skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/sf-bay-area-proper...

Third paragraph. But also, from your link “we’re confident this list of 12 includes some of the region’s major power players in residential real estate, housing tens of thousands of families in nearly 7,000 assessor-defined properties from San Jose to Santa Rosa”.

7k / 2.3M = 0.3%
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35889709
Obviously, that is why I specifically framed it in terms of Youtube's revenue generation. Youtube provides a ad-supported option and a paid option, except they charge 10x the rate for the paid option. Yet for some reason, the argument is always that nobody likes paid options or "microtransaction" models when the obvious problem with almost every scheme that companies try is that they always try to markup by like 1000% at a minimum.
I tried this, it didn’t work. It blocks the browser app as a whole instead of specific websites.
Wake me up when they bring back the 3.5mm headphone jack from the 5a. A basic usability feature is missing.
Huh. If this ends up blocking youtube for me entirely, I'll probably be happy.
Microsoft has minted more millionaires among its employees than probably any other company.

I'll let you in on a secret. Regardless of what the official policy is for a company, if you feel you're undervalued, and you're right, you can negotiate the pay you feel you're worth. And if you cannot reach an agreement, there are plenty of other tech companies. In the Seattle area, there's Amazon and Google, for example. You wouldn't even have to move.
This isn't anything most people would care about, but I do some GIS work and if you enjoy the process of taking the Very Obvious To a Human and explaining how to do ... whatever ... to a handful of sand and tamed lightning, well, there's just so many problems to solve.

Just as an example, when you look at land parcels, you often get these irritating slivers (or splinters, even more apt because they are a pain and you have to dig them out) of land. You and I can look at a plot and point one out, but to a computer ...

Well, one of the hallmarks of a splinter is that there's an awful lot of fencing but very little land. Or put another way, a lot of perimeter to area enclosed. Simple division doesn't suffice here, because the end result ought to be a dimensionless number so that scale doesn't interfere. Alright, perimeter squared divided by area. The lowest you can get is a little over twelve, for a circle. A square gets you sixteen. But a splinter might give you a value well over a hundred.

Now, this sounds nice. You've got some values that are no gos (anything under twelve indicates an error), a reasonable bottom limit, a range where a human ought to take a look at it, and then a third range where you just say, "Yeah, that's a splinter alright, no need to bother a human." Sounds good. But then ... Wyoming.

Scale does end up mattering. A parcel that was two feet across and a hundred long has the same "sliver value" as one that is two hundred feet across and ten thousand feet long. Yet the latter is still quite useful. You can run a road through it and tack on some strip malls. So it isn't useless. Okay, so you say "that's great, we'll just set a lower bound on the shortest side, anything bigger than that and you'll have to reconsider."

... but we've assumed that we have handy little rectangles and that we know what the sides are. It's GIS. We have a bag of points tracing the outline of a polygon. It isn't necessarily just four points. Each side might have a bunch of points that are roughly co-linear. You and I can look at it and say "Yeah, that's a rectangle alright," but the computer cannot. And so here I am trying to develop an algorithm to determine how many sides a human would see versus just this list of points. All so I can better define my splinters.

Problems like this abound and they're quite interesting to think about. It's one of my favorite parts of programming and it requires some deep introspection, some meta-cognition: how do I recognize this, anyway? What is going on in my mind that I can do this?
For a framework that is radically different but also PHP-native (since PHP 5), would you like to spend an hour playing with https://github.com/Qbix/Platform ?

If you do, please share your experience in a comment. I’d love to hear it. I architected this framework over the last decade :)
What was the average raise then
Any large company has people in a lot of different economic, lifestyle, and points in their career. But perhaps especially at Microsoft, you have a lot of people who have been there for ages, may well have paid-off houses, have probably made loads of money on Microsoft stock and are pretty comfortable where they are. Of course, they'd rather get a few percent added to their salary. But many people in this category will <shrug> and stay put unless they're actively unhappy. That's a pretty sensible strategy in a lot of circumstances.
Evolution is kind of a web client (like Thunderbird) too, since the message preview pane, including the parts outside the message body, is rendered by WebKit, the HTML for it is generated by evolution. Also the plain text messages go through HTML and WebKit too. Would be nice if these weren't the case though, because they necessarily aren't great for security.
I said the same thing to my SO the first time I tried out ChatGPT.

However, I'm not sure if AI is where I'd draw the boundary for myself at least, as I've had the same lingering feeling from only reading HN comments and seldom writing my own, or consuming BreadTube content for instance.

More often than not, my opinions and thoughts are constructed for me by someone else as opposed to me doing my own critical thinking. Perhaps I'm one of the below-average thinkers for who ChatGPT will be a godsend.
If you are a motivated and hardworking employee in this day and age, you are being scammed.
:shrug: Google gets far too much value out of having a stranglehold on indie video hosting to shut down. I wish other services would take their place to be honest.

