skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the lawsuit will fail when the court hears an explanation from an expert

So how often does this happen? Somehow I'm too cynical to believe that a judge would rule against the intellectual property industry. The whole thing is based on absurd concepts to begin with, concepts that can be reduced to the ownership of unique numbers. Once a society accepts that, what difference do explanations make?
Where do those creative bits come from?

Often the creative bits come out of the struggle to do the work. If you get rid of the struggle, then you also get rid of the motivation for their creation.
Chronic inflammation is also result of many other health problem. Depression is ultimately a natural process. It is known that depression caused by health issues probably big portion of cases. Nothing new.
I realized that bluntly interfering with a mechanism built-in in our body is ridicules. People should be focusing in root causes.
However i doubt that SSRIs really interfere with depression anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTDPV1XOIPY
I think what happens is SSRIs make recovery faster for people who are at the stage of recovery by giving false hope.
There are ones that really interfere with depression and result is drastically increased mortality. Which is really what should happen if you surpress a natural mechanism solely exists to increase survival.
Do you know that? How do you know that’s what the model would do? How do you know that the defendant doesn’t have an 80 IQ and an elementary school grasp on English? Do you think this doesn’t happen today and that these people don’t get absolutely dragged by the system?
This doesn’t contradict a single thing that I wrote.
https://1kb.ng5p.com
I've been trying to put together a solo project, that might be worth launching a bit later. My stack in general is:

Elixir for the backend. Reasons for it:

- Elixir is designed for reliability, so since I want to keep the app alive as much as I can by myself, it seems like a great fit.

- It also has excellent integrations with Postgres (my choice of DB) with Ecto.

- I generally skipped Phoenix, as I'm just using Elixir to create my API.

- Absinthe provides amazing support to create GraphQL API from scratch.

Frontend will be React probably with Relay.

- I've been using React at my job for years with GraphQL and I'm pretty fond of it.

- I've been planning on investingating Mobx, as I've never used it but heard good things about performance there. I'm not sure if it's going to be worth using it with GraphQL

- Relay has quite a lot of boilerplate, but I found it good enough for what I'm doing, and I liked the performance. Also it's fairly easy to integrate with Absinthe.

- Generally since this project is not made to be a start up or a business first, I want to experiment on the front-end on how I could reach the best performance with these tools at hand.

- I plan on using TS with the GraphQL queries mostly generated from the schema.

For deployment I plan on using a VPS probably, though I'm way far from having to choose that.
Podcast to Blog Post Using GPT3/Whisper
> It's possible to use only the built output of bootstrap as a static CSS file

Correct, it "needs to be compiled to be used in any practical way". That was your criticism of React, and the reason it didn't qualify as a library.

Bootstrap was written in Less, that needs to be built. Is Bootstrap a library?
Whatever you are most productive with.
Unless it's symptomatic of a sharp increase in mental health difficulties. Most MH folks I know are completely booked months out at this point.
Google hasn’t really demonstrated a good track record of revolutionary launches. Doing so requires risk and long term investment and vision. Bigger companies have more to lose with risk and thus take much “safer” risks because CEO and middle management are incentivized to do that - risky bets might cause you to be on the losing side of a bet and end up regressing from where you are now. Risky bets are also how you can attain 1000x results but management is incentivized and condition for loss avoidance. That’s why in-house incubators always fail to produce billion dollar businesses - the incentive structure is very wrong. For everything else that Ruth has delivered to Google in terms of getting it into a supremely healthy financial position, I think the concerns about her killing “Google” have been largely borne out (whether or not that’s her or just her delivering what was asked doesn’t really matter - it’s probably both).

