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Hey, some lovely thoughts, cheers.

I think what's going on with Mozart is play. Far from being
frivolous play can be a very serious exploration of form, but often
unstructured and, from the outside, incomprehensible. Robin Williams
comes to mind as someone in that "play zone" with words. Maybe Moxart
didn't want/need to, or never found a way to incorporate psychological
life into his music. Indeed, maybe it was a distraction from it.

For me, Beethoven is better explained by struggle. Sometimes the
beauty of an artist is in the fact that they're not technically that
brilliant, or they face an impediment. Overcoming is a primary
intrinsic motive, and they go on not merely to overcompensate but
achieve a level of unique brilliance. Django Reinhardt's unique
guitar, incorporating two missing fingers, comes to mind.

Perhaps both can be understood as states of flow that feel right for
that particular artist. Not sure how much Mihály C14i's "flow" concept
is applied to whole life experiences, but some people clearly find
their sweet-spot in the struggle zone - overcoming themselves - for
example as a mountaineer.

Perhaps tangentially, absence is an amazing device. I wrote about it
in designing sound, because an implied, missing thing is actually a
very common device for sound designers, who often need to work like
magicians, carefully (mis)directing the listener.

If done well it can lead to assumption, where the audience fully
believe the missing thing to be literally there. A revealed assumption
can then be used, which may be shocking or funny, for example via the
crafty cinematography of Tak Fujimoto in Shyamalan's Sixth Sense, we
assume by implied interactions that Bruce Willis is in the same world
as everyone else, until the sting. Mozart putting in that last bar of
explicit melody is playfully rubbing our noses in our assumption
Totally but it’s the correct comparison to make. Most people can move to other parts of the UK, not to Japan
... the entire Germany in the most comprehensive and pervading (bureaucratic process integration kind of way) that is conceivable for a human being in 21st century. Germany.

https://www.dw.com/en/germans-use-more-paper-than-any-other-...
I'd be willing to bet you drink a lot of water and also brush regularly. Am I right? Because that's what I do and I've 2 cavities in 40 years of life.
I can't see what you might be referring to. Even topics around quantization are fundamentally about information theory and not really computer science per se. It could just as easily be an explanation that your CS department is better-funded and more interested in tackling those problems -- statistics departments tend to be a bit behind the curve in this regard, but that doesn't magically move an entire branch of science somewhere else in the taxonomy.

Maybe if you can explain what you mean instead of merely providing some vague assertion, we could have a real conversation about it. In my experience, though, the hype train around software engineering has incited CS departments to retcon a lot of things as CS-related so that their grant writers have an easier time securing funding.
Yes, I am suggesting that. Unless you believe that one can't think about work duties while cooking dinner. Otherwise she would forget entirely about your person at home.
But I want to tackle this from a more serious angle, have you researched common signals of romance scams? The black site excuse to not use a phone is very suitable for a guy pretending to be a woman so he doesn't need to get a phone number and a voice modifier (a poor job at either would lead to destroying the scam)

Plus... wouldn't a black site also not have mail?
Man: "I'm a marketing manager who lives in the suburbs and commutes to
work on the highway. I live alone, so of course I needed a car that
can seat 12 and is equipped to drive across arctic tundra... it just
makes me feel better!"

Woman: "The new Maibatsu Monstrosity... mine's bigger!"
Should've hired me, I'm a nice dev and can keep secrets.
The layer seems closed source, or at least not developed out in the open, so you can't easily file a bug I think.
There have been shenanigans where articles describing fictional lore have been taken down or merged with other articles due to being against Wikipedia policy ("Wikipedia is not a game manual"). e.g. see endless discussion on the Dungeons and Dragons Plane article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Plane_(Dungeons_%26_Drago...

For instance, under that policy, this article was taken down https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plane_of_Shadow&o... and "merged" (with loss of information) to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)#P...

I saw a comment accusing Wales of enforcing this policy in order to direct traffic to Fandom. I thought when I read it that the accusation was uncalled for, but given Fandom's intransigence about taking old wikis down and the money-grubbing quality of its UX, I have wondered. Whatever the merits of this policy, it is applied inconsistently or not at all to topics not likely to be in Fandom.
If you think that's odd, look into Nintendo's history.

And for that matter, Amazon started just selling books.
> You do not own your phone, or your PC if others can control

You are forgetting the car. With internal microphones cameras, locators and wireless connections to distribute collected data, a "spying system" is installed in your own property (which some do not really consider "property" anymore), and it is more difficult to remove it compared to mobile computers.

