skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You could also just become a plumber and probably make $300k a year[i] (~150$/hour).

...how many plumbers do you personally know? The reason everyone in this thread is pushing back against this is because the suggestion is ludicrous. It doesn't make sense in terms of market dynamics - the barrier to becoming a plumber is significantly lower than the barrier to becoming a software engineer. That's not intended to demean the profession, it's just true - you do not necessarily need any education (and the profession embraces this far more than tech does, which is itself progressive on that point) and requisite domain knowledge is not as extensive or as rapidly changing as software engineering. You need technical knowledge, but unless you're taking the most complex plumbing jobs and the most mundane engineering work, they're simply not comparable.

Some plumbers do well, particularly if they own their own business and are thereby successful entrepreneurs. But you can't judge the typical outcome of a professional career by the entrepreneurs who use it as a basis for their business. The modal plumber doesn't earn anything resembling $300k/year - according to the BLS, there isn't a single state where the average is even $100k.[1] Where are you getting your data, from how much they're billing you when you have someone fix a problem in your house?

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1. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/plumbers...
My plumber charges me $80/hr in the bay area. Now that's ~50% above the poverty line, but it's >2x the median wage around me.
Anything can be an addiction.
> They lend out to groups within a village, and then if any one member of the group fails to repay the loan, the group can't access more capital.

That reminds me of those loan systems where you need to send naked pictures of yourself as a collateral, and that seemed to become popular in China (at least according to Western media).

https://qz.com/707770/chinas-college-students-are-using-nude...
Yeah, it'll be basically the same as pop-ups: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/chrome-adblocker

And the standards for what is considered "disruptive" are here: https://www.betterads.org/standards/
Until there are better integrated controls for deciding which arbitrary code blobs run on your computer, a large majority of people using adblockers will continue to do so despite Google's efforts.
My takeaway from my thus far limited experience practicing mindfulness meditation is that (at least that particular form of meditation) it is not about suppressing thoughts. It's not about actively quieting the mind. Rather, it's about becoming an observer of the thoughts in your mind, rather than the active participant you usually are. You view your thoughts as if they were just another sense from the external world. i.e. you become a passive observer.

So, at least mindfulness meditation, is passive. And that's a rather popular form of meditation these days. It may have the same effects the article discusses, as a result.

(NOTE: The focus on breath during mindfulness training is temporary, and is really just a technique to get you to A) relax and B) begin to focus on the present and sensations you don't normally observe).
Plenty of people are doing legitimate things in this space. One need only look. Legitimate NON-currency (token or integrity) applications abound.

In a very real sense, github was an early blockchain startup. Do you type "sigh" on an internet forum when people talk about github?
> Half of that is stock, annually

Ah ha. I read it as saying people getting 300k in cash. It makes more sense now. For me, I'll have to wait out several years until my RSU gets fully vested. Let's hope I don't get fired in the meantime :)
Years ago the company I worked for set up subscriptions and we used chargify.

https://www.chargify.com

worked well enough and was pretty straight forward to set up for a couple of developers. We also wanted to set up one time payments (later), it wasn't a good fit for non-subscription billing. I think the back end charging was handled by braintree.
> a magic thing with no measurable properties that makes us oh-so-different than a crude material object

No, qualia/awareness is not magical, it's prima facie undeniable, we are aware of things, and we have an experience of the world. In fact, consciousness is more fundamental than everything else we know about the world, because all else we know is known by awareness. That scientific paper you read? You were aware of it. Bacteria under the microscope? You had an experience of seeing.

It's the very definition of the hard problem. How does biology lead to awareness? We have strong evidence they're related (sleep, scotomas, mental disease, drugs, etc etc etc), but we have yet to pinpoint the connection.

As for the philosophical zombie being "rot", consciousness neuroscientists have already debated if it were actually possible, and if so, detectable. We already know about a phenomenon called blindsight for vision, where you can perform visual tasks but have no experience of seeing; how do we know there's not some frontal lesion that could wipe out or reduces your awareness, but leave your other faculties mostly intact?
> The first four digits of the paper's number tells you the month and year it was first published.

I think "published" should be "submitted" there. (I suppose that one could argue for regarding submission to the arXiv as publication, especially given the presence of overlay journals—but probably that's not what you meant.)
Talk to AWS support and see if you can negotiate it down, explain the situation and they might be able to cut you a break so that you don't have to shut everything down. You have nothing to lose here, make sure you've at least attempted this first.
Great feedback and advice from VCs and peers! It never seems to amaze me that after a single conversation, it can change what you should be focusing on for your startup. Also, a great way to get a foothold in the valley if you're outside SF.

