skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What's he going to record a song about?"
"Nothing."
"Spotify'll kill him."
"I guess they will."
"He must have got mixed up in something with the music industry."
"I guess so," said Nick.
"It's a hell of a thing."
"It's an awful thing," Nick said.
They did not say anything. George reached down for his mobile phone and wiped the screen.
"I wonder what he did?" Nick said.
"Failed to write enough songs fast enough to generate user engagement. That's what Spotify will kill them for."
"I'm going to cancel my Spotify subscription," Nick said.
"Yes," said George. "That's a good thing to do."
"I can't stand to think about him waiting in the recording room and knowing he's going to get it. It's too damned awful."
"Well," said George, "you better not think about it."

(with apologies to Hemingway!)
I'm so excited for this
Where is this “huge” non Apple mobile market? The mobile market outside of Apple is a commoditized race to the bottom. The average selling price of an Android phone is around $270.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/951537/worldwide-average...
above 2M$ is definitely an executive level pay, which would mean remote work would not work, and it's all about being close to hq.
No, that is not a characteristic of a duopoly and in many cases is illegal.
Thanks for sharing on HN! I'm always tempted to share the releases or posts here but I always back out as I never feel the project is refined enough.
As everyone knows, there are no homeless slums in europe
China will no doubt follow with tens of thousands. Maybe India, Japan etc too
Could Kessler Syndrome become a real thing?
This sounds like a recipe for redirecting the grudge toward some other external target, instead of letting it go. Not to say you shouldn't do what works for you, as long as you don't hurt anyone else in the doing of it - but to find it as you've put it here gives it the sense of general advice and recommendation, and in that sense it seems very much wanting.
The first TAG Heuer android wear device ran an atom chip. Fun times with the power optimization, that was.
No way. How can music simultaneously be "unknown, has few fans" but also benefit from "access to millions of potential listeners"? If they get millions of listens they aren't exactly unknown anymore.

One CD sold at a gig for $10 is equal to about 2,000 Spotify plays. A t-shirt sale is double that. A mid-level band can play to 200 people a night and do $1000 daily in merch, easy (and I've personally done it). Sure, if people discover the band via Spotify, that brings them to shows, so there is the discoverability aspect - but the compensation is not remotely comparable.

Spotify profits off of the market value of streaming music having dropped to practically nothing (due to practically infinite supply), and their pay rates are terrible as a result.
Businesses have too strong of a lobby. Same with the landlords.

Beyond that, since it was voter passed, it has to be voter repealed. :( I don’t think it’ll happen.
Adjusted for inflation the state budget has ~tripled in the last 20 years. How much healthcare and decent public transportation has it gotten us?
Seems like a win-win to me. Far right users congregate to a niche platform where they can do as they please, and as a result it's easier for everyone else to ignore them.
> this next $250 I spend

The price seems irrelevant based on the rest of your post (I mean, assuming spending $250 doesn't put you at financial risks). The only question that you should ask yourself (but I'm sure you already know) is if you need a new and better keyboard or not.
Would they tone it down if they acquired ARM?
All the latest Snapdragons use bog standard ARM cores.
What jjcm describes is almost definitely a FAAH mutation, likely a double mutation. I believe I have the same, and describing it as a sort of euphoria isn't entirely incorrect. Furthermore, it does correspond somewhat to the effects of various drugs on "normal" people. There's a reason some people with the mutation are described as "slightly baked" [0]. So I think it's extremely relevant to this discussion.

And a large percentage of the population does indeed have the single mutation. I've heard figures of 20 and 30%. I think it's also what you do with the mutation and your life circumstances that play a role in your personal happiness, of course.

I commented downthread with my personal experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24009025

[0] Highly recommended article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/a-world-withou...
If you are making literally 10 figures annually this increases your tax bill by an overall amount of about 3%. Every ten years you can buy one fewer yacht. Oh no.
That is exactly what has happened to high school education.

Kids are passed along without meeting the standards of the grade or degree so that the institution does not look bad.

You may be too young to remember when this was the crises du jour and the No Child Left Behind program, etc.

Not everyone can get earn a PhD. Not everyone can pass the rigors of high school. Not everyone can run a 4 minute mile either.
Shouldn't they be aiming at basically Google, Amazon and Apple here for undercutting Spotify?

Spotify has to price match against those giants who subsidize their respective services with other profitable aspects of the business.

Spotify themselves for the most part having been losing money/matching even.

What can Spotify do? They raise the cost of premium, they lose marketshare and that would be a death spiral no?
Really and having well of parents live in a wealthy make no difference, not being Neurodiverse also is a big help.

