skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He allegedly social engineered access. The vast majority of bug bounties i have seen consider this out of scope.

Also do x or i release the sploit could be considered extortion if you word it wrong, and then you are in all sorts of additional trouble
I like Metallica just as much as the next guy, but they're not relevant anymore. They've been laughed out of the music industry ever since they got upset about their music being pirated - which is actually a great example of how the music industry has changed and left them in the dust. Do they still sell records? Sure. But that's not what I'm talking about. Would I listen to their opinions on modern music industry trends? Absolutely not.

Of course there are bands I haven't heard of from the 70s and 80s. That doesn't mean the ones I have heard of are relevant. It means they're memorable.

unrelated but I love your username.
I have never used a credit card when living in Europe, it was a debit card... but it is effectively debited at the end of the month only. So you have to pay in full at the end of the month.
And the bank is responsible for the security on the card, so if it is hacked somehow, the bank has to fix/pay for it.
So, it is a bit strange when moving to US, and then being responsible for the poor security of the cards (debits or credits) provided by my US bank. Now the anti-fraud system is pretty sophisticated. I once got my CC being copied at a fast food, charged fraudulently like less than 30min after my order at the fast food, and have the CC company called and asked to verify the fraudulent charge.
It is just strange not spend that money upfront with better security on the cards, rather than let it wide open and then build complex/velocity/AI system to point potential fraudulent charges, call me, cancel charges, and send me a new CC.
> Has ML, so far, really made any industry-changing inroads in any industry?

It is (IIRC) a pretty fundamental part of self driving tech. I honestly think this is what drives a lot of Nvidia's valuation.
20 years ago you needed all of the same stuff in software engineering, as you described in music.

Things change... It costs as much to "release an app" as to "get a record out" today.
I don't know if it's reasonable to compare apps--which often address economic problems--with music. Probably a more apt comparison would be between music and entertainment apps (games?).
>Intel also essentially emulates x86 and runs RISC internally.

By that logic anything emulates its ISA because that is the definition of an ISA. An ISA is just the public interface of a processor. You are wrong about what x86 processors run internally. Several micro ops can be fused into a single complex one which is something that cannot be described with a term from the 60s. Come on, let the RISC corpse rot in peace. It's long overdue.
I'm with you on this, he's probably a fall guy who's "caught" because he "confessed" or something like that. Two reasons for this; one, Twitter isn't exactly the kind of joint you stroll into and take over, it's not really an amateur operation and people are attacking it all the time. Second, coordinating all this work is not a simple one-person job. The timing of the attack suggests lots of coordination, practice, or both. Could one kid do it? Maybe, but highly improbable. And if it turns out this kid did do it, the CIA is going to find a way to own his ass basically forever.
I’m curious about the hypothesis that’s driving that question
That's why I put "luxury" in quotes. I love the idea; I would never ever buy one
When I was a teen I made long distance phone calls using calling card numbers that were not my own, obtained through a war dialer. I'm pretty sure I never would've gone as far as this kid did, but who knows. I hope this doesn't ruin his life.
But he said 3-4 years.

Also, there's nothing stopping anyone from recording a bunch of work at once and then releasing it over time.
Forgiveness isn't endorsement of the behavior. And it also doesn't depend on their changing. Maybe they won't change. Forgiveness is when you change, such that you are no longer unduly influenced in your present life by the pain they caused in the past.

So you might not have further dealings with them because emotionally releasing the power their actions have over you doesn't mean you're going to grant them power over you again. You can forgive and still distrust; you can forgive and set/enforce boundaries; you can forgive and still change how you pick the people you open up to or allow to influence your life. There's lots of ways to both forgive and move forward, rather than backward.
You could make a standardized GPU instruction set but why would anyone use it? We don't currently access GPUs at that level, like we do with the CPU.

It's technically possible but the economics isn't there (was my point). The cost of making a new GPU generally includes writing drivers and shader compilers anyway, so there's not much of a motivation to bother complying with a standard. It would be different if we did expose them at a lower level (i.e. if CPU were programmed with a jitted bytecode then we wouldn't see as much focus on ISA as long as the higher level semantics were preserved)
It makes total sense in hindsight that the original aim of the hackers was not some low-netting Bitcoin scam, but it still feels unsatisfying that all they were after with such elevated access was the sale of high profile usernames.
When I started my business I faced the problem of charge backs after sending goods to the scammer. I've looked for what Visa and MasterCard recommends to prevent it. Their advice: "contact the buyer to make sure it's not fraud". My question was: how I am supposed to contact the buyer if it's the scammer who actually filled in the contact info form. No answer to that.

