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> “how small a dent it seems to make in the discourse, and in the world as a result”

I used to think this. But now I think: maybe the ‘dent’ I’ve been looking for is essentially just excitement and hype, which isn’t change. The narrative that change happens through the mass public getting angry, forcing politicians to respond, is overblown at best. I think the boring truth is that nearly all progress in this area (and there is progress) happens through countless bureaucrats diligently working for years on court cases and regulation changes to make it harder for people to get away with this stuff. For such bureaucrats, a leak like this is going to be relevant and valuable for years, long after the media has moved on. The people implicated in the leak didn’t want the leak to happen, and there’s a reason. Sure, most are probably too powerful to get prosecuted and put in jail, but it does curb their options for future shenanigans, and they will probably lose some money. Sanctions do work. I think it’s probably always been this way too – the exciting, romantic parts of history (marches, revolutions) are the exception, we just pay more attention to them.
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Job Posting: https://jobs.lever.co/FeedMedia/ccedd776-f862-45d1-b57f-fdba3065f43a

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Salary: Budget is over the 100K mark, waiting to hear back from the company on confirmation of that.

Client Notes: Really neat business model, and a team of people that actually give a shit about each other and contributing to the product. Definitely would like to work with people interested in music, and are part of other communities and advocacy. If you're interested, I suggest checking out the founder's posts on Linkedin, to get a sense of the team.

Notes: I am a recruiting consultant that is working with the client, I don't think this breaks any posting rules but happy to change/remove if so! If you apply, please DM so I can let the client know. I'm not commission-based, and the team I work with is focused on culture fit, and D&I. I'm actually in love with our team, it's great to work with people that want to kill the bad name of 'recruiter'. Happy to answer any questions.
Looks like SpotML is a fork of https://github.com/nimbo-sh/nimbo and https://spotty.cloud/

This is a hustle to gauge interest (and collect emails) in a service that is a clone of nimbo.
Have they produced any breakthroughs?
Look no further than Australia. Life is good. That is all.
A human is irrational and wildly unpredictable, but groups of people (like most animals) are more easily predicted. While it's difficult to predict a specific stock, it's easier to predict trends given global situations, within a certain time frame, with enough information. The main problem becomes having access to such information. So much of the economy is global now, and behind closed doors, that information is unavailable or at a premium.
Why does this guy seem to think live concerts and musicals are the yard stick of sound quality?

Standing front-row at a stadium concert, a festival tent or a local live-house isn't exactly great sounding audio. It's an experience, yes, but there's a reason people tend to buy studio recordings over live recordings.

Reading the rest of this blog post makes me want to cancel my apple music subscription.
Most cultures have a wide variety of opinions. If someone wants to wear clothing associated with another culture, should they listen to the people saying "no, that's just for us", or the ones saying "we like seeing our ideas spread", or "of course, I'm happy to sell you this hat that I made in the traditional style"? In my experience, there will always be voices across that entire spectrum. If one always listens to the most restrictive ones, then it just makes everyone more isolated in their own bubbles.

I do think there are some areas where most people can agree that use of another culture's artifacts is in poor taste and not generally acceptable. A very specific example would be that members of a culture that conquered another culture shouldn't wear clothing or jewelry that was looted from the conquered people. I think most people would agree that that crosses a line. Same for costumes that trivialize or mock another culture, like children playing cowboys and "Indians" in the 20th century, or minstrel shows. But outside of that core, I think it turns into a grey area very quickly.

It's a really tough problem to find a good answer to, and IMO it's impossible to find one that makes everyone happy because of that diversity of opinions in nearly every culture.
They mentioned in a separate comment that it was part of the briefings, so that seems unlikely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28738326
Apple's doing very impressing stuff with audio, and it's interesting to see just how strategically strong Apple is (when you realize the link between Dolby and Spacial Audio, and the future Apple VR/AR headsets). But I still switched back to Spotify a week ago because there's appwide back and forward buttons, you can subscribe to song stations and they're refreshed often, better music discovery (there's no daily mixes or discover weekly on Apple Music), Spotify Connect, much better playlist management (not forced-alphabetical sorting, visible song recommendations within playlists as opposed to an opaque "infinity play" thing.

I love music and I've been using Spotify since ~2010, then Apple Music since 2018, and I'd almost stopped listening to music after a few years using Apple Music exclusively. I prefer playing back on my Mac, and controlling playback on my phone. The worse music discovery and orders-of-magnitude lesser amount of shared public playlists on Apple Music (on Spotify, your playlists are public by default, on Apple Music they're private; I liked adding total strangers' playlists and discovering music that way) made it so that on Apple Music, I oftened just kept listening to the same music over and over again, until eventually I played music only an hour or two per month. After switching back to Spotify I'm finally enjoying music again, and listening every day. All because Apple couldn't get the basics right.

