skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I don't get anything from people hearing my sex sounds and I do not care if they are interested in it or not. It still is a privacy invasion.

Most people I know use these services to switch radio stations. That is nothing that would require the voice to be recorded and processed anyway.

Microsoft sold me a their telemetry with the argument that it would offer better support. Support today is even worse than a few years ago, when they at least had some competent support staffers around. The only info they get is probably that people don't really like their services. How strange.

With this disposition to private information, I would not want to give it. Simple as that. It is a tragedy that today people employed and trusted with this information seem to lack the foresight it would require to handle it responsibly. That hasn't always been the case.

Frankly, if I knew in which company you had access to data, I would be certain to limit my exposure. Completely without seeing you as a nefarious actor that wants to do something bad. Because I just need people in those places that understand privacy and why it is required in many cases.
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I got interested in contributing to Firefox in the hopes that it would lead to a job.

My thought was since obviously I could do the job, then they would hire me without having to go through the usual interviewing steps.

Every time I have applied, I never got pass the recruiter. Never got a call to talk about my patches, just a generic rejection response.

Then I realized that I was spending too much effort on a single company, so I stopped contributing and applying. Seems leetcode grinding would be a higher reward for the effort.
> Minimum wage destroys job opportunities for low skilled workers, who are already heavily marginalized in society. And once they are out of the job market, it becomes even harder for them to return to it.

That's why you create unemployment benefit, preferably in a way that does not discourage going back to work.

This way, works with starvation wages don't exist, and low-skilled workers have a chance to prepare for their next job (and even to be a bit picky). In my view this improves the job market much better than a race to the bottom in working conditions and salaries.
Oh my god, no way! That guide shaped my entire music taste. I'd spend fucking hours trawling through it.

One thing that's really funny is now with my current taste, going back on there and re-listening to the clips of artists that are now in my mainstay.
Have you noticed on films that they literally cannot have a shot of a cat as the main subject without dubbing in a miaow? Every time! It's like film makers can't stop themselves.
Wow, that facility has had a lot of accidents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak#List_of_accidents
Yes. I think the drug was being used in animal feed
> Making people expend mental energy on otherwise unimportant/irrelevant decisions is anti-user.

Then don't ask them and let them explicitly toggle the option to share information. That isn't anti-user. Your privacy invasions are anti-user.
For an astronomer that lives there, yes. For naked eye would be mostly black sky, just like ours on edges. That's why I love our place, it shows our galaxy beautifully stretching across.
Nice of you to contribute. Was it helpful to get a job elsewhere?

Navigating a big codebase and adding/fixing things seems like a good skill to have demonstrated.
Sorry I missed "We have them regularly around here." I kinda thought you were protecting against something that rarely happened for peace of mind.
I've never worked for Mozilla, but I have found that contacting current staff and asking for a referral is a good way to get past the initial screen.
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The bid/ask spread is a separate issue from latency (Edit: although it should tend to be less with better price discovery). To appreciate the benefit of lower latency, I think you have to consider the bigger picture of many interrelated price discovery feedback loops involving many instruments. Many small speedups can result in a much more stable and beneficial system. In the case of Berkshire Hathaway, the value of their stock is dependent on the value of many other equities, interest rates, energies, raw materials, etc.
All Apple devices that support Hi Siri play a notification and display lights or a UI when it activates and starts sending data outside of the device. I don’t see what more they can do.

Of course a device that listens for an activation phrase is going to listen. And it’s never going to be 100% accurate. If you can’t accept that, just set it up so it only starts listening when you press the button.
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I disagree. The key driver of the need for auto updates is security patches. Many people would accept missing out on new features. In fact, I suspect some would see that as a positive.
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> Then don't ask them and let them explicitly toggle the option to share information.

Is incrementing a counter if an app crashes a privacy invasion?
Unit economics on food delivery sucks (if that’s your only business)...too many inefficiencies with travel to/from (time wasted w/empty hands).

