skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The overseas market, specifically China, probably plays a much bigger role in self-censoring cinema than most people are comfortable admitting. Nobody wants good cinema, movies that dig into and challenge the human condition. They want money. In the last 20-30 years, we have seen the strip-mall-ization of the movie theater. Every city has at least one, they all look the same, and drop in at any time and you'll see the same kinds of movies: cool-looking, easy, bowlderized, with paint-by-the-numbers plots.

I love real cinema. For all intents and purposes it's gone now. We need a new art form to take its place.

A big part of the problem with any commercial art form is the plethora of folks who love to be reductionist in one way or another. Leads in TV shows from the 1950s forward wanted to know and control how many lines they spoke. John Wayne famously gave the advice to another actor that if you're leaving a scene, first move in the opposite direction and then leave the way you're supposed to. Gives you a bit more screen time. (Apologies that I cannot source that offhand)

Once everything becomes reductionist, it's then much easier to argue about some oversimplified version of the art than the contents of the art itself. Were there enough tall people in that film? Did that essay have the right amount of third-grade level adjectives? Is the playwright using a meter for the supporting roles? If so, what is it?

We can go on and on about such things because they are easier to measure, require almost no understanding of the art form itself, and lead to all sorts of debates. Sometimes I think the number one rule of modern media is "I don't care what you're arguing about, just argue about something!"

If we placed the story first, and only created anything in an art form to support and enhance that story, we'd get all sorts of interesting and self-challenging art, depending on which artist is telling the story. Whatever trivial reductionist thing you'd like to experience, there'd be art that let you experience it. But if we try to create and tell stories through art by way of committee and marketing research, it's just going to be more and more bland populist pablum.

The saddest part of all of this is not that businesses are acting in their best interests. The saddest part is what it says about the average consumer. I love modern theater even though it's a completely new art, but I try very hard not to do the "reverse math" and figure out just what the creators think of me. Otherwise I'd get pretty pissed.
I was thinking about this before and only conclusion I came is that all of recent great MS software is open-sourced (VScode, .NET core, TypeScript, new Terminal app, PowerToys...)

github is still developed by Github Inc.
Everything is about politics.

I advise reading about technology sales practices.
You say that with confidence. Do you have research to share?
Indeed, Linux is the outlier here. Maybe it's better. But the designers of, say, Solaris, Mac and Windows didn't think so.
Yes, there were AOT compilers availbe for Java since 2000. But more recently, Graal creates very nice binaries.
Maybe I am strange, but while I am a heavily sexual person IRL, I never quite got the point of those long sex scenes in movies. On the contrary, always found it gratuitous and slightly annoying.
With all due respect, that sounds like Stockholm syndrome to me.

If Facebook makes you feel "helpless" and "filled with dread", then probably the most empowering choice is to stop using Facebook.
If I'm distributing binaries as a commercial product, I definitely want the former.
What you call the « next word » is actually the next word it has already seen in a similar context in the training set.

The novelty does no go beyond the variability of the training data.

And so deep learning cannot generate futures that are both surprising and general.

In the context of conversations, no doubt that it can generate realistic answers. They will just be regurgitations of the training data. They might seem novel to you because you haven’t experienced all the discussions of the training set. But they won’t be novel to humankind and won’t project it into an actual future.
We really are living in the New Puritan age. “Unnecessary sex scenes”? I’ve never needed a reason to see people having sex. When did everyone get so repressed?
I thought the male gaze was more about unnecessary panning on ass/tits in a scene that has nothing to do with sex, not even to reflect the protagonist falling in love or feeling lust for the person. And honestly I always found those annoying.
It's pretty amazing the digital-equivalent resolution that actual film has (depends on the film size obviously but if you were to compare average film size to a average 10+ year digital camera it's a huge difference)
Cropping is never the right choice for media presentation. Ever.
what, that young people are having less sex ? i think it's well documented https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/2020...
The m1 is very early still for compatibility, also doesn’t have 32 to 64 GB Ram. That might work for you but not everyone is the same.

Looking forward to seeing the new 16” MBP with Apple silicon, but I suspect ubiquitous software compatibility will be 3 or 4 years away similar to when Apple switched from PowerPC to intel
Meetings – a senior engineer's secret weapon
Were not allowed to debate science it's banned on all social media except Gab
You can dynamically link during development, and then ship statically linked binary (with LTO etc). That’s what Chrome does, for example.
> consensus around basic matters

But the thing is Joe (and others) will have the conversations you’re describing- it’s not forgotten. Part of having a good conversation is being comfortable with being wrong. He’s explicit about being a joke comedian sports commentator, and can sympathetically talk with anyone. Conversations with ground rules of truth are those that tend to be dry and pre-processed. The listener can think too and figure out what makes sense. Part of what makes gonzo fun, too.
What is it about then?
The earths resources are finite, no?
The real reason it's impossible to hire anyone right now
It does, which one can argue it’s an implementation detail. The differences I mentioned above eg sharding, transaction boundary, secondary indices, etc. should be generally applicable to a non-relational db and not unique to TAO. I could be wrong though; as I know little about other graph dbs.

