skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not whether it's bad for someone to commit this crime, it's whether Twitter should be held liable for such poor security practices that a 17 year old can hack them.

That is exactly my point.

There are tons of crimes that basically anyone can do. If you said instead: people whose houses are set on fire by an arsonist should be liable for poor security, at the very least you'd not be taken very seriously.

There is a duty to not commit crime. There is no duty to avoid being the victim of a crime.

On top of that, there is broad industry consensus that it is largely impossible to write bug free software - certainly at the scale of Twitter. To suggest that they have the duty perform the impossible strikes me as deeply irresponsible if not simply malicious.
It's the consensus among languages, but I've got a pretty large collection of application code that does need to partially initialize in passes, and there's also a fairly long list of escape hatches in languages (eg. lateinit in Kotlin, friend in C++, builder pattern in Java) to let you do this. Languages are supposed to capture common patterns; I'd argue this is a common pattern that isn't captured all that conveniently by existing language mechanisms, though a number have tried.
You can build a company called Applied Semantics and then sell your tech to Google so they can develop products called "AdSense" and "AdWords" and make trillions of dollars of revenue. However, first you'll need to invent a time machine that can take you back in time 20 years.
I thought Bitcoin's biggest feature was No Chargebacks
Ok, musicians, you wanna be in a band, get your nose to the grindstone! We have a lot of streaming time to fill up, so quit goofing off!

The Beatles only produced about 10 hours of unique music in their entire career. Can't coast like that any more!
TikTok has the feel of something like Vine or Snapchat.

Sure, teens and kids are using it, but it feels like people will grow out of it.
You should consider Shopify, Etsy, or even something like Ebay or Amazon. There's absolutely no reason to reinvent the wheel here. Ecommerce can be a real can of worms.
there's no reason to believe macromolecules like glucosamine benefit the body any more than regular, nutritious food. ingested nutrition generally gets broken down into amino acids and the like in the digestive system before it gets distributed to the rest of the body to be reconsistuted into cells and tissue.

cartilage in particular is scaffolding and generally must be constructed by other cells from very basic molecules at anchor points. it's decidedly not like lego blocks of glucosamine and chondroitin that just get assembled together.
Yes, a full breath cycle every 2 seconds but pretty small breaths. It doesn't feel like I'm hyperventilating. Trying to breath slower makes me dizzy like I'm not getting enough air and trying to breath as slow as this app feels like I'm choking.

I'm healthy overall and really surprised that my breathing is considered so abnormal.
Good luck.

This is how bitcoin works. You send value to somewhere else of your will. There is no outside party here.
> You also need to include inflation. Tax receipts actually fell on an inflation-adjusted basis in 2018. Absent any changes in government policy, you’d expect expenses to roughly follow inflation plus population growth, and revenues to roughly follow GDP.

Great point, but it increased again in 2019. In fact, inflation adjusted tax revenue has been increasing (with minor transient dips) throughout history[1]. You'll definitely find one-off variations, but the trend-line for inflation-adjusted Federal tax revenue is up-and-to-the-right.

> No, that doesn’t mean when cutting taxes we can ignore the resulting increase in the budget deficit...As I pointed out, the chart is not really flat. The line actually goes up and down.

It's complicated because the ups and downs don't perfectly correlate with tax policy. You can find moments where a decrease in tax revenue as a % of GDP coincide with a tax cut, but you can also find moments where a decrease in tax revenue as a % of GDP coincides with a tax hike and vice versa.

It's important because if you zoom out and look at Federal tax brackets over time since WW2, the US's inflation adjusted tax brackets went from 22%-92% in the 1950's[2] to 10%-37% in 2020[3], but Federal tax receipts as a % of GDP is flat / moderately increased over that period.

[1] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/federal-receipt-a...

[2] https://taxfoundation.org/us-federal-individual-income-tax-r...

[3] https://taxfoundation.org/2020-tax-brackets/
Wordpress and others use this to load certain on the fly. When you are a multidomain host this matters a lot.

You don’t just load up a million cents as files and restart the server (though I do know a company that does something like this, but man, quite brittle).
The arts (orchestra/symphony, opera/musicals, etc) are a luxury good. There is a small, niche market for these things, mostly centered around certain cities - so we can only have so many artists.

The mass arts that the masses can afford to consume (TV, streaming music, and movies) are by definition based on popularity, so we can only have so many artists.

I don't know why we fund so many people's arts degrees. We need less funding for arts degrees, and more funding for the arts instead. Someone being able to live a basic (but self-sufficient) life has nothing to do with funding arts degrees.
All non functional human expression is art - PERIOD.

