skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A reduction in soundstage/width is likely due to using "joint stereo" or "intensity stereo" encoder modes, which do things such as mid-side (M-S) conversion (which isn't itself the culprit) in order to give more bits to M (which results in better quality for sounds with high L-R correlation, like vocals) and fewer bits to S (which results in less quality for sounds with low L-R correlation, like a drum kit stereo miked).

If using plain old "stereo" mode instead, this problem doesn't occur, but you need a higher overall bitrate for correlated sounds to come through at the same quality, so it's rarely used at modest bitrates and instead tends to be reserved for only the highest bitrates.

Thus, comparing mp3@192 with mp3@320 often actually means comparing mp3@192joint with mp3@320stereo and therefore the listener will find very little if any improvement in the quality of mono-miked center-panned sounds (vocals, etc.) but a decent improvement in the quality of wide sounds (cymbals, reverb, string sections, etc.) since the 320 will have only a few more bits for "mid" but way more bits for "side" so to speak, relative to the 192.
Joking apart: What men and women find funny
A lot of people are comfortable barely even playing games they bought. I think this shift isn’t too far off. Some even have growing backlogs of games they haven’t played and may never even play.
Teenage Engineering has an aesthetic energy to it I would be surprised if FAANG can easily duplicate
For a long time as a youth this was one of my favourite and go-to sites for so many things.
This is a ideological divide that people are going to have to come to terms with. Corporations want people to be slaves to external will. It seems like a minor issue, like with the example of paying for a subscription to Xbox’s Game Pass, but what this really says about ownership in the ultimate sense is that you have chosen to believe that you don't own anything.

That has a big negative impact on society because it moves us further and further way from whats good for the public when it comes to private ownership for individuals.

It's an ideological position that doesn't benefit you, but only benefits organizations that are hijacking free will and ownership. Anyone that considers this for a moment could understand that your decisions have an impact on the world. And I guess it comes down to the idea that maybe there are import things to consider outside of your own personal need for convenience.
Humans eat themselves. Humans read and watch humans and are still able to learn and produce.

I think a bigger threat is siloing information behind logins or apps. Less information is out there free to be used and learned from and trained with.
"Hey boss, can you go ahead and change my job title to Code Janitor?"
His point was we (probably) won't be able to play old video games as adults and that will be bad for our emotional well being. I think that's silly. In 30 years that will probably be the least of our worries. As an adult who played Doom and Duke Nukem 3d as a younger kid, I can assure you, that's the least of my worries. There's plenty of other things as an adult to harm our emotional well being.

"you'll own nothing and be happy" is a completely different topic but slightly related.
Note that this is about Intel Ponte Vecchio professional GPUs, not the consumer Alchemist GPUs. Do they use the same software stack?
Soon, ad blockers will only need to supply whitelists.
Hmm, are you sure that translations of LLMs like ChatGPT are not incorporating cultural context?
Nope. The music was generally licensed when those were popular. Ownership was retained by the licensor. Maybe in the wax cylinder era ownership of the music was usually passed with the physical media? That is getting to be before my time.
It's not audio quality or the specific playback experience I had a problem with. It's all the features around it. I'm used to players like Winamp, foobar2000. Real native applications that are responsive and customizable and feature rich.
True, and colloquially much of the longevity attributed to countries like Japan may have some basis in this type of fraud. However, every bill comes due eventually and you typically need to present a death certificate in most countries or answer one of these proof of life surveys.
Very succinct analysis, I wonder what other brands operate with the same assumption?
Also are there any brands that operate under the opposite assumption?
I started out my computing journey on the ZX81 learning little BASIC programs. I graduated to a full color MSX Spectravideo [1] afterwards. I loved making little graphics programs and playing with the sound chip.

I wish I had seen the original articles in time to order one from the first batch. I am eager to order one when they decide to make another batch.

[1] https://www.msx.org/wiki/Spectravideo_SVI-728
Ugly as it is, I prefer Nintendo’s way of doing this (for physical media): you own it and can play it “forever.” Remakes make us money on the same IP.
Belgian here. We have political families stretching over many generations.

Some 20 years ago a representative of such a family wanted to go for a second term with the slogan of adding 100,000 people to the job market. We then turned all house cleaning jobs from black market to official by paying 3x the value of house cleaning work in subsidies to select businesses.

He is still lauded for the idea.

Corruption is just smarter over here.
using it for an internal Golinks service
I suspect “AI-generated slime” is on average higher quality than what most content mills have been pumping out without AI for the last 10 years (plus).
It’s funny you mention Witcher 3 as an example of boring side quests when it would be my example for one case where they are actually good and is the only open world game I’ve finished since Morrowind
fair but pedantic point.

Even with CDs, you were never buying the "music". You were buying a durable physical copy of it and rights to use it within some defined contexts.

