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The real answer is that the FTC is pursuing the currently canonical Democrat party regulatory agenda of trying to stop big companies from getting bigger (search terms “Neo-Brandeisian” and “market power”). This goes along with the general optics / narrative that regulators “failed” to stop big acquisitions that, in hindsight, made Big Tech more competitive (the most common examples are Google acquiring DoubleClick and YouTube, and Facebook acquiring WhatsApp and Instagram). This deal had a large headline price ($70B / “biggest gaming acquisition ever”), so the FTC opposed it knee-jerk and has tried to justify it post-hoc.

Most of the comments here are uninformed on the law and the underlying market dynamics. My job involves analyzing the games market and there is no reasonable support to the claim that this deal will significantly harm competition in itself. Various parties might not like it for various reasons, but it would be pretty bog-standard, business-as-usual in video games. Activision is big but its portfolio isn’t big enough to single-handedly sew up the market for long. Huge swings happen every decade and no content or IP is guaranteed to keep its influence for very long. Xbox is in a distant third among consoles and MS would lose more money by pulling their biggest titles from the biggest console platform (PlayStation) than they’d gain by muscling more device share. They’d also degrade the value of the product because cross-platform play is basically table stakes and gamers would move towards games they can play together. MS is proving all this by offering all other platforms access to said content (which Nintendo and most others have accepted, but Sony has performatively refused). Some smaller content will be held exclusive, but that’s the running standard in the industry and has been for all time.

So, the FTC really doesn’t have shit here. They’re going to lose the ongoing injunction case and by all likelihood MS will close the deal before the July 18th deadline.

The UK’s Competitive Markets Authority is also holding it up (but notably, no other major regulator has objected, including the EU which has the most regulatory credibility). Playstation has a huge corporate presence and its European HQ in the UK, so the CMA is likely driven by local lobbying strength combined with similar political motivations (further bolstered by pressure from the current FTC commissioners, which has been reported). The CMA’s objection is (amazingly) even more poorly constructed, based on the argument that this will make future “cloud gaming” markets uncompetitive. I’ll spare you the details, but that is even more comically ridiculous than the FTC case. Once the FTC loses this injunction, the CMA will have to fold or else they will be embarrassed as a regulatory body by Microsoft closing the deal over their objections and showing them to have no teeth (and no clue).
Is the any reason someone would choose to use it under the weird Polyform licence over the GPL?
> risks of nuclear acciden

Which are completely insignificant compared direct damage (even if we completely ignore climate change…) from burning coal.
This is strongly regional, some do but most restaurants in more urban-ish US areas don't close between lunch and dinner in my experience. Had some culture shock in Europe when there's zero prepared food available for purchase in a whole town at 2pm.
I know this isn't exactly on topic. I haven't played video games since I was a teenager, but I'm struck by how cheap consoles are now!

I remember the Xbox and Playstation being prohibitively expensive. I just looked it up, the Playstation was $749 AUD [1] and the Xbox was $649 AUD [2]. I had to wait yeeeears for the price to fall so I could get an Xbox.

Today, I can get a Playstation 5 Digital Edition for $649 AUD on the Sony website, or $794 AUD for the "normal" edition from Amazon.

The Xbox series X is similarly priced, at $749 AUD.

Given inflation since then, these are prices many teenagers could realistically save up for now.

[1] https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/82336/ps2_debut_november_3...
[2] https://news.microsoft.com/2002/03/14/xbox-goes-global-with-...
> But they don't have a table of contents at the start that people tediously read and then exactly the same thing again at the end.

I think tables of content are great for live presentations, especially if your slides have some indicator where we are currently. It's just too easy to get lost or slide away, especially in engaging and thought provoking presentations. That way I can get back to where we are, where we come from and where we're headed.

But I agree that it's super annoying to actually present that stuff multiple times. It should be a navigational device, not content.
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But, since people who lived through this time are still alive we have oral history and other approaches.

I think this catalogue is illustrative of an ideal. And, other catalogues will tell a similar story.

As a child of prior times I certainly recognised social coding in the change from old kitchen ware to new. The utility function of Teflon was high but the ability to signal "I can afford to buy new things" was also high.

Tupperware was pure utility function in colours, but it failed to signify success. Snobs like me rather looked down on it (shamefully, I regret my past)
They welcome shallow challenges that allow them to demonstrate their intellectual superiority by correcting them.

They most certainly don't welcome challenges to the basic assumptions on which their teachings rest.

Not that professors are in any way unique in that regard; it is a trait shared by all people with power and authority.
One can only dream this level of analysis and falsification would be the norm in academic publishing.