#FirstCohortAttendee
suid programs and the installer is de-facto such a beast should not be written if one can avoid it. Providing users with sufficient powerful APIs and installing software on a per user level is one way to avoid this mess. Another is to delegate installation to the operating system and not rolling your own. Anyone else messing up this way may be able to point to Microsoft. Now those folks at Skype are here in a bit a pickle.
Secure Programming Practices in C++ – NDC Security 2018
They pulled it off effectively with the personal computer of the early 90s.

Edit: Unwittingly.
In the near future article on HN frontpage: "large Chinese bot network to notify Google of dangerous site to hire".

You want your competitor site to be down, our 100,000 strong unique IP addresses bot network will take 2 weeks to notify Google of a harmful website. Just give us an URL of your competitor and wire us $10,000 and watch them being wiped out of the net! Guaranteed!
Facebook has turned into a platform to spam you with ads no wonder their losing marketshare
How Hidden Social Contexts Influence Your Genetics
> But no way to give the coworker $200 to fix her car; $35 for gas; $100 till next oay; or one year of Uber so they dont spend 1.5 hrs pay to from work.

Why don't you do it?
Better advice: Go to where they actually care about what you're doing, if you can. Otherwise, put effort into what you're doing, but don't go overboard, and absolutely never work overtime.
Show HN: Kutt.it – Modern URL Shortener
Users lose because "legit" advertising is still toxic. Want some low-tar cigarettes?
yeah I take issue with the way the stats are presented in this article, and I hoped that more people would be saying it in the comments. a smaller share doesn't directly mean smaller usage, it might as well mean bigger usage of services (which we know increased) while p2p remained constant. the fact that it hasn't grown with the rest of the internet doesn't mean that it isn't as big as it used to be
And this blog post is a brilliant metaphor for why I stopped clicking amp links a long time ago.

A much larger than necessary header that bounces up and down as you scroll, with a insanely massive related articles sticky footer.

AMP is a scourge on the web and now they want to extend the plague to email? Please Google, just leave email alone.
In this specific case, Cloudflare crowdsourced prior art research on Blackbird's patents:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-jengo/

Not exactly the same as a generic pool, but still a neat way to fight back against these trolls.
This book seems to strike a tone of unobtrusive enablement much like what I received

I think this works because of the unobtrusive part. Obtrusive enablement, or the protection from natural consequences, can stunt growth just as much as over-parenting.

You definitely want to protect your kids from mistakes that can end with them in jail or dead, but letting them skin their knees or suffer the consequences of being rude to peers allows them to feel the weight of their autonomy.
Thank you so much for the illustrator plugin work! It was the first thing I thought of after reading and the reason I clicked on it in the first place. I wish you the best with it, if you ever need beta testers or if there's a way you need help I'd love to. (I run CC 18 on a Windows 10 64bit install).
I guess this is because in German law the central concept here is not the contract, but the Rechtsgeschäft, which is a broader term:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechtsgesch%C3%A4ft
Sounds like you'd be interested in: https://contributor.google.com/v/beta
How should we tackle the loneliness epidemic?
Ratio between image sides is 1.25 meaning that it is likely the scans came either from 6x7 (cm) medium format slides or more probably from the 4x5 (inch, or larger) large format slides.
I like the trend towards tools like this helping with the software engineering hiring process. I know that these things can be points of contention in the community, but in general the problem of reducing the time commitment from the hiring team while still providing the candidate with a low-friction experience that produces a meaningful expression of capability isn't going away any time soon.
yes, it shouldn't be legal. EU single market and all that.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-4781_en.htm
The fact that real Googlers post here eliminates the need for PR to post. Google employees are participants willing supporting Google in exchange for money so they are incentivized to post only good things about Google or risk violating policy/getting fired. They are even incentivized to scrutinize every negative post about Google because it's an attack on their livelihood and moral choices (whether or not to continue working there).

I'm not suggesting the dead post's particular case is true. I'm just pointing out that it's a company's dream to have engineers voluntarily spending time on a forum like this where they have identified themselves as employees. They are implicitly doing PR for free.
Physicists extend stochastic thermodynamics deeper into quantum territory
We do not spend any money on advertising. We only do direct sales and content marketing.

We had our first 10 subscribers with direct sales.
I know that you need multiple implementation of a proposed standard to make it a standard. What I was trying to (and failed to) convey is that you don’t need multiple implementations of a thing, as in SQLite itself, to let that become the standard because it’s mostly already compliant with SQL, the standard.

Anyway, there are multiple implementations of SQLite itself. It’s been implemented in JavaScript and .NET and Java as well I believe.
Well, laughing is behavior, and I'm sure there are secondary motor cortices that could force that when stimulated.

But what you're really asking is, would we experience mirth or humor if stimulated. And we know that's true, at least for memories. Certain hippocampal stimulations elicit associated memories.