One very easy step preventing most of the fraud in my case and I imagine many others would be an option to request a registered email or phone contact to the actual card owner. "Hello it's bluecalm from org X, we have noticed your order and it's marked as suspicious by our system, can you please confirm you made that order? Yes - great, we are sending you the product right now. No? Well, contact your bank as your card info was stolen".

It's such an easy and obvious step. Let me contact the actual card owner using the info they provided. I think the problem is lack of incentives. It's the seller who covers the cost. At least some of it should be on card companies to encourage them to actually do something about it. Right now they seem to just not care.
As a visual artist who regularly works on multi-year projects, and happily grabs a new album from bands she's been following for years who only put new work out once in a blue moon, I would like to cordially invite Mr. Ek to fuck himself.

While I am handing out invitations to auto-copulation, I would also like to hand out a large number to every senator and representative who has voted to defund the arts. Making room for people who have learnt creative skills to pursue their craft without having to constantly worry about whether or not this week's piece is gonna make enough money for them to pay their rent is an important part of society.

Finally, I should express my absolute delight that Patreon continues to exist, and that I have enough people willing to spare a few bucks per month that I can pay my rent while continuing to work on my long, slow projects. I keep on worrying that Patreon will fall apart when it becomes clear that their burn rate is higher than their profits, but I will enjoy it while I still can. It's about the closest thing to the NEA I'm likely to experience in my adult life.
Is there a similar API with the etymology of the words? I played with this a bit and it doesn't seem to cover this area.
Sweden's Health Agency Says Open Schools Did Not Spur Pandemic Spread Among Children [1]

1. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-07-15/sweden...
I have never laughed so hard in a HN comment thread before.
So the secret is making charcoal with pine needles at 550 degrees.

Thank you.
Clojure: Does nobody teach fopen anymore? (2013)
[cost of compliance] > [revenue from EU visitors]
Jokes aside, it probably would be a nice addition to their consumer-oriented portfolio (i.e. xbox, minecraft, etc), if they're planning to stay relevant in the FAANG-taking-over-the-world state of reality these days.
And then he'll join up with Acid Burn to take down some skateboarding CEO...
Art is the highest pinnacle of human achievement. Perhaps, not everything you call art was made with artistry or is artistic.
I think I'm out of touch and Google is just giving me news articles: what is GPT-3?
"But he did have plans: He found a job across the country on a wheat farm in central Idaho. This wasn’t a hobby or a whim. He became part of a community of honest, hardworking people. He worked from dawn until well past dark through his first harvest, driving a combine, fixing fences, and picking rocks out of the soil. In the winter he found a job apprenticing to an expert cabinetmaker, and started his own small business hauling firewood.

"After his second harvest, with money in the bank, our son joined the Marine Corps, a dream he had had for several years. He finished boot camp and is now at infantry school in North Carolina. He wakes up at 4 a.m., is tired all the time—and is happy. He is, as a translation of the second-century Saint Irenaeus puts it, “a man fully alive.”"

Happiness is possible without college, but geeze, I think I'll pass on that road.

(On the other hand, I know people who have taken roughly that road; he discovered he didn't like ranching (and it didn't pay squat) and joined the Navy, spent 8 years and two deployments in. Seems to have worked out pretty well. On the other hand, he recently completed a bachelors at a for-profit school (that mostly exists to absorb GI-bill benefits, AFAICT) and wants to go back for a masters for some reason.)
Not everyone lives to seek happiness. There's no reason to view seeking "success" or any other mode of living as illness just because it's not going to achieve happiness.

I don't think most want to be simply happy anyway. A lot of people want to have kids. Is this because they want to be happy? Is buying a house about seeking happiness? Is the author writing this article to be happy? Is reading Hacker News going to make you happy?

It's usually a mixture of motivations. There's far easier ways to be happy than most choose, but happiness is not the only reason to live.
If anyone's interested in an in depth dive into the "Florida Man" meme, the podcast Citations Needed did a great (imo) episode on it: https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-75-florida-ma...
> - Many countries have enacted policies to increase proportion of people who get degrees. Far from fixing inequality, this has instead diluted the value of university degrees.

I know enacting social change is much much harder than throwing money at problems, but I wish America figured out a way to really strengthen the cultural admiration for the hard-working craftsperson archetype.

Pete Buttigieg took a lot of flak for pointing out that many jobs in America don't require a college degree, and there should be nothing shameful about learning a skilled trade instead of going to college. We have a vast over-supply of many college majors, and (I'm told) big shortages in many skilled trades. There are way too many people with 4-year degrees from top-100 schools working cash registers in retail, when they'd have far less debt and higher income (and a good chance of later becoming successful small business owners) if they'd gone to trade school instead of college.

