skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It 100% is. It’s very hard to get an exclusive with any recording artists, let alone enough big ones to meaningfully move the needle. With other good services around Spotify is basically a commodity player in the streaming market.

But exclusive audio content (Podcasts, audio books, etc) is something they can do to keep people from switching. Whether it’s only on Spotify or maybe just comes out a week early and ad free, it’s additional value the other services can’t provide.

Plus Spotify has made all the streaming money they will. They’re not going to grow another 100m users on music alone. But wall street wants more and podcasts driving subscriptions and podcast advertising is a real growth opportunity to make Wallstreet happy.

Of course none of this is good for Frank and Sally podcast listener. But when did that ever matter? The big companies have decided how things will work.
I only tried music streaming last year and started with Apple Music and was shocked at how outright broken the platform is. Like I’d press play and a different song on the page would play. Or it would start lagging out really bad until I reload the page.

Shocked and how poor apple did here considering I haven’t had issues with any other product from them.
real chance these were done due to jokes that aren't woke/pc more than vax related
Free speech isn't limited to legal matters. It is an ideal. If you pressure someone not to associate with others then you are intentionally taking action with the intent to suppress speech. That is anti free speech. There is simply no way around that.

The US affords protections against the government infringing your speech, but not (generally) against private parties doing so.

To put it bluntly, cancel culture is anti free speech by definition.
Freedom of association is freedom of association no matter how desperate you are for an audience.
Is this so weird? In the context of crypto it certainly reads as predatory.

But let's look at Trading View for example. A social network built around trading software. They already have tight integrations with a few brokers, what if they did their own orders?

I'm no fan of Coinbase but this is a weak argument.
Likely delete out of requests by the guests.
I actually find apple music discovery to be far worse for my tastes than Spotify. But nothing even comes close to the SoundCloud Weekly and SoundCloud Upload discovery playlists. I've found such incredible indie musicians through those playlists. I can't rave enough about them.
My mistake, I see now the person I responded to may have meant that Americans say just the state. In the videos I've watched, and at least for myself, I usually hear it like you suggested: state + USA.
Is it possible Spotify was debating what to do, decided to not take down Joe Rogan's episodes, but then some rogue employee did it anyway?
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Cancel your subscription? You never paid for permanent access.
Please do not equate podcasts with the actual Holocaust.

(Ironically, equating the vaccine with the Holocaust is what got JRE in trouble in the first place)
> Shocked and how poor apple did here considering I haven’t had issues with any other product from them.

You must not have tried Apple Home.
I disagree. It’s one thing to provide access to a ton of music. Yes there will be some objectionable stuff in there. They can decide to hide it or not. That’s passive.

It’s another thing to actively pay to _create_ such content. That’s the big issue here.
I'm growing really tired of this "sanitization" of society, and what views you are/aren't allowed to hold anymore.

Love or hate JRE's content, I don't think anything good comes from silencing people
What's an example of an official wholesale distributor of gift cards?

Because the description 100% sounds like you were buying stolen gift cards in bulk.
...And not to detract from your point as well but I absolutely didn't buy the Switch for Nintendo games. The only one I actually like is Mario Kart 8 and even that I play like once every 3 months for a few hours.

I bought the Switch for Diablo III and a good number of bullet hell / beat-em-up games. Bought plenty of those and I am thoroughly enjoying them.

I recognize I am an outlier but the Switch is very capable of giving you a lot of enjoyment if you hand-curate your picks from the indie scene well.

(As a personal opinion, the Mario franchise being milked to eternity is exhausting to watch sometimes.)
Thanks this is really good.
Little or No

we might use hot air gun more effectively, one that has temperature arranger
It’s about distance. The northeast is closer to Europe.
I can't even tell if this exact post is sarcasm or not but the fact that there will be a non-zero amount of people who think kicking the bro version of gwyneth paltrow off Spotify is comparable to the exterminaton of the Jews in Nazi Germany concerns me.
> The only thing Apple Music has going for it over Spotify (in my opinion) is that the recommendations are easily 10x better for discovering new content.

