skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the "blues" generated in nature rely on specific physical structure or other tricks to appear blue. This means they reflect predominantly blue light, but may not retain that "blueness" when ground/processed into a pigment. That's one reason there are few natural organic blue pigments, even the ancient Egyptians relied on chemical solutions for "Egyptian Blue".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue#Pigments_and_dyes

Interestingly, the one dye listed in the link above that came from a plant is indigo, which is extracted from the green leaves of the plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigofera_tinctoria . There's no animal or plant I know of that both appears blue and could be used to create even a poor blue pigment, though I'd definitely be interested in any exceptions I haven't heard of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g246c6Bv58
This might be true if Spotify's monetization was distributed fairly, but instead it's basically redistributive to the biggest players. In short, instead of splitting a person's premium payment equally among all the artists they listened to, it's split among all artists on the platform. E.g. if Lady Gaga is 2% of all Spotify plays in a month, they get 2% of the money, even if you personally didn't listen to Lady Gaga at all.
I also use an Advantage which covers probably 80% of my computer use. I have no problem switching between it and other keyboards. If I'm on my laptop in the living room or away from home, I'll use the built in keyboard. If I'm gaming, I use a Kinesis Gaming keyboard.
capitalist who keeps all the money from musicians' work: "work faster"
I would definitely feel the same way.
Honesty has to be matched with clarity of insight to be worth much.

"Access to millions of potential listeners from around the world" was an advance that had arrived with internet itself and monetized with a number of retailed-recording models like iTunes or Amazon.

Or Pandora, if you like, but it's important to note it is a big mistake to think of Spotify and Pandora as the same thing. They're no more in the same category than FM radio is in the same category as a cabinet full of records. Pandora is radio evolved,and it's a discovery and promotional boon, I happily enjoy it and pay for it. Spotify is something else entirely -- it isn't primarily a radio station, it is a cloud replacement for record collections or the practice of owning recordings at all. Even calling it "streaming" almost kneecaps attempts to think about it productively because of how much that term is associated with broadcast.

Spotify's value-ad isn't audience reach. It isn't even algorithmic or social recommendation, both of which were done before it began to gnaw away at the industry. Spotify's contribution to both is marginal.

The big first-order benefit for the consumer is that it replaces retailed-recording revenue with very fractional per-stream revenue, and so it turns out you pay a lot less and the artist gets paid a lot less.

Trying to justify that with "yes, but their potential audience is so much bigger" ignores that artists have to do a LOT of increased volume to make up. 100 plays for every single or album they might have sold is a floor; in a retailed-recording model, someone who nets $.50 a song is already doing better than someone who gets 100 plays on Spotify (also, that's average and there are some rank-takes-all issues with how payments are distributed). And you still have the classic problem artists have always had -- how do you capture fickle and scarce attention?

And if you're relying on attention-volume, then that means niche music isn't going to be as much, so you need to pick a form that has the broadest possible appeal. And like the article says, you need to also focus on volume of material rather than polishing less frequent releases for a long time. And of course, marketing & promotion matters more than ever when a broad audience makes the economics work.

Do we like these incentives? Or do we just like paying less up front and not having to think about them?

As you say, let's be honest and clear-eyed about our answers.
Right, but the ARM ISA is covered by various patents, so you have to get a license for it. ARM has aggressively shut down any open efforts to make ARM compatible cores (without licenses).
Thank you for sharing that. The line at the beginning of the last paragraph jumps out at me.

"This great experience that released me from the bondage of hatred and replaced it with love is really just another affirmation of the truth I know..."

Having really experienced hatred first-hand, the nearly obsessive state of ongoing anger...

It bothers me every time I see people toss around the word "hate" with every disagreement or bias that they believe other people have. Without realizing it, these people are minimizing one of the most dangerous internal emotional experiences that we experience as humans by turning it into hyperbole that nobody takes seriously.
Also because of UIs.
Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations
As Spotify CEO, we should think he isn't speaking to musicians, but to all the bigger labels on how to make the most money. Musicians should feel they can do whatever they want, and should, and probably would, but I reckon they would eventually hear it from their manager once the instructions trickle down the chain of command. That is, any musician signed and making money. To everyone else, the industry itself is largely irrelevant to their craft or their income.
Agreed! How about possibly converting this to an in-browser web app to get around the platform hurdles?
That's what the Vocaloid concerts are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jrtOBM97X4
Great, but 80% of it is crap either way. Does anyone else have difficulty finding good music suggestions?

Recommendations from friends for movies and TV shows are usually very good, but not with music. My opinion of Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music recommendations is much worse. I find that I am better off randomly picking music tracks.
They absolutely could, but I was told by folks there that the merchants were pushing back extremely heavily, hence the moving deadline to get rid of stripes.

