skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It can do it "better" by creating huge amounts of damage to the biosphere and the people consuming the food. Generating large amounts of unhealthy garbage is not a desirable goal.

You're the one whose mind is trapped in a prison.

> By your logic, we should direct all food production resources toward industrial Soylent factories and nothing else.

You keep making these huge leaps of logic. I'm saying that given two ways to achieve the same thing, I want the cheaper, and more environmentally friendly way to do it, which is large scale production.

> How do you tax community service, or a neighborhood food forest? That sounds completely nuts and dystopian.

If your labour is a donation to the public it wouldn't need to be taxed. But the reason we focus on payroll taxes is because it's the majority of work and it's easy to track. If everyone lived outside the system we would need to find a new way to tax people.

> So... an IRS truck comes by to collect zucchini and tomatoes? lmao

If no one is working a w2 job, then yeah.

> Maybe you ought to consider that we could abandon capitalism and structure society to eliminate poverty altogether instead of faffing about with taxes? It seems you're more concerned with spreadsheets than actually improving the lives of humans.

You're in this system now. I have about as much sympathy for you as I do a libertarian that commits tax evasion because he believes taxes are theft.
> If his self-promotion is on topic when he posts it, as it was here, I don't really see what the issue is supposed to be.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about his promotion.

Look at almost every regular poster on HN - they all have more than one type of comment. GP has only one type of comment (his project).

I dunno if it is really healthy to obsess over only a single thing, especially (IIRC) GP made a HN post some time back about burnout.
Many people posting on the internet have this strange idea that American law is opaque and difficult to understand, but in general it's actually pretty accessible. If you can read software, you can read American legal documents.

The reason lawyers get paid so much is that if you're doing something that is right on the boundary[0] then the difference between legal and illegal might be extremely fuzzy, and also worth a lot of money, so it's worth paying someone $1000 an hour to write a long brief in your local judge's preferred WordPerfect template about why what you're doing is OK.

On the other hand, the SEC website linked by OP just has a checklist of Accredited Investor qualifications, and it's possible to read them. Do you have a salary of $300,000? You qualify. Did you make $195,000? Well, that's less than $200,000 so unless one of the other checkboxes matches, you're out of luck[1].

[0] Maybe it's illegal by the letter of the law but you think it shouldn't be, like ride-sharing in locations with taxi regulations. Or maybe it's not illegal but might be viewed with extreme skepticism by regulators, like offering a non-fraudy Bitcoin exchange. In both of those cases, there's an easy solution (just don't do the maybe-illegal thing) that is accessible to the layman.

[1] Maybe you can hire a lawyer and/or CPA to get your $6000 of undeclared dog-walking income counted for the purposes of Accredited Investor qualification, but is it really worth the hassle?
My personal take: Microsoft isn't facing the same wage competition it used to, so doesn't have to increase wages.
Oh, shit. This sounds like a non-financial person (an engineer?) acting out of desperation, trying to plug a financial hole. Without realizing that they are breaking very serious securities rules, and SEC will be in their full right to shut the entire business down.

I wish they would talk to a good accountant first. I believe they have good intentions, but this could cost them more than they think.
Yes, it is. You’re right. That’s how bean counters and HR and sr management see it: what’s the absolute minimum we can pay our people.

Wiser outfits stay above that fray and compensate commensurate with employee expectations too. If you’re not getting a CoL or inflationary increase, you’re getting a pay cut. Plain and simple.

AI writing all the code for companies isn’t here yet, so I think for now they’d be wiser to keep devs happy. Especially if they’re flush with cash.
It's fun to see the lengths people go to avoid writing javascript
Whats preventing datacenters from using free solar energy? Once you produce your own clean power, electricity price becomes irrelevant.
The Monorepo Question
Wages are always stagnant for existing employees. So it creates an incentive to job hop. Has been the case for the past decade, probably even longer.
I pay the content creator, if I don't want him to go away: liberapay or Patreon

Otherwise I am already paying a fee for public broadcasters of my country.

