skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This review ignores the incredibly sordid history of institutionalization in the US and why it's so strongly hated. Many crimes were committed on otherwise innocent people under the guise of curing their mental illnesses. Lobotomies were popular to 'cure' people. Cocktails of drugs, inhumane experiments. You can look at what was done at Willowbrook State School to understand why this rapidly took the case. And it was not that long ago that things like 'being gay' was considered a mental illness.

Everyone knows why "institutionalization in the US is so strongly hated". The question is whether the pendulum swung back too far the other way.

The author is on a soapbox. But he isn't wrong: "destigmatization," pushed too far, is not without problems. It leads to a certain incoherence expressed well in the article.

It's less clear what we should do about this in terms of policy.
Heh Heh Heh

Whichever Microsoft decision maker caused the Edge icon to be forced onto all Windows users desktops (sometimes repeatedly), sure has given Sony some high profile evidence to work with.
> It seems increasingly that the concerns from the ethics branch have not come to pass at all.

Neither have the concerns from AI alignment folk. I’d say both groups are pretty far off (and both fairly useless), but the ethics folks are at least a little closer to reality.

Of course, AI alignment folks have the advantage that they can keep pushing the time frame forward and saying it’s perpetually just around the corner (a fairly common practice for doomsday believers whose doomsday never comes to pass).

> The other concerns, such as mass unemployment

After the Great Recession there was a high level of unemployment. Many argued that this was the result of the recession, and that if we fixed the issues in the economy the labor markets would rebound. Others argued that this wasn’t the case at all, that the market was either soft because American workers suddenly lacked high tech skills (one of the reasons STEM became fixed in the popular imagination), or because the robots were taking our jobs and the jobs weren’t going to come back.

The “robots are taking our jobs” group told us that this was just beginning - unemployment was going to get significantly worse over the next few years (the previous decade). Self driving cars were going to cause millions of truckers to be unemployed by 2020. The idea that new jobs would appear to replace ones that were lost was completely dismissed.

As we’ve seen from the improvements in the labor market over the past few years, the folks who said the soft market was the temporary result of a giant recession appear to be correct. The folks who said the robots took the jobs and they were never coming back were clearly wrong. If anything, they probably had a negative impact on the labor market by trying to convince people that nothing could be done to get the jobs back and encouraging inaction.
But you also can’t trust people on TikTok.
I'm no financial expert, but wouldn't hoarding an "enormous cash pile" be a indicator of not using capital efficiently?
The idea is that you are gradually building Brain-tree indexes in your grey matter as you read it cover to cover. Whenever you need to look up something again you kinda have a vague idea where to look.
> In our Year of Efficiency, we will make our organization flatter by removing multiple layers of management. As part of this, we will ask many managers to become individual contributors.

So basically more rounds of layoffs to come?

> This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week.

Sounds like they pulling the plug on remote work

Has Meta been found out as a company?
I'm implying companies tend to come up with all sorts of great sounding PR fluff to explain layoffs, and that I'm generally skeptical of claims to be making orgs "flatter". If this statement specifically makes someone want to work at Facebook, I think their bullshit meter needs adjusting.
Show HN: Refine 4.0 – Open-source enterprise-grade React CRUD framework
>Although just as software engineering is very different today than it was 20 or 30 years ago, in 20 or 30 years it will be very different…

It's not actually very different than 20 or 30 years ago. The platforms are rather different, the end product is different too in some cases, but the development work itself is surprisingly similar. That doesn't mean there cannot ever be a real leap forward of course.
> In our Year of Efficiency, we will make our organization flatter by removing multiple layers of management. As part of this, we will ask many managers to become individual contributors.

I am curious what people think about this.
Not sure I buy that.

If they'd "hired correctly", then even contractors wouldn't be getting laid off in large numbers.
Which is a good thing. You should be become a manager because you think you would enjoy being a manager more than being a coder, and are passionate about being really good at managing. Being good at coding doesn't mean you'll automatically be good at (or enjoy) dealing with admin, budgeting, resource planning and personnel issues.

