skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In so many aspects of life, I see people chasing after an analog for the thing that they actually want, either because they become confused along the way, or could never decide/admit/discover what it is they really wanted.

If I'm famous people will love or accept me (if you're famous, you will never again know for sure who really loves or accepts you). If I have money I will finally feel safe. If I am the most intimidating person in the room, I'll never feel intimidated again, and nobody will ever know how helpless and small that makes me feel. If I have tons of kids, someone will still remember me fondly when I'm old.

These all end up fixing the wrong problem.
> Make the best decisions you can, by which I mean try to make decisions that you will not regret later.

This can be hard as a young adult, when everyone in a position of authority is telling you your entire childhood that not getting a degree means you're a failure.

It's kind of a lot to ask of 18 year olds to truly be able to weight the significance of a student loan for example.
I forget the specifics, but we've already seen some recent garbage listings on Target. This was a mistake.
They do. It's their freedom to be on Spotify.

They can go back to the olden model of no streaming as well.
Bitcoin is a public blockchain, there are various blockchain analytic firms such as Elliptic/Chainalysis that offer bitcoin tracing services.

Bitcoin is not private nor anonymous, the rise of blockchain surveillance is why privacy coins like Monero are gaining in popularity.

That being said, I'm sure it wasn't solely BTC transactions, these guys seemed to have very poor op-sec for performing such a big hack.
>Like rent an apartment? Have a car to get to work?

Then you rent an apartment or buy a car. Are you implying you can't do this after bankruptcy? It's much easier to do these with a bankruptcy on your "record" than with a $1000 monthly payment.
When did liberal arts become fine arts? Not that the examples you give are wrong, but they're not fine arts.
I don’t mean to be rude, but I have to ask - what were you thinking?
> Also should any repercussions be considered against Twitter that a 17yo was able to gain access to the private messages of potentially some of the most important individuals in the world?

Is the suggestion that if your security is weak, at least some of the blame goes to the hacked? If your home security is weak, should we grant more leniency to a burglar? The insurance company should be the one to punish the riskiness of homeowner security.
I don’t really subscribe to stoicism (and a lot, but not all, of mindfulness and CBT) for precisely this reason: it seems to me to be telling people that it doesn’t matter if their needs aren’t being met, the real problem is that they have any needs. If it helps you personally, that’s great! But to me stoicism texts often feel like they’re written by some dismissive parent, the kind who would just tell you “only the boring get bored” instead of playing with you when you were a kid :)
Those aren't particularly weird. People chopping off their limbs in copy-cat insurance scams is weird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon,_Florida

For over a hundred years kooks and scammers from the Northeast and Midwest have made their way down to Florida. It's a weird place because weird and disreputable people move there. (Source: I grew up in the panhandle, and also inherited some "beach front" property in the middle of the woods that an uncle bought in the 1960s from a Chicago developer front running a classic Florida real estate racket. Also, see "Oh, Florida!: How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country".)
He is talking about making money, not art.
The actual headline on the article is far more interesting:

"Microsoft in Talks to Acquire TikTok, as U.S. Considers Banning the App "
Isn't there clear cut evidence that gender dysphoria is socially contagious, particularly among children?
Dubba Jonny made a whole track as a semi-satirical "tutorial" on dubstep production back when it was at its peak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJzfTZlEl40
OOP can be useful and simple like that. Typically when it is applied to things it solves well.

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Modelling system state and effects (not data) is a good application. The article criticizes the following statement originally from the Oracle Java docs:

“Objects are key to understanding object-oriented technology. Look around right now and you’ll find many examples of real-world objects: your dog, your desk, your television set, your bicycle … Software objects are conceptually similar to real-world objects.”

I call this "Kindergarten-OO": It attempts to simulate things in the world as stateful Objects, which often should be modeled as plain data with generic data manipulation tools.

System state and effects however are _inherently_ stateful and effectful. File systems, DB/network connections, peripheral devices, that sort of thing. It makes sense to apply OOP here because you want to model these things with state-machine behavior and configuration/constructors in mind.

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Also there is an interesting move away from "traditional" OOP by modern languages like Go and Rust. They emphasize set-like composition instead of hierarchical inheritance and implicit/user-defined interfaces/traits to both enable common abstractions/naming as well as increasing flexibility.

Both of these things essentially lead to simpler code and IMO address one of the original OO ideas of data-less programming (AKA I only care about this type of behaviour, not the whole thing) but improve the paradigm by rejecting inheritance and explicit (rigid) interface declaration.
Lawmakers Urge FTC Probe of Mobile Ad Industry’s Tracking of Consumers
You sent $6k in bitcoin to Elon Musk because you thought he'd give you $12k back?