The problem is not whether biology is related to consciousness (it is), but how?
Hey! Sorry the site isn't rendering properly :'( Can you let us know what browser/OS version you're on?
Wouldn't that "picture of your friend with a soda bottle" be considered a violation of the property rights of whoever took that picture? (lets leave alone the idea that the ad insertion violates the viewer's rights to unadulterated content - that could potentially be waived as a part of the EULA/TOS).
Yeah, I was super confused when I read that too... Maybe it's some session_start() stuff...but I can't remember the last time I used that function, since most modern frameworks will handle session stuff for you.
Does anyone with a photographic bent know what the modern equivalent of Kodachrome would be? (Stable, archival quality, rich color reproduction, and digitizes well)
In my experience its a tough sell. We deliver results, but people don‘t like the idea that what they are doing is (gasp!) pedestrian.
ZFS is not really a 128 bit filesystem, it is merely a 64 bit filesystem that is "128 bit ready". I.e. the on disk format is 128 bit, the kernel drivers are not. At least, they were not until Oracle bought Sun, that's about the last time I really cared about ZFS.
In six months OP will likely have exhausted their reservoir of friends willing to subscribe to their startup, then the hard part starts.
> Which is another reason not to use regional licensing going forward, and pass laws to disfavor it in general

I'm curious what your proposed legislation would be. Just outlaw exclusive licensing? Would you prohibit vertical integration between content producers and distributors or just force vertically integrated companies to license content to competing distributors?

How about a distributor that has an inherent market advantage and so can bid higher on the rights than other distributors? Would that be allowed? Or would you require producers to charge some lowest common denominator fee so that you can't create releases that are effectively exclusive?

I just can't imagine how you would ever effectively police this without taking away a lot of free market rights from participants.

BTW, just so it's clear, I fully support the current EU Digital Single Market rules that try to enforce the fact that you should be allowed to watch your content while you are traveling. I think that's much easier on all sides of the equation because you're not forcing anyone to make additional deals that they don't want to make (i.e. distributing content to other companies when they want it to be exclusive). I just think it's a big step from that to actually legislating away exclusive distribution deals.
Don't focus on Bitcoin; focus on the general idea of cryptocurrencies: international, fast, secure, decentralized. That idea is magnitudes of order way more difficult to implement than a banking platform built on top of preexisting infrastructure.
Technologists should study ethics and abide by a code not because technology is required, but because it's pervasive and often hidden.
Well, we are used to the kind you spoke of already. Soda, fastfood and car brands are mentioned in films and music videos. But if some Javascript adds a soda bottle to my friend’s picture, I can see that as a potential violation (if you use facebook, you would probably get a “You and Bob have friends for ten years now” greeting slideshow... made by facebook with effects. But I haven’t heard anyone sueing FB yet).
How HSN Launched 450+ App Messaging Campaigns in One Year
Not just your coworkers today, "future you" as well.

I've known of or read the situation where someone opens some old code, thinks "Who wrote this hot garbage?", and then realizes it was them.
Lottery winner asking a judge to let her keep the cash and remain anonymous
This is absolutely brilliant. I have been looking for a way into an understanding of learning within biological neural nets. I dont suppose there is source code around?
Tor Browser.

The page just reads "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."
I feel like I had a lot of control in my childhood, because I actively resisted structure. With that said, even that structure wouldn't have helped much - I'm still a failure compared to most of the HN crowd (no Harker/Exeter/Andover, no Stanford/Harvard/MIT/Cal, no Google/FB/Pinterest).
Maybe, I read a lot of books and used to have a lot of books around but these days we mostly use kindle.
Gusto Went for Women Engineers:  How It Worked Out
I think since the UK left, it's actually all of them?
My computer logs out after 15 minutes, and I really like it. It makes me plan more. I've been thinking of getting a cel phone battery that only lasts for 15 minutes too. By "me" I really mean "kids".
> Unless you agree not to do that in the terms of service.

Are such agreements enforceable?
Consciousness is real because we experience it.

Is illusion real because we experience it?

It seems highly plausible that consciousness plays some functional role in the human brain, the understanding of which could be useful for medicine and AI.

Evolution produces things which aren't "useful" all the time. Examples: That dimple above your upper lip. The blind spot. The human coccyx...

The existence of consciousness as one kind of phenomenon or another has profound implications for our understanding of it, disproving some hypotheses and suggesting new ones.

[citation needed]
How does it work? Can I use an Android app to send money? Do I just enter the recipient's mobile phone number or is there something else that identifies the recipient?
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16349031
> Again, I don't see the problem here. As you said, EasyList is free and open. It seems like your objection is just that you don't like the way its being used?

Not really my objection, I just wonder if it's the objection of the people putting in the work on those lists. I personally don't think it's a big issue.

