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> The artists today that are making it realize that it’s about creating a continuous engagement with their fans. It is about putting the work in, about the storytelling around the album, and about keeping a continuous dialogue with your fans.

Maybe if you want to be mega-successful, but I have to believe there's room for other approaches too. My favorite band that I've discovered since joining Spotify is Darkwater. They have three albums (2007, 2010, and 2019). Right now, this is the only band I would absolutely make sure to see if they tour within a couple 100 miles. I have to believe they're paying the bills without too much trouble.
The most complex circuit on the GPU would be the thing chops the incoming command stream, and turns it into something which matrix multiplicators can work.
I know a lot of VFX and animation people that do serious rendering / ray-tracing computation and do wish they could use nVidia GPUs in their Macs. It's worth considering how, unlike writers, rendering needs machines not just for all the animators, but for the render farms too.
Great news to have a viable competitor to Starlink. Most places on Earth still don't have internet access available, and these constellations are going to make it possible to bring everybody left behind online.

It's easy to make snark about this or that, but inexpensive, global, high bandwidth internet access seems like one of the most consequential technologies of the 21st century so far.

(Also, I wonder who will get the launch contract.)
Apple has an "ARM Architecture License". They have a custom implementation that's very different from the reference design (which is why they're miles ahead of other ARM CPU makers). I'm sure the license has contractual obligations that protects Apple. In short, Apple is in no danger, most likely.
Does the fact that these musicians choose to put their music on Spotify count as data?
Oh fuck this is not going to go down-well; ironically. Holy fuck. We'll see the fucking "NVIDIA" fuckmind trademark in our audible and green-raped eyes and minds for however rapetrademarks last. We are being raped dudes and dudettes. RapeVide'yall, let that fucking sink in. Fucking Nvidia fsggots
You said:

>> Gosh, I'm pretty much as anti-copyright/pro-freedom of information as anyone you would ever meet.

You aren't even close. Stopping just short of copyright maximalism doesn't make you anti-copyright. It makes you slightly more reasonable, but you're still on the opposite side of this particular debate.

> But like, megaupload? Why should such a business model be allowed to exist? 100% parasitic.

What's so parasitic about a file hosting service? They get paid a premium right now because they're taking on a bunch of legal risk on behalf of their users. You can blame any surplus profits squarely on copyright law itself.

> Patronage? Who if not the people acquiring the material?

The patrons normally would be the ones acquiring the original copies, yes. At that point it would be up to them to decide what to do with those copies. Patrons would normally also receive credit for funding the production of the work. This model works well in situations where there is social capital (or simply a sense of self-worth) linked to being known as a "patron of the arts".

> Crowd funding? Won’t that be in competition with the pirated commodity?

You're thinking of pre-sales. Crowdfunding is more akin to patronage, just with a broader audience. Backers might get some perks, such as public credit or merchandise, but there is no guarantee of exclusivity. The resulting work may or may not be made available directly to the public, though the distributed nature of crowdfunding pretty much guarantees that at least one backer would "defect" and make their copy available shortly after the initial release.

> Sponsorship, like ads in the content?

Product placement is one form of sponsorship. It can be done well, or poorly. Quite a bit of quality content has been produced for free distribution through unobtrusive sponsorship arrangements. Sometimes content that people are interested in for its own sake also incidentally happens to benefit someone, so they're willing to pay for its production even without any direct promotion.
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How so? Any person can make a song, and list it on Pandora or Spotify. How many listeners do you think your average garage band has? How many radio spots would they normally get? Albums sold?

Most of us have known or lived with someone in a band at some point in our youth. Some of us still play in bands for fun. How much money did they or do you make from selling CD's today?

It's practically zero, and it's been practically zero the entire time I've been alive. Anecdata, the people in bands I currently know produce and print CD's at a total loss. They literally give them away for free, hoping to get someone to listen to their latest masterpiece.

Pandora and Spotify are a massive boon for these folks.
Can you expand on your opinion? Do you consider all instances of binding data and code dangerous?
Found the old person! You must be over 25! Just kidding, I'm double that. And it's true, I don't listen to much new music. Occasionally some rap song catches my fancy. I've branched out a bit after listening to various elaborations on the music and styles in Hamilton to new rap artists. But I still love 70s rock, I'm a dinosaur. I think this article does make sense though, new stuff gets more attention, eps for the young ones.
Yeah but they have no avenue to control it. Not like ARM and its ISA licensing.
I am curious what the comments would be like when China or other country will put thousands of satellites around the world. I expect one of the first comments to be "why not give money to X US company instead of reinventing the wheel" and other comment about spying.
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing. Puts the news in context.
> If the music itself isn't the thing that you need to make money from, then instead of charging a bunch for it, now you want to spread it as widely as possible as cheaply as possible. That's a good thing!