It's honestly classist to push 4-year degrees so hard. There's something noble about optimizing your own happiness while providing valuable services, despite much of America considering skilled laborers to be a class below cashier workers with useless 4-year degrees. I wish we as a society could better appreciate skilled laborers.

We don't have much positive to show from decades of flooding the college tuition markets with cheap credit / crippling debt and implicitly pushing hard the notion that going to trade school is settling for second-best.

There's something to be said about removing the crippling personal debt from the act of flooding the education markets with money, but without cultural changes, I think a big effect would be further ballooning of college costs. I fear the crippling debt will just get hidden as accelerating the ballooning of government debt without moving the needle much on inequality.
> Its not... coercing employees

How do you know? Coercion is a type of social engineering.
Not sure about elsewhere, but in the US, the compensation wasn't voluntary. It was the result of a class action law suit against Google.
> People still buy millions of classic albums from the 70's and 80's, in 30 years time very few artists will have that same comfort.

We are only listening to the best stuff from the 70s and 80s, and in 30 years people will only listen to the best stuff from today.

Now, I think a major difference will be the "best" music people will be listening to will be very different from each other. 30+ years ago the popular music people listened to on the radio or MTV was much more broadly known and shared than music today, whereas today different demographics have increasingly siloed music tastes.

I hear a lot of good stuff my teenage sons play on Spotify that I would never hear if it wasn't for them.
> The artists today that are making it realize that it’s about creating a continuous engagement with their fans. It is about putting the work in, about the storytelling around the album, and about keeping a continuous dialogue with your fans

The CEO shows a concerning misunderstanding. Some music is timeless. Some songs remain landmarks even decades after their release.

I abhor it when people force their own music preferences and beliefs on others. As other people have said, Mr. Ek can go fuck himself.
Because international students (have to) pay sticker. The schools can't (or won't) discriminate on price explicitly so this is what they do.
> TikTok had its charms because it was completely mismanaged. The discover feed had a mix between popular (>1M likes) and very unpopular (1-30 likes) videos and very odd videos, like someone slowly crushing a hornet to death inside a syringe, get popular often.

Why is that a mismanagement? You said it yourself, it has its charms. (And I agree with you.) What is the goal of discover feed if not to have "its charms"? To the contrary, I think TikTok's discover feed is genius. It is very well managed, and I hope it doesn't change.
Federal Authorities Arrest Suspect in Twitter Hack
I think what the CEO is saying, and it has been an increasing trend in music for a long time now, is moving even further away from large LP releases every few years. The existence of that medium of music doesn't make sense in the current year given how people actually go about consuming music.

The way to keep fans engaged involves releasing EPs and Single on a regular basis, releasing a whole album only really makes sense in the context of trying to produce it for artistic value, not fan engagement value.
Shows spotify doesn’t give a fuck about the actual musicians.
Florida teen arrested in Twitter hack that hit Biden and Obama
132-Year-Old Deli Katz’s Launches Its Own Delivery Service
On the flip side SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Music and websites like http://everynoise.com have made it even easier to find more obscure music, of which some is electrifying, change-your-life music.

It doesn't follow that "more people making music" means "same amount of good music"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24011939 on front page
To drag that back even further, albums were named that because 78s were generally held in albums (like photo albums).

78s were an A and a B side, they could be released as singles/one offs and generally weren't cohesive. Eventually you had people releasing related works or having longer recording sessions.

It sounds like a scenario of "What is old is new again", not that singles ever faded but all mediums outside of digital required the same amount of effort from the user for 1 track as it did for an album (put on an LP vs 45, cassettes had singles too but it's the same effort, CD changing would be difficult for a single song).
Does this mean the US visitors data is not protected? Or no resources to add a cookie banner?
No I wasn't meaning to miscontrue you for others to read, and I did see your caveat which is appreciated.

I just felt bad for the people who even back then were having trouble with student debt. And to think they were in a relatively lucky age -- everyone is in that boat now, with far less hope of getting out of the hole.
Off topic, but the linked WFLA video highlights how factual reporting takes a backseat to an insidious "breaking news", headlines-first approach. Twice we hear Mr. Buinno misstate the Twitter attack as occurring "a few months ago" before being corrected by his colleague after the second instance. I realize this is a trivial criticism, but it makes one question their general preparation and fact-checking processes. Is it too much to expect alignment on the basic details of a story before broadcasting it to hundreds of thousands of people?
Microsoft Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy TikTok
For software, actual usefulness. A word processor that's trending on Twitter but which makes it hard to actually edit documents is not useful. A graphics driver that actually renders my screen is useful even if nobody's ever heard of it (although I grant that below a certain size maintenance issues might come up).

