skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m surprised this article makes no mention of hypomania, which is close to mania but doesn’t cross the threshold. People can be hypomanic for years without rousing concern amongst friends, family, coworkers, medical staff.
Good. Capitalism decrees that a company founded on a faulty or unsustainable business model should collapse and be replaced by better alternatives. The sooner the market realizes an error and corrects itself the better.
It is elitist to claim they are not the same.

Software is the product of expression.

Music is the product of expression.

They both can use emotion when creating.

They both can evoke emotion while experiencing.

Who retires first debate: the famous musician or famous programmer is still unsettled.

Classically an artist put themselves in difficult situations in order to grow as a person so the art can say more. Don't be angry at others making money because an artist has choosen a different path.
like I care your bullshit profit
America is a fundamentally revolutionary nation fighting for global democracy. We have learned not to force it on countries anymore with violence, but the struggle for global democracy remains nonetheless.

We are an existential threat to China.
cause they don't deserve it
There is an ongoing effort to implement a Tezos node in Rust
So in that case they really need nothing from ARM at this point
You can have polymorphism without inheritance. A single class can implement multiple interfaces, and multiple classes may implement the same interface.

What is your background? C++ combines interfaces and abstract classes, so this may be the issue you're running into. An interface is an abstract class with no instance variables or method implementations. The trouble with inheritance lies in overriding the superclass's method implementations.
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It's very disturbing that Silicon Valley controls so much of public discourse. Hate Trump as much as you like but having all discourse controlled by faceless billionaires is not good to anyone. It would be the same if Bernie Sanders was the president and he did something that would affect them. It's not moral, it's just money for billionaires.
> These two facts mean that the Chinese government now has direct access to the brains of millions of young Americans, with zero oversight. Imagine China subtly promoting videos to create outrage and civil unrest in the US, or to feed anti-US propaganda to germinate terrorist groups in the US. These might sound like far flung possibilities, but I think it's hard to say what a country that views the US as its enemy (politically, economically, philosophically) might do with that kind of power, and I don't think we can wait to find out.

Ironically this idea is one of the rationale behind the GFW. Dont want any Spring/colour revolution over there.
I believe Stallman uses, or at least used, "cracker" for criminal hacker.
I had originally used the title of the document which is "PRESS RELESE: ..." but it has since been altered. I had not removed it because I thought it made it clearer that this did not come from a neutral party. As it is a press release from one of the parties in this issue.

Also, I do not know where you are from, but I am currently residing in Denmark and that music video you have linked is only accessible with YouTube Premium. As far as know this is only an issue when accessing the music from Denmark.
"Our European visitors are important to us.

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."

nice
Wait, so I'm going to have to install the TikTok For Business with Sharepoint integration in my Teams?

I guess anything makes sense to a company that paid $26 billion USD for LinkedIn.
I’m curious, why is this the case for GPUs and not CPUs?
Note that the average (mean, I assume) student loan payment is $393, according to the article. The median student loan payment is $222 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2020/02/03/student...).

$393 is 15% of $2620 which annualizes to $31,512, which is about the median personal income for full-time workers (whoops, before taxes). ($222 is 15% of $17,760 annual, about the poverty line for two.) That's not a wildly big change over the current state.

How about 10% of taxable income?
nice move! Australia
Ah, okay, thanks for explaining!
Your link shows the ratio decreasing from 16.97% to 16.16% in 2018 when the bill went into effect. That’s a 5% decrease, which agrees with my above math.

Overall your chart shows the ratio has a range of 19.75% to 14.42% in the past 20 years, tracking changes to the tax code and business cycle, exactly in the way you’d expect. That’s a 36% difference between the min and max ie. not flat.

I think lawmakers supporting tax cuts try to claim that tax revenues are not sensitive to tax rates because it would be convenient if true when trying to pass a tax cut. The facts don’t bear it out, however.

I think the roots of this argument are in the theory of the Laffer Curve: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
The Laffer Curve was used to argue for tax cuts when the top marginal rate was 70%. People are still trying to make this argument, but I think they missed the part where it’s supposed to be a curve, so the result of cutting taxes from 70% is not the same as cutting them from 35%.
We are living in a "Not the Onion" thread.
Not necessarily. If you're trying to decide which quarantine measures to take, and you look at only deaths, then your findings will be skewed by how good the medical system in the countries you examined is.

Or in other words, jumping from the balcony is a bad idea, even if the doctor can patch you up afterwards.
The analogy would only make sense if black people were a foreign economic and nuclear powerhouse that have been blocking US apps with even more prejudice.