I've been managed by truly brilliant coders who just wished they could go back to sitting in their office and code. No one was happy with that situation.
As an ex-Lyft driver (SF,CA) and someone who knows/knew many of them I would add here that it is rare for anyone doing this kind of work to be planning to do it for life. It’s usually part of some temporary plan or arrangement.

This is why these people often argue against what would seem to be in their interest. They want to stay under radar, they just want/need the cash.

That being said, I’m not so sure in hindsight that any of it is healthy. In the EU where I live now, driving a car for this work requires the driver to jump through many extra hoops so it is a more long-term decision to become one. You get nicer cars, better drivers and… higher prices.

There is no solution to this problem! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> I guess Sony considers Call of Duty more of a game changer than the God of War and Horizon franchises.

GoW and Horizon became as big as they are today while being PS exclusives from day one, so them being exclusives tomorrow is business as usual. CoD has been multi-platform since day one, so becoming an Xbox/Windows exclusive would represent a very significant change.
You mean the same Minecraft that Mojang sold me back in the day and that now requires a Microsoft account to play offline?

Probably not a big problem for Sony, but as someone who bought the game I am kind of pissed about that.

But I totally agree with you about Sony being hypocritical.
What am I doing wrong? As far as I can tell, I have to:

1. Copy my code out from the venv folder

2. Delete the venv folder

3. Make a new venv

4. Copy my code back into the new venv folder

5. Re-install dependencies

This doesn't take much longer than 60 seconds, but that's 55 seconds more than I want to spend. How is this a good process? It just makes me avoid using python (at least when I'd need anything outside the standard library).

Is there a simple command that will do this all for me?

Note that I don't typically have a git repository or similar set up because I use python for very simple semi-throw-away scripts. I just want to be able to rename the containing folder and have my script still work.
I've gotten templated recruiting emails with this bug. I wonder if an AI would spit this out, or something weirder as the name.
Ok, I'm in France, I can relate because the traditional French food is bread, cheese, meat, etc.. even around mediterranean. I haven't eat bread since years and for fibers, it takes time to transition (your guts bacteria), and also relearn how to masticate efficiently, typically I eat almost everything (seeds for example grapes, melons, watermelons, skin when possible, e.g kiwis, persimmons, grapes, mangoes, many others), I like it more than the juice itself
Except they likely think it isn’t generated, like a lot of plagiarism
Believe me, I'm well aware of that. But I'm also aware of the past of medical treatment in general which could also be presented as a horror show. Fortunately most people understand that they won't get their leg sawn off without anesthetic if they go to a hospital for treatment for a leg infection these days.
Well they have some money in the bank, but culturally nobody thinks meta is the future (within USA at least). There is massive mistrust of their brand and any product they could ever make (be it lack of privacy or giving a terrible experience by over-monitizing).
Same can be told by any big tech, including Sony.
Not exactly. These are your feelings because you know of A.I. and would rather not receive a canned message BUT not all people are the same. There are many who would appreciate that email and welcome it. Ignorance is not bliss.
There are also maintenance costs with the off the shelf solutions. E.g. Gitlab self-hosted runners don’t handle very large artifacts well and frequently caused CI to timeout. We had to roll our own artifact management system.

In general I agree with you off-the-shelf is usually better but sometimes a custom tailored solution rather than a generic system can be better.
> will likely only cause your A players (who are probably still very much in demand) to look elsewhere.

