skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t believe NVidia will pay $30B. But certainly they might believe ARM has value outside its current cash flow and mediocre growth. Like strategically combining technologies.

I’m skeptical that will work, but Son was dumb enough to pay $31B with no strategic value.
> Spotify is not for putting out art, it's for generating buzz about your art so you can get paid for it later.
If your goal is the best art you can produce, then perhaps Spotify and that roller coaster isn't what you should care about.

And how exactly will people get paid, when Spotify (and other streaming services) have effectively replaced album sales?

This is just the same tired old "exposure" argument.
Sabotaging their project has collateral damage to the company and to everyone else who was involved with the project or depended on it—unless it was a one-person project that didn't really matter. Collateral damage to innocents is bad form.

If A's revenge took the form of damaging B's car (not while anyone was in it) and costing thousands of dollars in repairs... Well, it would depend on just what B had done to A, and what alternatives A had. But if B had previously inflicted the same magnitude of economic damage on A, and perhaps gloated that there was no way for A to prove it, then... I think the main thing I'd feel for A is respect.
Buzzfeed has won awards for its journalism.
Also:

> As for being a “better programmer,” we’ll just equate being better with having more activity on GitHub.
I wish the space web was designed to be peer to peer from the start. That would create a new web.
This sounds like "You're just bitter and hateful!", but with sarcasm mixed in.

That you can put a label on an emotion doesn't make it go away, nor does it make the emotion unreasonable. It does make you look like an asshole without any empathy, though.
Because the sources for this story are investment bankers desperate for bidders?
> Gasparino also reported the White House is "deeply concerned" about Microsoft's potential purchase and whether any Chinese investors would retain a stake in TikTok's US operations, citing unnamed sources.

And there's the lede. Consider this "story in two headlines" from an earlier high-profile Microsoft acquisition:

"NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution" https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_f...

"Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion. Why, Exactly?" https://www.wired.com/2011/05/microsoft-buys-skype-2/
2 reasons why wired keyboards are annoying:

1. Aesthetics; the wire looks ugly on an otherwise clean desk
2. The wire takes up space that could be used for a notebook, coffee cup, mobile phone or whatever

I've had wireless keyboards at home and wired at work for years - wireless is much better IMO. On the batteries, they seem to last a very long time - I guess I change them once a year, or possibly 18 months, and that's with me using it all day, and then someone else often using it for a bit in the evening too.
Hopefully it will be rebranded MikMok or ZuneZok.

This seems like a dumb move, why would MS want to get tied up in the horrors of social media when they have such a profitable empire.

They couldn’t possibly tie in MicMok to Office 365 and have anything good come from it.
> The music isn’t your product, the music is your marketing. The shows, the merch, your influence - that’s your product.

In case anyone is wondering why all pop music sounds the same.
It’s actually even MORE weighted in favor of major label artists like Lady Gaga, thanks to special deals between the big majors and Spotify. My numbers aren’t exact here, but this is the principle of the deal - let’s say Lady Gaga gets 2% of streams and random indie artist gets 2% of streams - because of the deals, Lady Gaga’s music gets paid out 2.5% of the pot and the indie gets 1.5% of it.
US tech is taking a worse hit than other sectors
If “one could argue that”, why didn’t Oracle’s high priced lawyers make that argument?

Google’s revenue was down last quarter - the only one that reporter less revenue out of the big 5. Maybe depending solely on advertising isn’t a good idea?
That is really diluting the difference between art and software, so much so that it's almost comical.

I define art as the exploration of emotional expression, and software simply does not fit into that category except in the cases of using software as a tool or mechanism in the exploration.

The "need" in creating art is often described by artists in that the act of creation is fulfilling an internal need. Writers, musicians, etc. often describe their works as pouring out of them, almost by necessity. This is rarely the case for software and engineering products which seek to fulfill an external need. Software, like engineering, seeks to solve problems. Art can but does not in general.

I personally find it mindblowing and a bit disturbing that I see people in this thread equating software to art. It's a bit disrespectful and elitist to claim that they're the same. Artist make pennies and are being forced by market dynamics to change their expression to merely survive. Meanwhile, software engineers make six figures and retire early playing a game of connect the dots. It's flippant to those artists who struggle for years and years in the hopes of even a modicum of support or recognition and live on pennies.
> Microsoft's ownership is a kiss of death.

Strategically the only thing that matters is that TikTok is removed from foreign ownership and that that weak spot in US Internet dominance is removed, so the US can resume global hegemony over platforms (outside of China).

Microsoft generates enough cash every year to safely buy a TikTok annually.

The US Government is probably throwing Microsoft a wink on this one. Despite generating $53 billion pear year in operating income and still having a desktop monopoly, Microsoft was excluded from the recent government grilling.

Maybe Microsoft will get a nice Azure contract in return.

