skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don’t need a genuine Irish company, the Alphabet >>shell corp<< doesn’t have any workers in Ireland. Edit: to be clear Alphabet itself does, but that’s not part of the tax doge.

Also, they have offices in every significant country in Western Europe. UK, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Norway, Sweden, and yes Ireland.

https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=north-ame...

Obviously they don’t have anyone in Vatican City.
And I use the same one in Scheme for Max and Scheme for Pd.

s7 is by Bill Schottstaedt, one of the godfathers of computer music and the author of Common Lisp Music and the Snd editor. It has really nice design decisions for the composer-programmer.
No, it questions the trade-offs we're making.

The resistance to do anything but prioritize the convenience of a minority of drivers in cities like NYC while we look for "better" solutions (aka a solution that doesn't sacrifice their convenience) has already made a decision on the trade-offs.
> So in a sense, it was already public knowledge.

this is motivated reasoning, or just out of touch
Apparently I massively misremembered the move rate. 5 (potentially less) illegal moves in 8205. So 1 in ~1650. Uh..oops.

https://github.com/adamkarvonen/chess_gpt_eval

A plane is comparable to a bird because they both fly even if they do it very differently. Replace plane with bee and it's the same thing.

GPT is obviously comparable to a human regardless of how similar whatever internal processes it uses are.

I've never once said GPT was playing chess exactly the same way as a human. I wouldn't know.

It is playing it though and it does understand the game.
I dont think it was the vpn. Tried again with the same command and it worked. Im guessing it was just a bit overloaded because of this post
Non-replaceable batteries produce phones that become waste more quickly. Unfortunately, lots of e-waste just gets tossed out. This is a form of cost externalization.

If people want to buy phones with a non-replaceable battery, that is OK I guess, but we need of fee or deposit to prevent them from dropping that cost on the environment.

Edit: come to think of it, we probably also need a fee or deposit for replaceable batteries. But at least it could be smaller, since it is just for the battery. We probably don’t want a deposit for every piece of electronics, just because that would be annoying.
This is a specific problem with the UK and its establishment.

Back before the internet, the UK Establishment (very much a cozy clique of old-school-chums, exactly as Yes Minister portrayed it) had a decent grip on the country. They could control most of what the media said, which was all of what the average Brit saw as news.

Then all hell broke loose and suddenly any dirty little oik could publish whatever they liked on the internet for anyone to read.

They've been trying to stuff this genie back in the bottle ever since. There's a whole plethora of controls over the internet in the UK [0] which do well for the general problem, but the bugbear is always E2E encryption - they can't read it! Any pleb can still say anything to anyone! This has to be stopped, clearly. So they keep trying.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...
Post-merger, hbo/paramount/etc fired a ton of talent and cut billions from their annual production budget.

Then, they deleted a bunch of first-party content to get a dubious tax deduction.

Finally, they doubled prices.
Good riddance and here's why: Jon Minadeo II ( https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/neo-nazi-jon-mina...) had been using Omegle for sometime to spread racist and antisemitic ideas to young kids. With no way to police this activity and no law against doing so, he appeared to be increasing his following. I used to be a "free internet" advocate, but the older I get and as a parent, my thinking has changed. We have to stand for something that protects our children, and an anything goes internet isn't that. I know this may be an unpopular viewpoint.
"A female rat typically births six litters a year consisting of up to 12 rat pups, although 5-10 pups are more common. Rats reach sexual maturity after nine weeks, meaning that a population can swell from two rats to around 1,250 in one year, with the potential to grow exponentially."[1]

Unless you kill all of them at once and set up some sort of impossibly perfect rat detection system to kill the ones in every building and trash can, how is killing something like on the order of 10 female-year progeny even news? It's like putting a piece of masking tape over a water main break. You have to reduce their food, their ability to reproduce, etc.

https://www.rentokil.com/us/about/blog/all-industries/quickl...
> In a CPU with thousands of pins, how come they use N pins for ground, N pins for VCC, when it seems simpler to have continuous bar-shaped contacts?

