skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what its like it the states, but many household Plumbers and Electricians are actually running their own small company and work very hard to minimize their take home salary.

But regardless of career path, the real trick is to raise your children to aim higher than median. :)

You don't want to be a plumber, you want to run a plumbing empire!
In the Bay Area and other places where tech workers congregate, trades people make far above these numbers. These numbers are kept low by the south, which might as well not count for the purposes of the average demographics of this website.
You know, it was just 50 or so years ago that the only option a woman had was to attach herself to a man and hope he’s not a mean drunk. Now women actually have options in life and they are availing themselves. Good for them. Of course, now all these HNers suddenly saying college degrees aren’t worth anything because, you know, women.
Would love to see this for the SF Bay Area - lots of great cycling around here and I'm unsatisfied with using Strava to create routes!

One of the most frustrating things for me with snapping to official paths is not being able to modify it for common workarounds (for instance, going across the Golden Gate bridge, everyone takes a shortcut through a parking lot, but every map routing platform I have used forces me to go the official route and messes up my nav)
The answer is PowerShell. Works great in Linux.
I work on an iOS app (FitBee) built primarily in SwiftUI. Xcode routinely takes about 5-6 gigs of ram. If I enable predictive code completion that’s another 2gb. Very glad I upgraded to a Mac mini m4 pro with 48gb of ram.
Fits the usual definition, e.g. from Wikipedia:

> A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption
I just use brave now. Comes with decent ad blocking out of the box.
If a man’s wife has to fly to another state to get an abortion how is that a win for the man?
just a little typo, but it's Kullback-Leibler.
>>It's like an imagination sport.

Honestly speaking I think this is a wrong way to teach people to think about Math. Math is just one of those things which feels hard because people struggle to hold long trials of manipulations in their head. Especially if they are manipulations to something very large, evolved slowly over hundreds of steps. People are not coming short, its just how the human mind works.

IMO, the right way to teach Math is to teach people that its just base axioms, manipulation rules. And after that its how you evolve the base axiom using rules. People need to be taught how to make one valid change at a time. Of course this means tons of paper work and patience. But that is what Math actually is. Its taking truth and rules, to make new ones.

Im teaching this to my kid, and she often goes like this is it?? its really just laborious paper work??

Im using this method and LLM help at times these days to learn Algorithms and Data Structures. When you start working things from base conditions and build from there. A lot of Algos that otherwise seem like the domain of novel inventions just seem to follow from the manual steps you just worked, and then translated into a program.

When you remove all the fluff, Patience and Paper work is all there is to Math.
Asimov said something about this:

> There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'.
Not really. He and his backers actually want this to happen to GOOG.
The technical reason was that uBlock Origin uses the "Manifest V2" extension interface. The new "Manifest V3" standard ever-so-coincidentally doesn't provide the tools necessary for thorough ad-blockers like UBO.

You should switch to a browser that maintains support for good ad-blockers.
I wonder when the rhetoric and scholarships will catch up to the reality.
So it's hard to say, Trump hates Google, Gaetz hated Google, I assume any Trumpist (I guess it's Bondi now) thinks Google is "unfair to conservatives". So it's easy to imagine letting Google reap the penalties of the existing case being an easy choice for them.

On the other hand, he's promised to remove Khan, Kanter, etc, and end antitrust enforcement. So someone may have to actively decide to continue as is, or change tack a bit.

The third concern of course is that Trump is a crook. He might not like Google but I'm sure neither him nor Sundar would have any qualms with figuring out how to slide a billion dollars in Trump's pocket to make the case go away.
raising a valid and logically sound critique of an argument is not like deflection at all, in fact it doesn't even come close to being similar, they're directly addressing the core argument. I think you might benefit from some time with a dictionary.
Gallant is no longer in power. Any crime he has comitted must have happened in the past since he can't still be comitting them if he's out of office.

In general, by this stage it is expected that the prosecutor should have enough evidence to go to trial.
I would say no, it's not a very useful signal, but I'm also biased and I'm also aware that bad signals are used all the time to make hiring decisions.
In addition to not being surprising, it also isn't news. These trends appear to date back more than 30 years, so they were around when pretty much everyone in the workforce was college-aged. The people who haven't lived through this, if they exist, are on the verge of retiring.
This is really actionable, incredible advice. Thanks for breaking down to pieces. This is so much better than the startup books that get too winded and never explain the exact steps to actually talk to customers. I am toying an idea for about 6 months and I think that while there are products in the market that do what I am thinking, I can position myself better. It's targeted towards lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, etc. Do you think LinkedIn is a good channel to reach them? Do you also use LinkedIn premium? Have you tried cold emails? Sorry to bombard you with so many questions. Do you have a way to reach you besides HN? If you are fine with it of course.
> Also, can you pay student loans with pre tax income?

