skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend once explained this to me a decade ago. I would buy albums, but he would torrent everything. In his eyes, music has shifted to the public domain now. He said the best way to support a band now would be to buy t-shirts and go to as many concerts as you can. I still buy all my albums, but finally see his point. I mean now, all artists have their entire collection of music on YouTube. If everyone almost always has an internet connection, is buying music even necessary? Does Taylor Swift make more money off of the albums my wife buys from her or the 8 t-shirts and yearly concert she goes to?
The Rome study linked was 143 people, not 10. It seems like you’re moving the goal posts. You said you can’t produce one, I originally did and followed up with many more. Then you say that’s worthless, which means you didn’t even read those links. You’re not discussing things in good faith, which is a violation of the norms here in HN.

We saw the same pattern with far bigger studies with SARS. The fact of the matter is this is all very new, and conclusive data will take time. But there’s plenty of evidence already to suggest that for some it behaves like SARS and that’s very concerning. We also don’t know if this will behave like herpes or chickenpox and cause problems later in life even for those who “recovered.” There’s a reason why the world world is taking this seriously.
Thats a lot of money and must be very tempting.
Lets hope that ARM doesn’t get bullied to bite the apple.
Nvidia sees the writing on the wall with GPUs and knows it must acquire the future king of CPUs to survive.
I see this view a lot. May i ask you a question that comes to my mind when I consider it: do you worry about access to modern medicine, living out in the middle of nowhere?
Having an ambulance take 2 hours to get to you in case of a heart attack would be a death sentence, for example.
Perhaps Koda is an organization with bylaws or even supported by a Danish act. Such organizations are founded to support local artists. So the bylaws or the act text prescribe some behavior as for collecting fees for playing music in Denmark.

In other words just by playing Youtube in a Danish home, Koda might be legally required to collect fees.

This means that perhaps Google is asking a Danish organization to break the law?
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Why yes, yes it is an $85 dollar straw.
Even job openings for data scientists are in deep decline
If the lender can garnish future wages, I think the incentives are still pointing in the right direction. The only way the lender loses money is by lending too much to someone who will never be able to pay it back - which is what you want, presumably.
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Was it paid in practice?
"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. T"

Revenues to artists from digital distribution is a fraction of what it was during the CD days.

People used to pay for music, now they do not.
I don't see any reason why Google itself couldn't simply spin off a competitor. They wouldn't have to own it. They could simply provide know-how, discounts on infrastructure, investment, and/or acquire the company at a later date.

Seems cheaper and more fruitful than simply forking over $1B. Then again, the risk to doing so might be scarier than a billion-dollar fine, especially if you factor in that the move (if discovered) would piss off legislators.
So Google not losing as much money on mobile is a success?
You fail to see whats coming next.

In 1997 the big tech platforms lobbied that not only they wouldn't censor views, that it was basically impossible for them to do so.

This is what allowed the internet to grow without onerous regulation (ie they were treated as a carrier not a publisher).

Now that big tech is moving towards "being publishers", you're now going to reverse it all and cause massive regulation to take place. In the end, "the internet" will look no different than mainstream tv.
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There is a marked difference between race and opinion. You can't change the color of your skin, but you can change your opinions or keep them to yourself if you wish.

Anti-Semites are not a protected class. Political opinion is not protected in private space. The policies of these private platforms are clear and available for anyone to read, and include a ban on racist speech. If you want to stay on the platform, follow the rules.

You have no control over what color you were born, and you can't change it. That's why race is a protected class and opinions are not. Free speech only protects us from the government, not from private consequences.
My wrists ache badly if I type too much, despite all the adjustments I’ve made over the years.

I’m currently using an Apple wired keyboard angled so the front edge is higher, with my hands floating above it or sitting on silicon rests.

I also use Filco tenkeyless mechanical keyboards - one with blue and one with brown switches. I prefer the feel of these and make fewer mistakes, but I’m convinced they make my wrists worse.

I think the next options for me to try are split, tenting and staggered columns.

Is there a chance of trying these out without spending this kind of money? I don’t think I’m up to the task of soldering switches, unfortunately.
I wonder how widespread this is under the radar. It seems like something people don't really talk about.
The "sand" is very clearly the tricky and underhanded tracking and privacy invasion base that FB has built their house on.
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.

If you want to good art while also also getting a lot of buzz so you can make money or be popular, then you need to deal with market forces, just like everyone always has.

Different artists will value to varying degrees generating good art, exposing many people to that art, and getting paid well. All those goals are related, but I doubt any one of them can be maximized without concessions from others.

