skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems absurd. I've worked at big companies. They sometimes have staff, often _lots_ of staff, like whole orgs, that are a net drain on the company. What's the alternative in that situation?

Granted, getting into that situation was probably "executives making stupid mistakes" -- seems like it usually is -- and granted, they're probably not saying "we have to do these layoffs because I was an idiot last year", and they're probably not taking commensurate pay cuts. But still. It can certainly and obviously be good for the company's health to have fewer people on its payroll.
Just like countries, some social networks have a measurably higher overall quality of life than others.
It's absolute and total loss for every artist for nearly any artist that won't voluntarily opt-in.

When you consider laws regarding organ donors you might appreciate how socially harmful might be wrong defaults.
>They are not scared that it will fail. They are scared that it will succeed.

Not really. There are more lawyers than legal jobs. A lot of lawyers are toiling for well under 100k a year. People pay 1500 dollars an hour for some lawyers and 150 an hour for others due to perceived (and actual) quality differences. Adding a bunch more non-lawyers isn't going to impact the demand for the 1500 dollars an hour lawyers.

Legal work is expensive because ANY sort of bespoke professional work is expensive. Imagine if software developers had to customize their work for each customer.
https://github.com/formkiq/formkiq-core

API first designed document management system that deploys to AWS. Makes it easy to run standalone or to add Document Management functionality to existing applications.
I don't use PayPal but was told by a user that their 2FA SMS system isn't really a second factor, but rather it replaces the password. Basically when you log in (with username only) it sends you an SMS code and you enter the code to log in with no password necessary. So basically this becomes a single factor.

I hope they got rid of this feature now and went back to "traditional" 2FA requiring both a password and code.
I've three things :),

1. Quart, https://quart.palletsprojects.com, an ASGI (async/await) re-implementation of the Python web MicroFramework Flask. It is now maintained alongside, by the same people, as Flask.

2. Hypercorn, https://hypercorn.readthedocs.io, an ASGI/WSGI server that supports HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3.

3. My book "A Blueprint for Production-Ready Web Applications", which uses both of the above and shows a beginner how to build a full stack app (React frontend) running on AWS. See https://pgjones.dev/tozo/ for details, code, and link to the example app.
Being wrong alone means you had a flawed thought process.

Being wrong in a crowd means you have no thought process at all.

All the big companies doing layoffs are in the stagnation phase. "minimise disaster instead of maximising being the winner" is exactly that.
No. I see an increase in mental health awareness in general across most media. Which is a good thing.
This. This is so well said. It’s what I was trying to say but got ended up being more trolly than I had hoped.
I (op) was just amazed at how much is out there, how this shows what we have yet to even know, let alone “look out for” etc. Was a comment on scale nothing else.
I was expecting a discussion of [1].

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
Not to be snarky or anything, but a legitimate question: what does IBM actually do? I used to work for a partnering engineering team at <big_corp> and met with dozens of enterprise clients (think Fortune 100) and I never heard anybody ever mention any IBM products. I am really intrigued to understand what keeps this company afloat. My main hypothesis is selling to government and acting more as a holding of acquired companies than anything else.

They have 260k employees, for what?
I went through this exercise recently, looking for a stack for a greenfield project which I had full control over. Tl;dr: I chose Rails, albeit with ViewComponents.

When I compared the existing frontend backend stacks like Svelt, Next, or a Go, Rust, whatever backend + React frontend, the amount that’s in Rails out of the box is just not even close to the rest. From ActiveRecord to secret management, a dynamic ecosystem of gems for almost anything and much more, choosing another stack just didn’t make sense.

Believe me when I say I really wanted to choose React for frontend because of its community and ecosystem but for an app with a backend that there is so much Rail does for you that you’d be spending weeks rebuilding with anything else.

