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Netflix UX has been falling year after year.

Netflix is extremely profitable, its stock price droppings are due to our current system of expecting never ending growth, not on business model sanity. It is way more threatened by having to produce its own content, or its new found shitty business practices (that tend to pile up) than account sharing.

> Consider if all films had to try the 'Spotify model' which is to say it's all free with a few ads, the industry would be wiped out.

or maybe not. Why would it? Blockbusters/Pop would survive because merchandise pays much more than tickets, it could even be better for them.

More alternative stuff always had to deal with less funding, and limitations are what brings art forward.

> if those movies were available at 'piratedmovies.com' without any IP laws

the bad pirate bay still has an enormous catalog. And i never mentioned any ablishment of IP laws, just new laws to forbit DRM and its equivalents of restricting usage. I'm okish with mass sharing websites being forbidden, I'm not ok with a random joe not being able to share with his friends or have local copies. Or because of some stupid DRM, gets his SDD worn out, or not getting full quality on certain un"protected" OS/browser/cable.

> people don't want to pay

People pay for actual convenience, always did, always will. If you can't provide better service that a random project that can't even get funds legally, what does it tell about your business? Checkout icloud, plenty of profits, but you could just have your 2TB network disk at home, much cheaper overall, dropbox proved the concept, it just lacked integration, and it all rests on one thing: convinience.

> physical goods can generally not be pirated! How does the 'economy' work for your Milk and Cereal producers? Just fine.

it's about reproduction cost. digital goods are almost free to distribute in a small scale.

> How does the 'economy' work for your Milk and Cereal producers? Just fine.

So fine that without tax payers money they go broke. So fine that they have to destroy the goods to keep prices and subsidies where they want them. Nothing as cool as throwing away milk to not crash the market while getting subsidized to produce more milk. Food industry is the one most reliant on tax payer money and you dared to use it as an example. If media and entertainment are so goddamm important that you have to put so much effort protecting their ventures with DRM and lots of other bulshit, maybe just apply what we do with those "working economies": subsidize.

Non violent civil disobedience vs abstract entities (ie corps, agencies, governments) is more than ok, most of the time is the only way, and power must be kept in check.
Looks interesting, I haven't seen sBERT yet - thanks Paul!
That would cause a massive interest rate hike, no?
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The older generation didn't pay- parents' ability to pay is factored into student aid decisions. Instead the older generation enjoyed lower tax rates by not funding the colleges and grants that they enjoyed.
Something about windows copilot screems either subscription or ads
We don’t drink directly from streams or pools of water. Pre-technology humans would have had to use their hands to scoop water to their mouths and it’s more efficient when your mouth is closer to the water source since you don’t lose as much on the way up. We also just don’t spend much time bending over anymore which is probably another source of resistance that is missing.
I really miss my Mazda RX-8. I thought Mazda was going to give the rotary engine one more go but it looks like the end of an era...meh.
Yes, there will always be power mongers and corrupt individuals. So why have a system of rules & regulation?

Why have a democracy, a constitution, laws?

Because separation of powers, regular mandated elections, and other rules that make power harder to centralize, reduce the chance of autocracy from nearly 100% to something much lower.

And debugging that system when obvious in-the-open systematic corruption occurs also has great impact.

I.e. the bill of rights, equal rights amendments, etc

Rules & regulations are a program running on squishy human “hardware”, of course, but fixing clear bugs makes a difference.

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Which is why my question isn’t whether fixing government system flaws is worth doing, but whether there is a way to make that activity more regular, more incentivized, more likely.

For instance, the simple rule of requiring elections on a calendar makes elections much much likely.

Maybe some rules that ensured party dominance resulted in an extended period of party handicap would do it? Less incentives and outright necessity for corruption when it isn’t going to extend your hold on power anyway.

I am sure that if a country was writing a new constitution, they could learn something from all the different corrupt vs. less corrupt behaviors of existing democracies.

Surely the best constitution isn’t a solved problem, and constitution innovation hasn’t run into some final optimization limit.

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Stockholm syndrome might reduce our awareness of these opportunities, but they exist, despite the difficulty implementing even simple reforms today.

That makes asking how reforms that reduce corruption, and power consolidation, could be made more likely even more important.
>"permanent digital video camera whose footage is invisibly passed on to the government".

I'd be fine with regulating / banning without a warrant the second half of that sentence. I don't want to prevent people from having security cameras outside their home, those are pretty useful.

The current loophole is police asking the same 3rd parties that host your data for that data and those 3rd parties can comply without your consent. We'd need some type of data ownership laws for that sort of thing. I'd certainly support that. There are laws around NIL (name, image likeness) and ownership thereof. I'l like to see those applied to third party data storage vendors, but like dragon_lady mentioned, it's a step.