Corporate strategy that's well coordinated from the top is an immensely powerful thing, but Apple's execution has been extremely lacking in some areas. They don't have the best Email, don't have the best productivity suite except for Keynote, don't have the best books app/store (can't sync book & audiobook like on Kindle), don't have the best Maps, don't have the best movie streaming service (despite Foundation & Stewart's great show), don't have the best browser, all their webapps are very poor; and on and on. That's all a culture issue.

Spotify doesn't have lyrics, or Hi-Fi (yet, and will likely have to make it a paid upgrade) because Spotify's literally can't afford lyrics and other stuff right now. Yet they still execute better, on the basic user experience, than Apple. Strategy is vastly overrated when you don't execute well (anymore).
I'm a west African who's frequently bemused by the small but very strident minority of African-Americans who get to decide who's "black enough" or not black enough or who gets to appropriate what culture. The whole notion is ridiculous to me. Rappers name themselves after mafiosi, italian handbags and swiss luxury watches. We all wear western style clothes and speak European languages, not to mention writing in Arabic numerals, worshipping middle eastern deities and what not. On the other side I'm always annoyed when I see snarky comments from cultural snobs on youtube when some new classical musician from Asia comes up about how they can't possibly really understand the music because they're not European enough and it's not 'their' music.
Journalists got killed over reporting about and investigating the Panama Papers?

I guess you are referring to Daphne Caruana Galizia. That would still be singular, though.
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That wasn't the question, or intent. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

The idea is to knock out as many credits as possible through examination. Not the full degree.
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Personally, I always love the "50% chance of rain" forecast as it perfectly describes that they have no idea if its going to rain or not, but yet sounds so scientific and official.
whoops, my bad. For some reason I thought you were talking about "capital gains [taxes]".
I can tell you the University of Minnesota doesn't.
I prefer SNES DKC series over DK64. Speaking as someone that picked up the green DK64 N64 set.

DKC is great 2D platforming. DK64 was comprised of random minigames and unfortunately was not anywhere near the greatness of other 3D platforming games (Super Mario 64). If I wanted minigames, I'd play N64 Mario Party.
I suspect the "Atmos" name is being used beyond the context of object-based (i.e. video game like) audio. At least on my Android phone, it just sounds like a bit of EQ and some cross-stereo mixing.
1. That amount of wealth is highly abstract and hard to get worked up about.
2. It's not blasting you in the face every day on twitter/facebook.
3. The useful idiot class (most peeps that respond on sites like this) always just talk about OmG WhY DoNt OthEr PeoPle Do StUfF???!?!?!
A Stanford grad enters Harvard Business School after a year of “working” in Silicon Valley. After HBS, she joins an SV VC firm, never makes partner or does her own deals, but hangs on long enough to credibly assert a career in “venture capital” to those in mature industries who don’t know how to vet such a career. Excellent social skills with a unique ability to convey agreeability: a yes girl with flair. On two major boards.
Why did you bring up recordings of live events? The comparison is with actually being there live in person.
The better comparison would be the 16" MBP and those look to be within about 1lb of each other. If your not going to be using the GPU heavily then you can just use a standard usb-c charger with should be similar in size to the MBP.
I haven't really encountered DLL hell in Windows for the last 15 years or so. Most apps simply bundle all their dependencies locally and don't install them system wide.
> Almost all of the modern high-end “audiophile” gear runs Linux under the covers.

Citation needed. A lot of high end audio stuff uses vacuum tubes, and I’m pretty sure they aren’t running Linux.
Similarly, if it’s “3rd & GOAL”, how much farther is there to go? Nine and a half yards? Three inches?
> I'm not sure what you intended with this, but it's a really good empirical question.

It's an honest question, and I am genuinely curious of the numbers in these revelations. How much bigger the real number is we can only guess.

> Hell, an extra fifty dollars a month in the developed world would make a massive difference for millions who struggle.

Sure, but that assumes such a system is possible, and that it is desirable. I'm doubtful on both.
>Everyone invests it in Stocks. Everyone saves.

Well, this wouldn't cause any inflation at all. It's basically just dead money. Either you own a stock or you save money in your bank account because someone bought your overpriced stock.

>Everyone invests in assets to start their own businesses.

This will cause inflation over the short term if there isn't enough labor available to do all investments. Interest rates would rise to encourage people to save their money.

There is also another form of inflation. There is enough labor available but the investment fails. You borrow $100 but only repay $80 (inflation adjusted of course). There is more money without enough production to back it up.
I've been trying to think for a while, why the downvotes, and one thing definitely comes to my mind: For many people, the idea of Hunter S. Thompson is this drug-fueled lunatic acted by Johnny Depp. That this is all he is; leaving behind the amazing amount of writing about American society and politics.