In a year or a few, Microsoft IPOs TikTok or works with private equity to shift its ownership and then Microsoft washes their hands of it, taking a small bath in the process (if they can pull an IPO fast enough, given this market, maybe even making some money on the deal). Sometimes you gotta do a favor for Uncle Sam.
You keep missing my point. It doesn’t matter if they are good or noble or anything (also ISIS is not a civilian group). It matters that there exist civilian groups that are a) capable, b) willing, and c) have reasons to do something like this.

Civilian anti-military activists are such a group, regardless of how correct, or noble the cause is.

Just to prevent misunderstanding: I am not accusing peace activists of these attacks. I’m just saying that non-state actors have ample reasons and self justifications for pulling this off. And for that matter juvenile teenagers that just so happen to hate NATO for whatever reason might just as well have done this.
"And one would hope the latter is true, since 2/3 of the US population does not attend college."

Not to mention the vast majority of humanity! One can get a lot out of a "college education," but there is a lot more to life than that.
Does using your furry avatar on github/slack count? :3
SCP QDOS? :)
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See, but that's the thing. Many artists don't work in this way where they'd have a major project that is this single to get our in 3 months and that's like me having a sprint deliverable and that's that.

They'll write songs when there's inspiration, but maybe nothing for six months after. Then some don't feel right so they get thrown into the bin etc.

An album release is very much "when it's ready". Forcing it on a schedule only works when there's already a formula, which is mostly true only for very mainstream music.

As an example, look at the distance between these 2 albums[1], both great in my opinion, but technically it took 14 years after the last one to get it out, (abet not being worked on continually of course).

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_of_Solace#Discography
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Disagree, this would give MS a strong foothold in social media that the next generation is flocking too.
An animated graph of wordnet links may help explain why it's useful:
https://www.wordsapi.com/
If you add it all up I bet musicians in total make far more money from live performances than from recorded music. Recorded music is just promotion.
If you are on Android, I suggest getting Firefox.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-articles-reader-vi...
The article can be flipped over into Reader Mode and is easy to read in that way.
Pretty much everyone that told me “I don’t care” changed their opinion when they saw the kind of tricks it allows knowledgeable people to do to them.
You make another Douyin, but for the US only, call it Musicaly, with US data sovereignty and censorship. Creators from outside the US can make an account on it and reach American audiences. But Americans can no longer use the international version of Tiktok.
you might like https://quietkit.com/box-breathing/
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it really depends on how you like to listen to music. an album is often like a snapshot of the artist's sound at a certain point in time. if you listen to death cab for cutie's first and last album back-to-back, you might not realize it's the same band. if what you want out of a listening session is to hear a bunch of vaguely similar sounds in no particular order, an album doesn't do much for you. if you're in the mood for a more specific sound, a good album can be a lot better than eight solid tracks.
> It's orders of magnitude easier to make working software than it is to make a hit record.

I think the same could be said of any (good) art. Art and engineering are fundamentally very different things that just can't be compared, even if there may be some mutual overlapping. (Audio/mixing/mastering engineering definitely crosses the streams more, but for the sake of argument let's just consider the entire end-to-end process of making an album, which I think is almost entirely a matter of art.)

There is some degree of art involved in developing software, but if it's just getting some business app working for BigCorp, it really can't be compared to writing amazing fiction, painting a beautiful painting, directing a fantastic film, making a great album, or any other artistic endeavor. Anyone who scoffs at artists because they're not doing [technical thing] just shouldn't be paid any heed.
Information should be free to share and copy, but not at a profit if it infringes on the owner of the IP. That’s VERY short of maximalism. That is a radical reform.

Megaupload employees and owners uploaded pirated content, and profited hugely. Not small margins—they made millions.

I’m against YouTubes, Spotifys, and even megauploads screwing content creators. Tech doesn’t have the right to assume ownership of the world via content platforms.

All content production is struggling under the glut of technological wealth extraction via platforms. A good copyright implementation would help avoid this. It’s nothing like what we have, but the concept of copyright is not the same as the abusive system we know.

I feel like you are railing against copyright the way conservatives rail against socialism. Doing so mischaracterizes the sensible arguments that are classified as such.

The goal should be to promote diverse content creation by allowing creators (Not their platforms or corporate ownership) to be compensated, and to simultaneously allow for cultural exchange with concepts like free use and limited copyright durations, and by protecting/promoting library lending. Such things are possible, and I think optimal.
I used to be on your side of the camp, but now I'm both sides.

The guy just struggles with some mental health issues and isn't that great at talking to the public outside of his music. I disagree with him on some things, and he definitely has his issues, but I think he means well for the most part.
Well this is only true if your music is good. You can release till the cows come home, if the music sucks nobody will buy anything from you
You are not wrong, but the facts you have cherry picked fail to portrait the whole picture.