It would probably be more productive to compare RDB and Graph with certain workload examples (OLTP, OLAP, joins, scans, etc.).
It's still not "fixed" because Indian Disney+, which is run by a Disney subsidiary, still doesn't allow you to watch the Simpsons in 4:3.
Paul Krugman actually changed his tune about this… moreover, you can find critiques of free trade being bad for workers everywhere if you look. And these critiques aren’t new: https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/sanders-why-i-oppose-nafta...
The price tag reminds me 3very time I set it down on the desk that it’s more like having a portable desktop you move around with you.

Avoid the i9s
A far more interesting article with less focus on discounting feminist concepts out of hand
"end user perspective" + "quit programming"? Do you troubleshoot dylib errors on your regular end user software and just happen to be a programmer unrelated to that?

(If you're troubleshooting dylib errors on things you're developing, that's not an end user perspective?)
Oh. Wonderful!
As a developer at a company that produces industrial equipment, our licensing picture is very nearly inverted from your description. Until about 10 years ago, probably 99% of our systems were connectionless. Today, I'd say about 75% are connectionless, 20% have an intranet connection, and less than 5% have access to the full public internet.
Message #3 in this email thread:

https://www.fwdeveryone.com/t/8SE7gM0xRkGI2taSIFBJhw/rensa-g...
Author here, and I am also a Gentoo user on my daily driver.

I read that article when it came out, and it felt disingenuous.

mgorny helps maintain Gentoo, which of all distributions, does rebuild software as necessary.

It would be a simple change to portage to rebuild all dependencies of a library when that library is updated, regardless of if the user uses static linking or not. In fact, there is a project to have a statically-linked musl-based Gentoo.

So it's possible and (I would argue) would be an easy change. mgorny would not have to worry about much because he could, in essence, treat all libraries as dynamic libraries. The only pain to be felt would be by users who would see their build times increase (to rebuild dependents).

As a user, I would happily take that tradeoff. I already build my browser, which takes 5-8 hours; I'll happily rebuild dependents of updated libraries.
I'll have to check it out! I've been delinquent on reading those.
with regard to good software engineering, there is a funny thing about python. Simply cut-and-paste code from one env to another can completely destroy the program, if the cut-and-paste messes with the indentation.

Now some people say this can be solved with a good IDE. Which might (or might not) be true if you can reliably identify, by manually reviewing the code, the ends of the functions, loops, etc which got munged in the paste.

But interestingly enough, jupyter notebooks (which seem to be the go-to tool these days) aren't IDEs. Making it incredibly easy to fubar otherwise perfectly working code by pasting it from your local IDE into, let's say an AWS Sagemaker instance, to pick one random example of a current widely used jupyter implementation. So even if the problem could be fixed by a good IDE, there is no guarantee that that IDE is (easily) accessible for production code.

I just have a hard time seeing how such a fundamental flaw in a language can lead to "good software engineering"
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA

You can also watch Ben Eater's videos.
Done well, aspect ratio conversion involves editorial decisions: what part of the frame is most important to preserve? This isn't something TVs can automate.

(Not advocating for cropping, though)
It's so easy to see female breasts online that you won't get horny men to go out of their way to see your mediocre film because it features breasts. Given those facts you are possibly better off pretending like you are an artist with integrity and not someone trying to rope people in with gratuitous nudity.

That said, HBO shows have lots of sex so I suspect the premise of the article is generally false.
I quite enjoyed SG-1 seasons 9 and 10. Perhaps I would also enjoy having those answers.
Evidence suggest humans “get” cancer way more frequently than we’d expect. Cells are programmed to “self-destruct” if things go wrong and our immune system is primed to destroy cells that express certain proteins associated with uncontrolled growth.

It’s really the edge cases that get through.
Am I still fully vaccinated?
Scanning with a better scanner can be confused with "digital remastering".
It saddens me that we live in a culture in which movies showing violence (including torture and murder) are acceptable, whereas ones showing consensual, non-pornographic intercourse - aren’t.

You might argue that on Netflix every second movie have a lot of sex scenes. Yes, must mostly with partial or implied nudity (think of all of these scenes with sex with bra on, waking up clothed, or L-shaped sheets).

At the same time there is no issue with explicit blood, gore, cut-off limbs, etc.
Yes.

If I installed software through my OS package manager, where else would I get security updates from?!
It is a bit hand wavy. To take the travel example ... it wasn't that long ago that only a tiny percentage of people would ever have considered a journey beyond what could be accomplished on horseback (or even on foot) with all supplies being carried (except perhaps water).