Las Vegas is a tiny book. It's a great book, a story about excess and the American dream. And the movie is the dialog word-for-word, but it adds nothing to the legacy of Hunter S. Thompson. It's Depp getting famous by riding the fame of Hunter. And it is generally thought as a movie about taking drugs and doing crazy things. And, I might be wrong here, but this is how I see it after many of my schoolmates watched it and were quoting the scenes.

And I like the movie. I love his writing. And I think Terry Gilliam was the right director to do this movie. I still kind of want to reject this idea of this movie to be the first thing people think when they talk about Hunter. He was so much more.
> If everyone is am imposter, no one is!

- Syndrome
The article has every right to be this good: the writer is John Teti, who used to be editor in chief of the AV Club (and hosted its short-lived tv show). If you've never read his football column Block and Tackle, it's great: and I haven't followed football since the mid-90s! https://www.avclub.com/tv/sports
Note that REvil is the group behind the Colonial Pipeline hack that took down gas supplies down the eastern seaboard earlier this year. They were taken offline by (presumably) the U.S. intelligence services shortly after that hack.

It's interesting that a.) they're back and b.) a secret backdoor that allows REvil to override their affiliates and restore access themselves is found shortly afterwards. Particularly since REvil, in the immediate aftermath of Colonial Pipeline, before they were shut down, sent out a message to their affiliates forbidding any attacks on governments or critical infrastructure. An alternative explanation is that they cut a deal with the CIA where they are allowed to continue to operate in exchange for instituting a backdoor and handing over the keys to major Western governments, such that if they hit any "politically embarrassing" targets, the government can override the affiliate and restore operations.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. It's often smarter to co-opt an adversary than it is to shut them down entirely.
No, I’m suggesting that the authors of the applications are responsible for patching and distributing their own application like on every other major OS.
Depends on what the people do with it. In Pakistan, the ruling prime minister was deposed due the investigations initiated by the panama papers, and the new prime minister who came in after him, stuck to his anti-corruption narrative by getting rid of people in his cabinet who were proven corrupt.
Cris Collinsworth, yes it’s spelled Cris, makes me want to rend my ears from my skull. Collinsworth and Al Michaels is like some kind of perfectly seasoned stew of stupidity worthy of Idiocracy. Listening to the two of them I can’t help but constantly think of the NFL as bread and circuses meant to placate a mentally degraded populace.
> Typing code on a phone sounds awful.

For sure. But I’ve heard of people who literally don’t have money for a computer and who so started coding on their phone.
Like on every other major OS the publisher of those applications. And I mean they should be distributing the applications as well. Not the OS publishers.
I mean technically that says that your site won't appear in search results, not that your site won't be used to profile people, determine other site ratings based on your site's content etc.

they won't show your site's content, but that doesn't mean they won't use your site's content.
Oh, I know that. My point is that, contrary to what the comment I was responding to said, rich people in western world will not be moving anywhere. Rich Africans will indeed try to move to Europe/North America, but they already do, and would do so even without global warming happening.
Describing a few round rocks as a "mysterious stone orb" seems a bit dramatic.
Oh that does look interesting actually. Loses a couple of nerd points (and I guess probably adds some boot time and latency) due to being Linux-based and not bare metal. But it does look versatile and cheap (although the kit still seems a bit pricey).

Edit: Oh, fancy seeing you here. Hi!
I don't think that's as big a problem for white-collar workers as it is for blue-collar. Processing paperwork, managing a team, calculating risk, these are all things that readily translate to new fields, as opposed to something like mining or carpentry. I have zero concerns that someone losing their job in insurance would struggle to find work.
An interesting theme unmentioned so far here appears in Fire.., Children… & (somewhat) in Deepness…: technology progress and it’s possible acceleration depending on the information you have. Level of civilization tech has fallen (or never existed). People a) recall that some tech worked OR b) Know specific choices are right ones OR c) Have a computer (or at least a book)with detailed instructions. Now: is it possible to rebuild tech? If so, which paths and what’s quickest way? Often one needs to build a chain of techs first.
For example, as a thought experiment, a time machine can send back a VLSI design textbook (which makes clear that planar CMOS wins). If that’s to 1947, diverts from building big vacuum tube computers into pushing to VLSI as fast as possible. But if sent to 1900? Likewise, complete design for iPhone sent to 1990 doesn’t help much.
An entire generation after the 401(k) was born, more than five million employers in the United States still don’t offer this to their employees.

The other problem is that when companies do offer 401k plans to employees, a sizable number (20-25%) don't take advantage of them, even when employer matching contributions are offered. At my spouse's former workplace, many people had no concept of how the accounts worked, what they should invest in, or the tax penalties associated with withdrawing early.