As other have said: is there such a high demand right now ? And if you know and feel that you are an "A" player; and so far you have seen "C" players getting laid off, you might actually feel that the average level of the people you interact with increases which makes you want to stay more.
You could also use the cliché favoured by startups, 'Our incredible journey', normally used in a blogpost when they fold or get bought out.
Just like the BARD announcement in response to MSFT Sydney. They're trying to keep their stock prices from dipping
Well, since you never have to go into the office, you and the HR person can just hang out on your couches and let the AI assistants talk to each other. It's like the Jetsons, except hopeless and stoned.
It says self-hosted ChatGPT UI in the title, was that different when you posted?
Inflation adjusted revenue per employee even more so
Yes. At the moment, there very much is a shortage of qualified tech workers still. The market for them is now more "really hot" than "white hot".
recently I decided we need to new hosting

followed by

And asking him, if he seen email from amazon with
instruction how we should proceed.

Sounds like you don't want a co-founder, you want an employee.

Problem: I have impression that I am the only person who
motivated him and us, who has ideas.

I'm personally not a fan of the "idea founder + code founder" setup, but you chose it so that's the way it works...
I manage to avoid that by using uMatrix to block scripts, and it's not even supported anymore.
True, but it seems that the Kazakh leadership is fed up with that power.
Hi HN,
I'm Omer Co-founder/CTO of refine, our journey began in September 2021 with the release of our beta version. Since then, we've gained 8400 stars and 134 contributors on GitHub, and over 2000 deployments of refine-based CRUD apps.

Today, we are excited to launch refine v4

What is refine?

refine is an open source React-based framework for the rapid development of web applications. It eliminates the repetitive tasks demanded by CRUD operations and provides industry standard solutions for critical parts like authentication, access control, routing, networking, state management, and i18n.
It has built-in data provider support for Rest API, Supabase, Airtable, Strapi, GraphQL,Firebase, etc. refine headless by design and works with any custom design or UI framework you favor. For convenience, it ships with ready-made integrations for Ant Design System, Material UI, Mantine, and Chakra UI.

What is new in v4?

Throughout the development process, we have carefully analyzed feedback, discussions, and questions raised by the community to improve the framework.

Main new features:

- Enterprise-grade routing
Now, developers have complete freedom to create routes that can be meet the specific needs of your advanced and enterprise use cases.
- Bring your own router
Routes is now completely detached from refine.
refine will meet enterprise-grade requirements, and users can integrate refine into their existing projects without needing to modify their current routes or application structure.
- Reduced bundle size
To improve performance and optimize bundle size, we have removed re-exported packages from refine to achieve the same bundle size as a vanilla React project.
- New Auth Provider
We created common interface for the auth provider methods to improve transparency for developers and facilitate better understanding and debugging.

With full codemod support, the entire upgrade process will be automatically updated when you migrate your refine project to v4.

We rely on feedback from the open-source community to improve, so we'd appreciate any suggestions you may have. We're also happy to answer any questions you might have.
It's amazing the feeling of "what the hell is going on with all this apparently credulous attention being paid to a total nonsense" that one feels watching this stuff happen in real time.

It was always screamingly obviously a scam/sham/whatever, yet it was lapped up. Unreal. Critical faculties chucked enthusiastically out of the window, including by people and companies that should've known far better. And I appreciate there was of course some cynical deliberate bandwagon jumping, but still.

"I don't understand the first thing about what's going on with all this but smart people seem excited so what could go wrong" is a horrific basis for anything involving money and possible consequent loss of huge amounts of it!
I've been using GoAccess because of this exact line of thinking (logs over js pixel tracker). GoAccess comes with a really nice TUI, a built-in web server, and can export to csv and other formats. It's pretty robust. You just pipe logs right into it and it starts crunching.
That's a new regulation passed in December that doesn't take effect until April. At the moment, there is no cooling off period.
as an aside, Instagram just announced that it's shutting down its NFT features.