They were pretty clear that gas pump readers were the biggest issue, as customers dislike centralized outdoor readers or having to go into the establishment, stand in line, and use their counter POS system.
And yet we were okay with sharply curtailing freedom of association in some areas. Twitter (or a landlord) would be in legal trouble if it tried to ban black people.

Edit: To the replies pointing out the protected class distinction: I'm well aware of it (as my example shows). What I am highlighting is that "freedom of association" isn't as absolute as the parent post implies, and that in the past the law was changed and that freedom was diminished when it allowed behavior we didn't like.
IPO'ing a business that only makes revenue from licensing arrangements is a recipe for disaster
Kanye West is a singular being. He is a human work of art, this generation’s Warhol. Perhaps even more fascinating than Warhol, if less self-aware. I’m a huge fan of his brilliant public trajectory, yet I despise his music.
> Some artists in those previous eras were able to deliver remarkable music as much as twice a year over consecutive years.

I'll just leave this here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa_discography
RISC-V is in danger of imploding from its near-infinite flexibility.

It is driven largely by academics who lack a pragmatic drive in areas of time-to-market, and it is being explored by companies for profit motives only. NXP, NVIDIA, Western Digital see it as a way to cut costs due to Arm license fees.

RISC-V smells like Transmeta. I lived through that hype machine.
Why does the volume control let me set the volume only to even numbers?
But if you forgive them why would you not have further dealings with them?

After all, they haven't done anything harmful in your revised opinion.
I'm surprised by HN opinions on this. Astronomy misconception plus Kessler syndrome worries are two biggest faulty views on SpaceX and now Amazon.

As one deleted comment stated:
"Stacking images and object detection can pretty much nullify this problem. Worst case scenario you throw out a couple minutes of data. It might add an extra step to data processing which is unfortunate but in the vast majority of cases won't be a problem."
Pretty much sums it up. This is a problem that has been blown out of proportions by media. Sure, amateur astronomy will take a slight hit, but it is nowhere the issue being presented.

Kessler syndrome doesn't apply at altitude so low and all of the satellites are brought by gravity in few months, they need constant readjustments to stay in low orbit.
> but only if the music gets better in the process. Unlikely to happen if you rush for faster releases

Actually, if you are constantly working at it, you'll probably get really good at it and the quality will get better and better.

There's a story about a ceramics professor that would divide his class in two at the beginning of the semester. He would grade one group by the quality of their best piece at the end of the semester and the other group by the weight of all the pieces produced during the whole semester. The professor said that invariably, the best pieces were produced by the people in the group that was graded by the weight of their pieces. His hypothesis was that people graded by the weight would produce a lot more pieces, so in the process they would also get really good at making the pieces, whereas the people graded by their best piece would just spend too much time on their pieces trying to make them perfect and wouldn't get enough practice to actually become better at making them.
A lot of tea was thrown into a harbor for much less. History is repeating itself.
Super shocked anyone would pay more then $10B based on their financials.
Ludlow Massacre
Someone who doesn't want people to speak up.
But its definitely not in any financial metrics. If you own walmart for a year, you'll make around 4 billion, while if you own Google, you'll make around 7. And Google is likely going to be growing faster than Walmart.
This is spot on. Currently there is very little accountability for predatory student lending. For my mortgage I had to talk to multiple people on the phone, show proof of income, and have a background check. For my student loan I just had to give my parents' socials and prove I was attending college. I know nothing about the laws around this, but I suspect it was set up this way with good intentions. Unfortunately changing this will probably require a nation-wide acceptance that not all degrees are created equal.

It would be interesting to see insurance companies have more skin in the game - we would probably start getting much more accurate breakdowns of ROI by major, degree, and school.
Hmm did not Softbank buy ARM for 32bn?

That investment did not pay off I guess..
drink a cup of coffee and take a shower.

i really cannot function without a shower in the morning, i keep feeling half-sleeping.
I should have read the article before commenting! But I guess that means Apple aren't worried, either because their contracts are solid enough and/or they already have backup plans ready that are cheaper than buying ARM.

(Or, of course, Apple are making a huge mistake. But seems a bit less likely to me.)
> If a company screws a million people out of $10, it's not at all worth the trouble of arbitration for the individuals. That's where class actions shine.

Correct. Arbitration is good for moderately high-value customer-vendor disputes. Bigger disputes should go to courts. Smaller ones be organised into a class. (Though someone arbitrating a $10 dispute will get far more, including, usually, their arbitration costs, than that person settling in a class.)

In the middle, about $500 to $25,000, arbitration is the better option for the public. It’s faster and cheaper. And the amounts are material enough to not warrant paying out 90% of it to lawyers.
Millions of peace activists, including yourself, have no idea about the danger that would put some eastern European countries.