You know that meritocracy was seen as a bad thing when it was coined.
My understanding is that both are true; net interstate migration is away from CA, but CA's population is increasing due to international migration and relatively high fertility among some communities. On average, CA's emigrants are richer than its immigrants.
Interesting. I'll give a try now!
Solution: 10% tax on all satellite internet revenues to fund space based telescopes. Could really improve astronomy.
all the complaints about “too many satellites” is the space version of NIMBY
I wrote "sensible", not "easy" :-) I agree with your assessment.
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Violate an Open Source license and all hell is brought down, but Pirating music is just fine. HN has some weird ethics.
Because the wealthy are the most salient aspect of this problem. They are the only ones that can afford the $4,000/mo rent and $2,000,000 "starter" homes in the neighborhood.

People feel like they are being forced out of their homes by these people and they are fighting back.
>That's a heavy bet on ML and crypto

Well, yes that is the point. My theory is that the gaming market for GPUs is well understood. I don't think there are any lurking surprises on the number of new gamers buying high-end PCs (or mobile devices with hefty graphics capabilities) in the foreseeable future.

However, if one or more of the multitude of new start-ups entering the ML and crypto (-currency) space end up being the next Amazon/Google/Facebook then that would be both unforeseeable and unbelievably transformative. Maybe it won't happen (that is the risk) but my intuition suggests something is going to come out of that work.

I mean, it didn't work out for Sony when they threw a bunch of SPUs in the PS3. They went back to a traditional design for their next two consoles. So not every risk pans out!
My take after building my own fully-custom board is that the best ergonomics is had by ditching the outer column entirely to completely remove pinky reaching.

The thumb clusters need to be bigger and closer to the alphas so they're more powerful and more easily reached.

My board: https://flic.kr/p/LJdbeC
TL;DR This group pays 40% of the taxes on 23% of the wages and budget risk is that if something happens to those incomes it has an exaggerated effect and is dangerous.

What people should focus on is the percentage of how much of the taxes these people pay. That should give you an idea of how lopsided taxation has become. The top 1% in California earn 23% of the wages and pay 40% of the taxes. This does not include real estate taxes which are some of the highest in the country.

I know some say, they should. However understand when it gets lopsided it puts budgets at risk if the sources of those incomes take a dramatic shift or worse leave. So if the market tanks a lot of that income can dry up very fast. If the jobs economy moves towards remote working then businesses may not become as attached to swanky offices in expensive states moving two more sources out and further imperiling taxes.

People don't truly understand how much their government costs them. California budget is over two hundred billion dollars. the majority is from payroll taxes followed by sales taxes; about half of what income taxes were; then fees and licenses, and then property taxes. There are some other sources in there but lets say 60:40:6:4 in percentages.

California allocated nearly six billion towards issues related to COVID19 initially, not sure how much it has changed.
The fundamental principles of the internet haven't changed. If racists want a platform, they can have it and the underlying web standards still exist for them to make it themselves and to self-host it.

If their providers want to cancel these business relationships, that is their right as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_association

What is really problematic and has been since its inception is the overuse of commercial and centralized services by public institutions and organizations. Twitter and other services of that nature are not public utilities.
I dunno. Seems like every time a public transportation system proposal pops up in my city, money is the number one thing they cite when they say “it’s just not feasible.” :shrug:
A crystal ball?

All jokes aside he was not foaming at the mouth or unpleasant when we first started the meeting, and I'm not the quickest one to pick up on subtle body language cues. So your guess is as good as mine.
I am reminded of the story about ceramics students being told that half would be graded on quantity and half would be graded on the quality of a single piece of work.

https://excellentjourney.net/2015/03/04/art-fear-the-ceramic...

It turns out that the students who were just churning out pots ended up making the pots that were ultimately better.

I think there's probably something to be said for constantly creating.
Ask HN: When do you think?
By think, I mean the process by which you form new opinions about the things you read in a book or an article in a newspaper.

I have come to realize that most of stuff I read, I am just passively consuming it. I do understand a fair bit of the concepts but never really bother to analyze or critically think about it.

Do you take a pause after reading stuff and think about it, forming your opinions or may be building analogies to understand the concepts at a deeper level ? Or do you take breaks and devote some time to think about an interesting topic you might have come across during preceding days or weeks ?
Django's migration tool is awesome; I can see how people could get seduced by it. It's happened to me.
That's great! I wish more bands had this level of success.

BandCamp is more-or-less an "indie" place to find music. People have to be "into" it to go there and find music.

