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Ask HN: Why hasn't music been disrupted yet in the same way movies have been?
When Netflix first started out, it was an aggregator of movies and shows not unlike Spotify today. Originally, the biggest challenge was the technology parts of the business. But today, most of Netflix’s (and all of the competitors) challenges are not technology problems, but media creation problems - creating hit content to keep people engaged. Meanwhile, all of the other production companies (HBO, Peacock, Disney) have caught up technology-wise, while other technology entrants (Hulu, Apple TV) are likewise focusing on production of original content to stay competitive.

This is also starting to happen with Podcasts (Spotify as the leading example).

But why hasn’t it happened for music, proper? I think Jay-Z’s Tidal tried this but they weren’t successful. But Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, etc all have huge catalogs of music, and there is a trend of artists selling their catalogs to these companies. What’s to stop them from pulling back their licensing and launching their own app competing with Spotify? And conversely, why hasn’t Spotify moved into music production in the same way that it has moved into Podcasts? (Caveat being that they tried at some point with generic beats and piano and atmospheric music production, but those knockoffs felt flat and hidden - it wasn't promoted as Spotify original music in the same way Netflix or HBO content is).

Is it because licensing is much more distributed? (ownership primarily in artists' hands?)
Nobody comments on the 20 minutes waiting for the ambulance ? In a city ?

In France, when I helped an old lady who had slipped on ice, the emergency services were on site in less than 5 minutes, with all the competences and material to provide life saving interventions. And this was just normal.

Why does it look normal in the US to have to wait 20 minutes after having called for a gunfire, and only for a transport ambulance ?
You should talk to an employment lawyer before you go to HR or anyone in your company. You also have the right to file a complaint with the EEOC, but I would not do that until you talk to a lawyer.

The reason why you need to talk to a lawyer is that your lawyer is ethically obligated to represent your best interests, not your company's.
I generally dismiss these “equivalent outcome” studies. Any midlevel will (and should) bounce the more complicated cases to their supervising physicians. Outcomes at that point are meaningless.

There’s definitely a trade off between resources devoted to education vs. acceptable risks from failed procedures, missed/delayed diagnoses, and increased utilization of imaging and referrals (and the physician radiologists and others who participate in that - it goes full circle). Physicians now are probably on one extreme end of that, and midlevels on the other.

On the topic of servicing rural areas… the problem is that nobody with better options (which includes midlevels) wants to live in these places. These educated, high-earning people want to live in urban areas, and they can. CMS has tried to incentivize this with billing by offering higher reimbursement rates to rural places that have a midlevel on staff. That’s about it, though.
I convinced myself after I left I wouldn't come back. Unfortunately, the money was too good.
Introspection is a gigantic issue.
Incredible how many lawyers frequent HN.
Ask HN: Is the Tech Bubble Crashing?
I’m looking in awe of the total carnage in a lot of tech stocks over the past year or so, and accelerating in the last few weeks/months.

While the FAANGs have so far held up ok (ex-Netflix), there’s a lot of small or mid cap tech stocks that are down 50% or more in just a few weeks. ARKK and related ETFs are down more than 50% since Feb 2021 highs.

I understand a lot of this is due to the Fed’s new hawkish stance which disproportionately impacts high p/e stocks like many public tech companies due to rising rates and asset purchase tapering.

But how long is this trend away from tech going to last?
Definitely not a 3rd world country. My US friends do not have guns. Just other countries force more responsibility with them.
“Google keeps screwing me over. How can I keep using them?”

You can just use other stuff, you know. Stop acting like an abused spouse.
>Russian Bot = Term used to dehumanize and attribute real dissent to a disinformation campaign.

I'm gathering from the context of the thread that this is used to describe real people, not actual bot accounts. After all, who would tweet at a spam bot?
define immediate. it takes seconds to fire thirty rounds. it takes minutes for police to respond to anything
Root causes of this particular incident? The possession of deadly weapons by people who rarely have a legitimate need to have them beyond "MY RIGHTS" and "SECOND AMENDMENT". This has nothing to do with poverty.