I can't speak to cpus with thousands of pins, but with significantly smaller chips that often have N>1 vcc or ground, it's typically due to layout convenience. The multiple vcc may be on e.g. opposite sides of the chip, and that makes it easier to route a pure vcc signal to a spot that needs it. It's easier to route outside the chip than inside the chip, because there's more space.
Ill happily pay if i dont have to have 5 different subscriptions to see what i want. Its a distribution problem.

I refuse to do do all that so guess what….
I take care of my batteries, I charge them slow and usually up to 80%. All my phones (Android) where retired after about 4 years with perfectly good battery left. What would a user replaceable battery do for me? And when I think about it I don't know anybody in my circle that replaced a phone because of the battery. It's usually because of old hardware, no software support left and a cracked screen and banged up body on top of it all. And even if the battery would be the problem you can go to a phone repair shop and get it replaced there. There's no need for me to easily be able to do it.
I found a house on MLS (20 years ago), and allerted my buyer's agent. She kept refusing to engage for some reason. We pressured her to inquire and ended up buyng the house. I later told this story to a neighbor and he said the builider's (seller's) agent was refusing to pay full commision to the buyer's agents. So I guess that's why my agent was ignoring the listing. :-)
The Apple subsidiary which supposedly makes all the money and conveniently isn't taxed on it doesn't even have employees in Ireland anyway.

It's entirely a paperwork confection to justify not paying taxes. If you did this in a country with a properly funded tax collector, you'd get told to pay and then they'd just seize the money or throw you in jail.

But when Apple do it Ireland celebrate because hey, instead of Apple choosing some other random place to fiddle their taxes, they're doing it in Ireland...

If you're American or (like me) British you shouldn't feel smug because your country enables much the same thing, just not in this specific case. Both the US and UK have strong rule of law (which means crooks feel sure when they collect the locals don't just shoot them and take it all) but weak transparency (which allows crooks to operate). The same formula which attracted Apple to Ireland.

Transparency improved in both US and UK in last forty years, but mostly so as to weed out small players. If you need to hide $400k from a bank job, neither country wants to help you any more. But if you have $400M from corrupt arms deals in the Middle East, they're very happy to have you as a valued customer and will be sure to slow walk any pesky "investigations" which threaten to reveal that you're a crook in time for you to stroll off with your money before anybody shows up with hand cuffs, especially because it's embarrassing for them to admit their "transparency" is still shit.

In the UK we instituted "beneficial ownership" rules requiring that companies must say which human individuals control them. But, while some dubious firms actually obeyed these rules, plenty more just filled out bogus data knowing the government doesn't want to look under any rocks as it knows it won't like what it sees. Companies House (the regulator) claimed it had zero funds to investigate even the most obviously bogus paperwork.

A campaigner had filed paperwork claiming their firm was owned by Tory politicians even though it wasn't - and IIRC suddenly Companies House found enough cash to prosecute exactly one bogus filing, the one embarrassing their political masters. Transparency? Transparent bullshit.
I feel a little hopeful about the new GM though (Philip Eng, former head of the Long Island Railroad, for those just joining us). He's actually an engineering and operations guy, as opposed to the old GM Steve Poftak. Poftak's qualifications were an MBA and strict adherence to the Pioneer Foundation's party line.

At least the T put the final nail in Charlie Baker's further political ambitions. Hopefully he'll stay at the NCAA, we're just going to have to ask college sports fans to take one for the team (pun intended) there.
Funnily enough I can imagine this awful DRM being one of the few things that would help us avoid deepfakes and similar in the future.
As long as driverless cars perform any behaviors in crash situations where the general public would say “no conscious human in their right mind would do that,” driverless cars won’t be accepted by society even if their overall statistics look better than human operated vehicles.

