skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but 10s of hours of effort isn't anywhere near "more than I can imagine" as the OP said. I don't think anyone here is claiming it's easy
Unless you're really, really into music, your taste in music essentially stops developing by the time you hit your 30s. If you're listening to Metallica today, it's because you were listening to Metallica when you were 15 (I was, and I still do).

This "all new music is dross" argument is repeated every generation as new music out-ages the outgoing generation.
Wow, if true your "contribution" was around 5% of the total amount scammed.
You are right, thank you. It’s a non-standard way they used the word commission.
Security training improves security but it doesn't get close to stopping 100% of attacks.

I know it's obvious, but it feels like it's only obvious to those that think about security. It's the same reason that putting your developers through a yearly OWASP Top 10 secure coding course isn't going to get you to 100% secure code.

Locking down systems seems draconian, but it's the only way:

- Disabling USB storage

- Moving away from passwords to hardware authentication

- Strong controls on internet access

- Stop incoming calls from reaching most employees. Better: take away phones altogether

And so on.
But I don't need to "release an app" to make money as a programmer. I just need to work on small parts of an app that already exists and I can have a comfortable salary with reasonably good job security.
Why would you listen to someone who puts out garbage albums?
I applaud this. The manufacturer of the device must not control what apps I run on after buying it. Third-party appstores and app sideloading is a must.

(And do not forget third party push-notifications, iOS devices are next to useless without them)
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> geometry implications are incidental

No, the geometry is fundamental, and the rest is just bookkeeping. If you go through life only ever doing the bookkeeping without understanding its meaning you’re going to be very confused (as indeed many students are today, and many mathematicians were historically).

The proper way to understand complex numbers is as ratios of planar vectors. (Other interpretations can be layered on top of that one.)

A complex number z = v/u is the object which we can multiply the Euclidean vector u by to get the vector v, via scaling and rotation. That is, zu = (v/u)u = v (u\u) = v. Notice we have no coordinates here.

If we like, we can split the complex number as a sum z = x + yI into a scalar part x = ½(v/u + u\v) and a bivector part yI = x = ½(v/u – u\v), where x and y are scalars and I is a bivector representing a quarter turn in the u–v plane.

This version generalizes beautifully to higher (or lower) dimensions, to pseudo-Euclidean space, and even to non-metrical settings.

For more, http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/OerstedMedalLecture.pdf http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/GrassmannsVision.pdf
The only store on their product.

Not the only store, period.

There is Android store which has 4 times as many users, and at some point Microsoft had a store but people didn't like it either...
The real problem with my example was that I modified the strict instead of returning a new one.

My “functional” code wasn’t actually functional.

If I had written that correctly, by returning a modified copy using a map instead of modifying the strict in a loop, your example would also be covered, because the function you’re describing would not modify any of its inputs, but instead would return a new copy. And the function wouldn’t have any side effects either, so it would once again be completely clear what’s happening.
How does it fit in with the rest of their products and overall strategy is my question.
> Imagine telling Hemingway he has to release a new blog post every week instead of a book every couple of years.

It's much easier when there are literally thousands of song writers trying to get a label or famous singer to use their song. The Nashville model is pretty much everywhere now.

It also helps that we've been able to computationally determine which parameters and heuristics are most likely to end up as a hit. There's a reason popular music across genres all more or less sounds the same today (loud, compressed with little dynamic range, auto-tuned, 4 chords, etc), with the difference between them being the style they are in.
Well,in a way, software industry is very similar: "Aaaa, Britney!!Oh, wait, who's that?Lady Gaga!!!" and then "Java is cool...I mean JavaScript..No,no,I mean Golang... Did I say Rust?"
The FCC won't allow T-Mobile customers block anonymous calls
You can still have what you want and give people other options. It's called choice. We deserve to be able to choose
And now just imagine Google managing Wikipedia.

"Community contributions allowed viewers to add closed captions, subtitles, and title/descriptions to videos. This feature was rarely used and had problems with spam/abuse so we’re removing them to focus on other creator tools."

With this rationale all wikis must close down. But no, they don't. They started to fight spam technically. And if I remember Google was also pretty good in this spamfighting niche, with Gmail, decades ago. Nowadays with YouTube and News shutting down apparently not anymore. Those Google PMs really made a name of themselves as worlds worst.
The argument got rather confused at the end. The todo list has 13,000 dependencies precisely because the NPM community follows the advice here to create many small libraries. So is that supposed to be a good or bad thing?
Bypass Windows 10 UAC via Mock folders
An easier variation of an older technique using "mock folders" i.e. C:\Windows \System32 (notice the trailing space after Windows\) and DLL hijacking to bypass UAC and do other naughty things.
Counter proposal from someone who is starting a business around GPT-3 (http://serendipityrecs.com/):

- If your whole app is a wrapper around the GPT-3 API then yes, you don't have much of a moat. But GPT-3 isn't some kind of perfect oracle, so you have lots of engineering challenges in the not-GPT-3 parts of your system where you can build your moat.

