skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many countries it's illegal to grow tobacco on your own, while it's perfectly legal to buy the industrial product - because government wants their tax money - and I think that's also the reason why the tobacco industry is not more regulated. It's still a huge money not just for the manufactures, but also for governments, and you don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Not a very convincing reply. Are you claiming that the printing of money unbacked by gold in a gold standard system didn't matter at all?
This is also my experience. Except I have seen it a lot with females also. Maybe because my family in law is Chinese I am more exposed to it.

China sure has a lot of empty very loud barrels.
Get a gym membership and go every day. If you have trouble going routinely sign up for classes or a personal trainer so you feel more obligated to go on a regular basis.
Can be explained because the economy is weaker.
It really depends. In general I prefer charging by the task but that assumes a well-scoped and predictable task. That works for some things and not for others.

Of course, there are a number of professions (law, accounting, etc.) where hourly charges are absolutely the norm. I've done some legal work and it was in some ways very nice to get paid whenever you were "on the clock."
This is a great story. So when the original poster suggested working 2 jobs, you didn't tell the story about how you worked two jobs to build your own business and how it is a great idea that brought you success, you instead told the story about how you fired a guy that worked two+ jobs.

I guess that blows my mind, you have a great origin story. It seems we agree on more than I realize, we just assumed very different things.

Congrats on all the success you have had with starting your own business and the hard work it took to make it.

You've helped me to reflect on my own biases with your posts and replies.
That’s the opposite of our experience on VLC and Firefox was sharing our opinion: mingw-w64 people are skilled, nice and very clever and think about all use cases.

This is how we are able to support configurations that even MS does not support…

Also, a contrario from what this threads seems to say, the Windows SDK headers are faaaar from being open source compatible
Precisely because of things like this.

Epidemiologists look only at the pandemic aspect. Politicians should look at the economy, the welfare, the general health, the strategic issues, and more. If you really think that an epidemiologist's response will account for things like mental health of toddlers you are mistaken.

I know that politicians have a bad name today but they are still elected officials who have an incentive (elections) to do what's best for the country as a whole.

Just to clarify- it was epidemiologists who pushed, understandably from their point of view, for the same lockdowns you define overreaching. It was mostly politicians who were the most reluctant to apply them. And the pressure in this direction was mostly from populism (Trump, Bolsonaro...), and from the finance/treasure ministries which feared the economy crisis.
I have 'lsd -al' aliased as 'l', it works fantastic.
Pretty much everyone has incomplete world views in their 20s/30s and gets a reality check as they make decisions and reap the consequences. It's just a matter of what particular lessons your parents / schooling / experiences failed to flesh out until then.
I suppose they're the paying customers.
Sure. But the study is quite specific:

> The study aims to understand how websites would respond to real users, while accommodating websites that may have less capacity to respond.

That is, they're not interested in what the website's policies are via questionnaires. They're prodding them under false pretenses to see what would happen. This is definitely human subjects research.
Yeah the thing is, if your current job has random meetings that pop up from time to time or if they change the recurring time of your scrum or something…. And it overlaps with the 2nd jobs scrum, then you’re pretty much screwed.
The short answer is: because client software doesn't implement that.

The longer answer is: the certificate system absolutely does support issuing sub-CAs with "name constraints", which would let LE issue you, instead of a wildcard host certificate, an intermediate CA which you can use to issue host certs only in your own part of the name space. It solves this problem very neatly.

However, see point 1 again: client support is lacking. OpenSSL and NSS handle it, IIRC the Windows and Android implementations are tolerable, but Apple's homegrown SSL implementation doesn't. (It's not even a new feature — it's in the original PKIX RFCs from, what, 25 years ago.)

And without client support, CAs aren't going to do the work to be able to issue them, which means we're stuck with the far-less-secure approach of wildcard certs with shared (!) private keys, or unconstrained sub-CAs.
Thanks for commenting :-). I probably would have classified what you describe as a coarse-grained synchronization problem though. There needs to be a little runtime-y support for the connection and request object handling, but that can live in a central place and be exposed as a simple (blocking?) function call. It's almost an "off-the-shelf" situation. Individual request handlers can be programmed without any concern for synchronization (at least with regards to the request object, and apart from that most request handlers are rather isolated from each other). Any particular request is never handled by more than 1 thread at once. It's only 1 logical thread, as is evidenced by the existence of thread-per-connection implementations.