Thank you! I spent the last few years working on improving the quality of those recommendations!
Oh so then no one mentioned concerns with free speech? There are no other free speech protections in the US.
Wow, this little subthread… the irony meter of talking about HN culture just folded in on itself.
> I suspect as Apple ramps up their second attempt to make profits from Ads, you will eventually be required to include Apple's in-app ad solution if you include any third party (FB/G/etc). See what happened with "Sign In with Apple".

Google Chrome has been restricted from removing support for third party cookies (long gone in competing browsers) because they are also an advertising provider, and such a move has been deemed anticompetitive.[1]

Going more heavily into advertising would give more ammunition to defang anti-tracking protections being built into the platform with technical measures, as well as remove the ability to delist apps which work around those measures (ignoring user preference.)

They could pull off a mandate for SIWA because their competitors couldn't muster strong arguments it was costing them revenue. Such a mandate would be way harder too use some new in-app ad solution for impressions instead of third party solutions.

In-app ads, especially in games, are really scammy these days. Apple's solution wasn't to try to create a competing ad network, but to create a subscription game service that mandated all games be without DLC, IAP, or ads.

1: https://www.ft.com/content/b42db1db-8cfd-4247-90f5-3c6f934b5...
Imagine you have gym membership. The Gym is OK but the equipment isn't always maintained and the staff are underpaid. One day you come in and dead centre is a brand new expensive and loud fart machine. You decide this is too much and join a different gym. How is this "silencing" Joe Rogan?
Can you point to some baseless conspiracy theories in the episodes being removed?
Pre-infection vitamin D3 levels and association with severity of Covid-19
Yes, but can we make them look cool?
Censorship and book burning are not identical. Regulation and censorship are not identical. Requiring a surgeon general's warning on cigarette advertisements is not censorship, for example. The government preventing a newpaper from from publishing an op-ed in favor of smoking, or consuming large amounts of alcohol while pregnant, etc. would be censorship, true. Would it be as morally reprehensible as the book burnings of history? Probably not. Would it be wrong? Maybe, I don't know.
Thanks, it’s reassuring that we aren’t way off piste.
They did have exactly that feature for a while, unless I'm dreaming. But they got rid of it.
That’s fair. Going character by character was definitely a bit forced, if taken beyond entertainment value.
The (affordable) technology of the time didn't allow for easy dock/undock experience like the Switch does. That doesn't mean it was "just a marketing difference," the product experience was worse and wasn't designed to easily be used as both a portable console and a dedicated living room device.
This is my thinking. Unless Spotify builds up a library of exclusive content, they will be destroyed as soon as apple and google stop doing such a shit job at music.
> > When you pressure other entities to associate/dissociate with someone according to your preferences, that's a free speech issue.

> That's free speech.

Yes, speaking to someone in an attempt to pressure them not to speak to someone else is indeed a form of speech. However, the things you are expressing (ie attempting to pressure them) is an active attempt to curtail someone else's speech. So you are using your speech in an attempt to curtail someone else's speech.

> As long as no one is being coerced through violence, attempting to influence someone's opinion and convince them to associate or disassociate with someone is clearly free speech.

No one claimed otherwise. It is clearly legal to do so. It is also clearly an anti free speech sort of thing to do.
Man, I'm not a huge Lex fan, but are we really going to lump him in with Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson?

This also speaks to me of a solution in search of a problem.

