skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost any random bytes can be decoded as some instruction - most of them are not useful. The essence of this jump-forward-by-one-or-two-bytes trick is that it performs an operation which doesn't have an effect on the program, so it can be considered to be a single-byte jump opcode, and its "immediate operand" as a separate instruction which is simply skipped over.

You could define assembler macros named something like "SKIP1" and "SKIP2" that emit these opcode bytes (3Ch / 3Dh), and use them just like a jump, provided that you don't care about the flags.

My point was that this is easier to reason about than the more general case where (working) code jumps into the middle of an instruction that already does something else - that either takes extreme cleverness, or evolution over millions of years.
Yeah, I was expecting something like Universal Paperclips. ;)
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-n...
I mean, it’s been at least a few decades since my home country started it’s latest war.

It’s not that it’s non-western, it’s just that the countries I don’t trust are mostly dictatorships or something very close to it.
Doesn't match my experience.

Yes, in theory you would expect everyone to check their links. In practice even my non-tech mother knows what a 404 error is.

My initial target audience are web agencies, that either operate in a ship-ASAP-and-fix-problems-later way, or otherwise allow their non-technical people to create pages and upload images. Mistakes happen often, links break, and might stay broken for months before someone notices.

I haven't worked with Fortune 500 companies, so I don't know how they operate at that level, but pretty much no small/med company, including web agencies, has an automated stack of headless browsers checking for dead links. For most people, dead link testing is done once in a blue moon through the abysmal interface of Google Analytics.

EDIT: you added the paragraph about parsing HTTP responses after I have answered, so I wonder if we're talking past each other. This is not a simple bash script exactly BECAUSE the web is full of inconsistencies and broken servers, I am well aware of it. My bet is that someone wants to pay me to deal with all that nonsense, instead of using... I'm not even sure what is the state-of-the-art FOSS links checker. I wrote Bernard because I found none that was good enough.
An option to sell after the Safes would be good.
This makes sense, it is called super resolution, but you don't need any AI for that, but I see that AI companies are trying to hijack the term.
You're splitting hairs. The average reader surely isn't going to separate the wealthy tech entrepreneurs from OpenAI, and they shouldn't — OpenAI is still run by wealthy tech entrepreneurs.

The point is that it's disingenuous to lead with Elon Musk by name, and no other founders or executives by name, when he presumably had nothing to do with the policy change.
https://elixirforum.com/t/interesting-video-of-the-use-of-el...
Eh? Homo Erectus ate meat and almost certainly hunted. There's tons of evidence for this. There's also evidence for this for Neanderthals, homo habilis, homo ergaster and probably other early humans. This behaviour goes back millions of years, and has been a major factor in human evolution.

Tool in hunting use goes back much further than 20,000 years – at least 400,000 for spears in a quick check, but that's just what we have conclusive evidence for. I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually much older. We have evidence of stone scrapers and axes from millions of years ago, and do you think people using stone scrapers to butcher animals and axes to chip down trees couldn't figure out how to make a pointy sticks? It's just that stone preserves well and pointy sticks don't.
https://concepts.4angle.com/edward/everything_is_a_file
You can rent movies online though. Steaming catalogs are a moving target but online rental catalogs usually have most stuff available. You also don’t need to drive down to the store and risk getting a scratched up disk that skips over a key scene when renting online.

To go back to the OP’s example, Prime has Taking Care of Business available for rental for about $5: https://www.amazon.com/Taking-Care-Business-James-Belushi/dp...
Suppose that countries have more than two parties...
"I had set my unit up to disable the LCD" - how did you do this?
These filters probably do really age out, though perhaps more slowly than the DRM

There is a mechanical filter that will be cleanable, but the HEPA filter works by having an injected electrostatic charge which will leak away over time, and the activated carbon will deactivate over time.

It would be interesting to know if there are statistics on how quickly those processes occur, and whether they are affected by volume of air or just elapsed time
Along the same lines, why aren't UPS or FedEx trucks robbed? The driver probably won't do anything, these aren't armored cars.
> Sure, that helps make my point, thanks.

Don’t believe it did. Feel free to explain. You know I’m referring to Dobbs and the implied chevron defense overturning in a short period after that political makeup of the court fundamentally changed.
If this was restricted to the cheapest products, I'd maybe buy this, but this kind of behavior is littered across the entire price spectrum of a whole host of different products. It's less that it enables being cheap, and more that it is just an extra revenue stream that isn't visible at the time of purchase so consumers don't realize it's there and can unknowingly get locked in, but this is equally true for both $ and $$$ price levels.
I miss squibs. Doesn't seem like they use them as much nowadays as they used to. There's nothing like a classic fight scene where a guy gets shot and the actor flails around wildly while red liquid erupts from an actual physical object that is under his clothing.

