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I have no idea what they study in this degree. But I assume it is based in part on philosophy/ethics, history and social sciences.

To me gender studies in particular seems to be an overly specific field to warrant such a high number (comparatively). I'm also very suspicious of its implementation (and I say that reluctantly as a feminist).

That said, I think there is huge value in philosophy/ethics but also in history and social sciences.

We need more smart, scientifically minded people studying these things globally and generating results, because we suffer from a severe lack of meaning and rational discourse.

To me it seems like half-baked ideology, fundamentalism, religion, cynical propaganda and tribalism are suppressing the advancement and refinement of our value systems and the resulting long-term goals of our societies.

While today's youth and intellectuals are squabbling over superficial things like gender pronouns, the powerful greedily disregard their responsibilities (at best) in the name of self interest. They're not only ignoring the consequences but actively try to discredit everything that gets in their way, even scientific fact, without repercussion!

People are still getting, murdered, mutilated and enslaved/oppressed and nature is starting to beat down hard on everyone, while the media and politics only further the divide and stir unrest by fighting over attention.

What value systems do we have today? Many base theirs still on provably toxic, incoherent and cynical ideologies like Marxism, Neo-Liberalism, Nationalism, Imperialism, Social Relativism, religion and so on. And in the middle we have a huge gaping "meh": An unreflective hodgepodge of tribalistic, after-the-fact values resulting in a pessimistic, regressive mindset: full of conservative nay-saying and hostile cancel-culture.

None of this is good enough and I feel like we are not advancing, but regressing. And none of this is solved by having more CS graduates who end up tuning the knobs on some ERP-system, analyzing customer data or building marketing websites.
I hear a lot of people talking about RISC-V but I wonder why people don't think companies would move to other open ISAs like Power or MIPS.
That point was reached many years ago. Here's some information:

https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/265
Never heard of that one. Will check it out.
Trade vape tobacco juice with your teenagers for pirate downloads, and give them an MBA when they cut you out.
Agreed, not just the monetization scheme but Spotify and others just push the music listening experience to playlists and singles and have very little room for albums and collecting a library of music you refer to.
> That JIO has designed and developed a complete 5G solution from scratch

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? From what I know, very few companies have the technology to build 5G infrastructure.
Title makes it seem like Spotify will ban an artist if they don't release content regularly. Article says different.
College Students: Get your questions answered
The tech industry claims it applies machine learning all over the place, but I doubt it actually moves the needle much.
The other related observation I make is that our field suffers from dogmatic thinking. A methodology is a tool, not a holy calling which cannot be altered: if it's working for your team, it's good; if not, adjust to something which works better.

The problems come in when someone reads some over-stated screed about design patterns, pure functional programming, etc. and then decides that they have to throw every other tool in the toolbox out, and follow The Right Way™ in every possible way even when they're spending most of their time on problems of their own creation rather than their job. The various philosophies being debated will change over time but that mindset is remarkably stable.
Article links to (based on) https://musically.com/2020/07/30/spotify-ceo-talks-covid-19-...
Does it prevent it from stop indexing these sites? Imagine it does display "latest news" snippets, but from 3 months ago...
It's only a 1% increase in state taxes FFS for some one earning $1 million which if I where I that situation would think is fair.

In the uk you'd be on 60%
Not just nation states, but plenty of citizens—in and out of NATO member states—have plenty of reasons to have quite a few problems with NATO, and other military alliances, and any military, and state supported violence in general.
You can still program in a data oriented manner using OOP. It is after all just about watching data access patterns in view of the hardware constraints and organizing along those lines.

What there actually is in game development is a definite wish for a simpler language than C++ and dislike of many of the newer parts of it.
Perhaps he should have rephrased it as number of people having 4K screens and full HD on all devices they use is far higher than number of people have good audio devices
If "some startup's bottom line" depends on nonconsensual surveillance then they have ample warning to find a more sustainable business model.
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NVidia is awful when it comes to FLOSS support. If they get ARM, at least it may accelerate RISC V developments.
It would create a marginal combined income tax rate of 54% when you combine federal and state taxes.

From the article:

"California’s top marginal tax rate is 13.3%. The new proposal would add three new surcharges on seven-figure earners. It would add a 1% surcharge to gross income of more than $1 million, 3% on income over $2 million and 3.5% on income above $5 million."

So basically 3.5% tax on income above $5 million.
A little bit more Googling will tell you that Kirti Ambani, the man accused of ordering the hit, was no relative of Dhirubai, the Godfather.

Nusli Wadia, the man he was supposedly getting killed, is the head of an important textile firm himself and the grandson of the founder of Pakistan.

The scandal of which this episode is but one battle, led to the downfall of Rajiv Gandhi's government and triggered the long downfall of the Congress party, which is how Dhirubai's son Mukesh finds himself so close to the current regime whose predecessors, ironically, benefited enormously from the alleged chumminess between the father Ambani and Rajiv.