I don't think any kind of punishment could effectively deter this because I don't believe this was intentional or that the perpetrator even imagined that the bullet could still kill someone despite the distance and obstacles on the way. Not to mention that as another comment points out, capital punishment is a thing and that still isn't enough to deter murder/etc.

The main problem here is that people have access to and an obsession with deadly weapons. This obsession leads them to acquire those weapons even when they have no legitimate reason to own/carry them. Accidents are bound to happen even with trained users, but typically the risk is worthwhile when you have a legitimate need to own/carry the weapon. When you don't have a legitimate need however, it's just needless risk-taking that will eventually produce situations like this.
It does for the user who is familiar with Python and Numpy. With some effort your Python and Numpy code becomes orders of magnitude faster. Telling that those two things have nothing to do with each other is missing the point.
I agree. When people talk about taking away guns from people, I really wonder they understand how emotionally attached some people are to their guns. What I want to work on is figure out why, emotionally, some people really want to own guns and go from there. If people want guns because they're afraid their house will be robbed again, how to help them rebuild trust in their neighbors so they don't have such a strong desire to own a gun.
> Whereas the author has gone for a setup that fundamentally they own: they could move it anywhere, not tied to any provider, pretty easily

I haven't looked into Papyrus but there are many non-Medium platforms that let you export your data easily in standard formats.

Personally my biggest issue with Medium is them imposing a paywall on my writing without giving me a decent salary for it, OR hiding my content. Not a good choice.
> You have to be prepared to factor out the key parts of the code into faster languages like C++ with bindings, if necessary

Stripe had the innovative idea of compiling ahead of time parts of the code (taking advantage of type annotations). I think this is a very interesting approach that may make usage of faster language unnecessary in a certain amount of cases.
> It's odd to me that people focus so much on Ethereum NFTs' environmental impact. It's certainly not good, but it's currently nowhere close to Bitcoin's consumption ...

In a conversation about NFTs why is it odd to focus on NFT's environmental impact? Most people who hate NFTs also hate bitcoin, I assume they also hate racism, child labour, and COVID. Do you also find it odd that people don't mention their feelings about those issues when talking about NFTs?
It is not a guarantee. I think it as a promise - a loan for the American public to repay it back with real work, thus to heal and grow the economy.

The American work ethic has so far backed this up, but yeah there is always a risk that this will not be fulfilled - ex: "The great resignation"

So bitcoin's "promise" is their marketing?
"The next internet, currency, etc."? I will be careful with this, since the last 2 crises (dotcom and mortgage securities) were similar empty promises hyped by the rich - i.e. lies.
FAANG doesn’t cost 15% of the GDP though. Not sure why you’re comparing those.
I’d bet there are very few handguns in Finland, mostly bolt action hunting rifles.
Most companies these days are doing exactly the same, the more competent ones just don’t put it in writing, leaving paper trail. You can’t escape this sort of systemic discrimination, it permeates the society to the bone.
> Many tech companies are actively discriminating against asian/white males

Reminds me of a saying I heard once: “always try and get an asian male doctor because they are discriminated against the most in med school admissions programs. The asian men who made it past the discrimination had to be so much better than the others to make it.”
I did not say it was a constant time. I said it’s not tied to the “I’m hungry” event. Stopping to eat whenever one feels like it is a very privileged state historically.

I don’t think it’s accurate to say I agree with the article. Certainly clocks are a relatively recent invention. That doesn’t mean I agree with its central thesis, which I think is essentially unsupported by the various anecdotes and historical tidbits the article contains.
That's indeed a terrible response time
You were arguing that RfR / Dilbert coludn't be true because if it were, it would have been optimized away. I argued that no, just because it happens and is broadly understood doesn't mean that it can be optimized away.