I am starting to think that this is a good example of what I wanted to express in my parent post - maybe synchronization issues can more often than not constrained to a few central places, maybe we don't have to litter code with locks and unlocks so much? Maybe web request processing architecture is not that primitive and other domains can learn from it? Maybe a lot of nitty-gritty synchronization could be centralized if the "it needs to happen right here, right now" constraint is lifted?
You don't even need to go that deep. Does tobacco hurt others? Except for smokers costing the state more on average, which should never be a crime by itself, not really. I don't like cigarette smoke and think we should take obnoxious smells more seriously, but the logical conclusion is not banning tobacco use.
I think we believe (implicitly or explicitly) that "signaling" and "credential gaming[1]" are all the name of the game. I believe the best thing a college can do is place you in a community of people trying to learn together. A college fails this when you just have a bunch of people trying to past tests in solitude.

I want self-taught to be viable. I consider myself self-taught. I am one of those liberal arts majors that made my way into a data engineering career. I don't regret taking liberal arts but that's more due to a combination of luck, privilege, and personality.

[1] https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/degrees-of-anxiety/
I'm a cigar smoker as well and I think it's unfortunate that cigars are often lumped in with other tobacco products.
Until recently, Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_an...
Who taught this man that college was The Great Equalizer?

I was taught (for better or worse), by STEM grad parents no less, that the only college to strive for is an elite liberal arts education, and the purpose was to broaden my horizons and make connections. It explicitly wasn't to decide on a career and learn hard job skills.
Okay. Just like any other software that should be firewalled in to only connect to what it should connect to. Moreover, I think meta sploit already has this vulnerability built in so it should be trivial to test/fuzz the application.
Every college I've researched claims that their graduates, on average, make $XXX,XXX/year. That number is usually enough to pay back their tuition. Unfortunately, what they don't tell you, is that is very bimodal.
It's because to many, aesthetics > function. This drives me INSANE. If you make a UX that most people can't use for reasons a, b, and c, who CARES how pretty it looks? This is also true for accessibility, especially for older people who are more likely to have reading issues and presbyopia. Everything is designed for 22 year olds with perfect vision and the best hardware.

It's often on the marketing and exec teams. I had to be very firm in some of our UX decisions because yes, it does look a little less polished this way, but a lot of our audience is elderly and they need to be able to read what we're giving them.

And this isn't even getting into how many sites break if you have any accessibility shortcuts or defaults set up on your browser. I'm slightly visually impaired and have pages set to load at 150% zoom (on a 4k monitor) and a minimum font size of 12. It's absurd how many sites that breaks.
> They will manage just fine because they are exposed to enough maskless people at home and in other social settings

The wealthy kids have that opportunity. Kids with natural social skills may be fine too.

However, kids with two parents that are working 4 jobs won't reach their full potential. Many kids already have issues from this; and it's awful that their voices and their parents voices - and their psychologists voices - aren't being heard.

Myself, I find it abhorrent that people are casually brushing aside a clear major developmental impact on an entire generation of growing children. The cost benefit ratio seems awfully bad.
That math doesn't work out, because the infection fatality ratio measures fatality - non-existence - not impaired existence.

Long covid is a thing, and affects a staggeringly large percentage of people who get covid and do not die, significantly affecting the rest of their lives. One recent study claims an infection impaired-quality-of-life ratio of over 50% (https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/how-many-people-get-...).

And in the other direction, we have lived over 2% of our lives in the pandemic living our lives, certainly not as well as any of us would have hoped, but living them nonetheless.

So either the math needs to take into account the reduced quality of life from those affected by covid (not to mention those affected by losing family members, caretakers, etc., those affected by knock-on effects like delayed surgeries, and so forth), or it needs to say, well, we haven't died from the so-called "lockdowns," so if any lives at all were saved, that outweighs the 0% of time we spent dead during them.

It is certainly still possible that the interventions were still net negative, but it's not as simple as 1% of the population dying from covid < 2% of people's lives spent in "lockdowns."
Strongly disagree.

People who call for authoritarian measures such as using force in order to prevent people from leaving their homes, from associating with friends and family, and from engaging in business, should not have the best assumed of them.

They have malicious intentions a priori because they treat controlling others with the same level of discipline as they would choosing which flavour of jam to put on their toast in the morning.

They are enemies of freedom and democracy; I'd argue they are truly terrorists, in that they seek to use fear and terror to control others' behaviours.

People who _explain and convince_ are interested in what you call discussion. People who use force against you unless you do exactly what they tell you are not engaging in discussion, they're engaging in an attempt at control.
Ok, fair.
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I’m self taught. I also don’t recommend this route for career since you miss out on opportunities or have to make up for credentialing through different ways.

Self teaching is viable for people who usually have talent, grit or often both.
Shitty code should be rejected too, if they have any kind of a standard for of quality. If it runs slow during testing, how do you think users will feel when they run it on their systems?

Code that makes your system appear infected with malware is indistinguishable from actual malware.
I honestly don't get why we just don't have options. That's what we did back in the Dark Ages for things like resolutions. Let people set whether they want high or low contrast.

