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People aren’t going to pay more so it is in fact not worth more.

I know every artist thinks their unique vision is infinitely priceless but things are actually worth what people are willing to pay for them. If you can’t convince people to hand over money for it, then it’s not worth that much.
yeah, just get a better paying job!
ESNI to the rescue?
This is what happens already, isn't it?
I don't see how that would be different.
Thank you for mentioning the "bat and ball" problem. Having neither a math nor CS background, I hadn't heard of it - and got it wrong. And reflecting on why I got it wrong I gained a little understanding of my own flawed mind. Why did I focus on a single variable and not a relationship? It set my mind wandering and was a nice morsel to digest with my breakfast. Thanks!
As a user of all three chips vis Pixels 6, 7 and 8 Pro as well as this current Pixel Tablet, I do not get it. These devices work fine for me. I have also had Samsung and OnePlus devices. I have never had performance problems. I switched from Samsung to Pixel due to the messy software situation- there were two or more apps for every purpose and which to use was incomprehensible to me, and I am not too dumb.

Granted I am not a heavy user of things that might need extreme capabilities. I do not play complex games or do media creation.
In Germany, they ran an ad campaign for those devices. They gave some well-known influencers some budget to make a spot by themselves and ran that on YouTube. Those spots were the bottom of the barrel. No idea who runs their advertising, but they need to fire all of them.
Not very often, trying to wear headphones less generally. At the moment though that's done with Spotify and NTS radio apps. I might mirror my music library onto the phone though. I was also thinking of moving my music library onto a server and streaming it from there, not sure with which software yet.
Are there similar resources for learning promises that use a different style of instruction out there?

The writing feels a bit off to me.
Except you are completely disregarding the obvious outcome: others wasting money to not have their buget cut. And the alternative could be even worse: departments running out of money and imploding because of unexpected costs without any budget headroom.

The point is not that investing the company's money wisely doesn't make sense but that looking hat how much each department used and then basing the next budget on that alone is the opposite of wise because those departments are run by humans that will be looking out for themselves first.
Yes that's a good point. But the algorithms are improving too.
> My children, along with their father, have a common belief that dynastic wealth, though both legal and common in much of the world including the United States, is not desirable. Moreover, we have had many opportunities to observe that being rich does not make you either wise or evil. We also agree that capitalism – whatever its weaknesses, including the vast disparities in wealth and political influence that it delivers somewhat capriciously to its citizens – has worked wonders and continues to work wonders.

> The United States is exhibit A for that belief, and the four of us feel lucky that we beat very long odds when we were born in the U.S.
Piracy did well for a while in the CD era. There is no evidence that current prices represent a ceiling for what would work in 2023 before people would turn again to piracy.
Maybe I am just daft but how is this not a simple privelege escalation issue? Just don't give it admin, what's the problem?
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This seems like a disaster bill similar to Canada's bill c-18 about news
This doesn't solve the issue at all, does it? If Promise.all() is never reached, neither is Promise.allSettled().
We're truly lucky to have someone as articulate as is Cory Doctorow to state bluntly how bad online experience has become and why it's occurred.

What I've never fully understood is why so few complain, that it is so makes it much harder for those like Doctorow to effect change.
>I would pay double for my spotify subscription if it meant better artist pay.

I doubt most people would be willing to do the same, however. So, an expensive Spotify would lose to cheaper alternatives.