World peace is not maintained by hugs and kisses. Big sticks keeps peace.
I love this. I have ADHD and anxiety/stress issues where having occasional reminders to concentrate on myself and get back in touch with things like this actually really helps.

One quick comment. Aside from speed control, which wouldn't be terrible, being able to resize it or park it in my menu bar (prefer that) would go a long way towards usability.
I guess, that's why the best music I found was made by people who didnt do it as work.
Ah, apologies. I had algorithm artists on my mind for whatever reason. Yes, that would still be a live concert and as someone who loves concerts I agree that there is no substitute.
Let's start with the KKK and David Duke are racist. I don't think any reasonable person questions whether open white supremacists like the KKK are racist, the whole organization is based on racism and white supremacist terrorism.
>You can't forgive someone who feels no remorse for what they did.

Yes you can. "I am beyond this event." Making forgiveness contingent on someone elses action removes your own agency. Forgiveness isnt a gift you give someone else.
> pushing these people to niche platforms limits their ability to spread their hateful ideology, but then those same niche platforms could then become radicalizing cesspits for the few that get sucked into them.

Maybe. But then again they're radicalizing people on the mainstream platforms as well.

Of course, if we admit that radicalizing people with hateful ideology is a problem, then we might have to admit the ideology itself is also a problem, and that would suggest that all speech isn't perfectly equal and equally valid relative to all other speech, and that some speech can actually be harmful. We would have to treat different ideas, ideologies and claims differently, and judge their merits on a case by case basis, and allow there to be consequences for harmful speech just as there are consequences for harmful actions, both in society as well as legally.

We can't do that in the current political climate, so perhaps the next best thing is to simply reduce the number of people being radicalized as much as possible by not giving racists as big a megaphone as possible.
If your program has statefulness (worse, has to have statefulness), then it seems better to control where it is (encapsulate it), rather than letting it run all over the place in the program.

And, if you have code that is for working on a particular kind of data, why is binding it to the data problematic?
Think how much Google would be paying out to be the default search engine if Android didn't have so much market share.
Often if you find yourself seeing some group of people in your head and hating them and referring to them as "you people", you're probably not going to be able to express yourself in a valuable way, and should consider backing up emotionally.
Is the problem overcrowding or empty housing? Because overcrowding implies that even with lower pricing... there still aren't enough houses to go around.

Empty housing is a different issue, and I'm not sure I've heard much of that being a problem in California (mostly heard this argument for Vancouver and NY)
This doesn't seem to be quite that simple. If I have 10 workers (or 100 or 1000) for the same domain then it has to warm them all. Which maybe it does but that seems inefficient.
ARMs IPO value is under $10B, revenue/profits too small, growth not strong enough.
For everyone who actually likes music, there is Bandcamp.
This is more from a increasing adoption of arm industry wide perspective as people begin writing code on and optimizing code for ARM machines. Could trickle over into increased adoption by other companies and other sectors.
Theoretically Apple could probably outbid Nvidia, but realistically regulators would never let Apple make that purchase so it's irrelevant that they have the cash to do so.
Don’t people write and listen to entire albums anymore? When I listen to music, I almost always listen to entire albums, not individual songs.
I thought limes are acidic.
>In Europe you pay high taxes but you get free healthcare, free college and the same for everyone in the country.

I thought your high taxes pay for education and healthcare? How is that free?
Starlink dishes are smaller than DirectTV apparently.

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Starlink_U...
>then you have to argue is there any reason for them to buy ARM at all?

ARM provides them a stable, consistent, and regular revenue stream.
I switched to a columnar layout split QMK keyboard a few months ago. The columnar layout was easily the worst decision, it took me months to learn to be fast on it again, for basically zero benefit. Yes, I was typing "wrong", but who defines what's right when it works fine for me?

I would definitely recommend getting a QMK split keyboard with extra keys, I love mine, but I would advise that people get a staggered one to avoid having to learn to type again from scratch.
It really isn't, as OOP languages don't traditionally provide robust mechanisms around immutability. And why would they? The core design of OOP is to wrap mutable state behind methods which control that mutation. OOP was in many ways a reaction to C; shared mutable structs are harmful, so let's invent privacy.

Most of the languages which are suggested to be superior alternatives to OOP in this thread have immutable data records and algebraic data types as core building blocks. These are very different than C-style structs, as they can provide stronger safety guarantees without a massive ream of boilerplate.

A class or method interface promises unfortunately little around essential topics like mutability, concurrency, or termination.
I make music for fun. No gyrations or even complete death of the music business will stop that. That would require something to happen to the "real" music business. (instruments and such)
That's an interesting way to put it.