Facebook is about the only company attempting to do this at the size of the big tech companies with Oculus. I think because it’s viewed as an existential threat that they otherwise don’t have their own platform so temporary headwinds / market punishing them for investing so heavily is less a concern for the board and Mark. Ford had to outsource this with Cruise and it’s a delicate balance even then. Apple is interesting to watch because they make very few moves in public that it’s hard to see what’s going on even from the inside in terms of innovation. Toyota is an example of taking a bad “market risk” investing into hydrogen although I think that’s an example of either saving face until they fix their EV story, truly making a misstep, or the story being misreported (eg hydrogen for fleet vehicles and trucks but EV for individuals).
I understand.

The response was generated by ChatGPT with a prompt "make a snarky response". I just found it amusing to use the technology itself against its own proponent who insinuated that everyone having something against the technology is somehow a tech averse "grandpa".
You have entirely sidestepped the issue at hand. What you bring up is a different issue. Is it possible for you to stay on point?
This would have been so awesome to have in my Eastern European high school, where you're required to write essays by hand instead of typing them. The font it generates is similar to my handwriting but fails hard on accented letters though.
LibGimbal: C17 Cross-platform, general-purpose core applications framework
And yet, in your software example those companies overwhelming rely on degrees to credentialize candidates regardless of actual skill.

Licensing is merely a subset of the larger credentialing world. Even in your doctor example, the license is not the issue - board certification of a specialty would be the issue.
I'm going to buck the (numerous) trends here and keep it simple at the same time.

C# REST APIs on Linux with PostgreSQL and the front-end framework of your choice. I generally stick with Angular.
Change your thought patterns to be less cynical.
> I go to court all the time, I'm an attorney.

I admit, I loled. :)

Hello, brother. I think you might want to read a little further into the thread, because I'm not saying what you think I am. I'm also an attorney and I have convicted a pro se litigant in addition to watching at least two handfuls of trials where self-represented defendants were involved. Every single time, the court provided "insane levels of deference to pro se litigants that they did not provide to attorneys." You are precisely correct except where you contradict me.

Also, my experience watching trials on youtube is in fact representative of how it normally goes: I have never seen a judge act in a poor manner toward a self-represented party, on youtube or elsewhere. In the Kenosha parade murder trial, the judge was able to sigh deeply and respect the rights of the defendant, but I suspect if you or I built a fort out of books and boxes on our counsel table, or declined to wear a shirt, we would be immediately disbarred.

I was only mentioning the youtube/Kenosha angle because you asked for an example.
> such immense amounts spent on geoengineering research

That's interesting. What's the best-funded example of this?
I worked for NYSE’s parent, ICE, and I have to agree with this. While there were many things I didn’t like about working there, the tech and the management weren’t involved in those things. A similar problem to this happened while I was working there, but it was on Endex and not NYSE. Management spoke with the responsible party, but he wasn’t fired and no punitive actions were taken against him. The blame game also wasn’t played. The team just decided to provide more eyes on the process, change the interface of the tools a bit, and move on. The company itself did face hefty fines for the screw up tho. Ultimately, the issues at ICE/NYSE are due to a highly bureaucratic structure and to onerous regulations forcing parts of that structure to exist. Given those two problems, I think ICE. does extremely well.
> Stability AI has already announced that it is removing users’ ability to request images in a particular artist’s style

I hope it returns when they win and get rid of this legal bullying.
Does anyone know why there are so many dead posts on /shownew? Maybe a fifth of all posts end up dead for no obvious reason. They seem just like any other Show HN thread, and nothing is clearly wrong with the posting accounts either.
They're all basically the same, some are just more or less bad and some have more or fewer very-helpful libraries available. It's all doing the same shit, mostly in very similar ways.
I'd say legacy mainframe use is a big ticket item. My Fortune 500 company still has IBM mainframes for some internal corporate functions, and I know military/gov still use said mainframes to manage legacy systems. Those contracts can be quite lucrative.