Food delivery as part of a QSR can be profitable but most businesses don’t track margins efficiently enough to know the difference.
Yeah. Hands up, I shouldn't have posted that. But I stand by my perception of a country moving in worrying directions.
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Thanks for sharing. That was great to hear, and like you I too hope for many more volumes coming out.

Your comment reminded me of the following from Herbert Wilf, 2002: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/website/dek.pdf (which I believe even better after reading your comment):

Here’s a little story of math at 35,000 feet. […] I wrote to Don and sent him a few more related results that Neil and I had gotten […]. As a result, I got a letter from him that I found to very moving indeed. Of course it was in his familiar pencilled scrawl, written at the bottom of the note that I had sent him. It began as follows:

> > Dear Herb, I am writing this on an airplane while flying to Austin to celebrate Dijkstra’s 70th birthday. This whole subject is beautiful and still ripe for research (after more than 150 years of progress!), so I will tell you what I know about it (or can recall while on a plane) in hopes that it will be useful.

> There followed four pages of tightly handwritten information that was a gold mine of the history of the sequence b(n) and related matters. It contained references to de Rham, Dijkstra, Carlitz, Neil Sloane, Stern (of Stern-Brocot trees fame), Eisenstein, Conway, Zagier, Schönhage, Hardy, Ramanujan, and so forth. It did not merely mention the names. It contained precise statements of the results of interest, of their relationship with the result of Calkin and myself and with each other. It contained a number of Don’s own observations about related questions, and had several conjectures, with background, to offer.

> It was a letter, ladies and gentlemen, that was written by a man who very much loves his subject and the history of his subject, and who knows more about that than any five other human beings that you could name. His enthusiasm, his background knowledge, and his mathematical values, that impelled him to write such a letter under such conditions, can be taken as examples for the rest of us to aspire to.
Indeed.

It's a superficially attractive answer, but the reality is that it's unenforceable.

Nation states get unstuck here on taxation, and bluntly it is unlikely any browser vendor will ever invest as heavily as nation states do on getting revenue.
Imagine doing free work for a company to prove that you could do the same work for a salary, and then not even getting to talk to the recruiter.

What a great time to be alive.
Regardless of your personal list, Java is still one of the most popular languages today and nowhere near being "dead" in the slightest. No one's individual list of used/unused languages is relevant in this case - the question is about mass adoption and active development.
The developer is the company, not the individual.

Holding an individual responsible for the company is simply not plausible in most jurisdictions for anything short of actual criminal actions.
https://stackedit.io/

Its open source too, I think.
I met him years ago and had the same reaction. Even when he was relaxed, his attention seemed perfectly focused. His general appearance looked awesome. I don't mean well-dressed, I mean that his eyes and facial expression made him seem to have a brain the size of a small galaxy.
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But that's what I'm saying: Nobody would be fooled by that. It's not a believable story because anybody with any kind of business and/or reputation would not do that, and everybody knows that to be the case.
Quote: "PartiQL requires the Java Runtime (JVM) to be installed on your machine."

And that right there is where they lost me. Nooo thank you.
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Having this in your portfolio is not a way to succeed in HR interviews, it is a way to bypass them totally.
>My thought was since obviously I could do the job, then they would hire me without having to go through the usual interviewing steps.

I would certainly hope not. It's one thing to fast-track from an internship or a coding camp, but any company that would be willing to do that for an open-source contributor who's never been interacted with in a professional environment would have serious problems with its hiring standards.
Surely restoring a skilled 58-year-old with decades of experience to full health is much faster and cheaper than making an entirely new human and training them to the same level.

As for preventing people getting sick—well, from what I've heard, a significant reason older people are more likely to get cancer is that their immune system and their body's ability to repair itself are weaker (and one part of cancer is DNA damage), so it seems like the most likely approaches to preventing cancer are also going to help with curing other illnesses.
Firstly, this article has nothing to do with HFT. Goldman is executing on behalf of clients who are not HFT

Secondly, your statement makes an implicit assumption that there is no value in providing liquidity to capital markets. This assumption is false. Think of your local grocery store. Sure, you could drive down to the distribution center and buy stuff there. But instead you go to the store where it’s conveniently laid out for you. Same with HFT. If it didn’t exist, you would still be able to buy and sell but markets would be a lot less liquid and buying and selling less convenient.
That's really weird. They reached out to me to do R&D with them and the work I did at that point in my life couldn't be further from what they do. I dont think there's very much rhyme or reason to getting people to contact you for a sw engineering position.