But no, they're not going to close down Youtube. Even operating at a loss, Youtube cements a lot of power and influence for Google that they're not going to give up.

I do hope you're right though.
And yet, gay men can be sympathetic to the needs and experiences of trans women.

The LGBT community is, in part, built on bonds of similar experiences of ostracism by the larger society.
I used to refresh nettuts.com obsessively in high-school and Jeffrey Way's PHP content was the highlight.

Sadly the site got a refresh ages ago and is nothing like it used to be.

Anyway, if you're reading this thread, thanks Jeff!
I keep forgetting people still live in countries where people watch broadcast tv.
> It can handle more than 500,000 orders per month

How many seconds in a month? 60 * 60 * 24 * 28 = 2,419,200.

So basically, its performance is at least 0.2 requests a second...
There's javascript in the back. And there's javascript in the front. Curious what you use for application development on the frontend and if you have some recommendations for that?

Thanks in advance!
I'm in the group described halfway down: was on the Internet during PHP 5, lost interest in it, and moved on [to Go]. I haven't written anything in PHP newer than version 5. Even transitioning from 4 to 5 was quite a big deal, I definitely noticed improvements.

But it wasn't enough.

I couldn't fit the data set in memory with PHP. But I could do it with Go.

I couldn't do parallel computations in PHP in order to respond to an HTTP request quickly enough. But I could do it with Go.

I couldn't reliably and easily deploy to different systems with PHP. But I could do it with Go.

Eventually, I couldn't write a web server with PHP. But I could do it with Go.

A lot of my early websites were written in PHP and I was able to build them quickly and routinely. I didn't really have a problem with PHP as a paradigm, or even its security and consistency posture. I'm glad they've since made an actual language spec and fixed a lot of issues with it. And I don't judge or look down on PHP programmers. I just don't think it was the right tool for my jobs.
If you do, consider patching out parts of the image optimization pipeline that strips your color profiles and the EXIF data. The platform isn't really geared towards photography photography or it would hold onto such data.
That's not nitpicking at all. The argument about light-nanoseconds crossing a chip is very common and completely wrong.
No, the point is that we all collectively shit ourselves over COVID, absolutely turning society upside-down. But we shrug at so many other existential threats because they are already by accounted for (like traffic fatalities) or happens to “someone else” (like drug dependency).

COVID was dangerous, and ignoring it completely wasn’t an option. But it is a reasonable rhetorical gambit to wonder why we responded to COVID so aggressively while ignoring other risks and threats.
With the rate of inflation and interest rates going up, salaried workers need a cost of living adjustment at the very least, even if we forget about a bonus or a big pay hike. This decision is unethical to full-time employees seeing the tidy profit they made. It's a clear signal to the employees not to expect any practical reward for hard work, what a great way to motivate people.

This is yet another large and powerful company acting to appease the market so their stock price goes up a bit and the shareholders are rubbing their palms in glee.

Now I'm off to watch "Office Space"
> "Anyone" who has disposable income.

You can buy fractional shares from robinhood.com.

> Not the 58% of Americans who are living paycheck-to-paycheck.

I've known many of them, with a McMansion and his&her new cars in the driveway.

> you know what you call people who buy a stock at its all-time high? Suckers.

You're in luck, MSFT is 20% below its all time high.
This is pretty terrible advice when the job market, even for extremely well qualified and experienced engineers, is less than ideal. If you’re a highly paid engineer I’d suggest holding on to that job for at least another 24 months.
I use https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to fix start menu and taskbar.

Can't imagine using Windows without it.
If you take the slippery slope fallacy too far, you'd never be able to notice trends at all.

Google is like climate change - they keep pushing for more money, and ruining the experience for their users. There's no reason to expect this to stop. It's not a slippery slope.
My state has given Google a truckload of tax breaks to build data centers here while raising my tax rate consistently over the past half decade.

Forgive me if I don’t shed a tear for their hosting costs.
If this isn't a sign that corporations have gone too far, I don't know what is.

Record profits but the producers of the profit will not get living raises.
Specifically Turkmenistan - sure, extremely likely. Turkmenistan is actually relatively west-friendly.
The code snippet is very Laravel, and it does a lot to stop all those attacks with that API.
Can we step back and appreciate both how impressive and how bizarre it is that, in the year 2023, tape media is still somehow the cheapest per byte?
There's nothing wrong with someone pointing out that something is illegal, for example I don't have to be a lawyer to note that stealing a car would violate criminal law. It's reasonable for the OP to note that if they were to invest in that deal, then someone must be breaking the law.