- GPT-4 does not render your current efforts moot. It takes time to build business/technical expertise in a domain. That's like saying it was pointless to build a web company in the 90s because web technologies/computing power was increasing so fast. You work with the technology you have, and then when it's time you upgrade.

- I disagree with the idea that you'll have hundreds of competitors. We're just starting to figure out what we can do with this technology. The space is wide open for someone to figure out a novel application.

AI dungeon was mentioned in another comment and serves as a good counter example. Where are all the AI dungeon competitors? How easy would it be to build a competing product to AI dungeon if you wanted to? And AI dungeon started with GPT-2, but incorporated GPT-3 into their product when it came out.

To summarize, starting a business around GPT-3 is a great idea. Stay realistic, be cognizant of GPT-3's limitations, but do realize that there is a genuine opportunity here.
Because the government should not have unilateral power over a platform you've poured your own time, money, and effort into developing.

That would be theft. I am honestly amazed that people are still in favor of gross government overreach in the era of Trump.
I've been supplementing glucosamine along with a large amount of other things for awhile now. I'm not too bullish on it in humans, but it doesn't seem like it hurts, and is definitely cheap: https://nearcyan.com/supplements

My latest favorites that I'm a bit more hopeful for are glycine, spermadine, and rapamycin.
Practically speaking, at this point the government is probably in possession of the private keys and could authorize reverse transactions to restore the stolen crypto.

The larger question is a question of policy and law... Does the government even consider entries in a blockchain ledger to be "returnable stolen property?"
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Does a 1% compression jpeg _supposed_ to be distinguishable from the orginal? Probably not, until it goes into a 4m x 3m print.

MP3 does the same to sound that jpg does to colour: those similar enough become one. And it also cuts off the "inaudible" sounds. If you open a spectogram, 320 still cuts at 20khz, whereas most CDs have until 21-22khz - because there are people out there who hear those sounds. (There are some "ultrasonic" cat & mammal scare away devices, which I hear, and they are literally painful to me.)

But answering your question: no, the goal was to have a good enough, but massively smaller file. The goal was never not to be possible to tell them apart.

FLAC compresses a CD to roughly half of it's size - that's already a big win.
Wouldn't the logical equivalency be for China to strong-arm the NBA to sell ownership to a Chinese company if they want the NBA to continue to be watched by Chinese audience?
> You get there by merit not wallet, I thought usa has it the same to be honest.

The problem in the U.S. is that not all public schools are equal, so the "merit" to get into a certain school/scholarship is at least partly tied to your social-economic status.

For instance in my area, all public schools have removed arts/music/foreign language, but in the nicer neighborhoods PTA, boosters, and fundraisers have added those removed subjects back with parent donations. So you have a situation where when it comes to vote for a small tax increase to help our schools, many people are confused as their kids go to a public school with everything they need. These are schools in the same school district. New, upscale homes can also pay directly for their public school in the form of Mello-Roos taxes.
I understand what you are saying, and I'm sorry you are in this situation. But I can also see that because you acted outside of the reach of the legal system then there is less chance of it being able to help you.

Sorry if I'm being heartless here but I'd also argue that the funds were not stolen, they were given in a system that provides almost no legal recourse.
>If the government forces a platform open and hands it over to a consortium of industry leaders, as well as associations of independent developers and open source foundations... sure why not?

Because the platform only exists because somebody created it, somebody specific not some consortium.

I don't want my iPhone OS to be created by a consortium, I want it to be run by Apple...
What if I just don't write apps for or use apple devices?
That's not what defines a monopoly. Ticketmaster can't just say "We're not forcing you to go to events - you could just sit at home if you want. Therefore we don't have a monopoly!"

I would have thought that is obvious to be honest.
+ 10 years crafting a unique sound.
And you don't seem to understand
Github seems to have gotten some fire in their ass in the last 1-2 years. Hard to say whether that is because of Microsoft or competition of Gitlab, or both.
Yeah, if you look at the network requests Teams makes, many of them include 'skype' in the name. Only thing I went off to guess it is a lot of the same services.
These are bolted on hacks and don't have the combined support of Apple and Google.

Nevermind the fact that this doesn't solve monopoly of distribution.
Awesome!, thanks for the tip `(Ctrl+f for "covariates")`
Top universities already put all of their courses for free online. e.g. here's all of MIT's CS lectures: https://www.youtube.com/c/mitocw/playlists. There's no downside to them doing so, because they derive most of their profit from their reputations.

And then if you want a more formalized course structure, you have online courses like KhanAcademy.

