skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A patent troll is generally understood to be someone who abuses a patent to extort money from good-faith manufacturers. Plenty of people apply for patents just so that they can claim that they're 'inventors', without ever intending to even enforce these patents, let alone abuse them with specious lawsuits. Whether this Joel Goheen is a patent troll depends on his behaviour while the patent was extant, not the fact he registered it.

Nonetheless, it is clear to me that the patent itself does not describe a novel invention. There is basically nothing original about the idea: plastic magnetic strip cards, databases, consumer credit - all of these were around for decades prior to 1994. The composition of these into a transport booking or payment system was obvious even then; stored-value smartcards had already been in development for multiple years.

All in all, I certainly share the interest in the history of electronic ticketing, but I would dismiss any singular claim of 'inventing' the technology. I think it was inevitable from the moment digital computers started to be viable.
> If airline ticket resale was as easy as concert tickets, you'd probably see a predatory scalping market develop.

I don't think so, because a predatory scalping market only happens when artists are pricing their tickets below the market rate.

Airlines have so such compunction, so they'd just raise their prices until scalpers no longer had a margin opportunity. Or, to put in another way, airline pricing is already as "predatory" as the most aggressive scalping markets.
Why on earth would IP keep bad ideas around? You're free to make a better idea and let it compete in the market, since by being better it'd definitionally be different.
> Why are people in society B concerned with the majority working if they are unnecessary?

I think that's a great question to ask. Some possible answers:

A - to make money for the yacht class

B - to keep the 99% too busy/distracted to wonder why all the productivity gains of the last 50 years have gone to the yacht class (see graph above)

C - They're not even that concerned - they pay people to be concerned about that stuff on corporate media / in politics / in our Supreme Court.

The point above is that "100% employment" is absolutely not the barrier between society B and society A. There's no good reason for full employment to be "necessary" to a well functioning society.

It could even be argued that one measure of a functioning society is how many people need to work 60 hours a week just to have their basic needs met...
I’d wager that sprinting races, like most sport, have their origins in warfare. Being able to move from point of cover A to point B as quickly as possible is very useful in avoiding projectile weapons.
My goto source for understanding entropy:
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8592/1/EntropyPaperFinal.pdf
Soundness and Completeness: Defined with Precision (2019)
Even more rational is finding an unofficial source of income, which is what people in this situation often do. At scale, this may create a wrong impression that levels of welfare are adequate to guarantee the basics.
As long as energy isn't unlimited, humans will always have some comparative language compared to AI + robots. Favorite metaphor for this is a lawyer and a secretary. The lawyer is better at everything than the secretary, but there's still a role for the secretary because the lawyer's time is better spent actually doing the law. It'll be the same for humans and AI.
I think another analogy that applies to AI is going to orbit. It's "not hard" for a sufficiently large rocket to be able to hit orbital heights. It's pretty hard for the rocket to enter orbit at the same height. In the AI world, we are at the suborbital stage of technology. For me, the 99% use case is accessibility tools (speech recognition, grammar correction) and coding.

Image generation is like poor-quality Photoshop. Which, by the way, is the best target image generative AI could shoot for. Do what Photoshop can do, only better and easier.
If I would write a book with that title then I would get to the point a bit faster, probably as follows.

Entropy is just a number you can associate with a probability distribution. If the distribution is discrete, so you have a set p_i, i = 1..n, which are each positive and sum to 1, then the definition is:

S = - sum_i p_i log( p_i )

Mathematically we say that entropy is a real-valued function on the space of probability distributions. (Elementary exercises: show that S >= 0 and it is maximized on the uniform distribution.)

That is it. I think there is little need for all the mystery.
The recent estimate of Apple TV+ paid subscriber is 25M from 2022, with additional 50M on trial from other promotions. Let say we have 30M now, at $10 a month, this is at best $3.6B per year. Considering Apple didn't charge anything for the first 20 months, and the initial price was $4.99, $6.99 by October 2022 before coming to $9.99. And that is excluding yearly discount from subscriber, iTunes Account Top Up Credit discount etc. I dont think Apple would have $10B of Apple TV+ revenue since its inception. i.e Apple is now at a loss of $10B in total excluding the encoding and delivery expenses which I expect to be a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.

>sustainability.......but may be to take a loss

I dont record any single feature or product that Apple provides and uses a loss leader. You may get freemium type of services that is iCloud but even that is accounted for in their book in every single Apple products sales. Their culture has always been paid for the product or services. It is very rarely a loss.

But I have been saying for now close to a decade the whole point of Apple Music, Apple TV+ etc were to increase their Services Revenue while diluting down their Services Profits margin since a lot of these Services are razor thin margin, but for App Store and Google Search placement are both at 90%+ Gross. By combining them together and bundling these products as Apple One they have managed to substantially increase their subscription base to 1 billion+.