They can also come with an embedded kill-switch (planned apparently so that rented vehicles can be disabled if the service is unpaid): so you may be driving a vehicle with a subsystem intended to remotely stop it from working, planned to be outside the control of the driver.

Software, features and data - which could change outside the control of the owner - are a further step.

This is not "ownership". (Further to the privacy and security issues.)
It's genetic, some people just have thicker and strong enamel and salivary activity. Just like some people are scrawny and others are naturally strong without really trying
Nice work!

I often think about the "reinventing the wheel" argument. Isn't open source about diversity? There are so many fork, clones, "Yet another..."'s (yacc, yaml,...).

So many times I'm looking for suitable go libraries that solve a certain problem. There might be a few out there but every lib has its own pros and cons. Having the possibility to choose is great. Nothing sucks more than depending on a unmaintained clib nobody cares without alternatives.

The only counter-example that comes in my mind is crypto. You don't want to do your own crypto.
The planet is our lab. We have to keep the lab clean, ordered and well-functioning; it doesn’t mean we have to refrain from doing anything there.
And there I was, assuming someone else sees all those militia types and tacticools as LARPing out their war heroism and combat fantasies as adults, only with real weapons instead of wooden ones.

That being said, my wooden "E-11 replica" is still around at my uncles place, 30 odd years later.
Bombing at any crowded place causes terrible result, so I don't know is it make sense to inspect especially for train. Airplane is a different case since it become a missile.
Everything Is My Fault
I think he's referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37125118

Controlling token outputs to match a regex generates valid JSON 100% of the time!
Absolutely agree.

I did a 7 mile each way cycle commute in London for many many years. Absolutely loved it.

Reliable, consistent travel times, and never affected by train/tube strikes. The number of times I was delayed by a puncture or other mechanical was way less than the number of times I was delayed by random public transport problems.

I was so much fitter when I was doing it, especially when I built up to doing the occasional commute running. (Cycle in, leave extra clothes at work, run home, run in the next day, cycle home.)

I miss it now that I WFH. I know I can just go out and do a similar type of ride but it's just too easy not to. It was much easier to set off to work in the rain by bike as I knew I had to get there and going by train/tube was even more miserable.
That’s an argument for spending elsewhere, not London. London is already busy and crowded.

I’m pretty tired of this belief that it wasn’t investment that made London the economic giant it is - it infects even the DfT and treasury. Invest properly in other cities and they will be equally prosperous.
I would assume the _reason_ the picture is being taken is the primary driver of that bias, and in this case, they're both professional photographers with similarly nice equipment and public portfolios that are involved in creating income for them.

Plus, the picture obscures it, but you can see the waves coming for a good distance. You'd expect two drummers to be on beat without much difficulty.
There should be, and it should be under /changelog!
Was there a bombing plane map in Counter Strike? I vaguely remember a not so popular hostage map from way back the day...
Any chance getting reply notifications into the roadmap?
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Here's the hole in your logic: even if Netflix has no desire to operate a particular business anymore (despite presumed profitability), if the business was, in the general sense, desirable (i.e. because profitability), then it would be worthwhile to Netflix to simply sell the business to another entity. Surely, for a desirable business, Netflix should be able to find a buyer for $1 or higher. That would let Netflix liquidate the asset / business while keeping the business running.

Tech industry economics are besides the point. Suppose tech industry economics expects (for the sake of argument, insanely) an internal rate of return of 300% on every dollar spent, while the IRR of the disc business is some measly fraction of that. By liquidating the disc business, Netflix gets to take whatever proceeds from the liquidation - even if it's only $1 - and put it towards other internal usages that it expects that 300% IRR from.

A price like $1 is so small that, presumably, you would go to whoever the current salaried worker is responsible for managing the disc business, offer them ownership for $1, and the manager-worker would happily take the opportunity to become a manager-owner of the desirable business that employs him at a price that anyone could afford.

Of course, in the real world, there are various costs involved. So presumably, (a) the costs associated with liquidation are lower than the costs associated with spinning off the disc business, and (b) whatever the cost associated with spinning off the disc business, no buyer could be found for at least the sum of that cost plus $1; that such costs are indeed above what the salaried manager-worker of the current disc business could afford.

Maybe that's bullshit, maybe not, I don't understand enough about Netflix's disc business to know. But Hanlon's Razor is the better guide here. Either Netflix's board is going where the money is leading them to go, or they're leaving money on the table for malicious reasons, and the second doesn't make sense since it would expose them to shareholder lawsuits.
Schelling point
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I guess the fundamental problem is that there is money in showing webpages for the sake of it, due to ads.