Of course, that wouldn't prevent the police asking your neighbor or local business for locally stored footage.

>the law is not an algorithm

Laws should be as specific and un-vague as possible to prevent abuse, mainly from the government itself.
getting ahead of the problem...
ARC is a type of GC though.
I had a small DC at work that included Turing and Lovelace, plus: Wilkes, Babbage amd Hopper.
There's a certain tendency to take anything written in a double column PDF followed by a long list of citations as gospel. Maybe that's what the authors were hoping for? The poor quality of writing, contrived examples and unnecessary snark could be why the authors didn't to put their name to this paper.
A classic slippery slope argument, free from anything like the burden of pointing to anything real. Where are the examples of this burgeoning techno-fascism? Where are the disappeared? Where is the American version of Zersetzung? Where is the creeping "social credit score" style of monitoring?

We've had this tech for a while now, so where are the examples of it being systematically abused by the government?
Somebody always wins the lottery. This doesn't mean that playing the lottery is a useful path to riches for anyone else.

Edited to add: This is not an indictment on the college student in question! Congrats to him for being prepared to seize on an opportunity and executing well.
"False" seems too strong. The job it does is track lifetimes. That's a job you should be doing anyway in C/C++.

It does so better than you can in that it doesn't have false negatives anywhere you're sufficiently playing by its rules.

You can also do so better than it can, in that you can see reasons things are okay that it can't understand.

I agree that there are too many false positives to assert that a competent C or C++ programmer doesn't have learning to do to appease (and leverage) the borrow checker.
Yellowstone kills baby bison after visitor touches the animal
sounds like you should stop buying it if it hurts you and switch to reusable containers. I do agree though, that the way it is implemented isn't great. ideally every store that collects a deposit fee would also be a place to give back the item.
Why would it fizzle? It provides an actual utility
This kind of thing has to be fought at the highest level, specifically, overturning (or otherwise neutralizing) Smith v. Maryland. That ruling began the greatest assault on the Fourth Amendment since the Civil War. Also, Maryland v. King. (What is it with Maryland, anyway?)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland

Apologies to non-American readers, and acknowledgement that the US is not the whole world.
So after the US gets its own Stasi we should eventually get better anti-surveillance laws.
From a modern technological perspective it might as well be, especially when we're talking about East Germany under Soviet occupation.
> While I was off Nexium that month the foot whip seemed to almost disappear.

Your gait problem kind of sounds like a weak form of some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_bone_disease — i.e. bone wasting due to lack of vitamin D (or its transports, like magnesium) — leading to bones becoming softer and even slightly bendy [gradually, under load]. Think "rickets", though there are many metabolic bone diseases (really: bone formation syndromes) that can arise from the same metabolic causal factors.

(Something extremely well-documented on the Internet that you can look at, is metabolic bone disease in reptiles — commonly observed by pet owners due to inadequate terrarium setup: when these animals don't get enough UV light to produce Vitamin D, their leg bones soften so much [or stay so soft during development] that they buckle under their weight; their legs can end up literally curled due to this.)

My speculation is that that PPIs can negatively impact bone formation — possibly by suppressing vitamin D uptake into bone cells. (So your bloodwork wouldn't say your vitamin D levels are bad; in fact, your blood vitD levels would be high if anything.) The power of this effect would be magnified by having already-low magnesium levels.

And Wikipedia says that some doctors share this speculation:

> High dose or long-term use of PPIs carries an increased risk of bone fractures which was not found with short-term, low dose use; the FDA included a warning regarding this on PPI drug labels in 2010. [...] A study from 2019 showed that PPI use alone and together with histamine H2-receptor antagonists was associated with an increased bone fracture hazard, which was amplified by days of use and earlier initiation of therapy. The reason is not clear, increased bone break down by osteoclasts has been suggested.
Interesting choice to build a brand new JS engine from the ground up. Wondering if there's a life for that outside of the project as an embeddable JS / TS engine (especially after Microsoft abandoned Chakra/ChakraCore a few years back).
I certainly hope it wouldn't apply to private planes, since a very common flight for them is taking off, flying around, and landing back at the same airport.
OpenAI continually gaining even more leverage in the business world with their API. They'll be able to charge whatever they want eventually, if they can't already
I'm curious when things get that pervasive how a system wound up in that state. Did it start out that way, did it slowly creep, did it cross over from other societal interactions that predated it.
Respectfully, did you have no options other than a 30k+/yr institution of the same or similar quality?
> 'Piracy' is absolutely unnecessary for the market to operate effectively, the evidence for that is all around you: physical goods can generally not be pirated! How does the 'economy' work for your Milk and Cereal producers? Just fine.