You know what's really non restrictive?
Distributing MP3s via RSS.
What states have the biggest tax breaks? Is there any state where you can actually get one of these "cars" totally free?
Nothing

Everything is interpreted differently by people in the world quite evenly
I'd feel comfortable taking off at 2pm on a Friday without notice. Not the same as the whole day off but way better than most people have it.
Fine. I'm starting Severus, which actually deals with "contacts, business cards, email addresses", but with some interesting privacy mechanisms. I haven't quite launched yet, but I've seen this topic come up frequently on HN, and I never talk about it. I need to get out of my comfort zone and talk about it.
How are they putting Connecticut next to Maryland on this infographic smh
I really enjoyed this part

> The zombie argument seems to belong to a class of arguments that Daniel Dennett calls ‘intuition pumps’. These are arguments – typically thought experiments – that lead the reader toward a certain appealing

The whole essay takes this to heart and seems to just enjoy talking about the different perspectives instead nitpicking the argument
It wasn't the extermination it was the first step.
Syscordle – Guess SYSCALL in 6 tries
Made sense to me.
> pcmasterrace

nazi things aren't cutesy
In defence of medicine, its history (of the last 100 years or so anyways) is filled with beneficial intervention after beneficial intervention. Never have humans lived longer and healthier, with such low rates of infant mortality and lack of disease.
There is a reason why most coding bootcamps are based on Rails and React instead of Go, Java, PHP, .Net etc - they are easy to learn, work and reason with.

> the only way to know the “convention” is to either have gone to a rails boot camp, reading the docs top to bottom, or maybe watching rails casts.

I mean, when learning a new language or framework, reading the docs or watching videos and tutorials are part of the course? What other MVC frameworks have you worked with where someone new could just go in and start building an app without actually learning it first?
Fascinating machine in so many ways. The founder of the company was the grandfather of William Burroughs, author of (among others) Naked Lunch.

Burroughs was a late entry to the mainframe market, but when they went there, they did not have to worry about backwards compatibility, so they could do fancy stuff like virtual memory and a stack-oriented architecture.

You just have to love this item: "multiprocessing of independent programs, with dynamic scheduling by the operating system". These days, we call it multitasking and forget just how cool it is.
…and 1-2 of those podcasts were probably Elon Musks appearances.
If he had just quietly pulled his music, I would agree. But since he made a public show about it, its clear the purpose is to exert pressure on Spotify and/or to encourage others to also pull their music to force Spotify to change their policy on Rogan.
I learned about it last year from the Life of Boris Youtube channel [1], then from my buddy who was making some in his kitchen during lockdown. I started running that spring, and I made gallons of the stuff to drink after runs.

I've had two commercial versions, one from Ochakovskiy, which is more like pop, and one more authentic one which was incredibly funky. I would like to try more versions and recipes, including the archaic "white Kvass" [2]. In fact the white kvass link was what I was planning on posting originally, but it lacks much detail.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1UTJKBMvgc

2. https://www.rbth.com/arts/2013/09/04/white_kvass_an_old_drin...
>The American constitution is a vaguely worded 18th century document whose interpretation depends entirely on the whims of nine political appointees.

Feature, not a bug. The concept of living law is one of the most important contributions of english common law to humanity.
Only love can break your Spotify account.
Nothing was intended as a personal attack. I just don't understand the outrage.

And how is this corporate censorship? There exists a private contract between two parties, money changed hands. I have no evidence that Spotify is overstepping their bounds here. They can remove any content any time. It's not an open platform. To even get content on their you have to form a contract with a distributor, who I imagine is under no obligation to actually distribute anything.
I'm surprised you were allowed to switch teams. Most companies explicitly disallow it for people under any sort of performance review (even informal).
This is really sad to hear. What an excellent name.
Korg M1 was definitely the most popular. The Roland D-50 appeared around the same time, but it wasn’t as popular as the D-50. By 1992 you had a wide selection of samplers and romplers available.

Presets on the M1, D-50, Wavestation, JV-1080, etc all got used to death. A lot of the PCM samples were recycled from popular samples on older synths, dating back to systems like the Fairlight or Synclavier. Everyone had samples of the Jupiter, Moog, Synclavier, Fairlight, DX7, TB-303 and TR-808/909.
> (Term 8, which prohibits the promotion of violence and harassment)

So when it's all violence by the State it's all peachy and fine.

> law enforcement

Why do you even trust the claims of law enforcement? They are not a neutral party at all.