The only problem is both Google Search Placement deal and App Store revenue are under heavy attack and scrutiny by officials and politicians.
AI changes the rules here, because AI is able to automate extracting structure/meaning, and launder it of its origins.

In classical copyright, fair use allows certain.. fair uses. Going beyond that is considered stealing. You can chop things up into small parts, and there are rules governing how you can put the pieces back together and claim them wholly or partly as your own work.

LLMs behave more like a solvent. Everything goes in the pot, gets melted down, and by the time it's recast you can't say for sure where anything came from or who it once belonged to. Even if sometimes you might get a strong whiff.
Is it not obvious that people would have more time to seek a meaningful life if they spent less time working?

The trick will be figuring out how to get people to actually do that, rather than just using the money to further participate in the same carrot/stick game that they're accustomed to.

How to get them to take a risk and start a business doing sobering w important, versus just buying the next larger SUV because that's supposedly going to make them happy.
You can what now?
> Most startup founders are genuinely trying to

get wealthy, and not really good 9-5 job wealthy. Properly wealthy.
Understanding Entropy [pdf]
When I studied physics I struggled with understanding entropy, just as everyone else. Than I found this beautiful guide and the different pieces just clicke.
Nothing stops them from writing a minimal kernelspace driver that sends events to the userspace part and evaluates rules there.
Ty for the info.

What exactly is escrow for source code? Some party you paid to upload a tar.gz to an sftp server?
Personally ive canceled all streaming svc (in 2023) and just watch youtube and FB reels. I think that's where it's all going and soon Hollywood will continue to increase the amount of content on youtube (have it all there) possibly break their shows into short form content or create short form content tv shows and movies. I have trouble watching long form content alone. It now has to be a social endeavor for myself to watch it one sitting.
I dunno how old your kid is, but short attention span seems like an inherent part of childhood that you grow out of.
From a quick search, it seems like Knowledge Graphs are particularly new, even by AI standards, so it's harder to get one up off the ground if you haven't been following AI extremely closely. Is that accurate, or is it just the integration points with AI that are new?
Every company that jumped into streaming has this issue and was warned about this from the start. Even Netflix struggles from this, the simple solution is to stop billing top tier workers and lower quality. This is how you get a Frasier reboot in jeans.

Also extra funny for Apple as their projected attitude is that they are always top tier with unlimited funds.
Yeah, if that were the case I'd agree it wasn't a DEI pick. My memory is that he phraser it very much as a "I will find someone who is..." rather than "I picked someone and she is...", but memory is far from perfect!
What is the link to the Chicago study?
I think it is a matter of perception.

For example, lots of DUI type accidents are blamed on alcohol, but it might actually be sleep deprivation that is the most fundamental cause of the accident.

In a similar way, I wonder if similar sleep-related accidents or incidents could more properly have caffeine as a root cause (after it has worn off)
the "sensor" is actually in the remote. The bar is just two infrared leds seperated by a known distance, that the infrared camera in the remote uses to figure out it's position.
Thank you for the recommendation! I also learned a lot about Columbus’s atrocities and greed from this apparently well-researched YouTube video on the subject:

https://youtu.be/OaJDc85h3ME

He was truly an exceptionally brutal, evil, vile, and selfish person with no regard for the humanity of indigenous peoples.
File management? It's a phone. Besides, if you absolutely must manage a file store, there's a native iCloud Files integration now (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102570). The situation is a lot better than it used to be.
> The deal Apple has with MLS might be a good deal for Apple but I don’t think it’s good for the sport.

Did you try to stream it before Apple got the rights to MLS games? About 10 years ago MLS had an all-in-one streaming platform called MLS LIVE. Minor local blackouts, but other than that its the one stop shop.

Then they shut that down and you have to follow a flow chart on how to watch anything. Is the game "local"? Are you "local"? Is it a "big" game that is streamed nationally? What does the magic 8 ball say for which local station has the rights to the broadcast? ESPN+ had some of the games but no where near all. Pirating the game was about 10x easier, as you just time in "free MLS stream".

Apple TV is a single place to watch the games. No blackouts. No ouija board to figure out how to watch it. So much easier than pirating, the quality is good, and I can watch it where ever I want.

Whether or not the deal was good for the MLS organization monetarily, I have no idea. But for consumers it has been really great in my opinion.
But, were the animals at least unconscious when the experiments (and preparations thereof) took place?

Anyway, if you've ever seen a cat play with a half-dead mouse you might change your previous opinion on these experiments.

On the other hand, this research might lead to people putting patches on their jaws to stop the cosmetic effects of ageing.

Ethics is a difficult discipline ...
If you lose 10 per cent of your bone density on the way to Mars, but then live in the conditions of 0.33 G, doesn't it cancel out?