Buying a CD never entitled you to reproduction for sale, or most commercial use like soundtrack to a box-office movie.
Aha! I can now put all this stuff into the backend now, and the UX people can futz with how to present it to the users over time. Brilliant!
> Eventually programmers will get replaced too.

Probably before directors.
The study they refer to [1] seems to be about machine-translated versions of human-written pages (that exist on a large scale for a ~decade already). The article somehow blows it out of proportion, it's not like most of what you're reading is generated by the current crop of large transformers.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05749.pdf
You can pay for VPNs with crytocurrency instead
Off the top of my head: Libraries already exist, and the regulatory regime to oversee subscription services doesn't.

Meaning, no one has to do all the stuff required to bring a new government agency into being (including raising taxes or borrowing money), there are no new regulations to comply with (which would cost the streaming services more, which would cost you more), you don't have an new, unnecessary agency brought into being which will literally never go away and increase the size of permanent government we all have to pay for and live with, you haven't expanded the scope of government intrusion in our lives, etc.
Actually, isn't it quite clear that the complete opposite of what you said is true? TSMC's importance is at an all time high right now even though, as you said, being 2 years behind doesn't make as much a difference as it did 10 years ago.
I'll add a quick note, basically every brand that knows what SEO is (and in today's age it's every company) has figured out the Reddit astroturfing. I've had bar chats with people in NA, and some of them would talk how they work for marketing departments of random companies. Apparently Reddit is their "free passive advertisement" spot for potential funnel targeting Gen Z + millennials.

So searching for reviews on there is basically useless. At the same level as Amazon at this point. There will be some exceptions, but anonymity and very easy vote manipulation ability makes every review questionable at best. That being said, it is still very good for a quick "general question"-esque searches.
> If I stole Coca Cola's recipe, or the design files for the new Nvidia chip, it wouldn't be theft then?

If i steal something its theft tautologically. If i break into the coca cola vault and take a the physical copy of the recipe that is theft. If i hack into the coca cola IT infrastructure and copy a file that contains the recipe without deleting it, then it is not necessarily theft depending on jurisdiction.
Can you sell me on Kagi? I took a look at the results for "best laptop" [1] and I'm underwhelmed. I see Reddit at the top (but many people here suggest adding "site:reddit.com" to the search) and most other results are from the same sites (but different order). It's hard to tell which order is better because the query is poorly written. Best laptop for what? I was also surprised to see that it recommends a site that uses affiliate links, its hard to trust those as being unbiased since there's profit motive.

Is there a better example? Re-ordering search results doesn't feel worth paying.

[1] https://kagi.com/search?q=best+laptop&r=us&sh=MuemT1_yBcwqyx...
"But if we look at the recent Q4 report it does seems HPC ( or likely AI ) has infinite appetite for wafer capacity."

Famous last words
Brilliant, the site does what I do myself every time I research something to buy. Basically a spreadsheet, where I gather all the data points myself, it's tiresome. Capitalism to work, it's supposed to be done by rational agents. This removes all the emotionality from choosing a product.
Dell’s list prices have essentially nothing to do with the prices that any competent buyer would actually pay, especially when storage is involved. Look at the prices of Dell disks, which are nothing special compared to name brand disks of equal or better spec and much lower list price.

I don’t know what discount large buyers get, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s around 75%.
If buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing.
Piracy is a moral imperative. The internet was supposed to be free and break down barriers. Instead what we have now is a show available in the UK but not available in the US. This is not acceptable.

This plus the fact that actual artists get a pittance, means the flag will fly high till companies learn.

Also piracy has become much more reliable these days. There are systems which will make sure you get 4k streams based on any genre you enjoy. New shows from around the world. No need to wait for Netflix to add it to your countries playlist that to hidden behind garbage UX.

At the end of the day it is about availability, user control, artist benefits and showing the middle finger to large corporations.

That is the hacker mindset. That is what I grew up with in the early 2000s and it is substantially better than what we are "supposed" to do now. Hope that makes sense.
> at best, a form of anti-intellectualism

This is an uncharitable viewpoint. Bringing FP concepts to more devs is a good thing. I don't see how teaching better ways is any form of anti-intellectualism.
When was the last time you hired a person to translate a book or movie for you?
Humans have novel direct inputs from non-human sources pretty much 24/7 x billions of sensory cells x billions of people.
A company I worked for used Lotus Notes and Domino back in the day.

One day we got a mail sent to everyone at the company from the CEO, with some rather lewd content. As you can imagine it caused quite the stir.

As most here will know, SMTP by default doesn't verify sender. And the Domino mail gateway would happily match external addresses to internal accounts. The result was that it looked quite legit.

Turned out someone who was fed up with their job[1] had used this to appear to be the CEO, we have a 3 month notice period here in Norway, and well he got let go immediately...

