skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read somewhere that the human (and ape) ear has evolved its unique set of grooves and folds to help create sound reflections that allow the brain to better spatially locate sound, even without phase shifting between both ears.

This also allows us to locate sound not only spatially along the axis between the ears, but above and below as well.

I wonder if people using hearing aides, where the sound is recreated further inside the ear, are less able to locate sound sources.
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Well hold on, the difference there is the police can cross reference scanned plates against other databases the public doesn't have access to, yeah? Or is there some way to id plates against names? If there is I wanna know cause I wanna ID whoever knocked my motorcycle over
Somewhere out there, there exists an alternate universe where musicians ponder nonchalantly whether people should be compensated for software. "Can't they just sell software logo t-shirts?"
So like an ultra-long bug report?
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>I mean, if there's fundamental problems, it eventually has to reflect in the stock price... right?

From a business perspective, poor IT security doesn't have to be a fundamental problem. Occasionally beating up your customers may be fine, and being voted as worst company in America isn't nessesarily that bad either.

Are there fines high enough to impact business? Are you on the receiving end of new legislation because of the event? Is the market both capable and willing to punish you? Depressingly often the answer to all of those is "no".
But stupid code is the most fun.
This I did not know. Thanks.
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Hmm, they must get so many duplicates...
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I work for one of the big three and we generally are pretty lean when it comes to staffing.

Our CEO likes to claim it benefits us because then they don't have to do big layoffs during downturns.
I wrote a lengthy response on how suppressing false alarms is absolutely the right thing to do, then realized that the CISO was the one requesting it.

That really makes no sense. The engineers should be the ones determining which ones to adjust and which to suppress. Middle managers are already too far removed from the productive chain to even make the determination if an alert is false or not, let alone C-level.
Not evil and/or lazy so much as self serving.
Hey HN, I spent a couple of days digging into the backend APIs for the new bike share on my university campus. Wasn't terribly impressed by what I found and here's a write up of the issues that I let them know about.

You can also check out a bike trip visualizer for the past couple of days that I threw together: https://d4l3k.github.io/dropbike-visualizer/

If you have any questions about these issues or how I found them, let me know!

This post is also available on IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ipns/Qmea45XwFtdwaCGAPLRMxFmoUP5YLnknc2WGCGQ...
We're already there. People indiscriminately pirate software and games as much as they do music.
> it's hard to see how paying people to host your stuff on their own machines can ever be cost-competitive with paying AWS to do it

That's a big part of Amazon's AWS offerings, hosting other people's files on their own machines. Heck, Amazon could spin up IPFS host nodes and start earning filecoin for themselves. The goal is that file hosting becomes competitive, cheaper and more available. You won't have to choose AWS or DigitalOcean, you just throw some change at it and anybody can host it.
Music gets suckier if there's less incentive to work at it.
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Equity is not proportional to salary. Perhaps only after you control for "time-to-join", andwhether you are a founder/investor/employee, but definitely not without that.

On another note, there's something about a disparity on ownership and %founders that seems more profound than the salary IMO (with the caveat that it is hard to study this controlling for the right things).
What about things they did 6 months ago? The argument is whether music should be copyrightable at all, not whether 100-year copyright terms are reasonable.
Good. Hopefully this will be executed and set a precedent to other tax dodging megacorps too.
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Then put 100 people in the room? 1000? Not sure what's the point of having everyone in the single room, when the entire company is in the single company anyway.
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Because "fair compensation" is a reeeeally hard term to define legally, while giving someone a monopoly on a particular song and letting the market determine how to price that song's usage is a more workable mechanism.
React provides a way to build pages and components, Next.js provides the other pieces that make up a full-stack framework like routing, asset mgmt, and most importantly, server-side rendering. Getting SSR to work seamlessly with Webpack, Babel, and any other frontend tooling is a pain in the ass, Next.js makes it dead simple.
The company now known as Accenture was spun off in 1989, and was not involved with Enron.
Yep, to put it in perspective this kind of money in Europe is pretty much a VP/CEO level of salary for a medium size company. Or just about enough to cover ramen and rent in Silicon Valley I imagine.
These options are effectively "in the money" (whatever the difference is between the low price set for the option and the current higher price is locked-in profit) when issued, have intrinsic value, and should be fully taxable, but you're falsely claiming otherwise.

For what it's worth, options that are not "in the money" are still worth a lot of money and have intrinsic value. I'm not making a ridiculous claim here, this is what the Black Scholes model would say for example and it's why companies don't just hand out options freely to anyone. Yet according to our tax law they do not have value and are not taxable. (This is why options exist in the first place.) So, IMO the whole thing is complicated because the tax law has a somewhat arbitrary rule for determining what options are taxable.

