skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like college fails to live up to being “the great educator” in too many cases too. For those of you who interview new grads, what percent of the time do you interview someone with a degree in the field who can’t do the most basic things in the field? In my experience, it’s pretty high.

Even at the college level, education doesn’t seem to extend past “teaching to the test” horrifyingly often (horrifying, given the amount of time and money our society is spending on it).
Look to their diplomatic behavior around the South China Sea for the last couple of decades.
The way the market works is that there are people who want to buy liquidity (the buy side) and people that are willing to sell that liquidity to them (the sell side).
It doesn't refer to buying or selling lots but rather initiating/fulfilling orders regardless of side.

The buy side are typically pension or hedge funds that act based on predictions they have about the future to maximize long-term the value of their portfolio.
The sell side are either banks or specialized HFT firms that only know the instantaneous price of things and their short-term correlations (and not how they might evolve long-term), whose goal is to collect the difference between bid and ask price, tabling on the fact they can sell back their inventory to someone else before the price goes against them. They expose themselves to the risk that price moves before they can do that, and the difference in price between the bid and ask reflects that uncertainty.

The sell side is essential for the buy side to function, and the competition between them leads them to them providing the tightest possible margins and therefore the best price for investors.

The HFT players provide the tightest prices by being very fast to react to market changes and get out of their risk, which is why it's highly technology-driven.

Thinking they have no value shows lack of understanding of market dynamics. Without HFT firms, investors would just be paying large commissions to banks instead.
The first time google served malicious JS on behalf of a customer was negligent. Maybe the second and third and fourth and fiftieth times too.

It's not 2003 anymore, we're far past negligence at this point.
Nocom – 2b2t Minecraft server exploit using Monte-Carlo localization
Lithuania?
Would you prefer society just ignores this inconvenient fact?

The risk of developmental issues was obvious to many people at the beginning of the lockdowns. Now we have some data. It will help us make better decisions in the future.

Every choice has consequences.
I didn't even express agreement with the quote. OP asked a question. The answer to that question is given right in the VERY short article.
ok, html maybe, because html if anything is easier than the one in 90/00s (no more tables, or divs everywhere)

But in my experience 80% react developers could not layout a page with raw css. I am not even talking anything "fancy" like transitions or animations. They just import libs and frameworks and customize a bit.
The Uigurs, for instance.
The article is from the Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy and is about Canada.
Taking the train over the Rockies they tell a story about Westinghouse[1] inverting the logic on the pneumatic brakes. When first introduced they failed open, meaning the train could move. This was convenient on the flats, but if the train was stopped on a grade and the pressure failed... down the hill you go. So Westinghouse made them fail closed: no pressure, no rolling down the hill. IIRC it saved lives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Westinghouse
This is why I refuse to support college loan bailouts, despite generally supporting welfare. Instead let’s give a bunch of money to kids who forwent an expensive art or social sciences degree to get a solid, practical job.
That was the negative side of it yes, but the positive side was very strong, now we see the negatives of doubling down on emotions instead of reflecting and controling them properly and it's much worse.
Everyone assumes they are the good guy. That’s exactly how the world works, right?
Those anti-fingerprinting tools should make you appear as the most common iPhone as much as possible.
It is true, he did not spend a few years, I misremembered.

Still, this is not from a lack of understanding of the West. There a lot of complex strategic factors that mean that China cannot abandon the idea of holding Taiwan, which means either war or the One China Policy, which requires the behaviour we're seeing now.
Hourly is unprofessional and a conflict of interest with your client.

The worst deal I would sign is a day rate (no logging hours) but fixed scope/duration is far better.
Without paywall:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-college-graduate-parent-stu...
I've never seen companies work so hard to keep applicants away as much as they do today. Boomers are retiring, millenials are looking to fill those roles, X and Z are barely a rounding error (sorry to say). And yet the job descriptions could fill a journal going on about company culture, requirements, ideal candidate, etc. So when a job posting goes up that requires a college degree or equivalent experience you soon learn they really want the later. And if you could get experience without the expensive time wasting degree then what was the point?
IME working less itself doesn't solve the problem, it's more about how you organize your time. I had free Fridays and I would still end up sitting in front of computer all Friday, just doing something else not work... and back when I was freelancing "because that way I can work from anywhere", I've still spent like 99% of days sitting in my home office. In order to change the lifestyle one needs a bit of self-discipline to actually use the chances that they have instead of falling for the routine. If you don't want to live a sedentary lifestyle that just come up with things you can do to change it, like use a standing desk, make small breaks during the day to exercise, go to gym after work. Sticking to it is far harder than finding the time to do it.
In 1994, the Canadian federal government reduced its tobacco excise tax. Quite a lot too, nearly 50%. It wasn't a libertarian whim, or the desperate power grab of a cigar-lover. The black market was rampant. About 30% nationally approaching nearly 100% in some communities. (Clever: you can measure the rate by collecting butts from public ashtrays and the street.)

