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> Look at Hollywood now too: everything is a sequel, prequel, remake, reboot, or adaptation. There’s hardly anything original anymore.

Vs:

> This may surprise some, but since 2000, just over half of all movies released have been original screenplays.

https://stephenfollows.com/are-movies-becoming-more-derivati...

The problem is they aren't blockbusters, so you don't remember them. From the same link:

> While the number of movies based on original screenplays has been increasing since the late 2000s, their box office share has continued to fall. In 1984, 73% of the box office were original screenplays, whereas forty years later in 2023, that figure was just 30.6%. And that’s despite their production share being similar (i.e. 60.4% vs 55.9%).

And from a separate post:

> Sequels were twice as frequent in the late 1980s than in the 2010s, if we use production figures as our measure

https://stephenfollows.com/are-there-more-movie-sequels-than...
If areas with more expensive housing were less likely to have a PC, that’s not a trend that I ever noticed.
>the Spotify app no longer controls volume across devices uniformly

I actually really enjoy this feature myself - all my devices need to be at different audio levels to not blow out the speakers, so having per-device (or virtual device via Spotify Connect) control is great.
Airlines don't need a pretense to raise fares. They can, and do, adjust rates all the time to charge people as much as they can get away with. Unlike regulated industries such as insurance or utilities, there's nobody they have to convince to let them raise their fares.
That explains it, I'm not in that ecosystem but suspected it was something similar.
How can free trade be unfair?
What I listed above are facts, not a conspiracy, you are welcome to look them up.

> India banned TikTok

I don’t know much about India and I’m talking about the US, but I know India has a law to control the contents of social media and requires these companies to hire local employees that will be held as “hostages” if the content in question is not removed, something Elon mentioned few times too about twitter in India.

> before the current conflict in Gaza.

The war on Gaza has been going for more than 16years and the Palestinians issue for more than 70years. You can read more about the issue here (1) Additionally, when the senators invited TikTok CEO last year, several senators (and I remember Ted Cruz specifically) mentioned the anti-israel contents back then, which you can also look it up, it’s just you don’t pay attention or lack the ability to connect the dots.

(1) https://ifamericansknew.org
It's clear to me personally (N=1) that exercise is fantastic to reduce/prevent depression, but I don't see any indication this study showed causality (nor does it claim to, to be fair).

People who are depressed are less likely to have the initiative/will power to get out of bed and do some moderate exercise.
I'm happy to show you the demo and discuss. Email me: dominic@augmentcode.com
Congratulations to the Stainless team on a fantastic launch! I'm one of the co founders of Speakeasy (https://www.speakeasyapi.dev/). We do similar things in the SDK space and some other things too.

I resonate with a lot of what is said in the comments. Last mile API tooling is underrated and most companies don't have the deep API platform expertise to build from scratch. The OSS options in the space proved SDK generation could be done but the actual product that you got in hand still needed a lot of work to be enterprise ready. The code was poor quality, wasn't customisable and there was no change management story. We're seeing a new wave of work in this space that's making api platform engineering much more accessible.

The API devex story starts with SDK creation and maintenance but there is a lot more to come!
Here are some wheel ruts from Pompeii. They don’t look 7’ apart. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/8mQNbrWYVE

Thanks for the details. If those coal mine gauges came from the dynamics of draft horses, would you agree with this example showing the idea that “anachronistic technology impacts modern standards?”
On the bright side, he got away with it because he managed to sell a court on the idea that it was just an endearing nickname, so now we can call also Musk a pedo guy without fear of legal reprisal.
Don’t bleed on the artwork
I'm Canadian too, but my guess would be that sharing what they know publicly would give away too much about how they learned it, and would give adversaries a better chance of hiding more in the future.
I still voted no.
Any non-arms companies in that mix?
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> A lot of Japanese illustrators were already treating it as an afterthought compared to X/Twitter

Citation needed.

Most Japanese illustrators do not care about the US/EU, and many of them even hate gaijins. If you haven't noticed, anti-Americanism is very strong on the Japanese internet.
It's nice to know you're in the good old days before you've left them. :-)

I can definitely see the novelty wearing off given enough time, same as anything. Plus to your point you can clearly see apps follow one of a few formulas.
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I assume you're talking about languages with exceptions when saying "other language just hide errors from the user." I think that's a gross over-simplification of exception-based error handling. I generally do prefer explicit, but there are plenty of cases where exceptions are clearly elegant and more understandable.

My preference is a language like Elixir where most methods have an error-code returning version and a ! version that might raise an exception. Then you (the programmer) can choose what you need. If you're writing a controller method that is for production important code, use explicit. If you're writing tests and just want to catch and handle any exception and log it, use exceptions. Or whatever makes the most sense in each situation.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted - but I think this is thoughtful and to the point.

