skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an invention that I think could change the world (a better toilet). I went to a patent attorney.

His advice: File a submarine patent, wait til someone else has the idea but is stupid enough to manufacture, sue him for low enough that he wants to settle.

Why not manufacture? He explained that the patent system is designed to help the incumbents. If you manufacture, the big players will make some minor change, file for a patent as an improvement to the original, and ignore you. If you go to court - who has more lawyers on call?

At some point, you may iterate on your original product. At that point they will sue you with the patent they have obtained for their improvement. It doesn't matter if you infringe, it doesn't matter anything. Guess who has more lawyers? If you are lucky, you can settle for just giving them your IP plus your legal fees.

Many many inventions and improvements have been created by small guys, but they don't go to market. Because if it will disrupt an existing big player they will be sued. For any reason under the sun. Because the legal system favors the side with the funds.

And that is even without considering the companies in China et all that will just copy your idea wholesale, at a fraction of the price, and are untouchable.

The patent system helps the incumbents, but does nothing for the little guy.

A better system would be to use the money currently spent on the patent system to give grants to anyone who comes up with a new idea. [And you can even perhaps have some way for the general public to weigh in.] The smaller the company, the more the grant available. With funds, you could actually try to develop a brand, and the competition across the board would help everyone.
in the past twenty years the plains states like kansas and oklahoma began having earthquakes due to injection of petroleum wastewater into the ground. The government had to stop them because private industry literally does not care what gets destroyed
That swinging tether immersed in saltwater(!) will have to work miracles.
Good for them. But they have no local social network.
I don't know anything about UCI but keirin is intentionally a very narrow and heavily restricted slice of sport cycling. I've never heard anyone who is into it have anything negative to say about NJS's equipment restrictions. It is like how even though riflery is a sport, archery still is too. The governing body of archery isn't doing something profane by restricting the technology of the sport, that restriction is the sport.
I guess that's a given right? AI will augment job for some and hence lead to reduction in total available jobs since the people who are augment are more productive. But will AI lead to net new jobs?
> "More precisely, our results show a cost of $4.15 billion if society had to replace these packages once"

Or 1 month of Microsoft Office revenue.
The Honest Employers Guild should sponsor investigations and lawsuits against the criminals to drive them out of business, like that company that buys anti-Tesla Super Bowl ads.
Right, but it’s still wage theft when you make people work twice as much because they’re “salaried”.
Think back a few hundred years when tools were all made by hand. As the Industrial Revolution kicked off it would have been easy to say, we'll you can do simple things like weave with machines but you'll never be able to build a machine that can do something complicated like build a [insert complicated tool name].

Fast forward to today where we've got the Tesla Gigafactory and you can see how far manufacturing automation has come.

Not only is it rare to find tools that are made by hand today, but most of the highest quality tools are made by machines!

Even if you argue that building tools by hand is better for the people no major economy in the world is going to go back to a less efficient and more costly model.

The Pandora's box of AI has been opened and the world is evolving. Yes jobs will be lost and yes we wont be able to predict how far this will go.
I've had a stab at decompressing the code by hand, adding comments and meaningful var names where possible. I still don't understand the maths in it...

https://github.com/callumlocke/bitwise-liminal-expanded
>Because AI is nowhere close to replace a large swath of jobs?

Is that a claim or a question?

In either case, doesn't matter, as long as it's close to replace a swath of jobs - even if it's not some particular "large swath" it can't replace yet (or ever).

Doesn't have to replace all jobs to have a negative job market impact. Just more than can be reclaimed with new ones.
I think this is not a great name for a product that isn’t developing silicon.
> Almost everyone gets a $20 plastic case and adds about 3-5mm to the thickness anyway.

It’s not necessarily just about protection, it’s also about personalisation of the exterior beyond what the manufacturer provides.
The thing about AI is that software replaced people piecemeal. The report that took 1 person 2 weeks to generate now is a 20 minute batch job, but that report was run quarterly and was only 1 position. There is plenty more work to do.