Tit for tat restrictions are standard practice with international trade and not evidence of racism.
Facebook and Twitter mostly do not subsidize content creation, but YouTube and TikTok definitely do. That's why I think TikTok will have more staying power.
This is a demonstration of selection bias.
Yes, but it's nice that Skype is out of the way
Tell me about these tricks, and maybe I'll change my opinion too.
> The thing though is, "trifecta" is difficult in practice and shouldn't really be a barrier to passing laws.

> This is an illogical sentence.

You said Democrats had "trifecta" only two years (2009-10) during the Obama admin. I am assuming you mean they had the executive, house and senate.

I am saying, not controlling all three should not be a barrier to passing laws. You are completely misunderstanding me. I said "trifecta" should not be a barrier because you mentioned Democrats only had it for two years. Does the US constitution say the two chambers AND executive should be controlled by either Republicans or Democrats to enact laws?

> People would laugh at you. You're making a really dumb and nonsensical statement. (And you sound facetious.)

Well, I am glad the people I know would try to understand my point better than just laugh at me or call me dumb :)

> You "observation" was an accusatory statement that the Obama administration "had 8 years to fix this, but they didn't"

And I still stand by it - while supporting the said admin. I did mention they 'made extensive and substantive changes to the immigration system'. However, I still believe there are some changes they could have done (which Republicans would have supported) that would have made the system much better.
California state tax is very high, and it doesn't go towards aircraft carriers.
The problem isn't volunteering or things being free. The problem is people getting bullshit jobs or even harmful-to-the-world jobs to pay the bills so they can do their volunteering. The problem is a world of extreme inequity in wealth and political power. The problem is that most products remain non-free by being encumbered by ads and paywalls.

The fact is, even when things are totally free, big money finds a way to bury those things. Similar to people who used to rent DVDs from a store when their public library down the street had the same DVD on the shelf at no extra cost.

If we could destroy the funding of the ad- and paywall-driven businesses, the free stuff could shine. Of course, better to move the funding to the free stuff and have it be even better.
Show HN: We're a bootstrapped B2B SaaS company that made and shipped “hardware”
Florida Teen Arrested in Twitter Hack
Seems to me that a person sophisticated enough to social engineer Twitter employees is probably sophisticated enough to social engineer a Tampa teen into place for taking a fall. To me state level targets suggest state level actors and Twitter has been mucking about with state level political operations since at least the Arab Spring almost a decade ago.

Twitter has a lot of powerful people and organizations who have suffered discomfort at its hands. It is hard to swallow the thesis that a Tampa teen succeeded where intelligence agencies have failed despite years of efforts.
> It should not be this complicated to respect laws that just enforce minimal good practices.

It's not necessarily the compliance that's the issue, it can also be figuring out how to comply. IANAL, and I can't guarantee to myself that I can implement a site with policies that comply correctly. Better to just geoblock, because it's not necessarily worth the lawyer fees.
No matter how good you are at something, there's always a million people better than you.

-- Homer Simpson

Gotcha: Can't win. Don't try.

-- Bart Simpson

https://youtu.be/1YgGnfBNAqg
He was in Vienna during the last years of his life, busy and in bad health, I believe.

There's only a superficial connection to the French revolution, AFAIK: in 1786, Mozart set Figaro's Wedding to music, of which Wikipedia writes "The play's denunciation of aristocratic privilege has been characterised as foreshadowing the French Revolution".
Interesting. But can you distinguish between the effects of contextual advertising (ad depends on the content around it) and targeted advertising (ad depends on the person viewing it)?
Of course they have ISAs, my point is that the economics of standardization around a single ISA a la RISC-V isn't as good by virtue of the way we use GPUs on today's computers. You could make GPU-V but why would a manufacturer use it
As you say, it is orthogonal. Why not have both? You pay for the fraud with higher fees compared to a system where fraud is prevented by additional security.
I think some software is certainly also art, such as games.
> Taylor Swift

She wanted a lot of money, just like in the good old record label days. And BTW - her deal screwed indie bands even more...

> Joni Mitchell

Who TF is this person?

> only those artists who are willing to jump through Spotify's algorithmically generated hoops

Since when is general audience and human attention span a result of Spotify's engineering? Do you think that Taylor Swift doesn't have people earning 6 figures to make sure that she stays relevant?
The trend in self published novels is also towards putting out series of cheap and relatively bite sized books coming out in a tight schedule.

