skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd strongly consider paying for YT if it were an independent company

YT wouldn't be YT if it was an independent company. Lack of competition in the field is a proof
DRAM and SSDs will continue to get cheaper in the coming months
What about all the YouTube videos where ads are part of the program? If YT Premium could block those too, I might subscribe.
What?

And force a company that has mostly employees in the top 2% to pay them even more? I'm not sure the average person cares.

To force them to charge less for their product?

To hire people they don't need?

What are you expecting?
> favorite [popular] musician that doesn’t sing

He's looking at the wrong chart.

Looking at this week's Billboard electronic/dance chart I see: David Guetta, Tiësto, Illenium, Marshmello, Calvin Harris, Chainsmokers, Skrillex ...

All extremely popular musicians who are known primarily as producers/DJs rather than vocalists. And there are tons of popular instrumental electronic and dance tracks.

Calvin Harris does actually sing (Feel So Close, Summer, etc.) but he's currently at #1 on the UK singles chart (Miracle) with Ellie Goulding on main vocals.
Happy engineers do better work. Half the reason Google is really falling on its face right now is that management has made it clear to eng that we're not respected the way we were 10 years ago. So we no longer go above and beyond for our employer because they no longer go above and beyond for us.

Doing less work is a classic and reasonable negotiating tactic for employees.

Employees are counter parties to any negotiation and they're not as powerless as big companies like to make them feel.
Thus is why I wish titles quoted names, at least where is there is any possibility of confusion
I don’t see that in the linked article: https://archive.is/fZntY
So in other words not really at all.
Where are these employees going to go?
Sorry if my point wasn’t clear. I am saying that conceptually some of the other problems people are discussing aren’t strictly caused by a housing shortage. The path we took from a prior “okay” state to the current “not okay” state may have been rooted in a lack of housing, but not all paths back to an “okay” state necessarily require that we solve the housing problem.

Asserting that e.g. people pooping in the street is caused strictly by expensive housing would require some mental gymnastics IMO, there are simpler explanations and simpler ways out, without blocking on solving the expensive housing problem. If for example we ended up with a nice peaceful city but the police budget was really really high (so they could live locally), that would be a much less hairy problem than we have today I think. Nice peaceful city tends to generate more tax revenue also.
The money was better than free. Why wouldn't you hire a bunch of people?
A signal of what? What's your point?
Won't someone think of the poor software engineers??
I dream of a clamshell e-reader, with dual 7 or 8" screens, that reads in the traditional two-pages-at-a-time kind of book orientation.

It seems a no brainer to me. It would keep the fragile e-ink substrate safe, while being more ergonomic and allowing you to have twice the screen real-estate without ending up with the terrible reading experience with too-long-lines that you get from current large-screen e-readers.
When I first started using Youtube in late 2006, it didn't have ads, and I didn't have an ad-blocker because I didn't know they existed. Since then, I've more or less used Youtube the same way as I did. I use an ad-blocker now as part of my normal web browsing, and it, thankfully, happens to work on Youtube, giving me that same experience. If I eventually lose the ability to use ad-blockers on Youtube, I'll probably just wind up using it a lot less. I'm not sure I want to add yet another monthly payment.
I disabled OneDrive syncing on Edge, and the next time Windows refused to boot. I had to reinstall the OS from the recovery partition.

Tracking: it’s mandatory!
Amitermes meridionalis and many other insects build huge urban environments that house hundreds of thousands to millions of their fellows (and farmed "animals").

Hunter gathers in Australia didn't see hookworm until colonists arrived with free ranging sheep and cattle.

Pre colonialism people were healthy and spent approx four hours a day gathering food from known managed resources.

The (North) American South was rife with hookworm in the 1910's prompting John D. Rockefeller to fund a massive public health and education program [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3800113/
> across 5+ browsers owned by different businesses, no less

I don’t care about that. I agree this would be impossible in the browser.

I’m talking about the official app specifically, they should be able to do it there.