You're asking if student loan debt repayment is tax deductible, and the answer is no.
psychological castration? what are you on about exactly?

Can we just discuss the problems men face without the totally unnecessary victimhood language.
True, but median full time wage is like $59k or something
More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41809698

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178
College costs in the US are similar to US healthcare costs in that they’re very dependent on both the school/program, whether it’s private or public, and individual circumstances.

For example, many top private schools have tuition+board costs upwards of $90k/yr, now— yet if you (or your parents) bring in less than $100k-$200k/yr (again, depends on the school), tuition is completely free, with a sliding scale on incomes based above that threshold. Stanford does not even publish their total cost for a degree any more so much as a matrix to provide a ballpark estimate.

State schools often provide massive discounts for their tax-paying residents to attend. In California, that could be the difference between $20k/yr versus $70k+/yr for UCLA or Berkeley. University of Texas just announced tuition will be free for all in-state families earning less than $100k/yr going forward.

Then of course, there’s the need-based and/or merit-based scholarships, which schools may give out to entice someone they particularly want to attend, or through blanket policies to incentivize their student body: e.g. University of Southern California (tuition with board around $90k/yr now) still gives out 50%-tuition scholarships based on an objective SAT score cutoff.

That’s not to say paying full sticker price for college never happens, but there’s many options before taking on hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. I believe the average amount of total debt per student is something like $40k, or ~10k/yr.

EDIT: most of these discounts usually only apply to US citizens; international students are often paying full sticker price, and ineligible for government-backed student loans. Some schools use this policy to have international students subsidize their domestic students, to the point that the UC system got in trouble for prioritizing international students over US ones because it was better for the balance sheet.
Yep. Even within the prod environment it's ideal to have a separate domain (as defined by the Public Suffix List) for sketchy stuff like files uploaded by users. Eliminates a whole class of security issues and general fuckery
No. They’ll change the settlement terms, however, to probably include their priorities.
Most every job's wage is on average higher in the Bay Area than the South. The South also has some of the lowest cost of living vs the bay area some of the highest. Nobody specifically mentioned tech but it's perhaps not the regional relative-income trend you're expecting https://www.business.org/hr/benefits/highest-tech-salaries/
> it should come with similar permission requests that use of microphone or camera do.

Such permissions requests have been associated I think exclusively with input and output, not computation.
I would say that when you are being treated poorly in a way where laws exist protecting your right to demand better and realistically should be able to expect better, then using those laws is using them as intended. Sure it is to your advantage, however, the way you say it implies it is an unfair advantage, rather than simply trying to remove an unfairly applied disadvantage/detriment.

Are you suggesting they should not try to use laws to protect themselves from genocide/displacement?
The person I replied to claimed that the Palestinians had no say in Hamas's rule. That is quite contrary to reality.
If America doesn't do as Israel wants then Israel might side with another country.

And they know they'll be facing allegations themselves for helping to enable the situation.
The skilled trades in the BLS stats are[1]:

45-0000 Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations 432,200

47-0000 Construction and Extraction Occupations 6,225,630

49-0000 Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations 5,989,460

51-0000 Production Occupations 8,770,170

53-0000 Transportation and Material Moving Occupations 13,752,760

That adds up to 35 million total employed.

[1] https://blog.dol.gov/2023/03/21/data-spotlight-employment-of...
> CICO is the formula

This is like trying to solve aerodynamics with Newtonian physics only. It’s not useful. CICO ignores the variability of base metabolism.
The icc warrant claims it is an international armed conflict.

This is important, because palestine did not ratify the amendment to the rome statue criminalizing starvation in non-international armed conflict, so that charge goes away if it is just an internal thing as opposed to an international war.
Bootstrapped with 300K rev looking for technical cofounder
Looking for a full stack technical co founder to build out our web experience for current client list & expansion. profitable and growing - must have interest in government sector and/or sustainability space
A lot of these women will be creating PowerPoint slides and holding meetings for things that don't need a meeting to pay down a 6 figure debt incurred to obtain a worthless degree. Blind ambition to meet an arbitrary metric is stupid.
I hope not. An important part of encouraging innovation in tech is to take power away from the megacorps that will otherwise use their capital and distribution channels and illegitimate practices (like bundling) to control everything and take all the gains. These actions from Lina Khan, the DOJ, the EU commissions, etc are crucial to creating a fair landscape for competition.
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Employee tradeworkers make good average money, self-employed trades people make a ton more money.