I probably bought a product, because almost every company does ads.
This means I pay for YouTube, I pay for GMail, I pay for Android, I pay for GDocs, etc. although I don't even want to use it.

I'd rather had Android died in favor of Windows Phone
I worked for a company and we used the PHP ORM Propel. So in theory no SQL injections you would think, WRONG.

We used a function like findOne() (I don't recall exactly). It looked like this:

$resetTokens->findOne($GET['password-reset-token']);

The issue was that findOne would accept wildcards, so one could use ?password-reset-token=% in the URL and reset the password of any random users.
That kind of attitude leads to user blaming. I have fond memories of the workgroup network scan freezing my computer for extended durations in the xp days
Lots of laws are bullshit. They still send you to prison for breaking them though.
It’s kind of odd to think it’s NEVER correct for a company to do layoffs. The CEOs job is to run the company - if the company is more efficient why shouldn’t the CEO be rewarded? Their job is to run the company not never fire anyone.
I can offer my sample size of 1. It was 12.4%. L4. "Outstanding" rating.
I did make the SV (especially YC) VC funding distinction. Biotech has long been funded by VC money and while not perfect it worked better than what is happening now. I was particularly a fan of 3rd Rock ventures, their investments all followed (in my opinion) the most scientifically sound ideas.
Saudex
But stock grants at MSFT are much smaller than stock grants at Meta. So unclear who made out better.
For what it's worth, the same thing happened to me 18 years ago. Pull-out car radios (remember those?!) were practically mandatory for a time. SF has always been a den of smash and grab thieves.
…?

In these neighborhoods a 1bd condo would still sell for above $800k, minimum. More than likely $1.2-1.5m, looking at Zillow. They’d rent for at least $7k/mo.

If we’re generalizing, like you are, then they’d allow the well-off professional class to live and work in their neighborhood and send their kids to the same schools as the investor-class and trust fund kids-turned-homeowners who haven’t done anything in decades other than be born to the right family.

Unless you’re talking about white-collar convicted felons? Which I can guarantee you, once again, they already live in these neighborhoods and aren’t the ones trying to move into it.

If that sounds like hyperbole, then sure— but so is yours.
It's certainly rough for juniors but, anecdotally, a solid MSFT senior or above should not have any trouble in the current market. Demand for good talent is high at many companies paying more (liquid) than MSFT e.g. Block.
Here's the discussion thread on GitHub regarding Windows 11 compatibility:

https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/discussions/74...

TL;DR - it's mostly working with some outstanding bugs and some users giving workarounds in that thread
Can I ask what you would "easily" do after you "send the data to Python"? What Python framework would you use to easily build interactive real-time streaming data apps?

I'm asking because I work on Shiny, a reactive web framework for Python (and R) that aims to solve this problem well, and I'm having trouble figuring out how Python people have been doing this sort of thing. It's straightforward with a lower-level web framework like Flask/FastAPI but then you lose the nice reactive properties of something like Stipple.jl (and Shiny).
Microsoft is a cancer and has been since the 80s. Time for the younger generation to learn that. Seems they’ve been drinking the PR kool-aid the last few years and believing it.

Time for some chemo/radio therapy. :-D
Coming from Rails, how does Laravel compares? If you know both languages, which one would you pick? I've this hunch that there's no reason to lick Laravel over Rails, since that latter is the bees and knees for web development.

Alternatively: what would you suggest someone getting into web development to learn? PHP or Ruby?
More than a stretch - there’s almost 200k residential properties in SF alone. 7k across the whole Bay Area is tiny no matter how you slice it. Just curious, but does this change your original opinion at all?
Interestingly enough, you can reverse this statement: "when you gain the ability to write, you gain the ability to think" - and in part gain some insight into how LLMs seem to suddenly have "emergent" behaviour to perform quite impressive feats of logic.
"YouTube premium perfectly showcases why ads dominate the internet, because even when there is a paid option for a service much cheaper than any alternative, people do not want to pay (And I am not talking about too broke to pay cases)."