Spotify and Pandora are far lower barriers for every-day people. Just put on some station you've created from your favorite band, and eventually it'll start playing new bands you've never heard and might love. It's amazing.
nearly all space companies operate on government money. we would be taxing ourselves
There's a similar visual shared on mental health discords when people are suffering anxiety or panic attacks, though granted likely with a less accurate breath cycle

https://media1.tenor.com/images/80b6db690c2f50bd9a876ca0f70e...
No. In California capital gains (at least from stock) count same as regular income.
> The most complex circuit on the GPU would be the thing chops the incoming command stream

That's not true at all. I'd recommend reading up on current architectures, or avoid making such wild assumptions.
US tax revenue per capita is nearly double that of the UK, more than enough to offset the difference in military budget. popular opinion is the only meaningful difference that you listed.

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/charts/tax-revenue...

https://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/breakdown_2017USdt_21ds1...
Portland protests draw thousands Thursday, no state, federal police in sight
State taxes don't go toward aircraft carriers. Looking at the state's budget, it looks like California spends most of its budget on education, then healthcare and welfare programs, then prisons(‽).
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Isn't that how Dickens wrote at least one classic novel? The history of creative endeavors if rife with short deadlines.
There is a big gap between those with money and those without in California. We need to have better average pay and close the wage gap, the tax issue then takes care of itself.

How many of those that would experience this new tax step over homeless people everyday? That is the real issue here.
The top level comment was about companies owning a CPU and GPU stack. NVIDIA licenses ARM IP now, if they bought ARM they would actually own the designs, putting them on the level of AMD and Intel where they would have greater control over the technology.

Just licensing the designs puts a company on a lower chipmaking tier with Qualcomm, Samsung, Apple, Huawei, etc.
Dark matter theories can fit any mass distribution without a change to the theory.
So, you claim to understand "anti-racism", but don't agree with it. And yet you're complaining about the name?

I'm sure if you understood the philosophy then you would be able to articulate your issues with it, rather than just complaining about something superficial. I'm guessing you're also against (but understand, ha) feminism too? but just don't like that it sounds like it's just for women.
I think it is conventional knowledge that if you are a minority you are often forced to overcome discrimination and are being judged more harshly. I mostly second-hand experienced this because half of my family are immigrants from a country that had "low-status" when they got here.

Just to be sure: if you are young/new please don't take this as discouragement. The less it applies to you the better. And if you face discrimination then take pride in your accomplishments in spite of adversity.

But I find OP's assessment overly specific...
Yeah, and then they can totally ignore the far left and push Twitter even further over the cliff.
If Apple are worried about that prospect, couldn't they easily outbid Nvidia to buy ARM?
I didn't see that in the page for this article. But, that's a good point.

The specific text is, "Using the credentials of employees with access to these tools, the attackers targeted 130 Twitter accounts, ultimately Tweeting from 45, accessing the DM inbox of 36, and downloading the Twitter Data of 7."

So, this doesn't say what actually happened. If it was employees posing as users in order to post, that is an permission which should not be granted. If it was as you suggest, a password reset, then there is a separate issue with 2fa that would be expected on these accounts.

Either way, there are serious security issue. This is similar to Oracle calling itself "Unbreakable" and then getting broken. If Twitter cannot safeguard against so many accounts getting injected with tweets, then something is broken with Twitter's security model.
If I did my math right[1], the ones ""earning"" $2,100,000 will have to pay an extra $13,000. How will they survive? Golly.

[1] (1,000,000 * 0.01 + 100,000 * 0.03 = 10,000 + 3,000 = $13,000)
> 90%+ of the core logic area (stuff that is not i/o, power, memory, or clock distribution) on the GPU are very basic matrix multipliers.
>All best possible arithmetic circuits, multipliers, dividers, etc. are public knowledge.

Combine these 2 statements and most GPUs would have roughly identical performance characteristics (performance/Watt, performance/mm2, etc)

And yet, you see that both AMD and Nvidia GPUs (but especially the latter) have seen massive changes in architecture and performance.

As for the 90% number itself: look at any modern GPU die shot and you'll see that 40% is dedicated just to moving data in and out of the chip. Memory controllers, L2 caches, raster functions, geometry handling, crossbars, ...

And within the remaining 60%, there are large amounts of caches, texture units, instruction decoders etc.

The pure math portions, the ALUs, are but a small part of the whole thing.