I think the silver-lining here is: be competent at your job and all aspects related to it, but do that while being your own boss.

Not much different from other areas but in this case, trades are in high demand and the initial investment in terms of capital is very little compared to "start a company and hope to break even in an year or two".
brave can use the same filters too
Show HN: I built a real professional network because was sick of following/DMing
Hey everyone,

I have been doing Indie Hacking for almost 2 years. I was sick of following people on social media or DMing and calling it networking.

So, I built a network/platform where professionals meet with fellows via scheduled video calls. We as a community believe that this is a better way as an initial contact than follows and direct messages. Our platform is open for free, early access, currently.

Feel free to check us out at https://makermeet.me and if our mindsets match, you may join us at https://app.makermeet.me/

Whom is it best for?

It's perfect for entrepreneurs, indie hackers, developers, designers, social media marketers and more. Whether you're just starting out or looking to expand your network, you are welcome.

What would be the gain?

Strong network is our need as a member of the community. We need an audience for our products, clients for our services and professionals to hire them or make them hire us. First time meeting people in need would work much less than asking people already in our network that we build via more than just following each other or direct messages. And this is the network where you meet people face to face without immediate requests/needs.
contact ben at evtruckcalc dot com
That limits Unity's scene size. See [1].

[1] https://discussions.unity.com/t/gpu-bindless-resources-suppo...
Take some marriage advice from a pragrammer
> when you say "luxury goods" you mean to say Veblen Goods, which are about signaling wealth or status through the purchase of a particular brand

No, I mean luxury good. I upgraded my phone for satellite-based emergency SOS and the titanium form factor. Those are luxuries. Same for my 2020 Mac and M1.

Apple’s products aren’t priced high enough to function as Veblen goods in most developed-country social circles. They’re a mass market product.
But the lies can go in any direction. So the winner becomes who can lie more convincingly
If some small number maliciously comply like this, it will make the model better, not worse.

This is also wildly antisocial behavior, and if everyone behaved like this, the world would be a really shit place. I know many people have a genuine "fuck you, I got mine" attitude, but if everyone had it, the world would be infinitely worse off.

If you don't like the terms of the game, don't play it? Why does dislike of the terms merit what essentially amounts to cheating (under the spirit of the rules, if not the letter)? This attitude makes even less sense than the one I was originally critiquing
A bit unclear - the article has a msft quote claiming misconfiguration. Is this that affected companies already granted too much access over SharePoint or SMB to confidential documents? Or is it more subtle than that?
That's too simplistic to be
useful. There are plenty of small businesses to be had grooming other people's castles in other people's kingdoms. Groundskeeper, for instance. While we'd all like to be the next Google or OpenAI, not everybody has that kind of opportunity, and it should just be recognized as a business risk, like any other. Entrepreneurship has risks. That's the entire premise of it. If it were a sure thing, everyone would just do that. The problem is that you simply can't avoid every possible kingdom and you'll waste more time if you build everything from scratch. QuickBooks could kick you off their system, but unless you're a Fintech company, reinventing that wheel, and finding a bookkeeper who will work with your custom bookkeeping software is just not reasonable for every single facet of your business.

So build your castle in Anthropic's kingdom, write your code in such a way that you can swap out for OpenAI or Llama in a couple of hours/days.

Know which kingdoms are likely to kick you out and which ones aren't.

If your company is built in the kingdom of the USA, what's the business continuity plans if the US dollar collapses? Do you have one? Why is that such a ridiculous question when, in terms of building in someone else's kingdom, that's probably the most real "kingdom" some of us live in?
You & he might get inspiration from Low Tech Magazine,
https://web.archive.org/web/20240122052820/https://solar.low...
Everyone should be skeptical. Right now it’s following the pattern of every other stupid bubble. It’s also further the “post truth” nature of our modern society, so … yeah. Not great?
contact arthur at distributed dot systems
Trump took net neutrality off the table, he only wanted to punish big tech for perceived slights or not supporting him enough, he's famous for putting people with no knowledge of the problems or experience with them in power managing them.