I've had Google, Amazon, Stanford University and a host of other prestigious places reach out to me and go in good directions. On the other hand, I have never heard so much as a peep from Microsoft or Intel despite dozens of applications. I had friends that got into Microsoft right out of college and their programming ability wasn't above average nor were their social skills that much better. I have friends that I worked with that were at Intel and they complained that they could have done their job straight out of high school; conversely, most of my work up until recently required graduate level math.
This is how I got hired but that was many years ago. Getting hired wasn't even my intention, I just wanted to contribute. Mozilla has become bigger and things are more formal now. It's certainly still a big plus if you're part of the community and can let your work speak for itself, even more so if you captured someone's attention who'd like to get you hired, but you most likely won't be able to skip the interview process.
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right, you used present tense. You meant hft "could possible have" more benefit? HFT is much more the product of the current regulatory structure than a feature of efficient markets.

Instead of reading Flash Boys, which is good but not really very academic, I'd recommend "The problem of HFT" by Haim Bodek. It explains how he set out to build a sohpisticated trading shop with modern technology and realized all of his competitiors were just gaming the market structure and being handed advantages by exchanges desparate for trading volume.
Chrome is a dangerously slick browser, I found it takes a determined effort to switch and eventually get comfortable with Firefox as your primary browser. But we should support Firefox and give efforts and user feedback where we can to get it to the same competitve level.
love this, cool little project and nice write up!
Amazing to me how much impassioned defence there is of HFT. I assume a lot of the HN readership works in HFT.
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Ethics is one of major branches within philosophy. You can, obviously, dismiss the modern practice of philosophy if their results go over your head. But it's really difficult to argue the terminology, because ethics is part of philosophy more or less by definition.

As to your objection: differences of opinion do not render the discussion worthless. Otherwise, non-philosophers would have just as little legitimisation to argue ethics as they do, considering religion, politics, and kindergarten kids similarly have people arguing opposing points of view.

The argument is also selling philosophy somewhat short: Because while there are completely different paradigms of how to investigate ethics, they happen to agree on a surprisingly large canon, i. e. "don't kill too many innocents" (and, to incorporate the Greeks: "...and try looking good while doing so").

Many ideas of moral philosophy have become so widely accepted that we no longer notice them, sort of like the fish that don't have a concept of "water". "All men are created equal" came from those ivory tower talking heads at a time where it was a rather radical idea and got about as much ridicule as animal rights or the trolley problem are getting today in some quarters.
Burning money is not that bad, even burning 99% of all the money in the world.
> You should not be able to type three letters and get a full
URL unless you personally wrote a macro to do that.

Should you be unable to drive unless you can, IDK, build an automatic transmission? This point of view reduces, as far as I can tell, to the idea that good user interfaces should only be extended to those privileged with enough expertise to build them themselves.

This requires a level of literacy that most users will never be able to meet, by virtue of most people not having time to learn a programming language since they have other responsibilities.

It's also not clear why you aren't extending this backwards: why is it okay to use a browser I didn't write myself (or at least compile from source)? What about my OS? Do you really expect every user to have full knowledge of their entire system? That puts severe limits on the potential tooling we can use, and goes counter to one of the core ideas of software engineering: abstraction.

> And you're saying you trust that other person's machine and security more than your own by storing critical data there.

Yes, I trust security teams and engineers whose job is security and reliability more so than I trust myself, in much the same way that I'd trust a surgeon to do surgery better than myself. I realize that there's certification/training differences that may be relevant, but in general, the same ideas apply.
And "print items[0]" is actually O(n) where n is the size of the string. Maybe even O(n^2) if the item is a big number and a binary to decimal conversion is required.