The highest ideal American SNS follow is profit. That will generate all kinds of externalities that might be bad for society. Still, at least so far, we've found it to be the least destructive optimization target in modern human history (vs. socialism).

The CCP is clearly tuning the algorithm in the SNS under its control to limit topics it deems undesirable in its goal of an ideal society. Whoever thinks this isn't so bad hasn't experienced an authoritarian state personally or at least highly underestimates the pain and suffering one can inflict.
Not 40 yet but neither me and friends have experienced that.
A NASA article was already submitted[0] with an actual photo of the surface (from 1500kms away) - not an artist's rendition the 200km long Loka Patera lake. This article implies the attached image is a photo.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105682
Zoning Out American Families
I think "interesting" becomes a psychological term. Things were interesting because they made our brains react in strange ways. All relative to what we knew or dreamed about. I find the ultrafast paced technology ear incompatible with human life. You don't get to wish, dream and go deep into something on your own, with a proper crowd size. Now it's 7b of people all locked in this dopamine ride of neverending updates, all that on top of drama, social rules..
I found this from the Business Insider article:

> Facebook daily active users estimate: 2.11 billion

> Facebook monthly active users estimate: 3.08 billion

> Average Family service users per day estimate: 3.16 billion

> Average Family service users per month estimate: 3.97 billion

If I'm parsing this correctly, they have around 3.16 billion DAU across all services. That's an insane number of people.

Which really makes me wonder why their social media platforms suck so much. I recently re-opened Facebook and it was a desert wasteland with a handful of people I knew years ago sharing memes. Instagram has a few more users than Facebook, but aside from catching the occasional story update from a couple people, I mostly use it to follow artist accounts. And nobody that I know is participating on Threads at all.

It seems really difficult to find anything interesting on their platforms. On Facebook I looked up groups for some of my interests, and they're either completely dead or being kept alive by occasional posts of creators sharing their latest releases.

So what are these 3 billion people even doing on Meta's platforms?
Both major presidential candidates are very anti-China. What exactly would they gain from election interference?
We all know it's just made up stuff to feed the narrative of evil IBM making RH evil. Not even the plausible scenario of IBM changing the source code licencing of hashicorp software back to something genuinely open can change people's minds.
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If I'm being honest, I'd say pretty much right after the music industry sucked the last drop of blood from the actual musicians which has brought to where we are today: session musicians on shoestring budgets performing tunes written by repurposed advertising jingle composers.
> There is no bigger ego-trip for the insecure managers than moving the company to some distant place. [...] Of course, they are marvelously somber when explaining the rationale behind the move. They talk about the escalating price of space or the tax structure of the old location and the benefits of the new one. Whatever the reasons given for the move, you can be sure the real reasons are very different. [...]

> The typical person being moved today is part of a two-career family. The other half of that equation is probably not being moved, so the corporate move comes down hard on the couple's relationship at a very delicate point. It brings intolerable stress to bear on the accommodation they're both striving to achieve to allow two full-fledged careers. That's hitting below the belt. Modern couples won't put up with it and they won't forgive it. [...]

> "Forget the successes," [said Ray Ketchledge]. "The failure was that move. You can't believe what it cost us in turnover." He went on to give some figures. The immediate calculable cost of the move was the number of people who quit before relocation day. Expressed as a percentage of those who moved, this initial turnover was greater than the French losses int he trenches of World War 1.

> You can do less damage to you organization by lining up the staff in front of a machine gun than you could do by moving. And that accounts only for the initial loss. In the case of bell Labs, there was another large exodus starting about a year after the move. These were people who had honestly tried to go along with the company. They moved and, when they didn't like the new location, they moved again.

"A Special Pathology: The Company Move", Peopleware, chapter 19
Just seems weird that this "foreign adversary" is also a critical "trading partner". Why is TikTok being singled out?

The discussion about data and privacy seems totally disingenuous. This seems like a free speech issue being hidden being a weird angle.

A quick legal hack to get TikTok off the table does little to address the underlying systemic issues here - broad, uncontrolled data collection, and mass media distribution platforms that can be weaponised by nation states.

We already know US companies are impacted by both these issues. They need to be addressed at a lower level and not by cherry picking up the individual examples on grounds that are inconsistent with the rest of the state's behaviour.
novel sparse compute approaches

Unless "novel" is now a synonym for "not yet invented", this is jumping the gun with LLM-generated bullshit.

This isn't "starting from an idea", this is starting from a Post-it that says "TODO: come up with an idea".
Most likely it's camera based, using the license plate. We have something similar in Australia that is used for trucks but not cars (so far).