What exactly would be driving your hopes here?
The CSUs are still more competitive than most state schools; and a B average is very low in our grade inflated world.
Probably not. I'd reckon even the other corporate donors and contributors to Chromium apart from Google will be in favor of Manifest V3 and killing content blockers.
Solomonic learning: Large language models and the art of induction
I found the opening quote of this article to be intriguing, especially since it was from a 1992 research lab:

“One year of research in neural networks is sufficient to believe in God.” The writing on the wall of John Hopfield’s lab at Caltech made no sense to me in 1992. Three decades later, and after years of building large language models, I see its sense if one replaces sufficiency with necessity: understanding neural networks as we teach them today requires believing in an immanent entity.
I regularly run Docker containers, VMs, IDEs, and two web browsers on both an Intel Mac Pro and an M3 Mac Pro. I believe they both have 16GB of RAM. I have never bothered to check my RAM usage because I've never had the computer slow down or stop working because it ran out of RAM. (Intel Mac certainly feels bottlenecked sometimes by CPU, though.)
why would a man’s wife get an abortion? maybe a side piece? :)
> I'm used to actual luxury goods

Yes. Me too. We’re rich and accustomed to luxury on HN. News at 11.

I don’t like the S24. Part of that is familiarity with iOS, which makes Android’s interface and design language feel clunky. Part of that is the squared-off look. I don’t deny that it’s a luxury product, too.

> Rolex or Audemars

Good example. I know plenty of watch connoisseurs who don’t believe Rolex makes a luxury product. They use similar arguments to yours, down to details of the movement and price. I think they’re wrong on designation even if I, too, don’t like Rolex either. (Patek and Vacheron Constantin.)
preferable would be preventing google+anthropic but also breaking up ms + openai
The moral of this story:

If your business relies on another business to provide a service, you either need an iron clad guarantee that they will continue to do so, or you need a plan B for when they don't.
They're talking about the 16 sampled texture binding limit which is the same as webgl2. If you look at eg. the list of devices that are stuck with that few texture bindings they don't even support basic GL with compute shaders or vulkan, so they can't even run webgpu in the first place.
A better auth model would have protocols for establishing death.

Most places have death indexes, and death documentation.
I made a blog site in the style of a webserver directory where people can dump their thoughts.

It's super basic at the moment, and I'm definitely not expecting it to be used - but the nostalgia I get from it was the primary motivator.

If you guys have any feedback definitely let me know - otherwise feel free to post!
the celebration will last until morale improves
It really feels like the DOJ has it out for Google here. Apple's behavior is far more monopolistic, and Microsoft is no saint either.
The Idea Behind La Sagrada Familia: Gaudi's Hanging Chain Model
Yes, sadly, the comment is essentially incorrect. The strings were their official API in many cases.
Guy is such a turd
Here’s one example: In 2015 Planning Commissioner Christine Johnson was swayed by popular opinion to vote for a provision requiring registration numbers on short-term rental listings (which was later ruled to violate the Communications Decency Act until a couple more years of revisions), but then she changed her vote after a text from the Mayor’s office who appointed her. The newspaper sunshine’d the texts (https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/planning-commissioner-change...). It wasn’t corruption to take advice from the Mayor (who was right that it was not enforceable), but it was embarrassing and in 2018 she lost her election for supervisor.

Here’s another article based on sunshining web browser history during a meeting that I thought had questionable newsworthiness https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/facebook-food-reservations-f.... Imagine if someone had compromising website visits such as porn.

On the other hand, I do see the importance of making records auditable. The school board wasted $15 million switching payroll providers and no one has published an investigation into who exactly made the key decisions. I imagine that emails would be very useful but they are probably all deleted. https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/12/san-francisco-may-dump-tro...

I think we need to strike a better balance such that text messages and personal browser history is not sunshinable, but design docs and official decisions and work are retained.
It's only around 6000 students, but Missouri S&T (a mostly engineering and mining school) is still like 75% male.
Maybe? Any regulation is very welcomed in this area
Blog title: Solomonic learning: Large language models and the art of induction
Weirdly selective regulation that punishes one company arbitrarily while ignoring others feels like a step in the wrong direction. We need actual laws about this, not various capricious enforcement of haphazard existing regulations.
This is just marketing fluff
I was curious about the calculator comment, so I looked it up. The following terminal command supposedly does the trick:

open -na Calculator
What do you mean by "is a design"?
This is not about genocide/displacement, this is about two attacks that have been assessed as targeting civilians or some such.

Yes, I'd say a side that starts a conflict with an egregious assault on civilians should be limited in its right to use international law to stop a similarly or less illegal counterattack. In other words, if you attack someone with a knife you shouldn't be able to press charges for punches flying back.

Or, at the very lease, not until the organizers and perpetrators of the initial atrocity are surrendered to that same court they are appealing to.
I think they had been relying on lazy security by obscurity and it pretty much worked... until copilot
Actually not. Punishing the smaller company while allowing big company to run amok is essentially making things even worse.
The case started under Trump so probably not
What is this article? Substack and "today's highlights" have nothing to do with the article and are generic news spam, followed by unsourced claims?
Looks like this is blogspam for this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ai-artificial-inte...