Young me learned a lot about how mail worked thanks to that.
In Canada and can see most traditional firms (banking/insurance/etc.) are almost exclusively hiting from recruiting firms that have shitty benefits. The contracting rate is only about 25% higher than the permanent role and all need to be incorporated.
But I don’t need aesthetics, because I don’t need hardware at all. Your phone should be able to do this already, with the added benefit of already having all your apps that you use connected in the first place.
Yeah, OK but Spotify premium family plans are like 16 bucks a month for 6 people...

$35 a year or so per seat? Meh. Hardly worth pirating is it? It seems like a pretty fair price for literally all the music ever made available on demand. Ha.

I always think how much money I wasted on CDs when I was in high school... and then how much time wasted on MP3s in college - downloading, organizing, sharing, syncing... at one point I had 200 GB of audio media files that had to be perpetually curated and stored on an expensive NAS. Insane.

(Not that I didn’t enjoy it a bit... especially finding new tools to help me automate downloads and deduplicate and organize all the files. I had another 16 TB of video files on the NAS shared via Plex server with friends... 2012 or so. It just took so much time!)

So for me, Spotify is a just a better system.

Maybe make a “find a Spotify account friend” matching service. =P
Facebook photos are not public, at least not by default. They are easily shared with your real friends and family - the type of people who actually want to see pictures of your kids (not strangers who don't are).

Unfortunately for humans/facebook, the useful parts don't keep people on and scrolling past ads and so and and so Facebook as changed to be shared memes and others such things that nobody cares about - but it keeps you scrolling. However they still support the share a picture of the kids with only the people who care about that.
One thing I use to help to understand this: when you watch a movie you nothing about, there are things in it that surprise you, delight you, and seem new despite the fact that the movie was made long before.

I feel a consequence of determinism is that time is a matter of perception. Something we use to understand our environment. But, really, we are players in a movie that we are also watching.

The feeling of deciding is no different than the feeling of coercion. It's centered around ego. We evolved to feel like we make decisions. That's it, that's all. The deciding, though, is done.

Another example. I play for my son movies featuring pizza. I ask if he remembers how good the pizza was last weekend. I suggest we have it for lunch but find we are out of leftover pizza.

Is it free will when he asks for pizza for dinner? Or did his environment make that choice inevitable?
I agree that piracy being legal would be an issue (in general, in specific cases it probably should be legal).

But a major question is what is acceptable (practically, legally) to prevent piracy.

And by framing piracy as stealing it is much easier to convince law maker and the general public that very much not reasonable solutions are acceptable.

So that it's not technically stealing is really important for proper law making.
Yes, also newer iGPUs (11th Gen onwards) can use same software
Artists can now poison their images to deter misuse by AI
The title is clickbait. The actual study[0] reads as follows:

> Multi-way parallel, machine generated content not only dominates the translations in lower resource languages; it also constitutes a large fraction of the total web content in those languages

This is talking specifically about text being translated into less common languages being done mostly by machine translation and that in those languages most of the content found was as a result of machine translation. This has nothing to do with English or more common languages overall.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05749.pdf
I definitely didn't mean to infer equitable life style, that'd be kind of goofy to think. I'm single and kid-free. I'm not saying the parent of 2 kids could or should drive a new car, or go out all the time, live downtown, etc. especially on that income. I'm sure a LOT of people live in Vallejo and work in SF for instance. Mortgages, Medical problems, alimony, blahblah. Millions of differences. I just meant that there ARE people happily living off of salaries in that range, less so in SF for sure. That's why I never moved, never felt like I could afford it, had the option to live in Los Gatos and around San Mateo (san jose for sure probably).

I was curious so looked it up, 75th % salary in SFbay is $76k. 25th % $113k. These are salaries from the ziprecruiter database- I put in Bartender - $34k, Teacher - $47k, Police - $60k (I know this is wildly off not including their overtime, they make like $150-250k in sf).

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/-in-San-Francisco,CA#Y...

This newer article says the amount of people in that bracket drpoped 10% 2019-2022. Wonder if that's people moving out, layoffs / biz shuttering, or maybe the covid checks ending lowering peoples income across the board. Those didn't affect the $100k+ market (limit was 80k i think?) which grew 10% regardless. That sucks if it's not them leaving I can only think of negative reasons aside from that or getting raises.

https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2023/09/18/median-...

Sorry, I'm just on a tangent now. Didn't mean to come off rude in general, though.
I (shamefully) have an MBA, and I learned a lot about accounting during that process. Whether basic research ought to be operationalized or capitalized when looking at company valuation was actually a bit of a point of debate, but both sides have strong arguments. What definitely shouldn't be capitalized is "new feature for my existing software" which pretty clearly is capitalized under the current rules.
It’s probably impossible to make a single source that has everything you’re looking for. But here are some links that might help.

Land use per MWh https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source

Cost per MWh
https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april...

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/electricity_generation/pdf/...

