<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: cedilla</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cedilla</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:38:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cedilla" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cedilla in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do these e-tickets work?</p>
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<p>What's the philosophy?</p>
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<p>denic is the single source of truth for zones under .de.<p>The only problem with DNSSEC here is that it's complex.</p>
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<p>But it really isn't a head scratcher, and it's not a wild guess, and also, dark matter is not the same as dark energy.<p>Think about some random person born in the 1950s. It will be impossible for you to directly prove that that person has two parents, but with all your knowledge about biology, and your knowledge that humans could not be cloned in the 1950s, it's not a head scratcher, unless our understanding of biology is completely off, it's not just speculation there were two parents. That's the comparable situation with dark matter. It's not a head scratcher. Every indication shows there is a lot of mass around that doesn't interact with light.</p>
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<p>The idea of talking to a machine that has all of humanities knowledge and gives answers is older than electronic computing. It certainly wasn't a novel idea when Jobs gave that speech. At that time, the field of artificial intelligence was old enough to become US president.</p>
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<p>I don't know if you wanted to imply that, but just to make sure no one misunderstands: GitHub didn't invent git.<p>I don't know if they were the first git forge, but they were certainly among the first.</p>
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<p>That may be how JavaScript started, but unless your claim is that JavaScript hasn't changed at all in the thirty years or so since then, your argument is a complete non-sequitur.</p>
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<p>I don't know why it would matter, but Einstein didn't hate quantum mechanics. He literally got his Nobel prize for his role in discovering quantum mechanics. He is one of the earliest people to propose that light exists in quantised packets.<p>He had some strong opinions around interpretations of quantum physics, but that isn't even a question of science, it's a metaphysical discussion.<p>While we're at it, Einstein also wasn't a bad student, and he didn't hate mathematics.</p>
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<p>Allowed to do? Not prevented from by technical measures, but certainly not allowed to do.<p>Considering the goal is to identify people, this is undeniably PII. As the article demonstrates, it also pertains sensitive information.</p>
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<p>If other people collect data like that it's probably also illegal.</p>
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<p>Voyager 1 and 2 are 25 and 21 billion kilometres away, respectively.<p>Even if we built a rocket just designed to get stuff as far away as quickly away as possible, it would take decades to catch up to where they are now.</p>
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<p>Strange. If you compress complex topics into one four-word sentence, they are not as coherent any more.</p>
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<p>Microsoft never called their productivity suite "simply" office, nor have they registered a product under that name.</p>
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<p>Microsoft does not have a trademark for "Office", which is clearly a type of product and can't be used as a program name (just like you can't name your oatmeal "Oatmeal" and expect trademark protection).<p>Microsoft does have a figurative trademark for "Office" with the rectangular icon: <a href="https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/011413556" rel="nofollow">https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/01141355...</a> - office.eu's logo does not bear any resemblance.<p>The only way this would be infringing is if office.eu usage could be confused with Microsoft other's trademarks - like Microsoft Office - but I don't see that.<p>So no, office.eu will have a calm Monday on that front, just like hundreds of other companies offering products with "Office" in their name.<p>(I'm not a lawyer. Talk to a lawyer before deciding to take on a trillion dollar company).</p>
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<p>Brains are not doing linear algebra, and they don't follow a concise algorithm.<p>What LLM do is even farther away from what neural nets do, and even there - artificial neurons are inspired by but not reimplementing biological neurons.<p>You can understand human thought in terms of LLMs, but that is just a simile, like understanding physical reality in terms of computers or clockworks.</p>
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<p>Fair use is much more narrow than most people think, it's just that most rights-holders are not very belligerent. For example, streaming video games does not fall under fair right, most video essays critiquing films or series use way too much material commentated for fair right, remixing as a whole is not fair use, and most fan works are definitely not fair use. Legal protections don't help here, but the shit-storms companies like Nintendo of America had to endure when they tried to tighten the screws.<p>And that's in the US, other countries have similar exceptions but they are also usually quite limited.</p>
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<p>I know for sure that each and every AI I use wants to write whole novellas in response to every prompt unless I carefully remind it to keep responses short over and over and over again.<p>This didn't used to be the case, so I assume that it must be intentional.</p>
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<p>There are a few exceptions though, like most mobile games, visual novels (many of which use Python of all languages, due to an excellent framework called ren'py), and of course games written using Unity or XNA, which use .NET languages.<p>Also, three decades is going a bit too far back, I think. In the mid nineties, C was still king, with assembly still hanging on. C++ was just one of several promising candidates, with some brave souls even trying Java.</p>
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<p>You've got it exactly the wrong way around. And that with such great confidence!<p>There was always a confusion about whether a kilobyte was 1000 or 1024 bytes. Early diskettes always used 1000, only when the 8 bit home computer era started was the 1024 convention firmly established.<p>Before that it made no sense to talk about kilo as 1024. Earlier computers measured space in records and words, and I guess you can see how in 1960, no one would use kilo to mean 1024 for a 13 bit computer with 40 byte records. A kiloword was, naturally, 1000 words, so why would a kilobyte be 1024?<p>1024 bearing near ubiquitous was only the case in the 90s or so - except for drive manufacturing and signal processing. Binary prefixes didn't invent the confusion, they were a partial solution. As you point out, while it's possible to clearly indicate binary prefixes, we have no unambiguous notation for decimal bytes.</p>
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<p>Companies pay millions and millions to get away from bespoke software, but not simply because of the costs. Companies want to do their core business, they don't want to also be a software enterprise, and assume all the risks that entails. Even if AI makes creating software 10 times less expensive, that doesn't really change.</p>
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