Many of these are.. not so good. A few are great.
Some promising career ideas beyond 80k Hours' priority paths
A Close Call: How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed – Terrence Tao [pdf]
Anton Petrov https://www.youtube.com/user/whatdamath goes through astrophysics papers quite often. The channel is pretty cool if you like space in general.
California creates first state highway made of 100% recycled material
What gives you the low degree of confidence MS engineers couldn't do a complete scan of TikTok's codebase?
This article assumes the cost of training GPT-3 will remain high. I think it will depend on how quickly we can make these models more efficient vs how much bigger we should make them to keep improving the quality of output. At some point, the quality will plateau, and the engineering improvements should catch up. For example, the 2013 VGG model has 160M parameters, and achieves the same Imagenet accuracy as a 16M parameter 2020 model (or maybe even 1.6M parameter one, I haven't checked the state of the art in efficiency). The algorithmic improvements will be combined with hardware improvements. Once the cost of training falls below some threshold, people will apply this technology to various domains, and entirely new applications will appear, creating a lot of room for new startups.
I believe the trend here is they left them alone...
Or ProServ - it's a lot of debugging/diagnostics work. There's a whole wide world of need for good diagnosticians who are thin on the ground, my friend.
The World’s Sneakiest Route Change
I'm not really surprised.

* the attacker (allegedly) bragged to the press
* the attack only involved phising and social engineering. (Its a bit unclear, but that's what it looks like)

Bragging to the press is a definite sign of someone doing it for the lulz. Criminals know better than to brag about their crimes publicly, that is how you get caught. Bragging definitely fits into the sterotypical motivation for most teenage hackers.

Social engineering is a skill, but its also a skill that a smart teenager is likely to have. Its not a super high sophistication attack. Its not a spy movie attack where people are breaking into offices, coercing employees, finding 0-days in the webserver etc. Its an attack that a dedicated teen could teach themselves and pull off themselves, no special resources needed.
Professionally, LinkedIn is a social media network they own.

Personally, MS has also invested in Facebook.

Among the young segment, TikTok could be an interesting way to explain/educate beyond social media. Microsoft has social-learning video based tools that could be similar to TikTok, or could become related.

I don't work for MS, just what I see from a distance.
Some of these features (sheen, anisotropy, subsurface scattering) are being added to the format with changes like https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/pull/1726. But realtime implementations can get a lot of mileage out of a simpler metal/rough PBR workflow, too.
That's true, although it raises a question: is the maximum you're willing to spend a trait of your bill of materials (I'd argue no), or of some other thing, for example your overall project. In that case you could have a method that validates your BOM against your project requirements.
I remember being 17. I was spectacularly bad at evaluating risks.

You're right - a lot of people who want to file bug bounties overestimate how much marginal ones are worth. At the same time, this scenario suggests to me that bug bounties aren't currently doing a good job of incentivizing people away from attempting to monetize significant exploits and towards more responsible security practices. If we have to depend on the risk analyses of teenagers, we may be in trouble.

Which is to say I suspect we have both problems.
I would think federal charges will follow.
Isn't the rasteriser "simply" a piece of code running on the GPU?
Agreed, that keyboard minus the numeric keypad and equipped with Cherry Blue switches is basically my dream keyboard. I use a Filco Majestouch 2 and it's great but I prefer the MS keyboard's ergo layout for sure.
The idea behind creating an album, a collection of songs behind a theme or era of your creative life, lets you tell more of a story in a cohesive way. It lets you create more interconnected works, rather than one idea per song.

Also, it lets you take breaks and lets things breathe. It's really hard to take a song from creation to recording to mastering to releasing without giving yourself a break in the meantime.

Also also, batching out writing, recording, and post-prod makes it go much faster as well

In short, it's far far easier to make 12 songs in a year than one song in a month, and you'll get a much better product out of it.
That was a mistype, thanks for catching that. I meant 25, but I haven't kept up with the last quarter so I have no idea what it looks like with all the recent insanity, so that might be pretty far off as well
> Have some appreciation--even awe--for the art you enjoy.

Haha, no.

Artists aren’t some gift from God here to bestow the world with joy from the heavens that we should all marvel at.

They are people who chose to learn a skill capable of outputting something suitable for consumption as entertainment.

As such, it is their job to be putting out these works regularly, just like everyone else.

Appreciation is nice, but doesn’t matter. Everyday people do mundane things that you have no idea how to do and probably go unappreciated, yet they are more necessary than any sort of “art”. Take art down from the pedestal please.
Now if only we had a payment method where the account credentials (ideally these credentials would be cryptographically verified, that is, it would be possible to transfer funds only if you have access to the private key) are not disclosed to anyone and also payments would be as easy as scanning a QR code.
It's not me, Google, it's you – from GA to Fathom (2019)
Awesome, and thank you! I'm the creator of Runnaroo. I've actually been surprised at how willing people have been to switch default search engines. Right now I believe it is mostly early adopters and tech focused people (like here on HN) using the service, so I'm not sure if the general population will be as willing to switch to a new search engine. I personally believe they will if the service gets good enough.
This article contains a number of factual error and a general lack of insight in the situation.