A caveat is that this is Rails + Hotwire and Turbo + ViewComponents that makes it a no brainier. The old school Rails MVC would have been a harder sell
"[The complaint] argues that the Stable Diffusion model is basically just a giant archive of compressed images (similar to MP3 compression, for example) and that when Stable Diffusion is given a text prompt, it “interpolates” or combines the images in its archives to provide its output. The complaint literally calls Stable Diffusion nothing more than a “collage tool” throughout the document. It suggests that the output is just a mash-up of the training data."

As noted in OP, this is an outstandingly bad definition of Deep-Neural-Networks, and the lawsuit should fail when the court hears an explanation from any competent practitioner.

However, a correct definition would make the lawsuit far more interesting, imo. Diffusion models can be compared to a superhumanly talented artist that can be cloned in unlimited fashion by anyone having the software and hardware means. How does this entity affect social well-being, how should existing laws be modified--if at all-- with the welfare of humanity in mind, etc?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/epiphany-workflow-ii/id1508000...
ADHD is a problem for many people in high tech. Epiphany Workflow is a mac program for very bright college students who are in academic trouble caused by ADHD. E provides help organizing and sustaining a directed academic effort. It's particularly good for organizing research papers and compiling class notes into a study guide.
He ended up in solitary due to his recidivism. He can’t help himself and will abuse the system in a maximally vexatious manner unless locked in a box where nobody can hear him.

It’s not pretty, but if he could come to understand the nature of his crimes and cease committing new ones, his problems would eventually end.
Corporate Layoffs Spread Beyond High-Growth Tech Giants
> but it's just as plausible (I'd argue far, far more plausible as the tech improves) that clients who would formerly pay for their work no longer have to.

With the volume of AI art generated was an even single actual case of that?
Great article, but I think its odd to call James I of Aragon's conquest of Mallorca a "Catalan conquest".

Poor Aragon, always getting its history rewritten by Catalan separatists and those that sympathize with them.
Using this shows me how bad my handwritting is. Have to turn it down to minimal legibility to make it look like mine.
You understand that completely kills OSS as a concept, right?
A correct answer.
The definition of “derivative” and its historical context look nothing like the new reality created by generative AI.

To continue blindly applying historical understanding to fundamentally new technologies creates huge blind spots, and I’d argue similar to pretending that the creation of ever more destructive weaponry requires no changes to the rules of engagement in warfare.

The game has changed.
Under the hood of SAST: how code analysis tools look for security flaws
PlaylistAI: https://playlistai.app/

DALL-E/ChatGPT for music playlists on Spotify and Apple Music.

Enter a prompt like "chill electronic coding music" or upload a photo of a music festival lineup and it'll make a playlist
Bridging academic research and practical Li-Ion Batteries
Great summary of need and reasearch
What Happened If Unit-Tests Unlock Self-Healing in Go?
This time we’ll cover something boring and automatable — API calls to a predefined service.
> Prices of houses are coming down due to interest rates.

Not where I live. I see markdowns of 10k on a 600k homes. Nothing really changed.
FBI has seized website used by notorious ransomware gang
My friend from time to time makes some really cool project, then he posts it on HN and gets zero traction. His submission page [1] looks so ridiculous now, that I joke that his next submission would look like “Show HN: I created a true AGI running on my analog wristwatch (3 points, 0 comments)”.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=borzunov
Possible, but it could also be that they see / foresee / know that upcoming quarters are just down (in terms of revenue or whatever their respective KPIs are).

The reality however,could be somewhere in the middle as always, IMO.
Sure, but citing a non-existent case would be clearly wrong. That was the hypothetical the post above gave.
One of the scariest book openings I've read (edit: see reply below). Climate change has never been presented to me in a more horrifying way.
FYI, there's a similar auction for closing, too. The closing price isn't just a race for the last trade under the buzzer; there's a process where at some number of minutes before close, you can put in orders for close or realtime, and then magic happens.
Okay, I think I get what you're trying to say now. I hate... hate... hate... ORMs where you alter objects and then let the ORM magically persist the changes to the database. That is just a level of abstraction that I'm not comfortable with. I think it pushes the developer too far away from the data layer.