You can play semantic games about whether or not it should be called inefficiency -- I don't really care what you call it -- but the RfR / Dilbert dynamic is very real and very prevalent.
If you expect police to do anything to help you, you'd probably have to move into the whitehouse.
> Perhaps we don't need to use more power, we actually need to use less, substantially so say 10x or 100x less.

The bad news is that we are on a path to replace gasoline and diesel cars with electric ones. I'm really interested how the electric grid will look like in 10 years.
In the immediate aftermath, or long term?

And to follow up, what's the probability that the US still exists in its current form after the immediate short term?

Even as someone that would support repealing the 2nd amendment entirely in an ideal world, I'm not ignorant of the absolute political shitstorm it'd cause. Civil war round 2 type stuff.
Ha, in a way.

Because they were indicative of Ferro’s “leadership”: flashy branding gimmicks, with nothing to back them up.

Like when he bought an orange Tesla roadster to bring to trade shows. He’d just pop an orange car in the middle of the booth. What’s that got to do with health care? I dunno.

(And this was all a while ago, but this job just always stuck in my craw, because it made “Silicon Valley” feel like an understated documentary and not a parody.)
Good idea.

I was also thinking about 'negativity', but more along the lines of: I'm missing the author saying what the legal gray areas are. I mean, in level 2 he already talks about "fraud". ;)
This reminded me of my experience with them a few years back with MQTT. They were pushing their Bluemix/cloud hard and I just wanted to test it out. Never again.
I don't think this is very good, because you have stuff like `ifeq`, and `what` sometimes introduces code, sometimes introduces data, and sometimes introduces keywords. I've tried to make languages like this before, and they've all looked beautiful to me… and incomprehensible to everybody I've shown them to. And also incomprehensible to future me, in a way that even languages I don't know aren't.

If you think your students will have trouble with syntax, try giving them a BASIC or a graphical language (Blender, Scratch, etc.) to start with. Or give them a language with good error messages.

To make a simple language, you need to start with simple principles, and strictly generalise them. If the result isn't clear and easy, you need to change the fundamental principles and pretty much start all over again. I think this idea has promise, but you'll probably need to make your own language for it, instead of trying to shoe-horn LISP's names and idioms into it.
Roger, so many people seem to forget this sage advice.

I don't know what's on their mind sometimes . . . and neither do they.
That's really a choice. I mean most machine learning models wind up outputting a confidence distribution over possible outputs, so it's up to the user to decide how to extract an answer from that. They can and do have low confidence when they aren't sure.
Sure, but if they can be effectively compared in theory they should also be comparable in reality.

And given that languages were developed over different histories and constraints (and lengths of time), it seems to me that a “terrible” real-world language is likely available and identifiable. And though perhaps difficult to compare, then there should be a “best” language, or at least, “top-N” class of languages, that are clearly superior to their peers.

It’s highly unlikely that all languages are comparably well-optimized.
do you really think the people firing those guns did it because they didn't know about gravity? or do you think they did it because they didn't care?
That's an interesting response. I wonder if you getting caught up on the word "murder"?

A nucleur missle is about to fire off and kill everybody in your country. You can only shoot it before it launches, missle defense can't catch it after launch.

You can preemtively destroy the missle, but an innocent child playing near the missle silo is going to be killed.

Do you stop the missle? The child's death will be called collateral damage. Nobody was "murdered".
> The reason why any state tries to present its history in a positive light is a different question. Good things are exaggerated, bad things are smoothed over. The states doing the opposite just doesn't live long.

But this is not really present in many countries.
Hey Mike, great comments and thanks for the kind words.

A lot of your observations on Bitcoin’s governance checks out. I stand by my theory about consensus-based tech driving consensus-based politics; the control over bitcoin.org, protocol discussions, and the core implementations might represent capture over the levers of that political power. If the Bitcoin community accepts that arrangement then it counts as legitimate political authority, but as you say the lack of transparency about that process suggests it’s dishonest. I get the sense that the btc community is ideologically inclined to pretend no such political system exists, and that’s the cloud cover that the developers operate under. All part of the reason I want to push at this topic.