Just because you may not like my perfectly polished cube and don't see the meaning I put into it - doesn't make it "not art".
Bitcoin is actually explicitly designed to enable recourse and refunds. Every single transaction is permanently and immutable tied to a verifiable identity.

Through common practice, these identities are treated as disposable and therefor generally ignored. But stating that the currency is explicitly designed to disallow accountability is not an accurate representation of reality.

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Edit to add a practical example for clarification because this is being downvoted.

If the FBI conducts an effective warranted search + seizure of a mob safehouse, seizes a large safe, opens it up, and finds either:

A) Gold bricks

or

B) Bitcoin wallet private keys

In case (A), they can maybe correlate records, reports, statements, and other evidence to possibly determine the rightful owner of the gold or goods laundered for gold.

In case (B), they can check the BTC ledger against fraud reports that contain bitcoin wallet public keys, then publish a public statement asking people to prove they own any matching public keys -- because bitcoin, by it's fundamental nature, is more accountable in a way that enables recourse and refunds.
Eric Schmidt Says Artificial Intelligence Will Be Key to U.S. National Security
Let Nvidia have ARM, they'll run it into the ground and speed up Risk V adoption.
In recent memory, another favorite is the 2G spectrum scam - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G_spectrum_case. The Telecom minister taking bribes and bending rules to grant licenses to his favorite companies, the Prime Minister unable to control his own minister and letting the scam occur, the propagation of "zero loss" theory. It was very... entertaining to see corruption exposed at the highest level in the government.
Ahh, yes! I think I want a cross between the Prosperity and the Small Business license.
I like how he makes it required, and then immediately sets the estimate to 0, presumably to bypass the new requirement.
One person is not a culture. By labeling this a culture, the "afflicted" can criticize without inspecting the individual merits of each "case."
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/press-release/file/1300126...

It’s detailed here, very interesting read
this must be a joke.
Teenagers social engineer their parents and teachers on a daily basis. Their success rate is higher than either parents or teachers would like to admit.
#users * duration = $$$
you're staying longer waiting for the video and watching it and that corresponds directly to the money they make. additionally, they can also autoplay ads.

the problem is that the browser makers (google, microsoft, apple) use autoplay on their sites, so that they are not really interested in blocking it. you can try some extensions that block autoplay, some adblockers offer that feature too. firefox is also an option.
But that's the exact issue, it's political poison because of who owns it. Why would it be "magically transmuted away"? That's literally the entire point.
Other than the same instruction sets the other two factors can change in the 5 to 10 years that a console generation lasts.
Interesting to note that the play duration of an LP was not seemingly the result of intentional design decisions around sound quality, speed, physical size, ease of manufacture, etc, but rather a bit of a historical accident arising from technology changes, and marketing missteps:

"When initially introduced, 12-inch LPs played for a maximum of about 23 minutes per side, 10-inchers for around 15... Economics and tastes initially determined which kind of music was available on each format. Recording company executives believed upscale classical music fans would be eager to hear a Beethoven symphony or a Mozart concerto without having to flip over multiple, four-minute-per-side 78s, and that pop music fans, who were used to listening to one song at a time, would find the shorter time of the 10-inch LP sufficient. As a result, the 12-inch format was reserved solely for higher-priced classical recordings and Broadway shows. Popular music continued to appear only on 10-inch records.

Their beliefs were wrong. By the mid-1950s, the 10-inch LP, like its similarly sized 78 rpm cousin, would lose the format war and be discontinued."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record#Playing_time
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Except for the part that it is Florida and they release all this stuff... which is what brought on the whole Florida Man meme.

https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/tampa-teen-acc...
I define art to be the exploration of emotional expression. If you disagree with that definition, that's fine, as the debate as to "what is art?" is certainly a valid one. But please note the discussion context. The original comments I've replied to are "software is equivalent to art", and I disagreed. There are vast differences. My assumption is that it is people involved in software making this claim, and that is where the elitism comes from.

> Software is the product of expression.

What emotional content are you expressing when you write software? When someone writes a book or music or paints a painting or live performs an art piece, they are expressing emotional content, feelings, stories, etc. Please view my other responses, as I don't want to repeat myself here, but art is different than "<thing> as an art", which relates to art as in craft, and it's also different from things being aesthetically pleasing.

If we're going to dilute the term of what art is so much, then it's pointless to just stop at "software is art", as we should then just say "everything is art" and stop using the word.

> They both can evoke emotion while experiencing.

That's a poor definition. If something simply evokes emotion, that doesn't make it art. Literally everything evokes emotions in humans.

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

It's usually not best to discuss edge cases and is better to stick with the general population. Your general software developer is going to be many times well off than your general artist.

> 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.