IANAL but it is also not required to give out strike prices that match the exact day someone is hired. You have some flex in the time period. So these rules just aren't as simple as one might hope.
> Do they think the world will run out of low-skilled jobs because AI learns how to perform current ones? History doesn't back this up,

I don’t have a well considered opinion about AI’s impact on jobs, but AI isn’t exactly like the industrial revolution, automated farming, or other historical upheavals. So I don’t think you can reliably conclude that it will turn out just like them.
$12 / month is a low-paying customer. An ultra low paying customer. You can only offer minimal support at that price point.

Also, it’s easier to raise prices than to lower them. If you lower prices, you need to do it for your current users too or they’ll complain. If you raise prices, you can grandfather people in AND it can be used to incentivize people to buy before the price goes up.
I wonder if that means they'll finally create a dark theme which has been on the request list for years and has been pushed from releases time and time again.
Great insights here.
I'm aware of this, and that's why I don't live in any of the traditional third-world "paradises". The fakeness and the bitterness of the locals is too much for me.
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What, besides the fact that they've been there before, makes you think that we won't run out of low skill jobs?
Hardly. As someone that works for a broker, it is exceedingly hard to get verified fan to work at scale, and you burn that account and work put into it after it's used. I know a broker that was buying access to gmail accounts that had been around a long time, facebook accounts with lots of activity, and using AT&T phones to get the verified fan SMS. The cost was about $40 for the gmail/facebook accounts, not including the phones. According to him, both accounts and the phone number are basically unusable for verified fan afterwards. That's not a system that scales easily for brokers, and even if they scale costs them a lot to implement, which means it's only useful on things you're sure will go up quite a lot in value.

In short, it's not what I would call a lottery for scalpers.

Combined with Amex's new tour limits for amex presales (not on all tours), where they limit you to two purchases per tour per person owning an amex (doesn't matter if you have 10 cards, two orders total), and the fact that they heavily fingerprint to identify and and wedge up brokers by putting in waiting rooms, and I find the idea from the article that the primary market department of Ticketmaster is actively working with brokers at any scale laughable. It's an arms race between the people that are entirely willing to ignore the AUP and TOS (there's a spectrum here) and Ticketmaster, and has been for years.
You need to finish the quote: ...unless the criminality is severe...
Replacing capacitors is generally pretty easy, especially with the through-hole components that older systems used. Of course, a lot of other things can lose their magic smoke too, so you'll have to do some troubleshooting to be sure what the problem is.

You'll want to find the official parts lists and schematics, so look on the Internet Archive for them. A quick search (https://archive.org/search.php?query=exidy%20sorcerer) finds the schematic for the Exidy Sorcerer 2, so hopefully the one for your machine won't be too hard to find.
That’s not the end result at all. There are three possibilities:

1. The error is corrected before the sale and the customer pays the corrected price.

2. The error is corrected before the sale and the customer changes their mind.

3. The error is not corrected before the sale and the customer pays the erroneous price.

Companies are trying to change a 3 into a 1 by blaming computers and saying the error should have been clear to the customer, when in fact it’s their own fault for not noticing the error before completing the transaction.
You can have all of those things in a city. It's not as if the Europeans are all single slaving away in cubicle farms. Most people would say that the Europeans work far less than Americans do.

In fact, suburbs can be some of the most limiting places for kids. Every activity needs a driver, so until you get a license you need a chaperone. You mostly can't walk to the shops, or the park, or your friend's house, with limited exceptions. And biking and walking are out of the question if you have to navigate a main suburban arterial to get there. As a parent your choices are to trap them in the house or spend your precious time driving your kids everywhere.
For example, massive fines, that are larger than their net worth, so that they are forced to pay a portion of their income for a while afterwards.

But, yes, prison should not be used as a punishment, but rather to isolate people who are physically dangerous (note that this does not equal violent crime - it's possible for a person to commit a crime of violence, but not actually be a danger to society afterwards).

If we really want to have a physically punitive justice system, corporal punishment is infinitely better than years in prison: it teaches a lesson, but people can move on quickly from that - it doesn't turn their whole life upside down, and it doesn't put them in an environment where they're more likely to criminalize than rehabilitate.

But ideally, the system should be preventative only where necessary (i.e. isolate the danger), and rehabilitative otherwise.
It's only propaganda when people you don't like do it.
> Unless you have a big enough staff, or have Splunk (and your monitoring team) tuned well enough to actually effectively sort through the alerts, they truly well can just be "too noisy".

At some point, the size of your staff doesn't really matter, unless it's at roughly number of alerts / 2. Now not only you have the alerting noise, but you also have the added noise of the big intra-team communication. Cleaning up those alerts needs to be first priority.

Not to mention, usually such a barrage of alerts means they are very poorly designed.
For every rich person how many jobs are created to support them? Having cheap rent isn't going to help people if there is no work for them to do.
I did and it looks really interesting, but I've never evaluated any of it myself, and I haven't worked (or bought much gear) in this space for a few years.
In my experience chassis switches are quite expensive, like 10X the cost per port of a 1U switch. That pays for a lot of cables.
Is there any way to get a metric of how much something has been downloaded on ipfs?
I'm guessing you would have to use google analytics or something?
I can't think of any reason why music copyright should ever expire. Music is (1) purely the product of creation (i.e. you're not just taking ownership of something like land that's naturally occurring); and (2) completely non-rival (there are an infinite number of original songs for people to create). I don't see why rights in something like that shouldn't be perpetual. Why should anyone else ever acquire rights to something that's purely the product of your mind?
But, why would Amazon want to do that? Right now they get a lot of brand recognition from doing it themselves.
This needs to pass the House and Trump too, no?
Not that useful of a comment. The paper/video explains a new topology called SlimFly that is more efficient than Butterfly.
Agreed, and yet, isn't the point of the decentralized web that it will still be there when Cloudflare decides to drop the service?
I don't think there would be so many parking lots needed. Cars today spend most of their time not in use, which is why we need such large amounts of area to store them.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240717 from a couple years later.
The apache struts vulnerability is easy enough to detect -- java runs programs it shouldn't. If a bigcorp like that doesn't have a nextgen av to detect that,executable logging+SIEM correlation would have done the trick.

They detected the traffic after the tls inspection box was fixed, that was the box that deteced it not the point of entry from what I understand. Regardless, TLS inspection has it's place (this is why you can't have end-to-end cryto in a corporate environment).

From my experience, most bigcorps do IT like it's still 2009. There is so much architectural bloat,bureaucracy and unseen system complexity,it reduces security controls to mere cosmetic theatrics.

It's like having a 200ft tall,50ft thick iron wall around your castle with 100k foot soldiers armed with the best weapons and training. The problem is that your soldiers(IT staff) can't act fast due to bureaucracy and half of the duties are someone else's problem due to over-segregation of duties. Your fancy wall(security solutions and controls) is neat but there are holes wide enough to fit ten people all over it.

In the end the enemy is complexity. You can't solve that by adding more security vendors,solutions and staff which is exactly what everyone seems to be doing.
Wait until you have a new job. Seriously.
You pay for society through taxes, which you are deliberately avoiding. Many public services and infrastructure which you and your company take advantage of are paid-for by taxes.
It seems like for many creators on youtube the ad revenue sharing is no longer a notable source of their income.
I'm honestly surprised there's not more research / funding on universal prediction. It seems like a top down approach for true AI (start from theory and work backwards to something feasible/practical) as opposed to the current engineering mindset (start with something that works, i.e., neural networks, and try to do more with them).

The ideas related to universal prediction were initially developed in the 1960s by Chaitin, Solomonoff, and Kolmogorov, but little has been done with the concept since, partly due to the fact that computers weren't very powerful back then and partly due to the fact that a lot of their theorems ran up against barriers of uncomputability.

Marcus Hutter and Shane Legg come to mind as people who have done some work in this area, but I'm not sure if Shane has continued investigating this approach separately from his work with neural networks at DeepMind.
At a certain point (age, level of wisdom, whatever) you realize when a company is focused on short term gain vs everything else. At that point, unless you just don't give a shit, you move on.

Not to bring politics into this, but there's a variant of capitalism that runs rampant in developed economies that is based almost exclusively on short term gain.

Equifax, like so many other companies, illustrates this story in painful detail - especially for those who work there.

There are so many executive poor behaviors that go on, affection not just their employees but their customers and beyond, that you might think by now there would be more attention paid to this. But the people who should be paying attention are quite like the executives who are overly focused on short term gain.
Pretty important comment in there that the person Ben is talking about didn't go to jail for this accounting strategy but rather tax fraud!
Depends. Can those 20 people then pull in other teams on a high priority basis and have them do work for them? I agree generally that 20 people can't do much, but if it is 20 people with the institutional support of thousands then it is a different story.
I can only imagine the kids asking, "why don't old TV shows have the happy birthday song in there?" I'm wondering what other songs might come into TV and other popular media now that they are public domain.