I still think that the object model does have utility, but like everything, when taken too the logical ends, you end up with ORM managed objects.

Instead I've always liked using a Service pattern, where you have data objects that are (largely) immutable. Then you have Service objects that contain the methods that operate on the data objects.

I'm just not sure I'd have called it a relational model (hence my confusion).
> This was coming from someone who has sold millions of books and is still selling hundreds of thousands of books a year.

There we have the answer. Monetizing blogs is dead. And it's probably even true. Are there many people around who directly make money with their personal articles? Isn't it today mostly a space which is usually just one part of a bigger network of content? Or as a support/advertisement for some product?
I hope the law will converge to this: As a human, I don't need a license to look and get inspired by art. But I am not allowed to feed that same data to a machine as a training dataset without proper authorization from the owner.
Credentials are not the same as license. For example, software engineers do not need to pass any certification exams to practice software engineering, but companies still look at their education, years of experience, etc... Yes, it would make a recruitment process for doctors longer, as you would have to interview them, ask them questions to verify their medical knowledge, etc., but it is not impossible.
Months after NSA disclosed Microsoft cert bug, datacenters remain unpatched
True, but this is exactly why I post it here. To see my mistakes and fix it before put up a project for everyone. :)

Betas ftw!
"Scientists think they've found definitive proof of aliens. They've discovered a race of green people who don't pay taxes and won't leave the house after 10:00 PM."

"Today, the FDA approved a new anti-obesity drug. It's called 'Losing your job.'"

"An artificially intelligent sex robot is expected to hit the market next year. And I’m not talking about Melania."

hmm...

these are pretty awful
Do not play to where the ball is, play to where the ball will (might) be.
Not much "propaganda" needed to make Hindutva and religious-based violence seem bad.
Industry body clarifies what happens when crypto derivatives crash
> (like Google) are just fine financially

Why do you think you know what is in Google's best long-term interest? Do you think you could run the company?
Or you can buy a plotter.
When you cannot find something inside something you can try looking outside where you were looking for answers.

In my experience, my spiritual health, acceptances, lack of rejecting bad (and source of) things is the direct cause of all negative thoughts, feelings.

Reject the bad, false, negativity, darkness and move toward the love, true, light and goodness. When I was depressed, only spiritual teachings, love and God moved me nearer good feelings and comfort.
The part left unsaid here is that there is plenty of affordable housing even in most cities, people just don't want to live in "those neighborhoods" until they are properly gentrified, at which point the housing is too expensive again.

And they definitely don't want to hear it when you show them tons of 1,000 sq ft starter homes in the $50k-$100k range because they can't walk to 3 microbreweries and an art gallery from there.
Qualified voices were either censored on social media or ignored by political powers in regards to COVID.

In Portugal, the group of medical experts assembled by the government was ignored after they opposed the political decision for injecting children: https://www.publico.pt/2021/07/20/sociedade/noticia/comissao...

It is wrong to dismiss the opinion of experts on this topic just because it goes against what mainstream media and political groups decide to impose.
I don't see how hntoast is going to address this problem. Say someone just replied to a comment of mine I made a month ago. Where do I see it?

The user interface you need to solve that problem is to be able to put in your user ID to see a timeline of all replies to any of your items whatsoever, not replies to a specific post.
Demo login:
demo@jobs-scout.com / Demo1234
The nature of orbits makes the "cyclical" aspect seem reasonable to me. Especially in light of how many objects there are that have extremely elliptical orbits which dip into the inner solar system and out to the Kuiper belt. Or, objects that end up in a resonance that seems stable enough but are modeled to eventually be perturbed into a new orbit.
I used to be into CakePHP and then Laravel, I liked the monolith style architecture where the template, API, and user interface all live together.