You're implying that artists intentionally suffer? Some artists may, but I think it's more the case that most artists are not given a choice, which was basically the original discussion here. The discussion started off as musicians are now having to compromise and shift from creating music as their end product to simply using music as part of the marketing component of a brand, image, lifestyle, etc. And no one said to be mad at people making money. But the people sitting in one of the most well-paid positions in history, i.e. software developers, shouldn't be making loose allusions to what they do is the same as people living in poverty and the lower class struggling for society to recognize as what they do as useful.
Trying to paint this 17-year old kid as a criminal mastermind strikes me as rather gross. I can see it as a kid doing it to see if he could, and using an obviously meme-worthy fake post that got out of hand. I think everyone has done some dumb things at this age without thinking about the consequences. If that is the case here, I hope this doesn't ruin the guys life.
FWIW, don't imagine that there was anything as elegant as "logarithmic curve analysis" used to decide that the age of majority is 18.

It's an age that was settled upon by common-sense consensus over a grand function of "Well, most Americans (descended from Europeans) thought it should be around 21," and that's probably because 21 is a nice, round number. Then the draft age got pushed to 18 because we needed more bodies for the meat-grinder in World War II, and the voting age followed around Vietnam when too many people asked "Wait, in what way is it just or fair we can force people to fight and die in a war who can't even vote?"

There isn't a lot of hard science (beyond the most ancient human science of all: observation across millions of data-points loosely confederated into "common sense") underpinning the age of majority.
It's called a virgule if you want to stop the forward slash confusion. Of course nobody will know what you're talking about.
What about this implies parallel construction to you? The OGUsers databases (well, actually a couple, they've been hacked multiple times) has been publicly available for a while. Also, the discord chats and Vice article include details on selling accounts with desirable names - even if not explicitly linked to OGUsers (I don't recall off the top of my head if it was called out), you could track hacked accounts, see they were sold or discussed on OGUsers, and then give a look at the DB. That seems an obvious route of investigation to me?
> Most of the "golden age of civilizations" had this property

I don't know what civilizations you're talking about, but the vast, vast majority of humans in the past were busy working in the fields to avoid starvation. The classical fine artists were wealthy or had wealthy patrons.
Wow what an amazing use of technology. Painful to see so many examples of deforestation.
> making your blood overly acidic.

What are the symptoms of that? I'm almost 40 and never had any health issues so far. The breaths are shallow but I'm surprised to hear my breathing is abnormal so I should probably speak to a doctor.
I don’t understand how an album wouldn’t survive if singles survive. An album is a collection of single songs.
The article isn't wrong, but it also depends on how much (time, money) you invest in your business.

For example, creating AI Dungeon (first with GPT-2, now with 3) will probably be profitable for its founder, one way or another. So that likely was effort well spent.
> retailers don't just bite the bullet and buy the $100 terminals to get off the swipe system

I think its been about a year or more for me since I last swiped my card (or saw it swiped). 100% chip/EMV or Apple Wallet here.
Unassuming it's not a troll, $ signs in the eyes.
> Google has been bleeding the media dry.

I don't think that's a fair characterization. Would you say that Ford bled blacksmiths and carriage makers dry? Technology moves on. Newspapers are dying because their business model blows in the current infoscape. People spend most of their attention on things other than news, and news is the ultimate information commodity.

> Every single year, Google's ad business shifts more revenue from the "shares with third party sites" segment over to the "keeps all of it" segment.

The linked article shows that the "keeps all of it" portion has been growing faster than the "shares with third party sites" portion. I don't think it's fair to say that they shift revenue from one to the other.

> So while Google Search used to heavily fund news, every year, Google's cut gets bigger, and news orgs' cut gets smaller.

This is not shown by the data in the linked article. Clicks and CPC are slightly down for "shares with third party sites" but that does not say anything about news sites in particular.
It's there, it's just not evenly distributed- or evenly zoned. As a species, we can probably produce enough to cover everyone's basic needs if we wanted to.
What’s the word for that thing you get when one part of a duopoly acquires the other? I think there’s a board game about it ...
One of the people mentioned in Krebs's article is being charged, but not all of them: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-e...
I absolutely agree, and that's what I think the CEO is referring to. Slowly dropping 6-12 singles over a two year period is more sensible nowadays than taking two years to write, record, and release an album or EP.

In fact, leaving out the few niche bands that release albums as a cohesive whole, the concept of an album seems terribly anachronistic in this new world of streaming. It's now the era of the single song, whether we like it or not. This is, of course, just considering popular genres of music.
I mean, people grew out of Friendster and MySpace too, until Facebook turned out to be the one they didn't grow out of.

Nobody knows, but it's worth a gamble.
Targeted ads don’t only serve you with useful information, they serve you targeted anything.

