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Show HN: Five-couples-meet problem, visual guide to solution
I found this problem in Scientific American in the 70's, and it's been one of my favourites since then. It is possible to solve it without even using pen and paper (I believe I did back then), but I got the idea that some visual guidance could be helping to some. That's why I made this little single-file web "app". (You may add "?lang=no" to the URL to get Norwegian texts.) Have fun!
Property tax taxes both the land and the house on it. Land value tax only taxes the land. For most middle-class homeowners, the house itself constitutes the majority of the overall property value; replacing property tax with land value tax (such that the tax revenue remains the same) would accordingly result in a lower tax burden for most of the middle class. Replacing sales and income taxes with land value tax in the same vein would in turn reduce middle-class tax burdens further and entirely eliminate lower-class tax burdens.

Additionally, one of the side effects of property tax is that it penalizes development; development increases the overall property value, so expanding an apartment complex or what have you results in a higher tax burden. Land value tax doesn't have that issue, and instead does the opposite: you're encouraged to develop your properties as much as possible to cover the land value tax. This in turn helps address housing supply shortages (apartment complexes are motivated to amortize their LVT across as many tenants as possible - and can't price LVT into rents without hurting profit margins, due to land having inelastic supply and therefore land value being driven entirely by demand).
> To be prosecuted if they don't let the public use public land
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Unless you are buying physical media, tbe only way you can actually own something today is to pirate it.
> for which you’ve already bought a license...

Bought a temporary license to use/read/watch. Its not like you bought a digital file. Nope.
I don't know what you're saying here.
Perhaps I wasn't clear, apologies.
Not other products. Google is a video seller and distributor. They have a right to decide what terms they like or don't, just as Walmart does.

As a seller of widget X, there's no way I'd accept a product with a license that says they could just take it back anytime for any reason. No sane seller should agree to that.
I think that's ok. We should care about the well-being of people (and nature), not about the way they actually live their life. If someone wants to work in health care or education, or rather in carpentry or nuclear physics let them. The alternative is some kind of politically motivated utilitarianism.

And certainly don't pay too much attention of these studies. People treat them as gospel, but they aren't. They're more like the yellow press.
I lived in Stockholm for some time before relocating to London. It's a very nice city, good public transport, etc. Depending on where you come from it can be either lovely or very difficult in winter.
I remember reading an article about younger generations not knowing what a file is (or a folder).
Ask HN: What's the value ratio of GPT3's LLM vs. its training data?
I'm curious what the real value of GPT3 is. Do they have a unique LLM or is it the amount of data it's trained on that makes it valuable?

ie, can anyone grab a similar LLM and just train it on more data for it to be more valuable, or is a significant amount of value created with the LLM itself?
Good to know! Thanks for sharing your experience.
Yes you're taking peanuts from the artists and sacks of peanuts from the music corporations, that provide.. er, promotion, a contract, and own the rights to the music the artist created.

Although it is true artists do get something, the lion's share goes to the music corporation.
Own domain name on AWS + Fastmail for email hosting.
>hooks

Why do you keep copying worst parts of react
> And by in large I still agree with it. For me I've only ever turned to piracy when the legitimate service has become a complete mess of red tape and user frustration.

I think service quality is an issue too, at least for me.

Recently I wanted to rewatch Twin Peaks on TV. I found out I can stream it on Sky Showtime, which also has an AppleTV app. Sounds great!

I sign up, pay the cash and start watching.

And they are sending me a 1080p video stream with stereo audio.

This show has 5.1 and 7.1 DTS-MA audio-mixes on Blu-ray, so official surround-mixes definitely exists.

It would have perhaps cost Showtime 200kbps extra to offer me a 5.1 AC3 track?

But instead they will nickel and dime me to save some measly amounts of bandwidth and only give me a 128kbps stereo-track.

I’ll be honest and admit I went out and downloaded a “proper” release for this instead, and the subscription is now cancelled.

Because the service quality was not on par with a pirated alternative.
Genetic, epigenetic, memetic. Why does it matter?
And note that for example on Apple M1 it's essentially impossible to beat an implementation that uses Apple's Accelerate library for things like matrix multiplication, because Apple uses undocumented instructions unavailable to the public in that library.
It's insignificantly safer. The only time it will help is if an attacker makes absolutely zero effort to hide their attack. If they're clever enough to hack the Rustup website or Brew or whatever then they're going to know not to put their exploit in plain sight in the installation script.
Right or wrong, you've completely missed the point.

Some people felt it wasn't worth the slightest bit of sacrifice to save other's lives.

Some people felt all human life was sacred and we should've done everything possible to save every last day of every person's life.

The vast majority of people were in the messy middle, and the debate centered around how much we should give up to save lives - especially when it might have long-term negative consequences.