For example, you paint it as if Nvidia is the only company Apple has had problems with, yet Apple has parted ways with Intel, IBM (Power PCs), and many other companies in the past.

The claim that Nintendo is the only company nvidia successfully collaborates with is just wrong:

- nvidia manufactures GPU chips, collaborates with dozens of OEMs to ship graphics cards

- nvidia collaborates with IBM which ships Power8,9,10 processors all with nvidia technology

- nvidia collaborates with OS vendors like microsoft very successfully

- nvidia collaborated with mellanox successfully and acquired it

- nvidia collaborates with ARM today...

The claim that nvidia is bad at open source because it does not open source its Linux driver is also quite wrong, since NVIDIA contributes many many hours of paid developer time open source, has many open source products, donates money to many open source organizations, contributes with paid manpower to many open source organizations as well...

I mean, this is not nvidia specific.

You can take any big company, e.g., Apple, and paint a horrible case by cherry picking things (no Vulkan support on MacOSX forcing everyone to use Metal, they don't open source their C++ toolchain, etc.), yet Apple does many good things too (open sourced parts of their toolchain like LLVM, open source swift, etc.).

I mean, you even try to paint this as if Nvidia is the only company that Apple has parted ways with, yet Apple has long track record of parting ways with other companies (IBM PowerPC processors, Intel, ...). I'm pretty sure that the moment Apple is able to produce a competitive GFX card, they will part ways with AMD as well.
I still don't understand what Cancel Culture is, as a concept.

My (potentially flawed) understanding is it's a boycott, but rather than using normal capital, you use social capital?

Welcome to the marketplace of ideas I guess...
That's a tough call. I have never been in a position of managing a project like that with IRL, real developers. But based on my experience choosing software on Github for personal use, I'd say the anime avatar is a positive indicator of quality overall, edging out the smiling corporate headshot by a reasonable margin.
FWIW what the article says about the nature of (most, not all) anger echoes some of the best advice I ever got:

'Holub calls anger a "secondary emotion," one that guards our more vulnerable feelings, such as grief, fear, abandonment and disappointment.'

Most of the time (but not always), anger is a barrier to self-consciousness.
Adding on to this, there's an important distinction described by Parnas back in the 1970s as

> Software can be considered "general" if it can be used, without change, in a variety of situations. Software can be considered "flexible", if it is easily changed to be used in a variety of situations.

We frequently forget that these are both valid paths to the same end. We tend to laser-focus in on generality, at the expense of flexibility.

And for small problems like the one described, it is usually much easier to go for flexibility at the expense of generality. And I think we should.
If they prefer dubs, maybe.
How sad is it that it is easier to launch 3200 satellites into orbit than to change FCC's mind on Comcrap's stranglehold on the internet.
Yeah, on the orders of days is what I'd expect. So if that's right, then what kind of meaningful tuning are talking about for plants? On the order of days you can simple grow more or less of the green chlorophyll; is that not tuning enough?
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Might not be the right time of^W^W year for this, but at hacker events like CCC there are always "bring your keyboard" type of events where you can play around with many different variants.
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Perhaps. I disagree with the general assumption associated with notions of forgiveness that this also means letting go of anger, however. Anger gets shit done.
This is the No True Scotsman fallacy as applied to programming paradigms.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman
Anecdotally, I feel like the furry/infosec correlation may be somewhat stronger than the furry/dev correlation. That said, I doubt the difference would be all that large.
"Microsoft (R) Passport Live TikTok.NET 2020 Datacenter Edition, part of the Windows Live Social Dynamics suite"
That's not the only argument that Ek is making.

That's one of the aspects of the new economy... only a very small minority of artists can literally go dark for 3-4 years to write something that will rise to the top instantly.
Can you name something that doesn't address a need?
There are a lot of good options for finding music. Some take more work than others. Some things I've done with success:

* go to the wikipedia page for an artist or album you like and look for

* reviews and ratings that line up with what you thought: you might find a critic or outlet with similar tastes that can provide new recommendations

* the producer or label: their other works might be similar to what you already like

* (on the artist page) the "associated acts" of the artist: you might like other projects with which the artist is involved

* any influences listed: you might like what the artist liked

* find a forum that aligns with your taste

* reddit has many music sub-reddits https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/wiki/musicsubreddits

* /mu/ is actually a pretty good 4chan board. The essentials wiki is a good starting point that doesn't require filtering through trolling: https://4chanmusic.fandom.com/wiki/Essential_Charts

Good luck!
Wasn't Softbank involved with Nvidia as well? That's probably the connection.
And why most is utter dross. People still buy millions of classic albums from the 70's and 80's, in 30 years time very few artists will have that same comfort.
Yep, not even GitHub is immune from the Microsoft kiss of death:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub#ICE_Contract
As someone who has been involved in academia in some fashion for over ten years, here are my observations (note: this is heavy on subjectivity):

1. Those involved academically or professionally with some form of STEM, seem to be, on average, less physically attractive than the average population. If this is true, we can say that there is an (loosely) inverse relationship between physical attractiveness and intelligence.