If this is true, and I have long believed it is, then the following, from the article, is a lie:

"It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Ads allow YouTube to stay free for billions of users worldwide," the message adds.

If YouTube does not "stay free" then it shrinks to a small fraction of its current size.

So-called "tech" companies know users will not pay. This is not surprising since so much of the "content", none of which the "tech" company produces, is garbage. The stuff that goes "viral", that generates the most ad revenue, is not stuff people are going to pay for.

Either the "tech" company's website/app is free and a Trojan Horse by which its users can be spied on, or the "tech" business model isn't worth much of anything. Like someone said, "You are the product." Not the stuff uploaded by so-called "creators", YouTube's unpaid workforce.

"Ads allow YouTube to stay free for billions of users worldwide."

YouTube has to be free or it won't be able to continue operation. It's wonderful experiment, all this uploaded video, if we ignore all the surveillance Google is conducting and all propaganda and worse videos Google is forcibly putting in front of people, but this is not something many people with pay for. YouTube cannot convert "billions of users wordlwide" into paying subscribers.
You don't need to "arrive" at an interpretation. Their name is legacy from when they were "open".
My fear is that more companies will follow suit.
> Samsung, OnePlus,

Blame bad Samsung fab. Things like the Qualcomm 888 chipset were notorious for overheating like crazy requiring throttling (used in both Samsung and some Oneplus devices). Need TSMC. Apple had issues all the way back to like 6S era when they sourced from both and the TSMC ones just ran better.

You can override it with a custom rom and messing with EFS on those devices but it's already flirting with battery dangerous temps doing gaming. Better to buy TSMC or strap an icepack to the phone lol.
You’re not forced to have it on the 3 computers you do have it on, so saying you don’t want it elsewhere isn’t an assumption anyone can make. I doubt the developer has you specifically in mind when they developed this, though.
Actually, I think this problem is going to be solved easily with GPT, since it writes really concise and performant code.
Using LLMs to generate scripts is so much more efficient and will make this bloat problem fade away.

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AdonisJS a Laravel Equivalent for JavaScript
Outside of the ads group the majority of Google’s rest and vest workforce delivers little shareholder value
> In what world was it a bad idea for them to hire thousands of people and then fire them?

I guess I made the mistake of believing them when they said that they “regret this decision”, and assuming a human level of empathy.
Caveat: this is not, in fact, an implementation or enablement of Windows in Svelte!
On #8... what's the new book about? I'd probably read anything you wrote but super curious.
TC should have been over 200 w/ stock unless you're straight out of college.
I would be happy to never make another recurring purchase ever again. Bill me for actual usage, like a utility, but subscriptions for everything sucks.
> It’ll be a generation before people can once again admit there is a difference between men and women. If we admit men and women are different its the same a direct attack on much of the LGBT community.

As phrased its…not, though.

Each of the L, G, B, and T (well, perhaps not the B in all cases) relies pretty centrally on there being a difference between men and women.

(Now, if you were to say, “‘men’ and ‘women’ are defined by gender externally ascribed on the basis of (at least notionally) immutable non-identity characteristics”, then that’s a different story, but that’s a lot different than “there are differences between men and women”.)
It's not. It serves as a counterbalance to much lighter reporting/auditing requirements for private vs. public companies.