And then if you want to personalize your learning, you can find individuals who are great at teaching that constantly are producing online content. e.g. Grant Sanderson's channel 3blue1brown, popular even amongst professionals, because it re-teaches concepts in a much more powerful and intuitive manner.

I think the internet is already set up exactly the way that you are imagining. The only difference is that you won't get a reputable slip of paper.
Never heard the name "status quo bias" before, thanks for bringing that up.

I don't really care about this particular feature, but I do care about the trend. Why should a feature be sunset? It seems like this must be because of (a) bugs/maintenance burden or (b) a poor design or one that is mismatched with the current product direction. The fact that Google sunsets so many features and products suggests that both of these happen with high frequency. (b) is especially worrying, why can't they spend time before launching to figure out what they're going to do and commit to it? They aren't a small startup, they've got tons of resources. I'm sure they're trying, but whatever they're doing is not working, in my opinion.

For the record, I'm not a Google hater, but this is just so frustrating to watch as a user.
Why do you think that fee is unfair?
UBI will probably do more to promote the creation of more and better art than subsidizing loans for high tuition degrees.
Interesting analogy, though not perfect. The key question is to what % of the user experience the core technology provides.

For software, the programming language plays a small %, from the user's perspective - it's what is done with it that matters. Thus, "building a Python startup is a bad idea because everyone else has Python" doesn't make sense.

For online mattress companies, the mattress is really 95% of the experience (with minor points for delivery and customer support). Thus, "building an online mattress company is a bad idea because everyone sells the same mattresses and no one has a product edge" does make sense.

Video startups are more like programming languages, IMO. The key of the user experience is less the video technology and more what videos are actually accessible. Here, the network effects of user-generated content (Youtube, Tiktok) or proprietary videos (Netflix) are the real secret sauce.

For GPT-3 startups, the question is whether GPT-3 forms the vast majority of the value or just a small % of it. The lower the % it takes up in your product, the more likely you can build a competitive advantage in technology.
It's definitely true- after all we're talking about people who stalked him and his (potential) employers because of how wrong he is.

On the other hand, science is about finding truths. It needs to be flexible to replace old truths with new ones, but that doesn't mean that each single scientist must be flexible. It's fine for scientists to be absolutely convinced of the value of their theories and to defend them the best they can. After all, it has been said that science advances one funeral at a time. Scientists can be (and have been, historically, in various cases) giant assholes.
It's their product and they can do whatever they want with it. If anyone doesn't like that, they can easily not purchase iDevices. Apple doesn't force people to buy their products.
it would be on a different app store - you would still have full confidence if you used the Apple App Store only
Nobody forces anybody to buy an Apple product...

In fact, Apple charges more, so it makes it even more difficult to buy them than an Android phone -- which also has multiple app install options. Why not use that?
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Abusing open redirects on many government sites including Weather.gov, spammers get easy organic SEO for porn sites.
And yet no one is forcing you to buy an iPhone. Unlike Ticketmaster's shady ticket-depletion tactics, you are not out of options if you decide to get something other than an iPhone.

In fact, the vast majority of people get something other than an iPhone.
Except Apple isn't even the leader in marketshare in mobile devices that run apps.
As a consumer I love Apple's commitment to high quality apps - a side effect of their review process. As a seller on their marketplace 30% is extremely high. 30% of every sale! For context Amazons referral fee averages about 15%.
Still waiting for an acrylic blur (or some other type of blur) to bring Gnome to parity with modern desktops.
I think the long-term historical drop in the ratio of [top marginal rate on individual income] to [tax as a % of GDP] is mainly the result of these factors:

1) increased tax compliance

2) more tax deductions

Overall, you’d need to use a more comprehensive “area under the curve” analysis of every tax to predict the impact of tax policy on total tax revenue, and it would be surprising if it could be predicted based only on the top marginal rate.

A major source of short-term noise is the business cycle, where capital gains and corporate profits fluctuate much faster than GDP, and some automatic stabilizers decrease revenue.
Also for open source projects
Either the government can tell Apple how to run the App store, or the government can limit iPhones to < x% of the population.

I will say it's embarrassing that we've allowed one company's products to become such a status symbol that there is no alternative to the insecure masses, but such is the present world.

Then again, perhaps competition itself is obsolete, and we should just get on to centralized socialism already.
It's not like someone will force you paying without your consent.

If you don't want to give random apps your credit card, don't give it to them. Why do you oppose other people's right to do that, if they need it?
Imagine a 17 year old robs a bank and steal 100k from the savings accounts of random people.

Or a 17 year old steals a couple of cars from random people off the street...

The crime is not breaking into Twitter. The crime is theft. Twitter didn't steal that money, this guy did. Let's not pretend the internet is a magical land without consequences.
That the US president is essentially threatening to nationalise TikTok shows just how far the US is willing to go to preserve their absolute dominance in social media.

"National security".