The other thing about human drivers is that they can be punished for negligent actions on an individual level.
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Because when you have 8 devices, all 8 devices are sharing that 100MB connection.

And you really have like 25 devices on the 2.4Ghz spectrum, because your neighbors exist and everyone maxes out their WiFi router transmission power in a feeble attempt to yell/take over the frequency for themselves.

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If you have 8x 100Mbit wires in your house, that's closer to 1600Mbit true bandwidth (100Mbit per direction across 8 devices).
They could, yes, and I'm sure it won't have much of an effect. When it comes to economic policy, the EU usually doesn't play games.
Hmm, what's wrong with British cafes? I'm not saying they're great, just that I'm not sure what's missing!

In popular cafes there are usually plenty of people sitting around chatting and/or co-working on Macbooks, if that's what you mean.

Fun fact: the owner of a once very popular UK cafe chain, Lyon's Corner Houses, was a pioneer in computing. They built some of the first digital computers in the UK purely to manage their booming cafe business! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Lyons_and_Co.
>Why do people insist on reading the absolute worst interpretation of every comment on the internet? Honestly. It is so tiresome.

Do you feel similarly about the rigor of the scientific method?
Legacy Layout refers to the original system, Layout 2013. There was a second system started, Layout 2020, to address challenges with implementing parts of the CSS spec which didn't cleanly map to Layout 2013's architecture.

There's a good report in the Servo wiki from this year (authored by a group of Igalians) summarizing the differences between the two and why the decision was made to move forward with Layout 2020.

https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Servo-Layout-Engines-Rep...
I’m not convinced that’s a problem, since chip fabs require people to wear cleanroom suits anyway.
Nobody wants to face the potential that their skills are going to greatly decrease in value.
The host language is the language that you are using to write the compiler/interpreter. I suppose the grandparent is asking the question in order to recommend a parser generator for your use case. From your GitHub profile, I assume it's JS or TypeScript ?
You are looking for what we call an "algorithmic music language", where the focus is on manipulating symbolic music representations rather than digital audio.

OpusMondi is one of these. Others include my project (Scheme for Max, mentioned elsewhere at top level of the thread), Common Music, OpenMusic, etc.

Visual options include Max and Pd, which have an entire message/event layer that does not have to be used for digital audio at all.

All of these can output to standard synthesizers if the digital sound part is not your interest.
feels like this entire thread is complaining about the prisoners' dilemma.
everything wrong with the modern internet can be explained through microeconomics.

or microbiology if you prefer:
bacteria (individual agents in a capitalist system) find a new source of food (the internet).
the bacteria evolve to optimize their food collection, irrespective of what is "good" for the ecosystem.
the food chain shakes up, the predators become apex, and when they've taken too much, they die off in a cycle.

right now we're at the "taking too much" stage. but I don't think anybody is dying off.
OR...now hear me out...the prices could be reasonable and a bunch of greedy executive middle-men who exploit the artists and other workers could take a smaller cut.
Not without good evidence
Oh interesting, I assumed started at GDDR and done something tricky to get the latency down, but your explanation makes a lot more sense.
It's misleading to say that death by hypoxia is experimental, as many people have died from that.

At least this method of execution has very little chance of being botched, although I'm sure many people will argue that it is too humane!
Erm - delete the cube, then click Add->Mesh->UV Sphere :-)

In all seriousness though - this is absolutely amazing. Imagine it in conjunction with the Facebook/Rayban glasses with integrated cameras and headphones. Now you can walk around an event and hear "this is John Doe, he's a VP at X Corp..." or you look at a product and hear "you can get this for 30% less at this store"...

