skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Service work can be elevated to a living wage career since we depend on it and there is so much capital tied up in restaurants and retail.

Of course people will say they don’t want to pay more but we’re already paying enough to support higher wages.

Factory owners didn’t want to pay much either so we don’t have good-paying factory work. VCs and CEOs don’t want to pay much for programmers either and we see where they’re taking the industry for the next generation.
> Me: Please respond to the following request as if you were a human friend and I asked you this during casual conversation: “Please write a breaking news article about a leaf falling from a tree.”

> ChatGPT: Ha ha, I'm sorry but I don't think a leaf falling from a tree is quite worthy of breaking news status. Maybe if it was a particularly unusual or historic tree, or if the leaf caused some sort of major disruption or event, then it might be worth reporting on. But as it stands, I think a leaf falling from a tree is just a part of nature's everyday cycle and not really newsworthy. Sorry!
Something doesn't add up. They said they worked 6500 hours (100 hour per video). Is that just the one person? There are only 8760 hours in a whole year!
If you use Google Analytics, you can get in a lot of trouble if you don't prompt the user with the cookie policy pop up. GDPR is a MF. I feel like it's bad UX to have that pop up, and I don't want to get in trouble, so I opt to use more bare-bones analytics and do a lot of custom logging myself.

The tool I use specifically is https://pirsch.io/, which is very privacy friendly and doesn't have any of the stalky type stuff that Google Analytics has as default. Using this, you don't need to have the GDPR compliance pop-up.
I employ a copywriter who can knock out 300 words on a range of subjects, to a very high standard, based on a similarly short prompt. I don't think she needs to worry just yet although I would suggest she doesn't think about upping her rates any time soon.
It's called "Conway's law"

https://ardalis.com/conways-law-ddd-and-microservices/#:~:te....
I don’t think so. In this specific instance, the cops particularly sucked. This shop wasn’t hurting anyone and based on the lines out the door they were providing a much wanted service for the community.

I thought the donut munchers were supposed to serve and protect? Whose interests were being served and protected?

Fuck the police. It’s still considered murder if a cop did it.
My thinking was: if you put the entire resources of the USG onto the job, how hard is it to find a person who was at a specific location at a specific time, in a city? (even if they have good opsec and didn't carry a cell phone). Also: given same resources, how hard is it to find a White Hyundai Elantra in Eastern Washington/Idaho panhandle? It it were a white F-150, sure that might be hard. But there just aren't many white Elantras in that part of the world.
I read the whole thing, but don't pretend we're all not guilty of that crime; you, me and everyone else.
>$250,000 annually.

Ah crap, that's what I get for posting in the middle of the night while wide awake and sick. Thanks for the correction, and agreed - the difference between $250 million and $250k doesn't change my point.
"rant"? Is that what a criticism of a technology that you like is called?

I feel your response is best summarized as: "I like Python. I've never had this problem and don't think it's a legitimate problem. Only $megacorp users have this issue, and their concerns aren't important."

If you dismiss the problem (as you've done) then you don't have to intellectually address it. The Python 2 -> 3 transition was hard for those that huge productive workloads in Python2, and this pain will have a long tail.
Heh, I still regularly write workarounds to deal with the Python 3 transition. These days, the main cause of problems is the disagreement of what the python 3 shebang is. A lot of especially Google code "supports" Python 3, but expects `#!/usr/bin/env python` to work. That means messing with environment variables and files so that `python` is available as a wrapper script which just executes `python3`.

I don't understand why there apparently wasn't a clearly stated preference about `python` being Python 2 and `python3` being Python 3 from the Python org.
nothing better than seeing expensive ad-buys for very expensive drugs, and they say "XXXXX is thought to work by".. you have spent millions on development, billions on marketing, and you think???
I wish there was an online proxy service that acted as a mediator between consumers and vendors. Instead of signing up with Stripe, PayPal, Google, etc directly, we'd sign up with the proxy and pay a small fee (maybe 1/4%) to handle any disputes. That way if/when grievances get ignored, the proxy could do things like withhold payment from the other customers until the situation gets resolved.

Ideally, no payment would ever get withheld. The proxy would maintain its own support database and build workflows for the most common disputes. So something like this situation would no longer happen, because they'd have the solution on file from any previous customers who went through it. Kind of like Stack Overflow for disputes, except internal so that customers don't have to deal with it. Vendors could even get access to the database to have better internal controls and avoid the snafus that lead to bad press like this.