It is, but only if the music gets better in the process. Unlikely to happen if you rush for faster releases. More production doesn't equal to more novelty.
In the world of google, it's a good idea to look it up before making such one sentence replies.
It's more about a portend of what's to come, not that this tax per se is the final straw. Next year there will be another tax, and another tax. I'm convinced people in California won't be happy with the level of taxation until we're like Sweden or France.
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The only live music I'm getting these days is when my neighbors hang out on their respective porches. They are Berkeley's best trombone-and-banjo duo, probably. The last concert tickets I bought, for which I paid a rather incredible $540/pair, have been postponed to 2021 and realistically there's no reason to believe the concert will ever happen.
I hate it when coding is seen as this herculean task that apparently demands near superhuman focus and physical/mental stamina. It doesn't have to be that way. You can customize your environment to be as frictionless as possible and bang out good code without trying super hard.

The key is customization and passionate, opinionated environments (both physically and virtually, i.e; ergonomic keyboards, chairs, etc, alongside a text editor that fits your coding style, and rapid viewing of what your changes have actually done, no more coding in a black box).
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Google "macbook faulty nvidia". e.g. [1] references to "arrogance and bluster" from Nvidia.

My personal experience: I had a 2011 Macbook Pro with an nvidia card. It started to fail randomly. Apple identified that certain nvidia GPUs were failing and created a test the "Geniuses" would run. My Macbook always passed, even though it kept throwing noise on the screen anywhere other than the Apple store. Eventually it finally failed their test: Four days after the (extended) warranty period. They refused to replace it. Bitterly, the best option for me was to pay the $800 for a new board.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/18/apples-management...
Also, it must be hard to trust them as the creator of the designs you use if they also compete with you directly in the market.
Obviously the guy knows nothing about creativity and art.

It takes time to grow as a person and cultivate new ideas. It may not be possible to do that if you don't get in and out of whatever it is you're doing.

Imagine telling Hemingway he has to release a new blog post every week instead of a book every couple of years.
I have the TKL version of same keyboard and it is a great value for the price but it has several flaws. The Kailh Blue switches can click and not trigger if you don't press hard enough. So the audio feedback is basically worth nothing. Also there are no rubber feet at the back if you decide not to use the stands. There are also no rubber feet in the middle below the space bar where I would expect the keyboard to flex the most (it does only when pressing really hard though).
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Not in bales, more like when you know someone who knows someone who delivers it by the truckload. Usually they were babies.
That's due to rent, not taxes, though, right?

A tax impacting the top 0.5% of earners would maybe cause someone to move a corporate HQ out-of-state.

That said, based on how SF's Prop C (2018) went, billionaires disagree on whether or not paying more taxes is fair.
If only the people affected by this increase were allowed to theorize about it, there would be virtually no conversation.
Pros: competition with Starlink, more Internet connectivity for the world.

Cons: this + Starlink + OneWeb make wide-field Earth-based astronomy much harder, making it less likely that we'll notice new astronomic phenomena or inbound city-killer near earth asteroids.

SpaceX is testing a sunshield on one of their newest Starlink satellites. I hope we'll see Kuiper launch with those and other reflectivity mitigations from the beginning instead of being surprised by the whole problem like SpaceX (claims to be).

Here's some coverage that we did in Orbital Index about the issue: https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-02-20-Issue-52/#starli...
They have not improved the platform because the platform is there to make money, not help musicians.

Making it better for musicians would likely reduce their revenues.
You have to license the ARM ISA as well, you can't just freely implement it. IANAL, but as far as US law is concerned, I don't think you're violating copyright by cloning an ISA, but if that ISA is covered by any patents, you'd be fairly screwed without licensing. ARM definitely considers there to be enforceable patents on their ISA (just follow their aggressive assault on any open source HDL projects that are ARM compatible).

If Nvidia bought ARM and decided to find some legal way to terminate the contract with Apple out of spite, Apple would have to find another ISA for their "Apple Silicon".
“contentment content,” i.e. stuff put online just because it makes the creator happy
I think you are confused of what RISC-V is and how these things work.

RISK-V is just ISA.

You will have open source RISK-V microarchitectures for processes that are few generations old. You can use the same design long time when the performance is not so important.

You will not get open source optimized high performance microarchitectures for the latest process and large volumes. These cost $100s of millions to design and the work is repeated every few years for a new process. Every design is closely optimized for the latest fab technology. They have patents.

Intel, AMD, Nvidia, ARM, all have to design new microarchitectures every few years.
It's not just doing some VHDL design. It involves research, pathfinding, large scale design, simulation, verification and working closely with fab business. The software alone costs millions and part of it is redesigned. Timelines are tight or the design becomes outdated over time.
The crazy thing is you get nothing for it. In Europe you pay high taxes but you get free healthcare, free college and the same for everyone in the country. In the US you get 14 aircraft carriers and something else which I'm not sure.
I think they should wait until they see their budget this year.

NYC is having a bloodbath with their finances with so many of the wealthy leaving to florida and surround states.

With tech letting people work from where ever I'd be cautious of giving the tax base paying for most things another reason to leave when you need money the most.
Not if you’re coerced into having to produce a piece of music every month/couple of months to keep the machine running.

That’s just producing a commodity.

Some groups have got it together and are able to fund years of quiet work before releases, but no matter how much I enjoy creating I would hate to be so bound as outlined above.
So you fix OOP by taking away the things that make OOP, OOP?
That just sounds like procedural programming with extra steps.

Also, as an aside, I wouldn't call DRY a 'rock solid foundation' of programming. People do some weird contortions to make code DRY that end up causing my harm then good. Separations of Concerns is far more important. DRY is fine when applied within the scope of a feature, but not cross features. Otherwise you end up playing wack-a-mole when you fix a bug in one place only to make a new one somewhere else.
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I'm a big fan of the idea of competition when it comes to internet providers, so this is good news.

I can't help but worry about where this ends though. 100,000 satellites orbiting the sky? Will our sky just be a bunch of moving dots, like you see in some sci-fi movies?
> Music may be beneficial for non-cognitive constructs in children such as prosocial behavior and self-esteem.

Learning music, incuding an instrument to play on, teaches a ton of skills (focus, effortful practice techniques, managing failure and your limits, adapting what you have learned to different but similar music, work with other musicians on duets and more, etc) that you can learn through other mechanisms (athletics, LEGO/FIRST robotics, regular schoolwork). If anything, the ability to encounter a new piece of music (say jazz), connect it to styles or pieces you already understand, then to improvise off the style and make it your own is a process many developers do week to week with reading and adapting old code. You can't master one then immediately excel at the other but the base skills related to patience and effort connect.

Anecdotally, I learned a few instruments growing up and although I resented part of the process I think it benefited me a ton. I felt like I had a drop off in focus and effort applied to tasks after I stopped paying after high school. I met and kept a ton of awesome friends through music and playing in school bands. I have a lot of memories and success stories that come from learning an instrument and how music works. That was compelling when learning about physics and sound or how in tune notes are created based on a mathematical equation. It was super helpful to connect with others who learned an instrument growing up, like a few of my friends I see (not anymore) or talk to weekly. So I can be a data point for the prosocial argument as well as self esteem. I think the process helped me get to where I am today, even if I don't play anymore.
Because they drive up prices.

If a bunch of people with 10-100x your income kept moving into your city, driving property prices into the stratosphere, you'd be pissed too. It doesn't stop with houses either. All of the middle class stores start getting replaced with higher cost ones that cater to the ultra-wealthy, leaving you to drive further out for good deals.

Resident who don't want to be pushed out have their own breaking point to, and instead of voting with their feet, they vote to evict the invaders.

California isn't the only place where this a problem. All across the world we are seeing pushback against ultra-wealthy taking over cities/neighborhoods and driving out middle class residents.
Social media content isn't hosted on their property. If they can't comply with such laws they should delete these accounts rather than claim digital squatter's rights.
No. For CA tax purposes capital gains are just income.
If the licensing model asks for companies to pay for the "Enterprise" features which are still OSS, it would resolve this problem for me at least (not sure about the OP).

In general, its been my experience that the closed source enterprise only crap that most companies push for is exactly that: crap. I suspect its because those features are treated as a business expense, and thus built to keep costs low. Almost every time those features are underwhelming and buggy.
If its OSS, at least I can contribute a patch; if the thing is popular, likely someone else has already fixed it.

Enterprise support is a fucking joke; they will delay delay and delay. If you push hard enough, they say "its on the roadmap" without giving any gurantee of when it will be fixed. The only time Enterprise support has really worked well is in my org that got the best support package for GCP. GCP's support for urgent issues and product feature requests has been somewhat reliable and predictable. Much more than literally any other enterprise (I'm looking at you Okta).
I'm conflicted in responding to this. What you described was not my experience. I come from an underprivileged background and was fortunate to escape my social location. Part of it was luck though which is not replicable.

But I agree that it is harder to take risks coming from a low-income background where the cost of bad choices is amplified. Risk taking is risky though. That's the tragedy, it's hard to escape your social location incrementally. But at the same time for each success story there are many that don't succeed whose stories we don't hear.

I usually tell students to double major (or minor) if they are privileged to go to college. We as a society have moved away from the idea of renaissance person who has experience in many disciplines towards hyper-specialization. It makes it hard to adapt when everything around you is bound to change.
> One of the graphs shown yesterday during the antitrust hearing was about how Google has shifted it's original business model of showing ads on third party sites (where they have to give most of the revenue to those sites, funding those sites) to a business model of showing ads predominantly on it's own sites, where it keeps all of the ad revenue.

Do you have a link to the graph? My understanding was that Google's original business model was "provide a search engine, and show ads on it", and showing ads on third-party sites is newer?

(Disclosure: I work at Google, speaking only for myself)
Absolutely. It's just that highly motivated, targeted, and sophisticated social engineering is really tough to totally prevent. It just takes one person to fall for it, and the attackers can keep cycling through people (quickly, to get ahead of company-wide warnings about the social engineering attempts) until they succeed.
Yep. Higher taxes + minuscule military spending (compared to U.S.) + citizens who probably believe more in governance and social welfare than your average American.
This looks like a modest step back from the Kinesis Advantage with dishes keys, so not so much 'next-generation'.
Imagine deciding to move because the tax bill on your $1,100,000 salary increased by $1,000. What a hardship.
M O N O P O L Y

Vertical, not horizontal monopoly.
Meanwhile, I’ve put hundreds of hours of prep in and never received an offer from FAANG.

It really is a lottery ticket. Luck plays a ridiculously large part of the interview.
Google seems to want you to believe they are a Hanlon's Razor Schroedinger's Cat: the two most likely options are A) malice or B) incompetence. Their "well known" motto "Don't Be Evil" would have you believe it must entirely be incompetence, and so would Hanlon's Razor, normally. But with the number of smart people on staff how could they be so incompetent? Is it malice? Should we take Google on their "word" that they are simply incompetent on an amazing, heretofore undiscovered, scale, or maybe start to question if they are actively malevolent? Is the cat alive or dead? Who can observe it?
I had a mate who did this in the UK joined the army but he said he enjoyed his time in the "Mob" but eventually you have to get a job that pays a real wage.

It is one way of getting training - and if you say went into the right MOS cyber etc get to Master Sargent E8 you could then get a good job outside.
God that would be awful huh, having healthcare and decent public transportation systems
This sounds very similar to the situation Nokia was in around 2007:
- Nokia was booming financial. Things had never been better for them in that respect.
- Nokia had XX times (!) the operating income of Apple's mobile business.
- Nokia was one of the world's most profitable corporations.

And, yet, the writing was on the wall. Nokia was doomed once the smartphone era came. That's where Intel is today: AMD crushes them on the high-end general purpose CPUs. ARM crushes them on I/O performance and the low-end for general purpose CPUs. GPUs crush Intel in the middle, for special-purpose (mainly single-precision floating point) computing.

Right now, large portions of new computer sales, and an even larger portion of the high-margin cpu sales, come from cloud computing. AMD and ARM are stealing huge market share from Intel on that front. I don't see that momentum changing any time soon.

There's a reason that Intel has 8x the operating income of NVidia while having a smaller market cap. It's not because of where they are currently--it's where they are going. Stock market valuations are forward-looking, and the future doesn't look so bright for Intel.
Broadcom is Acorn, there is a suggestion in another comment that Apple has a perpetual licence to ARM, maybe Broadcom has as well.
Looking at it in terms of one of the "golden ages" of recording music - back in the 1960s, think the Beatles - this would mean only returning to what has already proven possible before. Some artists in those previous eras were able to deliver remarkable music as much as twice a year over consecutive years.

Perhaps it was a less competitive industry at the time, but certainly less efficient (and relatively more expensive) production tools were available compared to today.
Boy, those astronomers are going to be so grateful for the extra bandwidth in their remote observatories!

They will when economical access to LEO pays off in the form of cheap orbital telescopes.
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Hash maps also don't (usually) have external effects.

There arent many hash map methods that will actually modify the data.

Standard OOP, on the other hand, seems to encourage such behavior. So, for example, a Company object could contain a bunch of Department objects, each of which contained a bunch of Employee objects.

These people objects could also be referenced in areas outside of the company object.

If I called a company.giveFinanceDepartmentARaiseInDollars(10000) function on the Company object, it would have an unpredictable impact on the Department/Employee objects. It may also have cascading effects in other parts of the application that may not be clear.

On the other hand, if you represented this as a company hashmap, with the keys the department structs, you would have to do something like the following instead:

company["finance"].employees.forEach(x => x.salary = x.salary + 10000);
company["finance"].base_salary = company["finance"].base_salary 10000

This contrived example shows some of the pros/cons. OOP allows us to hide a lot of behavior/changes, which may mean less repetitive code. OTOH, it hides a lot of behavior/changes.