Over time various forms of "mass" transits steadily increased the ease (and thus possibility) of taking longer journeys, but always on a schedule decided by the transport operator.

The development of the automobile (and the infrastructure that it requires) eventually changed this to make it feasible for an automobile owner to undertake almost arbitrary journeys without reference to a transport operator's schedule, and without requiring relatively unusual levels of "explorer-ness" as would have been the case of foot and horse travel.

So there was an inflexion point somewhere at which independent long distance travel switched from being something done only by a tiny percentage of people to something that was quite accessible.

That (for me) is the qualitative change.

Air travel is the quantitative change layered on top of that, which makes the possible distances and destinations of such travel more expansive.
There's also this toy puzzle game for mechanical computing

https://www.turingtumble.com/
Somehow we created a society where violence is acceptable to watch but sex is not.

It's okay to watch a human being realistically murder another one YET a penis appearing on screen or a penis entering a vagina/rectum is somehow a mind-blowing event we can only handle in small and censored amounts.

Mostly new life come out of sex while mostly death comes out of violence.
That article doesn’t talk about GPU decryption at all, which is many multitudes faster, and also it’s only talking about finding a specific AES key. It may be possible to search for multiple keys in parallel in the future, which could cut this figure down by the corresponding amount (if the goal is just to find some keys, and not specific ones).
Exactly. We live in a society with severe social stigma around sexual content/nudity. Even in the 21st century, or more liberal places like Europe, nakedness or sex are not to be shown as “daily human things” like cooking, for example.

As such, actors and especially actresses are of course averse to it. Not only because they grew up in our society, but because it often leads to the fetishization of their image. Do you want to be recognized for the acting you worked hard to learn, or for the 2 minutes of almost-explicit sex with a random person, being watched on-stage by several middle-aged men? One of this options celebrates your talents and hardwork, while the other puts you on the spot in an uncomfortable position with potential negative repercussions for your career.
I largely agree with the author, but they left out something important: arguably the most important thing that large corporations do to protect their interests is co-opting the government with campaign contributions, promises of future lucrative private sector employment, etc. Combined with control of the news media to divert attention, huge corporations have superpowers compared to small businesses and individuals.
The article touches on this, but in the past three decades movie making has been "optimized" to the point that there has been a great deal of "convergence" of the movie formula down to just a couple major themes. Either you have general audience, big budget, Marvel-type movies, or you have designated Oscar-type fare, which as of late means something extremely depressing that says how bad humans are. "Horny sex" just doesn't fit in either of those two categories.

Not too sad, though, because I feel like the exact opposite has happened with TV, where the rise of streaming services has ushered in a "Cambrian Explosion" of sorts with all types of varied topics and interesting content.
Don't forget that an AGI would have no particular reason to do anything for humans.

We might be most relevant to one as a source of raw materials:

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer
It's not that simple for us (we have tried this).
OH I thought you had meant double-decker platforms for a single track, to serve both levels of a double-decker train.

For sure more platforms than lines in is a good idea that exists today.
End user of a linker?
[1] China really is to blame for millions of lost U.S. manufacturing jobs, new study finds

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/china-really-is-to-bla...
Author here.

In everything in the post, I attempted to give Drepper the benefit of the doubt, though there are cases where I don't want to since he sounds (to me) paternalistic in the way Apple and Microsoft do.

So perhaps he understood, but I didn't want to assume that, especially since it might inflame the discussion, which is exactly what I was trying to avoid doing (again).
It's times like this that I think that piracy is the only way to preserve pop culture.
You could also look at Joost Swarte.
There are plenty of sex scenes on cable/streaming though. It is just the big Hollywood blockbusters which need to play it safe by alienating as few demographics as possible.
Crypto platform mistakenly gives $90M to users, asks for refund
It’s weird how unusable my experience is. I recently tried to open a basic account with an exchange, Gemini, and after a few rounds of onboarding (all confusing and disjointed) I was kicked out of the process. My nascent account was closed with a confusing message.

After emailing I was told that they decided not to open my account for reasons they won’t state and there’s no appeal.

This was weird because I was a new customer with no transactions and all I had done was send a photo of my passport and enter KYC info.

All a bad experience and just shows it’s ridiculous compared to banks.