Prohibition doesn't eliminate demand. And in the Canadian context, with a border with the USA and with some indigenous communities being exempt from federal excise taxes and who use tobacco in religious ceremonies, effectively prohibiting the black market trade seems daunting, both pragmatically and politically. It also raises the old question: are the harms of the substance or the harms of prohibition worse?
If you want to see the ants in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilnv_YKgHog

(The narration can be a little campy but I think HN would enjoy)
Fair point,

it was stated in an ironic mode,
but, I think, help's bringing a wider
context in play.
The enforcement of that fining system will put thousands of people in prison, since fining use necessarily means prohibiting sale (or, fining retail sale necessarily prohibits wholesale, etc). This is a thing people already go to prison for, simply because the licensing fees annoy people.
The article does address this question.
That hasn’t worked well with cannabis. If the price is too high, that allows the black market to thrive. There are three dispensaries on my street. Yet there’s still street-level drug dealers selling illegal cannabis.
Yeah, there’s a big difference between “kid with a CS degree” and “kid who interned at Microsoft for 3 summers and knows industry dev practices well”. This is why internships matter; it doesn’t even have to be a well-known company as long as it teaches you how to work on a dev team (git, agile workflow, DevOps, cloud, etc).

In my experience it’s the tools and tech around working as more than a singleton. That’s the job. To be blunt, most industry jobs do not require a deep computer science background, so the content of the degree is worth less than the experience it gets you access to.
Most people do not get the fortune of dying peacefully in their sleep, regardless of their health habits.
I don't remember having accepted it!

Now, I wouldn't be surprised if that data was shared anyway before I'd clicked, and that in the end, Facebook only pretended having given user's the choice!

And if Facebook provided me the choice, I would happily revoke my consent.
In my case, I just took a full time non-tech salaried job and used my tech skills to automate my duties or do them more quickly. So I work 20 hours but get paid for 40. My company is results oriented and they don't care; they're generally pleased as pie I have a little extra capacity for when emergencies crop up.
Hong Kong was not "annexed". It returned to China's control from the UK by treaty.

"One country, two systems" is being curtailed early, but that is harder to argue against without a foreign power there to do anything about it.
I haven't found anybody actually who would care, only for recent nationalistic voices. If that would be lowered, they wouldn't care less.

And even for those who "cared" I've explained, that imagine yourself as a Taiwanese, who had and always will have a better life than any mainlander. Would they want to have a dictator above themself who beat them up like they did with HKese?
So far, I've found no mainlanders yet who would still insisted to take them over. (of course personally, in chat it might be different)
Then there will be a war. Sad.
Wow, super neat system (i love forgotten analog techniques like these)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBwP3YOxw3I someone made a video about it
On the Google campus there are at least two wifi networks available, one regular one that provides good connectivity, and one that provides degraded connectivity simulating a 2G cellphone connection. Of course one can simulate this easily with a little effort but I found it a nice touch to make this available to everyone at the push of a button.
The difference is that, if they actually did start manufacturing the bomb, China would almost certainly be able to provide incontrovertible evidence.

If they didn't provide evidence, yes, we coule refute it.

The West will pretend that Taiwan wasn't doing that anyways. That's why I said 80%.
Another outsize impact of overreaching quarantine restrictions. Why do we let politicians rather than epidemologists make these decisions?
On the other hand, one of the required lower div CS courses at Berkeley has a project requiring students to implement git from scratch.
You could construct an equivalent argument about bacon.
How do people pay fines? If they are unable to pay what are the penalties? You also just created a black market for people who still want to smoke and that'll produce all kinds of fun.
Or phrased differently, "we don't know how to stop it without causing something worse".

Outright prohibition is massively expensive (prisons, police, loss of taxes), is a gift to criminals who will grow/import it illegally and sell it, and has outsized negative consequences on the people who use it anyways.

Partial prohibition (under X years of age), taxes, and public education work to reduce the amount of it, without most of the negative side effects, so we did those. If you could point at other measures that would further reduce the usage, which didn't come with huge drawbacks, I'm pretty sure we would jump on that as well. Unfortunately, it's not clear any such measures exist.
The idea has crossed my mind before, so I'm quite interested to find someone doing it. What line of work are you in?
It has a runner manager so you can choose whatever WINE runner you like. Default is just the vanilla runtime.
Were you and your parents working 2 jobs on non-conflicting schedules?

I think is perfectly acceptable to work 6-2pm and 2pm-8pm for 2 employers.

But I don’t think it’s ethical to work 2 jobs where the hours are overlapping not on a staggered schedule.