Assuming this isn't a joke, consider that $6k a lesson to not be such a gullible mark.
Unless there's additional info I didn't see, the "inside help" theory came from the fact that they had images of the internal dashboards. That doesn't necessarily indicate voluntary inside help (they may have found a hole in Twitter's internet / intranet firewall, or they may have spear-phished a service team member's credentials).
even then the value is not in the degree but the value produced by the person, someone with the highest perceived value degree can still end up wasting it if they can't deliver, real world value is always found in actual output, a degree of any kind ultimately has no value
From memory, I recall the FBI did a study, and found that half of their employees would plug in a USB drive that they found on the ground in the parking lot. After training, that number was reduced to a quarter. If a security-focused government police agency is so vulnerable, it is unreasonable to expect perfection from a (less paranoid) company.
The kind of music that I paid money for in the past hasn't been released much recently. So in my opinion, there's a lot of potential for growth by making good music.
The merchants of war and division thank you for helping in this effort.

The censors aren't stupid, of course they are going to go after the David Dukes first, then over the next decade watch how the internet slowly transforms into a massive establishment mouthpiece.

Maybe explain to your kids, "we were afraid of bad words".
What I mean is it's like every insurance, they estimate the risk and collect enough money to pay for this.
"This might be hard to believe, but I'm just a regular Joe. I just want to be happy. And happiness comes from the achievement of goals. It's just that when you've made your first billion by the age of 19, it's hard to keep coming up with new ones! But finally, I've got myself a new goal: WORLD DOMINATION!" Darwin Mayflower in "Hudson Hawk"
Top Admissions from Tech CEOs Secured at the Antitrust Hearing
LP's or long form collections by artists capture a moment in that artist's creative point. Typically, the cycle was release a record, tour a bunch, write new music, and repeat. This meant by the time that next LP came along, the collection of songs on there could sound fairly different as the artist changed, got better, heard new songs and got inspired etc.

Then there's the recording and engineering challenges around mixing and mastering an album. Albums need to sound cohesive even if the songs aren't necessarily the same genre even. The best albums are those ones that flow between softer or more upbeat music but still feel tied together as a whole.

Forcing artists to pump out strings of singles and EPs diminishes music as an artform. It takes away the format that's allowed some of the best modern music to be created that likely would never have been created if artists were just constantly pumping out individual disconnected songs.

Even today, you can still find some pretty amazing albums that are being made where each song individually would stand as less, but together as an album they come together to make some great art.
AMD document their ISAs, but each one maps pretty much one-to-one onto a particular implementation. Compatibility and standardization are not goals.
Overcomplication isn’t the fault of OOP—or any paradigm. It’s what happens when any programming technique gets a lot of traction. It’s easier to make things complicated than simple. And people tend to use ideas blindly, without understanding the context in which they’re meant to be used.
> Yea, reading the study, I don't see anything about controlling for fitness level.

Doesn't table 2 and 3 show that they examined a bunch of relevant covariates including physical activity, smoking, alcohol use, diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, statin and aspirin use? It's at least "something" at the very least and I'm not sure how you missed it if you were actually reading the study because it's very hard to miss.
Hello! From my perspective, as one of the Documentation managers at GitHub, one reason for wanting to use an OpenAPI spec for our REST API is we'd like to move towards generating REST documentation from the code (which will still be curated by writers) and no longer trying to construct this information manually. This is a step towards that!
I just inherited a TypeScript project that made heavy use of Dependency Injection™ by using a 3rd party library.

After spending 6 months on a modern react project without any classes I had forgotten about Dependency Injection™ in OOP land and gotten used to just doing dependency injection by passing in parameters in a function.

I'm really happy React is introducing functional programming principals to new engineers. Obviously though we still find ways to over complicate things (aka using Redux in a 4 file project with only 5-6 pieces of state to manage) but humans will always find a way to do that :)
Looking at how qualcomm has a virtual monopoly for mobile processors nvidia buying arm and getting back into the mobile space might be a good thing. Though I think this is more a play for desktop processors intel is getting into discrete cpu market Amd already is. Every year integrated gpus are getting better at giving good enough performance so the market for discrete gpus will decrease in the end Nvidia might need its own cpu to stay relevant.
Ah, I was not aware of this agreement.

Qualcomm has shown in the past to be able to build great custom ARM CPUs not based on an ARM standard design. But it seems they decided the investment was not worth it after their custom Kryo design (which was not a complete failure but definitely not better than what ARM was producing at the time). But I think they'll need to go back to their own silicon at some point if this acquisition happens.