Banks have problems, but they do have regulators at least.
If I was a betting man I'd put it on Fisker, not Apple.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/05/fisker-foxconn-ev-partners...
> Hyperspectral imaging in the visible and near-infrared ranges initially seemed promising. Unfortunately, the black redaction ink absorbed almost all light in the visible range, and in the NIR range, the two inks were rendered largely transparent. They were too similar to draw any conclusive results. Pottier and his collaborators got the best results with X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy in a microscanning mode

Does anyone know what are the other use cases for these techniques? The article is very interesting! Thanks for sharing
There’s a middle level of “troubleshooting dylib errors on open source software I’m installing for personal use because I’m a masochist who isn’t happy with closed source software”
>>traditional media just deals in half truths and artificially modifying information

You know, this also could be a definition for Gonzo journalism which by its nature is 'truth inspired'.
if apple offered replacement parts they would also dampen that black market a lot.
There are many "commercial products" that run on Linux whose installation includes various *.so files that will be dynamically linked at run time. Are you saying this is a bad idea?
Chessvision-AI bot finds YouTube videos mentioning any given chess position
The first section, on security fixes ("[...] you only need to update a shared library to apply security fixes to all executables that rely on that library"), starts talking about security fixes but then suddenly switches to talking about ABI and API breaks. But that sleight-of-hand hides the fact that many (perhaps even most) security fixes do not break the ABI or API; they are completely contained to the implementation (one obvious exception would be if the security issue was caused by bad API design, but even then often there are ways to fix it without breaking the ABI).
Nice idea. However, a few words might not be able to establish the proper context for making comments. I fear it might encourage polarized comments.
> A PC cannot easily have 2 different IPv4 subnets in the same NIC

i know this to be false, but i don't want to dismiss your comment because of poor wording.

so: what do you mean?
From the context of the letters, the rest of the words and where they were found. He seems to have only edited a few lines throughout letters. At most, checking one of the letters would have been enough.
On the China thing: Why don't we let the ones who want to censor movies just do it on their own instead of precensoring them? This used to happen a lot. Is it really that expensive to cut out a few shots or use compositing to obscure things?

I believe it's still done for so-called in-flight entertainment.
I remember Concorde coming over in London, below supersonic, and even then it was very loud. Also, I may remember incorrectly, but Concorde never went into a holding pattern. All other flights were put on hold. Not sure if it was due to manoeuvrability or noise. I suppose you can do that with government help.
I don't see too much nudity in Netflix shows. Which ones specifically are you thinking about? There are definitely plenty of "bra-on" sex scenes that cut away early in the act, but I don't think that's what the author is talking of.
I acknowledge that I'm digressing into general Vinge talk here instead of Zones of Thought, but Rainbow's End was good, too, as more of a near-future vision that, these days, would barely be considered sci-fi. It's also got some elements that are scarily analogous to current trends in government/social media/political dialogue.
Any data to back up the claim about zoomers?

I am a zoomer and none of the people around my age I know are anti-sex. If anything, we are all for (safe) sex without the constraints of social pressure/puritan morality.
>Maybe "Considered Harmful" essays have a reputation for inflaming the debate, and there's an argument to be made for that. But I personally don't think my post is one that follows that reputation.

Neither your post title nor your content bothered me but just as fyi... some people are very irritated by "snowclones". My previous comment with various examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19071532
That's is not all an argument for bricking phones with 3rd party parts, just for having a setting screen that shows which parts are original, replaced and from which source.
DLL Hell was well understood in the mid-90s. I think you need to give him more benefit of the doubt on this point.
Fortunately we still have lots of violence, death, and torture. Because those are totally ok and normal things to be thinking about.

Ug! Sex and love. that stuff is just too dangerous to let into the public imagination.
Could you give an example of unnecessary sex scenes? I watch netflix shows often enough and can't think of a show that had a unnecessary sex scenes every 6-8 minutes.
The one "exception" that comes to mind with a lot of sex scenes are Sex Education and Sexify but for those shows the sex scenes are hardly unnecessary given the subject matter.

I'm not trolling or trying to be argumentative here, I'm genuinely trying to think of series with unnecessary sex scene every 6-8 minutes.
No, stereo speakers. Is it not feeding center into both or something?
Author here.

I quote that email twice in my post. I decided not to quote that part of the email just in case it might inflame the debate.

But yes, he did say that.
or have them be one time programmable, so you can use new replacement parts from apple but can't transplant them. although in terms of e-waste that's still not ideal
Well, imagine Tesla implements a feature to put a car in lost mode and it suddenly can't be driven, even with a key. At that point, the only thing the car thief could do is strip it for parts and sell them on ebay or the like.
The moral panic over Instagram and girls
Freeciv-web Cease and Desist for AGPL violation
Like this Life in Life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8
Stay away from Children of the Sky unless, having finished Fire Upon the Deep, your response was "I'd sure like to hear more about those whiny children and the dogs"
One book that helped me understand these challenges was "Hard things about hard things". I recommend/gift the book to any (engineer) friend who is burning to start his own business. It's a different game. Even Sr. Engineer is a different game than coding, we spend some time on System design, mentoring, presenting technical outcomes of our work/PoCs, writing new product requirements, .. etc. I think these tasks require other skillsets as well.