skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having chip/pin is orthogonal to the card being a credit or debit card. If anything, at least in the US a credit card has better protections in the event you are defrauded. If a fraudster drains your debit card, your money will be gone until they reverse the charges which can be days or weeks. In the meantime you won't be able to pay your bills or your rent, which can cause you to rack up late fees. On the other hand, if a fraudster drains your credit card, they stole your bank's money, not your money. The money is still in your account.
I strongly agree.

When I was an undergraduate, the "lower division", more introductory, required courses were taught by specialists in "Computer Science Education", whatever the heck that is. I hated them. They were ... useful, as a basis for everything later, but they weren't taught well and if that is all there were, I would be very unhappy about the time and money wasted. Then I reached the "upper division", mostly elective courses taught by active researchers in the given field. Sure, their lectures and such were not well polished and rather uneven, but their enthusiasm for the subject generally shone through and you could get more insight from a chat with a professor on a ten-minute walk from class than from any textbook you've ever seen.

TAs that could understand the material and see where you went wrong. Classmates who were challenging and who asked questions you never thought about.

The whole package is what makes it good.
> I find advertising repugnant

You can't do business without advertising. Are you for shutting down small and medium businesses? If you are employed find out how your company gets clients and acquires customers. It is mostly through advertising. And if they don't, the clients they depend on for orders do. It is a chain and if that chain gets disrupted everyone suffers. I don't understand why anyone would find the concept of advertising repugnant! Sure there are horrible ads and then there are scammy ways of advertising. Those should be regulated. But to put the entire advertising landscape under the bus is totally not acceptable!

> I'd much rather see ads that are irrelevant to me because they're easier to ignore and I'm less likely to be affected by them

I bet majority of the people find ads that are not relevant repugnant. I hate it when I am recommended an ad that I have no interest in, over and over again. To the point where I turn off whatever I am reading/watching. Why would I sit through watching an ad for 15 seconds that is irrelevant to me?

> I don't want to be influenced by ads.

Use adblock.
You're swallowing the poison pill with pride. The reason why no ARM customer actually wants to buy ARM is because there is almost no way to make money off of it. If you cancel licenses ARM is going to implode and $32 billion worth of value locked up in ARM will vanish into thin air. If you want to extract value out of ARM you'll have to play nice and that is definitively not worth $32 billion either.
Well that's just taking things too literally. I meant the whole article would use "Florida man" instead of a name.
What percentage is between 13-15? Or younger and lying about it. I would think 16-24 is their older user base.
Gasparino puts forth a lot of very dodgy or outright false "SCOOPS" (as he calls them on his Twitter account). They're always couched in terms like "according to my sources" or "this is what I'm hearing" so that he has plausible deniability if they don't come to pass.

You can even see it in the headline to this story: "Sources speculate one name to buy TikTok is Microsoft"
Ideally? TikTok would grow organically and become another viable platform.

I'm a huge fan of competition and the free market. Consolidating social media platforms under ever-larger corporate banners is just bad.
I mean...money? TikTok is massive. Slightly smaller than Instagram, more than double the size of Twitter. It's a bargain even at $50bn.
I don't think they'd be well served to, in the same way that the main Facebook app isn't merged with Instagram (although they can share some logins/etc).

They're targetting different demographics, and are used very differently (Job searching vs short-form videos).
I was more against "social network" part than "youth-based" part. TikTok is a broadcast media, not a social network.
The greasy nerd will be done after a month with something barely working and he will say it’s a masterpiece. It will lack the login functionality but he will say someone else can handle those banalities.

The senior 3 principal software engineer will create a 20-something deep layer cake in Java after 3 years. It will be done perfectly to specification and will be as bland as sand.

No other programmers will want to touch either, and that good folks, is the state of programming.
I prefer crowdsourcing incomplete but defined works. I'm always happy to crowdsource an album on Kickstarter.

IMO, I'd prefer if Youtube / Spotify / ect had some kind of integration with Kickstarter or similar.
Spotify is distributing 70% but $10/month is too little revenue for infinite music.
This is all I can see on this page :

This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.

It should not be this complicated to respect laws that just enforce minimal good practices.

A replacement link should be found for this story. Wfla dot com is clearly shit.
Do you think that you'd make all of those sales, if you had no Spotify access at all?

I mean... If you pointed me to your BandCamp store page and told me to buy an album, without first hearing it - I wouldn't buy it.
Do infections really matter though? Shouldn’t we focus on total deaths per country? I think we are trying to minimize deaths, not infections.
The kid probably did not practice good OpSec. A single slip is all you need when you attack is so high-profile.
> No, I doubt Russia would dare use their nukes. Again the facility in Romania has become operational in 2019, no nuke from Russia so far.