I appreciate the concerns around privacy - but tech has steadily been moving in the opposite direction - so at least we're starting to get some value from giving up so much data.
Man, i stayed up way past bedtime watching the Frank Tedesco youtubes. I was completely blown away, his ability to listen to 20 seconds of a song on his phone and then get it mostly right on the piano is incredible. What an amazing individual. hah, the reactions were golden too, very funny and endearing.

edit: i'm not exactly musically inclined. When i was in college the joke was Guitar Center had painted a line around the building in the parking lot and i was not allowed to cross it.
I just want to comment on this:

> Meson was going to refuse to accept the MSVC+gfortran combination

Back in the days, I went to Python's core-dev list and asked why. Why would any sane person ever use MSVC for a cross-platform language runtime. And guess what the answer was? Well... The answer was "Microsoft pays us, gives us servers to run CI on, and that's why we will use Microsoft's tools, goodby!"

For reference, Ruby uses GCC for the same purpose as do plenty of other similar languages for this exact reason.

To give you some context, I ran into this problem when writing bindings to kubectl. For those of you that don't know, in order to interface with Python from Go, one needs CGO, and on MS Windows it means MinGW. You could, in principle, build Python itself with GCC (a.k.a. MinGW) (and that's what MSYS2 a.k.a Cygwin a.k.a. Gitbash does), but this means no ABI compatibility with the garbage distributed from python.org.

So, after I had a proof of concept bindings to kubectl working on Linux, I learned that there will be no way (well, no reasonably simple way) to get that working on Windows. So, the project died. (Btw, there still isn't a good Kubernetes client in Python).

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On the subject of packaging. I've decided to write my own Wheel packager. Just as a way to learn Ada. This made me read through the "spec" of this format while paying a lot more attention that I ever needed before. And what a dumpster fire this format is... It's insane that this atrocity is used by millions, and so much of critical infrastructure relies on this insanity to function.

It's very sad that these things are only ever discussed by a very small, very biased, and not very smart group of people. But then their decisions affect so many w/o even the baseline knowledge of the decisions made by those few. I feel like Python users should be picking up pitchforks and torches and marching on PyPA (home-)offices and demand change. Alas, most those adversely affected by their work have no idea PyPA exists, forget the details of their work.
Me and my sister (5 years younger) enjoyed the original Bubble Bobble on the NES. The mechanics are very simple. The MAME arcade version and the Lost Caves bootleg are both good.
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I think you are correct about the history of Razer products, but this latest line up has been very solid. I had issues with the first laptop I got. It turned out to be a software issue and I got support within a day and they patched the problem within a week. I should also add that they have battery limiting features now and a two year battery warranty. Those two improvements protect you from 90% of the bad experiences people report with these laptops.

Asus I have had consistently bad experiences with and that is why I tried Razer. Of course this is all just my personal experience and I doubt either is perfect.

As far as needing cloud connected software to configure Razer hardware: that is simply false. The laptop is configured via an embedded usb interface that you can send reports to in Linux. There are open source projects that make this particularly easy to do.
Make a waterproof small phone in the style of Galaxy S10e with Audio Jack, SDCard and be done with it. I am still on my S10e because there simply is no meaningful successor.
Apparently I massively misremembered the move rate. 5 (potentially less) illegal moves in 8205. So 1 in ~1650. Uh..oops.

https://github.com/adamkarvonen/chess_gpt_eval
Interesting, I have been stuck in 1080p land so I have not tried 1200, maybe if I get the chance I'll check that resolution out. I am debating making a small jump to "2k" since its between 4K and 1080p, but I get the feeling those monitors are not quite as common as the other two resolutions, and I'm not sure if it'll be truly worth it. This is in terms of a desktop, not a laptop, but I could see the argument for 1920x1200 for a laptop, seems more reasonable to me.
I initially read the title as "Sex (Addiction), Age (Addiction), and Smartphone Addiction [...]" - then I realized "Age Addiction" sounds strange, and they probably meant "Smartphone Addiction by Sex and Age"?
You don't want to buy Apple's entry-level tier. Buy up - it'll last a lot longer. My daily driver is a 2012 MBP. I'm looking to replace it (it's 11.5 years old and is still running just fine). To me it looks like the machine to go for to replace my daily driver is the MBP with the M3 Pro and 36 GB of RAM. It costs $400 less than what I paid for my existing machine in 2012 - and that's in 2023 dollars. $3199 in 2012 is worth $4200 today.

