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At no time in history has there been so much "art" as a result of about measuring the audience and seeking please it, or at least extract money from it. We're now already at the point where fans think in term of "franchises" and applaud "smart moves" made by "brands", i.e. even large swaths of consumers are now marketing drones, too.

Of course that doesn't mean it was ever "pure" at any point in time, just that it got worse. I've seen so much regression and dumbing down in just the last 20 years, that I don't care if that guy is a hypocrite, I think he happens to be correct anyway. I see what I see, and I can only imagine how it would seem if I had overview of 50 years of that shit.

> When books or pictures in reproduction are thrown on the market cheaply and attain huge sales, this does not affect the nature of the objects in question. But their nature is affected when these objects themselves are changed rewritten, condensed, digested, reduced to kitsch in reproduction, or in preparation for the movies. This does not mean that culture spreads to the masses, but that culture is being destroyed in order to yield entertainment.

> The result of this is not disintegration but decay, and those who actively promote it are not the Tin Pan Alley composers but a special kind of intellectuals, often well read and well informed, whose sole function is to organize, disseminate, and change cultural objects in order to persuade the masses that Hamlet can be as entertaining as My Fair Lady, and perhaps educational as well. There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.

-- Hannah Arendt

^ Good luck making movies (with a budget, and an audience) that are not entertaining, because they have something serious to say that doesn't happen to be funny. They do exist, and in absolute numbers I bet there's more of them made each year than ever before, just because of accessibility of the technology. But it would be dishonest to focus on those and ignore the fact that, say, three The Hobbit movies exist, or how people break out in tears over Star Wars movies -- and all that insane, infantile, extremely commercialized utter crap.

Again, Barry Diller may have been just as guilty of that stuff. I don't know and I don't care, because he doesn't matter. The world matters, the human species matters. How cool a specific individual is or isn't doesn't matter, they and anyone who remembered anyone who remembered them will be gone in a few centuries.

> The arrogance is in being able to convince yourself it was different in the old days without risk of being contradicted.

That would be nostalgia. And I'm not even convinced the assessment is wrong. And calling someone "arrogant" isn't contradicting them anyway, it's avoiding the argument if anything.
The most important competitive advantage is having the money to buy someone who knows how to do things for you. The second most is knowing people who have already bought someone good at the job.

It's why the rich don't manage their own money, make their own food, clean their own house, or care for/teach their own children. Instead they pay other people to do it for them.
> ...not eat and litter during the show.

Historically in US movie theaters, there's so much popcorn grease and spilled soda on the floor that your shoes actually get stuck to it while you're watching the movie.

EDIT: Wow downvotes? It's true! Maybe they mop them now but back when Diller was in the movie business, your shoes actually did get stuck to the floor because of all the spilled snacks. I haven't been to a movie theater in many years, but the grime was an essential part of the experience. Someone should open a throwback 80s theater.
Democracy is 2 wolves and a Lamb voting on what to have for dinner.

I firmly believe in individualism and individual rights, governments are insulted by people to guard individuals rights nothing more. Governments just power and authority comes from that defense of rights, not from majority rule

If 51% agree that the other 49% should be enslaved does not make it ethical or right, but in your worldview that democratic government would be "tied to the will of the people"

No, government like fire is a useful tool but a dangerous leader and should never be left whims of the "majority"
Not to mention much of traditional media are geared against the interests of the tech giants. It's older villains going after the newer villains.
Is it this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26366665 The comment itself makes sense, though I don't know how is the adoption of new features in the ecosystem.
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Hello HN. Earthly is a tool for build automation.

I like to think of our solution as a modern version of a makefile. Many people are familiar with makefiles, and back before every CI server was configured using YAML and groovy, this was a common way to build things. We are trying to improve the simplicity of make by adding on the repeatability of docker containers. By mixing those two concepts together, a lot of cool properties fall out.

Because each target is containerized, there is no works-on-my-machine issues, or tests failing because something is not installed on one Jenkins runner or so on.

Second, that isolation means that dependencies between steps need to be explicitly declared, and with this knowledge, earthly can infer parallelism.

Third, containerization gives caching abilities. We can tell if nothing’s changed since a previous run, and earthly can cache steps across build runs or even across machines. You get to use a docker registry as a build cache.

We shared this on here about a year ago[1], and since that, lots has changed. First of all, a year ago it was just Vlad working on this, and now there is a number of us, including me. But for end-users, we have shipped many great features such as multi-arch builds, docker-compose support (which is handy for running integration tests ), inline and explicit caching, and an interactive debug mode. Interactive debug mode is neat but straightforward: a failing build step pops you into a shell at the point of failure.