I would go for "personalized" over opinionated, because everybody is different. But I definitely agree that the right environment can make a huge difference!
Plus the implication that music might not be a tool for a specific purpose (which it is also absolutely in some contexts).

The thing is that "music", is not "one thing". It all depends on the purpose, if there is one, and on the intention of the composer and of the players and of the audience.

Here, Spotify's CEO adresses a very specific market in the music industry, not "musicians" per se.
How much money? Enough for personal private jets or enough to make a living? If the bar is to simply pay the rent then I still think that musicians can do what they want.
A good example would be a complex state machine, where you rely on the fact that the state is only modified by the state machine code to make sure it remains well-formed, and the control-flow itself heavily relies on the state being well-formed (think of a TLS session, for example).

But then again, what you want there is modularity, which OOP provides, but is also well-supported in other paradigms.
Yeah, and I’d argue that sucks too.
This is couple of years in making. In 2018 Reliance acquired Radisys for building 5G solutions.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/reliance-acquires-radisys-for-...
>If people want to talk about letting go, talk about letting go. Talk of forgiveness is simply misleading.

That is what forgiveness is, moving on, but not bottling it up or pretending it didn't happen.

>Forgiveness is different from condoning (failing to see the action as wrong and in need of forgiveness), excusing (not holding the offender as responsible for the action), forgetting (removing awareness of the offense from consciousness), pardoning (granted for an acknowledged offense by a representative of society, such as a judge), and reconciliation (restoration of a relationship).

Forgiveness is more like pity. Understanding the environment around a persons life led them to do what they did, maybe feeling bad for them, that thats who they are. Reaching a state of forgiveness does not mean you think they no longer hold responsibility for what they did, or that they should be excused from consequences. You can forgive someone (no longer allow their action hurt you) AND still pursue consequences for their actions.
I've thought for a while about a progressive tax rate of N * log(asset value). Not income tax.

So if N = 1, entities with $10,000 in assets pays 4% taxes. $1M pays 6%, $1B 9%. Then let N be the point of adjustment.

I say entities because I mean every person and corporate entity. Same rate, across the board for everyone and everything.

If companies want to pay less taxes, then everyone with less money than they do benefits as well.

Never happen, but hey, it's a thought.
Right, that's the point. The Asia theatre alliances may not be NATO, but there's enough NATO involvement in them to functionally work the same way.

Nuke Japan? You've picked a fight with NATO. Invade Australia? Same deal.
Except AMD has:

* better single threaded performance than ARM

* the same instruction set as developers' workstations

* the willingless to add Microsoft/Sony's hardware IP to the console chips
Just FYI this story originally was about photography as clarified by the author at https://jamesclear.com/repetitions

In photography, you can get lucky. When I come back from holidays and review a thousand of random snapshots, a couple of them look great. Take 200 shots of a single thing, and one of them might be pro-level due to pure chance. Yet I'm not sure how well this "randomly great" percentage would translate to me playing the violin, dancing ballet, or writing a song.
no worries, programmed customer support is a little niggle of mine†, so i'm a little sensitive to it. =)

it can trigger defensiveness, disdain, or even mischievous inquest rather than the desired complicity. being straightforward is a simpler and safer strategy.

† such programming is indicative of coercive business processes, which typically extends to communication with customers to avoid liability due to that coerciveness
Possibly, but I think albums are only significant due to the historical medium of music requiring grouping songs together on various disks. Once it’s digital, I don’t see the importance of grouping certain songs together, outside of certain categories like movie soundtracks.

I guess some albums could tell some story about what the musician was feeling at some time, but that probably doesn’t apply for a lot of music if not most. Certainly not the music I listen to, release it one at a time or all together, makes no difference to me.
I'm sorry, I didn't know that being a racist was a protected class now.
The graph is in the link above. The revenue shift is constantly moving away from sites where Google shares revenue with other sites, such as news publishers, and increasing on Google's own properties, which do not get shared with news publishers.

This explains why journalism is running out of money while Google is worth over a trillion. By lifting their content and keeping users (and ad views) directly on Google, Google profits at content producers' expense.

Re: "originally", I was probably wrong there. DoubleClick in 2008 was where Google absorbed this side of the ad business, I believe. But it was the side that was fundamental to journalism.

There was a time when Google could argue it's ad platforms was sponsoring the free web and all, but that's increasingly no longer the case.
This is very true. One of the first artists I noticed doing this was a rapper, Curren$y. All the mixtapes were free on Datpiff.com (major throwback) and the tours / Merch were the $$$ makers.

This also allowed artists to go fully independent and keep all their profits.

Added into the mix now are independent vinyl / cd / tape makers who the artists partner with on Physical music releases. Yes, physicals are back in a major way thanks to platforms like Bandcamp.

*edited for a grammatical change.
Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem