skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To summarize that Medium link:

* Heavy users get too much of a vote. In effect, they decide where money from less active subscribers goes, even if everyone pays the same.

* Specialized or niche content struggles to earn real money. Everyone goes for the big hit.

* It is vulnerable to click fraud. You can control more money than you paid, just by downloading lots.

What they suggest, paraphrased:

If you stream 10 items, each item earns 1/10th of your total usage e.g. each gets $1. Taken to an extreme, if you only stream 1 song, then that artist gets the full $10.

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How then, does this model seek to pay artists based on users who aren't paying?
It's like living in a noisy apartment or on a busy street. Yes noise does fade into the background but subconsciously it still affects concentration/sleep/mood/creativity/etc. You won't know what you're (not) missing until you try it without the noise.
How ironic that Napster, of all, is paying highest rate?
> but governments pretend a picture of a passport or ID card is sufficient(?!)

That's because forging the passport or ID card, or impersonating someone else with borrowed/stolen passport or ID card, are serious offenses that will land you in prison.

What's often forgotten when comparing digital and meatspace security is that "angry men with guns will come for you and put you in front of a judge" is a critical part of security systems in meatspace. The very possibility of it acts as a powerful deterrent for casual attacks. Governments can rely more on this than private companies, so at least in meatspace, you don't need to jump through as many authentication hoops as you need with banks.

(Digital is different, governments sometimes overdo the hoops there, because for any Internet-connected system the pool of would-be attackers consists mostly of people from outside the reach of law enforcement of the country that hosts the system.)
Not really, if reallocation takes place.

So if you got a pointer to a vector element, it now points to garbage.
> The way you describe go's behavior is "takes snapshot of the underlying data", which usually means "deep copy container"

No, there is no mention of a "snapshot". You get a reference to the current backing array, which may or may not continue being used by the slice (depending on reallocations). You're pointing to the live slice backing array, and the values in it may change if someone else is manipulating the slice, up to the point where the slice backing array must be reallocated, at which point you'll continue pointing to the old backing array and be keeping it from getting GC'd.
Thanks, yes template is in future plans, will think about svgs.
You could perhaps take a look at Skiff's white paper[1] and see how they solve for this.

[1]: https://www.skiff.org/security
That step could certainly be its own post of greater length than this one.

For this particular map it involves separate curve adjustment layers for the water and land. We generally increase the steepness of the curve (increasing contrast) and then adjust individual color channels to get the color balance right. We also do some localized burning (darkening) in areas where pushing the curve resulted in some pixels getting too bright.

I’d love to put together a post with lots of pictures and details about how we do this. It is motivating knowing there is an audience for it.
Microsoft has also ruined that.
Whatsmore Teams (at least on Linux) appears to be Skype under-the-hood with just a different UI. Even the name of the audio device for Teams remains unchanged.
Slater and Gordon have opened a new legal office in Rockhampton for their Local Lawyers who service the Central Queensland region.
These crazy anti-vaxxers ;)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS

There was also a French government plan (there was an app in beta, i should take a look at it again) to validate user identity with a smartphone and conformant passport / ID card ( the recent ones with chips and NFC) - you use the app to read the biometric info from the passport / ID card, and then take a video of yourself which is then matched, thus confirming who you are.
Hoping this is what will make me really dive deep into Godot and game development in general

For some reason, my brain has a hard time translating my ideas to scenes and nodes
Covid-19 vaccine: am I protected even if the vaccine has no side effects?
Of course I am not trying to validate just one user. But all I want to do is authenticate the token that Google has posted back on my auth endpoint and make sure
1) It has come from Google
2) Allows me to fetch a user's data (just email) so I know whose account I have to show.

I can write my own authentication using a simple username, hashed password in php easily. I just don't want my user to remember yet one more password for yet another service on the web.
> Really? There needs to be time set aside in the day for an engineer to announce that something is blocking their work? What were they doing for the rest of the day prior to the status meeting? Twiddling their thumbs? Office chair jousting tournament? When effective engineers get stuck, they ask for assistance immediately. Not tomorrow because PHB solicited that feedback. Immediately. Now.

I have seen standups actually induce that simply because there is an expectation that you did something yesterday. So how do you always ensure that you did something yesterday? You might withold reporting completed work.
Production costs vary enormously.

For example if you're Marc Rebillet you improv everything, Marc has a loop sampler, a couple of laptops, a keyboard synth, headphones and and a microphone, he makes noises, or sings, and the loop sampler creates rhythm because that's how loops work - so he's "just" on the fly coming up with the words and the tune. Maybe Marc spends 10 minutes going from silence to a backing track and then puts together a 5 minute song about, I dunno, how amazing squirrels are, "Tree Rat God Freak". Seems to me that's 15 minutes and if a thousand people stream it and Marc gets paid $4 for that it's a profitable use of his 15 minutes.