Your observation that Facebook meets my description did occur to me, but I chose not to elaborate and instead let “like the p2p networks” do the heavy lifting for me (whoops). Facebook works that way for a lot of its interactions, but it leverages a lot of global collectivist resources as well like search, metrics, and anything community-oriented, while the anarcho-p2p networks use none. The difference between the product designs of (say) SSB and Facebook may therefore seem minor, but the philosophical resistance to anything collectivist in SSB is huge, and that’s what I think needs pressing against.

On the Web vs Xanadu questions you raise, the Web discarded all distributed collectivist features except for the ones I enumerated (DNS, IP addresses) and then used distributed individualism and authoritarian collectivism to handle the rest of its features. The Web did get those features in a “good enough” way though: in the authoritarian collectivism form. Decentralization is revisiting that approach and butting up against this challenge of solving distributed collectivism now, and I think the tendency of decentralizers to think in techno-anarchic forms might be causing them to miss this important area of progress.
Yeah, I've really enjoyed the "remix culture" around Wordle. Gives me strong and positive vibes from an earlier stage of the Web. (And Glitch is a gem -- it made real-time collaboration from across the dining table a breeze).
My PhD is funded by a research council and my stipend is £12k. After rent, food and bills there is some room.

But it's laughable to think I could repair and run an electron microscope. Already mentioned, finding a broken microscope for £1k wouldn't happen here. And you're seriously underestimating the resource requirements to operate such a machine
It always confuses me how people quote the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution to end the argument without further discussion, as if it's impossible to - you know - amend the constitution somehow, if one wanted to.

If people want to keep guns for their own reasons, they're allowed to have those reasons and should argue them. But the fact that the constitution was once amended to allow them to is not, by itself, a reason to keep doing so. That's just circular reasoning.
I'll start up MikeCoin, using the same proof of work, it'll be fine. ;-)
My simple solution was:

- Use a normal d5 and d6.

- On a roll, if the sum on the dice face is >= 7, add 1 to the sum.

If I roll 2+3, the result is 5. If I roll 3+4, the sum is 7, so add 1 to get the result of 8.

The gives you this distribution, and is simple in practice.

1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5 6
2 3 4 5 6 8
3 4 5 6 8 9
4 5 6 8 9 10
5 6 8 9 10 11
6 8 9 10 11 12
I actually have no idea what you are talking about, how would one address the problem directly and constitutionally? There is very little the constitution allows to do by race and I dont know enough about what you are referring to that would prevent a random reckless discharge of firearms.

Can you elaborate?
Less violent societies with less encarcellation rates than the USA exist. That is the minimum that the USA should aspire to.
These are all questions about the merits of either technology.

We've already identified that the merit of a managed AWS (but really any cloud provider) solution is that you've already done your due diligence for that provider, and that alone far outweighs whatever other merit you might consider.

Some of the other stuff is what I might consider if I had to make a case for approving a new vendor, but this is an overwhelming barrage of rhetorical questions that makes it difficult to have a reasoned conversation about.

I mean, come on... what percentage of users depend on those features? Unilateral control over a product roadmap? Am I supposed to actually know these things when stating my opinion that OpenSearch is lame in comparison to the original ElasticSearch, based on my anecdotal experience of dealing with the two? Do you have those answers yourself?

As to the risk, a fair question. There's currently a threat that ES client libraries will reject a connection to OS (and I recall this has already been done for some languages). Not the end of the world but the only people who have lost out from the licensing spat you've alluded to are the users. The risks of onboarding Elastic as a new vendor or self-hosting are well known and part of the usual discussion of trade-offs one will have.
Hey this works great. Found some new and interesting sites.
While eliminating poverty and mental illness are of course lofty goals we should work to accomplish, they also seem quite difficult in the short to medium term (understatement!) so I don't think it can really be an answer.

