skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I can observe, albeit in my own little bubble, that current pop songs that have that staying power tend to be those that sound "old"; think Dua Lipa, The Weeknd, and Bruno Mars with their 80s sounding hits (although Bruno Mars can sound anywhere from the 70s to early 2000s).

I personally like the effects of this trend, specifically the rediscovery of forgotten artists like the band Fanny[0], which arguably can be considered as the first major label all-female rock group. They already faded into obscurity but became popular again when one[1] of their old live recordings became viral.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_(band)
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZUqkPlUaQ
I'm surprised to see this getting upvoted. I find it rather unconvicing. There are many problems with it.

> The current list of most downloaded tracks on iTunes is filled with the names of bands from the last century, such as Creedence Clearwater and The Police.

Well yeah, younger generations, who are much more likely to listen to newer music, have moved on to streaming, for the most part.

> Just consider these facts: the 200 most popular tracks now account for less than 5% of total streams.

It's easier then ever for people to find different music to listen to now. Not everyone listens to the same hits anymore. It doesn't mean people are listening to less new music. Their listening is likely just more distributed across more new music.

> Just consider the recent reaction when the Grammy Awards were postponed. Perhaps I should say the lack of reaction—because the response was little more than a yawn.

As the article showed, people don't watch the Grammy's anymore. This doesn't mean people don't listen to new music anymore. People look more towards things like The Needle Drop[0] or streaming playlists then the Grammy's for music recommendations. Honestly, the Needle Drop's channel growth alone, should be enough to show that new music isn't going anywhere.

Overall, the vast majority of the points here can be attributed to the lower barrier to entry of making music, and to the new ease at which people can find the niche they like in new music.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/theneedledrop
That was quick. I'm very impressed with your work.
This is so cool!

Does it send notifications to the consumers of a particular service once there is a change in the APi spec?
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That's good news. Are you guys implementing the export feature right so we can export at any time, or only when the app is gonna be shut down?
Thanks for the answers. I think I realize that there is a difference between a todo list (have to do it) and a knowledge base (let’s organize what I’ve learned).

The former I also do with org-mode and then use the archiving feature for things I put to DONE.

I oftentimes do the latter, but don’t actually use it that often. In college, I used to summarize text-books, which helped me memorize my learnings. After finishing the book, by chapter summary served as a shorter version of the book. Was quite effective.

Haven’t been successful in replicating this for work, though.
That's what it comes down to, what is the law (reguardless of any ethics/morals).
For some reason the leash laws are never enforced tho...
Seems that could add up to large fines in the same way.

Sadly the courts actually ruled the police have no duty to uphold the law, they literaly get to choose if and when they intervene. including murders, rape, home invasion, etc. and won't face repercussion for looking the other way.
It's been a while since I worked there, but the trend at Google at the time was that the amount of code written in each popular language was rapidly growing, and the number of popular languages was also slowly growing. (Despite a lot of resistance to introducing new languages.)

I'm out of touch, but I would expect that there is a lot more Go code by now, and it also didn't catch up with C++ or Java.
That’s an interesting idea, but I believe your right that much modern music have the problem that it all sounds similar. Once in a while some artist stands out, but so much modern R&B, pop and rock is so simular that you can switch songs between artists and no one would know.

It might be survivour bias and was always the case that most music sounded similar within a given time period, but it could also be a result of high prompted and manufactured artists. The article does sort of touches on this subject when talking about which artists get promoted. That’s really what we’re seeing in movies, TV, design and much more. The risk is eliminated and only the safest option is push forward.
I'm actually a big fan of this idea, and am slowly doing work to get my DAW (Ardour) more capable of supporting non-12TET and non-western tunings.

However, putting on my devil's advocate hat for a moment, this leans heavily on the idea that humanity didn't already explore non-12T music already, which is a difficult argument to make.

It is false that the 12T model originated on keyboards.

Finally, it also fails to note the reason why we have 12TET. Western music is relatively unique among world music cultures in the dominant role that harmony plays (contrast with the highly evolved classical musical forms from India, which are incredibly rhythmically and melodically sophisticated but lack almost any notion of harmony (let alone harmonic movement) at all).

