skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems like an apples-to-oranges comparison. Apple makes (or at least used to make) their own IEMs, which are more directly comparable to Shure. They were also pretty good, and competively priced. But they weren't at all the same kind of products as a set of wireless noise canceling over-the-ear cans.
The real question is, moving forward, if somebody submits a proposal, properly tested, described and discussed with the community that makes a fundamental or deeper change whether that is likely to be accepted or not.

The bazaar certainly exists for the Linux kernel insomuch that this can and does happen (partly as a result of the fact many companies contribute but none control it). For go it does not, for chromium it does not seem to either.

It is tough for a company with internal aims and pressure to adhere to that kind of model for sure.

And it is good you have been honest about your approach prior to this in that no contributions were taken but now it is a matter of whether or not a non Googler has the opportunity to make such a change, in accordance with your policies.

But obviously as a hobbyist with limited free time I am understandably cautious as to where I put my effort.

Honestly on a personal level it is probably no loss on fuschia's part, I am a minor contributor at best, but the general point stands.
I'm curious how much content these artists produce on the platforms. That is, what percent of the content on the platform is produced by these artists rather than simply how many artists there are.

I thought this was a more interesting takeaway from the article--

> 92 per cent of respondents said that less than five per cent of their earnings came from streaming last year
I built NN to predict stock prices with free behavioral data from Robinhood
I have friends that love pottery, knitting, photography, painting, and a million other creative pursuits. But they also have day jobs because it's difficult to make money in the arts unless you have millions of fans.

With any other job we would say, "well, if you're only making £200 a year, maybe you should get a better-paying job." I'm not sure why this is different.
I feel like GitHub has been taking a direction of a "social network for developers" for a while now, so that description is probably accurate.
No, because instead of setting your network to give out your DNs server to all of your devices, it’s ignored by the apps

Instead of setting your devices to use a dns server of your choice it’s ignored by the apps

Some apps allow you to configure them, so now you’re configuring 200 apps on 20 devices rather than just one dhcp setting.

(Oh and OSs have generally broken hosts files)
It has been this way for a long time, including selling albums. Musicians and singers make money by performing. The real money is made by song writers.
Why not? Everyone else's tools make their way onto Gitzhub eventually.
The "Off-Facebook Activity" page is reasonably new however the data it shows goes back years, suggesting the data collection itself has been going on for a long time and Facebook has now become generous enough to let you know about it.

There's reason to believe even more data is being collected & processed behind the scenes but they don't tell you (yet?).
> all Apple products are assumed to be good

I don't think I said that, just that their recent track record favors them. The M1 and the new iPhone 11 were very warmly received.
$800 would be outrageous to pay for an iPhone 4. For an iPhone 12? I'm not sure it's so ridiculous.

I've had my current iPhone for 4 years. If I buy one $20 bag of coffee beans a month, then I've spent more for coffee in the last 4 years than I have on my phone. Seems like a good deal to me?
Thank you for the well wishes.

While much Xmas themed stuff doesn't really apply to Australia, thankfully at the moment neither does COVID! So we're pretty well off even before we get to Xmas fun.

Enjoy your hot turkey in the colder north! Best wishes for staying safe, well and having a great time with family and friends!
This sort of cloning effort tend to live in contractual grey areas. Would that community (of people who got together to avoid paying for licenses) be ready to pay to defend developers from expensive lawsuits filed by one of the wealthiest corporates on the planet? Or rather, would developers in charge of such projects believe that? An acqui-hire with fuck-you money on one side, vs years of pain and likely bankruptcy - it’s not really a choice, is it?
CASP14: What Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 achieved and what it means
This story could be expressed in a very different way.

“Top school working to exterminate post-birth minorities.”

I’m going to burn for this comment, but if BL actually M, then let’s not encourage genocidal policies.
Accessibility software absolutely could read text from SVGs embedded using img tags. Just because none do so yet doesn't mean that it can't or won't be done.
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I was going to say, that isn't genetic, but then realized it kind of is. Maybe saying family lottery might be more accurate.
Not a professional musician, but I have some friends with some success in the industry.