There's a difference between stopping a small percentage of missiles, and a large percentage of missiles. One does nothing to stop MAD. The other is a categorical change in the balance of power. It's like the difference between cutting off 5% of your air supply, and cutting off 80% of your air supply. You barely feel a difference from losing 5%, surely you can do it again and again and again...

But let's turn this question around.

Suppose that Russia announces that it has begun working on ICBM defenses. Once complete, they expect to protect themselves from 98 to 99% of American missiles. These defenses will be complete in 12 months - faster than you could build your own equivalents.

What do you do? Do you just sit around, and let them become the only nuclear power that can do as it pleases, as it renders all of your weapons useless? Do you let it have free reign in diplomacy, with the ability to threaten and extort anyone it wants, without any fear of retaliation whatsoever? Do you just sit around, and wait until 'oh, golly, gee, those reds can now kill us all anytime they want to, with no blowback to them, shucks, I guess it is what it is'?

Do you start building your own defenses, only to be attacked before they are ready, because they aren't interested in sharing a monopoly on consequence-free nuclear diplomacy?

Or do you 'dare to use your nukes', and attack first, before their defenses are ready?

I legitimately don't understand how the Russians can be seen as both such a wily, treacherous, capable adversary - while also taking steps to back them into a corner, where the only self-serving logical solution you leave them is for them to attack you first. I don't understand how you can endorse taking steps that push the world towards a nuclear war, while at the same time assuming that your adversaries will not respond to your brinkmanship with brinkmanship of their own.

And it, quite frankly, horrifies me, because you are willing to bet hundreds of millions of lives on the theory that your adversary will not carry out a logical, self-serving, outcome-maximizing response to your actions.
Explaining complex numbers without a picture loses like 90% of the "aha!" moment.
LinkedIn is already indistinguishable from Facebook. Feels like a dead platform with no purpose.

Congratz on new cat Mike!
Clojure has quite a few specific libraries. As far as I know, one of these implements a lot of persistent data structures - data structures that make it efficient to expose an API that returns a copy of the whole structure for any mutation (by sharing all of the unmodified substructure behind the scenes).
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The company inherited a billion dollars with the Alibaba IPO around the time she became CEO, and she couldn't make it work.
Are you familiar with the game-theoretic definition of a threat? A threat is when I say that, if you do X (which I don't want), then I will do Y, and Y hurts both you and me. (If Y benefited me, then we'd expect me to do Y anyway, so the threat would make no difference.)

Carrying out a threat is, therefore, always irrational. However, if I could make you believe that I would carry out the threat, then I could get you to not do X, which would be good for me.

If I can modify my own mind so that, if you do X, then I am obsessively driven to carry out Y—"revenge"—and I make this obvious to you, then modifying my mind in that way is rational for me to do. (Of course, the only key part is making you believe that my mind works like this. But as a species, I think humans are not especially good liars—probably for good reasons, so that threats and promises are possible—and the most reliable approach to making you think I'm like that is to be like that.) I think this is why there is a built-in drive for revenge.

Now, the drive for revenge doesn't always win. In the ancestral environment, carrying out revenge against the wrong enemy may simply get you killed. It's possible that "knowing when to back off" has been selected for. (Perhaps the neural circuitry sometimes perceived natural forces like rain, or stronger creatures like tigers (possibly the relevant evolving happened before we got good at hunting), as the "enemy".) Which then opens the door to trying to intimidate the other party even further so they don't try for revenge, or to bluffing that you're not intimidated, or to guessing (perhaps incorrectly) that the other side is bluffing, and so on.

Anyway, that is the mess we are left with.
> Software developers generally don't get squeezed

Where I live, they do...go live in one of the countries where software gets outsourced. People are paid < $200 monthly here.

Software developers have skills that are easily transferable than musicians. If software developers stop learning, they will quickly be devalued with legacy maintenance as an exception. We used to value musicians more because of supply and distribution problems. It was an artificially constrained labor market. Now it is not. That's why they aren't getting paid the same. Similar to how writing html and css would get you a good paying job, not now though. Musicians need to change and adapt. They need to pick up more transferable skills.
> Search can get eaten almost overnight. No stickiness. I switched to DDG when Google annoyed me.

And I've switched Runnaroo.com which has been presented here just some weeks ago. It already feels much better than Google. In rare cases when it fails me I fallback to DuckDuckGo. If DuckDuckGo doesn't manage either - only then I go to Google. In the majority of cases Runnaroo results are the best.
If the warez community, you'd actually be surprised to find that most of Microsoft internal leaks and hacks come from Russia. Russian groups like WZorNET produce unreleased internal builds of Microsoft solutions all the time.
yeah, Datpiff, worldstar, HHWW, etc... these sites were all at the forefront of this paradigm shift for backpack hip hop and rap. Hardcore and punk genres had similar approaches with BandCamp, PureVolume, and even MySpace, and if you actually look at punk and rap they have really interesting overlaps in these areas. Hip hop going independent was a major shift from the established late 90's/early 2000's tradition of signing with a label.
> What you're describing is basically a new textbook.

Yep. I'm reminded of the MOOCs. The idea was to remove all elements from the class that had a cost (i.e., no office hours, no questions during the lectures). MOOCs turned out to be a better textbook, not a better class.
It takes enormous hubris to build a business as a parasite of music and its creators, and subsequently whip them for more productivity. I don't think I am the only person that associates the name "Daniel Elk" with the word "douche-bag" in my head.
UCAS only allows you to pick either Oxford or Cambridge as part of those 5 if I'm remembering correctly.
I'm just against it getting gobbled up by one of the existing internet giants. Getting it out of China is fine by me.
Law enforcement rarely advertises investigative techniques and sources, even in open court. Some amount of evidence they do have was already presented to a grand jury, and will be brought to bear at trial if the defendant doesn't plead out.
Programming is a waste of time if you don’t need a program.
I wrote an Elixir mix task that would create Ecto models based on an existing database schema. A few people contributed with most being things that they would want or changes that would be minor (such as spelling mistakes or fixing documentation). The benefit I think I had in getting those contributors is that the code base was very small so it was easy to take in at one time and it was in a language that is going to attract devs that are putting in the effort to learn something new and may want to experiment with the language.
> People used to pay for music, now they do not.

People also used to steal music too. Having a "free" or minimal-cost streaming option has pretty much removed that desire for most people.

> Revenues to artists from digital distribution is a fraction of what it was during the CD days.

Perhaps for the Taylor Swift's of the world, sure. For everyone else, which makes up 99.99% of musicians, bands and artists... they made zero or negative money before, now they have a chance to get in front of people who would otherwise never know who they are or listen to their music. That's a win for the 99.99%.
then you see movies like '24 hour party people' that have a different view...
Tampa teen arrested in hack of Twitter accounts of Obama, Bill Gates and others
People who produce for playlists aren't artists, they're designers. Check out Bandcamp or your record store for art.
BigQuery Data Pipeline Without Any Orchestrator Just CloudFunction and PubSub
Replacing minium wage with UBI is definitely a net good.

Don't buy the "companies will start treating you humanely if only they could pay you less". Corporations, particularly publicly traded ones, are in competition for profit. In most sectors exploiting your employees to the fullest presents a positive return on quarterlies no matter how much or little you pay them. Maximizing return on dollars committed is fundamental to growing revenues.

UBI helps improve worker condition by making the negotiation between labor and capital more equitable. So long as one person comes to the table for their needs and the other comes for their ones the former is always disadvantaged and ripe for exploitation.
Absolutely agree, the physical presence is extremely important. So much of what I learned was from having inspiring peers, professors and TAs in undergrad.

With that said though, imagine if the baseline for every class in every university was "great classes with awesome course material". Now the differentiating factor becomes what you talked about - the quality of the TAs, the professors and their research, your classmates. Wouldn't that be an improvement?

I'm thinking of it as us automating away the non-creative part of school - i.e. as you noted, the valuable stuff is the interactions and the peers, so why not maximize the focus on creating opportunities for that?
> You're acting like there is only one alternative, but what about blocking ads? That's win-win for everyone but the advertiser. And really that makes it win-win-win, unless you work in advertising or for Facebook/Google.

Win-win for who? If everyone uses adblockers you will have major unemployment. All small and medium businesses will shutdown as advertising is the cheapest mechanism to reach customers. Without advertising these businesses will have to rely on billboard advertising and TV ads. Both are extremely expensive in comparison to internet advertising. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. As simple as that!
> Net worth US$4.5 billion (July 2020)

(Wikipedia)

> Ek owns nearly 9% of the shares

(Forbes)

Spotify seems to be about 50B on the stock market, so 9% of that is... 4.5B.

It seems that nearly 100% of his known money is virtual. I'm not sure he takes home a huge salary rather than paying out to artists ("Ek and his business parter Martin Lorentzon founded the company in 2006" so he didn't invest a lot to get those 9%). The company is also unprofitable currently, but having seen what non-profits like Mozilla take home I guess that doesn't say much (they also don't make any profit, and yet...).