> promotion of violence

Erm, BLM riots were not THAT long ago, GoFundMe do you think we forgot things so fast?
There are torrents for most episodes in 4 parts ("JRE_001-837", "JRE_838-1094", "JRE_1095-1250", "JRE_1251-1476"). But some episodes are missing, especially pre-YouTube episodes.

I collected all the banned ones in audio form, but many sites don't allow you to create a torrent as a new user, so I gave up.
Even if you view this as censorship, equating this with anti-Black legislation and policies is hardly a sound argument.
Right. The number n! Is approximately exp(n log(n)). So it's still bounded by an exponential of some polynomial of n.
Ask HN: What's the best affordable mattress on Amazon?
There are an overwhelming amount of options. I need help :)
Were all these deleted episodes just about COVID misinformation? All 113 of them? I haven't listened to them but the other comments on this thread seem to indicate that is not the case at all.
Insulting and berating has a somewhat threatening connotation to me and so I think isn't even a remotely accurate analogy.

Say Bob and Sue are at the party talking about some topic you don't approve of. They aren't talking to you, just each other. You request that the host remove them. The host refuses. So you attempt to get other people to very vocally leave the place in order to pressure the host to kick Bob and Sue out.

Such actions are clearly anti free speech.
Your post surprised me: I can't think of any other Apple employees publically talking about their work, other than the early years of the WebKit team.
This is bigger than Spotify.

Rogan was a proactive person conducting open research into the world around him. When proactive people investigate things and share their findings, it now only takes a few to dislike the findings, fuss, and have the findings removed.

To those that support this, I have 4 questions:

1. Is disincentivising sharing knowledge really good for the world?

2. Is it reasonable to expect 100% of inquiries be 100% accurate on the very first attempt?

3. Is it efficient for society to repeat the same research many times since previous investigations are scrubbed from public record?

4. Is it healthy for public discourse to be made less diverse and only concern 'safe' topics?
The reverse is probably true, however. If there had been more immigration to the South over these two centuries, bigoted attitudes would have likely been less tenacious.
We as a society have become allergic to paying for services. It's understandable but detrimental in the long term.
If 100% of the population is vaxxed and boosted, 100% of the serious cases will be of fully vaccinated patients. I think… check my math?
If you've turned off ads personalization, on IG/meta then you're just getting the bottom of the barrel ads -- no conspiracy or anything, just you get thrown into the randoms pool and those are the ads that big bidders place in that pool.

Perhaps turning personalization back on but using it only in a Firefox container with only normie browsing might be a good middle ground.
> If cancellation is done for the purpose of silencing, then it is censorship. That's the very definition of censorship

No, it isn't.

It's so tedious explaining this over and over
> 30 fps v. 60 fps is a large enough difference to affect gameplay enjoyment.

That’s very dependent on the game.

Playing a racing game at 30fps is horrible. Playing Mario games 30fps. Is fine.
> Going to fund the development (since I can't do this myself) of a browser plugin to help people find non-China goods on Amazon easily.

I published 'Country of Origin : India' browser extension a year ago[1][2] which whitelists made in India products on Amazon(.in) by hiding others. As a research to find if people are really willing to put money where their mouth is, But the latest trade data shows that in-spite of anti-China sentiment being all time high; People are not reflecting it in their purchases[3].

Perhaps it would be different in a country with higher purchasing power, There are other extensions which labels USA, UK etc. which might deserve your funding. But there might not be an extension which blacklists a particular country and wouldn't be surprised if it's against ToS.

[1] Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/country-of-or...

[2] Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/country-of-origin-...

[3] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/foreign-tr...
Have you ever watched television? There's this thing called a "cut". (From the film days - where you would literally cut the film and splice two scenes end-to-end when they weren't shot together.) It means an abrupt change of viewpoint.

Well, if you count and do the math, on a non-news, non-sports (i.e., fiction) show, this happens every 3 seconds. Every 3 seconds, the scene is completely unrelated to the scene before.