I don't think any professional popular musicians expect to make money from streaming. They seem to make their money from (pre-COVID) performances or from "sync deals," which is basically when you license music for an ad/show/movie/etc.
AT&T's HBO Max is the 'worst streaming service' – director Christopher Nolan
The headphones have a lightning port (just like iPhones). This cable is to connect the headphones to a 3.5mm port (ie MacBook).
Is it similar to the german tank problem?
Sorry for the late reply, I lost track of my comment. Serious VR applications are around for quite some time now. There is a pretty huge research body on VR, usability in VR etc. Recent consumer VR makes it certainly more accessible but the already existing body of VR research is still applicable. IMO it's simply not a new frontier that game designers are necessarily the best experts in. Especially when you consider under which constraints games are developed.
>You don't buy "one" Apple product which "just works".

>You have to buy everything from the ecosystem.

Agreed with the first, heavily disagreed with the second. People often end up buying into the Apple ecosystem after just one product, but not because they have to, but because they feel compelled to.

That was me with original airpods. They worked superbly with android, no complaints whatsoever. So I was like "huh, let me check out their other newer product offerings, it's been quite a while". Eventually, i ended up buying heavily into the ecosystem, and couldn't be happier (sidenote: shared clipboard between your phone and laptop/desktop is amazing).

In fact, I think the timing and everything about original airpods was a stroke of genius. I single-handedly know quite a few people who couldn't care less about Apple ecosystem at all and owned zero Apple devices, but they eventually gave in to try airpods, bought them, and a few years down the road ended up buying an iPhone or a Mac. Some of them were even very staunch pro-android people.
Why don't the musicians get together and make their own streaming service where they get more of the revenue?
That number should go down (a little) with Apple's Small Business Program and the reduced commission rate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25135410
Except how hard is it to learn to code, write a actual app, pay money up front to even get in the exclusive store and have your stuff vetted, versus just record and upload an mp3 to some music service.

The distribution might be much worse in music land than in commercial software repositories.

(Edit: changed "spotify" to "some music service" because apparently it's not so easy to upload to spotify as an independent artist. It was more about the general idea.)

Edit 2: y'all are making a good point about making music not being easy either (I did underrepresent that), but there is no point posting the same reply five times. The subthread where I replied to that is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25352484
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Report[1] produced by Conflict Armament Research[2]. Relevant info is on page 29.

This investment in indigenous development really puts in perspective the long-term ambitions of IS. Are there other instances of non-state actors pursuing arms development like this?

[1]: https://www.conflictarm.com/download-file/?report_id=3354&fi...

[2]: https://www.conflictarm.com/about-us/
It just means all the exploits are for vulnerabilities that have been published already.
Doubling rate based on percentage. Roughly: 72 / percentage = years to double. An investment returning 1%/year will double after 72, 6% will double after 12. And for debts, illustrates for people who aren't good with money why that 20% (or worse) CC rate is so bad.
Amazon isn’t a traditional retailer and has unique contracts with USPS including Sunday delivery.
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> But mostly I just love the name. Apparently PNAS had them change it for the final publication, sadly.

Big game from an organization with that acronym.
I'm not confused at all about that. I was responding to the point that said "it's a change that has strictly technical motives." It's a business decision that's based on profit and positioning and name mind-share, so let's not hide that.
I'd like to see, in turn, how much the average musician makes a year from Bandcamp sales.
The most common thing I'd want to do with location information is display it on a map. For instance, I'd love to use this to help coordinate meeting up with someone, so that we could each see each other on a map. I'd also like the client-encrypted private historical record for a variety of purposes; everything from "what path did we walk on that romantic evening?" to the mundane "where did we park?" or "where did I leave my phone?". All of those need map integration, and that map integration needs to not compromise the privacy properties of the location service. That would be well worth paying for.

The issue is that I wouldn't want to use a separate mapping application for that. I don't want to use Google Maps for directions/navigation/restaurants/etc, and a separate app for location sharing. I also don't want Google Maps to have my location information/history. I'd pay for an all-encompassing map service with this feature, and privacy would motivate me to happily pay for that even though Google Maps is "free".

But I can't honestly say I'd pay for just the location feature if I still have to use a different (and non-privacy-preserving) mapping service for everything else. If I can have a single "Maps" application on my device, and that application preserves privacy, I'd love to pay for that; if that app also has location sharing, that's even better.

Messaging or Signal integration would be for the same kind of "meet up" purpose: send someone a link that gives them time-bounded access to a subset of location information (most commonly live information about current location).
In the '90s McGehee claimed that he was being harassed in Herdon, Va. where he lived, in part due to his CIABASE database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_McGehee#Controversies

http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/protect.html
Of course not. But America's sad history of accusing Black people of crimes or actions they didn't commit means we must be extra careful when making accusations.