I also don't think it's all merely poverty or mental illness; especially (but not exclusively) young adults can make stupid decisions without thinking through the consequences ("lol let's shoot {in the air,at this wall} it'll be fun!") which is even harder to eliminate. Yes, education helps, but everyone driving a car is educated (i.e. has a license) and look at the number of yahoos there.

Reality of the matter is, if you're opposed to gun control then you're making the trade-off that these type of things will happen. If you want to make his trade-off: fair enough! We make loads of trade-offs in society and human lives are often involved in them. What I find frustrating about the entire debate are comments such as this which pretend that this trade-off does not exist.

(For my part, I think it's actually not that important of an issue one way or the other and that the much deeper issue is this paranoid fear of criminals that has taken hold in US culture, and fear that even the most petty of criminals is really a Hannibal Lector who will kill you and your family just for shit 'n giggles. People arming themselves to protect against these imagined monsters is just one symptom among many, such as excessive police violence, mandatory drug testing, locking up more people than China which has literal concentration camps, etc.)
Here's the article without a paywall:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/discarded-1990s-e...

Spoiler: The invention is triple-pane windows.
As much as it pains me to mention it here, as I wholeheartedly do not support it for a number of important reasons, something like Metamask and an identity on a blockchain could work for this.

The more obvious solution is OAuth (or OpenID Connect), and there are plenty of providers that aren't Apple, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, or GitHub.
>Why is that?

Many americans like to kill and die by gunfire, and consider it their constitutional right. That's why. And many of those opposing them, still agree to treat the Constitution as some holy scripture - they might differ on the interpretation of the gun related law, but they wont go out and say "who cares if the Constitution gave you the right, it's 2022 and it's just a piece of paper, let's change it anyway".

So in that sense, they reinforce their opponents argument (which is based on their interpretation + the Constitution, by upholding the second part, and thus keeping it at the level of a debate of interpretation).
Ah yea, I like that idea of maybe talking about the legal risks or overall cons (pun intended) of the different levels :-)
You know the race of the people who were goofing off with guns?

I don't see it mentioned in the article. This particular neighborhood is 55% white with a wide enough distribution across others that it's impossible to guess from demographics.
Thanks for that link, that was an interesting read, but sadly I don't think I qualify for any of those exemptions.

It's more messed-up because I'm currently on house arrest and so I can't even go to a food bank to get food. I have to rely on the kindness of strangers who pass through the building I live at - occasionally one of them will drop off some food randomly. I'm pretty much down to some packets of stuffing and cans of sliced potatoes right now, but I don't mind. Before I started my last business I was down to zero and was finding canned food in Dumpsters, which while it isn't great, will mean you don't die!
upx will take time/resource to unzip, which could be slow in some embedded systems.

a helloworld go binary is about 8MB, a C is about 20KB(shared libraries), go binary size adds up really fast due to the fact most do not use shared libraries even when there are many go binaries in the system.
A car is privately owned and oriented toward a small scale family/individual. It can go from anywhere to anywhere at anytime (assuming roads). Unlike a railroad which achieves much greater efficiency but requires more fixed schedules and routes. Everyone must move to the same place at the same time together.
A lot of this is imagined but people really did buy into this (same with canals), and given the 200 year distrust of railroads, that gave a lot of political fodder to break up urban rail lines and make cities more car based.
I wonder if poverty is a contributing factor to property crime
Is it? I always felt that whole argument was reductive. It seems obvious that for the most part people kill people, and that guns make that easier/worse. Why belabor that point?
You can use a foot pedal operated dryer. They're cheap, portable, and only end up using caloric energy
Well now I REALLY think you’re racist, because now I have to guess what your opinion is.

Just spell it out, for christ’s sake.