[ Of course because watching this happen live is fascinating people actually pay to watch Marc on Twitch, so he gets more than $4 before the song is even finished ]

On the other hand, maybe you spend six months composing an orchestral piece, you need a full orchestra to perform it, that takes them several hours to rehearse and get it down, and then a million streams of that doesn't really pay everybody for their time.
>Redirecting traffic is much easier than generating certificates so a valid cert held by a bad actor can be a serious vulnerability.

This is bullshit. If you can redirect traffic you can almost always create a certificate unless you can only redirect a very limited set of traffic.

Redirecting traffic is literally all you need in order to be able to use certbot to generate a new cert.
yes, says so in the article.
AI and Big Data in Accounting
As a musician, I'd love automated composition of human level music. Especially if you could navigate and blend and transform the space of styles, artists, and instruments. Co-composition has a place.

The reason such tools have historically been viewed as oddities is because they were and are objectively bad. 3 year old prodigies can exceed even the best output of software. In recent years, the models have improved, but the problem space is huge and the algorithms aren't human level yet.

When the tools reach human performance levels, people won't care if it's human or software. They'll only care if it's enjoyable.

All creative endeavors are at risk of being automated by ai in the next few decades. Software will exceed the best of human creativity, and that's a good thing.
I didn't mention it because I am seeking career advice. So where I am from or where I live don't think will make any difference. I have my expired passport and UN document, with my CS degree and a lot of other things. All documents I have don't make me eligible for residency. And paying taxes is not something I am concerned about right now.
like radome ? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=radome&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=image...
> people who look at their camera

You mean psychopaths?
yeah, good luck with all the help&documentation available, KB system, rich features, and least but not last - integration with all other services and components.

its wishful thinking or marketing to imagine that LibreOffice is anywhere near this... or Google Docs.

For trivial documents - fine - any processor can do some work. For serious work - MS Office and most likely the desktop version of the app. And after all how did suddenly all desktop apps become obsolete? Well, they are not.
Personally I wouldn't use that NAS for storing data until figuring out what went wrong, since every single file was corrupted. This is way too high an error rate and unlikely to be caused by a hard drive or network issue. It's probably an issue caused by NFS/SMB/... client/server bugs.

Edit: Quick googling finds many people using Macs report files are corrupted when written to a Synology NAS over SMB.
No, the mistake is trying to make money from open source in the first place. That's. Not. The. Point.

Paying for developers to work on some open source project that you rely on, absolutely, great idea. But trying to monetize an open source project itself is myopic - obviously the solution if you want to do that is to make the project not open source as you say.

This isn't a problem with open source software, it's a feature and it's part of why it's so ubiquitous - no one company pulling the reigns who can fuck it up.
Get off social media.
Would you prefer to get stuck underwater with a nuclear reactor? :)
See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/3164#issueco... for incomplete but large survey of NUL flags.

Takeaways: (1) There is no consistency in flag names, even --long ones (2) impressively many tools do support it! Note that some affect only input or only output. (3) All do NUL-terminated, not NUL-separated. That's fortunate — matches \n usage, and gives distinct representations for [] vs [""].
True, except everyone needs a different set of their own 10% features.
Other than for research purposes (extending the capabilities of AI) — I 100% agree with your sentiment regarding the relative worthlessness of AI composition.

As an aside, it is my understanding that there is no measure of something like consonance/dissonance in complex musical forms. There are models of dissonance in 2 and 3 note chords but even these have gaps. I'm suggesting that the research on "what sounds good to people" is surprisingly immature in contemporary science. This is surprising because that question played a major role in the history of science. For instance, many of the very first experiments conducted at the Royal Society (c1660s) investigated harmony — and arguably the first scientific experiment was designed to evaluate a mathematical model of music (Viz, the 5th century BC Pythagoreans demonstrating their integer ratio theory of harmony by casting bronze chimes at those ratios).

So, I'm surprised that there isn't more interest today. That said, there was a recent breakthrough in the science of harmony: an integrated model of vertical and horizontal harmony.
https://spj.sciencemag.org/journals/research/2019/2369041/#:....
I'm thinking the other way around, actually: tours and merch are not there to promote the music, but the music is to promote the tour and merch.
What are the best cross-platform desktop frameworks today?
Hey everyone! I'm researching what technology to use for a cross-platform desktop app that has these requirements:

* Needs to be usable while offline
* Needs to be able to save video when offline
* Need to be able to stream video when online

Electron was the first thing I thought of, but then JavaFX seems like it might fit the bill. I do have a lot of Java experience (no JavaFX though), but I'm also quite handy with JS/React.
Yes sure it is. I don't see why it should not be valid base64 . The same way "bad deaf babe" is valid hexadecimal and base64 :)
That is great but are they returning because it's engaging, or because their parents told them to?
The author assumes a certain savviness in current affairs on behalf of the reader. You want the content to be written to a lower common denominator.