Sadly, this is an extreme outlier for now.
It's technically not quite that way, shutting down a nuclear reactor doesn't destroy it like a blast furnace. However it might be practically true after a couple of years. The institutional knowledge is gone, many moving parts degraded due to stillness. And also a lot of relicensing to do. That must be way harder for a plant that's not currently operational.
The wind component averages out over time or is slightly in favor of the aircraft because you would aim for optimal wind by selecting a preferred altitude.

But air miles and car miles are not equal. The car route is nearly always longer, even in flat terrain roads don't usually go in a straight line to the destination. Adding in mountains or water makes that worse for the car.

For example driving Amsterdam to Barcelona is 1554km according to Google Maps. The flightplan route is 1236km and usually the really flown route is a bit shorter if ATC allows. That's 20% less miles for the airplane.
You may be right. Still, the excess energy production is in Sweden so it should be possible to reshuffle that money.
The rights granted by GPL apply to the version I gave you. It doesn't obligate me to keep giving you new versions.
But it's so fun watching people spend time and money chasing their shadow. And considering that materialism is still the academic consensus on consciousness by a wide margin, it might be quite the spectacle for still many years to come.

Though, there's a tiny, but growing, idealist movement, where all the fun is being had. Last year I was acquainted with the works of Don Hoffman and Bernardo Kastrup. To anyone interested in a rational and difficult to refute discourse on the proposition that consciousness, not space-time (i.e. matter), is fundamental, I suggest as an introduction their respective interviews with Zubin Damania. Dense in content, yet made accessible. One of the most transformative rabbit holes I've ever gotten into.

Here's the red pill :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd6CQCbk2ro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZWp0bnMBbM
Probably this license is best put under another definition. I expect the Ethical Source folks would be willing to define this license as ethical.

https://ethicalsource.dev/
I agree with you, with one small difference.

First a bit of backstory.

I've got a 7year old, she loves playing games, no matter the game she will give it a go. She wants to play games marketed for kids, but nothing sticks for too long, because usually they are way too complicated for a 7year old who can't read/comprehend that much English (it's a second language).

So those older games... The ones that we grew up on, that were simple because of hardware limitations... Are kind of perfect.

You could say that our generation grew up in a kind of perfect window for games, they got more complex as we got older, not just because we got older, but also because hardware allowed for more complex games/stories to be made.

My daughter really really wants to play the new Zelda, but I refuse to buy it as we have breath of the wild. She knows if she finishes BOTW, she can have the new game... She played maybe 2 hours tops before tapping out and playing some kind of shovelware sandbox game on Xbox Gamepass. Which allows her to play however she wants, with no complex systems.. just simple gameplay and no timelimits.

Gamepass is awesome if you've got kids!
What does it mean to be greater than the sum of your parts? It is more than just alignment, everybody moving in the same direction: that would just be a well directed sum.Once upon a time, management talked about alignment because just being the sum of your parts would be great if it was all in the same direction. Now, for everybody obsessed with being a force multiplier, it needs to be more than just that.

You should find yourself more capable in such an organization, but that is a tall order in today's world. Almost every problem you will face has been solved and help is easy to find even on your own. So being in such an organization should make you more capable of solving problems than your base ability. Someone must have already solved that problem for you and the solution must be in easy reach. That's still a tall order, most solutions you find described on the internet are also in easy reach nowadays.

Your platform can also make people less capable. It is easier to be a force multiplier with a coefficient less than one. Make it more difficult to solve problems. Require them to communicate with many teams in order to accomplish anything. Make the solution difficult to integrate and operate and highly non-standard. If the solution is non-standard and the documentation is anything short of impeccable, it will basicly be unlearnable.

The book Accelerate and the research backing it indicates that the most productive teams are able to redesign their entire system without talking to anyone and to complete their work without communication and coordination to other teams. Effective platforms advance that. They make it easy for people to redesign their systems to implement good designs. Bad platforms reduce that capability beyond what a person would ordinarily have and user complaints are brushed off with a tautological, "You can't make everyone happy." Bad platforms narrow possibilities and then require product teams to beg platform teams to allow ordinary designs that were cut off.

I'm on a platform team and I struggle sometimes trying to figure out if we are helping people or hurting them hence this philosophical rant.
"An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop."

— Iain M. Banks, Excession

Despite being fictional, it seems at least as correct as your saying.

Also applies to corporations.
I like gaming on the couch. All my friends are on either Xbox or PC and, seeing as I don’t want to game on a PC, Xbox is perfect. Quick resume, SSD, and enhanced backwards compatibility make the Series X the best console I’ve ever had. This definitely reads like an ad lol but figure I’d give you some insight into why people still buy Xbox.
> Sounds a bit like those places aren’t at the scale where a platform team makes sense.