But it is doesn't matter here because we have chosen n to be the size of the array, because it is what we are studying.

Here it is big-O "constant time" because the execution time doesn't depend on on the size of the array, assuming it is really big. Not that every call of the function will take the same time to run.

The reality is much more complicated, with things like caches to take into account. As a result, complexities under O(n) often don't mean much in practice. But the higher you go, the more important it becomes. As you get to O(n^2) it is time to take a hard look at your algorithms, or make really sure that n is small and stays small.
I see what you're saying, and I'm on board with that. But isn't it sort of a tautology? I mean, these seems to be a pretty universal human value, to want some measure of positive, affirmative things to happen to us. Even to the point that some people drive themselves (and their families) into the dirt, killing themselves trying to achieve what they think will give them that kind of self-actualization.
Different tools have differences though. And some tools harm people more easily than others, independently of the person who uses them.

I don't understand why alcohol has such an important place in some cultures and I find disturbing the degree to which it is associated with social activity. However, I still consider LSD to be a more dangerous drug.
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The theory sounds great. But why then, our streets are lined with homeless, and our nations are stricken with poverty?
Could it be that the only real aim and motivation of market traders is to earn money?
One day, maybe.... when these are replaced with DAOs on the blockchain. But until then it's the Wolf of Wall Street.
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There already have been cases where FBI-employees stalked their love interests. If you allow the access, it will be abused.

> People in tech generally seem to have an extremely hard time to grasp a basic premise: consent.

It is not necessarily people in tech since those had a very tight grasp around the topic, at least historically. But the field has widened a lot.
There's a certain logic to using an "honest" mechanism even if it is not theoretically revenue optimal: non-honest mechanisms put the cost of optimizing bids on the buyers, which ultimately reduces the budget they could spend on ads. (The only honest mechanisms for this type of auction are not revenue-maximizing.)
Sorry :( When or if you figure this out, please do a Show HN.
Some shameless begging: if anyone picked up https://github.com/tridactyl/keyboard-api, it would make Vimperator-style WebExtensions much better as we'd be able to respond to user input everywhere in Firefox. We haven't been able to find the time to work on it. I'd be delighted to help anyone who was interested get started.
Thank you, that's really interesting to hear a first-person perspective about the cultural changes.

> [Allowing] females to marry without consent..may risk a revolt..

Wow, I didn't realize how strongly people (I guess in this case mainly men) felt about this issue. I'm all for women's rights and liberation, but I see that it must be done in a sensitive manner, as it relates to fundamental values of religion, gender roles, and I suppose power dynamics in society.
There’s that saying, something about 10 years of experience vs 10 years of doing the same thing (‘1 year of experience 10 times’ or something like that).

I also remember someone bringing up a good point (it might have been here or something I watched, I can’t remember) that software engineers don’t actually get that many ‘attempts’ at doing a full software system from scratch. How often does the average software engineer get to design a system from requirements, build a system from scratch, take it through production and then into maintenance in that length of time?
Long hours, fun when you young, not so much fun as you get older. I have worked year and a half in such company in Toronto, boss bring you beer, dogs running around (pet all you can, if you a dog person), cocktail hours every day (we called it flu shots). Worked like 15 hours for 6 months, found other job and left.
I like that math is a gate that you need to pass to prove yourself. The fact that you're a code monkey can get you so far. You need to know the fundamentals and be able to think. HN hates math. Good, less competition.
The upshot of this argument is that this is valuable activity. We need markets to price tradable assets and provide liquidity.

The counterargument is that there are diminishing and/or negative returns to increased liquidity and velocity.

Take just stocks. Liquidity is not a problem. You have liquidity whether trades take minutes or milliseconds. Pricing? I'd say we have pricing covered too, at least the pricing that more/faster algorithmic trading will contribute.

Meanwhile, all this stuff costs money, people, resources that aren't available for actual productive work instead of overhead.
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The explicit consent request is what they can do. It should have been there from the start, but better late than never.