Note also that what you call "self-certification" is just ... it's how things are for everyone? It's not like you can ask the SEC for a piece of paper documenting that you qualify. There are some professional licenses that automatically count, but if you made $210,000 in W-2 income last year there's no report submitted to a central registry of People Allowed To Make Risky Investments.
They're called computer monitors.
What if I told you that the time and effort required to develop and deploy accurate tracking metrics for every employee's individual productivity and the negative externalities that would fall out of openly stratifying worker pay based on these minutiae (worker dissatisfaction, turnover, degraded performance, poor reputation among potential new hires) would outweigh the benefit your marginal increase in motivation and job satisfaction brings to your employer?
Domain Specific Languages are incredibly powerful tools. They make it possible to cover untold numbers of configuration or business rules in a human-editable yet non-ambiguous manner.

They provide an impedance match to a wide variety of information that would otherwise have to be expressed in tons of high maintenance, error prone, boilerplate.

I've been using a pascal like DSL since the 1980s.
"I don't care" is a logic, but it's not... sustainable, right? The current dynamic of some people being of your mind but most people being not that way works, but let me introduce you to the Tragedy of the Commons [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
I dislike YouTube as much as the next person, but do you understand how unreasonable of an ask this is when you are explicitly going into incognito mode? I echo everyone else's sentiment here.
That delete bug doesn't happen for me with current evolution.

The biggest problem I have is the composer window often isn't exactly the same as the sent mail (especially for plain text mail) when it comes to whitespace and quoting. Enabling the Outbox feature is a good workaround as it lets you see the mail before sending it, and you can adjust the mail until it is correct.
> how completely fucked up the world’s economy

Wasn’t economy always effed up that way? I can’t think of a time economy wasn’t driven by corporate greed to make more profit.
Yet another attempt at an industry-wide attempt to limit and drive down salaries.

Keep doing it. What goes down, goes up. And we won't forget.

You need us more than we need you.
> demonetized videos are still eligible for Premium revenue.

Wow, TIL.

So you make more per view for a Premium subscriber. What about in total. What percent of your monthly profit is from Premium viewers vs Ad-watching viewers.
I used to use a custom build script to do deploys (scp a binary onto a monolith server, execute a script; systemd restart www.service, etc). Worked fine for years. It would continue working fine, too.

I moved to Vercel and adopted a fairly serverless approach and leverage edge functions and edge caching where ever possible. It has been wonderful and I don't see myself ever going back to doing things myself. Sure, I could spin up some AWS services and figure it all out myself, but the freedom Vercel has given me has been worth the added cost. As a solo founder it has been amazing.

No more worrying about security, access control, updates, or anything other than my own product and features. I don't care how it works. I don't want to know. I just want to continue improving my product.
You'd be better served by leaving power save mode on all the time (No haptic touch or animated UI) and minimize brightness to extend the intervals between charging.
> I'm simplifying, of course, but trying to understand the issue.

The issue is that media, just like you and me and MSFT, need to make money. Therefore the framing here.
That's why I say "golang".
Who says they are going anywhere? What if work quality just drops?
I'd guess that google is currently the single largest funder of "content" in the world, between adsense on websites and payouts to YouTubers.

They're certainly not getting the content for free. They're running ads against it, and making money on it, but they are also paying for it. It's a relatively small shift in their funding model to pay out to creators for their contributions to an AI model instead of paying out per pageview.
People should have been and to adapt to the need to fight off COVID. 1. Wear a respirator. 2. Live a healthy lifestyle to avoid obesity and chronic health conditions so the body is better and to fight off infection.

See? Being a twat is easy. Actually having a bit of compassion is the hard part.
Memory Allocation
You lost me at WordPress haha...

Ive a lot of love for WP, but I don't really get the appeal of extending it past blogging... if you're doing anything more complicated it's pretty trivial to implement blogging functions in your site.
Do people really give a shit about this?

Let me put it this way, would you rather have joined at Meta a couple years ago where you got small raises or MSFT where you didn't? Hint: Stock price is way better for people who picked MSFT.
While the initial clause may not negate the "shall not be infringed", it obviously, on it's face, modifies it.

The "shall not be infringed" part does not stand on it's own. If it did, the "well regulated militia" part would not have been written.

The claim that these are some kind of absolute, unqualified, unrestricted rights is just wrong on it's face.

The constitutional part of the argument is that — that there is a right, but it is qualified by the well-regulated militia requirements.

The fact that there is no specification of what counts as well-regulated means that we must use our knowledge of the intent of the founders, and of our own reality to make reasonable restrictions.

Since the army of the time was primarily citizen soldiers (the actual army numbering in the hundreds), they would have had some regulations and qualifications. I do not see anywhere that Washington insisted that every deranged village idiot be issued or permitted muskets. We can also use current-day standard military practice, where people qualify, are issued weapons, and have rules about where they can be carried or loaded.