Let me know what you think of what we have built.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22890612
i still cannot understand why american (i am assuming) education is based on competition and ranking students.

almost like the point is NOT education at all.

your comment makes no sense in my universe. Thankfully.
They do reserve the right to claim ownership, effectively.

"I grant to Amazon a royalty free, worldwide, fully paid-up, perpetual, transferrable license to any and all of my intellectual property rights associated with the Personal Game"
I'd much rather debug someone's pure functional code rather than trying to figure out how someone's imperative code got into some unexpected/invalid state.
This had been my feeling watching all this unfold, but I'm starting to reconsider.

I was there in the early days of 4chan. Back then, brigading/mob justice felt the same: a force for good, a bunch of snappy underdogs thumbing their noses at jerkoffs like the Scientology crowd, or animal abusers. Who could find fault with that?

But the problem with mob justice is that it never stops there. Image board campaigns became increasingly dire and cruel: hacking, ddoss-ing, harassing people that maybe didn't deserve it as much, or at all. And eventually the idea hit the broader culture, mixed with radical left ideology, and mutated into what we now call Cancel Culture.

It's satisfying on a primal level to see institutional investors lose even a little control. But it's just that primal satisfaction that makes mob justice so dangerous. Maybe this is a blip and won't go anywhere. But if it's indicative of a trend, the implications are sinister. The Mob has just gained the ability not just to end people's careers and reputation, but to end whole companies, and potentially even destabilize the whole economy. It's great right now, because we're still in the "harass animal abusers" stage. What happens when we hit the "someone started a rumor about this company, so let's run it into the ground" stage?

Rule by tyrants is bad. Rule by the mob is even worse. Which would you rather live under: Henry the 8th, or the French Revolution?
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> I can't speak for everyone but I think it's hard to find anything 'fun'. The indie films inevitably seem to be deadly serious, whether it's terrible crimes or failing relationships or the inevitably of death. If a viewer wants 'fun' then they're stuck with formulaic superhero blockbusters.

Yeah, good point. Fun films from the more indie side exist, but they aren't the norm, that's true.
Splunk Proserve ABSOLUTELY does this (they have a few superstars they spread thinner than a WW2 kid spreads butter). They get in at the beginning, hand the project over to less experienced people, then parachute in only after the project has gone so far off the rails it's unrecoverable to a point that's truly what the customer needs, but good enough to get the customer off their back.

Source: extensive experience on projects with Splunk proserve.
The former could easily be corrected by a compiler macro, should Julia eventually support that.
"Is it right to circumvent a paywall to access publicly funded research results? ... no"

Why not?
> You would think Oracle would want to upstream ...

Why would I think this and not that Oracle would want to make money off their unique IP?
I personally use Unicode liberally in my Julia code.

Let me say there is a third alternative: (mean, cov) (except you'll shadow some functions...).
because people have shit to do and no time to study a new language at work

Which is really a positive - if you start a new effort in F#, it basically self-selects for the most technically curious or proficient devs. Most corporate C# code-slingers are fearful of learning it or putting themselves through the mindset shift required to grok basic FP principles. "Do you know or are you interested in learning F#" becomes the only interview question required. But I do agree, if you have to build a team around the "least common denominator" then pick the boring tech stack and go.
There’s a cinema in Malmö, Sweden called “Spegeln” (meaning: Mirror in Swedish) which exemplifies the cinema experience for me. I would hate to lose it.

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I started drinking alcohol-free beer recently and it's really nice. Funny though, the best ones are not the same I used to drink and like before, with alcohol.

For example here, the 1664 is pretty popular but I don't like it that much. But the blonde alcohol-free version really tastes like a real beer. I even doubt sometimes that I'm drinking a beer without alcohol: I have to double check! Maybe my brain is playing with me.

Some beers add too much fruit Flavours or sugar like the Leffe ones. Not good.
I've also seen the bait-and-switch with recruiters. Many years ago when I was young in my career, I decided to respond to a recruiter who worked for a recruiting firm. We had a good talk and there was a company he was working with that I expressed interest in and felt I was qualified for.

Nope. He kept pedaling this small, 10-15 person startup to me that I clearly wasn't qualified for and honestly was not interested in as there were some red flags. The commission must've been fat cause he didn't pitch me any other company and kept "circling back" if I changed my mind about them.
Perhaps this is what Bezos meant when he said that rather than talking about work-life balance, he’d rather think of things as a circle.
To me it’s not the performance that’s the “messiah-of-tech” part of the M1 laptops (have an Air myself).