A lot of people were willing to isolate and wear masks - and the debate centered around whether the government has the right (or should) force people to do those things.

A lot of people thought if you can't force everyone - it's a suckers game. Why should I isolate when other people aren't, and the effects are minimized - etc.

It's not as simple as "mask and isolation good", even if there is good evidence it worked for the initial strains of Covid.
Try to feed everything you just mentioned into ChatGPT and ask it for an elevator pitch or linkedin summary. I am aware that HN is recently a bit fed up with ChatGPT posts but this works surprisingly well and will at least give you a good starting ground.
The First Free and Open Source Software Yearly Conference
Interesting! Using what compiler?
I rip physical media to a reasonable quality and put it on my NAS. I try to add subtitles to it. I don’t mind paying for it, but if I’m going to buy a movie I expect to be able to watch it. It should be easy, portable, and fail safe.
The whole music industry's yearly revenue is less than two months of Google's revenue, so I'm sure there is a way.
Accelerating zk-SNARKs - MSM and NTT algorithms on FPGAs with Hardcaml
Yes that's a fair criticism. I still want to use Spotify for discovery, and I'm not an audiophile, so the quality ends up being sufficient for me.
This article highlights the responsibility that ALL technical workers share. We must be ethical in our actions at all times. For example: Is it ethical to create a biometrics capture & storage system that does not encrypt the data it stores?
i find it interesting that the study minimizes the “working with people” aspects of executive roles.

working with people may be the most important piece of an executive yet they ignore the “working with people” aspects and try to shoehorn it into a data driven role.

seems like an absurd and arbitrary category definition.
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At <0.1% of the population, I don't believe people whose gender does not align with their sex are able to skew the distribution s.t. there is statistical significance.
> Between iTunes and Bandcamp

…and, if I may add, shops like https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop , which fill the gap of providing HQ downloads of popular music that cannot be found on Bandcamp. I have to admit I haven't used them in years (ever since I got a Spotify account) but they used to be my go-to place for purchasing FLACs.
>> On average women find tech work grindingly boring.

> No evidence of that

Are you for real? Have you ever tried to talk to any women about technology? With occasional exceptions, the response you will get is a face that has completely glazed over.

This is only a problem for people who believe in egalitarian ideology - where every group is supposed to be at all times "equal" in ways that are simply not bourne out in reality.
> "The irresponsible handling of this high-risk technology is unbelievable," said Matthias Marx, who led the CCC research group. The consequences are life-threatening for the many people in Afghanistan who were abandoned by the western forces.

> "It is inconceivable to us that the manufacturer and former military users do not care that used devices with sensitive data are being hawked online," Marx continued.

I dare say this will be met by many in the west with <shrug>

> And yet all of this was predictable, because biometric databases cannot be effectively or permanently secured against illegitimate interests.

> What happened in Afghanistan is just a foretaste of the many biometric databases that will fall into the wrong hands in the future.

This might stir a few people though - when it becomes commonplace for roaming police in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, etc to carry hand held devices with compressed offline usable biometric ID scanners ...

What could go wrong?
Personally, I think those would be overly verbose for how buying movies has worked since they were invented. Consumers are already well aware that buying a movie only grants them a license.
Meta comment: “<doing something>… with Rust” feels like a HN meme to me.

I know nothing about Rust, but I’ve noticed that there’s a top post on HN every day that followed this format.
Not all music is available on Bandcamp or Amazon - the availability from what I have seen is quite poor. Its the same issue but the can has been kicked down the road for music a little.
I was addressing the commenter who said they just pirate. I think the article is another matter.
Why would anyone include children in a grownup adult study? Children don't feature any noticeable differences before puberty - that's well understood.
Maybe, with their imperfect information, they shouldn't have decided they had the right to police information.
That's misplaced. You should be annoyed at distros for not agreeing to a reasonable minimal cross-distro package format.

Nobody has time to create packages for 8 different distros.
Digital age isn't about owning stuff. We can "subscribe" to stuff, rent them as long as we don't violate terms and pay in time.

The pros - you're paying for "all-you-can-eat" like approach where everything is available (as long as you pay)

Sadly,
Digital media was never to be owned. (it to be - grant rights to use)
If it's open without no DRM - it can be copied, no real ownership.

It's only rights, unlike physical goods where copying can be more complex to accomplish meaning - we can own something.
I got an empty page myself.
Literally yesterday I encountered the date picker that didn't allow to manually change the value and didn't display whole calendar properly, with days in 5 and 6 row either invisible or not reacting to selection. And when it is obligatory event date field in insurance claim system, it is hard to apply Hanlon's razor.
I believe it looks to see what’s available and otherwise falls back to less efficient implementations.
> That we’re still debating this stuff is ridiculous

That people are still using “move along nothing to see here” is ridiculous.