Premium funds is a good point I hadn’t thought of. I’d be fine if that didn’t happen while in incognito. Treat me like incognito mode for any other random user, just without ads.

I don’t run it all the time. And I wouldn’t if they did this. It’s extremely rare I want to do this.

But if I look up a recipe I’m likely to be bombarded with cooking channels. Home DIY fix? Similar. God forbid I look up a news video on a current event.
The headline seems a bit sensationalized, but there certainly are major forces pushing hard drives toward being a niche storage technology rather than a mainstream or default choice. Hard drive prices ($/TB) haven't been improving as quickly as SSD prices. SSDs have already overtaken hard drives for low capacities. For datacenters, SSDs provide more TB per rack unit. As drives get bigger, hard drive performance characteristics become more tape-like; some workloads will be unable to benefit from better $/TB of larger drives because they cannot tolerate the performance hit of consolidating more data behind a single actuator.

At scale, whether to use hard drives or SSDs is not so much a question or how much capacity or performance you need, but the ratio of capacity to performance. Hard drives are best for cold data, SSDs have been the choice for hot data and are taking over for warm data.
The “BALL,WPR,NTRL RBR FOAM,6IN” is a specially designed tool that is commonly used in the drilling industry. This tool is designed to clean the inside of the drill pipe to prevent any damage that can occur during the drilling process. It is made from high-quality natural rubber foam, which is a durable material that can withstand harsh drilling conditions.
Except that for infrequently accessed archival storage, you can power off the drives. (Which is--presumably--what AWS Glacier is.)
I have a poorly done video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWYgChA_aYA

I'm going to be revamping the marketing as I'm on-boarding a customer since I'm transitioning towards "concierge engineering company/studio". I've got a thesis that I can beat the averages (in the pg sense: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html ) with the platform, but the strategy is hush-hush right now.
> a 21-year-old software developer

In the past I have seen self-certification for Accredited Investor status, as well as out-sourced services that verify some data for a determination.

I think response around what is legal or not is best left to those with a background and education in the legal profession.
Show HN: Imbox, a disposable inbox right inside the browser
Made this to learn how SSE works with Eventsource api, Its just a client for https://mail.tm. There was also an option to paste the email with a right click, but it wont work in production for some reason.

The inbox is simple and easy to use, still half baked, want to add features like seen, attachments, delete etc
I read it as if research showed that scientists regenerate their hair cells, and everyone else does not.
But what’s my time worth, not sitting through ads each month? If I make $12/hr, and I have to watch 120 30sec ads in a month of watching YouTube, I’ve broken even.

I think most of us make a bit more than 12/hr… so it quickly becomes worth it.
Very sorry to hear about your upbringing, btw. I hope writing your story helps.
Let's not give Microsoft any more ideas
But we could have <blink> on some important text to be truely different...
If this was around the 1200 price point they'd be selling like crazy. Chewing into the premium android and iPhone share. Google would have been a trend setter with foldables if they offered a lower price.
is he saying that leprechauns have stratospheric IQs
I see no argument at all for using Laravel over Django or Rails.

PHP was always a mess. Why would I want to come back to it now on the off chance they don't screw things up again?
Well like with any kind of a "social network", you'd better always have zero trust. I haven't bookmarked the news, but this case is hardly the first showing that LinkedIn leaks to everywhere. I remember this case from 2019:

https://www.troyhunt.com/data-enrichment-people-data-labs-an...

So you have the phone numbers and geolocation stuff there, but mostly it seems to be the usual data brokerage stuff, i.e. useless garbage data.
They might be right that spinning rust isn't going to be used for online storage due to the energy cost, but that doesn't mean it can't still be useful for offline storage. I'm not buying this.
It is important to note that Pure Storage is a vendor of all-flash storage solutions, so there may be some exaggeration in their claims.
It sounds like you're against this. I'm not sure why.