Wretched hive of scum and villainy seems a bit overwrought though; par for the course for robber barons and way less scummy and violent than Andrew Carnegie or Cecil Rhodes and other titans of western industry.

Plus they haven't caused coups in Central American countries. Yet. Though I wouldn't mind if Mukesh bhai bought England and replaced the Union Jack with the Tricolour.
Very cool. It would be nice if it was cross-platform, but I understand that that would have been a bit beyond your 5 minute scope. (I use Mac, Windows, and Linux roughly the same amount daily)
You think Germany is the one strong arming France into this? Germany has always been one of the countries most against fiscal transfers.

Brexit seems to have less repercussions than initially thought because it hasn't happened yet! The UK is still in the single market and the customs union till end end of the year.
> Sometimes a self-taught person comes along with a genuinely impressive project, and I push hard to hire those folks. But for the most part it's silly little single-person-project web apps and such.

In your view, what distinguishes the former from the latter? CS is not my primarily skillset, but I do know "how to program". And, because I'm a grad student, I want to do something with a very high impressive:time ratio, if that makes sense.
Apple has a one time ARM architecture license so that’s not going to be recurring revenue for ARM.
Maybe I'm jaded, but my current hope is they will fail at a discreet GPU, then dump that tech into making their onboard much better and using that as a selling point for the CPUs, thus helping everyone in the long run.
COVID-19 is going to completely wreck the music business and the spotify guy is right: only endless social media campaigns with procedurally-generated soundtracks will survive in the future.
Note: The combined MARGINAL tax rate has been approximately 50% for a while now (over a decade?)

The real headline is "California considers hiking tax rates by 3% for people earning over $2M in income".

Maybe worth editing the description.
Facebook can cry me a river while listening to me play a tiny violin.
Hahaha. I’m THAT old. But I do have respect for the boomers as it must have been even more nerdy to be a coder in those days. Give them a pay rise.
A quick google search shows that they are AKA "Market Research Future". It would appear that they have no US office.

The Linkedin profiles of their CEO and Founder suggest that they graduated from "MIT" but a little deeper look will tell you that is the "Maharashtra Institute of Technology". Prior to becoming CEO of both "Wise Guy Reports" and "Market Research Future" Suman Singh was an "associate recruiter" and a year prior to that an "intern".

Both "Wise Guy Reports" and "Market Research Future" feature in articles found by Google warning people away from scam research mills.

see particularly : https://arpr.com/blog/tech-marketers-market-research-scams/
In the real world, we encounter folks who aren't "well-adjusted". Society winds up having to decide how to deal with them.
> Nvidia is the only suitor in concrete discussions with SoftBank, according to the people.

Would Arm stakeholders (i.e. much of the computer industry) prefer an IPO?

In 2017, Softbank's Vision Fund owned 25% of Arm and 4.9% of Nvidia, i.e. these are not historically neutral parties, https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/07/softbank-nvidia-vision-fun...

After WeWork imploded, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-23/how-do...

> Neumann created a company that destroyed value at a blistering pace and nonetheless extracted a billion dollars for himself. He lit $10 billion of SoftBank’s money on fire and then went back to them and demanded a 10% commission. What an absolute legend.

Is the global industry (cloud, PC, peripheral, mobile, embedded, IoT, wearable, automotive, robotics, broadband, camera/VR/TV, energy, medical, aerospace and military) loss of Arm independence our only societal solution to a failed experiment in real-estate financial engineering?
Vote with your feet.
I think you can honestly say you follow safety first in terms of what is available to safely ride your bike.

Just like when I used to rock climb, I felt like we were basically following safe practices - but there was no one to adjudicate them, probably far less testing of various practices with stats than bikes. Also, where we climbed there wasn't expected rockfall. I had barely heard of that being an issue, and we never wore helmets. Later on I realized that was something I might have missed out on. And then the next step was "what other safety practices was I unaware of" ;-)

And of course I get that rock climbing is much more dangerous than hiking.
In a GPU the ISA isn't decoupled from the architecture in the way it is for a post-Pentium Pro CPU. Having a fixed ISA that you couldn't change later when you wanted to make architectural changes would be something of a millstone to be carrying around for a GPU.
This only works as long as everybody else isn't doing it.
Is this a joke?

KODA and Gramex are monopolies. No one is forced to put their music on google, they do it voluntarily. Folks are FORCED to use KODA and Gramex.

Google is saying, if you want to put your music on our platform (which we then distribute for free globally for you at NO cost to you) then we can do it - but if you ask us to pay you more than X to distribute it for you that's not going to work.

Reality check for a minute - if koda did this type of global distribution for their artists they would CHARGE their artists a total fortune to do so, NOT pay them.
'Zero tolerance' doesn't in itself imply anything qualitative about the the actions that are taken as a result of that intolerance.