And the original question is based on reasonability - are any even proposed laws actually going to infringe on the ability of a sane, competent, and responsible person to keep and bear arms (and no that does not mean instantly acquire and carry in all situations).
Would people with Covid complications still have died if they had heat?
Thank you, it was extremely unclear to what specific niche of type systems problem domain you were referring to.
Yeah...

OTOH it makes a point that it solves a real problem. A business processing 500k orders a month is not trivial.
Not available in the USA, unfortunately.
Okay. So to go along with your assummptions. Their old employer filled their old positions. It means another group of people who filled their positions benefited (lets call them group B). group B moved up the career chain. It is annoying that group A needs to find jobs again. But we can assume that group A can find better jobs compared to group B. Overall, it is actually better for society that group B has an oppourtunity to move up their career ladder to fill up the previous job of group A. And then group C will be able to fill the previous jobs of group B. It brings down our society wealth gap.
> There is no need to compile anything.

But I really like compilers, they catch a whole class of bugs, before I run things.
> It shouldn't require a 10,000 IQ to think that maybe hiring thousands of more people than you actually need is a bad idea, and if they couldn't see shit like this coming, then what value are they actually bringing to company? Vague truisms and platitudes about how they regret having to uproot peoples' lives?

In what world was it a bad idea for them to hire thousands of people and then fire them? Laying someone off saves tons of costs, and in the meantime, you prevent your competition from utilising those resources. Literally a win-win for them. I say this as someone laid off. I don't understand how this whole trope of 'lay offs are bad for the company that did the laying off' has taken over.

It makes 100% of sense to hire and fire if your competitors are doing it, and you have the money. Microsoft is not suddenly going out of business here.

That's why, as an employee, it's smart to work towards financial independence and just not quite give a whole lot of you know whats. Like when my former boss told me layoffs were expected, that was just a signal that I was going to have way more time to go skiing, which we did.

The main reason so many employees feel like suckers is because they are not as ruthless as their ceos. I changed jobs during the pandemic with the express purpose of maximizing compensation. I made way too much for those years, and when I got laid off, I got free unemployment, free medical, and a free sabbatical. The only ones who were suckers were those who gave their companies loyalty and got laid off anyway. Stop doing that.
FU money definitely used to mean "I can quit and live a great lifestyle", not "I can quit and maybe find another job" in my circles.
What's unintuitive that when one complementary oscillation state is measured in one qparticle, we know the other complementary oscillation state in the other qparticle?

"Influence at distance" is different than "shows information about distant particles".
You're really downplaying the agency of people who accepted these jobs and their own risk analyses.

Selling your house and moving for a job in a clearly ridiculous job market is going all in on a gamble. Much moreso than nadella did
Me too. Some kind of weird Frankenstein of Go mixed with PHP.
Is there any way I could add this line to my uBlock Origin chrome extension?
Additional perspective. I was in the loop at school before tech took over. Despite being the type that keeps in touch I’ve mostly lost contact with everyone from high school. Once folks start families etc it’s game over.

Have some good memories but all in all that time could have been spent more productively in hindsight.
Slight tangent: what is the current favorite tool to inject CSS into web pages in our browser?

Greasemonkey/ Tampermonkey ?
Right. I am not a lawyer (writer here), but read this page (as called out in the article) about Rule 506(c).

https://www.sec.gov/education/smallbusiness/exemptofferings/...

The requirement they seem to follow is: "all purchasers in the offering are accredited investors and the issuer takes reasonable steps to verify purchasers’ accredited investor status"

Purism argues that everyone must be an accredited investor; but they state they take no steps to verify anyone. They even say that it is impossible to comply with the law ("since there is no way for Purism to validate your accredited investor status"). Well, what is it then? Are they securities or not? If they aren't securities, why the accredited investor requirement? Are you instead going under Rule 504, which seems to prohibit anything publicly offered? If 504 doesn't work and you are ignoring a requirement for 506, is there some other section, or is it just (arguably) flat-out illegal?

It doesn't take a lawyer to say that something's fishy. While the law is probably fuzzy on what that verification requires, Purism could at least just call people on the phone, and say, "hey, we need accredited investors, are you one? Do you fully understand what this means and what your obligations are?" And record the response for legal purposes.
A signal of they having skipped history class.
As a possible counterpoint to LLMs atrophying writing, in order to have fun on Character.AI, and tease out nuances with various GPTs, I've had to dust off my ability to write/think. I notice a lot more verbal reasoning going on in my mind after these weeks of back-and-forthing.
I must admit I skimmed it but I got no suggestion of bad health, only a description of graceful ageing.

What activities would be better? He eats well, exercises and has a social life; sounds pretty good to me?