Safe to say that the web3 hypetrain is over.
I think you’d need 2x A100 GPUs, which is $4.18 an hour on Runpod. If I was super bored I’d probably be willing to drop $50 for 10 hours to mess around with it.

https://www.runpod.io/gpu-instance/pricing
Lots of beings trapped in four walls with artificial light all day, just like the office... oh.
It’s an account. Has nothing to do with how many platforms can run the game. Which is what this Call of Duty promise is about.
I hesitate to get involved in any discussion where “original” is used because people can redefine it so that the machine always loses. It’s like getting into a discussion with the people who write the editorial page of The New York Times or Fox News for that matter.

But, ChatGPT is trained by reinforcement to play a character that is helpful and answers questions. It could just as well be trained to do something else. Question answering is not fundamental to how that technology works, the way it is for Wolfram Alpha.

Now people like that character ChatGPT plays, they find it helpful, they engage with it, etc. It seems to be motivated to move some goal and particularly it doesn’t seem to “get stuck” because people give it ever changing goals. If it were acting on longer-range goals it might well follow a weak signal in circles forever, satisfy itself on ‘special interests’ other people don’t get, and otherwise fail to pay for the electricity it uses.

A real weakness it has has right now it only remembers 4096 tokens of short-term memory, it is mostly running out of a long-term memory that was trained into it and it won’t add anything to that.

A person might write a book and then refer to what they wrote to build on that and write another book. ChatGPT can’t do that, but that’s not a fundamental limit of that kind of system, for instance you could feed the things it generates back into it and retrain it. It might not be so simple because it is as likely to go bad like cheese as anything else if it does that (see ‘getting stuck’ above.)
For anyone not in Brooklyn this morning, it is snowing here right now.
Pfizer has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Seagen. The acquisition hasn't closed, and antitrust regulators could impede it.
I find these points are all valid and noble, but I believe it suggests "Mastodon the Social Network" more than "Mastodon the software".

I tend to lean in on "the social network" myself and with that mindset, I'm subscribed to all the recommended groups here eager to see how we can address these.

Curious what the general population thoughts are.
meaningful for profitability, but surely having more employees can be of benefit to society.
You got me there :)
“[shoggoth,] look like that one“
So you would be happier if he said "I'm very sad and I take full responsibility"? People who judge based on word usage is why they write that fake crap.
Probably should just call it OpenAI/ChatGPT Client.
I still remember when CSS was such a promising thing... And now it'a wreck.
No need to be so dismissive. I think you're misunderstanding what I mean. Big moneymakers like -- well, not the yearly sports games, but everything else -- are exactly what I'm talking about. Games like Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, etc are big, well-made games that are going to still be played in ten years precisely because they're so big and well-made. Same for small indie hits: they make a bunch of money up front and then will continue to exist for a long time, being played, building communities, etc. I was agreeing with the GP which was saying, you don't plan to make multiple games, you make one good one that has quality/staying power/whatever you want to call it. When I'm on Steam buying games randomly because they're on sale, it's _good_ games, that I've heard of and will continue to hear about, not random cheaply-made garbage (usually).
Three-bedroom flat could cost €36,000 more under EU climate change rules
Zuckerberg never had fresh ideas. He stole someone else's idea and that has been the only product he has ever made.
Returnal which came out April 2021 and the PC version just released, technically Destiny 2: Lightfall (if that counts) was day-and-date.

Sony still has an incentive to sell hardware and keep games exclusive though. Unlike Microsoft, they don't control Windows and don't have an incentive to keep Windows the gaming OS of choice. Microsoft is also trying to push their own Xbox Game Pass and get users gradually away from Steam.
It wasn't perfect but it existed. Calling it rose-colored is to downplay how bad it's gotten. The complex of multinational corporations and their lobby groups that run our government today didn't exist then, the e.g. railroad companies are no comparison.
> the mildest winter I've experienced in my life

As the joke goes: The mildest winter of your life so far

Here in SF we’re having what is definitely the hardest winter I’ve seen in my 8 years here. Can’t remember the last time SF had so much weather. Even thunderstorms! Multiple!
Tricks for easier right-to-left CSS styling
In other countries, working at McDonalds you get pension time (better, I'd say, than any 401k match) and more weeks of PTO than most Americans do. These rights were "magically conjured" either by the legislature or labor action.
Here we go, ding ding, the scrap begins…
The raspberri pi isn't a dac, it's a streamer. It acts as a middleman to avoid using my PC as the source of the audio.