It's way easier for a private company to do some creative accounting and do away with your money without committing a criminally punishable offence. The idea is that if you have $1M in assets, you can tolerate that risk (or do your own due diligence), but if your entire life savings is something like $50K, don't give them to that sleazy guy on the phone that isn't independently audited or banned from pump-and-dumping his own stock.
This is literally what everyone else has been living outside of silicon valley for decades. Shitty raises, no raises, pay cuts or raises that don't keep up with inflation. This has literally always been the reply reality of the average American worker.
If you are puzzled by weird economic positions of people don't read the threads about SVB's collapse.
And a deep or wide, or preferably both, market. Without this last ingredient, all you have is a hobby project.
I would presume that any existing TPUs in Google Cloud were already doing something for Google or its tenants.
This. Zone 2 is where its at.
There's literally thousands of other employers out there desperate for good tech people.
I remember that meeting. It was the one where we all wore togas and drank the java kool aid from goblets before we voted on that. All 5,000,000 of us.
No, because the broader point still stands that many properties are owned by investors. Also, 7k is the number of parcels, which can include apartment buildings containing hundreds of units counted as a single parcel.
I am afraid that I cannot find the spot where I said they should never do layoffs.

I just don’t think they should be gambling with human lives.
Losses are unethical
Purism has thought of this and offers an "anti-interdiction" service to counter it [0]. This includes tamper evident seals and glitter paint on the screws (for laptops).

[0] https://puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-services/
> 20 lbs of upper body muscle mass will kill your long distance running times.

So will 20 lbs of lower muscle mass which I can gain through...you guessed it, running.
They also spent $4.973B on stock buybacks this quarter, and slightly more last quarter.
There is http://endless.horse/ btw.
YMMV may vary a lot with LineageOS, unfortunately.

I was a big fan, but:

- Nexus 5X support was terminated

- Pixel 1 support is broken; the device used to reset daily (works fine with the original OS)

- They have at least one serious open issue (GPS not functioning, although it can be worked around)

In the end, I had to buy a new phone, that is officially supported. I still donate, but I don't hold my hopes high anymore, anytime that a device gets out of official support.
Dengue is such a virus: repeated infections get worse.
The file is not in tabular format; that’s why I wanted Bard help, to process a highly irregular file. I was hoping to produce a tabular format.
We're talking about Booster doses now -- not the initial vaccine push. The sentiment in the US changed somewhere in late 2021 and weirdo antivax grifters started gaining prominence so our booster rate dropped off a cliff;

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

Which neatly lines up with our already high Covid death rate diverging further from the EU's:

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

So yeah, the US CDC is pushing for more boosters!

Vaccines are one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind and we're so starved of common sense that innumerate people spend their energy convincing others to not take them based on things they don't remotely understand. It's absolutely insane.
> it's typed (now)

To note, you'll need strict mode for type hints to be useful.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.declarations.ph...

The fun part is, instead of going for a generic strict mode system we would have expected, PHP went pragmatic: as most application won't be 100% strict typed, you need to declare it file by file, the icing on the cake being that the restriction applies on the caller of the functions, not the function itself.

It makes for complicated situations, where for instance you can make an utility class that is 100% typed and follows strict typing, but if the caller of your class isn't, none of it will matter and types will be fuzzily coerced anyway.
How about something like me@firstlast.com?
I've seen these "reasonable steps" devolve to requiring the purchaser to explicitly state that they qualify in a legal document (contract).
there's a difference between temporary feature flags which eventually go away and permanent ones. say you build a new feature that has some overlap with an existing feature flagged one, and you unify some of the UI for it. now you have to always check what the UI looks like with one feature flag, with both, with none. as time goes on this gets worse, and maybe 3 or more features start overlapping in some way. If you're just using feature flags for A/B tests, this is manageable, but over time it can get really messy.
It's more about reusing existing Python libraries, but yeah, that too.
From the title, I thought someone implemented PHP in go. facepalm
Wages are a function of the supply and demand for labor. If the business loses money the employees don't have to chip in money to make up the loss, but on the flip side they don't share in profits.
I don't know that's a fair characterization of risk profiles.

As an employee you're still taking a risk at the company. It falls over you are out 100% of your pay + your health benefits. As an employee I absolutely take this risk into account when evaluating an employer.