It’s that I can do the same things at the same speed as an Intel MacBook, but:

* The machine is dead silent (literally no sound coming from it)

* The battery life is incredible

I’m not sure if it’s as simple as this, but I guess if they said: we don’t mind blaring fans and 6 hours of battery life, then they could clock the M1 so high it would have truly insane performance.
I feel all one really needs is a Lisp/Scheme and an ML. Imagine if software engineering had coalesced on these two!
What would have been considered a mid budget film?
I've personally been part of many, of varying size.
Being part of a bigger Rust project? The GUI is just one component after all.
That is a way you could look at it, but to me it just seems to be setting people up to be confused. The license isn't really limiting you at all. It is just specifying conditions in which it grants some rights. For example the GPL isn't limiting your use of the code in closed-source software. It is simply granting your rights to use the code only if you release your code under the GPL.

However I think that you are right when phrased like this. If you assume that you use the code, then the license does effectively apply restrictions. But again, I wouldn't want to presuppose that someone is using the code. It puts the decision in the wrong place.

But still this is quite different from the original framing. In the context of the article the problem isn't that the code was protected by a license, the problem was that the code is protected by copyright. This problem could be worked around if you complied with the license such it gave you permission, however the point remains, if you revoke all of the licenses the original problem remains.
Let's say you get this offer with a yearly salary of $104,350. With 2087 hours as the full-time expectation that would be $50 an hour.

However since they want to own all of your creations that might happen while not at work I wonder if they would accept a counter offer. Would you accept this counter offer?

At $50 an hour, 8760 hours in the year, my expected full-time salary would be $438,000. Before you suggest I cut out sleep time what if the idea or solution comes to me in a dream?

I think that is a good compromise. I have the expectation of being "in office" 2087 hours out of the year while also collecting on all of the chance ideas that happen the rest of the time.

Edit: I like this idea. A clause. I collect $104,350 a year. But if Amazon claims ownership over a personal project I create then the rest of the hours uncollected over my employment are owed retroactively. So I work there for 5 years before I have a successful personal project that Amazon wants. They then owe me $1,668,250. Pennies to them but a good chunk of change to me.
I'm on the Air, and I had medium expectations because my previous work laptop (16" Pro, i7, 32GB RAM) was already incredibly snappy and rarely struggled except occasionally with Docker.

I was still very impressed even with my tempered expectations. For the kind of work I do, it's just as capable as the 16" MBP was - but with no heat, no noise, and real all-day battery.
F# is nice and has a lot for it, but to give a data point, I wrote a fair amount of OCaml which is fairly close, and found it to be very subpar when compared to my main language (C++) for most tasks. Especially the tooling is dire when compared to the C++ IDEs, the Clang tools, etc.

And I find VS to be absolutely terrible in every aspect when compared to Qt Creator so the idea of using it for F# does not feel appealing at all.
Evaluating the long term-maintainability of a tool is maybe more important than evaluating if said tool solves a problem. And when dealing with Oracle, your chance of getting royally screwed on licensing as time goes on approaches 100%. So it all depends what kind of time frame you're working on.
Oh I just picked up a 4 pack of that oatmeal stout, looking forward to trying it.

Lagunitas NIPA is the best I’ve tried so far, doubt I could tell that’s it non alcoholic in a blind taste test.
Note, most Non-Alcoholic beer actually has a small amount of alcohol (usually around 0.5%) which can add up depending how much you drink.
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Generally I prefer an app that exists to an app that doesn't exist. Companies that can afford multiple teams are still going the multi-platform way and those who can't, still do it. At the end of the day, you can choose the best app available.

I too would like every app to be a 2MB Swift app, but those are rare for a reason.
I think its too easy to get a patent, and that leads to a great proliferation of patents that serve little purpose but to slow innovation.

I worked at a patent law firm about 15 years ago in my wild youth. I’ll never forget hearing an attorney explain that getting a patent is basically bullying the examiner, and if that doesn’t work, appealing repeatedly until it’s eventually accepted.

Are there statistics of the number of patent applications rejected? Even better, I would love to see the number of patent applications filed by the Apple computer corporation, and how many were accepted, and how many were rejected.

Edit: Autocorrect error.
from the other comments, it is a pain for honest ppl and a blessing for cheaters.
Some numbers from ZipRecruiter (% of 4 day week job listings):

- 2018: 0.06%

- 2019: 0.4%

- 2020: 0.7%

Mainstream normalisation is just around the corner imo.

I'm currently building https://4dayweek.io (Software jobs with a better work / life balance) to try and help with this :)
A lot more. Scala, the Akka ecosystem, and the Hadoop ecosystem is uniquely suited to Spark's problem domain.

And Scala is, for both better and worse, an extremely compact language too. I would expect about 5x more lines of code just from that.
So to sum it all up I was correct in stating $199 price in 1984 and C64 did have expandability.
Python sucks for functional programming.
Mutability, references and hidden objects everywhere.