In this particular case, the surrounding white suburbs actually voted in larger percentages for Biden vs last time. The primarily Black urban areas voted similarly as they did last election and the one before.

But those white suburbs are not being accused of cheating.
I appreciate you commenting.

I think people would panic less if the CentOS Linux cancellation were announced at the same time as these upcoming announcements. Without them, there's a lot of uncertainty and it's hard for anyone depending on CentOS 8 to plan.
It depends on what you call ‘effortlessly’.

And, technically, GCs collect non-garbage, and throw away what remains. They don’t care whether what they throw away contains cycles or not, but have to take care that they don’t keep running in circles when they follow links between objects while collecting the non-garbage.
This is one reason why I still buy CDs. I know that a far bigger proportion of my money will be going to my favorite artists.
The risk of rape or other non consensual act or blackmail in kinky sex is not low. Most aint gonna call cops and people know it.
And a ton of books through publishers probably earn in the four figures range. (Independently published probably less on average.)

It's really hard to earn a good living directly based on anything along these lines.
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I have a different take on this. I'm an apple machine user. I work on an iMac Pro everyday and have used mac/ios for over a decade. But i've also extensively used Android, Windows, Linux etc extensively.

From what I've experienced it is true that when using apple with apple, it just works. that is true and i won't dispute that. they own the ecosystem so they can handle the integration well, obiously. But the opposite is also true. When using apple with non apple, it (sometimes) just doesn't work or works poorly. When i use the same device on Windows or Android (linux is a different beast), it just works when it won't with iOS or Mac. and sometimes i just want to use a brand thats not apple...

I think for many apple users these days, they believe that Android/Windows still have the problems they faced back in 2009 and havent extensively used either since switching.

Android pairs newer bluetooth devices essentially the same way apple pairs airpods now and windows doesnt still have all the issues from windows vista that made them switch in the first place and has support for way more devices than apple ever will.

I'm not trying to make the point that one is better than the other, my point for apple users is that the experience on windows/android isn't as bad as they think it is and my point for windows/android users is that you're not missing out on much or anything at all from the apple ecosystem.

Buy devices that fit your use case and budget. its as simple as that.
I read things like this but most indie bands I listen to heavily promote themselves on streaming services. One of my favorite artists actually releases music on Spotify before anywhere else.

As always, most of their money comes from gigs and merch. Streaming is advertising more than it is an income source.
Huge target on their back no matter what. Like those movies where the tough guy is tested when he gets to prison.

This is where it does not pay to be a public company. If they weren't a public company they wouldn't have to disclose this or acknowledge it and there most likely would not be a credibility damaging story which is easy to find. Sure the story could have gotten out but it would not be easy findable and would not be broadcast widely. An event like this makes major papers and nightly news.

Read that again. There is nothing that says you need to air your dirty laundry. That's not a business or legal principal (other than whatever the public company requirements might be and I am not even 100% certain this was needed but I don't know).

Also as others have pointed out indicating that it was a state sponsored actor is to me (for lack of an elegant way to put it) is 'chicken shit'. Why say that? Why not just say you were attacked and going to try and determine why and make any changes. All it does it sound like an excuse and further to say 'well others are not attacked like this and we can protect against them fine' doesn't fly.
You can't even pay money up front to upload to spotify, you have to get a paid subscription to a service last time I checked.
but that would effectively limit Uber to a smaller, pre-Uber sized market. Which would probably be news to investors.
While I think Russ is brilliant and deeply qualified for that role, his BDFL position differs considerably from that of e.g. Guido (well pre resignation) or Linus in that he is considerably more 'D' than either of them.

And probably that works well for go and keeps a very clear philosophy and style for the language. It is just the fact they very blatantly misled the community on the scope of possible contributions that frustrates me.

Fuschia does, in all fairness, appear to be considerably more honest on these issues.
SpaceX stream is live! T minus 3 minutes right now.
I used to make $100 a day singing on the subway in NYC. Live and in person is the way to go.
I think lot of Apple hate comes from not being able to afford it at some point in their lives and having seen others enjoying it. How else can we explain the hate, actual hate towards Apple. It can be argued well that Apple's products are among the most reliable of consumer electronics, and are user friendly.
I guess they're not Apple or Google with instant access to a huge number of users. Bandcamp is a place where, as far as I know, it's very artist-oriented, but how many people use that compared to the established services?