CGI is also kind of a mess. It's been around for decades now and it still looks off a lot of the time. There are subtleties of how physical objects interact with each other and with light that our subconscious minds are good at detecting and which CGI has trouble convincingly crafting.

As for modern puritanism, I do find it funny that the Hays Code emerged in Hollywood at about the same time as comic books became wildly successful, and modern puritanism is also accompanied by a huge rise of the popularity of comic book derived media. It might be more than a coincidence.
Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders
Yup. One of the first games I ever played. I got Squadrons in the hope of reliving some of the joy and the flight mechanics are so fucking trash, the whole game is really.

WoW Classic is also in a very similar category. I recently started playing again and it's mind boggling how much better the game is than anything we've had before or since (I might argue that BC was on par, and I never played Ultima and EQ). I think it's especially telling to try SoD (a modernized version of classic) and find it so deeply disappointing that the team is making it bad in the exact same ways that they made retail bad. It truly feels like they have no understanding of what makes the game so compelling in the first place.
People who are unhoused are not necessarily homeless. Their home could be their vehicle, a tent, a warehouse, or some other place. A home is a place you can come back to, where you can feel some modicum of security, belonging, or safety. A house is a structure, designed to be a home, but not always effectively so.

So I would argue that being unhoused is a more accurate description of many people's experiences and feelings than being homeless.
OpenAI is really speedrunning the whole "die a hero or live to become the villain" trope. Perfect demonstration of e/acc in e/acction. It took Google decades to footnote "don't be evil", that's so embarrassing for them.
It's possible that the user is Russian and using the locally popular browser
I stopped going to theatres when, yknow, and never really started again so I don't see as many new releases as I once did, but The Killer came out this year and had a great, well choreographed, fight scene.
If you don't trust your developers to write clean, readable (yet mission-critical) code, there's little that a command-line only tool can fix for you; you've got bigger problems to worry about.

"Management" seems too worried about the wrong optimizations.
What kind of help do you need to make this happen?
What you say is not true in the slightest. In a lot of the US jurisdictions you can keep what you found provided you report it to the authorities and nobody claims it in some time frame. In other cases you can take what you found if you found it on your land etc. Lots of various laws apply, depending where you live and what exactly you found. If it was likely to be intentionally left where you found it to be later picked up again, or if it was intentionally abandoned etc.
You can even take legal ownership of land that you and the authorities know is not yours provided you use it long enough (adverse possession) and you think a random box left by the side of the road is somehow untouchable?
It's more that mathematics is solely consumed inside "mathematics for engineering 101" spread across N years.
i'm a weirdo, but fight scenes have become so outlandish that i'm just beyond bored with them. if you can't film the fight scene with a well trained actor to the point that wires and other trickery are involved, then i'm just over it.

just to reiterate the level of weirdo, i'm really over elaborate sex scenes. they do nothing for the story. great, they had sex. we get it. if i want to see sex, there's plenty of free porn available. i'm watching a movie because i enjoy things like plots, dialog, and well acted scenes. i don't look for those things in porn, so why am i expected to be looking for porn in a movie? i have yet to see a sex scene that made me think it did anything for the movie.
This is my point. People go to see these at scale, so they are what get made. The more experimental ideas don't get made, because the budget and ROI is too risky. This is what happens to manga and anime if production costs for even small projects go too high. You'll see that industry become the equivalent of sequels and superheroes.
If you want to avoid manual processing, Anime4K runs in real time as a GLSL shader you can load into MPV (or Plex or something called IINA according to the readme) and still gives great results.

https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K
Everyone's dropping prices because of soft demand. In late December/early January, Tesla was discounting inventory long range Ys enough for them to be around $35k after the inventory discount and POS tax credit.

They're a little more now, but that could change near the end of the quarter.
A new desktop app that is not web/ElectronJS!!! Amazing! \o/
Not to make this an endless thread, but I have been wondering about what's the most rsync-friendly backup on-disk layout. I have found Borg to have less files and directories which I would naively think translates to less checks (and the files are not huge, too). I have tried Kopia and Bupstash as well but they both produce a lot of files and directories, much more than Borg. So I think Borg wins at this but I haven't checked Restic and the various Duplic[ati|icity|whatever-else] programs in a while (last I did at least a year ago).
http://seinfeldscripts.com/TheOpposite.htm

Jerry : If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.
He should watch the TV series "Alone"
As someone who had bought and used many portable audio solutions before, I could get an iPod I think you are delusional.

MP3 players were completely garbage, with low space, low battery or extremely expensive and inconvenient if you had to swap flash cards.
Let's not even talk about the UI to browse and select music (when there was one at all, if the buttons were serviceable at all).
In fact, MP3s were so bad that after a brief stint with an expensive flash card-based MP3 player; I went back to using my mini disc player since it wasn't much bulkier yet more convenient to operate.
My brother had an Archos which was laughably bad compared to an iPod at a very close price.