But so many orgs want to believe they are Google scale and you’re stuck with premature teams such as Platform Engineering. Then it just explodes and suddenly you have a director of platform Engineering and multiple sub teams and suddenly OKRs, ADRs, RFCs, team charters and perpetual Kubernetes upgrades and nobody can question its existence any more
Also, in most dutch both parents have a job. As daycare is very expensive for some reason, both parents work one day less to take care of their children at home.
Well, the comment you're replying to reads (too me) as being sarcastic of the article author. Along the lines of "why are you adding the persons country of origin in a negative way?".

Seems kind of similar to how authors from some countries commonly include the skin colour of people they're describing, as if it makes a difference. The US is a stand out example of it, though it's likely not the only one.
Yes, I've recently heard some mention of this survey being skewed/buggy, which is a pity because I do not know anything better. IIRC Linux systems were underrepresented.
That is linked from the page, and the mail includes more than just the test.
100% agree, and other EU nations have done exactly this. Unfortunately that (a new windfall tax) will never happen with the current government and political interests in Sweden.
> What does it mean to be greater than the sum of your parts?

In my experience it's mostly automation and observability. Delegating as much stuff as possible on tools as opposed to humans, empowering the latter to fix things.
An LLM is a million times better than a YouTube video because it can stop and re-explain anything specific that is confusing you, or have discussions about tangential but off-curriculum topics, ask you questions based on its own appraisal of your understanding and gaps, etc.

Might not be a full teacher but its definitely an excellent teaching tool
it's not a product, but that transformers paper that came out of there is proving to be pretty, er, transformative
They've already had this in my country (UK) for a good few years. Billboards with ads occasionally scroll past the cityscape. I'm not overjoyed by it, but it's implemented quite tastefully and they're often advertising shows, which is perhaps the most cohesive thing they could advertise there.

I assume there's probably a way to pay to remove ads, but the nature of the Roku app store is that you can replace the screensaver with anything you want anyway.

Overall I think it's a fairly harmless addition, and I'm all for it if it helps keep the Roku devices priced at the excellent value point they're at.
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The 2600 was also my first game console. I played it a lot, even after the Spectrum 128K arrived home. But, as much fun as I had with it, I have a similar issue with it now: I would happily play a SNES game now, but I have zero interest in playing an Atari 2600 game. I mean, I would play Qbert, but the graphics/sound would put me off enough to try the Commodore 64 version instead, and I have never touched a C64.

In fact, I have the same problem with the NES. For me the SNES is exactly the sweet spot.
A quick and dirty way to do this is run the program through `strace` and find out what syscall it issues to read it.

I had to do this to figure out where Cold Steel was reading save files from years back: https://vaughanhilts.me/blog/2018/02/16/playing-trails-of-co...
< for political reasons

well, and for technical ones. Since this a tech-heavy board, I expect it to be common knowledge here that you can't operate a grid on wind and solar alone, as you can't control the weather-based output (which, in the case of solar, also has a tendency to maximize when it's -not- most needed). A grid needs a controllable baseline source to have any stability. That can be gas or any other fired plant, it could sometimes be hydro, but it can also be nuclear.

Burning things up is a climate nightmare (though still where about 90% of world power comes from), and also very much more expensive in Europe now than it used to be.
Hydro can't be built just anywhere you like, and if the river is also a waterway, also can't be controlled based on energy need (as it is controlled based on traffic demands).
So until we get a fusion plant, nuclear is just a predictable decision tree outcome.
it is quite amazing given just 5 years ago that Intel PR mouthpieces were still trying to convince people that why they don't need anything more than 4 cores on desktops.
You're not completely off, the IEA recommends still building out nuclear and keeping existing plants alive. [0]

I've seen several analysis' such as [1] that tend point towards renewables being cheaper than nuclear power, even when taking transmission and storage into account. Better transmission cables to require less storage, plus overprovisioning and using the surplus power to create e-fuels and similar is a pretty viable alternative.

So the short answer is - is nuclear necessary? - no. Is building out new nuclear cheaper than building out new renewables + storage? Also probably no - but that might change if small scale modular reactors really take off.

However is keeping nuclear plants around a good idea? Absolutely.

[0] https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/ad5a93ce-3a7f-461d-...
[1] https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-and-wind-keep-getting-chea...
I read a great comment on HN that argued that super-human intelligence is not that “OP” advantage — and it really did convince me.

Life is a game with elements where intelligence matters, plenty where it is pure luck, and others where we have a bunch of unknowns (data).