> Imagine telling Hemingway he has to release a new blog post every week instead of a book every couple of years.

Authors release at their own schedule if they don't rely on the money from the books, they have other income, or they've already made enough to be secure. Hemingway is not really different. Neither is any other already famous artist.
You're not kidding. I can only imagine the anger and outrage if North Korea, China, Russia etc. all launched 20,000+ satellites into space.

I'd guess we'd have a few people trying to shoot them down from their back yard, actually.
Interesting. I feel the exact opposite. I think he is a great artist, but I think his persona outside of the actual songs is just noise.
Here in the UK the government engaged in a big campaign to encourage companies to support it due to the added security. Within a year pretty much every shop could accept chip and pin. None of them suffered financial difficulties as far as I am aware.

You Americans need to stop whining and get on with it like the rest of the world has. I mean, honestly, most shops here are now moving on to accepting contactless payments, so you're two generations behind. Makes America look like backward yokels.
Apple blocking German-speaking users from downloading indie game?
Let’s ignore that founding ARM investor Apple has a perpetual license and their own CPU designs.

Do you really think NVidia is going to substantially overpay for ARM to then nuke it’s remaining value by going to war on it’s licensees?
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> the average pe ratio today is around 15 iirc

I'm not sure what population of companies you're taking your average from, but the S&P 500 p/e is a lot higher than that.
> crypto(-currency? -graphy?)

TPUs are massively parallel Float16 engines - not really applicable to anything outside of ML.
To whom though? After the anti-trust hearing its hard to imagine they would let fb acquire it. Twitter and snap cant afford it. Are PE the best people to run Tiktok?I understand the premise, I just don't understand how they can go about it.
It really seems facebook is perhaps the only company that can afford Tiktok at this point.
Apparently Microsoft is in talks to purchase TikTok:

https://twitter.com/cgasparino/status/1289254703705075722
If you have 20,000 people in the city, and 200,000 people outside

and you kick out the 20,000 people in the city, to another state

so 20,000 suburbans move into the city

now you have 20,000 people in the city, and 180,000 people outside

I'm not sure what you've solved. It feels like you're arguing this is a knee-jerk reaction, and a fair reaction, and that this is a solution, but you keep avoiding saying how it actually solves anything regarding overcrowding. Like it solves every problem except the one under discussion.
No reasonable person thinks it's up for debate whether the KKK terrorist group or ISIS is on the right side of history or not. Sounds like lazy "slippery slope" concern trolling.
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Saying blacks deserve to be a protected class is pretty racist you know.....
Yes, essentially. Google's investment in Android is a moat protecting their core search advertising business.
Actually on the same boat. Acute ADHD(undiagnosed),anxiety induced by constant worries about being judged. This will def help. Might even make something using React(an excuse to learn).
Tell this to Tool.
Exactly. We come back to our original problem. Our society turned "luxuries" like college, into basic necessities that one must do or have. Two cars, big homes, two parents able to work, phones, etc. are all great, but they cease to be luxuries when they become required.
Productivity has increased but I'd argue that because of technological leverage and not more college grads.

A large portion of those creating the tech are self educated.
Spotify's CEO justifies Spotify business model by deflecting blame to musicians. News at 11.
That's not depressing. That's one part of the "music industry". It's a huge sales channel, per se.

Now, being a musician or an artist, you decide what you do with it. If you consider that what matters is your sales and nothing else, Spotify's stance might apply to you. But you might have different point of view as well, still make music, and still live from it, perhaps.
Not really. Most people hated getting and paying for whole albums, out of which most stuff was garbage.

Few artists have whole albums worth listening to.
It would be like a gas station refusing to sell gas. Utter suicide for ARM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture

"In the late 1980s, Apple Computer and VLSI Technology started working with Acorn on newer versions of the Arm core. In 1990, Acorn spun off the design team into a new company named Advanced RISC Machines Ltd."

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-28-fi-4993-s...

" Apple has invested about $3 million (roughly 1.5 million pounds) for a 30% interest in the company, dubbed Advanced Risc Machines Ltd. (ARM), but the exact ownership stake of VLSI and Acorn was not disclosed. "
The reliability hit is almost certainly the major reason, followed by the administrative hassle (you might be as surprised as I was, after joining Fly and writing about our certificate infrastructure, what a giant hassle TLS certificate management is to bigger companies --- and that's just TLS, which is simpler to manage than DNSSEC).

But against that you have to pit the marginal --- practically nonexistent --- security benefit you'd get from all the work you'd put in.

Everyone has more important things to do.
> Beyond that, since it was voter passed, it has to be voter repealed.