The real nasty problem would be getting back to Earth.
The sensor bar isn't actually a sensor, just two IR blasters that the cameras on the wiimotes use for positioning.

You can use any two sources of infrared light instead!
That covers one and a half of the twelve points he discusses.
From data to action: Using metrics to improve Open Source communities
same here. although my parents lived so far apart that regular visits with the other parent were not possible, i actually felt that them being separated so far was a good thing considering how the two of them just could not get along. the distance did not hurt my own relationship with my absent parent, nor have i ever felt guilty for their separation. neither parent felt the need to talk bad about the other.

that said, living with a single parent did plenty of damage to us children, so in that sense we most certainly had a broken home. but the cure for that would probably have been for our parent to find a new partner (which they tried but didn't succeed in because any potential candidates were not interested in children), but most certainly not for my parents to get back together (and i know they tried. from first separation to final divorce it took more than half a decade, and that's probably the time where we kids suffered the most).
Satya Nadella Reads/Games Hacker News (2018)
I'm from northern Maine, where we use to have Loring Air Force Base. Back during the SAC days, it was one of the primary nuclear bases in the US. It even gets nuked in Wargames!

If you know the right people in town, you can get some fascinating information. At one time, supposedly most of the nuclear weapons in the US passed through Loring. There was a large field area that had bunkers dug into it that held nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. There were many more bunkers than weapons needing storage, so that you could rotate the munitions constantly so that the Ruskies would have to guess which bunker to nuke.

On top of this field full of bunkers was a bunch of buildings that looked very boring, and were supposedly made to look like "boring" military buildings.

One building was a large concrete cube. About 40 ft on all sides. It was supposed to represent something like a small schoolhouse. It was designed to contain the detonators for the bombs. It supposedly had 4ft thick reinforced concrete walls. It was supposed to be able to survive a near direct strike.

This all made a lot more sense back in the 60s when bombs were less accurate, smaller, and satellite intel was significantly more limited.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/rauEmMeHagTpVgGQA this is the location I describe above. If you look to the south-west of the runways, you can see a similar road layout where some base-housing used to be. The bunker area was meant to be hard to distinguish from those from a spyplane or early satellite.
you mean checkerboards?
Discussion (58 points, 20 hours ago, 74 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41029590
For generating output, sure, but when it comes to "helping individuals grok any conceivable topic" like the original comment said, you're still bottlenecked by how fast you can read and understand text, so it won't make as much difference there.

Plus, from my experience, the more obscure topics, which are not easy to google, also tend to suffer the most from hallucinations when using LLMs. The topics which ChatGPT can explain perfectly usually have well-written explanations at the top of search results too.
The sensor bar is passive - it's just two infrared diodes so the Wiimote can get an idea of its own position.

So you can replace it with candles as they emite infrared light as well!
My elected representatives seem to understand this pretty well. The problem is that people keep electing other people who view anyone not working as leeches. Often the difference between keeping those elected officials and electing someone that represents you is a few hundred or a few thousand people deciding that their vote does matter after all and going and casting it. It's about the population of a rural village or small town. I don't know how we're going to get back to our golden age, but I know that we need to find the motivation somehow.
Yeah, also curious if this is meant as a replacement for Airflow.
And presumably your competition is also now free to bid on more contracts, meaning each contract has many more bids, which means the client needs to use AI to read them all...

prompt -> your AI blackbox -> client's AI blackbox -> client picks winner

Maybe someday the client will let you submit your prompt directly to their AI blackbox so you can save computing resources.
I think you might be conflating two different skills because you haven't seen good examples.

First is the skill of being an effective and persuasive communicator. This is an important skill to learn for anybody. The best resource I know for this is How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. You need to actually read the book, not a summary someone posted on the blog.

People who only read the table of contents or a blog summary usually interpret How to Win Friends and Influence People as a book about flattery and manipulation, but that's not the actual message. The book has strategies for asking people questions about themselves, and presenting an argument in a way that will allow the other person to "save face" by making their change of heart look like their idea. It will make you a little bit of a better person in addition to a good communicator. If you're having trouble getting some of the concepts to click, you may want to find some friends to work through examples with. This type of practice isn't quite the same as Toastmasters, but Toastmasters is also helpful and you might find some interested folks there.