But the crux of the matter is that most artists are willing to work for pennies; either for the small chance of future success or simply because they like doing it (it's just a hobby for them). There's an oversupply of "good enough" talent, undercutting everyone else (except the top 0.01% who are already rich and famous).
Qubes OS, Mobian/Phosh
Well, is the organization in question not supposed be the expert that I could defer to when in doubt? As it stands, since I am not a person who is immersed in this technology, I would like to hear from someone with a decent track record. Now, it is true that the org in question, may have the facts to back up the arguments, but comes to the wrong conclusions, but it does not really help the advocates for one simple reason: "If the experts can't get right, how can I?".
Not required at all, but a nice touch, if wanted.
> naive million by million matrix multipication....how do we reduce this to 1s

A matrix of that size in single precision is 32TB, a better question is how do you store it?
A better way would be for streams to interoperate with a copyright clearance mechanism where, when an artist opts out of the regular stream users still can validate they own a copy and get access through the stream. I have a library of saved songs I never hear on Pandora, and often my favorite artists and songs get dropped leaving a rather bland experience over the long haul.
Agreed. Opened thread just to recommend then.

Based in Switzerland and respects their laws.
They do have to spend money to distribute them, servers, bandwidth, software dev, etc, aren't free.

However I agree that they shouldn't raise prices.
Do artists have a contract with Spotify or with their labels? If it's with the labels, Spotify pays the labels and they give to the artists what they agreed upon, possibly an unfairly low amount of money but contracts are contracts.

The Uruguay parliament should regulate the contracts between their local artists and the labels. Some of them will ban Uruguay artists but some of them, maybe local ones, will intercept the money no matter what.

Or Spotify makes deals with individual artists, but there is a long and thin tail of them.
The bandcamp app is great. You get 2-3 free streams of any album, plus an enormous catalogue of radio shows to discover new music through. It's really reinvigorated my passion for music.

Once you've listened to an album a couple of times, you have to pay for it and then you get unlimited streams.

If there's an artist that isn't on bandcamp (many artists on major labels aren't) then I use plexamp. The monthly bill for that server has effectively replaced my streaming bill.
I had a problem with Zen recently-ish too. Ultimately was an Openreach thing at the local exchange apparently. The good Zen support was still ultimately there, but it took a little time for things to fall into place. Standard L1 checklist inflation. Thankfully though Zen are one of the few ISPs where I felt like it was worth it to send packet traces because a decent chunk of folks there would know what they are.

On the other hand, I think any ISP at the mercy of openreach is doomed to have limited support.

I have fibre to the property, and was having periods of 1hr-2hr day of my gigabit speeds dropping to 4-5MB. openreach themselves were blindly sending engineers to look for an issue that couldn’t physically be at my house.

Not much you can do there either as an ISP or as a customer besides wait for openreach to figure out they’re wasting their own time
He truly was!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMITcQUe-9M
It may be more helpful to pay attention to the ones leaving him in charge if its clear his abilities may not be the right fit.
I suppose the argument wouldn't be about how their revenue is distributed, rather that they should be charging more for their subscription (which is, in my opinion, insanely cheap). They're able to keep it that cheap because they're underpaying artists.
And the value being delivered to you is a huge amount more than you got with 1-2 CDs a month.

But you’re not prepared to pay more for that value?
Promises are now enshrined in the language syntax through the async / await keywords, so I would say they're increasingly unavoidable.
> People aren’t going to pay more so it is in fact not worth more.

Source?
No, users are funding the platform not artists. If someone doesn’t listen to major artists then revenue from them shouldn’t go to said creators.

Spotify however wants to maximize its cut and so has incentives to shift money from less popular artists if it can entice major labels to its platform. This has absolutely nothing to do with what’s fair, it’s simply about profit maximization and reducing the risks of competing platforms.
Sorry, I’m failing to see the difference between this and what actually happens. They currently take 70% of their revenue and split it across artists by stream, and what I’m reading is that you’re proposing is that we take each subscriber’s revenue (presumably less some profit factor - say, 30%) and split it by the artists they stream. What am I missing?

Fwiw, the actual Spotify math is a bit more complicated than just splitting by streams - I.e., https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/21/23971616/spotify-royalti...
The issue is that GoG does not support Linux.