SEO is a scam to convince search engines to show something other than most useful content. Content farms are a drain on human attention. Human intelligence had it's chance and we squandered it. Bring on the AIs, they're not going to be worse than the mess we've already made.
Well you can.
> Employees are hired in order to create value for the company. Employees get jobs in order to get paid in exchange for that contributed value.

Lots of tech employees get hired to grow their director's/VP's little fiefdom within a company. Higher interest rates hopefully will reduce this, but it's still prevalent at large tech companies.

> It's not political. It's the Law of Supply & Demand.

I wonder what Adam Smith had to say about market inefficiencies caused by regulatory capture, rent-seeking, and collusion. I'm sure the market will magically fix these inefficiencies without outside regulation.

> Employer and employee cooperate for mutual benefit.

Really? Employers sure do cooperate with each other against employees [1]. I don't want to cooperate with an entity that views me as an adversary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Why is that my problem?
I'd agree that "former mormon" would be a better descriptor. However, "lapsed" does not seem technically incorrect to me, even though it may be more nuanced, and could possibly lead to an incorrect idea of the situation.
who's the slime with all the moves, oh yeah
This is really impressive. I’ve never written Dart but this makes me very interested to give it a trial. A sound type system, pattern matching, nice syntax and seemingly solid tooling — why don’t I hear about this more often?

I’ve been working with state charts a lot and being able to target multiple platforms with the same code would make what I’m doing so much more useful. This library seems to support everything I need: https://github.com/rows/automata

Maybe a good side project! Can anyone give reasons why someone should/shouldn’t write Dart (besides a smaller ecosystem)?
You're not entitled to their content either but you force yourself to it anyway.
From 2015. Thought it looked familiar.
No, that isn’t the case. The article did not try to imply that green energy is to blame.

But let’s pretend it did, is that not a perspective we should analyze? If we are going to actively restrict sources of energy, we should quantify the externalities. Not to convince anyone that we shouldn’t take those steps, but because these are real trade-offs with real costs. I’m sure that someone who earnestly feels that climate change is an immediate existential threat would welcome the analysis.
I don't know why but this gave me a quick dopamine hit. It's fun to play with and looks nice
These emails have been bizarre. Seemingly because I once crowdfunded the librem 5 my email address ended up on an "investor-relations" mailing list which periodically solicited, well, investments. Bonus points to the enlightened soul who realised that reply-all was open and described it as a Ponzi scheme, and to Purism themselves for having a non-functional unsubscribe page for the list. (They did remove me when I asked last September.)
As a fullstack developer who has worked many, many years in the javascript hellhole, I mean ecosystem, as well as the python ecosystem and .NET; coming back to PHP the last 2 years, working essentially in Laravel and the like - I couldn't approve more of this message.

Seriously, PHP is the grand father that will drive you to class and you'll never be late, the car will never smell and everything will always just be fine.

It's fast, it's typed (now), it's reliable.

Laravel is pretty darn rock solid. I've used a LOT of frameworks. Most of them fall on their ass in either the documentation or performance scope. Laravel is beasty, reasonably well documented, handles hundreds of thousands of users without a scratch. Plays well with Redis and MariaDB or anything really.

Just ignore the fugly standard library inconsistencies of (old) PHP, every language has their toilet corner...

Oh and it's free. All of it. PHP, Laravel. And its hosting has always been the cheapest. You don't need a particular OS or certain cloud providers.

When I consider the solutions of flask and microservices I've left behind, the many node processes running with pm2, the complexity of .NET solutions... PHP just works, and it's easy to make reliable... And if it's slow, it's because I'm doing dumb stuff, not because of dark corner edge case I happened to be tripping into.

It's single threaded first, queue jobs for anything slower. That simple facts make it so much easier to reason about things, and keeps the fullstack linear, transactional and easy to reason about, 2 years into it.

PHP is not the best language in the world. I prefer Swift and even Go for many reasons, but it's an easy, simple, straightforward language. It's the BMX of the languages.
I never said there was a moral obligation to helping your employer, I said there was an ethical obligation, which there is (even more so depending on your occupation).