The second is the skill of talking a lot without saying anything of importance. This is used by Public Relations folks and politicians to persuade people to ignore the real issue at hand. It might be a useful skill for cover-ups or duping people who don't actually understand what you're talking about, but I think most people with a decent understanding of the topic at hand see through this sort of pandering. Politicians and PR reps probably still do it because people expect a response and - even for those who don't fall for the ruse - it's still impossible to figure out exactly how badly someone messed up after listening to a meaningless conversation.
Not all UBI schemes are issued by the state. Consider CirclesUBI for instance: issued by us for us as an alternative to what the state has for us.
You're right, that's too gentle of phrasing. Fascism is a 100% far right ideology. Please excuse my Ameribrain, I'm continuously bathed in conservative capitalist and neoliberal propaganda
They can. But I think news articles are claiming Apple is looking to control cost and reduce losses.
The NFS protocol does not support all the functions of a "native" filesystem running on a block device.

NFS is fine for configuration files or read only. But workloads that do any sort of intensive writes will probably not like NFS, from SQLite up.

The newest NFS versions might fix some of the issues around caching that cause problems for write operations though.
This article doesn't talk about actual VMs/instances running in Azure. Also, so many new service devs only target Linux, and Windows is an after thought. No wonder 60% of the market place is linux.
You aren’t escaping life without pain.

I torn my quad last year, and then one of my kids did a butt stomp right on that knee joint as I was lying on the ground. Any minor residual vasectomy pain is the least of my concerns.
that makes sense but it still seems like there is an imbalance on expectations.

It reads as they're great and there's not a lot of people as great as they are when in reality it's probably more like the overlap between the set of people they desire and the set of people that desires them is impossibly narrow. This sounds like a tough personal problem that they can 100% work through by looking in the mirror and working on themselves.

I'm too great to ever find someone as great as me is frankly a piss poor attitude and outlook on life and I feel really bad for them to be stuck like that.
Yeah, that's about what I'd expected (and WoD books would be a priority for me to index). Another commentator mentioned that Knowledge Graphs might be useful for dealing with the limitations imposed by RAG (e.g., have to limit results because context window is relatively small), which might be worth looking into as well. That said, properly preparing this data for a KG, ontologies and all, might be too much work.
I find it unironic how for decades the tech community complained about the apple walled garden and how Microsoft isn't open about kernel internals and how it's hard to get things done with it compared to Linux which is open source. Now everyone is an EDR expert and they think Microsoft should be more like apple and less like Linux.

I think people don't know that Microsoft also has a Crowdstrike Falcon competitor that isn't too bad at all. While it would be funny to call out the hypocrisy in the tech world, I think the DoJ would indeed sue Microsoft unless it extracted it's own EDR and had it use the same API's it is asking other companies to use. Furthermore, there is something called the anti-malware scanner interface (AMSI) which Falcon and other EDRs indeed use and there is an ETW api that allows them to do additional monitoring as well. But that just isn't enough to counter many real world threats. In effect, the EDR must be like a rootkit to get complete system visibility and be able to stop any and all threats, kernel or userspace. Also, a user space process can prevent booting or freeze systems up.
M: I came here for a good argument!

O: AH, no you didn't, you came here for an argument!

M: An argument isn't just contradiction.

O: Well! it CAN be!

M: No it can't!

M: An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.

O: No it isn't!
Original transcript: https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2018/10/24/mi...
After almost demise of nomad, market needs another general purpose orchestrator that isn't Kubernetes or docker swarm.

This is not it however.
Ah JCB, how I love your writing, you are always so very generous.

Your This Week's Finds were a hugely enjoyable part of my undergraduate education and beyond.

Thank you again.
What does that have to do with paying? Only RHEL requires that you pay for patches/updates. If you're running Debian, Ubuntu, etc you get all your patches and updates for free; no need to pay.
Don’t airlines use their own custom software?

(I have no special airline industry knowledge.)
Great catch. It's specifically SQLite-via-OPFS that needs to be within a Web Worker. we fixed this in the post!
Both are theft in the context of intellectual property, and so they are the same.
How do you let the programmer know? Through the public API...

Otherwise you have to catch panics via unwinding.
To add to this, the first-gen Apple TV 4K I use, which was first released back in 2017, still runs the latest tvOS and works great. The A10X Fusion SoC in it is still a great deal more powerful than what's built into most streaming boxes in 2024. The current-gen Apple TV has an A15 Bionic which is much another huge step up in power.

They're not the cheapest thing out there, but you get a lot of muscle (and longevity) for your money.
Those phones are made by a small number of hardware vendors on homogeneous hardware. At any given time, Google only has a handful of Pixels that it is supporting, those Pixels do not have user configurable hardware, and those Pixels are all identical.

Dell sells a PC and it has to work with any number of possible storage devices. Users might swap out the modem. It is expected to work with any PCI-E device. It supports hundreds of classes and models of devices like printers and scanners. etc. etc.

Saying that "it is used on phones" doesn't really mean much when there are only what? 5? 6? major phone manufacturers supporting a limited and largely homogeneous set hardware configurations. Same for cars; a small pool of manufacturers and suppliers on identical hardware configurations.