This is a GoG problem which could be solved, but they are uninterested in my money.
it's a nice stretch of straight road. the town is a mere nuisance from the perspective of the motorist passing through. after all in 99.9% of cases nothing would happen if folks would just maintain their speed.
The article debunks the CO2 quantity from only one such emission. There are hundreds of active volcanoes on the Earth's surface and possibly thousands more in the oceans.
It’s worth remembering that it was different greedy jackals getting the lions’ share of money in the CD era, not the artists. Artists rarely got more than 10%.
Revenue is broadly in line with what it's been: https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/

I grew up during the age of peak CD sales, and I still only bought like ten audio CDs in my life, all of them on the secondary market. I essentially didn't spend any money on music before Spotify came along. Now I spend 15 EUR every freaking month.

And it's not just piracy, although it is that, too. Before Spotify came along, I listened to music radio, and I also listened to a lot of free amateur music. And that was at a time when distribution was a challenge; now any artist can create a Bandcamp (or whatever) page in seconds and give away their work.

The entry barrier for making music is just incredibly low. I'm sure only gifted individuals can make exceptionally good music. But most music isn't exceptionally good and loads of people can make music that's good enough to have on in the background, i.e. what Spotify is being used for the vast majority of the time.
>are responsible for funding the entire platform, no?

No, they all are. I wouldn't be a subscriber and I doubt many others would be if they only had the "top" artists that "are responsible for funding the entire platform".

Go through your playlist for a minute and find how many artists aren't "the big ones" and ask yourself if you'd use the platform if the small artists weren't included. The whole point of spotify is ALL music, so ALL music is important, surely?
Inbox was not deterministic. It's like a social media feed for your e-mail. I'd rather have my mails left as-is, and allow me to work with them the way I want.

You don't have to be a "normie" to appreciate simple or old fashioned things. Most of the e-mails I receive is not for quick-consumption, and I prefer the standard way over Inbox's way.

Maybe it was a solution trying to find a problem, IDK. I used it for 30 minutes tops.
New Google Maps Design: "they missed a key opportunity to simplify and scale."
Yeah, I also always think in multiples of 2 when there are bits and bytes into play.
Exactly, things are only worth what people are willing to pay for them and for a lot of people music is relatively low in the pecking order. I pay for spotify but would leave it they raise the prices.
> For a beginner, it has an incredibly steep learning curve vs DirectX as well.

That's only because you refer to DirectX as a whole which includes plenty of older and APIs. If you want to start with those you can just as well start with OpenGL. if you want to jump straight into D3D 12 then that's not much differrent from Vulkan.
Thanks! It definitely passed the weekend well - do share if you end up building it!
OTOH there was the PDP10, the ITS and Emacs with the policy of keeping everyting open and readable from anyone to anyone, the ultimate hacker's machine so everyone could contribute with cool things. The lack of "mistery" kept potential crackers away because when you are a teen there's no pride on entering an already open system.

On Usenet, adding googlegrups to a killfile blocks the 90% of the pests out there. SLRN will happily purge all the SPAM before entering the thread list.
Is there a service that actually gives MP3 downloads? Call me old fashioned but I'll happily pay for a service that actually gives me MP3 files that I can download and keep offline.
> ESNI to the rescue?

IIRC, it's now called ECH, because AFAIK the focus changed from "encrypt the SNI" to "encrypt the whole Client Hello".
Lots of people make quite good music for free, or are dead and no longer care if they get any money (even though in the latter case companies are fleecing listeners long after the artist has died)>
> So that’s a minimum of 4 airliner sized support aircraft, including all of their parts, fuel use, and crew, flying out of a minimum of 2 different bases just to make a single SR-71 operational mission happen.

Why can't it be 2 support aircraft? Is the SR-71 mission too long for the tanker to stay in the air? The tankers can also service other aircraft so they aren't necessarily put in the air exclusively for the SR-71.

It's still an expensive plane though.
> The language provides 3 options for asynchronous handling and doesn’t care what path you take.

The language actually just provides one: async/await.
I'll add to this as well, since it's a comment I see a lot.