> Have you ever had to work two jobs

Yes, when starting my startup. I woke up at 5am, worked until 9am on my startup, went to my day job and worked a full 8 hours, then came home and worked 6-10pm on the startup. After a couple weeks doing this, I let the CEO of my day job know, and requested they sign a contract saying anything I develop outside of regular business hours is owned by me and not my day job. They approved and signed the agreement. I left to build the startup full time 9 months later.

The key here is just being honest and transparent. You can work 2 jobs, that alone isn’t the problem, the problem is working 2 jobs and going to great lengths hiding it from your employers, calling out sick for fake doctor appointments, fabricating stories as to why you aren’t getting your work done, claiming you have fake medical conditions that prevent you from joining meetings.

The sad part is a few bad apples will ruin it for the rest of us. Remote is easy to abuse. The more it’s abused, the less likely companies are to continue embracing WFH post-COVID. The more it’s abused, the more companies will be compelled to do things like install remote monitoring software, etc.

> the classes we each grew up in

Not that it’s relevant, but I grew up with parents who wouldn’t even pay for a $25/mo gym membership, and told me to go find a job. Same with buying my first car as a teenager and paying gas/insurance. Thank god I dropped out of private college after 3 semesters, all of my loans were in my name, no help from the parents.
> Where I live in the Midwest USA, nobody would care if Hawai'i claimed its independence in some not-harmful-to-tourists-nor-threatening-to-military-fuel-depots fashion.

Also Midwest/Great Lakes and I’m not sure about that. I know I’d be pretty upset about it just as I would be if Texas tried to seriously secede or similar. I wonder what a poll would show? I hadn’t thought about Hawaii like you have but it would be interesting.

I was stationed there too. It felt like America on an island. It was weird.

The Us would never let it happen though. Too strategically important
If you're using emacs as an IDE, what advantage do you get from using LispWorks over the free alternatives like SBCL?
I enjoyed your writing. It looks like you haven't written much since; life get in the way? Readership low? etc?
Look for European companies, they tend to be more flexible about that.
They will manage just fine, because they are exposed to enough maskless people at home and in other social settings. And even in schools, kids often don't follow mask mandates, especially when the teacher steps out, or sets an example by wearing a chin diaper during class.
> Since ads can run arbitrary JS it's hard to enforce policy programmatically.

Letting ads run arbitrary JS is the policy, right? It's not like that's a requirement to make the internet work, that's just a Google policy that trades money for user experience.
You've hit upon the article's exact thesis.
I think the question is asking one thing and asserting another:

- "have you accepted the TOS?" as the question

- "the TOS gives FB access to (all) your WhatsApp data" as the assertion

My questions: do you believe that this new TOS gives FB access to my WhatsApp data? If so, to which of my data? All of it?

I personally don't believe this TOS gives FB access to all of the communication data I have on WhatsApp, and thus rendering e2ee useless, yet, I'm open to learning how I might be wrong on that.
> However, there is no moderation in tobacco. There is no level at which tobacco smoke is safe for the consumer or the people around them or, as we are seeing, even those who are exposed in a tertiary environment.

I've used tobacco products perhaps from 0 - 5 times a year from adulthood on. While not "safe", pretty low risk. I have the same relationship with caffeine and alcohol. Nothing can be all that enjoyable if you do it everyday.

I've often thought of a sort of "vice license", at the age of authority you can apply for a license that you need to buy things like alcohol and tobacco. Everybody gets one that applies and is of age. Then you can voluntarily choose to limit access to a particular vice, and if you are a danger to others a court could limit your access as well.

Casinos already have this model, it's called self-exclusion[0]. It seems like the most humane solution that allows people to still be adults.

[0]https://gamban.com/blog/ban-yourself-from-online-gambling
Ask HN: Programming on Plane Trips
I have side projects on which I am working, but for the most part, they all require the internet.

Anyone have any quick sites from which I can download, while I am at the airport, some projects/problems to work on while I am on the airplane, and internet may be unavailable or bad?

Might be a cool idea to make a site with discrete projects/problem sets specifically designed to be done without access to the internet.
Here's the FitMC Youtube video that first announced the exploit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elqAh3GWRpA

A 2b2t wiki page about the exploit: https://2b2t.miraheze.org/wiki/Nocom

The teaser video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ayxeruAan8
And yet the loved ones decision how to live their lives greatly outweigh what many people would like to see.

Having more pleasurable life when young while trading for a more gruesome death after 80 is not that bad of trade off.

There was a joke:

- Drinking, smoking and whoring shorten your life with 6 years.
- Which six? Between 92 and 98 - take it.
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Construction company founded 1443 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D_Gumi
Well. There's plenty of things that are illegal. How far down the libertarian rabbit hole are you prepared to go?
If all the coreutils on Linux and Mac had color coding and used more “sane defaults”… I’d be so happy.
Smoking doesn't only impact the smoker. Second hand smoke is dangerous too. That's why there is regulation on where it's permitted.