Note: Both the music and lyrics are in public domain in both the European Union and United States. The copyright expired in the European Union on January 1, 2017. In the United States, a federal court ruled in 2016 that Warner/Chappell's copyright claim was invalid and there was no other claim to copyright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You
Your scheme results in people who do due diligence to comply with the law being punished. Do you seriously not see it as a critical defect?
I guess my argument would just be that it seems pretty clear why it would be shady to go back in time and pick a false issuance date to create the impression that options issued at a higher price were really issued at a lower price in order to lock in untaxable profit.
I think unfortunately may have been a better word for the parent, but your apples metaphor doesn't make sense in this case.
I find the discussion of warmup time here really interesting, the handwaving away of this something that I have observed when developers make wild claims about the performance of various JIT based languages vs statically compiled C or C++.

Tangentially related to this seems to be the type of optimizations that can be performed on the code as well;
I've heard the argument that because JIT is done with the full state of the runtime environment clearly visible (ie. the system is up and running and can be observed during compilation), that better optimizations can be made at runtime.

The flipside of this argument seems to be that static compilation to machine code can allow better optimizations because more time can be spent searching for more expensive/aggressive optimizations since the startup time of the compiled program is not dependent on or constrained by the performance of the optimizer(s).

Muddying the waters even further are languages that are partially compiled (for example, Java to JVM bytecode) in a static compilation pass, and then dynamically JIT'd from bytecode to machine code at runtime.

Whew. I think I need to sit down and have another coffee.
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There's a ton of people giving away very useful software and all the files and tools to easily read and modify it. There's a handful of musicians giving away music too, but I don't know of many giving away the files and tools to read and modify it.
Audio professional here also! I too have used zooms as backup and as a primary mixer. This comment is on point. I’d like to add that close mic-ing and multitrack recording are never going away. Given that, it would be nice to have high quality ambisonic microphones with inline dsp’s and post production suites designed to handle the new spatial awareness. There needs to be a standardazion for spatial audio information developed for cross compatibility and a new UI design on the channels strips in the Daws to ease workflow. I’m envisioning instead of a pan knob a trackball or trackpad would suffice. Diving deeper, there could be channel programmable parameters to set room size, aborbtion and reflection rates.
I basically learned that failing a startup is similar to dealing with end-of-life care - we all make the same mistakes so in a weird way, I think the best way to learn from this experience is to read Atul Gawande's book Being Mortal. It'll put things in perspective.

Here's the post I wrote, hope it helps folks: https://medium.com/startup-grind/startup-mortality-what-end-...
Music is art, to a significant extent. Rarely is software art.
To late to edit, but: “the alt-right (which is used to democracy at least in the Western liberal form.)”

Should be: “the alt-right (which is opposed to democracy at least in the Western liberal form.)”
Curious to know if you ever got off anti depressants? Or youre still on them?
You forget China's intervention in the Korean War/North Korea. They've also annexed Tibet and killed/arrested dissidents since the 50s.

It's a case of which is the lesser evil. US's style of "imposing" democracy (and toppling it and replacing the government with puppets when it become socialist and/or unfavorable for US corporations) or Chinese totalitarianism.
"What story do you want them to tell?"

Welcome to the non-black-and-white world of gray. That mentality goes far beyond just accounting. Anything beyond a basic measurement is open to interpretation.
But inserting a human final approval... courts will end up deciding.
You're talking about the server/admin end. For users,a properly configured https site shouldn't cause any trouble. Even on servers,I'd say it's always been fairly successful if you consider the successful setups.
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Ticketmaster is also largely pushing behind the scenes for digital only / digital first ticketing.

The experience of being gifted tickets for an event is no longer the same.

A side effect of this is that Ticketmaster alternatives (Stubhub) etc, are also better frozen out of the secondary ticket market, and ironically, Ticketmaster takes their place through their fan-to-fan resale platform.

TM has acquired Stubhub as well, so there are likely other competitors/targets they are targeting too.
Working at companies like this, you come to realize that they are so insulated in their special (monopolistic or almost) positions that they become blind to anything other than quarterly earnings per share.

On the rare case that something does blow up badly enough that executives must leave, they are still almost permanently cemented at their tier. So they just migrate to another poorly run large company to focus on their own short term gain.

Applying logic to this scenario doesn't work. It's really about balancing cost-benefits. Since the costs to being an idiot are very low once you reach a certain level, the downsides can be completely forgotten in pursuit of the upsides.