For sure Huawei and Samsung (and smaller manufacturers like Rockchip, Mediatek, Allwinner) don't have an impressive track record designing custom CPU IP and definitely not custom GPU IP. These guys should be terribly alarmed if this were to happen.
I can see why Apple wouldn't want to buy ARM since that would put them in very delicate position, but I'd be surprised if Intel or AMD weren't trying to buy ARM as well.
What model? Which model had free storage and replication of albums you purchased and free delivery of said albums to your door at no extra charge?

Are you missing the multi-billion dollar infrastructure here, maybe?
I wasn't talking about any particular case, it was just an example...and it happens. Not only with teachers but with anyone who might have an opinion that the mob doesn't agree with.
I have never used Spotify and I never will. For me it's the Clear Channel of this decade, more interested in monetizing 'content' and having other people define genres so they can pipe similar music into people's ears for profit. A giant swathe of the 'music industry' has zero interest or understanding of creative processes, they just want product that sells easily. These formulaic eras always bland out and I'm sure Spotify will be no different
>Is that really true, or just some marketing hogwash? If true, then why is Jio not building a Huawei and helping install 5G all over the world?

I think that's an explicitly stated goal from their annual general meeting.
Say I am an Oregon resident who can vote by mail by default. This election season, I'm stuck at my job site in North Carolina. I can request Oregon mail by ballot to my location in NC then vote and mail it back. As long as it is postmarked before the election ends I'm good and my vote makes it in to be counted.

But what if it takes 2 weeks to get from Oregon to NC then back from NC to Oregon? And then another week to be handled last mile and finally gets to the office? It gets to the right place and is counted weeks after the election ends and is effectively decided by most analysts. Or maybe it doesn't even get to me in time and my vote doesn't count.

Oregon I'd trust to open and count it accordingly as it checks all the boxes to be legit. But maybe another state is not set up for this process and hacks it together the month before the election. Maybe in that state my ballot doesn't make it to NC on time or even until after the election. Maybe once the ballot makes it home, it sits another 2 weeks in a backlog as a poorly funded, overworked team tries to catch up and confirm/reconcile votes across in person and this new mail in system. Maybe byt the time my ballot is done, it's the second week of December and the commission or Secretary of State isn't sure it has the right numbers and has to do a recount (or ignores it as clearly it's a broken system anyway, according to the president, so of course it would be off).

All of a sudden, we have another Constitutional crisis on our hands. The guy in charge has spread misinformation or full on fake news about an otherwise working system. He argued against and his party rejected any efforts to fund the mail in side of the national election even though it was openly attacked by foreign nations last time and is no more secure than then. Maybe GOP governors and secretaries of state who follow the president closely use his claims so that, due to expanded mail in voting, of course the numbers don't match polling or prior data so the election itself is a sham. Whether the numbers show Trump winning or losing, it's all a sham and can be ignored or taken before SCotUS which luckily has a few of your guys (Federalist Society picks) on the majority.

The dilemma is we need to oust any official who aims to undermine any government system or program, in words or actions, unless they are working on factually reported data and studies that indicate change is needed (which is almost always). The current administration has been lying to its citizens from day 1. Somehow that hasn't forced the resignation.
> You can take individual responsibility and disable JS by default.

Sure, you try explaining that to the general public, and why most of the sites they visit don't work anymore. It's hard enough to manage as a techie. This is the same argument snake oil purveyors use to complain about health and safety regulations, and it's silly for the same reasons.

> This is much more ethical than the European choice to bring in people with guns to coerce sites into behaving how they want.

Which GDPR violations have been met with armed agents?
They did provide a little detail so far [1].

> Hackers called a “small number” of employees in a phone spearphishing scheme, Twitter tweeted from its support account... The hackers were able to access some internal tools from the initial targeted employees and then learned specifically who had access to account support controls and targeted them next.

One likely scenario is they got access to the lower level employee's Slack account or similar and used it to impersonate and successfully find/phish the employee with the access.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/30/twitter...
This is not what I'd describe as automation, a human still has to do the actual estimation. This just enforces some validation that requires a human to fill in the field. It actually does it in a kind of annoying way too because Jira checks the change and rejects it after the user makes an input (though I suspect with a user generated rule that would be difficult to do).
In the United States, we generally consider minors who commit crimes to be a different class of criminal than people above 18. We do this because (AFAICT), there's a sort of societal agreement that wisdom/maturity is a logarithmic curve that begins to flatten in the late teens and 18 was picked as a legal threshold.

So if a 2 year old, 8 year old and 18 year old all shoot and kill someone, we prescribe much different levels of punishment based on their relative maturity. Sometimes, prosecutors decide to charge minors "as an adult" based on their behavior (Google for "X year old charged as adult" for examples). I assume that's what they're doing here.
It's not just you. I haven't seen a breadboard used in professional work in over 20 years.