Costs to health care system also impact everyone. Though in the USA private insurers are starting to pass on some of the costs to smokers. And it could be argued that smokers often die young enough to offset health care costs of later life.
At this point in the pandemic we've should have come up with models that factor in the externalities of lockdown and factor that into policy decisions. That somehow still hasn't happened. People say "things are pretty much back to normal" but parents with kids in school know this is not true.
Also for anyone wondering, the desktop clients can be pointed to a custom control server (eg self-hosted headscale) relatively easily; but the android app needs to be edited / recompiled / sideloaded; and the iOS app can’t be pointed at a custom server at all :(
But there's no legal issue with working multiple jobs in the US.

Most employment agreements pay for 40 hours per week.

What employees do with the rest of their time is none of the employer's business.

They could be spending all that time driving an Uber, developing an open-source project, do contract/consultant work for a friend's startup, or just play video games.

As long as the work is getting done, the employer has no recourse unless it gets outright stipulated in the actual contract.

Your conflating of "working two software engineering jobs" and "stealing company data and selling it" doesn't make logical sense.

Working multiple jobs is not an easy way to make a lot of money. It takes time and effort.

Measuring employee productivity over "hours in chair" is the way to go.
Seriously, I wish I had your optimism that governments reflect the people. I really do.

In my worldview, and I am likely at least partially wrong, I think that almost all governments are totally controlled by corporate and elite interests - same as news media.

I do try to not get too upset by this, and I just try to be a decent person. Really, I am just an average person so what else can I do?
Is "Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy" a legit academic journal? This paper sounds more like a rant to be posted on reddit than a scholar paper to be published on a legit journal.

The author jumped from "Tobacco smoking has no health benefits" to "tobacco has no benefit". Seriously, this shouldn't even get passed for a high school writing class.
How about the company you work for disallow arbitrary JS in the ads they serve? We already know the answer though. Bottom line over doing what is right.
People who support lockdowns aren't interested in facts; their viewpoints are shaped by marketing.

It's been blindingly obvious from the moment we knew that coronavirus had a 1% IFR pre-vaccine that all of the restrictions have been net negative.

We're now over 2% of our lives into this _by any definition_, which makes it utterly incontrovertible.

That's why we have constant "reminders" everywhere; it's an attempt to bypass logic by simply bombarding people with nonsense.
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I would happily set all browsers to always deny all ads and untrusted domains the ability to use microphone and camera at all times. So there's no need for an avalanche of alerts, it just shouldn't be permissible for a resource from an untrusted source.

It may be widely used, but for a highly concentrated set of sites. I can't think of an occasion I've used it beyond Google, Microsoft, and Zoom properties. Perhaps Slack and Discord too? So there must be a better way.
Whoever wrote this travelled in time to observe one of my fraternity's meetings before writing the manual. Points 2, 4, are 5 particularly poignant.
ZIP does support uncompressed data, so this could easily be added in a backward-compatible way if deemed worthwhile.
I used the stock charging cable which is USB A -> micro-USB. That either connected to a laptop with a USB-A or through the apple dongle.
ugh the crypto virus is spreading to zombie companies
> Since ads can run arbitrary JS

What a fantastic idea to create a platform where anyone can pay to have code ran on millions of end-user machines, embedded in random websites. What could possibly go wrong?
If you want to write fast software, use a slow computer.
You know what, that's the first good plan I've seen for handling the issue.
I'd check out programming koans in your favorite language (or one you want to learn).

Examples:

* http://rubykoans.com/
* https://github.com/crazymykl/rust-koans
* https://github.com/c-koans/c_koans
* https://github.com/mrdavidlaing/javascript-koans
I have found that for me, the biggest boost to happiness is the ability to say no to things I don't want to do.

I truly enjoy working in tech, but not on every project. At first I was worried that I wouldn't find enough new projects, but now looking back, I never had much downtime after I started being much more selective. It's just that instead of SQL / Excel stuff, I now work on real time audio video processing, AI and robotics. And that makes me happy :)

Plus recently, a friend and me have been wasting a lot of time on the Gocoder Bomberland competition. Both the social aspect and the immediate feedback of video game development make that really enjoyable.
no, they have so much data because their models are so bad. the vast data is used to give the illusion of good models by sheer volume, so little random matches are made more likely. that’s why google and the like want to hoover up our data, they’re desperate to keep the gravy train rolling long enough to create the good models and keep it going some more.
Which doesn't, in itself, justify a particularly nasty form of death for hundreds of thousands of people. Why let the perfect be the enemy of the good?
Please name some of these skills.