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The WSJ reports: "As part of the settlement agreement, Meta will also make sweeping changes to its services, Facebook and Instagram, including implementing a default two-hour time limit on its apps for users under 18."

The question is of course if these limits are enforced and if they are shared across other services.

Actually in many cases it is for social KPI storytelling. I know some wealthy people and at gatherings they love to tell 5-10min long stories of exclusive processes that they followed to gain something exclusive while dropping names and numbers. The processes are easy to understand for the entire social circle (i.e. not technical or business achievements which they can't easily disclose).

The researchers identified three main dynamics at play. First, the ability to use AI to fill gaps in existing knowledge led workers to take on more and broader responsibilities, such as managers writing code to tackle problems they would previously have outsourced. Second, the ease of starting and finishing new tasks led workers to fit new bits of work into gaps between meetings or larger pieces of work that would once have been breaks or opportunities to chat to a colleague. And third, the ability to hand off tasks to AI agents led to a surge of multitasking, with workers setting a handful of pieces of work in motion and moving back and forth between them as they progressed.

Malick is also unique in that while I love his work, I understand anyone who can't get into them and finds them dull or pretentious. It's as if some people are tuned to his frequency and others just receive white noise. When you're tuned to it, it's a timeless meditative, spiritual experience. Our wedding bands carry the words of the Tree of Life's 'Mrs. O'Brien': 'Unless you love, your life will flash by'. I hope he can finish 'The Way of the Wind' in times for Cannes this year.

For me this is a seminal article, which almost eight years later still raises eloquently the most critical barriers to practical adoption. I read it again after reading the formal verification thread.

A recent study finds that AI usage tilts heavily toward men. Part of the reason: Women worried they might be penalized for using AI.

I swear by Mindmapping Applications (e.g. Xmind, Mindmanager) - one file every month (extractable with a python library for LLM evaluation).

One top-level branch is a prioritized Inbox with a Pending branch at the top (Item half-completed, but awaits external action, e.g. an order has to arrive).

One top-level branch with Done, which is a folder with a branch for each week, then day, where I dump completed items into

One top-level branch for ongoing subscriptions with alerts

Collapsed top-level branches for Hobbies and Family Ideas and things-to-do

With xmind, you can easily tag the task progress of each item.

Took me 8 years, including a really beautiful Android ToDo Concept which I build and ended up abandoning :D

Okay, but you're in a S/W team in a corp, where everyone's main task is to code. A coding agent has clear benefits here.

This is not the usecase of AI Ultra.

Why do people keep on saying that corporations will pay these price-tags? Most corporations really keep a very tight lid on their software license costs. A $250 license will be only provided for individuals with very high justification barriers and the resulting envy effects will be a horror for HR. I think it will be rather individuals who will be paying out of their pocket and boosting their internal results. And outside of those areas in California where apples cost $5 in the supermarket I don't see many individuals capable of paying these rates.

An indie film with poor production values, even bad acting can grip you, make you laugh and make you cry. The consistency of quality is key - even if it is poor. The directing is the red thread throughout the scenes. Anything with different quality levels interrupts your flow and breaks your experience. The problem with AI video content at this stage is that the clips are very good 'in themselves', just as LLM results are, but putting them together to let you engage beyond an individual clip will not be possible for a long time. It will work where the red thread is in the audio (e.g. a title sequence) and you put some clips together to support the thread. But Hollywood has nothing to fear at this stage. In addition, remember that visual artists are control freaks of the purest kind. Film is still used because of the grain, not despite it. 24p prevails.

That’s totally valid. I think the film either resonates deeply or not at all, and both responses are completely legitimate. I can absolutely see how it could feel pretentious drivel to some. I assume for me it directly evokes emotions of my childhood (catholic upbringing by a loving mother). I also really appreciate you being happy for me. That's true empathy.

I watched Tree of Life in the cinema. I was spellbound. It spoke directly to me, no mental processing of a story, I was tuned to this film. I didn't feel its time. As the film ended a girl behind me said to her friends 'this was the biggest piece of shit I have ever seen'. I understood her and it was a perfectly fine opinion. She didn't 'get it', but it didn't have to do with taste or intelligence or anything like this. She was just not able to receive it - as if it was a signal sent she could not process.

Our wedding rings have these words from the film engraved: 'unless you love, your life will flash by'. We married late - our kids were already almost at school. The love in the words is about the love of your family, just like in the film.

And why the Thin Red Line is perfect - just view the "Swing Scene" as a work of religious art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s40YpEsVkxk The inner monologue of Ben Chaplin's private Bell about what the role of love is when you encounter war, asking 'Who lit this flame in us' is a visual prayer.

(And yes, this is Miranda Otto, aka Eowyn)

It's unfortunate that the thread was flagged, I did not want to give the impression of trying to 'start a flamewar'.

I am a real transatlanticist - I was on the green card path (5 yrs with H1Bs), but returned to Europe for family reasons.

I don't want this split - I want to know, if people see it as an issue and I want to know the possible consequences and workarounds and how we can work together.