> I'd actually consider this a huge win. Everyone gets it by default (though you can turn it off in settings if you want), and it works on mobile, which doesn't currently allow extensions. What's your actual concern here?

A bigger win would be to allow mobile extensions. It's strange to use a decision Google makes as a reason Google has to do something this way instead, ha. That it's on by default makes those of us on the non-user side of the web wary of the slippery slope of browsers not being neutral about what is shown to our users.

> I don't see a problem with that. If you as a user don't want your user agent behaving that way, you can either tell it to stop (chrome://settings/content) or get yourself a new user agent.

I'm more concerned with the site developer side than the user side. If something ships to millions of users and begins to exercise non-neutral control over content, you should become concerned. It's like TVs constantly updating a list of shows they won't allow to be shown on their TV. You might tell a user to go change the settings of the TV, but as a someone making the video, would you not be concerned? Or glasses that limit some of what you get to see by default, or headphones that disable some of what you get to hear by default, or cars that don't allow you to enter some areas by default, etc. I hope it's clear that conduits like these need to remain neutral.
What are you talking about?

You're saying that theoretically, because there may be worse exploits from advanced actors that can target you for visiting a website, you shouldn't worry about basic security and whitelisting?

Do you not lock your door at night, either, just because someone could smash through your windows?
Genuinely curious: How would you programmatically identify "battery-draining junk code"?

Also, what is your threshold for 'bandwidth-hogging' videos and GIFs? Do you trust content-lengths from the server?
That's one thing that, in hindsight, I quite liked about undergrad CS at Georgia Tech. CS4001, Computer Ethics, was required.

It didn't try to push a specific worldview, but rather asked people to consider the ramifications of technical (and business) decisions, to discuss them, and to recognize the stakeholders beyond just the company paying. At the time I went through it, DRM was a big topic, and big data concerns were beginning to be (especially as noted that the problem was more than just what you stored, it was what -everyone- stored, and the ability to correlate it; you had to consider what else was out there). I imagine the latter now dwarfs the former.
There were two jobs I was curious about that sent me to hackerrank.com with a six hour test and a twenty four hour test, respectively, in Amsterdam and Barcelona.
Do you have a mobile phone factory that would be willing to give up their BSP/SDK/ROM source code for a ~$40 android phone? The last time I checked on alibaba no OEM/ODMs were willing to do this yet but it seems like it's going to happen soon.
PayPal froze my account a few years ago for "suspicious activity". I still don't know what that activity was. Support gave me the same sort of runaround non-answers as described in this article. I finally got to talk to someone on the phone and had an exchange along these lines:
me: "Is there any way I can continue to use paypal?"
paypal: "You can open up a new bank account and then use that to register a different paypal account"
me: "..."
In fact I find the most mundane pictures of street life to be the most interesting for anything older than 30y old. But those are the pictures taken today that people today would dismiss as uninteresting when it is really what will amuse them the most in 30 years.
Apple Watch 3 vs. Samsung Gear S3 Frontier: Which Is the Better SmartWatch?
These are good points. I think the reason this kind of conflict really rubs the wrong way is because these kinds of things tend to have sour legacy effects at inopportune moments.
Oh wow, that sounds suicidally boring. Way to kill the joy, eh.
Which is about what a lot of people claiming to be data scientists can do.
This is a PR piece put together by a company that offers AI services. Their pitch is that hiring for AI is incredibly expensive --- so you'd better outsource to us.
This comment breaks the HN guideline which asks:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

We have this rule because when people don't do this, it leads to shallower, more predictable discussion. It does take a bit of conscious readjustment to run one's posts through at least one pass of this process, but if you do you'll soon notice how much better they become, and/or possibly also fewer. Either way, signal/noise goes up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, but often I will temporarily lift the block to load the page (just a few mins ago I was on AWS announcement page, I couldn’t play a video unless I reload the page without content blocker. Not only do we have a tracking epidemic, we have external js issue. I have to either whitelist fonts.google.com and some other js libraries, or else explicitly reload page without blocker whenever I see a broken website... this security-privacy consciousness i is a good trade-off, but can we, as developers, do something?
New Zealand is a dream for this kind of thing. Banks are actually helpful and money transfers between random people have been easy for decades. Even the NZ government is well organized - I was constantly impressed at what you could do online on well designed web sites.

When I moved to the US 4 years ago I hadn't written a cheque in 15 years; I was in for a rude surprise.
It is. Have you done that? Does it work?
Also, a lot of the task-rabbits forced to do customer-service work have a axe to grind with the upper echelon.

You can test this out- try to get customer service as a yeoman and try to get customer service as a valley baron.

So, lesson learned- never enter true occupation data in a field when registering.