If you want to make music that is rich harmonically, it is likely that at some point you will want to be able to modulate between similar relationships (call them "scales" if you like) but starting from different initial tones. Doing this without it all going horribly wrong requires ET.
new sound never comes from obvious places. get outside your bubble. I always manage to find a couple new good artists each year who's albums I'll play on repeat for years.
It seems like we're taking at cross purposes. I'm not trying to convince you that anyone says "once as X". I'm just saying "twice as cheap" is nonsensical. Because it's a multiple of something undefined.
On average it brings in about 3k monthly, and then it always doubles for the month of January. I suspect people set new years goals/resolutions to have more sex.
Yeah that was my assumption as to what would have been an "equation", but then I suppose we don't work in HR...
There exists a lot of music outside a few extremely popular names you mention. Far, far from dead.
Half of this thread is literally: old man yells at cloud.

How do people continuously fall into this trap? "New X sucks" No, it doesn't. You just don't make an effort to seek out new things and wish everything stayed the same as when you were young.
Before Recent Wave of Train Cargo Thefts, Union Pacific Laid Off Unspecified Number of Its Railroad Police Force
https://www.lataco.com/union-pacific-theft-police-laid-off/

"A Union Pacific worker, who asked to remain nameless, [said that] the number of patrolling officers has been cut from 50 to 60 agents to eight, which the worker thinks has led to an increase in train robberies."
Speaking of Max Martin, I had wanted to reference the Weeknd's new album Dawn FM into the discussion somewhere, which was coproduced by Martin. That is a heavily produced album, a lot of influence from '80s New Wave and Michael Jackson pop all the way to obscure internet retro syntwhave, yet the vocals were very human and soulful and not at all unemotional. YMMV, as always.
No, actually I advocate static typing approaches for precisely the reasons you give. As does Python, since years and years ago.

I'm just saying that core problem it solves -- "bad developers" -- is going bite you no matter what (if not addressed at the source). And that supposed magical efficacy of measures designed to protect against it is somewhat overstated.
Sometimes I wish I could leave the yaks alone. Most of the time I love it lol
I was hesitant to chime in here, because I'm in my mid-60s, which puts me solidly in the boomer generation that grew up with classic rock. But I have to agree with this. I have some faves in the realm of "old" music, but also like a lot of current/newer musicians, a few of whom are R&B but none of whom are rap/hip-hop. It's just not something I enjoy, and I agree that too many new songs radio stations are full of it.

Looking for new music doesn't occupy much of my time, so my tolerance for the choice presented to me is fairly low.
Certainly you'd hope that's where Google's best system developers went, and Android is currently being maintained by their B team.
Why not? It's an IMAP service, you could use it with the client you prefer. Obvius GMAIL far way better for mail classification (promotional, transactional, spam). But I doubt any other service can do better than GMAIL with features.
Highly recommended against m365 unless you are a big company with a separate IT department.

I setup a trial with plan to use it long term but I got locked out of my own admin account with no way in (I use a password manager, yes) and the support page that was supposed to work kept crashing my browser.

Their Twitter account redirected me to that support page after explaining the situation to them.

The quality of the service itself is horrible for an individual to manage compared to gsuite or any other service I have touched.
A Gish Gallop is a way of logically nesting nonsense so as to defy response and has nothing to do with horses. It's a rhetorical tactic for cranks. Person hearing gal-LUP has only heard it from the polling company, and not the equine context.

The word I think you're looking for is "canter," as in three main gaits of a horse being walk, trot, and canter, with some other ones like gallop, tolt, and more obscure ones. They are defined by the number of beats in the gait. The walk has 4, trot 2, canter 3, and gallop is also 4.

But to extend the dressage metaphors, a Gish Piaffe would be extravagent and showy movement that goes nowhere and stays in one spot, a Gish Passage would be where the extravagent movement is independent of the direction, etc.

Dressage means "to straighten," or "to educate," so one works on the dressage of the horse, and dressage riding is riding with that intent. What people do in the olympics is ride, and it is the overall dressage of the horse that is what is judged. It's one of the few remaining sports in the olympics that is not merely a game. Source: am dressage bro. :)
> But in practice developers misuse features, so adding a feature actually leads to worse code.

I have found the opposite to be true. Missing features often leads to what one would call "design patterns". When the language adds official support to solve the problem you're trying to solve with that pattern, the code becomes clearer.
>be as creative as you wish

I don't think this is an area where creativity expands the existing options. If you have a stable job you will likely be approved for a mortgage. It might not be enough of a mortgage to afford a home in the city or even state that you want to buy. People who buy houses very young usually have generational wealth, even if it's just a parent who co-signs the loan.

Down payment is useful but not necessary. I've bought several houses (just one at a time) with $0 down payment.

FHA loans exist to help lower income people become home owners.
I would not be surprised if office Landlords are lobbying Tories to push for office work.