Yeah, but... imagine your Milk could be pirated - some friendly alien civilization drops by to say hi and leaves 8 billion - one for each human - of matter transmuters behind. These contraptions tap into universe's dark matter supply through a micro-wormhole and are able to materialize anything the user wants, seemingly out of nothing (there's a lot of dark matter out there). Would my Milk and Cereal producers, along with the whole economic environment they inhabit, still be able to run on the pre-transmuters rules and principles?

Whether something can be replicated for near-zero cost or not is such a huge, vast difference that trying to apply rules that work in either case to the other cannot possibly yield good results.
Looks very useful! Can't wait to try the Windows version. Thanks!
Meanwhile I have to wonder what's the selling point of these over good old urxvt? It has an ecosystem of perl plugins, which has all the batteries I need and more. In its daemon/client mode I can have 20+ terminal windows open and they consume sum total of like 30MB memory, with embedded perl interpreter and everything. I feel like one or two instances of these modern incarnations is enough to completely dwarf that number.

GPU rendering is really cool, but I don't really understand what might people be doing where CPU rendering in terminal is anywhere close to being a bottleneck. People lose ability to comprehend way before that, why would I want gibberish to be printed even faster? Redirecting output to a file (or /dev/null) is almost always what I would want?
> I would be a lot more for reducing the interest rate to 1% on all of these loans. You should not have money forgiven that you used [...]

Any reason why? Why should education be this expensive to begin with? Why make students work 2 jobs while having college?

Here in Germany we have a student loan model, where as long as your making progress in Uni, you get around 1.3k a month, only have to pay back at most 10k with 0%. Oh and if you pay all at once you can get up to 50% cheaper.

So why should students be forced into 30k dept with crazy interest rates, just because they wanted to study something?

Genuinely curious
Here's the problem: executives are incentivized to (a) make the stock price go up, and (b) make them go up real fast. This means that if the options are (a) admitting the truth that this was a temporary surge, and thus having a moderate but sustainable increase in the stock price, or (b) pretend this is the "new normal", peloton purchases are gonna grow 40% every quarter, and so the stock should skyrocket _right now_, guess which one they picked.

It's not a bug, it's a feature of stock-value-maximizing capitalism as opposed to true-value-maximization.
GHG do not have any impact on the temperature until they reach the high troposphere (the way GHG work is nothing like a greenhouse btw). C02 surplus at ground level takes 20 years to reach the level it has an impact on, and have a 'half life' there of almost ten thousand years.

Today, the climate is impacted by emissions made in 2003. Emissions from today won't have an impact before 2043 (on the climate. Still have an impact right this moment on the oceans acidity btw).

I'm not doom and gloom though. Your kids will suffer, but I'll probably make it just fine. Still, I'm making all I can to preserve future humans some pain, but I feel like I'll stop making efforts soon.
No, it does say that.
This was a common argument in the early 2000s, until, you know, someone looked at real world data and figured that something like 10-30% of a website’s audience usually benefits from accessibility features. Accessibility is not only about supporting complete blindness or other stereotypical disabilities.
Like any gold rush? Right now, gold nuggets are strewn around and you can grab them with your bare hands. Pretty soon you'll need excavators, sifters and all that infrastructure.

Good on him for making this much cash. Sure, right time and right place but you still need to be able to execute.
AFAIK it's even worse. Europe and the USA play some kind of ping pong with extension acts.

The original draconian copyright policies came from the EU. Later, the USA aligned, and provided a longer term than Europe. Europe then aligned with the USA, again with a longer term. And so on.
I did a month's course of Omeprazole in the morning and Pepcid before going to bed. It got much better, and now I rarely have to take something. Before that, I was taking sodium bicarbonate every day, which is apparently bad for you and can worsen the symptoms over time.
You solve the problem by cutting back the availability of student loans.

Freely available student loans have pumped enormous amounts of money into the system, and tuition prices increased accordingly, driving the need for yet more loans.

In the end what we have is young people taking on unthinkable amounts of debt to get the same level of education that they did 40 years ago, but now with nicer student centers and bigger stadiums (and, somehow, instructors who are paid less than before).

If we cut off the endless supply of loans, and instead use limited grants to continue to foster diversity, we can reverse the cycle. Schools will once again have to compete on cost.

Then we can talk about loan forgiveness for those who were victimized by the current system. But doing the forgiveness before fixing the system only makes the problem worse.
...wait, you don't think police departments currently go after dissidents by looking for anything they can charge them for, or that surveillance technology allows them to do this more easily?
Interesting... Why not buy something like this instead?

Granted the M1 mac will be a gazillion times faster and whether or not you actually need that speed for a home automation server is for you to decide, of course.

https://www.onlogic.com/cl210g-10/
I used iTerm on a 2011 iMac with 6GB of mismatched RAM until 2018 at work, and a crappy 2012 MBP with 4GB RAM (subsequently upgraded to 8GB) from 2012-2016 without issue. This is not normal at all lol
I would love it if I could run this in the browser over SSH to a remote server... Is that possible?
Ah yes, the "* Considered Harmful" tradition in computer science. A tradition so widespread that it has even wrapped around upon itself and yielded the "'Considered harmful' considered harmful" paper.