In fact, it took until the iPod Mini for competitors to figure out products that were decently competitive. But at this point, the iPod Nano was right around the corner and would suit the vast majority of users at a very competitive price. Sure, Sony did come up with some sort of equivalent, but it was barely 10 percent cheaper and had none of the friendliness and coolness factor of an iPod.

I do believe that current Apple is resting on its laurel and is just happy raking in loads of cash for what are minor evolutions or me-too products that do not have the value they somehow successfully sell them for.

But to go back on the insanely great period Apple went through with the second Steve Jobs leadership is completely nuts. Apple was ahead of everyone in many things at this point in time and they did it at very competitive/affordable prices for the most part.
Spotify Reveals Its Plans for the Post-DMA Era of Sideloading in the E.U
That's the point I'm making, though. You're ignoring Occam's Razor, that the most likely explanation, when none of the others fit quite right, is greed.
I'm optimisticly guessing at 48
Through the last decades there been multiple studies and books arguing for one side or the other. Usually the hunter-side will look at existing native populations in the world and rituals, while the gatherers-side looks at archaeological evidence.

Both sides also have strong arguments against them. For the gatherers argument, a main issue is that burial sites themselves implies a immobile natural resource where humans would remain in a single location and still be able to find enough nourishment, generally for a lot of people and for several generations. Cultivation of plants is thus a logical conclusion. The hunters would be constantly moving to new hunting grounds based on where prey animals would be most easy to hunt (in time with seasons), and thus do not leave such burial sites for archaeologists to find.

It is a similar problem in defining what tools people used. If all you find left from a time period is stone artifacts like arrow heads, it is easy to make the assumption that people did not use wooden material like sharpened sticks.
My movie buff friend pointed out that a lot of fight scenes are just a plot dice roll. The punching is pointless and has no effect on the characters until the plot has to move on. So you just watch people getting kicked through brick walls until the plot dictates that punches now register as damage, dice roll, one guy loses. Yawn.
> Most companies also have a professional and ethical obligation to protect the privacy of their users.

Well, except companies don't tend worry about protecting the privacy of their users from themselves. That was pretty much my point.

Regardless, at least in the tech space, companies don't actually seem to take that professional and ethical obligation very seriously. Just look at how common it is for tech companies to sell their user's data or allow targeted ad companies in.
Aren’t vastly more scripts written than are made into movies by major studios?
I can't tell whether this is a serious comment :(
It definitely depends on where you get that data from.

You don't have the right to make a copy of an e-book and keep that file on your server/computer for the purposes of training AI. Copying that file onto your computer is in many cases already an act of copyright infringement.
I never thought I would yearn for the day of early Steven Seagal movies.

https://youtu.be/4Zu1YIukylw?si=3rkGD74LVvs-4_1R
Have you tried to compile your program to machine code using Boriel Basic Compiler? It speeds up things a lot!
Jim'll "fix" it!
You mean, aside from five out of five of those characters being women, feminist icons, and members of entire nations of exclusively female warriors?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman#Feminist_icon

If your stable of film stars consists of many fighting women, how do you stage fist-fights between a man and a woman in ways that will not trigger victims of domestic abuse and violence? I suppose it is OK for Grand Theft Auto, but action films need to appeal to wide audiences and the general public.
Longer than that. There are still WWII vets around and it began more than 80 years ago.

People will still be using and maintaining existing CRTs for decades - there are still a lot in operation run by hobbyists, old people, and hipster types that make use of them.

I'd say we have at least another 30 years before they are entirely relegated to museums and collections, and at that point, who knows what life expectancy will look like.

There could be people alive even now who'll be among the first to achieve immortality, if the rate of improvements to longevity starts exceeding the speed at which people age against their life expectancy.

We live in interesting times.
Yes, the party is over. Expect to see startups who haven't raised money in 2+ years to completely shut down.
From WP:

"In 1878, the world's first hydroelectric power scheme was developed at Cragside in Northumberland, England, by William Armstrong. It was used to power a single arc lamp in his art gallery.[13] The old Schoelkopf Power Station No. 1, US, near Niagara Falls, began to produce electricity in 1881. The first Edison hydroelectric power station, the Vulcan Street Plant, began operating September 30, 1882, in Appleton, Wisconsin, with an output of about 12.5 kilowatts.[14] By 1886 there were 45 hydroelectric power stations in the United States and Canada; and by 1889 there were 200 in the United States alone.[1]"
Until I believe that Mozilla management are committed to making a great browser other than something they use to make money for other things I am out.