- For instance, if you are a decision maker in a company, buying targeted ads across platforms is an amazingly effective way of changing your opinion. Seeing helpful articles in LinkedIn or in that specialized site for professionals? You might be The target of a salesman, or worse, a competitor trying to slow you down (I’ve seen this last one happening).

- Targeted malware distribution is also a thing.

- Try checking something weird online and see how much the ads everywhere change. That’s a self-forming bubble around you. Start thinking about how all of that works and you will start to doubt which ideas and desires are yours and which were decided for you.

- This has side-effects, Internet profiling is reducing diversity, since ads are shown on a profile basis, there’s a silo-ing of interests.

- The insights that can be gained from profiling can be of a very sensitive nature, and can be inferred by third parties. Let’s say I’m a backwards boss who has ill-formed opinions about homosexuality. It’s trivial and quite cheap for me to use targeted ads with my employees emails (and some fake emails if I need some extra) to send you ads on things like gay dating platforms. If the click-through of the ads goes up, I know I have some pruning to do.

The options are pretty much limitless
The same point stands with the car, any 17 year old could borrow their parents car and drive into a crowd. It's not the fault of the car owner for not securing their car.

Security is not preventing people from doing things, it's having some limitations so it's not too easily too quickly (cars are protected by keys, accounts by passwords). Anybody motivated can and will bypass security easily.
This is based on the Apple/Google API initiative. Now if only we can get the provinces onboard with this. One of the things about Canada is that the provinces are largely responsible for funding and delivering health so that federal government can not mandate that the various provincial governments adopt this. A couple of provinces have their own applications but none of these apps have approval to use the Apple/Google APIs so hopefully they'll drop them and use the Canadian one instead. It makes more sense to have a single app for the whole country.
That'll be "TikTok for Business 365 Professional Edition" for you, sir.
None of this stuff matters at this point. Start writing content.
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I'm not seeing it. The device package sizes are often smaller than even the pin spacing on a breadboard. We generally start with a manufacturer dev board to write the firmware while the hardware is being designed and then manufactured at a prototype shop. The problem with trying to make "breakouts" on packages so small is that they are extremely fragile (if you can even solder to them by hand!) and the poor signal integrity of flying blue wires can often be enough to make the hardware completely unusable.
I missed that. Thanks a lot for the correction.
He's being charged with 30 felonies but at the same time exposed how woefully inadequate Twitter is at securing the accounts of high-profile people, some of which with control of apocalyptic weapons. I predict he'll plea out to doing a few years of free work for the government.
Good points. In fact, I'm guessing consumers ultimately want the App Store to be a monopoly. It gives us a central place where both devs and consumer can exchange with each other.

Break it up, and then you may hear people complain about how the mobile app marketplace is too fragmented (similar to how video streaming currently is).
As does intel - https://01.org/linuxgraphics/documentation/hardware-specific...
Turkey-EU relationship are at freezing point. This is not reopening, but anexation of neutral zone.
> asserting that he's right and people who see it otherwise are straight up wrong.

That seems to be the same thing his opponents are saying about his positions. So do you maintain the same attitude towards them?
Mirror: https://archive.is/fRNhJ
The author does pay some lip service to this:

>>(Often in these case studies the euphoria is punctuated by irritability, but not sadness or depressed mood.) Now, most of the examples we know of these prolonged euphoric states are undesirable. They often come with reckless or harmful behavior, delusions, and cognitive impairment.

But I agree, I think most of the manic episodes described should probably be called euphoric hypomania.
Presumably, the author has some kind of scientific studies or evidence to back up his position though (as his claims rely on that)? In which case, he would be using his "social capital" to try and have the debate be more focused on science and research, and less about belief.
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> Sex and gender are not the same

Tell that to those who started calling sex "biological gender": http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-...
Since the President makes all his official statements via Twitter, one could argue this is a matter of national security.

Also, Twitter is just a collection of people and a single person is trivial to exploit.
tbh I suspect the applicants who were cancelled would come up with a lot of theories of sex, race, religion and politics and relatively little novelty.

In Brave New World, all the Alpha citizens were sent to an island. Within six years they had a full scale civil war. I suspect something similar would happen if you put those cancelled for voicing their second wave feminism in a way which offended people as a threat in a faculty with those cancelled for voicing arguments considered sexist, those cancelled for making arguments considered Islamophobic with those cancelled for interpretations of the Quran considered extreme etc.
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an (loosely) inverse relationship between physical attractiveness and intelligence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox

1. certain (genetic) diseases lowers both intelligence and attractiveness

2. I vaugly remember some theory from the early time of population statistics (Galton maybe?), that if successful men (which may correlate with intelligence) tend to marry beautiful women - then on the long run we can expect attractivenes and intelligence to correlate more - but have not heard if it was ever empirically verified or not...