But yeah, they do seem to be running on inertia. I've never heard of anyone buying anything IBM for new work.
1Password has been pleasantly useful and non-enterprisey but still useful to teams and individuals.
It's not just here, but "we need to have a blockchain division / we need to have an AI powered product / We need to have a cloud services strategy / We need to etc"

All these companies have no vision, and are run by people only interested in saving their jobs and/or preparing for their next one.
I didn’t tried your app yet, but I think your idea is great, and that this niche is underexploited.

I hope you won’t mind a little feedback. There is one screenshot on the app page, it looks fine in general, but I was a bit frustrated by the center-aligned text. Because of alignment, it was hard to read.

Wish you luck!
It really isn't. There are competent gun smiths who modify guns to ensure that only blanks can be fired. Real bullets could not be chambered.
AI Content, and Why Google Cares a Lot Less Than You Think
DOJ Disrupts Hive Ransomware Network
It's not 100% done yet - the rough MVP functionality is in place - but I'd love to know what people think

https://shielded.dev/

Simple API controlled README "shields". Lets you update a custom badge by API - fully open source.

Lets you update the badges to say whatever you want as part of your CI process. For instance we have it show the number of build warnings the most recent build generated.

Example badge:

https://img.shielded.dev/s/c74

and example API call

curl -X "POST" "https://api.shielded.dev" \
-H 'Authorization: token <secret>' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8' \
--data-urlencode 'title=Build Warnings' \
--data-urlencode 'text=5' \
--data-urlencode 'color=5041be'
Your speech may be protected, yet still be morally wrong.

As Oscar Wilde puts it, you have the right to make an ass of yourself.
Not that I've had extensive conversations with licensed professionals about this topic for the last 25+ years... but oh, wait.

It's a tripod, and you need all 3 to be aligned or else you can be susceptible to falling back into the shit. You don't have to have problems with all 3, problems with just 1 will do it. But you do need to aware that sometimes you do need to fix all 3.

Circumstances.

Biology.

Behavior.

And it's complicated.

Circumstances. If you have a ton of shit going on that isn't making you happy, you can be depressed. You'll need to work to avoid circumstances that get you down. But... we're seldom able to control our lives.

Biology. There can be unbalances. Lack of exercise, for me, is the most common way to feel shitty. If I didn't have my health, I'd feel shitty. Brain health, body health, just health. Also just physical comfort. You have to make sure you're physically OK.

Behavior. You have to want to be happy. You have to be open to it. You have to strive for it. You have to respond and interact with people in a way that doesn't make them feel shitty, or else you'll drive them away. And... you have to avoid people looking to just be shitty and drag others down.

If a friend tells me that they're depressed, my go to is to take them for a hike. Get them out of their surroundings, get some sunshine, fresh air, and get them moving. I like small tasks, small goals that can build into bigger ones. "We don't have to climb the mountain, let's just go a mile and see how we feel." And it's nice to just have someone there, in the moment with you, doing the same thing. And when I'm down, and I know I'm doing the same thing someone else is, and they're able to enjoy it, I am reminded to let myself enjoy it too.

For me personally... it's hard. We all live our own mistakes. Finding a way to forgive myself, while still learning how to improve. Finding ways to keep my step count up. Finding ways to cross off to-dos at work. I have a little consequence / reward system in my head... if I am late to a meeting, I have to do 10 pushups. If I do my chores (stuff like cleaning up, doing the dishes, and yard, and laundry), I get to play a video game at the end of the day... and not beat myself up for being lazy. You get to set your own.

It's important to reflect on why you do things. I get down when I feel like I'm just floating between things that are expected of me.

Anyway I don't know, if there were cures, if this shit were simple, it wouldn't just constantly be in the background. Routines, friendships, and small goals... staying active, try not to eat pure garbage, try to be thankful and show appreciation to others. I don't know, no real punchline here. Just that life is a struggle to keep decay at bay.
Some ideas:
Signup for classes of some hobby you really like.
Read good books about something that can help you see life from a different perspective.
Learn from Dr Andrew Hubberman on YouTube
Considering it's so bad it came to people's attention when it sent a subpoena to make sure someone came to testify against its client when he might have had a default judgement in his favour if they hadn't, I think the people who can't afford the lawyers have a lot more to be scared of than the lawyers...