Who of the two gets to decide how much expository context is right?
Yes that's a risk. Our digital lives depend so much on the mercy on the tech overlords. I use third party signins only for non essential services. Like someone building a Twitter thread maker, or an online design tool. There are many tools and services which shouldn't require an account but they still insist on having one, in that case I use a third party sign in. For anything important, I prefer to create a password.
Spikes on a dish... make them metal (coated with plastic maybe), and perhaps they can be algorithmically designed to improve the antenna's performance.
Agreed, simpler is better. To be even simpler, In this example, these two lines can be just one:

Action<List<string>> DoDarkMagic = (creatures) => { creatures.RemoveAt(0); }
DoDarkMagic(dwarfs)

There is no point in putting the action in a variable, only to invoke it on the next line. This is a meandering way of expressing:

// Do Dark Magic
dwarfs.RemoveAt(0);

Extract a private method if you're keen on keeping the name.
Ah another Electron shell being sold as "desktop".
Eh, they are probably just focusing on what they can change. Changing managers is a hassle with a good chance of getting it wrong. I can clam up, say nothing, and work on other work during retro very easily.
“You’ll never get rich working for someone else” is one of the most repeated lies I’ve ever seen. I used to believe this, but after seeing first hand friends and colleagues, for lack of a better word, get rich by being employee number 30 at a startup or working as an engineer at Amazon Detroit for 8 years and just saving their money I realized this is wrong.

You 100% can become a multi millionare as an employee. You can go the SV route and make $300k+ as an engineer or go the traditional route and make $100k working as an engineer remotely in a low cost of living location.
This is confusing, it sounds like the RAW files themselves are corrupt so why bring any discussion of the Lightroom catalog into it?

Having said that people need to take care backing up their catalog because without that single catalog file you will lose decades of photo editing work in Lightroom.
It’s actually a custom form (not canned) and we had previously had an additional field for area of interest but it lowered the conversion rate of the form so we dropped it.

Getting emails is more important to our business than knowing where folks want to see. We also don’t want folks to have the expectation that we’ll make a map because they requested it. Each map takes a lot of work and in our experience requesters rarely become purchasers.

(Also, we see the page you submitted your email on, which is often a search query that was not successful, which tells us what you were looking for!)
I decided not to use Google Sign In eventually. I will implement a password-less Email auth. Basically will mail the user an OTP to sign in every time.
I wonder why they don't mention the problem of the audio quality of the output. As far as I know the best models work on magnitude spectrograms and have issues with recreating the phase information. Sub-par algorithms like Griffin-Lim are used instead
At very low speeds (tight turns, i.e. high curvature of the bike's path), the highly-curved path requires steering into the turn. However for most turns (higher-speed) the curvature is less significant so the handlebars don't really turn at all - you do however need to apply a force to the handlebars to establish and maintain a lean into the curve - this force being in the opposite direction to the turn (i.e. when turning right, you push forward on the right handlebar).
My first thought exactly. There's a deep, historical connection between pigeons and microwave antennas. They belong together.
If the content of your email or frequency of emails is not inline with the expectation of subscribers when they subscribed, some will report the emails as spam regardless of the steps you documented.
Fines are neither extrajudicial nor cruel and unusual. It's in everyone's interest for you to pay a fine if you don't file your taxes than for you to receive a prison sentence.

Again, it's rare. The state is financed via very high taxes in Germany, not by abusing fines as a money grab. Some local admins get overzealous with speeding + parking violations, but even that is pretty cheap. And what's the alternative? Would you prefer your car to be towed and your license invalidated? Paying 20€ is cheaper for everyone involved ... and if you're really allergic to paying money and the picture isn't perfect, you can usually get out of it by claiming "that person could be anyone".
It doesn’t matter because it would average out because you will have queen fans who listen at a high amount as well. Unless for some reason an artist has a fan base which majority listen to less music than the average person for some reason.
Except 3D-printed, AI-designed, and as a Service.

My startup is currently working on providing an easy-to-use NFT market, to allow our users to monetize the unique pigeon art on their StarDomes.
Lightroom is not a word I am comfortable reading. Not since my archive copy became uninstallable in macOS (32 bit installer) and Adobe required a monthly subscription just for me to have access to my catalog.

I have been made a fool of.
> What benefit do these abstractions give me

Tests in larger c# projects are often a mess.

People then turn to BDD or frameworks like to this to try to impose order.

Sometimes they produce better tests the second time around, but more often the additional overhead of the framework just means that "now you have 2 problems".