I've done backend separated from frontend and while its nice it can be a pain to manage on your own, which is usually what your doing at MVP time.

Now I'm more focused on using stuff like Strapi or rolling my own Hapijs server when needed and having a JAMstack frontend to interact with it.

Next.js has been a breath of fresh air to bridge the conceptual gap between what I was doing in Laravel (PHP) and now im doing in Next.

JAMStack and serverless functions are awesome because you don't need to maintain servers anymore. Most sites can be primarily static especially when you are prototyping... the data that comes from an API can be mocked for demos.

SQLite for DB development without the internet. Being able to run tests or do other stuff thats DB destructive without connecting to anything. No local server, no nothing. Just you and your flat file. Bliss.
Did something change on HN that users had to be conditioned to accept?
No. It's a simply a different experience that is one among many that people continue to engage in. It's not like users "condition" themselves to only use HN.
If everyone does a hiring freeze instead of layoffs, there’s no attrition other than the PIP kind. Ask an Amazonian what that does for morale.
Such sound architecture. Even when unfinished and without a roof, it's still beautiful and people want to be around it somehow, with plastic chairs and bonfires.
> 2. I experimented with diet, and found that a low carb diet reduced my symptoms quite noticeably. I continue to be shocked by what an affect my diet has on my experience and behavior.

Same. Switching to Keto definitly impacted my ability to focus and think clearly. Not sustainable for the long term, but cut out as much of the refined carbs and sugars as possible. Dialed back the coffee, too -- big difference.
Aesthetics of the Everyday (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
This would have been so awesome to have something like this in my high school years in Eastern Europe, where teachers ask for you to write essays by hand instead of typing them. The font is similar to my handwriting, but fails on letters with accents.
> goal is to push toward a world where poor folks aren’t coerced into not contesting their tickets

Invest in a company doing this properly and not pushing half-baked frauds into the world. Supervised learning, mock trials. You’re proposing turning those poor folk into Guinea pigs, gambling with their freedom from afar.
A few years ago (~2017) I created a tool in the biomedical domain to design peptide vaccines.

https://www.padiracinnovation.org/en/peptide_PoC/

Peptide vaccines are not very efficient, but they can be easily designed to address a large number of diseases. Basically I would like that a pharmacist could use this tool with just 2 days training.

How it works? If you know that a certain protein is produced by a certain type of malign cell and only by those cells, a peptide vaccine will cause the human immune system to try to eliminate the cells that produce that protein.

The most obvious use is in the case of some cancers cells which produce a certain protein. These proteins are named "tumor specific antigen". It is an antigenic substance which is produced only by tumor cells. Tumor antigens are useful tumor markers in identifying tumor cells that are targeted by the immune system when it is primed by a peptide vaccine.

Another interesting thing is that cancerous cells evolves quickly to try to evade therapies, here it's very easy to design a new peptide vaccine, for example every week.

As the name hints at, it's a proof of concept, I designed several variations. A good thing is that you don't need a lot of CPU power to run it. I use a cheap VPS from OVH.

I have written a large documentation here:

https://www.padiracinnovation.org/en/peptide_PoC/doc/documen...

(Access is limited to one per day per IP)
Good thread to see what other devs here are building!

https://collabmatch.io/

Working on this: a way for newsletters and blogs to grow through cross promos.

One of the hardest things imo for blogs/newsletters is getting more viewers over time. Was particularly hard for my Rust blog. I've been growing it fast through cross collabs, hence making this

If anyone's got a blog or newsletter they would like to grow faster, check it out. Happy to answer questions too
Yeah, that's one unfortunate aspect of recession talk. It can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

That's not to say that there aren't issues: inflation being the obvious thing, and the corresponding interest rate hikes and the end of "cheap money" being another.
Consider salary decreasing instead of layoffs. I'm pretty sure most of 500K-700K+ H1B people would prefer downgrading to 150K-200K instead of deportation. In these days of remote work, many would happily move out of SF/Bay Area to e.g. Oklahoma.
"Tesla Vision", however, I am not sure how they can replace front sensors with a windshield mounted camera as some objects will be obstructed by front of the car.
A Charming Algorithm for Count-Distinct
I would say that “normal” people are doing very well compared to last year as labor demand and wage rises at the low end are high, energy prices and food prices have come down, and housing is crashing in many areas.