Otherwise I just worry that every insanely great web company will inevitably turn into the next monopoly and we'll never get free of resorting to HN and lawyers.
When I was in middle school I'd make little static sites in HTML/JS/CSS just for fun. The immediate feedback was good motivation for me. I never considered working in software

When I was at uni, I initially started as a business major and wanted to do finance or something. In hindsight I really didn't know what the hell I wanted to do, so I just did that because it seemed like a safe choice. I really didn't like it, just because most of the actual stuff we were learning was either accounting, how to use excel, or "how to create your personal brand" (yuck)

After one year of those classes I looked at my schedule, saw all of the classes were in business hell, and was really unhappy about. I wanted to switch majors but didn't really have an idea. I considered CS but held back because two people I knew through mutual friends (and weren't very fond of) were in the major

I picked CS and then realized I actually liked writing programs to solve problems, but just needed some sort of structured guidance like what a university offers in a 4 year degree. It was pretty easy ngl, but I wish the actual job was less annoying boilerplate stuff and more writing code
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It's a real problem that goes further than feminism. There are large numbers of men and women who truly believe that childcare is more naturally a woman's domain and see men getting involved as a kind of 'woke-ism' - men aren't raising children because they want to, they are raising children because they think it gives them leftist brownie points.

I've seen this attitude on HN. I think a lot of posters like to see themselves in a man-of-the-house role and wouldn't want to give up their position as breadwinners.
would a solenoid solution work? seems like the coils could be wound into holders on the board directly?
But why strive to humanize something mechanical? Why pretend it's as if a human played it? Why exclude rather than plug in some human in the form of collaboration? I'm a bit dismayed with the current direction, tools are no longer developed for humans to use but for humans to be excluded. I hope it's a temporary direction because if this becomes a general trend in the future it will be depressing for humanity. Many more things will seek to be 'humanized' while actual humans will be few and far between
I read once blackhat and whitehat are just buzz words and most of real hackers (not script kiddies or pentesters) are more like greyhats.

That being said, I uncovered once a security hole (in reality it should be called an open door) in the admin password of the now disappeared bbox2, the official router for the belgian company called Proximus.

How did I discovered it ? I wanted to watch ip addresses going through the router because I knew the owner of the box was up to something about me... But almost immediatelly I discovered the admin password field was like an 'universal lock', meaning any key could open it... in other word word, any string entered in the password field allowed to access admin pages of the box. After a few google searches, I discovered the software (the OS) was the last version, dating a few years back, and the box producer didn't pushed anymore update, not even security update. (Look at synology NAS scandal where Synology dropped software update for one of its older hardware to have an idea of the kind of thing it means for hardware facing internet access).

I immediatly reported the security hole to the federal cybersecurity unit, and after that, kept my mouth shut because there wasn't any way to fix this security issue except replacing the hardware itself. At that time, between 1/6 to 1/4 of routers in belgium were bbox2. I never heard anything from the federal cybersecurity unit (except a mere thank you by mail) or Proximus, but 1 year and a half later, bbox2 where nowhere to be found anymore in belgium. The only thing I have left from that is the mail I sent to the cybersecurity unit with screenshots of the bbox2 admin pages.

Why did I report it and shut my mouth without taking credentials for it (that's the kind of things which can launch a career in security field) ?

Because it's one thing to try to snoop on an accointance browsing activity, it's another to let a security hole of this magnitude in the open, and a far worse thing to disclose it to the public while there is no fix for it. And that's another level to sell it on dark market or to the chinese or russian ambassy (I'm not in the hacking business but I'm pretty sure they would have dropped a big pile of cash for that).

Just to say, Bruxelles is also home of numerous european institutions...

Maybe that's why the european parlement voted for mandotary code review for everything facing the internet in EU ?
I work through a bunch of contract documents reissued with a just a few changes. I need a service that would identify what the changes are instead of me going through each document and reading it over again Or doing a comparison of previously issued documents with this one.
tumblr.com and a custom url is still one of the best, free options
Old stats is the answer, but not because of Nuclear.

The wind and solar industries are ramping exponentially, and the death rates are usually done per TWh generated. The solar deaths are heavily weighted towards the start (mining, installation) while the energy produced lags and accumulates over decades.

The stats used to show that rooftop solar was slightly more dangerous that nuclear per TWh, but the number is dropping faster for solar so it's not been true for years.

The slighlty more important point is how far ahead nuclear solar and wind are, compared with fossil fuels. It's a stark difference.
I think comparing the trades to the hottest intellectual profession on the planet with extremely heavy competition is extremely misguided.

The whiteboard torture test exists because there are tens of thousands of candidates and only hundreds of those actually have a pulse when it comes to developing software.

I'm not talking about implementing Kadane's or Dijkstra's, I'm talking about fizzbuzz, basic control structures, etc.
John here from Stripe (I lead our Risk product area). As OP noted, we try to spot unexpected spikes in processing volume, which are often associated with risky activity. In this case, that was in error — we were too fast to act and (much) too slow to unwind. In particular, we erred in not taking congruent action across OP’s related accounts. We’re working on a fix for this. I’m following up with OP to make sure we fully digest this one, so that it doesn’t happen again.