For music... I'm far less qualified to say, but there's still a notion of (subjective) quality, which is only loosely correlated to marketing. I suppose we could say "good" music is that music which people enjoy, which still is driven by the actual music and not marketing.
It's also not universally true.

Some of Steve Albini's interviews are really on point with regards to this stuff. Really worth listening to if nothing more than to provide contrast to comments like the one above (which seem pretty reductive and flippant): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRAc3hx5pok
>You you have to earn it. One has to be deserving of it.

That removes your agency. You can't forgive without getting something from them first. If they never give, you never forgive, and you continue to live with the hurt.

Making forgiveness contingent on deserving, earning, or being worthy of it is something else entirely. The other person need not be involved in forgiveness in any way.

A gift is something you give someone else. Saying "they dont deserve it" implies you seeing it as something you give someone else. Forgiveness is only between you and yourself.
I don't think he was saying that artists aren't working hard enough, I think he was saying:

1. Albums don't maximize artist income - musicians should be steadily releasing new tracks. (Ironically, this is how things used to be up until the 70's, when a new technology, the LP, changed the dominant form of artistic expression.)

2. Nobody reads rolling stone anymore, mtv doesn't play music anymore, if you want a successful career you have to actively market yourself.
Here's hoping they come with A/C (https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/hot-seat-ups-delive...)
> ARM the companies growth rate has been tepid at best since SoftBank bought it.

It's a "knock it out the ballpark" victory by Softbank's standards.
> Do they still sell records? Sure. But that's not what I'm talking about. Would I listen to their opinions on modern music industry trends? Absolutely not.

I bet they feel just terrible to only be making money off of people buying their music, but not paying attention to their opinions.
And I don't blame the site at all. Another stupid rule from the EU preventing me from reading articles.
The economics of getting satellites into orbit are drastically better now. The RF technology and thus bandwidth available between ground and satellite is drastically improved now. Pricing of these services should make them feasible for everyday use by something resembling an "average" rural user, whereas past services were really just a luxury for narrow circumstances.

All in all, this time seems very different.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24011505

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24011672 front page
On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of CNNs
My only counter to that is socialization in person is a lot different than socialization online... I notice that from my daughter to a lot of younger people in general that spend more time interacting online or via phone apps vs. in person have far more anxiety regarding interactions in person.

As to TFA, I think that for a lot of people trade schools are a better option, and should often be encouraged. I'd like to see more general education regarding retirement planning etc as well earlier on, as this is a place a lot of people get stuck, esp. in the US.

Another issue is that people should be guided towards educational paths that have demand in the workplace. Does it make sense to go 200k into debt for a job that pays 38k/year, or graduate 10k students for a career path with only 100 openings. Some of this onus is on the students and parents, but the schools themselves could do much better with this. Some reform on funding might help, but it's a touchy subject.
Well, the article makes it look like striving for accomplishment necessarily makes you miserable, and makes the comparison to alcoholism. If so, it's a very deeply buried, unconscious misery: alcoholics wake up and go to sleep feeling horrible and will tell you out loud that they're miserable whenever they're sober and wish that they could stop feeling so awful. Pursuing excellence doesn't (in and of itself) ravage your body or destroy your sleep.

I'm fascinated by computers, and I like to spend time learning more about them. This doesn't make me miserable, it makes me happy (and, lucky for me, I can turn this into money too). It does make the people around me uncomfortable: they figure that if they were reading a book about programming computers, they would be miserable, so they try to talk me out of "punishing" myself.
The authors show that CNNs work well on a problem which, be definition, is discontinuous everywhere!
I agree, but it hasn't changed yet. Despite the "teach truckers to code" kind of rhetoric and survivorship bias of self taught coders.
> Make the best decisions you can, by which I mean try to make decisions that you will not regret later. (Have I made a crap-ton of mistakes in my life? Sure 'nuff. Would I make different decisions if I could, even knowing what I know now? Probably not.)

I can't agree with this enough, and it's a very powerful mindset. As a personal example, there was some point in my mid/late 20s where how I made decisions changed. Less of "will I regret doing this" and more "will I regret NOT doing this".

It's amazing how much happier and content with my life I was when I removed speculative regret (what if..?) in favor of actual regret. Turned out I regretted a lot less and enjoyed much more when I actually got out and did.
Triller is ancient. If anything the next app is going to be Byte. Until that jumps the shark.
My reading was that the card sellers had "negotiated" (Market equilibrium) a higher commission, meaning that the card sellers do get more money (Which makes sense, as the supply/demand for what they are selling is more in their favor).
There are many such artifacts from IBM's halcyon days. They really spared no expense in their campuses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rochester

https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_fac...