Shareholders sometimes take a similar risk, but are often reasonably insulated from major downside via financial mechanisms of varying complexity, from index funds to complex options contracts.
What? YT Premium doesn’t block ads on the TV apps? Really? If that’s true, they will never see a cent from me. I was on the fence, mainly since my usage varies a lot month to month in rather unpredictable ways. If YT Premium means I still see ads on the 65” screen, then no way no how.
“one out of N times” where N is < 2
And static typing, and linting, and code analysis, and security checks, and .. these pipelines are long nowadays

Oh and the garantiert that no one can modify it post the compile step.
What auth do you use? Why?
For example, Sign up/Login with Google/Apple etc, magic links, and/or one time passcodes.
Most of these people are not lauded as business geniuses and are not in charge of 2 trillion dollar companies.

ETA:

I would like to point out that I feel like your point would be more valid if Microsoft were a startup or something. However, I think a lot of people joining assumed that it was a stable company and as such their job would likely be more stable than where they were coming from.
And do these “thousand of employees” pay what Microsoft is paying?
No. The ones that have a 1200 day lead time are the normal ones made in China. The "assembled in the USA" ones have a 10-day lead time (and a $2000 price tag).
Working for a Midwest dialup isp in the early 2000s, we definitely served some of our smaller POPs with PTP wireless backbones, thanks in part to vast expanses of flat land with fairly tall structures dotted throughout.
Interesting, I thought this was just a glitch of me. I think I have the same issue. Whereas other people seem to hear each other well in busy environments, it takes me much effort to focus and retrieve the person talking from all the other noise. The volume levels are fine, I'm just having trouble focusing and extracting the specific person I want to hear.

Now I also have some issue that eustachian tube gets a bit clogged up or something, because I react more than usual to small air particles. I can usually fix that by blowing while keeping my nose and mouth shut - but the issue above still remains in some form.
There are tlds which will get discontinued.
Never should have left. My wired IEMs never asked for a firmware update, asked me to install an app, weren’t flaky like Bluetooth, and never stopped working because battery ran out. If you get a thick. braided detachable cable, it’s a) easy to buy a new cable in the event of a short or other wear (versus throwing the whole unit out when the battery dies or expands) and b) doesn’t tangle (which seems to be a lot of folks’ biggest concern).
We're now at Laravel 10. Take a look at the Laravel Bootcamp for a quick intro https://bootcamp.laravel.com/
I agree that vaccines are probably the single biggest achievement in the history of science. But refusal to be vaccinated is a lot more nuanced than simply anti-vax lies. For example, the lower rate among Black Americans can be directly traced to medical experimentation and a distrust of governmental edicts, which is entirely fair considering the history.
I am not a lawyer, but I am apparently an "accredited investor". I have, multiple times, had to pay my accountant to generate a document where he attests that I meet the criteria to be considered an accredited investor so that I could invest in some startup. Easiest money my accountant ever makes. And the effort for the startup/founders is "sorry, we can't send you a term sheet until we get a certification of your accredited investor status from a licensed tax professional. We hope you understand". For Purism to claim it's impossible to do this is demonstrably bullshit.
(I did say "generally speaking...")

There are some companies that are "unlikely to fail" in the sense that their stock price falls to zero. I would agree that Microsoft likely falls into that category.

But really large companies have "failed" in very short time. Usually as the result of some sort of illegal activity. WorldCom being the obvious example here. (A place where employees were "strongly encouraged" to buy their own stock.)

Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and others have also been "too big to fail" - yet failed.

The fact that these events are relatively uncommon (for the very large) doesn't negate their impact. Equally less-large companies fail all the time, and so if you work for something a bit smaller it's a prudent strategy to invest you time in one place, and your assets elsewhere.
It's not, FireFox or ReVanced does the trick
I think you two are comparing different numbers.

You are discussing how much money content creators get paid for impressions.

The other person is discussing how much advertisers spend to for impressions.

In the middle is Google, which has it's own costs. If you are going to pay Google to not show you ads it makes more sense to base that off of the amount of revenue it would have generated from advertisers instead of the amount of revenue it pays to content creators on your behalf.