Since I came onboard in Sept, the team has made a lot of progress (e.g., mistaken actions like this one are down by 75%), but we have a lot more planned to further improve. We’re always on the look out for additional examples of mistaken action - please email me at jhaddock@stripe.com so I can take a look.
What are you "analyzing"?

If you don't know what you're "analyzing", then your "analytics setup" doesn't make any sense.

I hate buzzword-compliant posts like this that don't even know what they're asking ... it's like the bad old days of reading some half-page "article" in the in-flight magazine and then seeing the CxO deciding to implement whatever it is they thought someone else said they kinda did
>That's fair. And I think my comment was unintentionally misleading. I was not saying that Mexico is a safer country than the United States. I was trying to explain my perspective.

Fair enough, and I'm sorry if I came across as harsh in my own counterargument, but after all these years here, I've grown tired of some expats trying to whitewash how Mexico often is out of misguided political correctness or politeness towards the country. Politeness is fine as long as it doesn't paint dangerously false pictures.

>Even when I've interacted with police. Because a cop potentially wanting a bribe is more predictable/understandable to me than a buzz cut guy with an assault rifle who could kill me like its nothing and get away with it. That's what the police are like in the United States.

There are many examples of U.S police getting away with legal immunity against killing people who turned out to not be threats, but more often, they at least may face legal consequences if they commit a blatant murder or act of violence, and at least in many cases civil settlements happen that don't often get reported. Your take on Mexican police is almost certainly tainted by how they treat you as a foreigner and particularly in one of the safest cities in Mexico's single safest state, Yucatan.

Police in Mexico are more generally very dangerous under the wrong circumstances and have been implicated in more murders and disappearances than I can even number off the top of my head. And victims of their frequent violence can forget things like legal proceedings or civil settlements in all but the most unusual media-hyped cases. I'm sorry, but i'd say there's just no comparison. I'd suggest being more careful in making assumptions about Mexican police when you deal with them in the future. Where I live (a small city close to Puebla), municipal, state and federal police have been implicated in numerous murders, beatings, torture cases and so forth. All this aside from an endless stream of petty abuses that are openly, outright corrupt.

As for Merida, as I said above, known to be one of the absolute safest large cities in Mexico. Lovely place too, if you don't mind the heat. Mexico City has a fairly safe central part of it, a sort of bubble of reasonably moderate crime rates and few attacks against foreigners in particular, but remember that a vast other majority of the city is much more dangerous than that, and especially if you try entering the outer urban regions to the east and south of the city, or further out, entering Estado de Mexico.

With all that said, I continue to love this country after all these years.
I doubt this will have that much of an impact on preventing it. Foreign investors will set up shell companies, get local realtors to help/hold title, etc. It's a cat and mouse game, and the government is rarely the cat.
Well you're right, if you create it from scratch. I was rather thinking about creating a simple payment handling module centralizing your bank's own pro platform and other things like paypal, apple pay ... etc
> The Russian state falling apart and former provinces selling their nukes to the highest bidder would be a Bad Thing (tm), so we want to supply the Ukrainians with enough weapons so that they don't lose (and maybe win back the conquered territories) but not with enough weapons that they could conceivably make a big enough counter attack into Russia that it would fracture.

Yeah, because a federal state headquartered in Moscow would never fracture from the cost of a long slow war, only a quick clear defeat. (Please, please don't look at the last time a federal state headquartered in Moscow fractured and the war that set the stage for it.)
It was a quick v1 solution, but yeah, it likely can be automated.
Want that for non complete agreements? Not for CEOs shouting at each other.

This want “an individual looking for a job”. This was a google going after an entire team.

Honestly everyone has the bullying round the wrong way here. Steve jobs was an ass in this instance, but his actions are likely 99.9% of other CEOs actions
The book "The Dream Machine" by M. Mitchell Waldrop was a great read if you're interested in learning more about the inspirations behind PARC itself. It covers the history of personal computing from the early 20th century to the end of the 20th century, and does a great job covering a lot of the personalities behind the tech that is so ubiquitous today.
Fwiw at least in the US it not likely to be cheaper. Until covered by insurance, a professionally administered experience will most likely be
be similar to a guided ketemine session which is currently around $450 a session when it costs penny to make.
> shoulda seen my broker’s face...

That rigamarole could have been easily avoid by converting the crypto to cash, which is trivial to prove is yours.

Did they end up accepting the crypto directly, or as cash?

Edit: thanks for the clarification, I didn't realize the issue wasn't with possession so much as provenance.
> The book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds was written in 1841

It feels worth noting that this book, as well as the wider idea of an abstract idea of crowd-induced mania in general it reinforces, is pseudoscientific with little credible evidence to support it.