I don't know enough about the very low level details of CPUs and GPUs to judge which ones are more complex, but in claiming that there's no space for sophistication, I can at least confidently say that I know much more than you.
Very clever to limit the tax to people making over $1 million — at that level, your pay is based more on who you know than what you know, making it harder for them to “vote with their feet” and leave California.
I think both conceptions are important. On one hand, some code is naturally related to certain data and hence we should accordingly design the program. On the other hand, complex and distributed programs have code which must be dynamically bound to different data. OOP focuses on only one aspect but does it very well. How to adequately support the opposite aspect is not clear. At least there are many ways how this can be done.
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"Cost externalizing is a socioeconomic term describing how a business maximizes its profits by off-loading indirect costs and forcing negative effects to a third party. An externalized cost is known to economists as a negative externality."

Here's our culprit. There IS financial pain but most of it is externalized onto the customers in unseen ways. What is it worth to someone to compromise a specific Zoom meeting? Add up all of the tangible and intangible losses Zoom customers have suffered from data leakage and there is the real cost in the market.

The price Zoom pays to fix another bug, maybe write a blog post, and have a few accounts closed is a small fraction of this full cost to society.

This is probably the strongest argument for regulation such as GDPR.
On the plus side it will probably really give RISC-V (and other platforms) a boost for the risk averse businesses.
I think this is bullshit. Why would institutes put such high sticker price or why wouldn't they put price clearly based on income level. No one likes when hospital do not give clear price for treatments, same applies for university.

Would it better if stores listed loaf of bread at $300 and then people can negotiate the price from there?
It's actually a zero percent increase on someone making $1 million, as it only applies to income over $1 million. If you made $2 million, you'd pay 1% of the second million, or $10 thousand.

$10k is no big deal to someone making $2m per year. But that person is already paying ~$240,000 per year in California state income taxes[according to a random tax calculator I just googled]. So they're already voluntarily paying $2.4 million per decade, $24 million over a working career for the privilege of living in the state of California. And yet that isn't enough.

In the immortal words of CCR, "And when you ask 'em, 'How much should we give?' Ooh, they only answer 'More, more, more!'"
There a pretty weak reform for 2020 in Proposition 15. It will tax at realistic values (i.e. exempt from Prop 13) certain commercial properties. I'd like to see much stronger reforms so that second homes are realistically taxed etc, but at least it is a start.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/california-novemb...
My understanding is that Clojure is basically lisp implemented inside the Java ecosystem. I'm not sure how that makes it "modern" given that the only higher level language older than lisp is the original version of Fortran.
You’re right. It’s not new. Not for pop music anyway.

I’d argue that it’s worse, though. Shorter cycles are even less healthy.

And just because it’s been done before(-ish) and other endeavours run in this timeline doesn’t make it good or beneficial to anything but those who aspire to only make money off of it.

The fact is, good music doesn’t require business to be good music. And the business doesn’t necessarily require the music to be good—it just requires that it directly or indirectly generates revenue. From the perspective of commerce the rest is incidental.

Encouraging the commercial perspective over something more balanced is a net negative for culture and society. At least I think so.
I find it humorous too, but I think it's easily explained: we get a constant stream stories of the plucky underdogs with their fancy engineering achievements. HN loves both industry disruption and engineering achievements, so it's a sort of self-reinforcing reality distortion field. See Tesla for a very similar sort of story.

The innovators and underdogs are always great to see, and they fuel our collective imagination, so it's no surprise that they dominate the HN front page. Of course, that mind-share dominance is in stark contrast to the well-entrenched money-printing machines they're trying to disrupt, who are happy to keep dominating their respective industries year after year instead.
The constant product churn hasn't hurt ad revenue so why would they care? If they actually had to survive on some of these products they would change how they incentivized their employees.
No it's not, it's (3226/2) launches over 5 years = ~269 launches per year.
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> As a founder of ARM, Apple ...

Apple was a founding member of AIM (Apple, IBM, Motorola) for PowerPC. (As rumour has it, after DEC refused to go for a higher-volume lower-margin Alpha AXP derivative when Apple came knocking for an m68k replacement, Apple then asked IBM for a higher-volume lower-margin POWER derivative, leading to AIM and PowerPC.) As far as I know, only Acorn had a role in founding/spinning off ARM.

On the other hand, I would be very surprised is Apple wasn't smart enough to get a very-long-term/perpetual license on the ARM instruction set before investing heavily in custom core design.
> insert our content and signatures exactly how we want it to display in the Word document

Ironically, most word documents tend to be poorly formatted anyway, as if the original author didn't care at all about formatting.
Love this.

> equidistant in the hue circle

but doesn't seem to be 'subjectively equidistant' as there are some green/green-blue's that are very similar and lots of unused visual separation near orange or violet.
Max - congrats on the launch! Looks very slick, I'd love to replace AirTable with something more performant. Can I edit the schema yet? Would be great to have a sample database when I login for the first time so I can see the UI in action.