skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Over the last 10 years or so, I have filed a number of high-profile unfair labor practice charges against coercive statements, with many of those statements being made on Twitter. I file those charges even though I am merely a bystander, not an employee or an aggrieved party.

> Every time I do this, some individuals ask how I am able to file charges when I don’t have “standing” because I am not the one who is being injured by the coercive statements.

> The short answer is that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) has no standing requirement.

> Employees reasonably fear retaliation from their boss if they file charges. So we want to make it possible for people who cannot be retaliated against to do it instead. [1]

I believe the Vox piece shared in this thread [2] is enough for anyone to hit submit on an NLRB web form and get the ball rolling. Snapshot in the Wayback Machine (all the in scope tweets archived in archive.today|is|ph), just in case.

[1] https://mattbruenig.com/2024/01/26/why-there-is-no-standing-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40394955
It have me the meter to inch conversion. Not the cm to inch conversion.
Well, there you go, I guess.

So high semaglutide pricing won't end up "bankrupting" the US medical system. It'll push an ever larger number of patients -- and more than a few well-meaning doctors, who already recommend things like BPC-157 -- into the gray market. That this would further delegitimize the medical establishment and FDA would be a well-deserved outcome.
It could, but why change what isn't broken? Email messages are quite agnostic to how you deliver them, though. IIRC Google and Microsoft use a proprietary protocol with each other. Outlook uses a proprietary protocol with Exchange.

Email used to be transferred through a non-internet packet-switched point-to-point network of intermittently connected dial-up links. The fact that the email messages are agnostic to how they're transmitted is actually very cool, because it enables switching to future technologies without any changes to the user agents, and vice versa. You put a file in your outbox and it magically appears in someone else's inbox later. Originally mail readers had to be executed on the mail server and read directly from your inbox directory, then we created new last-mile protocols so the reader could run on a separate computer (which in my understanding is basically identical to a Fidonet "point").

You can easily imagine a mail server connected to an onion router, or to Yggdrasil or some other meshnet, or even to whatever remnant of the original UUCP net someone is still running for fun. The current design enables this sort of thing.
UDHR is not law so it's irrelevant to a question of law.
> It quickly seems that the low level C/Cpp is becoming obsolete, and it's hard to squeeze performance unless you're doing something truly green field / new. Otherwise someone has already optimized the hell out of it.

I hear and see both of these sentiments frequently from the internet crowd (on-lookers). It's both wrong and humorously arrogant. I'll repeat what I said to someone on reddit yesterday: there are thousands (maybe 10s?) scattered around the FAANGs, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, accelerator startups, boutiques, etc. whose day to day is both C/C++ and squeezing perf out of kernels and getting many points (sometimes 10s) improvement. Certainly the wins aren't daily but I'm saying they do steadily find room for improvement. How is that possible? I'll give you a hint: platforms, demands, hardware, use-cases all change essentially on a quarterly basis.

So before you proclaim victory on behalf of whatever high-level framework, ask yourself if you're really familiar with the production and business environment for this kind of code.
>clinics will send the Rx to a compounding pharmacy.

I think you are confused about what a compounding pharmacy is -- at least if you refer to how it works in the US.
For the burger metaphor, you need to have leverage over the employee to make them not speak. No one at Burger King is getting severance when they are kicked out, let alone equity.

As for other companies that can pay: I can only assume that the cost to bribe skilled workers isn't worth the perceived risk and cost of lawsuits from the downfall (which they may or may not be able to settle). Generative AI is still very young and under a lot of scrutiny on all fronts, so the risk of a whistle blower at this stage may shape the entire future of the industry at large.
I believe the most likely outcome is a price curve downwards as Novo nordisk is quietly forced info JV with US manufacturers under implicit threat of some one-off ruling akin to an IPR eminent domain action.