I also feel this re: dark and light modes, as somebody whose astigmatism makes dark mode LESS usable than light mode. I get it, dark mode is awesome for most people. Please don't make it mandatory.
> I would have thought to just fine them

What happens when they don't pay their fines? There has to be some backup plan and it's usually jail. You could keep increasing the fine for as long as they don't pay, but they you end up with loads of bankrupt people.

> or tax purchases out of existence

That creates a black market. In the UK, where tobacco taxes are high, it's quite easy to find small shops and individuals who will sell illegally imported cigarettes at a fraction of the price.
The country of Oman has something like this. If you are not Muslim, you can apply for a permit which will allow you to purchase alcohol in restaurants and state-owned liquor shops.
> This is likely a script that somehow avoided google's malware scanning pipelines.

I can't think of a good reason for scripts through google ad syndication to be asking for camera and microphone permissions. I'd assume Google runs these scripts in something like a lab environment to see what's ultimately invoked before deploying them to production? If so, would this be indicative of both a deliberate controls bypass and a ToS violation by the ad network?

Sounds like Google Syndication may have taken care of this by enabling Permissions Policies(1) across its domains? I can't tell because the article references Feature Policy (a predecessor to Permissions Policies(2)) "in Safari" even though Feature and Permissions Policies, as best as I understand them, are delivered from the origin for implementation by the browser. So I'm kinda confused.

And if they don't implement it, it tells me they're totally fine with this kind of fingerprinting.

(1)https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Feature_Po...
(2)https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions-policy-1/

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A prior version of this comment suggested Google should add permissions policies. I since edited it to clarify that I'm quite confused over whether it's something Google already implemented or something Safari overlaid on top of Google syndication origins since I can't verify using the origins themselves. The article seems to suggest it's something Safari specific even though the spec for both FP and PP involves receiving a set of permissions from the origin as a header and implementing them in the browser.
Kids up to 11 years old in France are graded in colors, not numbers or A-F grading.

Also, baccalaureat now includes has a “Grand oral”, an standup exam where women succeed much better, where presentation matters way more than depth, and where positive discrimination can take place without leaving a trail.
> using pointers or references everywhere and building complicated object graphs is a recipe for object lifetime issues.

It's also that indices are the better and cleaner "identities" compared to pointers. Pointer values include runtime baggage, and it shows if one tries to do parallel arrays or serialization.
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Zhu took the tests and get admitted, like the rest of his peers(Jiang, Hu, Wen, Li,etc) they're all true graduates from the best universities in China then, which explains why China made leaps and bounds under their leadership.

Xi is the only exception among them. Xi got in college without _any_ tests, purely because he has a powerful father then. It's said he could not understand a thing taught and there is no way he could graduate(or admitted). Indeed it's unimaginable for a 6th grader to take calculus in the top universities all of a sudden.

Xi even said he has a PhD degree, it's so laughable he had to remove that claim himself.
Forced sterilization and religious conversion (not to mention the occasional organ harvesting) isn't genocide?
On the other hand most people in the 50/60s would also fail the brevet (or baccalaureat for that matter). I can't speak for the math level but I do know that school in the 60s required you to learn every single prefecture and chef-lieu by heart in geography classes, and the name of every single bone and organ in biology classes. Sometimes modern reforms aren't all that bad.
> who cares if the CCP is a narcissist control freak.

My first impression is that CCP and Taiwan remind me of the archetype of the unwanted suitor that never gets the message and keeps on pursuing a disinterested woman. But I think your framing CCP in psychological terms is just as if not more apt. I'm just pasting a list of symptoms of narcissism. Not all apply, but strikingly, enough symptoms do apply to CCP for a positive diagnosis:

Grandiosity
Exaggerated sense of self-importance
Feeling superior to others and that one deserves special treatment
Feelings are often accompanied by fantasies of unlimited success, brilliance, power, beauty, or love which more often than not cover for hidden anxiety
Excessive need for admiration
Must be the center of attention
Often monopolize conversations
Easily offended, slighted, mistreated, depleted, and enraged when ignored
Engages in blaming
Long-held grudges
Superficial and exploitative relationships
Relationships are based on surface attributes and not the unique qualities of others
Others are only valued only to the extent they are viewed as beneficial
Lack of empathy
Severely limited or totally lacking ability to care about the emotional needs or experiences of others, even loved ones
Engages in cruelty
Identity disturbance
Sense of self is highly superficial, extremely rigid, and often fragile
Self-stability depends on maintaining the view that one is exceptional
Grandiose sense of self is easily threatened
Patients retreat from or deny realities that challenge grandiosity
Difficulty with attachment and dependency
Relies on feedback from the environment
Relationships only exist to shore up positive self-image
Interactions are superficial
Intimacy is avoided
Chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom
When attention and praise are not available, patients feel empty, bored, depressed, or restless
Vulnerability to life transitions
Difficulty maintaining reality-based personal and professional goals over time
Compromises required by school, jobs, and relationships may feel unbearable
Young adults may have a “failure to launch”
Had not heard this about vaccines but definitely regarding COVID infections. Also a “long tail” before full recovery (anecdata only).
Greenhouse gardening. It always has stuff coming up.