It is like litter.

Paper ads are somewhat limited due to consumer complaining about having their mailboxes filled with them and someone has to go there and put it in and can't avoid a homeowner guarding the mailbox if they would force the issue.

Using e.g. uBlock Origin might be the most impact for no effort environmentally friendly thing you could possibly do.
I agree - having to tell a database that something was processed, and fire off a message into RabbitMQ, say, is never 100% transactional. This would be my top reason to use this approach.

> With a Postgres queue, if you insert the job to send the email and then in a later part of the transaction, something fails and the transaction rollbacks, the email is never queued to be sent.

This is true - definitely worth isolating what should be totally separate database code into different transactions. On the other hand, if your user is not created in the DB, you might not want your signup email. Just depends on the situation.
I wonder if japan has a different regulatory structure - allowing this to happen there as opposed to other parts of the world, with different laws.
Something seems funny to me about this bill.
The article seems to state:

> the legislation has more Republican co-sponsors than Democratic backers at the moment, raising questions about just how many Democrats might sign on.

And I can't for the life of me think why Democrats wouldn't sign on to this bill unless it doesn't do what it says it does (prevent gov't shutdowns)?

The best I can think of is that the terms of it must not be favorable in the interim? So Republicans would be less incentivized to get some spending bills through? (Nothing so permanent as a temporary fix that works). In which case this would risk hamstringing Congress' ability to just pass laws.

It's hard to imagine that being worse than congress' own ability to hamstring itself, but I guess we might see.
Newcastle here - yep, you wait for a bus to get to work and it just doesn't arrive. That isn't once in a blue moon thing, it's a regular daily thing to a point where you literally can't rely on public transport to get to work or to school.
Nintendo is actually thinking about the future by teaching children how to remember an IPv6 address, how considerate of them!
I think it mostly depends on purpose. Crypto is being reinvented several times a day by students needing to understand the mechanics of various algorithms.

Personally, I find it rewarding to reimplement something known. There is always a solution when you are stuck, and who knows. Maybe one will develop a better API for the system of something else.
How many people do you think won't have access to high speed internet in 10 years? It's a dying business.
Also, it's extremely windy.
How do I create a GGUF model file?
Where is the privacy policy, and who are you sharing the submitted data with?
It only takes an insurrection if you leave the problem to fester too long ..
The issue that held up the deal was the 20 person writers room minimum requirement. It's sounded like a negotiating position than a realistic demand, but other than that all the other demands they held were met.

As for AI, it's not particularly useful yet so the studios were prepared to concede on that issue, but this deal expires in three years time and by then they may not be so willing to compromise on it.
LaLiga are some of the most egregious group for privacy concerns, it was a few years ago their own app would record your position and the audio around to ensure you were watching at a licensed bar for example [1].
It's rich that they would be so concerned with other apps purposes.

1) https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/06/12/spains-la-liga-app...
Dictators power depends on the peoples fear .. this is why it always takes courage to remove a dictatorship.
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But you don’t have to go to Japan to make a comparison, you can, as the GP suggested, look at the rest of the country which has abysmal public transport - not fit for purpose - where at least it mostly works in London.

Before another penny in capital expenditure is spent on TFL, every other city in the country needs a metro and decent bus services.
OsmAnd already has a way of showing elevation in the same manner
If you rent a vehicle, then by definition, you are not the owner though?

EDIT: I also note that there was another topic on HN not too long ago about car manufacturers being accused of not doing enough about theft (apparently "smart" locks are easy enough to bypass). So a "locate my car/laptop if stolen" feature is a trade-off against privacy and other risks. Personally I think the choice should be with the device owner in the end, but obviously, a remote tracking feature that a thief can easily disable is not much use for end-users who do want the feature.
I’m sad to say that it feels like you are right. I didn’t mean that Netflix is all good, I just meant that we also have an ecology question here that’s involved, not just the money. If it generates tons of money but also generates tons of waste— do we really need it?

I know it’s some naïve idealism, but I would love to see the world where we, as human race, choose to do nothing rather than trash our planet even more. I may sound like a crazy ecology fanatic (I’m not yet), yet I’m becoming more and more worried over all this. While the other commenter legitimately pointed out that servers aren’t free (ecology wise) either, I think they can be optimised over time. Shipping physical disks, I don’t see as rational these days. Even when it gets you money, discard half of your customers and the other half would switch to subscription anyway, you just push them to do that earlier.
A while back, LaLiga got fined for using their app to listen to microphones and catch bars that were illegally streaming football matches [1]. Apparently they continue on their crusade against freedom on how you use your devices.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jun/12/la-liga-fin...
It's not uncommon to have it break partway through the response
The plan eventually is to have AI churn out scripts, with a human script editor making whatever re-writes or changes are necessary to improve them.
>Yet most of the inhabitants of the United States are descended from people who immigrated during the time period you're talking about. Why was it ok for them but not for people immigrating today?