Would a super-intelligent AI have a significant advantage in a game of Monopoly, for example? I think many sci-fi scenarios fail to take this into account, especially the data aspect. Humans are quite intelligent (in the extremes at least), and any extra over that may well be in the diminishing returns category.
tass.com was not a link?

Also I do not see, where tanks on the road to moscow were fake. It was the russian way of doing politics.
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Found a short blurb of theirs:

"BrowserBox powers multiple use-cases, including: in-app browsing, co-browsing, remote isolated browsing, easy 3rd-party embedding, and human-in-the-loop robotic RPA monitoring and interaction."

Essentially, it is remote desktop for the browser, converting rendered pages into images that are transmitted to the client instead of html. The demo shows interacting with Youtube and watching a video.
> but this is a better system for the elite.

Empirically it’s better for everyone. So yes, you’re technically correct
It would be useful (although more difficult) to know how many effective hours people put in every week.

I have a real big difficulty believing that most white-collar people can get over 20 effective hours a week, irregardless of their number of office hours. I also suspect that there's no correlation between office hours and effective hours.
Then take back all the polluting industries you off shored to China because otherwise you can say good bye to 50-70% of the things around you
Source? I see estimates from 6m to 150. I don’t think anyone really knows, but I expect it’s more like 6, which is somewhere around a good developers nest egg.
> At places with basically no platform team, no advanced cloud setup etc, I as a dev could understand everything, and deploying mostly meant getting my jar file or whatever running on some ec2 instance.

With an ec2 instance, how do you, for example, update the Java version? Store the database password? Add URLs the service is served at? If it’s done manually how do you add a second instance or upgrade the os?

Though, I agree the infra setups are usually overly complicated, and using a “high-level” service such as Heroku or one of its competitors for as long as possible, and even longer, is usually better, especially for velocity.
Disappointed that my phone wasn't actually able to pick up the QR code.
To that end, I wonder if there are benchmarks or standard methods that also measure “deep” utilisation — not just keeping cores “busy” but actually saturating their processing capacity.
It's possible to extrapolate from a horoscope too, it's just not that useful. Let's talk about the massive difference in the extrapolation being done here, climate change vs AI.

In climate change, we are analyzing historical climate data using weather models representing known physical processes. We try to predict the data using these models, and we are only able to do so if we include the forcing from greenhouse gases. From this we can constrain the range of impacts these gases could be having on temperature and forecast likely futures. The forecasts are heavily informed by a thoroughly validated base of prior knowledge, not just drawing lines through a log log plot.

None of this has any counterparts in AI. We don't understand AI systems to anywhere near the level that physics affords understanding of physical systems. We don't even understand them at a Moore's Law level, where you can at least know what engineering innovations are in the pipeline and how far they could plausibly go. Predicting the sophistication of future AI is just Nostradamic prognostication.

Yann LeCun recently gave a presentation arguing that LLMs are a dead end and proposing a completely different approach. His arguments were extremely heuristic and unconvincing, but this at least shows that both sides have bigwigs with unconvincing heuristic arguments.
I just like having the entire collection of files in one place, some of them are textbooks or reference books that don't sit well in either app entirely, and while I also keep novels there in a separate subcollection, most of my ebooks are non-fiction, where topics are the same or related to the rest of material I already keep in Zotero.

Some are non-academic PDFs, blueprints, guides, whitepapers or manuals that I refer to for a given project, and while this is not the main purpose of Zotero, as it is a research-oriented tool, it still proves more useful than other tools, tidier than classical folders+files, and less of a hassle than coming up with my own system using something like Obsidian's dataview plugin.

Calibre I prefer it to fix the metadata of my ebooks, but the local reading story isn't ideal for me. I've tried serving the collection over self-hosted web apps, to keep the page progress like calibre-web, but it wasn't ideal for me or conducive to what I look for:
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
> including the US.

Just barely. Also you should be comparing it to a single city in the US.
The only real offputting thing there is arrogance but I don't think the author here is particularly arrogant either.
I prefer Inform6, a dumb as hell OOP language but you can go to "low level" stuff in order to implement things. Also, it has Spanish support thru infsp6, which is my native language.
Frankly, I dont understand why most people go playstation. Think objectively about it: if youre on hnews, you're not the target for a console, as you probably either dont play games, or play games on the PC. Then, the majority of people probably have a switch because nintendo is a very common household name. Then once you surpass all of those groups, you have ps5 or xbox. But why do people buy a ps5 when gamepass is so good, and the only real difference is cost (xbox wins) and exclusives (this generation, there aint a huge difference).

Anecdotal, but I know a huge number of people that play games casually, and almost all of them have playstations if they arent PC/switch. Why? I have no idea. Nearly none of them have any interest in any playstation exclusives, they just bought a playstation because. Why? No idea.
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