One of the side effects of Google completely mapping the developed countries has been a comprehensive map of the speed limits - if you use Waze it already warns you when you're exceeding the limit by changing the colour of the speed icon. I actually find it pretty handy on the highways here.
I think it very much depends on the how (as often).

Very different to ask something along the lines of "Why didn't you just do X?" (the unwritten "duh!" being very implicitly present!) vs. "Interesting. Naively I would've have thought that doing X might solve this and seeing you didn't go with that solution I'd be interested to understand the constraints and reasons that make X unviable."

With the first (type of) question you've disqualified yourself already, even though you didn't 'just give the solution' (which is even worse). After that kind of question we're already on adversarial grounds.

The "5 whys" is a great technique but if literally just ask "Why" a lot, you'll get the boot more often than not ;)
Yes, Nolan improves on that in later movies but he used to abuse of it.

Another movie of him that crimes of this non stop is The Prestige.
I'm very skeptical about that. We don't even have the technology for such display can be implemented on transparent glass. Also we don't have that good battery tech which can drive such gear and smaller enough to be hidden in a glasses.

Even if we have all of those tech today, it will take long time to make it a mass production. IMH it will take at least decades to get that level.
> Are they actually trusted to give independently good advice, or are they trusted to launder and expand on advice that leadership wants to hear but can't say themselves so that it can be plausibly deniable when it goes South?

It's both. There's some expectation that they aren't actively self-dealing... Besides the obvious expectation that they'd love to sell you further services. That's normal and expected, whereas them shilling for their other clients is not.
No. Only if they are asking the candidates to do free work.
Poor drivers who are likely to cause accidents should pay higher rates. If you don't like it, you're more than welcome to drive a 10 year old clunker.

There is no difference between what GM did and what any social media company does. At least with GM selling driving data, there is significant public benefit to making bad driver pay for their poor driving instead of the rest of us having to pay for it.
Even OpenAI can't make a better coding copilot than ChatGPT 3.5.

I'll be surprised if this one is better.
IMO it's not remotely obvious. Not to me anyway.
Thanks for the mention! We do move fast and to help manage the changes better we've introduced a number of change management concepts recently like breaking change detection and more controls around semver. The updates can also be stacked by the user into PRs and versions updated and published in one go. Definitely choices that we can guide you through

On the Speakeasy branded classes. We got rid of that some time ago based on customer feedback. Check out our new TS generator https://www.speakeasyapi.dev/post/how-we-built-universal-ts
If the ban was based on the context of the speech it would violate the constitution, but ownership of corporations is fair game to regulate. It's not uncommon for countries to have foreign ownership restrictions on other industries like banking, utilities, railroads, etc.
Same. I wanted to pay them for their features, but the pricing was such that I actually thought it was a gag or a troll at first and laughed. When I realized they were serious, I was like Homer fading into the bushes.
This, to me, is one of those defining actions that will stand forever as a sign post for what America is at the moment of the event. As such, it is incredibly discouraging to me.

I don't write this in defense of TikTok or China. I'm just sad for the United States.

I imagine a scene where a wagon train of poor pilgrims is surrounded on all sides and all the poor children are crouching behind anything they can find. As the camera angle widens out you see a U.S. Cavalry officer order a rescue team to single out attackers and pull them out of their perches. They go around inspecting attackers one at a time, checking their footwear. Anybody in mocassins is pulled off the line and sent packing. Anybody wearing boots is left in place and encouraged to keep shooting. Especially if they are wearing a cavalry uniform. Just before the scene ends you see somebody in mocassins run back to their horse and pull out a pair of boots, hurrying to get back into the action.
The US government never did that.

Russian did use facebook and other social media to influence voters. It was rather effective.

But it is totally different from Chinese government compelling tiktok using full access of its internal data to do their bidding in secret. The effectiveness will likely be much higher.
> Only if their customers are not from EU (aka their customers pay in USD instead of EUR) or if the company increases pricing to match the inflation on a regular basis (while managing to not lose any customers).

Under standard conditions (nothing else then inflation matters), is the same for the domestic market. If we have x % yearly inflation, it means that the exchange rate at the end of the year is x % "higher", meaning the costs for the company are x % higher, but likewise the prices for companies's goods and services are x % higher and thus their revenues. So its profit margin (in percentage of its costs) remains the same.

> Otherwise, the Nigerian companies wouldn’t care about the inflation either.