2. People who have hyper-lower confidence in their attractiveness tend to have profile pictures of things other than themselves (anime, The Joker, wolves, flowers, etc.). If this is true, then there is a positive correlation between physical attractiveness and propensity to use a non-facial PFP.

3. Therefore, if 1 and 2 are true, then it follows that intelligence is roughly positively correlated with having an anime PFP.
Satire is dead; you were hearing from eat_veggies.
> through [...] mixing of pigments, combined with the reflection of natural light, the plants are able to generate [...] blue color

We have a way to describe objects which “generate a blue color when light shines on them”. We say they are “blue” objects.

Likewise, bird feathers or butterfly wings which absorb/reflect light based on their small-scale structure and appear blue are still called “blue”, even though they might be colorless when pulverized.

There are plenty of “blue flowers” out there.
Real online communities like specialty webs or youtube channels are a WAY better value compared to running fb ads
>Serial Experiments Lain: Godly programmer

Alternatively, a godly program.
P/E ratio is not the same as a purchase-valuation multiplier.
But why? It doesn't fit into anything. Sure Microsoft has previously bought weird things, but lately they've been pretty focused. Why would they buy TikTok+
Facebook will do just fine here. The advertisers who want/ need targeted advertising will be even more driven towards advertising friendly platforms like Facebook's feed.
Maybe there's some kind of definition that make this make sense? On the face of it it seems very weird to claim that "this is actually a red pigment, it just looks blue". Why not say that it's a blue pigment which looks red in certain pH conditions?
Thanks for reminding me of this, really glad they're still iterating. We need more options with long-term companies and support. $393.40 shipped is too steep though, for that price I think the ergodox / moonlander is a better option.
I’ve always observed that California has European tax rates on income. Is there a good understanding of why the outcomes are worse? I could imagine:

- Ineffective spending

- Lower taxes on wealth (i.e. non-income)

- Higher taxes on consumption

- Higher taxes in Europe on employers (i.e. non-personal income)

- Higher taxes on capital income

Do people have good resources to understand the relative source of discrepancy?
Are cars gonna have bathrooms in them now? Because if not, you're now talking about rest areas, many of which are closed at night. And if I wake up having to pee, and the nearest rest stop isn't for an hour, what then? I can't go back to sleep. The nice thing about a plane/train/coach is that the bathroom is right there -- no need to interrupt your travel.

It's all kind of academic anyway because I don't own a car, nor does owning one here make sense anyway as I'd never use it except on road trips, so the plane/train/coach is the only option.
Corollary to this, though: you can (with a lot of caveats) choose to be happy. Or, at least, commit to finding and pursuing the path(s) that will get you closer.

It can (and does) take a lot more work than sitting in the familiar rut of misery. Sometimes, this involves doctors and pharmaceuticals, but, either way, requires a lot of work on the part of the individual.

The process of starting this work when you are already overwhelmed is a big problem. Try to rig the game in your favor and be realistic about whether you can benefit from outside help.

Edit: formatting.
I really wish mobile browsers would follow better standards of user interfaces. They're a bit of a pain to use.
As my musician friend told me ->
“In music, you don’t get to update your songs. Once it’s out, it’s there for the world to see.” (Or something like that.)

It’s not like software where we can iterate/improve as we learn. In music, you capture a moment, a sensation, an experience - and you had better capture it as intended, even if that means an extra month in the studio.

This same musician told me that the increased ubiquity of singles is intended to speed up iteration/feedback/ship cycles.
Kalih Brown are quite soft (40g) and quite low-travel (1.1 mm to actuation). I wish even softer Kalih scissor switches were an option.

Kalih Blue are an option if you prefer to pound more (not offered with this keyboard, though). But I only find clicky switches acceptable if you're working from home, or have a personal office. Sitting next to someone else's clicky keyboard is not all that enjoyable.
While I enjoy Kpop, I don't feel it's necessarily a great model for artistic expression. It's an industry where fake is the status quo. Kpop is not selling people music per se. It's selling people this idea that you could be an idol or be friends with an idol or be a partner of an idol. It's an emotional hack like a carrot being dragged in front of you.

I personally like a lot of Kpop for the strange music production that comes out of it with bands like Red Velvet, Mamamoo, Stellar, Lim Kim, Dalsooobin, Dal Shabet, etc., but that is really more of a side effect of Kpop's main product.
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Podcasting: Turning Chinese?
Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack
If anyone is interested in building their own split ergo:

https://blog.splitkb.com/blog/introducing-the-kyria