Of all the corruption scandals recently, this would be the better of them.
Yea same, I know people like that though I personally never engaged with his music. I wonder what the decision boundary for being in each group is? I grew up listening to rap from the 80s, 90s and early 00s so it prob isn’t that.
Sure, it will give him some extra propaganda ammo. And with the state of the crypto scene... As you say it will probably help him dump it.
No, they are picking subscriptions 30 times more than licenses.

When they first did this it wasn’t hidden at all. The website gave you 2 options side by side.
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Yup, sit down, keep quiet and don't disturb others and do as your told/asked.
This is one of those things. I do security engineering but it has little to do with building systems or software. In this case what they mean is "engineering securely" but a security engineer in a security team will be engineering various security tools and content (endpoint security tools/content, threat intel platforms,SIEM,etc...) so literally engineering security controls. Not that I mind but the ambiguity might cause confusion.
Board was caught between needing a stable c-level for the upcoming SPAC and exit and the bad publicity of keeping the CEO.

They choose the exit :)
awesome.

It's been a real PITA to crash out of an interpreter then reload it again. Dune helps in that it will load the libs for you, but you've still got to open modules etc.
It's also fairly remarkable what a relatively cheap hedge it's been. Turns out re-implementing DirectX is not a completely wild task.
These are a amazing pieces of computational art!

Might I ask what you built it with?
I think the absolute glut of new music available makes it hard for me to seek out and find new artists. Even with the help of spotify and pandora. Also driving to and from work was where I sampled a lot of new music, and that has gone away with covid. It’s just easier to jump into something I already know.
To be honest, I've just started using that (just set up a brand-new infra, started to provision users and thought it's a good idea to hook it up to a good password manager) and I found their Secrets Automation is (IMHO) barely usable for now. One can create most basic records but that's about it. I realize they don't owe me anything, but - honestly - just from the notoriety of the brand I've had higher expectations.

I hope that's just because they don't have enough people and currently their efforts are stretched quite thin. $620M is huge amount of money, so hopefully they get new hires and would be able to deliver.
* I am assured by my ISP provider that the settings are as squeaky clean as they can be.

* No, I'm sending email from my domain on my domain host. That has a single IP address shared among all their customers, but it's a very small ISP, and there are no spammers, and the IP address is not on any blocklists.

* No, I send standard email "by hand", and I know that people are not marking them as spam.

It's nice to see you go through these things because these are exactly the things I've gone through several times, so it serves to confirm that I've addressed the right things.
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> If Pijul becomes popular, somebody will inevitably make it easy to use

That's exactly why it shouldn't become popular because it's easy-to-use.

If something becomes popular because it's efficient (git), or has some beautiful core logic (pijul), or because it supports well-integrated workflows (fossil), then it will eventually be that and easy-to-use.

If something becomes popular because it's easy-to-use but sucks in every other way, then we are stuck dealing with it for another 30 years.
Your perception of Kanye only being famous "because his wife is famous" is something that is influenced by your own media consumption. I'm not sure if you actually asked people that they would struggle - Kanye has been big for a long time. I think if people struggled to know the names of the songs it would probably just be because Kanye isn't radio friendly.

The reason music "died" around the time of Napster, is that editorial distribution died. Before Napster, if you wanted to listen to music you either had the radio - which played the same thing for everyone, or you really had to dig record crates. Now it's completely possible to exclusively listen to hyperpop-house-vaporwave artists and not know who is charting. In short if you were expecting someone to curate your music, that mechanism no longer exists; likewise if the algorithm of your streaming service of choice is never playing Kanye for you, you might be confused to why everyone thinks he's so famous.
My very personal experience:

The mass reactionary trend permeates and defines the perspectives of most people I know, even if they reject the political aspect. People have transformed: Creative, open-minded people now reflexively scorn creativity; the power of individuals and freedom (including their own power); learning, knowledge, and original thought. They actively promote despair and depressive outlooks, and I am a non-conformist to say anything that even indirectly challenges that. The first requirement for any idea is not to attract ridicule. As an example of many, when I suggested to a college student that they could do something about a local problem they objected to, they mocked the idea of anything being accomplished by people acting voluntarily (so much for democracy, FOSS, and much else!).

All of that is antithetical to innovation and creativity. Artists and innovators don't thrive by avoiding ridicule - in fact, it's commonly experienced that 'first they laugh at you', etc. - or by conforming. They thrive, I think, in environments where challenging, non-conforming ideas are prized and encouraged, and where innovative individuals are prized over powerful ones. I think it may kill SV too.
> ... old songs now represent 70% of the US music market.