The real problem is not inflation per se, but accelerated, unpredictable inflation. This ruins the exchange rates of a currency, as it is a risk that is not easy to manage. Due to these unfavourable exchange rates, companies from such countries are exposed to greater cost pressure when they purchase services in countries with a hard currency.
There has to be a way where you can do it intelligently in chunks and reduce noise along the chunk borders.

Moreover I imagine that further research and power will do a lot, smarter, and quicker.

Don't forget people had toy story-comparable games in a decade or so after it was originally rendered at 1536x922.
I think refundable tickets that are more expensive mean you can get a refund when you cancel, rather than being about when the airline cancels on you.
I think they'll be fine, the main audience is still Japanese, and for now bypassing this is just a matter of changing an account setting (and Pixiv has required an account for NSFW for as long as I have known of it).
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Reducing waste is a great option! I'm not of the opinion that raising taxes is some objectively correct solution or anything, my personal viewpoint is just that taxing more across the board to invest in infrastructure and long-term economic strengths is the way to go.
I'm old enough that I've seen Miles Davis and Fats Domino live. I am listening to more new artists than I ever have.

Gnoosic is still a good source for me.

I search torrent sites for users who upload obscure artists I like - and then mine their history for artist recommendations.

I have a lot of regular listens I first heard on LastFM channels. It's the only streaming service I've ever used.

I've 5 sons who turn me on to artists I wouldn't hear otherwise.

The most utterly useless source for new artists (or music, or anything) is commercial FM radio. It has no redeeming value.

In contrast, local indy stations are amazing.
Competition isn't a waste of resources, it's the best mechanism we have to ensure quality.

Furthermore, I'm happy to be in a golden age with lots of orgs trying things and many options. It's going to suck once the market eventually consolidates us and we have to take whatever enshittified thing the ologopolists feed us.
For myself, the reason is you are a bot until proven ppl.
Say potato.
Slices are structures that hold a pointer to the array, a length, and a capacity!

So, when you slice a slice, if you perform an array operation like “append” while there is existing capacity, it will use that array space for the new value.

When the sliced value is assigned to another variable, it’s not a pointer that’s copied, it’s a new slice value (with the old length). So, this new value thinks it has capacity to overwrite that last array value - and it does.

So, that also overwrites the other slice’s last value.

If you append again, though, you get a (new) expanded array. It’s easier to see with more variables as demonstrated here: https://go.dev/play/p/AZR5E5ALnLR

(Sorry for formatting issues in that link, on phone)

Check out this post for more details: https://go.dev/blog/slices-intro
Maybe. Steve Mnuchin said he wants to partner with an AI company to replicate it. The CCP might prevent ByteDance from licensing it?
Woah. That looks awesome.

A red flag, relative to what I would do is: "Frequency to adapt the lights, in seconds." I would like to be able to make tight feedback loops, which means much less than seconds. I use HA + ESPHome as well, and that's on my list of issues I'd like to see resolved. To understand why this matters for a lot of controllers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain%E2%80%93bandwidth_product

Audio amplifiers are often in the 50MHz range, in order to achieve good performance in the <20kHz range. Add to that, in this case, the desire for steady transitions so I don't have sudden light or noise changes (stepping through 255 states takes .

That said, holistically, this does what I want better than how I was going to do it.

The other major issue I have with HA is reliability. About 10% of the time, some automations don't work. I'd really like to be able to set state (blinds are down after 8pm) rather than actions (blinds go down at 8pm). If you have suggestions....
95% of tech companies do not require 10-15 hours of take home interview work.

Edit: adding additional context, any company working with a recruiter will constantly be told by the recruiter repeatedly that the company should simplify and shorten the interview process because if you don’t, you risk losing candidates to other companies. Recruiters put extreme pressure on hiring managers to make the interview process as easy as possible. I’ve hired a lot of engineers via recruiters and none of the recruiters I’ve hired with would have allowed me to give a 10 hour assignment. They likely would have dropped me as a client.
Tolerance shouldn’t tolerate intolerance.
"Analytic geometry represents space as a vacuum oriented by abstract coordinates and occasionally inhabited by bodies, not as an atmosphere already filled with airborne materials of varying composition, density, temperature, and velocity."

Deep stuff.
So providing tiktok app and running from servers abroad is ok? :D Talk about causing the opposite of the law's intentions.
The real problem with `never`, or at least the problem that could actually affect you in this scenario, is that it’s assignable to everything. Just like `any`, but even strict lint rules usually won’t catch the type safety it escapes.

If by some mistake your code gets a reference to a field with a `never` type, you’ll never get a type error passing or assigning that reference downstream. That’s relatively trivial to address if you can spot the (edit: runtime) errors it causes directly, but can wreak terrible havoc if it finds a path through several layers of function calls or whatever other indirection before the runtime consequences surface.