Well of course it is. All American social media allows the American intelligence services to surveil just about every person on this planet.

No other nation has ever had this power.
That would be the case if Apple, like Ticketmaster, had a controlling share of the mobile OS space. They have less than 30% though...
This is just way too funny. Cheers for sharing!
Yeah, they used Coinbase, and Coinbase is of course willing to respond to warrants.
Agreed, it's also not what an artist gets paid, it's extremely hard (read impossible) to get a direct relationship with Spotify. You require distribution.. that alone takes anything from a flat delivery fee per album per year (the worst prey on independent artists who will rarely ever recoup that per release from spotify, apple and Amazon combined) to 25% of that revenue and a dozen or so other business models inbetween, then if they have a label, the label gets 50%, publisher is taking 25% of the mechanicals or worse you aren't registered at a PRO and that money gets left on the table. Those ~£0.005 per stream (US, UK rates) aren't looking great for most people but that's the reality of what your getting.

So after you've pumped out 6 singles a year, spent £100 a pop promoting those said singles, £50 mastering each single.. how much do these people think 98% of artists are making these days and can be sure of what they may take home every 2 months from these singles. At least with an LP you have a fixed cost and a revenue projection that can be worked out by price per copy.
I know the quote was accurate. I thought it was common knowledge that bitcoin is not anonymous, therefore making "de-anonymized the bitcoin transactions" a bit of an overstatement.
This is like saying that gold coins are explicitly designed not to allow recourse and refunds and that transactions in gold are not reversible by any legal authority.

In both BTC and solid gold, reversibility is not a property of the currency. It is a part of the system which uses that currency.

However, with Bitcoin (unlike with gold) the currency is explicitly designed with verifiable identity being fundamental to every transaction.

With Bitcoin, an individual can prove that they participated in a transaction that was later determined to be fraudulent. This is a fact of the currency. It is explicitly built in to Bitcoin at a foundational level.

Whether existing systems use that specific aspect of the currency to do anything meaningful is a separate matter.

But the fact is that bitcoin itself has more accountability than other currencies. Not less.
I'd start your legwork here with a phone call to your nearest FBI field office. Make sure you have the paper trail showing from your end you sent crypto to the perpetrators, and ask what the next step would be for claiming your defrauded property. It may also be worth consulting with a lawyer to see what your legal recourse might be here.

Fair warning: there may be no next step. I have no idea if the US government even considers cryptocurrency "property" in any legally-meaningful sense.
Are those 3,236 satellites just to cover the US area or global? I can't imagine can approve this globally? Wouldn't European and Asian countries have any say in it?
For many of us that is a feature, not a problem.
He means the only store on the iOS platform, not the only app store between all platforms
You can choose, go and choose one of the other 70% of the phones on the market.
Inherent property of single-payer system is that medicine professionals salaries are low compared to US, so there's strong incentive for said specialists to emigrate (or for wannabe doctors to pursue other career paths in the first place). Countries with such systems suffer constant shortage of doctors and nurses, further limiting the supply of healthcare services. Truth is, almost all progress in medicine happens in the US, which effectively subsidises healthcare for the rest of the world this way.
>Apple had the opportunity to lean on the web and elected not to.

Thank god for that. It's why mobile computing in 2020 isn't just Electron apps, like the desktop increasingly becomes...
While I don't deny that the Spotify CEO is the best person to send a message like that, I have to ask myself what life was like for musicians before Spotify (or any other low-paying streaming service).

30 Seconds to Mars made a documentary about the album they recorded in 2008 and the lawsuit they had to deal with at their record label (which had been recently purchased by a larger company that had zero music / talent experience). Their contracts seem to put them almost $1 million in debt to the record label for each album, despite the fact that they sell (err sold?) multi millions and they do worldwide tours.

Sure, Spotify's CEO is a strange vessel to make more demands on musical talent, but he's also in a position to know how his customers want to consume their music and what gets them engaged in his product. I would take it for what it is and no more.
Is there a way to get rid of these paywalls? So annoying to click on a popular post with plenty of upvotes only to find it is paywall-restricted. Incognito mode works but inefficient.
> Anyone with Bitcoin Transaction knowledge, what's this de-anonymization of Bitcoins transaction?

Since Bitcoin is not anonymous but pseudonymous, it can be as simple as finding one or more transactions that link a wallet to a real identity (such as one tied to purchase of physical goods with an identified recipient and shipping information) and from there tieing every other transactions from.that wallet to the same identity. I would guess in practice it often involves more steps of connection.

> This reads like an Ad copy of a company that's against perceived anonymity.

The DoJ isn't a company, but it is very much against perceived lack of accountability, which is one of the reasons people choose systems that offer perceived anonymity.
Because you cannot opt for a different store if you don't like the fee. If you want to sell independently, you cant. If you want to sell alternatively, you cant. This excludes many devs and shops from access.