First off, it attaches a special significance to the end of June as a turning point, but Sweden was late in deploying widespread testing of the general population, so that’s mostly due to the expanded testing around that time. In Stockholm it is well established that the peak was mid April. Other parts of Sweden have a different story, with some regions tracking Stockholm in the progression, while some are still quite early in the curve. For instance, the southern region of Scania seems to track closer to Denmarks pattern even though transits were largely shut down in March.

Another error is the claim that the strategy was to achieve herd immunity. The line has always been that the actions taken should be sustainable in the long term. As a resident of Stockholm, I can tell you that life here changed massively in March, and it’s far from a normal summer with all concerts being cancelled, amusement parks being shut, parades and festivals being cancelled etc. That said, I’ve seen few people argue that the measures are too draconian and should be dropped. (There was a major debate about the recommendations around domestic travel during the summer, which eventually resulted in the authorities saying that they no longer discouraged it. They released a rather interesting paper where they modelled the consequences of internal travel.)

In general, I think it’s too early to draw conclusions from comparisons between countries. The end result will depend on things like the impact of seasonal forcing on the contagiom, the availability of vaccines, the willingness of the population in other countries to accept renewed lockdowns, the feasibility of contact tracing schemes etc. I do however think it’s fair to say that Sweden failed mainly in protective measures around elderly care, and that the actions taken made sense in the particularly Swedish case.
> There's really nothing unusual in bands losing fans and appeal. If you don't want to change and loose fans - that's your choice. This isn't even new. Many artists had to recreate themselves to stay relevant or just retire.

Pretty hard to lose fans you don't have...and it's really REALLY hard to get fans
Domain hoarder loses $88,000 to a cruise company, and hoards their domain too
Affluent domain squatter "Domain King" apparently as $88k stuck with Crystal Cruises, so he hoards "CrystalCruisesSuck.com"
On a side note, same thing happened to me in the 90s. But instead of pine needles, it was a weed wacker and acres of waste high thistle weeds.
Not just (relative) declines but an absolute decline: they're down to a small handful of cases; COVID-19 is basically gone from Sweden. Moreover, if the cause of that is widespread immunity, it means they don't need to concern themselves with second waves or additional lockdowns as other European nations do right now.

It doesn't prove that lockdowns were a mistake, but it means we should start considering that possibility. Sweden's still doing comparably or better than other nations that locked down heavily (e.g. the UK); even if you take the position that there's absolutely no doing cost/benefit when it comes to potential deaths (which is a radical position for seemingly everything besides COVID, but no matter), if at the end of the day the number of infections/deaths per capita turns out to be roughly the same anyway, the lockdowns were an enormous waste.

My personal favourite insight from all this, though: if you'd applied the Imperial College model (~500,000 dead in the UK without lockdowns, 2.2 million in the US) that initially inspired the lockdowns to Sweden, you would've gotten ~100,000 dead [1]. Instead we're left with ~5000. The virus turned out to be 20x less deadly than we thought. Maybe that calls for a change in tactics?

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.20062133v...
> I got into software to pay the bills, but the way geeks talk about the industry and people I love drives me right up the wall. Have some appreciation--even awe--for the art you enjoy.

I probably agree with you about your broader sentiment of the commodification of music for the principal benefit of tech investors is not in the interest of society as a whole; however, I don't think your bit about software/geeks served to support your point. Some people appreciate software the way you appreciate music, and perhaps they appreciate music as a sort of commodity. People have different preferences, but sometimes that creates an economic environment that isn't optimal for your own preferences.
Yes, there are orders of magnitude of scale in both fields.

In software it can cost $10k to build an app but Google Search costs $10^10: a six orders of magnitude difference.

In music there’s got to be a big dynamic range in effort involved as well. (I doubt it’s 10^6 though!)

But comparing the best music to the lowest end app is apples to oranges.
Protectionism arises when there is not equal business opportunity between nations and when nations have knowledge of unethical government campaigns using related corporations. I don't see how this is similar to treating black people. Maybe you meant Uighurs?
You're right! Or, maybe WordStar too! lol :-D
If this teen was the person who did the hack, it would make more sense it was just a BTC scam. You could do _way_ more impactful (worse) things with the access he (presumably) had.
But that's also a slur.
I wish as a species we were smart enough not to turn everything good we did or could do into shit in the name of profit by building models that just churn more.
TBH, reading "what is required [by music artists][...] is creating a continuous engagement with their fans" my arms fell off to the ground.
Seriously, now the requirement for a form of art is engaging with fans? Well thanks Spotify for the nails to seal the coffin of good music I guess.
The headline is usually "A Florida Man has been arrested" because news stations all around the country dig through Florida public records to fill space when their local news is slow. It says "Florida" because it is not local to the outlet that is publishing it. Local news usually says "local man" or specifies a locality.