> ... the 200 most popular tracks now account for less than 5% of total streams.

I often hear it said that "new music sucks", and suspect it to be true, but now I have empirical evidence to back it up.
They clearly mean the shitty vocal artefacts from pitch correction software pushed to the extreme. That's really not in the same paradigm as multi-take / double-tracked vocals.

While pitch correction software is used subtly in a lot of recordings, OP is obviously meaning the sound that started with Cher snd Daft Punk in the early 2000s, and is now ubiquitous on modern radio.
> easy to revert later

Depends on what you want to revert? git revert accepts more than one commit!
Exactly this. Complaining about auto-tune is a self report to not understanding what the loaded umbrella term means. Every artist adds some amount of pitch correction to their voice just like they add some level of compression to their voice.
I read somewhere that the e-ink expense is because the company which controls the intellectual property chooses to make it a low volume, high cost product. Not that it is inherently expensive, and I am surprised they don't try the opposite strategy, make it cheap and everywhere.
https://loshadki.app, between $800 to $2000 a month. Year ago decided to learn macos development. Made 4 apps, two of them make the most OpenIn and ShellHistory.
No, it's about tiny and usually unnoticeable delays in hitting a note or a beat. There's nothing incorrect about them. They are not variations either, just tiny mistakes that happen to _all_ humans when they play an instrument.
There's a huge amount of survivor bias when thinking about old music. All the crap that never made it far is mostly lost by now; what's remembered and what's on the 80s playlist is basically the top pick from a whole decade, readily discovered for you and sprinkled with nostalgia from your childhood.

Also, in different decades, different styles were mainstream. Today you can find music for any genre that was popular in any decade and the best of it will also sound great; it's just not present everywhere or readily picked out for you. It's quite likely that you don't like the decade, you simply like the music style and didn't find the niche that is still producing it.
Spotify's discover weekly has worked remarkably well for me! I've been able to find tons of new music (and old to be fair) that fits within my musical tastes. Combining that with a bit of effort on my part to google for new music and I've been able to find tons of good stuff.
Alternative explanation: 60s-80s is when the boomers were making music. Population boom led to production boom which led to a greater number of iconic works. Larger consumer population led to continued playing of said iconic works leading to more people growing up listening to them and perpetuating the cycle.

Just a thought.
Commented down thread I agree recorded music is the problem, but it’s more direct.

Recorded music is one of the very first automations, and it has slowly automated 99% of professional musicians out of a job.
It uploads your passwords to their cloud. How is that okay? The key thing with a password manager is disjoint processes. You don't want the cloud provider to also be the password manager provider. A single breakin/rogue employee/government warrant and you passwords are exfiltrated.
What autotune did to music, filters in smartphones photo apps did to photographs.

Photos of people now show a perfect, clear, soulless and uncanny skin. It is the same thing when I hear autotuned artists.
Weird definition of broken: not having features nobody asked for.
> So the problem isn’t a lack of good new music. It’s an institutional failure to discover and nurture it.

I read Gioia's book, and respect his opinions on music. I think he is missing at least one point:

This finding makes complete sense if you assume there is nothing fundamentally better about new music than old music, but that there is much more old music, and that it is better curated.

There are many more of what we could call "great songs" from the last 100 years than in the last 18 months, not because music was better in the past, but because there was so much more of it. It's also really easy to find this old music now, because everybody knows about it, has written about it, has put it in lists, has included it in soundtracks, and so on. So, if you only cared about quality, and you picked your playlist more or less at random from a collection of "great music", you would expect the vast majority of what you listened to to have come from the past. Which is what we see.

That's even setting aside recommendation algorithms, which give you more of what it thinks you want. How many songs from the last few months are there that are similar to the one I said liked? A few, probably. But, compared to the number of songs from the last 50 years, it's probably a small number. So, if you catch me randomly listening to music Spotify thinks I like, it's going to be mostly older music, even if I have no preference regarding the age of what I listen to.

The relative prevalence of new music makes sense in the past, when you got all your music from a few sources, and those sources were incentivized to push your toward the latest products. MTV, radio stations, record stores, current bands: all these people want you to listen to new stuff, so as gatekeepers, they're going to push you toward it. Now, those pressures aren't as strong, so we're seeing more like a "fair" distribution of listening behavior.

To be clear: I don't think people listen to music at random, but I think recommendation algorithms tend to unlock more of music history as a side effect of needing to keep giving you more things to listen to.