Not sure if the actual salary is known. It seems like the kind of thing that would be, but duckduckgo annoyingly only turns up articles about this latest news.
Absolutely. China does not recognize even the idea of Human Rights, let alone their implementation. What do you think the Great Chinese Firewall is for? Shutting out all those ideas from the rest of the world that are deemed hostile to the ruling party's ideology.
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The statement of saying someone else's view of art is objectively incorrect or silly is in itself silly. I like your proposed definition of art, but as you know everyone is free to have their own conceptions.
"Abstract data types and non-exposed constructors" is enough to give you object-based code, which is not too far from a definition of "the good parts" of OOP. Though some could quibble that "object-based" doesn't include sensible ideas such as composition, interface inheritance, delegation etc.
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I understand now, the headline reads "Florida Man arrested" and then the article will have "Bob Bobbinson was arrested today for ..."
Another "If ya can't beat'em, join'em."?
I think they should combine Spotify with a Substack subscription model to provide exclusive tracks or live sessions for insider fans.
There are things that can increase the chances of "a good life". There is nothing that can guarantee it. Pocket aces increase your chance of winning a hand, but it doesn't guarantee you win.

So while a college degree is not a guarantee, the question is whether or not it increases your chances. Because if it does, you can combine it with other things that also increase your chances to give yourself the best shot.

I mean, it is possible to sit infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters and get Shakespeare. Doesn't mean it's a good strategy.

Now, if college is unavailable to someone for whatever reason, it is good to know that a good life isn't dependent on getting a college degree. You can focus harder on other positive indicators.

But if we're going to dismiss everything that isn't a sure thing, we're going to be just dismissing everything.
The 80s underground scene had many zines that were programs.. the art would be part content part reader/application. The best part were the crazy menus.

The problem now is an application must look like all other applications or you would see more creativity. Making parts of the app 60% visible so the background came through had a cool visual effect.
do you think that whole nation is responsible?
I've been wondering about that for a while.

Two possibilities (although there are obviously other possibilities):

1. I think a lot of news media was given bad legal advice about GDPR

2. They're all members of the AP and the AP required this of their members since they also work in the EU
The Santa Clara valley is also known as Silicon Valley.
I don’t buy that. Much of my favorite music is video game fan-made music; and, while that is hard to make and their skill is great, there’s a lot of that music.
Hardware undefined behavior. The hardware can do anything.

That includes trapping on an illegal instruction or something, but there is no guarantee that some CPU that was designed and built before SSE4 existed will do anything meaningful when fed with machine code that it was never intended to see.

You are basically hopping for the instruction decoder to be "really good", and not "really fast". Eg. suppose that there is only one instruction in SSE3 which has the 7th bit set. A fast instruction decoder tests that bit, and if its true, it knows exactly what instruction that is. Years later, SSE4 is designed and implemented, and it adds another instruction that also has that bit set. You are required to check whether the CPU supports SSE4, and the SSE3-only CPU will tell you that it does not. If you then go ahead and feed it a SSE4 instruction, the CPU can do really anything, including executing some other completely different instruction.
I disagree.
Music is subjective. In fact, the lower barrier to entry and discovery has enabled me to find my favorite music that 5 years ago I had no idea even existed. You would probably hate the music that changed my life, and I would probably not enjoy yours.

I do agree that bands are getting screwed though. That's why I use Spotify for discovery and buy lots of merch when a band really lands with me (and go to live shows - pre COIVD of course).
On a different note, online presence is becoming very important and with remote work culture gaining traction, having a good online presence has become a must have asset.
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GDP was growing before and after the Trump tax cut, so growth in tax revenue year over year was expected. The Trump tax cuts went into effect in 2018, and according to your link tax revenues increased from 3.32 to 3.33 trillion that year, which is a 0.3% increase. This was during a year when GDP grew by 5.2%. In other words, revenues fell behind GDP by 4.9%.

Note that I used nominal GDP growth because the linked article used nominal tax revenue. To adjust for inflation we subtract the inflation rate from both sides and we’d get the same 4.9% fallback in tax growth relative to GDP growth.
> Card-not-present accounts fetched a much steeper supplier commission of 80 percent, but mainly because these cards were in such high demand and low supply.

Some part of that statement doesn't make sense. Normally if something is in high demand, then it is easier to sell it, therefore the seller can demand that the middleman i.e., BriansClub, accept a lower commission. In real estate for example, when there is a lot of demand for houses (in a "sellers' market), you as a seller can easily negotiate a lower commission from your brokerage agent.

One clarification: When there's high demand and low supply, the end-buyer will pay a much higher price of course. But the middleman (like BriansClub) should be charging a lower commission as a percentage, though he or she might end up making more money because it's a higher priced item being sold. So Krebs's explanation of why they charge a higher commission for card-not-present doesn't make sense.