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>We've been making the equivalent of HMM-based "music in the style of (i.e. generative stochastic processes modeled on) Beethoven" since the 60s, but such a design is to going to write the next hit. Or if it does, it won't write the following 10 by itself.

This is important to recognize, yes, but it's also important to realize that for every 1 AI agent that writes a hit, there's going to millions others (or more) crunching away at songs that aren't hits (like musicians currently, but many more, working more hours, and pumping out many more songs each).

The next 10 hits don't need to all come from the same AI musician to "take over" pop. They just need to come from 10 of millions others all competing with each other (and humans) for those top spots.

Even with current technology, this really isn't so much a music generation problem as it is a filter problem asking "how do you know which of these billion (generated or not) songs are going to be hits?".
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I don't think the library comparison is close enough. More like you leave your cherished pet at the vet for the week and the vet decides to put it down because there are too many pets and their font 5 terms and conditions displayed on the wall allow them to do so.
I whished there was something like this with a modern curation. I'd probably hate even more pieces, but also have a higher chance to see something interesting.
And it's the exact opposite in French and presumably all (most?) other Romance languages as well: female table, male government.
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They probably do have some sort of automation, but it's likely specific to their environment.
Do you have a source for this? I've never seen anything about rebates.
Grammatical genders are nonsensical and almost completely arbitrary. For example "girl" is an "it" in German.

Languages also differ significantly in terms of which grammatical gender they assign to things.

It's worse than useless.
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Nobody prevents you to write contracts in a more restrictive language. For example: https://github.com/ethereum/viper

Or create your own. I am sure the creators of Solidity are aware of its limitations and quirks. But as far as I can tell they felt they had to ome up with something fast. And it grew from there.

But as I said: Feel free to create your own language for the EVM if Solidity does not fit your needs or requirements. With a system allowing Turing completenes it should be possible to create a language that removes Turing completeness (for more security). It would be impossible the other way round.
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Brilliant! now how do I filter companies based on this criteria? Serious question.
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I'd say going for a walk without phones in a noisy place is good. Any fixed facility can easily be bugged.

Cameras are harder to hide, so handing over some folded paper that you wrote on in private will be even easier. Just burn after reading :)
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Define secure. Is leakage of meta data (who communicated with whom, when, and what size of data was exchanged) relevant? Or just the content? Is reliability of delivery part of "secure"?
Terrifying because they are Chinese and you are not?

Is that what your unhelpful 'lol' implies?
You literally said, "complexity is not my problem". You are the problem.

This is how projects end up with millions of lines of black box dependencies. This is why `node_modules` folders that are hundreds of megabytes exist.

Take a look at benchmarks [0] and tell me, if any framework performs faster than vanilla JS. They probably are faster than vanilla code that you'd be able to write on your own, but that says more about your abilities than the performance of frameworks.

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> One of the things that I find really disturbing is that, every so often, google will just "change" the payment computation and suddenly people who were putting 50-60 hour weeks into youtubing to make a fairly minimal living are suddenly seeing their income cut by huge percentages.

This is why a lot of people encourage youtubers to diversify away from ad-revenue. A youtuber that relies solely on ad-revenue is like a supplier with only one customer. They are at the complete mercy of the whims and competency of their single customer.

This is a large part of the reasoning behind patreon. Then there are people like CGP grey that diversify to podcasts, have patreon, sell merch and get paid-for promotions.
What's your threat model? If you don't care about metadata and you can exchange keys, use some form of symmetric encryption. If you care about metadata then things are a lot more complicated.

But if you can assume that you have a secure channel for exchanging keys, you can just use that channel for communication.
I tried to teach it but it didn't work =(
This. Provided, however, that the key is literally random (not pseudorandom), and never reused.
Consider steganography.
Maybe TerryADavis, he gets a lot of praise and admiration on HN for creating TempleOS, but his comments are often downvoted, and with good reason.
You are lucky you could even get in. At some point ~2yrs ago, all my Skype logins stopped working. Resetting them took me into some maze of a process where i'd end up in loops going between legacy Skype logins to Microsoft email based logins and back.

No matter what I did, I could not reset the password and just gave up. I redirect all conferences to GChat/Facetime. It was almost like a hiring brain-teaser. I guess I'm not going to be hired at Microsoft.
> Don't know why they put in stories tho.

That's the problem man! You wanted an app to talk to your friends. Now you got some kind of snapchat clone.
Disclaimer: I'm a Spanish newb.

While there are good things about Spanish, speaking as a native English speaker there are annoyances too. One big on compared to English is that English is seemingly more economical with syllables than Spanish for many common words e.g. Demasiado, todavia, many adverbs like recientemente.