I'm not convinced that people would be willing to go back to Piracy. I think the convenience of being able to listen to any song at any time immediately without having to connect your iPhone to your PC, drag the file over, get them recognised, maybe add some metadata. (I know there'll be more modern approaches to this. I don't think they'll be quite as easy as Spotify)

That's not even mentioning music discovery. Most of my music is now from Discover Weekly.
I'm with Zen and don't have the same issues, even farnell.com works fine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_matrix#Storage
Not OP, but I absolutely adored Airsonic-Advanced and DSub from F-Droid. Caching, streaming, quality-adjustment (FLAC on wifi, lower quality ogg on data), adding music, and scrobbling all worked amazingly well. Would very highly recommend, and I have yet to find anything better.
Small indie artists will have contracts with Spotify. Larger artists with labels will have contracts with their labels, who will have contracts with Spotify. As you suspected, the labels typically take a ridiculous cut of streaming revenue.
> Snapdragon can't breathe fire.

When someone tells you to "touch grass" that includes eudicots as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antirrhinum
YouTube Music barely works, is terribly designed even by Google standards, lacks basic features any free music player had in the 90s, and they'll probably shut it down next week anyway.
I don’t think that would necessarily favor small artists. That would just favor artists who are listened to by people who don’t use Spotify a lot.

Right now someone who only streams a few songs gets a very small “vote” (assuming pay is per stream). That would make it so that everyone had the same “voting” power. But I doubt there’s much correlation between people who use Spotify less and small artists. In fact that’s probably a negative correlation if anything, and this could end up hurting local artists.
oh, that seems like a rare breed. (at least in my comfy bubble.) thanks!
Larry and Sergey just need to come back from their vacation and clean house. So much of Google culture used their humor and candidness at TGIF as a lighthouse.
They put all the streams in one pool and then split from there. Popular artists get almost all of it.

When you spend $10 or whatever on streaming, you'd expect $7 to be split between the artists you listen to, but it's not. Instead almost all of it goes to the big artists anyway because in the big streams pool the small artists you listen to have a tiny proportion of listens, even if you exclusively listened to them.

This gets worse when you consider all those shops/cafes/etc with Spotify's top charts playing on repeat. They may be a small percentage of users, but they're an outsized proportion of streams, and almost exclusively big artists.

This is the way it is because big artists have big name labels, and those labels are the only ones who can negotiate, so the deal ends up favoring the big artists/labels.

This is definitely not how most consumers would expect it to all work, and therefore "unfair" seems like a reasonable term to use.
Very good, indeed
If you have a smaller codebase which has had consistent good practices you won't find many things anyway. I have a legacy codebase where ruff finds over 25,000 issues. Many times when I fix all of the issues for a given code (say UP031 just to pick an example) I can then run flake8 and find more valid examples of that same issue. On my desktop running flake8 takes about 7s, so there's literally no reason for me to bother with ruff if it is going to be so much less reliable, even if it is 1000x faster.

Ruff is ok I guess if you barely need it, but I have a medium sized (about 400kloc), quite old, and extremely poorly managed codebase that I support which powers a profitable business. Ruff just can't cope with it, at least as of a few months ago.
note that methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide
Spotify spends millions per month on lavish "creative" team salaries in NYC who do nothing but create gradient playlist covers and other low grade "design" work that is 100% unnecessary. All while they redesign and destroy their UX and product experiences every iteration. All of that money could go straight to the artists.
That definition of abs has merit. In some spaces we are able first to define only an “inner product” between elements p(a, b) and then follow on by naming the length of an element to be sqrt(p(a, a)).

One trick about that inner product is that it need not be perfectly symmetric. To make it work on complex numbers we realize that we have to define it like p(a,b) = a . conj(b) where the . is normal multiplication and the conjugate operation reflects a complex number over the real line.