The world just went through an event of a historical significance comparable to a World War. And there are still new books, movies and documentaries being made about World War 1 and 2…

There are a lot more questions to be asked and lessons to be learned about how COVID was handled. For example we’ve yet to have accurate public data on suicide rates during the lockdowns…
This is great but you should be aware of the cost. Distributing binary wheels for every available platform (including ARM, MacOS, ...) and implementation (PyPy...) is not easy, and not doing it causes really abysmal user experience (doing `pip install requests` and being told you need to install a Rust toolchain to build `cryptography`). Sometimes the performance might not be worth it.

Thankfully there are GitHub Actions and similar tools that help with this.
i pirated my first book on programming. circumstances forced me to: not affordable for a young african surviving on ~$50/mo, no debit/credit card (these payment instruments won’t become popular until mid 2010s), thee general availability of resources via torrent sites. now i don’t pirate my books anymore, or i haven’t found it necessary to. but sometimes piracy agrees with the intentions of the author of the work, disagrees with the distribution mechanism. as distribution becomes worse, as demonstrated in the article, the elegant simplicity of piracy can only become more and more attractive.
I don't think any average consumer, when they click a "Buy" button next to the movie they want to watch, understands that they are only buying a license to watch the movie. Most believe it's just like buying a Bluray disc, but "on the computer".

And yes, I know people are restricted in what they can do with Bluray discs, but as long as you have a functioning player, you can watch the disc. I think that's all anyone has ever expected out of physical media. DRM'd digital media comes with much more uncertainty, and that should be reflected in the terminology used to "buy a license" for it.
but Prime and Netflix don't allow you to watch high-def content on Linux.

I don't know (or care) about "high-def" but I can assure you that Prime and Netflix work just fine on Linux.

Netflix supports UHD on computers

That's not really relevant to me. I don't care about UHD, I just care about being able to watch. I'm not that picky.

Peacock, on the other hand, doesn't work at all.
from the article "You do not own the things you pay for."

That is right! You buy a license that gives you right to consume the content. It is not just Google's fault, everyone is doing this! I believe reason it is so is because of greed and incompetence.

The incompetence becomes apparent when you try to use the content you have access to and it doesn't work.

I am more than willing to pay for content, but once availability breaks down, a use case for piracy/free use is created.
Some relevant info since 86Box is a fork of PCem; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22859695
I used to use checkinstall for this, makes a little uninstallable apt package for you.
Seems that article 8 of ECHR could be relevant indeed.

> S and Marper v United Kingdom [2008] ECHR 1581 – Retention of DNA information in respect of persons arrested but not convicted of an offence was held to breach Article 8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_8_of_the_European_Conv... (section “Case law”)
If the number of bits in the net is smaller than the number of bits in the training data, then training is always going to be a "lossy" operation, losing data in the strictest sense. So from that perspective, the source text is "more" "valuable".

Training is a fairly mechanical operation-- you lay out the architecture, decide on an encoding/weighting scheme, then feed the training data through the net. Not a lot of secret sauce there. (As evidenced in the explosion in competing LLMs after the GPT papers were published)

Going forward, the copyright status and the possible need to pay licensing fees when training a neural net on (say) a book will be hot litigation topic. Before 2019 this just was not a thing at all. ("Fair use" covered anything done to a book in your possession. After a library buys a book, do they pay an additional fee every time a patron opens it?)

Read "Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models" paper for some mediations on the tradeoff between model size and training data volume: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15556.pdf
Good. The sooner everyone stops caring, the sooner we can all think clearly enough about it to get the truth.
Female chimpanzees prefer to play with objects and use them as tools more than male chimpanzees overall. Most often, female chimps are observed using them as play weapons.[1]

On one single occasion, some female chimps were observed carrying some logs and "slapping" them. This was interpreted as playing with dolls and then it was all over the news that female chimps play with dolls.[2]

Humans aren't the only primates with culture. Chimp behaviour varies significantly according to the culture they are in, just like human behaviour does.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6387611.stm

[2]https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(10)...
Sample size of one and whatnot, but I remember when I was a kid, it was pretty darn hard to find the kind of music I liked (think heavy metal that you won't hear on the radio). Sure, a CD was relatively expensive for me at the time. But mostly, it was hard to actually find.

Sure, the latest top 40 and a bit of "common niche" albums (like the usual suspects when it comes to classic music or classic rock) were easy to find. But black and death metal? Not a chance.

I wasn't even living in the middle of nowhere, mind. Just a fairly populous suburb of a major European city. But as a teenager, it was extremely unpractical to travel to the city center, and to even learn about the stores where this music would be sold.