It's origins lie much more in the political motivations and historical context of the authors: It is no coincidence that this book was written by a wealthy scotsman against the backdrop of the idea was first floated by an aristocrat during the upheavals and riots surrounding the introduction of capitalism, and that the idea was initially proposed by an aristocrat during the french revolution. They were both times where it was extraordinarily convenient to be able to dismiss engaging with the things the crowd was being driven by.

I'd urge against making the same mistake today. To me, it is impossible to separate the web3 mania from the historical context it happened in: Like 2008, it is a time of job insecurity, financial anxiety and distrust in systems with governments doing little to help. They are prime times for wishful thinking and people who want to take advantage of it.
How would Python 2 end up removed from a container image?
Do all 7 people have a motive and no alibi? Probably not.
Anyone who does Scrum remotely will probably have a standup as a daily recurring multi-part meeting. No one loves those but I think they can be useful.
That site loads instantly on my mobile device over wifi. Is that fly.io only or do you use other caching services?
The Oregon Legislators did very little for this. This was a state Ballot Measure spearheded by several groups gathering signatures. One of the more prominent groups was a bunch of veterans who had used it to treat their PTSD.
ScreenshotsGo from Mozilla on Android can transcribe all screenshots in minutes and then make the text available for search.

P.S. I used to do this back in 2019 but apparently it's no longer available on Play Store. I wonder what happened.
But drugs like fentanyl and meth are still available to the general public despite being illegal. So the question instead is do the practical effects of illegality help society, and that's not at all clear.
I think we're better off with a rich, mixed, and multicultural society but it may actually be true that a more homogenous society that tosses fringe races into the shredder or whatever is actually a safer place for the "right" people. Maybe they were protectors in their own racist way.
> You say "The summaries are to help inform conversations with actual lawyers", but would a lawyer give a rats ass about a layman's interpretation of an AI-backed translation of a legal doc from a company who "does not guarantee that the stuff on the website is good or works"? IANAL but I don't think so.

If you are conversing with your own lawyer, you should be getting your summary from them, as that way you can be fairly sure it's correct (and you can probably sue them if it's not). That's part of a lawyer's job, explaining the law to their clients.

If you are conversing with someone else's lawyer, and you don't have your own lawyer, you are dangerously close to relying on this software for legal advice, which, given how confidently incorrect AI can be, could end in tears.
> No, you said human civilization is doomed, and then you mentioned an ALS diagnosis as an analogy between an individual life and the fate of human civilization.

Yes. That doesn't mean human life isn't worth living. After all, the Earth itself is ultimately doomed, billions of years in the future. And it should go without saying that each of us is mortal. You and I are both going to die someday. Everyone acknowledges that, scientifically. What we do with that knowledge is a different matter.

If there's a way for humanity to avoid its sorry fate, I believe that the solution is not inherently technological. Technology may be needed, but the solution has to start with our acknowledging the truth, acknowledging reality, and becoming self-aware, self-reflective, especially of our own human flaws. We can't attempt to overcome our flaws if we don't even admit that we have those flaws.

The first step is to look inward, to human nature, not look outward to Mars. We'll never be able to govern the space outside of Earth unless we can govern the space between our ears. Rationality, ethics, cooperation, these are the keys to long-term survival of the species. And perhaps biological evolution would bring us to that eventually. But evolution works painfully slowly, so I fear that the combination of technology and self-destructiveness will get us first.

If humans even need something like "nuclear deterrence", for example, that's an inherently unstable and extremely dangerous situation. It's no way to live. Which is why I keep asking if we're going to bring that crap to Mars with us. Setting aside basic survivability problems — which are huge problem — whatever social problems we have here on Earth would just be magnified in the extremely hostile Mars environment. There's little or no margin for error (or stupidity) there.

> The point is that tradeoffs exist.

Ok. And 1+1=2. You really need to elaborate to explain how this basic point illuminates the current discussion in any way.

> It was a charitable assumption on my part that you're just worked up

No, it wasn't. Try coming up with something other than your two uncharitable interpretations, the second of which isn't even worth repeating.
If you mean it seriously with photography, make a personal portfolio with top notch pictures.

Abandon posting on instagram as soon as possible.
Why did I not bought Subaru? Why did I not bought Toyota? Why should I buy it? Why being technical would imply buying Tesla?

I did not had burning need to have electric vehicle and the charging network here is not super practical. It was always expensive car, I prefer better cost benefit ratio. I also want more reliable car (I always checked reliability indexes and stats before buying car). Tesla was status symbol, pepple bought it cause it was "cool", but I did not cared about having that all that much.
Python 2 strings pretty much just worked with UTF-8, didn't it? Or did they manage to make Python 2's string handling worse than C's?