Now sqrt(p(i+1, i+1)) is sqrt((i+1) . (-i+1)) = sqrt(-i^2 + i - i + 1) = sqrt(2).

I’m skipping over a lot but I wanted to gesture toward where your intuition matches some well known concepts so that you could dive in more deeply. Also wanted to mention the conjugation trick to make your example work!
If I'm listening to only Primus for a month basically none of my subscription goes to Primus.
True, good point. famously never exploitative music contracts. I don't think I've ever heard of a famous artist being taken advantage of via "deals".
Nope. My value to my employer has also gone up tremendously thanks to technology but I'm not seeing an exponentially increased paycheck, nor are most people. Technology exists to make everyone's life's better, not to make you richer.
That link doesn't say anything about the fundamental design goals of the network architecture or training process. It doesn't even mention factual correctness, except in the sense that it may broadly fall under "producing a desired output".
Entangling Two Desktop Windows
doomerism at the society level which overrides individual freedoms definitely occurs: covid lockdowns, takeover of private business to fund/supply the world wars, gov mandates around "man made" climate change.
Modern deep packet identification gear looks at packet size and pacing to distinguish video traffic patterns. It is possible to fool these systems, but it is not trivial.
They're not free, but they're a hell of a lot cheaper than the cost to distribute tons of CDs all over the world taking up loads of shelf space world-wide.
Well, you do need to get licensed to be a driver, and register your vehicle with the government, and you get fined—or worse—if you don’t operate it properly and safely.

So is what you’re asking for? That level of security around AI usage?
Well... before Spotify people learnt to get digital music outside of platforms, they can learn it again

Same with Disney, Netflix, etc.
Spotify is a for-profit company and if they could raise prices without losing customers they would.
Yes, but these scams help people to feel better while also laundering money.

Reduce usage, plant trees, and build more stuff with wood, and turn the leftovers into charcoal to help support the soil.
> Given that destiny, a 1st person shooter, was their flagship game these flaws really jumped out.

In the earliest days of the internal dogfood, there was one game available: Doom (2016). This was very much intentional to make sure the streaming team focused on the twitchy latency-sensitive gaming segment.

> You also really needed good internet. Like really good.

What was more important than really good internet was stable bandwidth -- even a 4k session could work with a 25Mbps downlink, but very few providers will actually give you that guaranteed bandwidth. Similarly, having gigabit speeds from Comcast doesn't matter if you randomly see spikes of bufferbloat where your latency to the server jumps from 10ms to 100 (congrats, you've now dropped several frames).

WiFi similarly struggles to give you predictable delivery (apparently 20ms is a good number for wifi jitter, but that's pretty much the entire latency budget we had allotted for networking).

> all the people that launched it got their promos, saw the writing on the wall, and transferred out.

This is untrue. The shutdown announcement took the whole org by surprise (other than senior leadership). There were hundreds of engineers who were effectively told "you have X months to find a new position in the company, or leave".

It is true that Google didn't get fully behind it, senior leadership was worse than ineffective, marketing was terrible, and our reputation of killing off products meant it never reached the level of market adoption needed to sustain the product. But we had absolutely done our research to figure out the size of the addressable market and what levels of stable bandwidth users could sustain in practice, well before launch.
Much cheaper content has pretty much been normalized and it’s much easier to make free copies of stuff than it used to be. And the money ends up taken from someone which, in music, mostly ends up being the artists.
That is actually not how it works, at least not in any sense that carries meaning in the real world, and that's easily verifiable be checking the counter factual: People pay more for things than they are worth all the time. For example: Marketing courses.
> Back in 2015, five prisoners in Ohio were caught after having reconstructed two personal computers from parts they had been breaking down for recycling.
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> After hacking into the network using dodgy login credentials, they used their access to issue passes for inmates to move around the facility, and in one instance even stole another inmate’s personal information to successfully apply for several credit cards

I mean, bad? Yes. But its also kinda the best XD