90% of the time you're going to have to do a PCB layout anyway, so you might as well start there. Even more so since fewer and fewer devices are even made in DIP anymore.
I guess it refers to them servicing (updating, reacting to downtime, etc.) the software, while it being deployed on premise? In contrast to the clients IT department doing so.
Even the grouping of STEM together is a bad-taste-in-your-mouth industrial crime against human culture. The real acronym should just be M. (S, T, and E are just bastardized ways to get paid fat bucks for doing simpler versions of M.)
The Beatles at the height of their fame put out two albums a year, while making a bunch of movies on top of it. That pace is inconceivable in 2020, but I've never understood why.
The Spotify scam is incredible. Negotiate a 'deal' with the people that own you. Negotiate with hat deal. In favour of your owners and against the artists. Justify not paying more to the content creators based on making no money but the money you are 'losing' is going directly to your owners.

Hollywood accounting at its finest
Over 80% of my music listening is full albums, even though I haven’t played a record or CD since 2015.

I really hope the medium of the album survives, because I much prefer listening to a coherent and deliberate group of songs than any other method.
Without trying to sound too harsh, 50k monthly listeners really isn't all that much. You can argue that spotify's discoverability (or lack thereof) has a large influence on those numbers, but there are no shortage artists with many times that many that aren't all that widely known.
A few years ago, I read that at least two big-name U.S. universities announced plans to pilot something like this, where tuition was free, and they'd get a fixed percentage of employment income (wages plus bonus, etc.) for a fixed number of years after graduation.

The university takes on the risk, but they have much more information about their students and their degree programs than students, governments, or private lenders, so they're probably best placed to be making informed risk decisions. Under the current systems, the government and the student take on the risk, while the university and the private lenders get the rewards.
Would chicken bone broth have it?
That's like saying building a video startup is a bad idea because everybody else including MS, Google, FB, etc. already have same tech. You just need a polished product that's appealing.
This is sad and feels to me like a dumbing down of everything due to short attention spans.

I still prefer to listen to full coherent albums, and one of the highlights of my week is my Sunday run, which gives me time to listen to an album start to finish with no interruptions.

I hope some of my favorite musicians will continue to conceptualize albums that have a 45+ minute arc, even if market pressures mean that they'll initially need to release the tracks one at a time.
That is not the point that the parent comment is making, though.

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.
He didn't just express a politically incorrect opinion. He did so in a fundamentally offensive and dismissive fashion, asserting that he's right and people who see it otherwise are straight up wrong.

This is not how you do science well. Real science allows for questions and debate.

It's also just obnoxious and makes you unbearable to be around. It's hard to imagine he would be faring much better even without a world that has the phrase cancel culture, whether you believe that's a real thing or not.
Not home security, but I'm of the opinion this should apply for businesses and public places in some case. For instance, I usually carry a gun on me. If I go into the court house or a concert venue I'm prohibited from doing that. IMO they have now assumed a level of liability to provide a reasonable level of effective security and they're negligent if they don't and I'm injured or kill because of a mass shooting anyway because they didn't enforce their own policies.

Speaking of guns, it's actually also not unheard of for people to be partly responsible for crimes committed with guns that were stolen from them, even in their home. You have something dangerous, like a network that has become a de facto platform for government officials, then yeah: you have a responsibility to take reasonable preventative measures too.
#brokenrecord

Is the hashtag for explication about what a crock of utter shit this is and the unbelievably bent deal that is streaming revenue.
Or that they don’t know if they are complying.
Can someone explain why the revenue sharing model is broken on Spotify? A lot of bluecheck indie bands complain about their meager $28 monthly checks. I even saw a performative tweet from a label the other day: https://twitter.com/DonGiovanniRecs/status/12865225202213847...

Let's say I run a bookstore. 70% of my revenue goes to pay workers. A works 32 hours, B works 5 hours, and C works 3 hours.

Is it not fair to give A 80% of the pay pool, since she worked 80% of the hours?

Finally, terrestrial pop radio, independent college radio, and ham radioesque bedroom experimentalists are all on the same platform, the swim lanes have been erased. Everything is flattened, everything is discoverable, yet the sobering truth that few people are streaming their work elicits attacks on Spotify from bands and marginal artists. How is their contempt justified?
I recall once having a conversation with the gifted kids about how being in the "99.5th percentile" meant that there were 8 million people in the world smarter than you. That number is just bigger now, and ignores fields of specialization entirely.
> On April 2, 2020, the administrator of the OGUsers forum publicly announced that OGUsers website was successfully hacked. Shortly after the announcement, a rival criminal hacking forum publicly released a link to download the OGUsers forum database, claiming it contained all of the forum’s user information. The publicly released database has been available on various websites since approximately April 2020. On or about April 9, 2020, the FBI obtained a copy of this database.

Seems very convenient. Parallel construction?