Why do you think it was OK back then? Have you talked to any Native Americans about the effects of uncontrolled migration on their tribes? Plainly put, it was an unmitigated disaster and a genocide. They used to control the whole continent (but divided between various tribes of course, that sometimes didn't get along); now their numbers are puny and they're corralled in some shitty reservations.

>Do you want criminals from other towns/counties/states coming to yours?
>If open borders work between Washington and Oregon, why don't they work between Washington and Canada?

Within a country, it's easy: people have criminal records, and can't just skip town and go to the next town and assume a new identity. (Centuries ago, however, they did.) Between countries, it's not so easy: countries don't share their criminal data that easily. That's why we have passports: it's an identification document that shows the destination country that the person is not a criminal and is allowed to travel (since they agreed together not to give these out to serious criminals).

>Immigrants pay taxes

Some do, some don't. Some go to Germany expecting a free ride, passing through all the poorer countries along the way.

>Instead of banning them, why not just let them come but make them ineligible for social services? That's cruel

Why is that cruel? If 100M people suddenly decided to move into Andorra, how exactly do you think the country is going to pay for social services for them?
their .tmux.conf is great too
I think with these types of sites, it might be a good idea to include a "succeeded by" entry for products that were more superseded than killed. I assume most people these days prefer VSCode to Atom, for example.

I like these sites for info on things that were killed with no viable replacement, e.g. Yahoo! Pipes
I was also overwhelmed by Grafana and co. In the time required to install it, i coded a simple monitoring alternative DMSR "Does My Shit Run" in python. Each agent has plugins which basically just sends a data structure to the monitoring server, which will display it as yaml. No persistence, history, graphs or similar. uMon looks like a behemoth in comparison.

Github: https://github.com/dobin/dmsr

Live: https://mon.yookiterm.ch
Leeds remains one of the largest cities in Europe with no tram, trolleybus, or metro system. This having had the offer of such things rescinded multiple times.
This is a simple project where no data is saved. It solely relies on the ChatGPT API backend and Google Analytics for measuring purposes. That's all.
First sale doctrine doesn’t give you at right to publicly perform something any more than tuning in with an antenna does. Wouldn’t make a difference here.
...bank robber?
Cool project! Will definitely try this out.
> We really need to distribute the economic activity around the UK by properly investing in other towns and cities

I think your proposal is correct worldwide; it's not a UK-only problem. Unfortunately, it looks like humanity has not yet invented a successful economic model that doesn't require a cramped megacity (with a huge income inequality within) or stealing from other countries (see tax havens).
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There are a few mentions of Oban [1] here. Most people don't realise that Oban in fact uses SKIP LOCKED [2] as well.

Oban's been great, especially if you pay for Web UI and Pro for the extra features [3]

The main issue we've noticed though is that due to its simple fetching mechanism using locks, jobs aren't distributed evenly across your workers due to the greedy `SELECT...LIMIT X` [2]

If you have long running and/or resource intensive jobs, this can be problematic. Lets say you have 3 workers with a local limit of 10 per node. If there are only 10 jobs in the queue, the first node to fetch available jobs will grab and lock all 10, with the other 2 nodes sitting idle.

[1] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban
[2] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban/blob/main/lib/oban/engines/...
[3] https://getoban.pro/#feature-comparison
I did not read the article as being that black and white, rather as a set of rules of thumb. Such as if enough boxes are ticked the investigator should maybe consider that it is not a real LARPer, but rather someone who tries to hide behind a veil of LARPing.
I bet people downvoting don’t even know about Pacers or how bad they were lol.

Most Londoners are completely ignorant of the pain of public transport up North (hell, even outside of London)
I prefer many devastating events rather not happening at all.
What does it do better than all the popular languages?
This is called Jevon's paradox.
Reminder that WSJ, Fortune, and FT, have all been churning anti Remote work opinion pieces since at least the last quarter of 2022.

The formula is always the same, some argument that makes remote work a 'bad' thing (e.g. framing it as 'office resisters' is beyond ridiculous), present some anecdata and publish it as an opinion piece.

There is a clear desire to shape public opinion against remote work from people who are likely heavily invested in commercial real estate.
Trust me, you have see nothing