Spanish does seem to be one if the better languages for gender of nouns in that fairly simple rules seem to correctly classify many but still not having a gender for table or chair is imho inherently better from a cognitive load standpoint. Likewise the agreement of article, gender and number is much simpler than, say, German.

English also wins with much simpler verb conjugation. The forms in Spanish are distinct enough that pronoun subjects are often dropped. I prefer "I speak" and "we speak" to "[yo] hablo" and "[nosotros/nosotras] hablamos". Again English is far more economical with syllables here.

Spanish object pronouns are a PITA because they're ambiguous to the point that you gave to add "a ella" to things.

I also find the number of accents used to be incredibly tedious but at least they don't seem to be critical and are consistent with the pronunciation.

Modern English also has only one second person form. Spanish has 3 or 4 (tu, usted, ustedes and Latin American Spanish doesn't seem to use the vosotros form that Spain does).

I also find the ordering of pronouns common in mainland European languages a PITA meaning objection pronouns before the verb, non-pronoun objects after.

English actually front weights important information pretty darn well from a linguistic standpoint but at least Spanish doesn't have anything silly like German's separable verbs or putting the verb last in Nebensatzen.

The interesting thing about English was that it lost a lot of the linguistic bullshit (basically) during the centuries wheer it wasn't the official language of England (French was), this being the transition from Old English (essentially a foreign language at this point) to Middle English (mostly comprehensible to Modern English speakers).
One way to calculate this would be to use this controversy formula (https://math.stackexchange.com/a/318510/10887) on all comments of a user whose total karma exceeds a certain threshold, say 1000, and then add up those controversy scores.

The problems is that the HackerNews API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API) only provides a total score for a comment, instead of up and down votes, so you'd have to modify your controversy formula to use an appropriate measure of dispersion instead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_dispersion).

I'm not a statistician myself, so I can't help further.
Yeah, you can get either heavy tread or spiky tires. (e.g. http://www.wiggle.co.uk/schwalbe-winter-kevlar-guard-rigid-s...).

My dad uses a tricycle in anything more than an inch or so of snow, as a little skid on a trike is much less likely to have you coming off than on a regular bike.
I personally don't see why all advertisers would want to shy away from war. I'd guess an ad for the next call of duty game would probably run better on average on such videos.

Heck, it should be clear that advertisers don't choose what videos they advertise on, so why should they even care what their ads run on? I really don't buy the complaint that 'GM is sponsoring terrorism' when an ad of theirs is ran on an ISIS video.
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Not "always backup" but "archive at the end of each year".
since the downvotes are painful to me.

Why?
I really find the 'trending' page of youtube to be horrible. However, the personalized suggestions are great, youtube is pretty good at showing me stuff I want to see. Combine this with a few channels I actively follow, and there goes another afternoon.
> Be it them being down, be it your uplink being down, be it your dns malfunctioning, be it another massive spamhaus-sized-internet-disrupting-ddos.

I have my certbot set to run once a week with --keep-until-expiring, so it will try to issue a new certificate when the old one's remaining validity is less than a month. I could also set it to run daily, because it doesn't actually do anything if the cert is still valid for long enough. But a week works on my (admittedly small) scale.

So unless you're experiencing a multi-week DNS malfunction or multi-week DDoS (in which case you're in some deep shit anyway), you should be fine.
If you take a look at startups raising money with ICOs, they are usually based in some sort of exotic country in Asia or something like Gibraltar. I think there are couple of reasons for this.

1) Tax avoidance
2) "Safe" jurisdictions (so they don't have to worry about any repercussions in case they just run away with the money)
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Exactly. And provided that the length of the one time pad is EQUAL TO or BIGGER than the plaintext.

But this is not very practical
If they appear to be sexist to progressively oriented speakers of languages without gender, the problem isn’t the language, but the ignorance of the progressively oriented speakers of languages without gender.

The masculinity or femininity of a table ought not be controversional except among those who are eager for things about which to be offended. It would seem there are certain groups of people that seem to derive pleasure from being offended. It might also seem, to speakers of languages with gender, that these so-called progressives are being regressive by imposing their linguistic ideology upon others.

Of course I support sex equality for humans, but really sometimes so-called progressives venture into Newspeak territory or at the very least, absurdity. “Womyn” is another example of similar nonsense.
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Every Facebook user, ten years in the future?

Seriously though, that does seem to be the direction things are headed.
Before someone complains that LE is going to spam you with expiry notices: If you set up your process right (i.e. certbot cronjob with --keep-until-expiring), certs will be renewed early enough that the mail reminder never triggers unless there's an actual problem.
If you want it to not only be the most secure, where the answer in my opinion is symmetric encryption, but also the easiest to use, I would say using the app "Signal" on a smartphone. As long as you're able to meet afk and you can verify the safety number between the two phones, you should be good to go. Disappearing messages adds another layer of security.