'Zero tolerance' only means that some action would happen without any subjective application of the rule.
More concretely, for every bit of state in the program I'm interested in two big questions, each with two subquestions:

1.) Who can access this state, and which of those accesses allow writes vs. which are read-only?

2.) What is the lifetime of that state, and what portion of that lifetime is mutable vs. read-only?

Java-style OOP can control #1, but makes no distinction between reads & writes. C++ const correctness and the val/var distinction in Kotlin/Ocaml/ES6/etc. can make that distinction, but only C++ forces you to think in terms of lifetimes. Rust borrowing probably comes closest to answering all 4.

I'm still waiting for a language feature that lets you say "This field of this struct is only mutable while this module is running, and once it completes it will never be changed", though. A lot of data structures are initialized in passes and then passed along as constant data: you construct the basic object structure with nothing but a few IDs, then you compute extra fields as necessary, then you're done and the object is never written to again. If you could keep the fields mutable during initialization (which may be a longer process than just constructor calls) and then seal them off once that's complete, you eliminate a whole class of bugs where a read-only client decides to mutate a field that should only be mutated from designated initializer.
There was a really good recent interview with FCC Ajit Pai from the Neoliberal Project , where he discusses a lot of excitement of these small satellites to potentially enhance rural internet connectivity (an issue that seems close to his heart). He also mentions how evolving regulatory framework around small satellites, and how the FCC will become the de facto regulator for satellites despite the FCC primary mandate being the radio spectrum.

Listening to him, you can tell he's like a lot of other crony type Trump appointees; he seems to genuinely care about enhancing communication technologies in the US. I'm not saying I see eye to eye with him on all issues, but I think it's important for federal regulators to see the costs and benefits of policies, even if we fervently disagree with the final conclusion.

Link to the interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUeNZsTajJQ
Well yeah, but I think that's somewhat the goal here. Given the overcrowding in regions of California, I can see why some people would incentivize others to leave the state. Especially the very wealthy.
Yes absolutely. But this is subjective as well is part of my premise. Like some people may be genetically predisposed to not saying no to food etc... in my experience the desire to get revenge is hard to overcome for a fairly large part of the population. So teaching forgiveness is equivalent of asking people to diet or exercise... it's really difficult.
This shows that wealthier people are moving to California, while middle and lower income people are leaving (People with an income lower than 110k a year).
Snark:

Boy, it's a great thing those satellites will only ever orbit above the US!

Or:

Boy, those astronomers are going to be so grateful for the extra bandwidth in their remote observatories!
It’s not far away from musicians paying for others to listen to them.
This is quite concerning honestly. I don't mind ARM being acquired, and I don't mind Nvidia acquiring things. But I'm concerned about this combination.

Nvidia is a pretty hostile company to others in the market. They have a track record of vigorously pushing their market dominance and their own way of doing things. They view making custom designs as beneath them. Their custom console GPU designs - in the original Xbox, in the Playstation 3 - were considered a failure because of terrible cooporation with Nvidia [0]. Apple is probably more demanding than other PC builders and have completely fallen out with them. Nvidia has famously failed to cooporate with the Linux community on the standardized graphics stack supported by Intel and AMD and keeps pushing propietary stuff. There are more examples.

It's hard to not make "hostile" too much of a value judgement. Nvidia has been an extremely successful company because of it too. It's alright if it's not in their corporate culture to work well with others. Clearly it's working, and Nvidia for all their faults is still innovating.

But this culture won't fly well if your core business is developing chip designs for others. It's also a problem if you are the gatekeeper of a CPU instruction set that a metric ton of other infrastructure increasingly depends on. I really, really hope ARM's current business will be allowed to run independently as ARM knows how to do this and Nvidia has time and time again shown not to understand this at all. But I'm pessimistic about that. I'm afraid Nvidia will gut ARM the company, the ARM architectures, and the ARM instruction set in the long run.

[0]: An interesting counterpoint would the Nintendo Switch running on an Nvidia Tegra hardware, but all the evidence points to that this chip is a 100% vanilla Nvidia Tegra X1 that Nvidia was already selling themselves (to the point its bootloader could be unlocked like a standard Tegra, leading to the Switch Fusee-Gelee exploit).
Apple's CPU's are still ARM64 cores at heart, even if heavily modified

A thought I've been kicking about, though I fully understand it to be incredibly unlikely would be if NVIDIA would simply terminate any license Apple has to use ARM at all. The move would arguably be done out of pure spite. "payback" for the GeForce 8600M issues that cost them 200~ million and $3 billion in market cap in part due to Apple pushing for a recall.