And the reason lawyers are expensive is because bad legal advice usually costs far more in the long run.
Coffee reduces absorption of B vitamins and may affect vitamin-D receptors. There are many studies on this on nih.gov you may find useful.
> It's almost like they're doing layoffs for the sake of appearances

It's almost like you're noticing this because the media is playing up layoff reports in tech.

To quote... you - "4000 seems like a tiny number in context of total headcount, and when you take into account that they've somehow lost more than 5 times as many in the past year."

They've reduced staff by 5 times this amount over the last 24 months, but this is the reduction that you think is for the sake of appearances... I wonder if that's because this is the one getting media attention...?
What is currently called “depression” needs splitting up into finer grained categories because it’s become a useless catch all term at this point. I would argue that the people who are really truly rendered catatonic (and so likely have something seriously wrong in the brain that needs addressing with drugs) should be in one category and I would argue this is quite a small minority. I personally believe that the “depression” the majority are experiencing is more akin to what Johan Hari talks about in Lost Connections and it’s root causes are absurd societal structures and political failures which are deeply harming people. If someone feels trapped in a hopeless situation and this drags on for years because society is not providing any means to help them escape and improve their lives then depresssion is a pretty inevitable outcome.

In a modern day society it really isn’t acceptable. Give people access to low cost housing. Reduce the cost of education so no one is priced out of it or forced into massive debts. Subsidise healthy food and tax junk. Subsidise gym memberships and sports clubs for the poorest. Increase the amount of therapists being trained and make them more accessible. Pay people proper wages. Watch depression plummet. The solutions are there - why is there no political will to enact them?

Edit:

I have no idea why but people are reading “subsidise” and seeing “free”. That is not what I said. Subsidise the things you want to encourage so it is cheaper for the consumer at the point of sale and do the opposite for the things you want to discourage. The cost you pay as a society ends up being less in the long run. Less people ill and ending up in hospital means more people working and paying taxes etc.
I hope the exact opposite. AI, including AGI if we ever get there, cannot be allowed to be strangled in its crib by artificially limiting the information it can learn from in the name of IP maximalism. IP law already goes way too far, the line should be drawn here.
This reminded me, I once attended a lecture by a pharmacist who got interested in handwriting and showed how different conditions and medications might manifest in customers' handwriting.

Looking at the samples, it was pretty fascinating.

Since he undoubtedly read a lot of doctors' writing too, and since I personally know a doctor who abused their access to medication, I did wonder what questions this pharmacist would've had about local doctors...
Driving 100 miles in an EV is now more expensive than an ICE
1) Do the calculation for a mid level ICE
2) BEVs must drive unintended miles to reach charging stations
3) waiting for charging has an opportunity cost
Because the have VConey, need to show traction and sell you "cooling credits" in their web shop. So every ounce of PR, positive or negative, helps.
Stripe sets one-year timetable to decide on going public
It's funny to write "IBM (IBM)" and "SAP (SAP)".
Free and open source software licenses are redundant in a world where copyright and intellectual property laws don't exist, and no form of media (including software) can legally be owned by anyone.
I currently use
Remix
Prisma
SQLite
Mantine
Keep it simple so I can move fast
almost all of ibm's most experienced and hands on people are now at Kyndryl. IBM continues to pay Kyn people to manage their own systems. Its funny given how much more costly that model is but layoffs impress the hedge funds.
US right now invaded Syria and stealing Syrian oil
These days with Hotwire and HTMX, you can go very far with Django/Rails (and I suppose Elixir too). Not having to write an API for your webapp to consume is huge.

