles that describe the patent(s) in question, and what the arguments are about (a) whether this patent is truly novel (I've heard tons of "pulse oximetry is decades old" arguments, but nothing about the specifics of these patents) and (b) whether Apple is or isn't infringing on the specific details?

I'm sure this kind of analysis must be out there, but I searched through a couple of posts and lots of comment threads and primarily saw a lot of conjecture but no actual references to what was really under debate.
The style of farming is the same in Vermont as it is in Colorado...I found three in that state:

https://indianridgefarm.org/
https://www.flyingbbar.com/
https://thehighlonesomeranch.com/

And regenerative Ag is ranching. They are some of the innovators in grass-fed beef (I've been a vegitarian since 2005) and use the natural animal waste to improve soil conditions (integrating animals into crop farming).
Globbing means that the directory has to be scanned on every build

Once you start getting to multiple directories and recursive scans, the build time begins to grow enormously and usually unexpectedly.

Not a problem at all for small or even medium size projects on a fast machine.

But once you start building very large projects with multiple sub-projects, it generally slows the machine to a crawl on every build.
To write C is to code bugs. So, pick a different language.
Wasnt this suppose to end (the patents expire) in 2022/ 2023?
> Can we still manufacture electronics here, even if we wanted to? I thought all the expertise and machinery was outsourced a long time ago?

Yes. There's a bunch of industries that either can't or don't bother manufacturing in China. The majority of the military industrial complex and much of the biotech/medical equipment industry, among many others. The former for natsec reasons and the latter because even after 20 years QC is still a shitshow.

The problem is how spread out the industrial capacity is. In Shenzhen you can walk from the factory to a giant bazaar with every electronic part you could think of available to buy then and there in reel quantities. You can walk to any of hundreds of other factories and talk to the people on the floor to help design parts for their process. When the part is ready, they can courier it over to you within an hour.

The cost of labor doesn't help either but at Apple scale, US companies would figure it out.
Fundraiser with matching no less. Wikipedia doesn't need any more money, the Internet Archive is a far better use for a donation. And they don't use fake-urgency manipulation to beg for it either.
What does „CV“ in „CV vaccine“ mean?
Discovering the dependencies depends on the compilers, not on the platform.

I have stopped using MSVC many years ago, so I do not know how it handles dependencies, but with gcc or clang that works regardless of platform, with compiler-specific options.

Moreover, software for one platform can be built on another platform. What matters is only the platform used for building, where the compilers are hosted, not the target platform for the built software.

In general, I extract all platform specific definitions, like the names of the compilers and their command-line options in platform-specific Makefiles, which include a generic Makefile with platform-independent definitions, rules and make targets. Any platform-specific details, like SDK paths, are encapsulated in the definitions of certain "make" variables.

While I have not needed to update the platform-independent generic Makefile for decades, the platform-dependent sections need updates from time to time, but that is not done for every software project, but perhaps once per year or more seldom, when significant new compiler versions, standard libraries or other new software tools become available.

I have not seen yet any reason for using Ninja. Perhaps it may be faster when building something like chrome, but because chrome is likely to be the slowest-compiling software project known to mankind, it is hard to tell how much is gained by Ninja. For software projects of more typical sizes I have not seen noticeable advantages of Ninja. Traditional make can keep all the cores of a CPU 100% busy, so there is no way any other building system can be appreciably faster. There are some very bad Makefiles that are intrinsically slow, but that is a problem of those Makefiles, not of "make" in general.

Using a minimum project-specific Makefile section can only simplify debugging, not making it difficult.

I have never seen any evidence for the claim that cmake scales better. On the contrary, at least in all the open-source software projects that I have ever seen cmake is a major source of bugs in the building process that nobody knows how to fix. (i.e. after some software updates cmake fails to find files that exist, presumably due to some errors in the cmakelists that appear to be arcane enough that they are hard to find) I have never seen in projects that use traditional make such errors that are so frequent in all the projects that use cmake.

I have a lot of experience in building software projects, because for many decades, with the exception of a few professional programs without alternatives, I have been using only programs that I compile from sources. Most projects have very bad Makefiles, which are very hard to maintain, i.e. to change when files are added, deleted, moved or renamed, but at least they build the software projects reliably. Whenever cmake is used, building a new version is always an adventure with unpredictable outcome.
Dang is just a 10x moderator
Most of the work of drug discovery is not done by the pharma companies, it's done by publicly-funded research labs. What big pharma pays for is the elaborate (and very large) clinical trials which are required by the FDA before a drug can be sold.

One simple change the US could make is to direct the FDA to fast-track approval for drugs that have been approved in other countries the US considers to have high enough standards of rigour, such as the EU or Canada.
Oof, the paper is tough to read. The default word formatting is not the best for tables.

I am wondering how marriage/relationship plays a role into career choices. I believe that people from privileged accounts are more likely to be in a stable relationship, which could (at least in part) explain why one partner can pursue a low-paying high-prestige profession while the other pursues a high-paying one.
> ...giving nothing in return

Patent law is there, because creating original work is costly and can take years in engineering and scientific fields. The patents are there to give a time-window for the people who made the investments to make their money back and get some return on their investment.
Any sources for that?

Wolves killed dogs in past, some people consider that family.

And legally there is no difference between wolves, and wild dogs, so they do attack and kill people!

Anyway, this comment was already flagged to oblivion, so we know where we stand in this brave world!