Morally you have an obligation to yourself and other people, and following moral principles in relation to a company should be considered the same as moral principles applied to people. Like you point out, companies are made of people, your actions impact people in and through the company, hence your morals apply to the company.

You don't have any moral obligation to your car. But if you don't eventually change the oil, someone is going to be impacted by it; the people stuck behind you in traffic, the tow truck driver, the mechanic, your kids stuck at after-school practice, etc. And even further, you impact yourself by not maintaining this machinery, by failing to live a principle of hard work, responsibility, caring for others impacted by your actions, the environment. You also fail to treat yourself well through the maintenance of the vehicle you own and use, losing a valuable asset. Pick your philosophical poison, there's not a lot of moral justification for these things. But you're right, you don't do them because you owe it to the car.
Another model without a 3.5mm headphone jack…
I really have no idea what communism has to do with anything so I'll ignore that part.

I'm sure a good percentage of these people quit jobs specifically to work at Microsoft. When they quit those jobs, their employer probably filled that position. Then Microsoft fired those people, and it's likely that a lot of people were unable to go back to their previous positions.

This isn't even taking to account people who moved to Washington or California to work at Microsoft, who sold their homes to move to a place with a substantially higher cost of living.
Original writer here. I wrote it initially because it would certainly not be legal for me to invest being not an Accredited Investor, and also because the "Accredited Investor" gibberish reeks of similar disclaimers used with ICOs (aka shitcoins). However, I agree that I cannot determine and have amended the title to include "(possibly)" as I do my best to argue; and I believe that Purism may well be violating the plain language of the relevant SEC sections that got certain shitcoins (and more legitimate ones like Ripple) into hot water.

At a minimum though, I think we can agree that it is questionable conduct.
> Diet-related hearing loss too as a lot of people eat crap

Cases like this where it's caused by another issue are theoretically reversible though, right?
The laid off people did great while they were employed when they wouldn't have been otherwise.

Getting and extra 100k is real beneficial for each of those 10k people.

If those 10k people took big risks, that's a problem with their own risk management, rather than microsoft's
Fitting in between two other technologies on the Pareto frontier doesn't guarantee the niche will stay wide enough to be economically viable. Optane failed because it couldn't carve out enough of a market in between flash and DRAM. But I don't expect hard drives to die out entirely within the foreseeable future. Their niche will get smaller, but they're able to steal some market share from tape and can sacrifice performance to save power, while probably staying cheaper on an up-front $/TB basis than flash.
What do you mean by sold out? Maybe I don’t understand the phrasing, surely you don’t mean they’ve sold out of all their domains!
There is also Phel (Lisp-like language that compiles to PHP).

https://phel-lang.org/
(Mostly) branchless binary search, ~twice as fast as std::lower_bound:

https://probablydance.com/2023/04/27/beautiful-branchless-bi...
It's like announcing layoffs, but waiting for them to jump ship instead.
All cause mortality seems to have near universally increase across many countries over the past 12 to 24 months. This can not yet be clearer attributed to something, or at least not publicly. But it is also clearer not covid.

What is most strange is the out right refusal to acknowledge this phenomenon by our ruling elite. There have been examples in the UK where parliament has actively refused to even listen to those that talk about it.
Some of them do, of course. iPhone's market share is ~65% in Japan. If they successfully marketed it as an "iPhone + iPad in your pocket", $2k would not be an unimaginable price. And there will be more affordable foldable phones when they're more adopted.

But of course this one is from Google so it doesn't enjoy Apple's branding premium.
Apart from the excellent points raised by u/12907835202 in a sibling comment, another important consideration is that YT premium consumers are disproportionately rich compared to the entire YT consumer base. So if you are taking averages, you have to multiply them by at least 3x (i.e. 300%) to account for higher CPMs due to higher conversion values expected from such demographics.
This is a popular question, turns out.

https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
No, just no.
Reddits poor quality commentaries that are mostly bots and teen trollers, do not compare to millions of hours of content from verified experts amd amateurs alike showcasing or explaining something of interest to the viewer.