We've already automated much of what is there to automate, most of our "bullshit" jobs are human communication or human reasoning. Once you fully automate 1 CSR or 1 compliance officer in an industry, you've effectively automated a large percentage of them. Instead of seeing a gradual displacement of labor, you're going to see large chunks of people become completely irrelevant. We're seeing this in the gaming industry now, where a huge focus is on AI art, aiding in (but not solely responsible for) mass layoffs.

I don't know if AI will eliminate more jobs than AS/400s did, but it will be a much more disruptive transition.
Skimming a review article on this topic this appears to be the since at least partially discredited amyloid beta Alzheimer's hypothesis, and studies are divided on whether too much or too little copper is a problem.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5810277/

: Scientific evidence has shown that metal ion binding to β-amyloid accelerates amyloid aggregation, which could finally damage the neurons in AD (Pithadia and Lim, 2012). The involvement of copper in AD is controversial, as some studies show copper deficiency in AD, and consequently a need to enhance copper levels (Borchardt et al., 1999; Kessler et al., 2005, 2008a,b; Exley, 2006; Jiao and Yang, 2007; Vural et al., 2010; Kaden et al., 2011; Exley et al., 2012), while other data point to copper overload and therefore a need to reduce copper levels (Cherny et al., 2001; Sparks et al., 2006; Hua et al., 2011; Luo et al., 2011; Ceccom et al., 2012; Eskici and Axelsen, 2012; Brewer, 2014; Squitti et al., 2014b; Yu et al., 2015). An aberrant copper homeostasis with an increase in the labile pool of copper and a decrease in the copper bound to protein is the main up-dated interpretation (Kepp, 2016; Squitti et al., 2016). In this paper, the role of metal ions, particularly copper, in AD is reviewed and discussed.
I haven't been to FOSDEM, but at any other conference I'd turn to them and "sssh!"

It is generally understood.
> The problem is that these sort of things[...] seems to always be answered with "no, because it's a poor people problem".

It's not just that. There are people that will outright deny that it's happening. The reasoning trotted out is that if it were true that this were happening then it would be squashed. In other words, if it were happening, then it would not be happening. From the article:

> According to a 2018 report by Good Jobs, between January 2000 to 2018, Walmart paid over $1.4bn in fines and settlements over wage theft violations, FedEx paid over $500m during the same period, and Bank of America paid over $380m.

Sans data about Walmart's $1.4bn in fines, they'll reason to themselves that Walmart, even if it's not somewhere they personally would ever shop, is a reputable company, therefore this isn't something that happens at Walmart.

I have experience firsthand (from a low spot in my life) that FedEx continues to do the same thing, especially to people who are powerless to do anything about it. To wit:

Their warehouse workers get paid low wages and the arrangement is that you need to be available between 4:00 AM and ~10:30. It's not that you'll be working during those hours. No, instead what happens is the night before they determine how high of a load they have and then set the hours for that time. So you as a worker call in at around 9:00 PM the night before, listen to a recorded message that states e.g. "On Tuesday, February 13, package sorters will begin work at 5:30". So far not so good, but there's nothing especially illegal about this is as far as I know. (It stretches morality and ethics, however.) What is illegal as I understand it is incidents where they tell you to report to work at that time, people show up, and then find that the timeclocks are papered over with a sign saying not to clock in because there was an issue at the warehouse overnight and the systems aren't running, so they've moved the clock-in time ahead 45 minutes to when they expect the systems to be up and running. You are expected to wait there off the clock despite not being paid and being expected not to leave.
Core Arguments:

> "Six separate impacts

In truth, AI technology will have several impacts:

1. Augmentation: AI will certainly augment certain existing jobs.

2. Job losses for non-adoption: new hires will be expected to use this augmenting AI, some who can’t adopt and adapt will lose their jobs.