I'm sure there are ways that are more secure in terms of encryption strength and opsec, but in the real world most people you want to communicate with aren't savvy enough for most "truly secure" setups to be realistic.
Mattermost isn't exactly a simple bbcode-enabled chatroom though. They have support for multiple projects, an API etc. Achieving this with just text files would be quite the headache.
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If people check in their node_modules, that's a good sign to stay away from the project.
because OP is referring to escape characters I assume it is a typo for "\n"
Django does the same thing. urls.py are imported automatically at startup, even if you run a regular manage.py command that doesn't run the server.
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Tabloid press looking for juicy info on those they want to monster could also be used to check celebs relatives for anything juicy.

One of the uk tabloids paid a lot for access to the medical records of Ian Brady (a notorious child serial killer)
…which themselves are sketchy, so it stands to reason that any scamsters would be extremely aware of 'em.
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Ask this on https://forum.quantifiedself.com/

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The question was not about usability. It was about secure communication. OTP does provide perfect secrecy
Surely everybody on HN knew that already?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see anything in the commenting guidelines about this.

It's still a pointless comment that would be better suited to Reddit. But it's not in contravention of the guidelines as far as I can tell.
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>I believe my research demonstrated the existence of several groups and viewpoints.

I am not in anyway contending that, all I was noting was that your demostration (of what I would have assumed to be self-evident "there exist several groups and different viewpoints") is backed by so little data (and as written on the paper "a small sample of students in coding bootcamps in one part of only one country") that the title "What I Learned From Researching Coding Bootcamps", swiftly followed by a graph with "big numbers" such as "Graduation rates of coding bootcamps compared to Computer and Information Science degrees in the US. " seemed to me like a "quantitative" study.
And notes like "Also, we noticed that at least four students happened to be married to programmers, and at least seven others had parents, siblings or other important people in their social circle who were programmers." do seem like a statistical approach.
"Again, Yeoh beckoned him to leave, and he did. "

How is this sexual ASSAULT ??!

Is any unwanted advance sexual assault?

Is asking twice sexual assault or is asking 3 times sexual assault?

Is ASKING assualt?

Is steering towards a kiss, but being pushed away (and then accepting defeat) sexual assault.
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Oh no, this has been going on for about a year, with increasingly more ludicrous amounts of money when random people living in exotic countries with questionable jurisdiction are starting companies and without any product, just a whitepaper (so PDF file with some nice pie charts and buzzwords) raise tens of millions of USD in exchange for blockchain tokens which then get traded on exchanges where speculators further drive up their price.

It's becoming especially more concerning now that we have one man companies raising hundreds of millions of dollars in couple of hours/days. This can't end well.
Does a one time pad qualify for what you defined as "key exchange"?

One time pads are proven to be perfectly safe as long as they are used correctly (read the first paragraph of the wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad )
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Surely, making the recycling process more complicated does not help.
I would throw a vote in for Joshua Stein, person who started https://lobste.rs.

> I was a frequent reader and contributor to Hacker News since 2007,
> but got hellbanned[1] in 2012 for complaining about the mystery-
> moderators constantly changing submission titles for the worse.

[1] - https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...
I guess it's just the general loss aversion people experience - at least that's it for me.
Yep, this.

If the key is pseudorandom instead of purely random, then you have yourself a stream cipher and not the OTP.
You say that as if it's a good thing...
I doubt it. What we will see next year will be thousands of unsophisticated naive investors losing their life savings or ending up with big credit card debts because they tried to get rich quickly without any effort, just by flipping tokens. This is a disaster in waiting.
As with other forms of encryption, there's still the issue of key management / delivery over a secure channel. If you can't guarantee the pad cannot be intercepted, this method is also insecure...
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I disagree with many things that tptacek has to say, but I rarely downvote him. Indeed his remarks seem to be a source of much debate and I find that commendable. In my view, downvoting should not be used to indicate disagreement, but to maintain the relatively high signal to noise ratio this forum enjoys. I reserve downvotes for ambit claims that are patently false, personal abuse, offensive language, wilfully begging the question, excessively sloppy or lazy reasoning, pretending to expertise, or simply being a pig-headed asshole about something. Having myself been guilty of these things from time to time, particular this latter, I feel comfortable suggesting that the majority of this community's members appear to apply a similar standard.
Nice work, but some parts make as much sense as Lorem ipsum text. One of my favorites so far:

> An instance of what should be created (03)? Component… right, but which one? Well, it’s a good point. No, not <ExampleApplication /> that’s 100% :) We actually should instantiate some internal class. Let’s check out the next scheme at first.
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