Other Pros / Cons
I’m not going to link any sources for these. Things like the cost of local pollution, climate change, geo politics of where the energy/equipment comes from, etc all become quite controversial depending on one’s political leanings.

The above links are all US centric. And because of that it’s worth pointing out that the only metric that matters in the US is return on investment. With that in mind, solar, wind, and batteries are dominating all new installations in the US. For US specific information, both EIA.gov and FERC.gov are treasure troves of information.

Lastly, since you’ve mentioned land use specifically, it’s important to note that different countries have different priorities. South Korea and the US will look at land use very differently. For all practical purposes, the US has infinite land, so land use is largely irrelevant.
In what you have written, V is not a function, but a value calculated from some other values, so it does not make sense to differentiate it. If you instead write:

V : ℝ³ → ℝ
V(t,x,y) = (1 + sin(t))/sqrt(x^2+y^2)

then it’s clear what D_2(V) means.
> If you seriously think it's the people pointing that out who are the ones lacking empathy and behaving "hurtfully",

I do seriously believe that, and my moral compass is intact.

Empathy is easy to give, for those you understand and identify with. It is more difficult to show empathy and compassion for people with whom you disagree, and don't fully understand.

There's every reason to believe that whatever Stallman's statements were, they don't represent the totality of the man, or mean that he's evil to the core. His humanity remains, and can be safely acknowledged, without meaning you agree or support with everything he's done.
I do not think that is the case with private prosecutions because they do not have powers of arrest.

We do not usually require bonds for bail here either, and AFAIK most people accused of non-violent offenses do get bail (not checked the numbers so if anyone knows better please correct me).

They would have to go to court to defend themselves though. I am pretty sure you can be awarded costs (the prosecution has to pay your legal fees, to the level the judge thinks reasonable) if acquitted, as you can if you win a civil case here.
Apple Vision Pro being resold on eBay at a premium
https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/web/user/price-estimator

I just used this for $3000 to Algeria and I get $14.99 plus an absurdly bad exchange rate of 120 DZD where the bank rate is 134, so basically another 10.5% fee, which means $300 lost.

Frankly I think you have no clue what you are talking about if you somehow believe Western Union is superior in functionality and utility to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin transaction fee is currently equivalent to $7.60 and that is a flat fixed fee for any amount, even $1M worth.

Additionally there are multiple Bitcoin exchanges operating in Algeria, https://www.bitrawr.com/algeria
and you won’t lose anything in exchange rates in local currency transactions.
They look interesting technology-wise, but I think we'll just have to disagree on the "they look cool, too" part.
Good question. Seeing this certainly makes me think I need to make politely scraping a few valued sites (mostly forums) for backup as personal reference a higher priority.
> social security numbers are assigned sequentially by geographic region so if you know someone’s SSN you can get their date of birth or vice versa.

Note that enumeration at birth is a recent policy change. Before enumeration at birth, people would not get assigned a number until they (or their parents) asked for one. So while there is a sequential numbering (before that changed) and its tied to geography, the sequence and geography is connected to time and place of assignment, not time and place of birth.

For example, my parents got SSNs for me and my siblings all at once, sometime in the 80s, I beleive as it became required to claim dependents on tax returns. I don't think our SSNs are sequential, but they're close; however my siblings and I have different birth years and could have been born in different states than where we were enumerated.
I think I was in Lowell for a few weeks helping out on some App Packs when I heard about the acquisition. Working with JFK? and another guy with a short nickname that escapes me right now. Wedge?
likely she nuked her gut microbiome with anti-biotics
and now cannot handle sugar alcohols.
Saying you use wind energy you pay extra for is a pet peeve of mine :)

You're not really using wind energy. The electrons don't know who is pushing them.

You just increase the share of non-wind that others get, but as long as there are fewer wind subscribers than there is wind energy it doesn't change thing. Premium goes entirely to your energy provider, their profits and marketing department.

Happy to be proved wrong in your case if you have a link to your plan.
> I haven't seen it in use yet

Neither have I, but this is interesting and I am bookmarking it, thanks.

The Gen AI space is littered with very interesting high performance runtimes that precisely no one uses. There are too many for integrators to even keep up with, much less integrate!
Ask HN: Latest on GPT alternatives that are cheaper for inference?
Open source obviously preferable. Custom training not needed, just cheaper inference on existing GPT-level 'intelligence'.
If you asked this in court, lawyers would stand up and say, "Objection! Leading!"

That's an argument, not a question.
I checked some days ago and -for me- by default all the sharing services were disabled. Looks like it’s a opt-in feature (I hope).
At NeurIPS it seemed like the Intel Labs/materials research/hardware people were out in force
What is better or worse though - a million 2/10 sites or a hundred million 3/10 sites?
Death comes for us all. Maybe they should come up with a way to confirm this for all of their beneficiaries.