Firefox issues I have

- profiles have no indicator on the taskbar so it isn't easy to see which is which when using multiple profiles at the same time (I don't want to have to use multiple Firefox versions just to know which profile is which on the taskbar).
- when clicking an external link in another app I want it to open in whichever profile I used last, like chromium browsers
- No pwa's (I don't want to use an external app)
- Compact mode being unsupported (when watching media a pwa shows the biggest video view, Firefox non compact the least)
- Ads being incorporated
- Ads for Mozilla products

Things I like

- uBO
- Recommended extensions so I can have some faith they are checked to be legit.

Firefox just feels like a browser stuck in the past.

Currently using Brave. I don't like or use the crypto crap or most of their other big features (talk, vpn). I don't love any of our current browser options.

Edit: formatting
Anyone know if we can resurrect the presto engine ? I’de bet there are people here who would use a new presto based browser, am I right ?
>but there's a perverse incentive here for the warning to undershoot the actual useful life of the filter

Hypothetically, yes, there's a perverse incentive, but is that what is actually happening?

A clogged filter can stress the fan motor which can A) increase power consumption and B)reduce overall product life.
I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks.

(Also, FWIW my revenue is diversified enough that I can weather some storms in one area or another.)
Now if we only engineered a retrovirus to uplift them into complex social structures and intelligence...

https://a.co/d/85Wwwhi
Neat!

How do you get copilot to use these instructions? Can you define a “default include” somewhere?
Offtopic: since I had no way to email a repost invite for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38972831, I made a fresh copy of it. I hope that's ok!
Sex scenes make sense when seduction and sex are a big component of the movie's theme or plot. Like in erotic thrillers, for example. How people have sex tells us something about them.
Nestle gets its water from all sorts of places, so in theory, the size of their global draw vs the size of individual aquifers shouldn't matter.

In practice, it does for some of their processing plants.

For instance, in Ontario, they pull water from aquifers that would otherwise go to tribes that have run out of water:

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-n...
Doctor Who episode Smile is about a human city of the future built autonomously before the colony arrived, including farming crops. It was made by self reconfiguring microscopic robots that themselves became the structures and were free to disassemble back into a cloud of a tiny flying units.
I don't dispute that Teslas are a good car. I can definitely see why people would like to buy one, and indeed the people I know who intended to buy one did so because it was a good car. There are some issues, sure, but on balance I'm sure there are many happy customers.

I don't see them becoming more affordable though: it looks to me like both Model 3 and Model Y prices are high, and in fact they're only staying still because Tesla is removing features from the low-end configurations.
iirc, I live near the largest nuke plant in the US. No complaints. Perhaps the issue is more with the people running the plants, then the plants themselves. Also, recycling nuke waste like many countries do cuts the amount of waste down dramatically.

P.S. - we also use grey water for cooling the plant, limiting the amount of fresh water needed.

Edit: According to 1, "All of the nuclear waste collected at Palo Verde over the past 30 years is stored on-site. The waste is currently stored in cement-and-steel containers that take up a space the size of a football field." - seems pretty small for a 30 year life time, maybe a couple of tons / year ?

1) https://chamberbusinessnews.com/2019/10/25/inside-palo-verde...
O&G won because the energy density is so extremely high.
Exactly. All the parts are there. Just no one goes beyond the bare minimum of polish.
There’s a new movie on Netflix called The Killer. It was awful, but it did have a good fight scene.
I think what’s nice is that it’s frictionless. If I can just click a button to see someone’s editor, then there’s no dance with sharing screen, I can open files I need to see, etc.

With standard sharing you always end up trying to direct people to do things instead of just showing them.
Promotion of Scientific Pubs on ArXiv and X on the Rise and Impacts Citations
That's a carrot, works best with a stick.
There's no shortage of carrot these days, poverty has been steadily decreasing since then.
Not if you’re Sam Zeloof: https://www.wired.com/story/22-year-old-builds-chips-parents...

(But yes, to your point, most people are not)
> should be constantly under video recording

That's what led to this exact instance. "More surveillance" is not the answer to everything.
I think the advantage of restic is that you don't need to rsync afterwards, it handles all that for you. Combined with its FUSE backup decryption (it mounts the remote backup as a local filesystem you can restore files from), it's very set-and-forget.
I’m really picky about my tools in general and latency in particular, and I give Zed a spin from time to time, it’s sweet. Clean, minimal design aesthetic, tree-sitter, tight code, it’s a nice bit of work and I dig it a lot.

But emacs 29 with the right flags and a tuned GC (no one does this! it’s got a heap-size from the 80s!) is just as snappy and has more amazing packages than VSCode.

There’s a market for people who want something snappier than VSCode but less labor-intensive to set up than emacs, and I wish them luck: I think it’s a front runner there. But I can’t imagine switching my main axe up with a holy shit moment a lot crazier than tree-sitter in 2024 and not having the render loop be in JS.
User journeys automated for functional and regression testing