I'd definitely prefer a DAC with good filtering on its inputs so I wouldn't need to use a middleman, but that is expensive. One with a proper USB module with complete isolation can run ~$5000.
How long IBM to rebrand their Watson 2.0 to be using ChatGPT 4.5.
> and then you're on the chopping block, because promotion trajectory for ICs becomes very, very slow beyond a certain point

The former does not follow from the latter.
I absolutely agree, but this comment [0] lays it out well. In a non-TikTok news article:

"During her senior year at UCLA, Riley Rojas decided to pursue a career in Big Tech — and she wanted to work for the best ... This week in #KeepingtheBalance, Rojas shares how she landed her job at Meta with a political science background. Spoiler: It took a whole lot of studying and manifestation."

I worked my ass off in Engineering school, and as an engineer, to get into FAANG. She manifested with a background in Poli Sci. There's going to be anger about those optics. It's not surprising to see PMs decimated right now, based on the poor growth numbers, declining user engagement, and said optics.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33361622
Chatbots Shouldn’t Use Emojis
Original Tweet rather than an archived version: https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1635427567271329792

There’s since been an important follow-up tweet:

> Ring denies being a victim of ALPHV. Ring has stated to various media outlets they believe a 3rd party vendor has suffered a data breach.

And a relevant reply:

> I mean, file under MRDA, but Ring told me earlier today that "We currently have no indications that Ring has experienced a ransomware event."
You don't write that email by yourself. There are lots of cooks in the pot when it comes to writing this kind of message to a large corporation.
You would need a central authority (the copyright holder) to maintain a list of legitimate NFTs. However, you would not need to get their permission whenever you want to sell them.
There must be a better use case for an app like that!
While I don't love that particular trend, it isn't like that trend is really a new one in the industry. It seems like every company is trying to push their ecosystem and forcing you to login wherever they can.

The only reason this particular case is weird is because its a Microsoft account on Playstation.

Not saying it's a good practice, but I don't know if in that case I would solely attack Microsoft.
It's not white hot like it was 1-3 years ago, but if you're qualified and experienced, yes there very much is still demand from non-FAANG companies.
Sure. Same reason the State Department doesn't typically source its diplomats from the Navy SEALs. Different skills, different types of people.
Juniors and interns really strugle in a remote environment.
Since Meta was hiring mostly new grads or junior leetcoders it makes sense that remote work culture at Meta hit some bumps.
Quick Question: why do the layoffs take so long?
Like why is he saying for some groups it may take till the end of the year?
Internally, doesn't that mean nobody has any morale or gets any work done for a proper year, since everyone remains jaded and on edge?
Microsoft is dreadful for game creativity. Xbox has never had the creative edge...that's is why they acquired.....they are run like. cutthroats.....that is all they can do ...Sony has respect for their gamers.... Microsoft has respect for no one.
No one was expecting a business earning $20B profits per year to go to zero.

What changed were the expectations of what their profit will be in 5, 10, 20 years.
> cause your A players (who are probably still very much in demand) to look elsewhere.

Vast majority won't find jobs that are as well paying as facebook. FB is a leader in tech salaries which gives them the leverage to announce such a thing without losing people. People don't want to take paycuts and go somewhere thats also doing layoffs.
First reaction: mouthful spam generator built right into gmail[0], way to go google.

[0] https://youtu.be/6DaJVZBXETE?t=33
Excited to hear the feedback!
It existed - if you were a White man. Nice work if you can get it.
"layoff" is a noun. I think you meant "lay off"
The only reason to do that is if you want to obey copyright law. There is no technical reason stopping you.