Thats like compairing backroom gossip to news.
Sure both have their biases and inaccuracies, but at least one of them holds a resemblance of accountability as opposed to the other that can spew anonymous bogus crap at will. With zero consequence.

Reddit has very poor quality content.
And it keeos on getting worse. Its just too riddled with bots.
Imagine youtubes comment section without the videos. Reddit in a nutshell.
sadly :(. they have a hate-on for emoji for some reason.

as does some of HN. time to upgrade from the 80s, folks ;)
The tech bubble implosion has a long way to go before things stabilize. Companies will go through hiring sprees and freezes all the way down. I feel sorry for fresh computer science graduates, or those with only a few years of experience, who were left "holding the bag" after the rest of us enjoyed two decades of plush tech jobs, pushing pixels around a webpage for money. We just have a supply/demand problem now. There's too much supply. Many will re-tool in some other field (pharmacy tech is looking pretty good right now), and many who stay will have to take a pay cut and/or work harder.
I’m surprised they accidentally sent you your sales data. Honestly a 50% margin is nothing. We were connected with a FAE who started offering us direct sales in low volumes. Most of those parts had a 80-90% margin on digikey.

The problem is now there is invisible price colluding, you can upload the same BOM to digikey and mouser and the prices are within 5%. If you did that 5 years ago individual parts would have 20% swing. There isn’t any point shopping around any more, everyone is gouging. In our ERP we have prices going back 10 years, some parts have gone up staggering amounts.

Digikey were always the more expensive normally, but in the last year prices have gone up another 20% but they offer a discount to high volume customers. It’s funny the difference between “my price” and the normal list price has been as high as 75%.

For what it’s worth, the last RMA I did with Digikey didn’t go through. It was $5O in spacers that they miscounted, not a deal breaker but I had to put another order in for the missing spacers as it was easier than dealing with support. I didn’t realise ignoring RMAs was an option!

My biggest practical issue with Mouser at the moment is they removed the ability to sort by quality available. Do they even realise the biggest struggle at the moment finding available parts to complete a design?
> legislating for the hell of it

Correction: legislating for the rich

Laws that favor very wealthy people pass through congress like a faint breeze on a daily basis (when congress is in session).
In China, during Mao Zedong's era, factory workers would laugh at and scorn other workers who worked harder than others. This is the direction that Microsoft is headed with their policies.
Great for the guy's CV
The trouble with YouTube premium is that there are still ads. Every YouTuber I watch does paid promotions, submarine marketing or self-promotion. That happened when YT ad revenue was reduced but even if ad rev went back up, it will continue. The marketing relationships are there now and who would turn down exrtra cash.
I didn't mention it in the article, but since when does any legitimate organization advertise that you will receive a "5% bonus on your investment value!" if you send cash now? Maybe I've missed some but just that wording...
I think its a great reminder to code with whatever you feel comfortable. For example, my last project I did in Centos/Apache/PHP5/Code Igniter 3.1 with some WASP for protection I did for 12 years and sold few months ago. It checks out against Qualys Server test and ImmuniWeb very well. I sold it for close to $10MM with annual revenues of $1.6MM. The last question the new owner asked me was "what did you program it with?". They mostly want bunch of boring excel spreadsheets seeing where I am, how the sales are sustained, and how do I believe it can grow. On the final day, their IT guy showed up. He looked in silence through 45 minutes of my code's presentation, which is very much mix of OO and not OO, and his only words were "I don't like frameworks if that was me I would start the whole thing from scratch".

So you never know what or whom you gonna get, but the bottom line is if you have sales and revenues and keep tabs on spending, they will come, and they will not care less about your fancy framework or newest code implementations.

TLDR: code in whatever you feel comfortable but always consider security as top priority (not speed) because in production your code's/setup security mistakes can cost you serious legal troubles.