It's totally different. There was negative public sentiment, but the diplomatic relations still were stable and good. Germany wanted to be convinced, but could not be. Tony Blair went with Bush.

This time it is diplomats that are raising the flags. It actually has not yet arrived in the public sphere as drastically as it has in the policy side.

That's what they said about the German economy and Russian Gas

The FT Editorial Board: "America has turned" - https://www.ft.com/content/1511aa42-a9ad-4952-99c8-98bea07d0...

Max Hastings: The trauma of Trump: can we still do business with his America? - https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/the-trau...

FT: US tech will pay a price for Donald Trump’s approval - https://www.ft.com/content/2347e5d3-cbc2-4128-a108-bb89558e3...

FT: How Washington plans to defend the dollar - this is about Crypto - https://www.ft.com/content/bfafb8f7-bd1c-48bb-85f4-8ba25475c...

FT: Donald Trump considers tarriffs to counter Big Tech service taxes: - https://www.ft.com/content/558b5a20-c25e-483d-8fdc-bbfd2923a...

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

There are two categories of family photos:

1) Photos you look at when the subjects are still alive

2) Photos that you remember people by and cherish people for

    1 = are all the typical family group pics, lots of posing

    2 = the photos where the subjects may not even know that they are being photographed, while doing the things they are cherished for by others. Sometimes they might not even like the presented actvities, but everyone else around them appreciates it .

   - Photos of people repairing their family's gadgets
   - Photos of people doing mundane tasks, ironing their clothes, cooking dinner for everyone, being exhausted, reading to others...

    - This is what prevails while people are still alive who remember you. What you will be remembered by. Mostly what you did for other people and how people observed you.

Take photos of your parents and loved relatives during daily life and their tasks. You will be far more moved and inspired by these pics, than by typical family group photos.

In an upcoming age of oligarchy, regulation will be adapted to suit business owners. As an example, it seems that Gautam Adani is friendly with Trump.

What will be the impact on the SEC? What are future scenarios of fraud enabled by weaker regulations?

But this is a regretable, but wise move. Love the fact that he linked a DJ set.

Godspeed, Hindenburg folks! I started to really appreciate your work, when I read Dan McCrum and the other Alphaville writers at the FT.

And this is another great one, also in the vein of 'the last one' about the death of the last of the Beguines: https://www.economist.com/obituary/2013/04/27/marcella-patty... (https://archive.is/ClVez)

The obituaries are often my favourite part of the Economist. They are edited by Ann Wroe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Wroe - a true legend.

They focus mostly on long-forgotten people and create an intense glimpse into the short timeframe when their life made a big impact.

My favourite obit of all time of hers is the one of Bill Millin: https://www.economist.com/obituary/2010/08/26/bill-millin (https://archive.is/iZifs)

Great! I will follow your updates!

One question about Brickit - the main usecase I and many many dads of Lego kids have is that our kids want to reassemble sets and we spend ages searching for these pieces. Yet Brickit works by identifying and recommending its own mini-set lists. Is this a usecase that is not in scope (because of business model) or is technically difficult or unsatisfactory in execution (colors, accuracy)?

We have never advanced to a real prioritized user interface. Every user has priorities which can be detected by knowing Context. Simplification as a key asset that Apple masters only makes sense if you adapt it to a users priorities.

With regard to personal scams: Anyone with elderly relatives will know the amount of scamming that they are often targeted with. My parents regularly received calls from purported Microsoft call centres that try to get them to install trojan software. The calls even have callcenter background noise. Other relatives of mine were targeted with the 'grandparent' trick, where someone claims that they are a relative or grandchild in need with all sorts of tricks to get more information out of them (when you ask 'who is this', they will say 'of course you know') by exploiting fears of forgetfulness. All these types of scams can now be automated and targeted towards a broader public with higher barriers of distrust and different emotional triggers. Just imagine someone cloning your voice and calling your children or you receiving a call with the voice of your child. Emotional buttons are pushed that can beat any preparations such as arranged keywords. For these types of attack, training is not really sufficient. We also need regulation and new solutions for protection.

My former boss (CTO of a large multinational Electronics company) once explained to me that 'true' (unrestrained) R&D is only possible if you have a monopoly and want to lower your margins to avoid antitrust scrutiny. This rings true to me. It also signals that Google is now entering a phase of real competition.

So, according to Gemini pricing, the call would cost approx. $11. Now, hopefully all goes to plan and the input correct and the result is what you wished for. If not, how many $11 calls do you need? Sure, pricing will go down, but my observation is that people just ignore the cost of context. When it's all about tech it's fine, but not if it's about efficiency.

'ds' is still perfect advice: https://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html

Indeed! His soldering work is of the highest art.

His work is even more inspirational after reading this rant, as he describes the therapeutic aspect of his projects and his base emotions. Still, I can't help but excuse my inferior output by admiring his incredible fine motor skills and pre-existing expertise in electronics.

Thank you! Among the comments is also the amazing story I read to him today: http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/rats.pdf