Couldn't that happen in the next generation?
> Danish musicians

I don't think Danish musicians had any choice in this decision.
You can probably hack something using a camera.
Why not? Crack that whip!
Does this really work out differently?

It probably gets complicated w/ ads vs premium subs, but if I was 1 subscriber and there were 100 total subs, and I listened exclusively to 1 artist, but 99 other people listened to a different artist... the artist I listened to gets the same amount if they get 100% of my fee or 1% of the total fees, right?

I guess users with idle subscriptions is another edge case here.
It is truly a tricky area, I agree :)

Thought experiment: An array of GPT-3 agents trained on decade or century intervals of philosophical text/literature would have different ‘views’. Assuming the existence of mistakes, the post-enlightenment mistake is to assume the correct output is the latest GTP-3 agent.
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I would disagree. I would instead phrase it as "addressing a need", and with that phrasing, I don't see a clear distinction between software and music.
I'm a recent'ish convert from the MS Natural Ergonomic after decades. I'm glad I switched.

Ortholinear layout really is better but as the marketing says, it takes a bit and is a journey.

I have missed the clustered nav keys but have also really enjoyed having them closer to standard hand placement.

The 'layering' approach makes the function keys as simple as ctrl-×.

FWIW, I'm a happy customer and you may need to read this comment accordingly. I'd suggest it might be worth trying it out. I still have my MS keyboard but never want to use it.
California has one of the highest state income taxes AND sales taxes in the country. Combined, they can easily total nearly 20%. Yet, the state is in massive debt and infrastructure projects go no where (https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Train-to-nowher...)
So even if we peace activists are wrong in our ideology, we are still capable of braking into news site’s CMS to inject fake news to further our (in your opinion) wrong agenda.
Ok, the metaphor doesn't really work for writers because the effort you put into an article or blog post is not comparable to a song.

But anyway my point was more about producing significant and valuable work.
>> require an in-person interview, which the US (bafflingly) doesn't do.

Not all, but at least premium ones do alumni-driven interviews.
>At any given moment there are a fixed number of jobs, ...

I think most economists would say that is called the lump of labour fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
> entity component systems

Nitpick, but I'm not sure this is the correct plural.

As you may very well know (but just in case, and for others), the "system" in ECS doesn't describe ECS as a whole, but another part of the model - you have entities, attributes of those entities, and systems that operate on those attributes.

That said, I'm not sure what I'd suggest instead. "Entity component system systems" is obviously terrible. Just not pluralizing probably works, here? or "towards the entity component system pattern"?

... shrug
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Daft Punk might be an exception to the rule, then.
I am an advertiser that uses targeted advertising and contextual advertising.

There are some products and services that absolutely require targeting by preferences to maximize profit.

I'm running such a campaign now and getting wildly high ROI's in the 14X range.

If I couldn't target by audience interest, I'd be happy to get an ROI that is a tenth of that.
Read about political history in those countries. The Cameron govt's press department was run by people from News Corp. Blair's meeting with Murdoch pre-97 was infamous. Cameron's meetings pre-2010 are infamous. Brown had numerous personal, and secret, meetings with Murdoch (and failed to convince Murdoch of his merits).

I don't go in for the conspiracy theories around Murdoch at all btw. But it is fairly clear that he has a substantial amount of contact with/control over politicians...it is just factually true (something that isn't obvious to people outside the UK, journalists are heavily involved in politics in the UK...going from journalism into politics and then back again or into PR/lobbying is done frequently).
As a rule scientists are pretty smart and thorough and journalists, even if they understand the science, have to assume most people would be bored by too many details.
Mozart occasionally received commissions from Maries brother, the Emperor Joseph. Beethoven also. Joseph appears in the play Amadeus.
Econometric data show higher caloric intake in the USSR than the USA during long periods of time.
> In the UK I don't believe you're even allowed to apply to more than one elite university in the same year, and only a very small number of universities overall.