@2800 vs. $4200. That's $1400 cheaper, in today's dollars, than what I paid back then - and I'm getting a helluva lot better machine for it, and I should be able to get a machine I can use for at least 8-10 years.

Is it the cheapest route? Probably not. Is MacOS the best OS today? For my purposes, yes, but it's not a hands-down yes. Yes, this machine costs more than $1599, $1200 more. But it's a machine I'm planning on using for 10 years so that works out to $10 per month. I think it's worth it.
"One interesting wrinkle in this march towards consolidated annoyance is the streaming sector’s interest in driving more users toward ad-based tiers, where profits can continue to skyrocket:"

Ah, but one must remember, we are in the streaming situation we are in now because the consolidation already happened. Netflix was The Streaming Service. But the content providers to Netflix looked at Neflix's profits and said, "Hey, we could have a larger slice of the pie if we ran our own services." So they went off and made their own. And, yes, they discovered they were wrong.

But even if they consolidate again, it's just the nature of a MBA-executive in a content producing company to look over at the consolidated streaming service and say, once again, "Well, my predecessor couldn't make it work last time, but I'm sure that I can get a larger slice of the pie if I just make my own service. And look, customers will flock to my service because according to my numbers we can charge them a mere $9.99 a month whereas the consolidated service is $109.99."

Streaming service consolidation requires all the MBA-executives to humbly submit to the idea that they have no effective choice but to fork over control of the revenues to the consolidated streaming service. Who will, of course, be taking full advantage of their position to squeeze the content providers and push them as hard as they possibly can in the direction of the economics of running their own service making sense again.

I don't know that there's a stable solution to this. If there is I don't think it's the naively obvious consolidation solution.
Nice interview. I think in the near future human art will be seen like "handmade" or "bio" products, used when money is available and quality is desired. There is currently a large market for art that is purely functional and corporate. Quality and human touch is not important here (Advertisements, Logos etc.). I don't see it as a great loss if large amounts of this market are automated.
>The artists and staff who worked on the content want to be paid fairly.

Last i checked many of them in US are on strike because they're not being paid fairly and it has nothing to do with piracy.

They aren't having their pay doubled by this. Some executives are getting a bonus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Writers_Guild_of_America_...

One of their main issues was residuals from streaming.
> Some cameras with slower sensors suffer from the rolling shutter effect where fast moving subjects get distorted because the subject or the camera is moving. Think e.g. lampposts looking diagonal when shot from a fast moving car.

These days this is the least of your worries with a camera with rolling shutter. I got a Nikon Z-fc, knowing from the reviews that it would have a rolling shutter, because I don't mind these types of distortions.

What the reviews didn't mention is that many LED based lights actually alternate red, green and blue LEDs in quick succession. And you see that in photos as horizontal streaks of rapid changes in white balance. This also happens with projectors that are LED based, and CFTs if their drivers aren't fast enough.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is great for young children. It will teach them about good and evil. Maybe have them stick with an easier class like barbarian and they can just whack stuff.
> there are a set of rules to avoid a race to the bottom in term of taxation

No there aren't, or at least there weren't prior to the 15% that was recently agreed. Taxation generally is not an EU competence.
Totally agree with that. This will play into your mental health as well. The more weight other people can carry, the less you have to do. Don't underestimate having to feed the brains of 10 people constantly when they can't/won't think for themselves.
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First of all, Montana enjoys 10th Amendment dual-sovereignty, just like every other US state.

But second, you seem to be asserting that the other involved sovereigns have no right to hold Ireland to the commitments it agreed to when it signed treaties. How is that supposed to work? Are treaties now just lies of convenience?