The upper middle class (i.e most software professionals on this site) and tech billionaires are having a shit year as tech stocks crash and weigh on the market. Don’t discount that you’re in an info bubble. The worst info bubbles are ones that affect the journalism industry and extremely online communities like the ones frequented by software engineers.
I think it's unfortunate that our government (in the US) is spending trillions left and right, but won't spend a few Billion to address genuine existential threats such as early detection of asteroids.
Didn't they had one on set of the movie?
It's startling to sit next to someone using the web without ad blockers and realize that the lovely white space I'm used to is actually used for monetizing attention.

Similarly, visiting family who watch live TV and seeing so. many. commercials.
Airlines and cattle ranchers have beef with Google’s climate math
Open Source and disconnected. AI is a wonderful tool that will turn into a nightmare when used to take advantage of people. I wouldn't want my "pocket lawyer" to send our private conversations anywhere but my personal offline space. The risk that someone with vested interests and enough funds could bribe their access to that data, if not directly to the AI, is simply too high. Unfortunately it seems that trustworthy AI is not going to happen anytime soon: there's simply too much money to make renting it as a service, hence online and closed.
I am building one now as a single founder, with plans to never grow beyond a few people, and I'm using Clojure + Postgres (having done Python for almost 20 years!). I do technical due diligence for private equity companies for a living, and I evaluated two Clojure companies. It was amazing how much they could avoid in terms of problems as a small team by leveraging the JVMs concurrency and threading capabilities. No worrying about microservices, managing crazy k8 systems, or complex CQRS problems, no outgrowing pokey ORMs (a problem I have talked to way too many mid stage companies about who started on Rails or Django - huge elephant in the room there). I intend to use a mix of HTMX, some Reframe (a clojurescript reactive framework over react) and webassembly on the front end.

Clojure's not the easiest thing to get into, the stability and documentation and libraries are great.
What is MLAT in this case? The planes transmit their location in the ADS-B message. They are filtering a lot of redundant message receptions from multiple receivers. I would assume the messages also include altitude and heading information, so locations can be predicted between message receptions.
Layoffs signal weakness, from every angle. They hired indiscriminately and now are doing catch and release. Or they lacked foresight of their market. Or they are financially mismanaged. Or they are directed by a unqualified board. Or they are unable to cope with their market shrinking. Or they are a behemoth that grinds up workers as part of their operation (a lot of what we're seeing now). Or they're jumping off the cliff with the other lemmings. Or they need money for upper management pay.

When you're looking for a job, keep the companies previous layoffs in mind. Are they stable, or do they acquire and jettison?
Totally agree in principle, but that's not really how the model is presented.
If it has no effect, why are they bothering to do it?

Does releasing 500g of co2 have any impact on tbe people on the ground?
"It's navigating your own relationships where people dispense unsolicited and demeaning advice while also sometimes distancing themselves from you. It's horrible."

I relate to most of this because I used to take care of people having very similar experiences in a big city hospital network. But it's those last couple things you said that hit home the hardest. I'm at the point nearly two years into a dark battle where I've come to terms with the fact I lost most my friends... but I'm excited about the higher caliber friends I'll have going forward, especially since I'm learning to love myself first (key). My best wishes for your strong recovery!
I remember pg actively detecting when two users start replying to each other quickly on HN, and will throttle how quickly each both see the reply in the hopes of de-escalating.

I think he also found that as two people argued down a thread, their wall of text gets thinner and thinner, and more annoying to read, and hoped that was a deterrence as well.