When I applied to university a while ago the rule was that you can apply to 5 universities only, ie make 5 applications in total. Only exception was "clearing" but thats a different story
I tried to use one for months before giving up because I felt it was too big. I mostly enjoyed typing in the key wells, but I ended up getting thumb pain because of how much I had to stretch my hand in order to reach the enter/backspace/modifier keys.
I think the main issue is that people don't buy albums anymore. They only buy/listen to singles. So it doesn't make sense to work on a full album and release it a the same time. Because of the new channels, it makes more sense to release individual songs at regular intervals.
Nvidia's own pe ratio is around 80 it looks like. Its not actually that insane. Overvalued? Maybe. But all this is saying is that basically, you think that your current required rate of return minus your expected growth rate for ARM is around 1.7%, and your required rate of return is going to be pretty low right now because interest rates are so low. You value future earnings more and you think it's going to grow a lot. You might be wrong, and for a company like AMD with a pe ratio above a hundred you might be betting in an awful lot of growth happening, but in this environment, these are not "insane" numbers.
I assume your implication is that Twitter is banning conservatives, as opposed to the other interpretation, which is that conservatives, regardless of what forces are to blame, have a higher ratio of participants who are worthy of being banned from a non-political point of view (e.g. actual racism, higher desire for violence, etc). Reality might be somewhere in between, but it seems obvious to me that it is very close to the latter.
One can argue that Google's access to the mobile data has yielded a significant amount of revenue
That's a good way to put it. I've thought of it as "FP is good if you can think of your program as a single possibly recursive data transform, even if it's a very elaborate one."

AFAIK it is theoretically possible to model any program that way, but it's only convenient for some problems.
I know Eric Weinstein has introduced a (fairly undocumented) "theory of everything" which pins the fundamental structure of the universe to be geometric in nature (11 dimensions). Does anyone know if this is at all related? Or perhaps the geometric approach in physics is fairly typical?
Yes, but in CDL the relevant variable is the number of copies lent. Changing, for instance, the duration of lending wouldn’t change whether you were practicing CDL if you continued to loan digital copies only on a 1:1 basis.

Arguing otherwise is a bit like saying discrete mathematics isn’t discrete because we can represent the number one by a line of arbitrary length. That’s strictly true but has nothing at all to do with the actual definition of discrete mathematics.
Oh, you're opening up a huge topic there. Actually, there have been philosophers who claimed that the beauty/sublimity of nature was ultimately superior to the sensations produces by the arts. You can find this reasoning in Kant's "Kritik der Urteilskraft", for example.

On the other hand, you have composers like John Cage (or more recently: Peter Ablinger) who claim that the act of listening itself can be/create art, blurring the borders between nature and art. There are conceptual pieces which only consist of listening instructions.

Finally, bird "songs" have been used as the source material for musical composition for centuries. You can find it in Beethoven, Mahler, Debussy, Stravinsky, etc. Olivier Messiaen even was a hobby ornithologist; he faithfully transcribed hundreds of bird songs and used them in his music (see for example his piano cycle "Catalogue d’oiseaux").

As for the question of who composed the actual bird songs, the answer probably depends on the theological background of the person you ask ;-)
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I passed up a National Merit Scholarship that would have let me go away to school and attend one of the big two colleges in my home state. Instead, I attended a local college for two years, living at my parents, taking whatever federal grant money was available and my parents covered the rest, in part because going to the local college kept tuition and other expenses reasonable.

(I'm 55. Tuition has changed in the decades since and this approach might no longer work. It did at the time.)

I then dropped out without a degree and did the military wife thing for a lot of years. I returned to school when I knew what I wanted to do, career-wise.

I made that decision in part because I was personally acquainted with two people who each had a bachelor's degree (and more schooling beyond that -- one was two quarters short of a master's and the other was working on his second bachelor's) and were financially dependent on someone else while they delivered newspapers (one also spent some time selling shoes and he eventually killed himself).

One was in his thirties and living with his mother. The other was mooching off a wife at the time who eventually left him.

So I was never fooled into believing that a college degree guarantees you a successful professional career. I felt I could deliver newspapers for a living without a college degree and I would be better off if I had such a job without being saddled with college debts like at least one of these two men was.

I don't regret my decision. Given the details of my life, I think I made the right choice.

We need to do a better job of educating young people about when it makes sense to go to school. Far too many people seem to think a degree is a magic wand and don't understand what else needs to happen to establish a career, especially one that pays well enough to justify taking on student debt.
At first my mind read this as AMD, reaction: ‘meh’

Then I realized it was ARM, ‘wow’
What about "White lives don't matter. As white lives" from a Cambridge University professor? Twitter didn't ban her for that, and the university defended her statement as free speech [1]. The same Cambridge University that rescinded Jordan Peterson's speaking invitation because “[Cambridge] is an inclusive environment and we expect all our staff and visitors to uphold our principles. There is no place here for anyone who cannot,” [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priyamvada_Gopal#%22White_live...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/20/cambridge-...

Edit as reply due to posting limit: It wasn't meant to convince you the KKK shouldn't be banned. It was only meant to correct the misleading implication that opposing the KKK is as "left" as Twitter gets.

(Scare quotes around "left" because I don't believe there's anything inherently left about "white lives don't matter". I.e. one can be a radical leftist without believing that.)