Apple also seemingly pushed Nvidia utterly out the door, going as far as to completely block NVIDIA from providing drivers for users to use their products even in "eGPU" external enclosures on newer versions of MacOS. Even if only a minority of Apple users ever bought Nvidia cards, being completely banned from an OEM's entire lineup would likely ruffle feathers
Given that the post is ranked relatively highly on Hacker News at the moment, it would appear that there are people who are still reading their tech post even though it is on Medium :)
If a startup wants to track my actions outside of its sandbox, I want that startup to fail.

On the other hand, when Apple implements policies that prevent companies of any size from building valuable things (see for example the outrage over 30%) then I've have a different sentiment.
I’m not a music aficionado, and I have no interest in albums. I love the singles/playlist format, and consume far more music now that I can easily ignore the 9 out of 10 songs I don’t like in an album (back when CDs were still a thing).

I also find it easy to have a library of singles that I like.
You can probably make that happen with the QMK firmware: make the whole thing stop two hours after being plugged in. Or have a key sequence to restart the timer. (so that you don't have to unplug and plug it all the time)

That'd be an interesting feature honestly.
BSD-3-clause

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/what4-1.0/src/LICENSE
Is that opinion based on anything firmer than a pessimistic outlook?

Lots of people jump on any trend, it doesn't mean the hype is unjustified or that nobody is "moving the needle" with that trend. Recommendations (e-commerce, advertising, music, etc) have been pretty revolutionized by it.
Let's be honest. The amount Spotify/Pandora/et al pay the majority of musicians per stream is far more than they'd make selling CD's. The overwhelming majority of music is unknown, has few fans, and will never "go platinum" nor sell out stadiums - ie, most musicians are not Taylor Swift.

For all those artists... access to millions of potential listeners from around the world is an amazing advancement.

The number of artists I've discovered, personally, through Pandora's recommendation system is staggering. I'd never know about these artists in a pre-streaming world.
That's a 4% increase from the current top tax rate.
> What's to stop someone from obtaining a useless degree that doesn't contribute to the nation's economy, and then discharges the debt in bankruptcy?

I assume lenders would take the degree being pursued, institution at which it’s being pursued and applicant’s academic history (and this likelihood of completing it) into account.

Currently, there is zero incentive to do that work.
Eventually data has to be bound to code. Otherwise you'd have apps where you either have functional code running and other apps that are displays of raw data.

The engineering question is what layer is it appropriate to do so. Under traditional OOP (your pre functional forward Java/C#/OOP C++), the answer was that code is almost always bound to data.

Haskell style functional programming binds code to data at the last moment possible.

The best answer is likely somewhere in the middle, depending on your application and usage. I find, for example, that UI controls work well with OOP, but most other stuff I tend to default to functional style programming.
Korean pop music has been doing this for a while too. This group has pretty rapid releases, 5 singles a year, and 10 EPs and 3 albums since 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_discography
Sadly, in a number of countries (like Philippines), small businesses have presence only on Facebook properties because FB controls the distribution.

Facebook made a "charitable" act to make it zero-rated that people's access to the internet is only thru Facebook.
I believe OOP was successful largely because of Conway's law. OOP itself is a hierarchical (inheritance) type system that mirrors hierarchical social systems in business. It's very "top down" in its orientation, and also allows teams to tightly control the information they are dealing with.

Also, I didn't even read TFA. However, I think it's only fair since it's a medium post that requires login.
Yay for competition!
There must be a niche for artists who record so rarely that each of their albums is accompanied by a 10000-word thinkpiece in the New Yorker.
Russia's been having too much fun with the whole "russian hacker" thing (unfortunately with the new semantics). The main tv channel even broadcast a dance number on the theme (to the tune of "Jamaica"):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrH8xyJG4rc

At least the meaning of "hacker" is now a somewhat-useful sibboleth, distinguishing between the old school and the poseurs? I may be optimistic, but I'm confident true hackers will always eventually learn the true semantics, when they start learning about their antecedents.
Would it have the same limitations of the star link constellation? I recall a limited number of users per geographical space could use it. (Not high density areas)

I can also expect space photographers complaining even more going forward.
Almost every company claiming to have 5G solution has their own definition of 5G and some solution. Can it be deployed in scale? That is questionable.
I've tutored a lot of tech school kids.

College Algebra is required to enter a lot of trades. And not just because it's a requirement for the AS, but also because you actually do need to be able to understand the material in order to work in many trades. The students I tutor often fail college algebra, move on to their subject courses thinking they can tick off that useless stuff later, then realize they need a college algebra tutor after failing those courses because it turns out they need to understand how to interpret a table or graph of a function in order to do the job.

College Algebra is really hard for a lot of people. I can say with almost certain confidence that, even with extensive tutoring, they would never make it through that course without years of practice reasoning about mathematical objects in Algebra I and Algebra II and Geometry.

I think people who are naturally talented in STEM massively underestimate the amount of practice some people need to pick up the quantitative skills needed to enter many trades.