If you want a real dynamic language functional programming experience, you would be far better with Elixir.
Unless they want to make macs 3x thicker and throw out battery life it won't happen. People already don't want to develop games for linux, even with the same hardware as on PC, much less try to port to apples special APU's.

The power and size required for "serious gaming" GPU's on mobile is far too significant to fit into a mac size at this time. The term "gaming laptop" is a meme - by the time you've spent $2000 on a gaming laptop you've just bought a jet engine the shape of a brick that does half the work of a desktop at double the price and is terrible for productivity outside of specific use cases. (Like presenting 3d renders or something)

I suppose you could do it if apple were to support proton, and if amd/Nvidia were to standardize their external GPU implementations such that you can just plug in your egpu and have at it. But afaik they're very expensive and use case fitted.
>The software engineers of tomorrow will themselves be software

Is it me or is the Economist much more unabashed these days about representing the fevered dreams of business elites? (as opposed to engineers who know wtf theyre talking about)

This copilot circus reminds me of a restaurant I used to go to went to shit in ~2015 because the owner thought giving iPads to customers meant they could cut payroll by 20%.

Which was very much in vogue at the time:

http://images.gawker.com/itqtvwbe3c0skb99wirm/c_scale,fl_pro...
> Beer-less alcohol in a can is really skyrocketing. Not sure how 5% food-grade ethanol in carbonated water sells for 50% more than beer, but it is what it is.

Fills the same niche as beer in the night without being beer.
> No, it avoids distorting the picture.

This is simply running around in circles. Privileging 2nd generation immigrants over the first generation cannot be framed as avoiding distortion. I have never heard some one say that they moved into California because they were constrained by language barriers. Virtually everyone moves here for economic opportunity. The ones that move out are the ones who want a large single family home with a large backyard. This is what they find fulfilling and a sign of accomplishment in their life. 1st generation immigrants don't have that kind of baggage. This also explains the hatred that a lot of these smaller towns have when Californians move there. Because they bring the fuckton of money that they earned in California and amp up the price of real estate in the area and gentrify it.

Maybe, we should discount the outflow out of CA/NYC because other states don't appreciate the CA money that disturbs the economic balance there. There are several cuts that can be made if we want to "remove distortion" from hundreds of different POVs.
Aha! That explains an odd case where my company was subcontracting with another company to work on their project that was ultimately state-funded. This was essentially a museum installation, VFX work for a projection thing, and they wanted the names of the people who were going to be involved.

This was very odd to us, since our names wouldn't mean a thing to anyone on the client's end, but we chalked it up to red tape. Your explanation finally makes sense of it.
I wonder if that would be true at steady-state (e.g. when the train is effectively empty), but for a train at rush hour, whether much of the capacity of the AC system is already being used to remove heat generated from the humans, and if that means the temperature difference to the outside is actually mostly unimportant.

That is to say, the person next to you is generating and dissipating a fixed rate of heating onto you (equal to their basal metabolic rate consumption), so all that the jacket can have changed is their steady-state perception of the local temperature.
Mirage OS seems to fit the bill.

Then there is the whole point if writing compilers should be considered systems programming.
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I don’t think it matters what language people think is most productive. What really matters is what language you can hire for. In the end you have to have people to do the work.

I used to be a very big fan of a certain functional language, and invested serious time and effort into projects in that language, but hindsight tells me every single time it was a mistake. It was a mistake because if you cannot hire people to do the work then the project dies when it needs to grow.

People used to do very big projects in COBOL, which most hacker news readers have never even seen, and as someone who did some COBOL, I can confirm that it was absolutely terrible, but the projects got done and by and large with less tech stack Jenga or superfluous trash that infests so many projects today. COBOL died when the majority of people moved on, not because st80, pascal, ada and C were better, but because the industry switched to platforms where the dominant languages were day one different: pascal and C. Mac, Windows, the Unix workstations.

Maybe those platforms used other languages because they were better. Certainly I can’t imagine the Mac built with COBOL, FORTRAN, bcpl (worked for amiga, somewhat), etc. but the dynamic of leaders is different from the dynamic of followers.
As a complete layman the second one, given your explanation, seems to be more generic and declarative. Is that a correct assumption?
> it was so frustrating not only the amount of cheating that occurred

Yeah, it's crazy that cheaters are the protagonist of the ban e-proctoring story.

What if the university only admitted students who don't cheat?

How do we know that policy works for real at a place like Caltech?

Academic culture is accommodating, and you feel that way too. But universities must know that cheating harms everyone, it's a losing proposition. The right response should have been to suspend grading.
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