I tried to write that in a humorous manner, but farmers are going broke while their suppliers prosper. A hundred years ago 98% of us were farmers and gardeners. Today only 2% of us are. The pyramid has inverted and we are in peril.

I had a lead carpenter with thirty years experience who quit when he discovered he could make more money selling homemade cookies at the local farmer's market.
I am an independent and I do not support this bill. Can we please not make it sound so black and white?

Republicans aren’t evil, and neither are democrats. Both groups exist and have the right to fight for their agendas. Accept it.
> unlike opiates and methamphetamine

Here you're picked the extremes to make your point stronger. There's plenty of prohibited substances and behaviours that are much closer to the gray area that this article is pondering on.

I don't have a clear view on this topic myself - but there's too many people in this thread claiming that it's absurd to even have the discussion - which I think is lazy and disingenuous.
What do you mean a "fair bit beyond"?

I don't think imprisoning a large proportion of a certain ethnic group due to BS laws around extremist ideology is all that different from imprisoning an even greater number of a different ethnic group (1 in 3 black men imprisoned) due to BS laws producing a 100:1 sentencing disparity based on which drug is more popular among a certain ethnic group.
Yes. It’s their right to have a voice and it’s discriminatory to think otherwise.
So you're just going to make vague allusions to some great evil being done while providing no data? Have you thought about why you get flagged when you discuss this topic?
That is actually first somewhat reasonable implementation I have heard. Still, traditional SaaS in this field might be better option. Not that I think it is big enough market for anyone to enter considering all the involvements in financial side and potential legal implications.
Are you a PRC-funded troll or misinformation spreader? You keep misinterpreting arguments here and posting silly (and wrong) rebuttals.

Nobody is calling disproportionate imprisonment "genocide" (we call them "lockdowns" LOL).

The "genocide" accusation against China is (these days) focused on / caused by (alleged) sterilization of its Uighur population. Which undoubtedly is a genocide (extermination of a lineage), if a bit more bloodless than e.g. Holocaust.
> Making it look like this is some sort of US initiated warfare is insanely simplistic, and mostly wrong.

It is a simplification, but it is mostly true. Washington has literally been trying to contain PRC's rise since it was born in 1949. Because duh, China has historically been the most prosperous civilization on the planet and they just got out from under the boot of Western/Japanese imperialism.

War in Korea (and almost over Taiwan). Deny access to 1st island chain.

Sino-Soviet split.

War in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos. Scorched earth policy. Deny access to SEA.

Transition to hybrid war (propaganda-driven psychological warfare) as PRC opened up under Deng.

Tibet.

Tiananmen Sq.

(20 years of relative tolerance, Washington assuming PRC won't get uppity and will follow USSR's fate)

Obama's "China Pivot", anti-BRICS campaign.

South China Sea.

Hong Kong.

ETIM/Xinjiang.

Taiwan.

You can spin Beijing's responses to this containment strategy as "aggression", but frankly that doesn't make much sense unless you believe Washington is entitled to global hegemony.

The fact is that Beijing has been consistently outplaying Washington since Mao. And that makes Washington extremely nervous and irrational.
Then i just get put on another list :)
So bail them out cause it will trickle down to those less fortunate? I've heard that somewhere before. Only about 12 percent of Americans have student loans and the largest burden is among those with advanced degrees.
You're mixing tobacco and nicotine. There are ways to get nicotine in you without consuming tobacco. I know at least of nicotine gums and nicotine patches.
Legally it probably isn't Google's fault. But then again, I don't care. I protect myself.

I use a /etc/hosts file[0] that blocks all of Goog's ad empire and thousands more. I never see YT ads or any other ads anymore. It sucks for the creators, but "safety first" as they say.

Maybe one day Goog starts to care about serving ads that are safe and not intrusive, then I may unblock them again.

Also, I just bought my first iPhone.

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h...
Yeah, a lot of people would, but I honestly can't see why. Application management on Linux is already complicated enough without having to learn a new language to use it effectively. I get that many people find value in its declarative nature, but the reason I think that is so attractive is that the current paradigm is so utterly terrible it makes what should be a relatively niche requirement (declarative application management) look like a good general solution.
Why would the Chinese Room be irrelevant? It's directly connected to the hard problem of consciousness, which is more relevant than ever, if anything.

fMRI can analyze a brain, not an experience, proving that one equals another brings us back to the same problem.
does it have automated paging like git? doesn't look like it.