3. Gradual jobs losses: new hires will diminish as productivity gains are realised: why have 5 when you only need three admin staff using AI to do the same tasks?

4. Jobs will be automated: some jobs will be automated and eliminated using AI. This has already happened with translators (Duolingo) and there are lot more candidates.

5. Legacy companies will disappear: traditional companies will fail to adapt and large numbers will lose their jobs.

6. New jobs will be created: new companies will emerge, as they did with online learning, with AI experts and knowledge managers. This is already happening."

===

Is anyone making a good faith argument that AI will "JUST" augment jobs? Do grown ups take the word "JUST" seriously anymore?

Terrible title.
How French Cinema Works
that's because the state is designed to protect capital and not its citizens. we can use the process of government to change that.
Software patents do not provide the benefits other patents do. Name a piece of software that would likely not have been written if it wasn't able to be patent protected. Now compare that with other industries like pharmaceuticals, textiles, chemical processes, etc. Software is different because it's more straight forward engineering than explorative science. If an implementation is obvious to anyone with the prerequisite knowledge, it's not patentable and there's really not much, if anything, in the software realm that meets that criteria.
Don't be presumptuous; of course i read the article (such as it is).

Other than "Flatland", the other two are not that well-known and the Wikipedia pages for the books are far more informative than this "article"; hence my comment.

PS: One of the comments on the above article's webpage points to this site which seems to be an exhaustive list of "Math Fiction" books - https://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/
I got mine (recently) for two reasons:

1- My desk was always covered in paper and I hated the mess. On this point, I am 110% satisfied. My desk is super clean.

2- I found it very hard to keep track of multiple projects, or discussions across notebooks, or pages in a notebook. On this I am still not quite there. It's better for sure but I really want to search for people, dates, or keywords, rather than being super careful and organised with folders and notebooks for every conversation, which then gets too messy.

The benefit of root access to the device be default is that I can build what I need. In the two weeks I've had the device, I've been able to automate finding my device on the network, syncing my notes, converting them to non-proprietary files and OCRing them. The next step is to implement nicer search and discovery UI which admittedly is a bigger challenge.
I can't see "US" and "Mexico" from space.

Mexicans are US Americans human neighbors.
Yes, I expect companies and even more so, governments, to not optimize for cost.

I expect them to optimize for human wellbeing, a functional society, and a clean environment above cost, and then cost.
I'm a student at Berea College, which is like Deep Springs College (tuition free, everyone works etc.), but it's a bit bigger. It's a decent college and some work on the campus farm. Most of the faculty are from top tier colleges or are reputable scholars. A few students have transferred to top tier colleges as well. Anyway, the 60 minutes episode about Deep Springs is a good watch!
Like remote work vs physically proximate work in software engineering, I’m hopeful that people will remember the value of human cognition so much so that it’s considered, like it is today for some people in some cases, a competitive advantage.
I think most businesses will struggle to completely eliminate the need for humans. Surely AI will continue to drive efficiency for those who remain employed and others will find new jobs and/or start their own businesses.

That, or all the jobs go away and then no one has money resulting in a non-functioning economy :).
I've looked into some workshops, including his. It's not in the cards for me now, but something I'd like to do someday. I also enjoy coming back to the central coast (I went to college in SLO). Jory did some videos on his Hollister credenza for the TWW Guild. They captured (possibly unintentionally) the laid back central coast vibe with the open doors and the birds chirping in the background.
The question of the future isn't about what jobs will be around, or what AI will be able to do.

It is if the greedy will attempt to horde the gains from the technology and set forth a path of world war and destruction in doing so.
This logic validates any horrific human rights abuse, just as long as that abuse is an epsilon less horrific than what is happening elsewhere.
I've learned these firms and therefore their workers, who are hired to exert the firm's will, will rationalize anything and come up with any story as long as it steers them towards growth/market dominance. That is the dynamics of any and all attempts to monetize a new technology.
We use this pattern extensively in a large Java app. As long as you establish these patterns early on in the project, the team adapts to the conventions. It's worked well for us and the lack of language support doesn't get in the way much.
It's closer than you realize for more jobs than you can imagine. Do you not realize just how many office jobs are simply repetitive tasks? Everywhere, for everything. Microsoft is working overtime to replace entire staffs with a new keyboard and a single prompt engineer.

People who really KNOW what they are doing will command a very high premium because they'll be needed to do things that can't be done via AI tools, but everyone else is kind of screwed. Being the best at what you do was always a good idea, but it's about to be a requirement.
Show HN: Tessa – simple access to price information of financial assets
Doing my private portfolio review with the help of tessa right now so I thought I'd post it here in case there are others who need something like this.

"""
tessa is a Python library to help you easily search asset identifiers (e.g., tickers) and retrieve price information for assets from different sources such as Yahoo or Coingecko. It takes care of the different APIs, caching, rate limiting, and other hassles.
"""
IMO that's less due to the ease of setup and more due to the lack of any sane key exchange system & general impossibility of encrypting all email content (e.g. subject line).
Bitwise Liminal expanded
The good thing with carbon is it is relatively easy and cheap to repair compared to alu and steel.
It did come back for me after some extra seconds though...
Smyte/rate-limit: rate limiter service built on top of RocksDB
> the Roman Empire lasted about 200 years. Chinese imperial rule lasted much longer, maybe 1,500 years?

The Roman empire lasted considerably longer than 200 years - perhaps 500 years in its best understood form going from Octavian becoming emperor in ~30BCE to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in approx 470CE. The eastern end of the empire lasted in various forms for another 1000 years (!) until the fall of Constantinople.
Three bedroom or three room?

Even in the crowded Poland, I can't really believe in three bedroom + living room 55 square meter apartament.
Not saying that I disagree with the definition but most companies aren't happy when I have to leave the office earlier to visit a doctor and will expect me to work until the 40 hours are met.

So while the legal definition is true that I get paid a fixed amount "regardless of work hours" the societal expectation is that I'll meet the 40 hours, 40+ makes me a "work hard, play hard", and everything under is me being lazy regardless of whether I hit my productivity goals or not.

I once closed my Microsoft Teams off 15 minutes earlier than the expected and my manager was telling me to inform her next time that I'm leaving, and I work from home. Micromanaging at its finest.
AMD also has the problem that they make much better margins on their CPUs than on their GPUs and there are only so many TSMC wafers. So in a way making more GPUs is like burning up free money.
Show HN: Every past, present and planned rocket launch
Doty
You might not have to worry about that. I'm seeing people being called back into the office at least part of the time.
Zigbee and Z-Wave are the best, I agree. Inherently local-only, so no cloud that sends your data god knows where and can be turned off without any notice. A standard system, so you can buy stuff from any manufacturer and be sure it works with your hub.

It's what smart home should be.
There must be enough people that were similarly amazed and/or fascinated to vote it to front page. Maybe my phrasing was not to your liking.

I'm sorry you've lost your sense of wonder.
What about the topic of this thread: wage theft? Should migrants have less rights to the product of their own labor not being stolen than citizens, just because they are not citizens?
Looking for developers using expo / React Native to test our product
Is this kind of post allowed here?

I'm looking for 3-5 react native developer to test my product (SDK,API and platform). It's a push notification customer engagement platform just like onesignal. The only difference is that notifications can be AI created and customer journeys are also based on AI.

For interest please reach out to me at admin@guldstoev.com and i'll add you to our slack channel:)
Verbal promises about a promotion/payrise and then pulling the rug is also common.
>If you can do your job from home, there's someone who can do it who has a cheaper home than you.

Yes, but rent also falls in now highly coveted due to work availability areas, since people can increasingly live everywhere.
You don't think the courts would force the opening of CUDA? Didn't a court already rule that API cannot be patented. I believe it was a Google case. As long as no implementation was stolen, the API itself is not able to be copyrighted.

Here it is: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/how-the-supreme-...
That's an oof indeed. Are AMD and Intel really that delusional, ie "once we get our own version of Cuda right everybody will just rewrite all their software to make use of it", or do they know something we mere mortals don't?
Courts only order that in cases the lawsuit is in bad faith by one party.
In computer science, we straddle this divide where the usual way to describe things in scientific literature is using algebraic notation, but the usual way to actually write up a program is to use meaningful variable names. It's not K_i, it's current_gains or something like that. It leads to a funny kind of style where especially computer science-related fields start writing K_{current} in scientific manuscripts, and are then chided because that is not how you use subscripts. The reverse is also true, theory-adjacent code tends to use a lot more terse naming conventions.
How are they "made"? These are highly paid employees earning market rates.
- Explore all past, present and planned rocket launches (with advanced search filters).

- Learn more about hundreds of launch providers, vehicles, and sites (loads of stats and info)

- Dig into trends and statistics spanning the history of space exploration (timelines and charts etc)

Let me know what you think and if you’ve got any suggestions for improving it!
It is also a completely different scale. A 11M wind turbine has a 200m (!) rotor diameter. This thing is 12m.
There’s the law, and then there is enforcement of the law.
Wait a second, I think you’re onto something here…
So 130K in opportunity cost?
What a terrible world to live in, where you can lie to your employees and as long as it's not in a contract, they deserve it for not having the "business skills" to know you could get away with lying.
What happens if your gateway dies and has to be replaced?

From what I've read, this theoretically can be done, but in practice you end up unlinking and migrating every device one by one.

But it's been a few years since I looked into it, maybe someone has made improvements? Otherwise, this is a huge advantage of wifi-based smarthome devices.
You're right and anyone can fix this same issue with Bartender too. You can also fix this issue by using your MacBook solely with external monitor :D

My point was just to raise awareness that there's a free alternative which doesn't require any 3rd party apps.
The cores that are community contributed can be open source. The hardware and tooling are not open, so it doesn't meet most people's definition of open. On the spectrum it's much closer to being open than closed source emulation products that first parties distribute.

Is MiSTer considered open? It's dependent on a closed source toolchain to generate the bytestream.
Yeah, because parents are well known to be avid supporters of limiting climate change and other long-term problems.
That's fair, I think I was making the mistake that so many others have - mistaking Sovietism with Communism.
To be fair, it can also work out the other way, if your employer is decent.

I'm on salary, and I'm only expected to get the work done that's on my plate, and respond to emails etc within a reasonable time frame (eg, if I get an email at 4pm on a Friday, and I don't respond to it till 11:30am Monday, that's fine so long as it's not an emergency).

If I get my work done and there's still time in the day, I'm not expected to invent busywork for myself.

But I do recognize that I'm extremely lucky to have the kind of conditions I do here.
Or a combination of HA + Telegram (bots) that will trigger and respond to a /<command>, even with buttons.

Maybe less secure than a VPN connection (e.g. if somebody gets control over the channel or bots instead of you/other trusted members) and of course more finicky until the bot works as desired, but always a nice party trick.

Or a combination of VPN for home-critical automations and telegram bots for the simple/shared ones.
> Yeah at the pro-ish level of triathlon, I think you need stiffness even in 112 mile bike legs.

meh it is not that simple.

Vibration loss and fatigue is something that is more and more studied these days in cycling. What is fastest in the first 10km might not be the fastest setup 3 hours later.
Rather the opposite: those WHF can just live in a small city / community with 100x the "local social network", cohesion, friendliness, etc. than the ones living in some big city where they don't even know their immediate neighbors.

And of course if someone from e.g. India replaces you, I'm pretty sure they'll have a far greater "local social network" than whatever Silicon Valley can offer.