With piracy or Spotify, that issue evaporates.

And actually, Spotify is much better. Because it's much quicker and practical to just search Spotify and click play, than it is to browse dubious trackers, not knowing if or when I might get my download. Plus, with Spotify connect, they can be sure I won't be cancelling my plan anytime soon.
Safari IS new IE.

I have submitted 10s of webkit bugs and most of them will never get fixed.

New bugs randomly appear in every OS update.

5 year old cheap android device can handle complex webpages really well, but my 1500 eur brand new iPhone runs out of memory. iOS Safari is really buggy.

I work with online maps.
Flutter is quite terrible on the web. I don’t think they use WASM either, I think Dart just gets compiled to JS.
Advocate for violence is cool again... for people who don't agree with you
Yes, he was very careful in his wording and close to 100% correct.

What the outrage mob did was as follows:

1. Change preference to ability: so "the research suggests that women, on average, prefer to do things other than code" to "women can't code"

2. Change a statistical argument to an essentialist one. So "on average" to "no women"

3. Change the population/sample from the general population to "people who work at Google". So at this point we have gone from "in the general population, there appear to be more men who like the sorts of tasks associated with coding than women who like the same kinds of tasks" to "Women at Google can't code"

4. Get horribly upset about someone claiming that they can't code.

5. Use the demonstrable fact of their being so horribly upset as evidence that he is the one creating a toxic work environment.

6. Voilà, he just has to go.

(7. Also: claim, falsely, that there is no research for what he said)

This multi-level shifting of definitions and wording is a common pattern, so something to watch out for.
This is an incredible exciting development. One thing I would like to point out is that the existence and progress of this PR is showing that there has been a change in approach in Rust over the last year or so which wasn't there previously. A lot of long standing issues were basically blocked on them just being too big to solve due to the surface area. Now the Rust project is more willing to slice problems down into smaller sets and giving those a try.

This ABI will be limited, but despite those limits it has a lot of utility.
Isn't it that downloading is not illegal if you own the content already? If you're downloading and uploading at the same time it's different since you might be facilitating a download for someone who hasn't purchased it. That will be different between countries.
I have to disagree that it can all be explained by societal conditioning. They tried to sample every society they could in this study to see if societal factors could explain the preference but could not see a societal effect. While you might be able to claim that every society around the world is fundamentally sexist to explain the difference in preferences, I think in that case you would have to be able to explain why every distributed society came to be arranged in a similar way.
Jim Baker is a double agent for the FBI. Everyone is Quite obvious of why he was there.
I have no issue in paying the premium Deezer subscription with access to FLAC (16/44) files to build up my DJ-friendly music archive. I never play out/stream/upload mixes so audio only leaves the house if I save a mix on my phone for a long bike ride or run. Many artists get a healthy chunk of my cash for physical media (vinyl) via Bandcamp too.
>I dare say this will be met by many in the west with <shrug>

Given that they shrugged off the wrong false accusation, bombing, invasion, and occupation of the same place, it's a sure bet
I’m not in the author’s position, but generally agree with the conclusion on digital products you might own. If I buy a digital thing, and it comes in a format I can’t own, I pirate it. I’m glad I paid the rightful recipients whatever pittance they got for royalties or whatever their pittance is… and then I get a version of the thing which is in a format I could give my figurative terminally ill family with no digital expiration.

Maybe sometimes that’s technically illegal, because the law is wrong. Fuck the wrong law. I’m unfortunately not done with Google, but I’m done with rentals for sale.
> I don't even know a non technical person that doesn't curse under their breath when a date picker pops up.

I used to designed software for factory automation and every time there’s dates involved the datepicker is always an explicit requirement. I tried to ignore that once (they were more annoying to implement back in the days) and the plain text field didn’t even get past the first meeting. I guess “non technical person” is not as coherent a group as you may imagine.
I think most react-based projects that need data fetching should absolutely be using SWR (https://swr.vercel.app/).

It's light enough to be worth it from a very small amount of API calls. Having caching and loading states is a significant UX bonus very quickly.
> James’s mistake was to want to discuss taboo topics in _public_ and in a _working environment_.

It was a private report he was asked to write, that got leaked by someone else.
That's not what was advocated.

He recognised, as a manager, that Damore was that person that provokes people to the point where normal everyday people want to punch him.

Part of being a good manager is recognising people's traits.
A simple WiFi QR code reader for Windows.

Just show a WiFi QR code in front of your integrated webcam and this program will extract password and dump it into your clipboard.
Huh, didn't even notice that yt-dlp can do it automatically. Thanks.
Why host vms at home?
And as long as you have a functioning YouTube "player" you can watch the movies you've purchased from Google. It's the same thing.