And yet we can watch TV. We don't see part of one scene blended with the next scene, as a mash-up. We see them as distinct scenes.

So we at least have the ability to not do this.
New vaccines every year. Could be a big business.
I'm in the same boat, but one extra thing I found that Apple Music does better is sound quality. I'm not an audiophile by any means, but even I noticed immediately that music sounded _much_ better, like, very noticeably.

But yeah, aside from that, it's kind of a miserable experience. Hard to believe it's _still_ so bad.
I did a little REPL tweak to sort the options alphabetically. Sorry I didn't see the need for that earlier.
Just finished manually eye-balling every single on the Switch some hours ago today -- took me about 10 weeks on and off doing it casually when I was in the mood. Used an external website of course because Nintendo's is a disaster.

Out of ~6900 games in total (and about 600 more that are upcoming and/or unavailable to me in my country) I liked about 200, wouldn't mind buying other 50, so that's 250 games that I either like or don't hate. And I have about 40 in my collection, some of which I uninstalled.

So realistically I can still buy 250 games out of 7500 in the next few years and get a lot of value for my money.

That's 3.3% of all the games. I count that as a big win and I don't regret my investment in the Switch one bit. Even considering the OLED variant for the bigger and better display -- though I have to say I was very disappointed that Nintendo didn't bump up its specs even a little bit.
Switch to DuckDuckGo and call me in the morning
And you're under the impression that a private business exercising their right to delete podcast episodes on their platform is the first step to what? Progroms against the weed smoking quack demographic? If this is what listening to Joe Rogan does to a brain they better throw the entire catalog away
Not sure if you can call it decentralized, but there is liberapay.
I can't speak to Spotify's odd decisions. I don't really care what they did. But the initial "outrage" was targeted specifically at Covid misinformation.

Either way, the book burning analogy is beyond hyperbolic.

The point is simply to ground the conversation in reality, not in this peculiar language of extremes. Will spreading medical disinformation on a popular media platform kill people? Yes, probably. Is skepticism of mainstream medical narrative healthy? Yes, probably. Are those two things in tension with each other? Yes, usually. Should private platforms restrict content that will probably hurt people? Maybe, I don't know. Is this the moral or historical equivalent of book burning? No.
I want to see Elon Musk put his $$$ toward alternative solutions. He's the richest guy in the world. Come on Elon!
The article makes a case for how to get an NEV for $4-5k.
Free speech is a principle that is not exclusive to the Constitution. Something can be anti-free speech and not involve the government.
Kansas hospital celebrates midlevels on National Women Physicians Day
They are doing that if you don't pay too.
I had faith in Spotify would do the right thing. Now, they succumbed to the cancel culture. What's a disgusting world we're living in.
I did. I also remember splitting the thick part open, folding it out, and sticking the leaf to the tip of my nose.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=maple+seed+nose&iax=images&ia=imag...
> If someone needs to be fired, you don't need to put them through a humiliating process. Explain what happened and why, give them a decent severance and a good reference, and say goodbye.

I don't think performance reviews should have a part in firings, and the metrics they use to rank/rate people are generally worthless, but it's actually nice to get feedback from time to time on how you're doing. I've had managers who I never heard from at all and that's not ideal.

If a company is thinking they have to fire someone for performance reasons it's way easier for them to have documentation showing what has been going on and that they'd given the employee time to improve. It's better for the employee too to understand what the expectations are they're not meeting and to have a chance to explain what the causes are. I think most people would prefer that over being told out of the blue that they've been sucking at their job and escorted out the building.
> The attitude was different; instead of big opinionated but inflexible frameworks, people wanted to pick and choose.

I enjoy working with Node and JS, but this IMO is what contributed to the fragmented node ecosystem where you have 100 different npm libraries that do the same thing and reinventing the wheel is rampant
Oh right, I knew the k prefix seemed familiar. It is a constant.

Can you elaborate more on the Objective-C methods? Are you talking about the “not exported” ones?