In a way, it's hard to blame them. Lots of acronyms and unfamiliar terms, confusing investment choices, and tax rules that were designed by bureaucrats, lawyers, and lobbyists. By comparison, Social Security is relatively easy to figure out - part of your paycheck goes into a big pot, and when you reach a certain age you get a small pension for life.
No amount of audio improvements are going to make me use a platform that scans my nudes and progressively invades my privacy.
The assumption is that the population is finite as well. I don't know how things are going to end.
We know the rules of physics and math. We can make predictions using those rules and express them as well defined terms. Physics and math are not a black box.

The inputs of "the economy" are not even well defined. We measure SOME of the inputs and cannot predict the outputs like recession. Sounds like the economy is a black box.
> RAII handles are nice.

If that's all you want, its not hard to write your own RAII wrapper for things anyway.
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That's not correct. Corporations, particularly in the limited-liability sense of the term, are created by society, not people. The laws of a jurisdiction provide a carve-out for a fictional entity that gets special rules to protect the people who act as its brain. But that's different from those people creating it.

And to this end, the only reason to create a corporation is to make society better. If they're not, we have the ability to revoke their charters, and we should use that more.
My mistake! Have a pleasant day :)
In all honesty, that's the suitor they are toying with, isn't it? As long as they can squeeze some more profit out of the common people, there's no reason not to do it. (Just see how Amazon treats it's workers.) It's only when people are on the barricades that they will relent.
Predicting 50% can be validated: if I say a coin will be heads 50% of the time, I know more than nothing: I know more than someone who incorrectly claims it will be heads 75% of the time.

And we can quantify in various ways how much better the 50% prediction is than the 75% prediction.
Well, if you had AI that really was intelligent, it would be cool to have AI agents figure out your repetitive tasks as well as the structure of data in some giant IT app, and then turn this into a better, streamlined and automatable/automated App. The only problem is that AI is nowhere near that now and plausibly won't be there for a while.
As others have already mentioned elsewhere, DLL hell hasn't really been a thing anymore on Windows for years. I personally can remember it, but that's more than 15 years ago.
I have mild tinnitus. Most of the time I don't notice it. It becomes wildly apparent when I'm wearing in-ear headphones. I've always assumed this was because outside sounds are blocked by in-ear headphones and I get to "hear" my tinnitus more effectively. I get the same effect walking down the "foam" aisle at a local fabric store where ambient sounds are dampened. (That aisle is spooky, makes my entire head feel strange, and I avoid it religiously now.)

The worst part is that the awareness of my tinnitus persists for hours or even days afterward. I keep hearing it even after the earphones are removed. A few minutes of in-ear headphones and I have at least hours of awareness of my tinnitus.

I like being able to listen at lower volumes with in-ear headphones but I can't stand being aware of my tinnitus. I end up listening to earbuds or over-ear headphones at higher volumes than I would for the in-ear versions.

With that all said, these bone conduction earphones sound interesting. Do they allow you listen at volume levels comparable to the sealing-type in-ear headphones? I understand that in an environment with loud ambient sound increasing the volume would likely be necessary, but I'm wondering if the "bone conduction" does a better job cutting thru ambient noise.

Does anybody else have a similar situation with tinnitus as I've described here? If so, how do you cope with it?
>It's Depp getting famous by riding the fame of Hunter.

Depp was already more famous than Thompson when the movie was made, not that that counts for much.
> I'm really suspicious about whether this would really work out in most workloads.

What kinds of workloads are those? Workloads where the Bloom filter itself fits in cache?

> On modern architectures, it's the random memory reference that kills performance

Yeah, the whole point of the article is that moving from a traditional Bloom filter to a block Bloom filter is to improve from N random accesses per query/update to 1 random access per query/update.

> Ultimately it depends on cache pressure and how over-subscribed the cache is

The unspoken assumption in the article is that the Bloom filter is much bigger than cache.

If your Bloom filter fits in cache, or you're writing for something with superfast RAM like a GPU or a Xeon Phi or something, block Bloom filters are wasteful for you.

But I'm pretty sure the common case is writing normal applications running on reasonable general-purpose CPU's with Bloom filter sizes in the hundreds of MB or more. [1] [2]

[1] If the Bloom filter's smaller than hundreds of MB, your data's probably small enough that you decide Bloom filters aren't worth the hassle and just use a HashMap or language equivalent.

[2] If you're using a Bloom filter to do some sort of network stuff, like figuring out the set difference of two peers' objects in some p2p protocol, you probably don't care too much about block Bloom filters, because in this application memory access time is probably going to be dominated by network latency.
Lawvere theories have been around since the 1960s, so a lot older than 20 years.
"leading journalist will be killed"? Who? Panama papers did the round for weeks/months in the media around the world.