The network effect is a bitch, is what I assume the problem is here.
This was a very unconvincing argument.

1. Apple's analogy with nutrition labels was strictly how transparency is a good thing. The food pyramid add-on analogy felt like a straw man argument.

2. The Apple video of someone broadcasting their information to others isn't misinformation. It seems inevitable that these systems will eventually be compromised or exploited. Facebook has gotten in trouble with this a couple times through exploits and people misusing app permissions to capture data.

3. The article honestly read like shilling. They didn't engage the strongest arguments against their position. They made it sound like people's issue with unlimited data collection is strictly due to their misunderstanding of how Facebook does targeted advertising. They even employed a "think of the children" style argument.
Very off-topic but:

> cotton tipped swabs (that’s the generic term for Q-tip)

Pretty sure it's actually "cotton buds". That's what they are called outside America.
The transition from walk to run occurs at about 13 minutes per mile. A 10km run in 1:20 is about 12 minutes 52 seconds per mile, which is extremely slow. This better be a recovery run or something, it’s barely enough to lift an average person out of a Zone 1 heart rate.
I think this was the idea behind tidal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_(service)
I think we should still give them credit for being the most open among their peers. MacOS, iOS, Safari and Windows are not open source at all. Edge is of course just another Chromium based browser.
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I spent 2018-2019 making a puzzle game in my spare time. Revenue model was opt-in ads. Released for iOS and Android. Didn't do a ton of marketing, but that's okay, it was just a little passion project that I hoped might gain some traction.

Got up to around 70 installs peak, made $6 my first year on Android, and $14 my first year on iOS. Which is to say I made -$80 total since I had to pay $100 to publish in Apple's App Store. I cancelled the iOS app since it wasn't making enough to pay the annual $100 fee, but the Android one is still up[0] and makes ~$1 every couple of months.

Now I'm just waiting for a twitch streamer to pick it up and turn me into an overnight millionaire like "Among Us"!

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.umvirate.e...
Out of topic, but could you suggest a good resource for papers? I am interested in software mostly
Larger than the number that earns less than 200 quid?
There is no threshold that makes people non-infectious. Or there is, and it is zero. Because even a single virus instance can potentially infect someone else. It is extremely unlikely to happen, but not impossible.

Because of this, for practical purposes, you either have to arbitrarily set a threshold at which someone is considered non-infectious, ignoring that it is not impossible for that person to infect someone. Or you have to stop talking in absolutes entirely and just talk about probabilities.
UK radio station censured over Covid conspiracy theories
*Kreps, not Krebs
This is actually a pretty fair point I hadn't considered.
There’s no “just” in “just record”: this comment either overestimates the difficulty of learning to program or underestimates the difficulty of music production
I found the Power of Prolog videos[0] easier for me to grasp than, say, The Reasoned Schemer. Prolog is somewhat Lispy in its extensive use of lists.

[0]: https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/videos/
I've never been able to develop and intuitive understanding of what sort of phenomenon should obey a Pareto distribution, as opposed to a normal or logarithmic one (which I do feel I understand.) Any nuggets of insight here on HN?
I still secretly have this dream and I am almost 30.
I still have nightmares about the Ceti Eel scene in Wrath of Khan; your ability to hold out for an hour is admirable.

https://youtu.be/3i42Smtbmeg
Isn't that just a truism of the Pareto principle? Is there any field where that's not the case? 20% of lawyers make 80% of the money. 20% of doctors make 80% of the money. etc etc.

The difference I think is if 80% of professional musicians can't make a living & it's not clear that's actually the case (i.e. streaming isn't the only source of revenue). Similarly, music may have a higher "stickiness" for tenacity where people see it as a higher calling for them even if they're not making money (vs someone not cutting it as a lawyer/doctor to even pay the bills is going to quit & find something else if they weren't even weeded out during school).
Why impersonate Fireeye even? Just start a legitimate company, gain customers and then use that as a basis to gather what you need. The employees wouldn't know this they'd think they are working for a legitimate company. The bad actors who set it up would just have access to whatever they needed to do what they needed to do. This would take years of work to pull off but could be done.
If we want artists to earn more where do we think that money is going to come from?

People aren't going to be willing to double their streaming bill - just not going to happen.
"A Philosophy of Software Design" by John Ousterhout - a recent find and probably the best book on programme design I've ever read. Author is an experienced programmer and Computer Science professor at Stanford.