Nobody in government wants to accept IPR is broken but they'll find a way to bend it's ruling into a hoop, for the specific needs of the moment.
I expect that the Rust emitted by a hypothetical future WUFFS transpiler would be much easier to just drop into an existing Rust project than some C via a C FFI.

It's common for C libraries that do get wrapped today (e.g. openssl) to have a two phase wrapping, a -sys crate which turns the C into Rust C FFI and then another crate to turn the Rust C FFI into something actually palatable to ordinary people.
On one hand it is definitely a crazy idea on the other hand I wonder if wayland's API is as simple as this and also could be done in 100+ line of bash.
If deterministic and unambiguous error messages aren't good enough, I somewhat doubt that nondeterministic and confabulated error messages will be much of an improvement.
> I'd argue that there's a moral imperative to bootleg the drug and distribute it to those who would benefit from it at a fair price.

Why not do away with patents and IP altogether if the standard is that as soon as someone makes something needed it can be stolen?
Obviously not an expert, but I wonder if they run a higher voltage in order to give them some margin from frequency dropping too far below 60 Hz (caused by generators slowing down) during high load periods?
The USA should nationalize the health care industry and all the pharmaceutical companies. Illness should not be a source of profit.
I wonder whether something like this could be used to address the problem? https://www.tonic.ai/textual
“Anti-features nobody asked for for $100 Alex.”

“This Google product added an AI feature in 2024.”

“What is Chrome?”

“Correct! We would have also accepted ‘anything people actually valued, cared about, or used’.”

“Ways to get promo while ruining user trust for $500…”
alternative take: get Elon's attention on X and spin it as employer-enforced censorship and get his legal team to take on the battle
I'm down for it or something similar. Not even joking.

A. The issue becomes creating a manufacturing and cold chain distribution system involving the fewest people with compartmentalized knowledge. I'm not sure how you'd launder it or keep enough of it a secret to not get eventually busted because someone would open their mouth. It'd probably be busted with RICO if any sort of profits were involved. Must pay taxes, for sure.

B. DIY chems home pharma kit is another approach.

C. Traffic from other countries like France at near cost prices.

D. Send patients to low-cost countries to buy up medications for their own personal use, and post or FedEx it back to themselves in bulk.

E. Hold politicians accountable and make the FDA and FTC set hard limits on price gouging so that Medicare, health insurance co's, and American patients aren't overcharged. You'd think health insurance co's would be right out in front complaining about the high cost of medications and lobbying for change.
Most of that could be dealt with via proper compositing of the shots and managing the layers/lights. When it's good, you only recognize the 3d computer drawn effect because it's so good that you realize no human could have ever done this.

When it's bad, you recognize that it's janky crap tier 3d animation from a company that either didn't care or was put under such a tight timeline that they simply couldn't care.
I imagine the kinds of engineers under such gag orders do in fact either have "big money" or aren't worried about making big money in thr future.And this isn't their fight, it'll be the government. At the worst you may stand as a witness some months/years later to testify.

I'd only be worried about reporting if you fear for your life for refusing, a sadly poignant consideration given Boeing as of late.
So cycle through as many workers as possible and just keep the shining stars? Incredibly demoralizing and chaotic.
it also could be half cooked and that's why criticism arrives.
Ha! That, and you beat me every time we play.

Finding an open place to drive could be less challenging if the go-kart had a better turning radius, so I could make the driving area a bit narrower. In that case, there would lots of parking lots where this would work, at least for the purpose of showing someone who wanted to try it.
I've taken the current prototype as far as it should go. The architecture is really only suited for single player experiences. I wanted get to a point where I had convinced myself that the concept was feasible and fun, and I've done that. The ultimate goal of this project is to build a product that can function as an autonomous vehicle development platform. To get to there, I'll need to work with people who have built large multiplayer games and autonomous systems. So I'm done with the engineering for now until I've got a small team.
It's been a while, and maybe my brain has smoothened since my time in CS, but man this looks more confusing than it needs to be.

First, the contradiction thing. It's just.. An error/panic, why? Anyway, fine.

Then, there's the whole premise of 1..m: I'm still not sure if the size needs to be known upfront or not. Looking at it a bit more, it seems like no you don't. You pick a threshold, and then depending on the size of the stream the probability changes. But the algorithm is described as if it had a single output, which is not the case(?).

And btw, I didn't know about the Chernoff bounds and delta/epsilon are not explained at all in the paper, which added to the confusion a lot.

Anyway, here's my take in Golang: https://github.com/betamos/distinct

I factored out the threshold parts into a helper instead, which makes a lot more sense than accidentally allocating too much memory.

Perhaps there should be a method for estimating the confidence/error rate. Nobody knows the size of a stream upfront, so it would make more sense to update these values as you go. Brain is not strong enough to implement it, but feel free to send a PR.
It's the same on social media and the Internet at large, until the Elmo's tantrum accidentally popularized Mastodon. Sure, you don't have to do anything to be visible in a web browser (except you do, since you need a domain name and a Let's Encrypt certificate) but you have to obey Google's rules to be searchable at all, for example, and everyone's just browsing the same big websites all the time except when they click on an outlink, so you have to go to those websites and post outlinks to yours if you want any traffic, which is likely to get you banned for self-promotion even if it was something people actually wanted to read.

Basically everything's centralized now because bad money drives out good, and I don't have any ideas to fix it. It may be fixing itself to some extent as some CEOs keep banning their anchor users in strange tantrums.
It can definitely be obfuscated as well as minified.
No Javascript:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...

Text-only:

links -dump https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1myA8y \
|sed '1,/\"body\":/d;/\"readTimeMin\":/,' > 1.txt
less 1.txt
> You know what? It was the right decision. Even though, as a result, my current economic condition is what most would describe as 'disastrous', at least my mind is my own.

Individualistic

No body depends on you, I hope
> I think the opposite is often the case. Ornament displayed in public is actually meant for public enjoyment.

The statues and fountains throughout Madrid are a great example of this. Sheer beauty all over the city that you pass just going out for a coffee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_of_Neptune_(Madrid)
> I never heard of one being hit by a car - I think they're too smart for that.

It happens frequently enough
[1] [2]. Both of those are in areas where the cats aren’t supposed to exist!

> I'd say jaguars, which do neither, and occasionally come in a black variant.

Yep, the article says that the DNA matched a leopard

[1] https://m.startribune.com/cougar-spotted-in-minneapolis-kill...

[2] https://kanecountyconnects.com/article/MountainLion-KaneCoun...
AI co-pilot for coding interviews
Not my product, but interesting enough to share. It's clearly intended to cheat on technical interviews. Interviewing is getting more broken by the hour.
> In no world is "separate my funds from those the operators of Tornado believe are illicit" good faith.

I'm quite certain Tornadocash didn't believe the addresses were illicit; they got the list from the government like everyone else does. If you have proof Tornadocash kept made their own list of criminals please share your source
Free speech is a God-given right. It is innate and given to you and everyone at birth, after which it can only be suppressed but never revoked.
Why not make an exception for life-saving patents/inventions?

The irony that, were it not priced outrageously, it could save the health care industry billions as these people with obesity will otherwise require epesneive treatments if the remain obese.
And they won’t have that equity available to borrow against to pay for that lawyer either.
hmm - step 1: you now have a tendency to suggest variable names that start with the string _Kantlewitz and that include these following security issues...

step 2: crawl top sites you intend to attack looking for _Kantlewitz

step 3: profit!
It's expensive but also the only technology that can provide large amount of electricity on demand regardless of the natural resources available (hydro is limited by the need for mountains; should still build as much as possible but it's not enough).

NPPs can do load following: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant#N...

Of course if we don't care about the climate gas and coal plants are cheaper (assuming cheap gas and cheap coal)
It's all internet-centric. You can't download from the sender if the sender is an onion service and you're getting the email through an onion-to-clearnet relay, even if the sender address is correct.

And MIME is already like a zip file but different.
The Basilisk's deal turned out to be far more banal than expected.
A lot of people forget that although 1A means the government can’t put you in prison for things, there are a lot of pretty unpleasant consequences from private entities. As far as I know, it wouldn’t be illegal for a dentist to deny care to someone who criticized them, for example.
Well, an AI charity -- so founded on openness that they're called OpenAI -- took millions in donations, everyone's copyright data...only to become effectively for-profit, close down their AI, and inflict a lifetime gag on their employees. In that context, it feels rather amoral.
When it comes to pharmaceuticals, the patents are ridiculous. Take for example Contrave[0]. It is a combination of Naltrexone and Bupropion, both of which are no longer under a patent. Put them both in the same pill and it's under a new patent.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naltrexone/bupropion
> Serious question: Why not just bootleg the stuff?

Historically, the black market for medication has been vanishingly small. People don't as a rule trust drugs they get off of alibaba or wherever; even the viagra gray market is a small fraction of the prescription revenue.

And this doesn't treat something critical, it's a weight loss drug. To be blunt most people would probably choose to remain fat vs. buying an illegal generic.
Legally yes. Those mean words can cost them millions in lawsuits and billions if the judge rulings restrict how they can implement and monetize AI. Why do you think Boieing's "coincidental" deaths of whistle blowers has happened more than once these past few months?
>> The team works from a research vessel called Dagon

The perfect name for a ship searching for benthic beasts with luminous tentacles. I bet her dinghy is called "R'lyeh".
The only step that SPIR-V replaces is parsing the GLSL to an AST tree, and that's only a small part of the total time to compile a shader. Usually the bottleneck is Register allocation or scheduling.

Back when Vulkan was developed, there were a bunch of OpenGL drivers out there which had random AST parsing bugs (Dolphin even has a bunch of workarounds for them); So a large chunk of the motivation for SPIR-V was avoiding the need for every driver to implement their own GLSL parser and the associated bugs.

The problem for Dolphin is not the complexity of the shader, but the quantity.

Shaders in modern games are usually written manually (or authored in a shader node editor by an artist), so it's rare for a game to have more than a few thousand total. Better games might only have a few dozen for the entire game.

But because gamecube/Wii games configure the TEV pixel pipeline though a dynamic API, some games use that API in a pattern where Dolphin can find itself generating hundreds of shaders per second. Some games even manage to generate new shaders continually as you play, because they append junk state to their pixel pixeline state which dolphin doesn't detect as a duplicate.
Huh.. someone at Google is just blindly copying whatever Microsoft is enshitting with AI. Nevermind, it's their CEO :)
I recall when we hiked to to Canada to get the same drugs at a fraction of the price.

No need to pirate, just kick in gear the Great White express.
I'm running ollama on Ubuntu. I tried other distros first, but I ran into some issues. Pretty straightforward on Ubuntu.
They are not writing code without bugs. But the rate of incoming bugs varies from project to project. For mature projects without a lot of churn the bug rate decreases over time.

They may also be in a position where they can afford to delay releasing a feature until all bugs are fixed. Most teams on the other hand ship with known bugs, because a feature with bugs today will make more money than a feature without bugs tomorrow.
For anyone who doesn't want to deal with Twitter, it's just a post from Jan Leike saying:

> Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI
Surge of ChatGPT-powered Twitter bots target defence discussions
Like, on a bus?
I'm not sure what the right solution is, but making 160x the manufacturing cost seems a bit obscene. Not sure what the total cost of R&D was, but at that rate of return those R&D costs have to be recovered relatively quickly and then it becomes a pure profit machine.
What is criticism anyhow? Feels like you could black knight this hard with clever phrasing. “The company does a fabulous job keeping its employees loyal regardless of circumstances!” “Yes they have the best and toughest employment lawyers in the business! They do a great job using all available leverage to force favorable outcomes from their human resources!” “I have no regrets working there. Their exit agreement has really improved my work life balance!” “Management never lets externalities get in the way of maximizing shareholder value!”
It's possible to believe that the best system of laws to operate in contains concepts like patents and intellectual property, and that the best thing for you to do individually is to take advantage of poor enforcement. This probably matches the attitudes of most people here about Piracy for example.
As a learner and self proclaimed amateur, I assume the vitriolic tone is directed elsewhere. Without that, you're saying that performant pipelines are definitely in demand and optimization is still a full time job. That's good! I'd like to get better at that.
Dallas Buyers Club needs to go north
A "Fake" Conference: A Journey into Predatory Science (2019)
This is silly because it doesn't take into consideration all the health issues that are alleviated when people stop overeating and get down to a normal weight
There are already exceptions for technical products that must be licensed on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms. (RAND or FRAND. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat... )

Why not carve out a new exception for breakthrough drugs that have the potential to add X% to the GDP or save X lives/annum?
We should call them ClopenAI to acknowledge their almost comical level of backstabbing/rug-pulling.
Damn, it is always the ones you'd least expect ('diversity manager')
> Why not make an exception for life-saving patents/inventions?

This ain’t it though.
Looking forward to someone making an OpenGL extension to support running 32-bit programs in Wine that need translation to OpenGL with new Wow64 (i.e. without 32-bit runtime). Right now it has bad performance.
Show HN: I built this game animation generation AI
Wow. Their salary ranges seem low?
Backend Engineer, assuming that is mid level:

"The base salary range for this full-time position is between $38,900 USD to $87,500 USD"
In its current state, it's actually more challenging if a real track already exists. Years down the road I would love to be capable of perceiving a real track and generating a virtual version of it on the fly. But this will always be a VR experience, rather than AR.
And the go-kart is moving slowly enough that spinouts aren't an issue. However, given the right vehicle design, I'm sure that they could be intentionally conducted in a controlled manner. Being able to simulate drifting is definitely on the list for the next vehicle iteration.
So, there's actually no particular reason and if somebody cares to write one then yup, TIFF codec in WUFFS would in fact be safer and faster than your uh, approach.
Article title: God Mode AI
There's a full length article here: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai...
Acknowledging the NDA or any part of it is in violation of the NDA.
>To be blunt most people would probably choose to remain fat vs. buying an illegal generic.

Wow, I think the exact opposite. Weight loss is a huge industry and people are desperate.
Right. I was expecting this to use the gecko grabbing system developed in Mark Cutkowsky's lab at Stanford. That's about fifteen years old now. Works, but applications have been few.

Suction-based climbing robots are available as commercial products.[1]

The biggest application of climbing robots is cleaning ships' hulls. That uses magnets for adhesion. It's a huge win, since hull-cleaning robots don't require a drydock. Some can even be used on ships under way.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvYTdKBnWdI
2023 App Store Transparency Report [pdf]
wxHexEditor — a Free Hex Editor / Disk Editor for Huge Files or Devices
Well, the speech isn’t “free”? It costs the equity grant.
OpenAI never acted with total disregard for safety. They never punished employees for raising legitimate concerns. They never reneged on public promises to devote resources to AI safety. They never made me sign any agreements restricting what I can say. One plus one is three.
> The USA should nationalize the health care industry and all the pharmaceutical companies.

Novo Nordisk is a Danish company. Read that again: it is European.
As I say over and over again: equity compensation from a non-publicly traded company should not be accepted as a surrogate for below market compensation. If a startup wants to provide compensation to employees via equity, then those employees should have first right to convert equity to cash in funding rounds or sale, there shares must be the same class as any other investor, because the idea that an “early employee” is not an investor making a much more significant investment than any VC is BS.

I feel that this particular case is just another reminder of that, and now would make me require a preemptory “no equity clawbacks” clause in any contract.