Not the best start already. Hmm, written by 'Anonymous Authors'. So is this supposed to be a joke? Is the implication that speaking out against rust makes you the target of unjust persecution? Is it written by people known to have an axe to grind?

Abstract: This is a free-verse poem setting up a rust advocate strawman. Do such people exist on the internet? Yes. But time cube also exists on the internet.

Introduction: Incrementally rewriting a C/C++ system in rust is bad because FFI can have problems. Which can be simplified with a different spin to be, "C/C++ are so bad that they contaminate even the mighty rust."

It feels like the paper might have some good information that would be useful to people who want to augment their codebases with rust. However, it starts off so combative, that I don't think I could seriously recommend anyone actually read it. Maybe just skip the abstract and intro and see what you get out of it?
The problem is not venture capital as a concept, but the actual venture-capital environment we have. The focus is entirely on low-percentage but very high-return unicorn chasing, and it's easy to see why, but there are some ill effects. When VCs pick winners with huge cash injections, instead of letting the market decide, you get a lot of shitty companies crowding out better ones. By "better" I mostly mean more stable and sustainable, still producing far better-than-inflation returns but not enough to be "interesting" to the kingmakers. Instead we get wild boom-and-bust cycles, even for the successful ones. But "better" could also mean doing less social harm, since the primary way to stand out in such a crowd is to show the greatest willingness to abandon all guardrails. That's why so many of the unicorns have made our lives worse, and also why we've recently had such a rash of outright frauds. The profit motive is great, when the market is truly open. When so much of a market is controlled by a tight circle of people gambling with other people's money and everyone's future for their own sole benefit ... not so much. VC as it currently exists has empirically been bad for far more people than it has benefited.

I don't know the solution. I don't know what kind of regulation (if any) would fix this without throwing the free-market baby out with the oligopolist bathwater. I;m no fan of central planning, that's for sure, but I sort of feel that's what we already have and what we need to get away from. And yeah, I know this is quite possibly the worst environment in which to express such a sentiment. If you disagree, maybe at least have the courage and courtesy to express that in the form of a coherent counterargument.
it's the best hours in the best days in the best years of my life being spent switching pixels off and on in a grid using little buttons.

Oh, this thought has crossed my mind so, so many times. It's usually a sign that I need to get out more. I now live where it's beautiful and sunny all the time, and yet I still find myself holing up like I did when I lived in the Pacific NorthWet.

At the end of the day, I'd say work on building your identity outside of work. Work a little bit less, schedule more time to be outdoors, and see after a few months if you still feel the way you do now. If so, then you know what you need to do. At that point, cut down your income to the level you'd be at otherwise, and see how it feels. If it's fine, then... do your thang.
The lesson you should learn from this is that you don't always get to pick your government.
Yes, FreeCAD badly needs a UI/UX overhaul.

But even then, any advanced CAD software is not the type of soft software that you can open and "figure out".
"we model a scenario where the original code is memory-safe; the ported code is memory-safe; and we consider memory safety and undefined behavior that may arise across the FFI layer between the two pieces of code."

I may be stating the obvious, but that's a bit of a strawman. Yes, writing good FFI code is hard; yes it could result in security/soundness issues; yes, we could use better tools in this space.

But nobody rewrites C code in Rust if they believe existing codebase is free of memory safety hazards; they rewrite it because they think the result will contain fewer hazards, even accounting for the potential problems at the FFI boundary.

If I could remove tens of thousands of lines of hard-to-analyze C code, and replace it with tens of thousands of lines of safe Rust, paired with a few hundred lines of hard-to-analyze FFI adapters, that sounds like a pretty good tradeoff to me. I now know exactly where to focus my attention, and I can have confidence that the situation will only improve with time: better tooling may allow me to improve the dangerous FFI layer, and in the meantime I can recklessly improve the safe Rust module without fear of introducing new memory unsafety bugs, unsound behavior, or data races.
I've read a theory for acid reflux in older people that it's caused by not enough stomach acid.

One research I was listening to said that it doesn't make intuitive sense that we make less acid in our stomachs as we age and yet the occurrence of reflux increases in older populations, and yet we prescribe proton pump inhibitors to reduce acid production.

Therefore the suggestion was that the lack of acid caused food to digest slower and for fermentation to occur and aggravate whatever acid that is there, upwards.
Why don't you just google for the articles about that?
They _are_ misunderstood. I mean you can't even hear what they're saying until they've hit you.
an interesting data point, as that one of the few quality platforms is on a "niche" (if we call it that now) that is very badly serviced by the big streaming players.