Probably no benefit, IMHO. Work on your tests, but avoid "high concept" frameworks.
Now there are a bunch of words I don't understand here :D

Right now there are no demos. I only have a few loose components, not enough to build anything useful (the tests do instantiate them correctly, does it count as a demo? :D)

Regarding exporting the logic, it could be a nice idea, but I have no idea where to start. Thoughts?
For MS teams, many other alternatives like Element.io exists.

For 365 that's a lot harder, mostly because nobody has come close to what Outlook and Exchange can do in large orgs.
Word, Excel, PP are somewhat replaceable and 80% of ppl in those orgs would probably be ok with the alternatives. It is the 20% that uses more niche features that may or may not work as expected in competing products.
No, it isn't. It'll make people stop making music. Even if all you care about is one particular way to evaluate the end product, it means there will be no new inputs, resulting in the death of creativity. And once that's been reached, it's almost impossible to revive.
> I feel like programmers create more value for business today than ever before, even if they're not necessarily writing the code creating that value.

This is true, but I don't see what the tooling or the productivity have to do with that. It's just that there is an always increasing demand for new programs.
With no hands, the equilibrium lean angle is controlled by the rider shifting weight (centre of gravity) from side to side. The caster angle on the front wheel is the negative feedback mechanism that keeps the bike balanced.
Sounds contrary to the Asian parents stereotype.
Time Machine backups should live on Apple Filesystems. The Ext4 or btrfs in Synology's is a timebomb for Apple's proprietary data blobs. It has something to do with the filesystem attributes.

I asked my father to just give up on it. Just manage pictures through the file system. Photos (former iPhotos) databases also get corrupt on a Synology NAS. It's a matter of time. The strange thing is that it can go well for months on end, giving you a false sense of security.

Do iCloud or local drive backups or stay away from Time Machine and Apple Databases is my advice (although my father had a lot of problems as well with an "incorrectly unplugged" external HFS+ drive). I can't find the sources right now but after my father's last drama (and there have been several) I did some intensive searching and this was my conclusion.
And? I think you can find an example of every major language at scale.
INMHO any company that sells solution completely relying on managed cloud services by these 3 has 2 problems to deal with:

- What happens to the cost of these services when company scales out?

- Whats preventing AWS, AZURE or GCP from copying the stack and selling a new "managed service" which does what you did in the first place?

Seriously, I would like to know? Do people take these into accounts before relying on AWS, Azure or GCP completely?
I'd imagine it's been pretty well designed for performance already. Best to stick with something that won't affect the signal.
Identify session of listening, pool all add income from that session. Distribute it on based of shared listening time.

Doesn't seem too complicated. Or you could map adds to adjancent tracks.
It looks like he’s using HFS or APFS. These filesystems still lack data checksums for data on disk, aside from any of the other issues he ran into.

The only sane way to deal with unique/irreplaceable data (i.e. one’s own photos) where the authoritative copy is on a mac is to make several independent copies, with several kept offline, and assume that the macOS or Adobe’s terrible house of cards that is the creative suite is going to fuck everything up at some point.

I say this as someone with >1000GiB in a Lightroom catalog, run on a mac.

I have a copy on an always-connected external disk (made with rsync && rsync -c), a copy on a ZFS NAS (made with rsync && rsync -c user@host:), a Time Machine backup that is only connected weekly, and an offsite rsync to a USB drive, with a SHASUMS file sidecar.

I also copy the RAWs into the LR masters photo structure when I import them, and they go first from the camera into a Syncthing folder (pre-import) that is immediately and automatically replicated onto four machines in three buildings (two of which are ZFS with autosnapshots).
I know that this isn't the same thing, but once you have a big hammer (censorship), let us bet that it will be used fairly indiscriminately.

This isn't a new discussion, and I think you know that. Bureaucracy tasked with suppression of speech and beholden to career politicians hasn't historically shown itself to be subtle and erring on the side of freedom.
That's interesting you mention Haldon Hill. They may have got the A38 bit right, but if you go up the other road, the A380, then there is a quite sharp blind right bend at the top that clearly hasn't been done right.
That is actually not what I experience at all. After I first read about the counter-steering thing on bicycles, I tried to observe exactly how I corner. I never was able to observe counter-steering, and forcefully counter-steering felt very wrong. I just somehow succeed in reaching the correct leaning angle for whatever turn I want to make.

Whatever happens must be too subtle to notice, and/or completely subconscious.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Seems bizarre that they recommend the second most generous instead of the most generous.
It's a bit silly, there's no meaningful defense defeated here. Since the BGP routing system is almost entirely trust based a determined attacker will be able to perform a MITM attack on your domain and get a domain validated TLS certificate issued.

There's no real defense against this, TLS only stops dragnet attackers.
How many AWS Accounts you have/actively manage?
Matrix? That's already widely available, with E2E, and can be self-hosted too.