Until you actually have reason to scale (eg you are building WhatsApp), building to optimize the productivity of your iteration cycle usually gives the best payoff for pre-PMF projects.
Blanks are not safe to point at people either, so the point is moot.
I think this is all basically true, but what is interesting to me is that these incumbent tech companies were greedy when everyone was greedy and in so doing they created an opening for someone who is greedy when others are fearful to come and eat their cake.
Democracy
Tell HN: Unqork laying off 12% of staff
The third layoff round in a year. Interestingly they aren't doing it with a mass email but instead are opting for sudden 1 on 1 HR meetings with the unfortunate employees. 4 weeks severance
Based on my interactions with specific IBM teams:

They are a major systems integrator in the financial and govt world, they have a massive professional services team ensuring everything from AIX to RHEL7.2 is running and not breaking for customers, they have very smart HPC and Quantum Chemistry people working on building Quatumn Computing algorithms, they are building features in IBM Cloud for our EU banking counterparts (too big to fail French banks seem to have converged on IBM cloud as their platform of choice), managing a major Docker Hub competitor (Quay), building out and managing the primary on-prem Kubernetes orchestrator (OpenShift), and are managing the primary incident response platform used by enterprises.

There are a lot of issues and gripes to have about IBM, but they are a very critical player in the industry. Tech Bros on HN just don't have the visibility and remain in their weird HN echo chamber.

And IBM 100% does still have a middle management problem - no way I'd ever work there unless I was at least a VP.
I have so many friends who use Amazon for everything and they don't, for whatever reason, understand/see/experience/care about the premise of the piece ("Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."). They won't acknowledge, even, that search is terrible.

Much beyond the Amazon discussion, though, and I would expect these friends' eyes to glaze over. Non-tech people overall need to be much smarter and aware of how these companies are using us.
Following the trend :-(
Time to get rid of people they don’t want, without them look bad since everybody is doing it, and also they’ll have an excuse if financial results aren’t very good.
IMHO it’s the retaliation of big companies to what remote working brought to all of us (freedom, better wages, quality time, escape from bad environments…).
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is fairly popular at the company I work for and they've been an IBM acquisition since 2019.
On top of that, deliberately training models to copy an artists work and antagonizing the artist about it.
Openbsd also puts a fair amount of work into removing ROP gadgets.

For example.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=152824407931917
The CEOs know their macro. I think it's all political. Employment is the last bastion holding this cycle. Low unemployment means the Fed won't pivot. A fed that doesn't pivot is a fed that's in tampering mode which is a money tight environment.

I think it's gotten to be a game of macro economic manipulation to get to fed to flood the market with lush money again.
"This is the law colloquially known as Section 230, which is probably the most misunderstood, misreported, and hated law on the Internet."

That by itself is a problem. For a law like this to survive, someone needs to explain to voters what problems it solves, the way companies take advatage of it, why that's hard to fix, and why it's still worth having.
It’s funny that only in our industry “time tested”/“battle tested” is called old school and frowned upon. No wonder we see software bloat everywhere.
Very nice ^^
That's certainly a better heuristic, but then you quickly run into the problem of when the joke is objectively funny but politically incorrect, so people stop themselves from laughing so they don't get in trouble.

IMO, A.I., at least how it exists now, doesn't know what "funny" means or feels like, so it can't be funny itself.
>Where are the truly innovative 'Industry 4.0' factories producing individualized spare parts on demand by means of 3D-printing, or whatever, to only exchange degraded components of truly modular appliances? Or cars?

Hopefully that's the next step, but it looks like legislation will need to force their hands. It already somewhat started with some manufacturers though (i.e.: https://frame.work/ for laptops).
Are there (m)any other prominent figures discussing these issues without sugar coating?
Is that increased exposure making us healthier (ie. mindful, tolerant, understanding, patient, ...) or more neurotic (ie. ruminative, paranoid, self-absorbed, defensive, ...)?
Very anecdotal, but I've noticed on HN that people taking the SSRI Lexapro for GAD seem to think it's incredible, and people taking it for depression seem to be underwhelmed
Are your data normal? Hint: no