I thought Behind the Candelabra was a direct to HBO release.

Edit: yes, it was direct to HBO. So maybe Damon was just using it as an example because he knew the production cost off the top of his head.

This would be congruent with Damon's retelling of how a studio exec walked him through how the math of a traditional theatrical release wouldn't work out for the movie.

I guess another way to interpret what he was trying to say could also be:

"the kind of movies that I loved and the kind of movies that were my bread and butter (are no longer affordable if I was to do a cinema release)"

So maybe Behind the Candelabra was direct to HBO precisely because of the economics he was pointing out?

That’s how you wind up with only kids of millionaires at your Taylor Swift concert.

So a Taylor Swift concert

Because it doesn’t solve the problem of residential botnets.

The botnet operators will be incentivized to mine bitcoin instead of whatever they are doing.

Neither does fingerprinting.

The goal of Cloudflare’s fingerprinting is to detect whether a user agent appears to be a legitimate human. It’s not to identify human users across websites.

That is not a good excuse for requiring overly complicated and overly specific software.

Every HN thread is full of people who think webmasters should just pay through the nose to handle bot traffic to preserve the sacred rights of turbonerds to visit their website using Lynx on their toaster.

I should think that there should be a better way (e.g. port knocking, instructions for manually correcting the URL that cannot easily be automated, additionally supporting alternative protocols, etc).

I”ve been pretty happy with this side effect of the agentic coding bubble.

As a non-tech engineer (mechanical, trains) it's fascinating seeing what is essentially the "not real engineers" SWE crew finally pay the piper because they've invoked what is in essence a non-compliant, cost-focused subcontractor and now need all of the same engineering rigours they never previously understood.

Have things changed since Bell Labs produced the transistor?

Yes. Bell Labs are a shadow of their former glory, when Bell could lavishly fund it, having a quasi-socialist telecommunications monopoly. Private companies don't like to fund research outside of their own domain -- that has been offloaded to federal funding, but (as seen here) it's getting a lot more strings attached.

Nonetheless, this matches vanilla rsync.

No, it doesn't.

I think some people may not be reading closely. On Unix, "/etc/services" is a file, not a directory:

  $ file /etc/services                                                                                                                         
  /etc/services: ASCII text

Here are two OpenBSD 7.9 endpoints running Samba rsync:

rsync -av -e ssh /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services

The above command creates a mirror of the local file /etc/services in a remote file called /tmp/services. The outcome is exactly the same as if I had run "scp /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services"

  client$ sha256 -q /etc/services                                                                                                                    
  469d28e72ed0e0994d31b555cc1bed7bc95a23fd1beeb30062affb64db0dd44a

  server$ sha256 -q /tmp/services                                                                                                          
  469d28e72ed0e0994d31b555cc1bed7bc95a23fd1beeb30062affb64db0dd44a

openrsync --rsync-path=openrsync -av -e ssh /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services

The above command creates a mirror of the local file /etc/services in a remote file called /tmp/services/services. The outcome is NOT the same as if I had run "scp /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services"

Please note that "/tmp/services" and "/tmp/services/services" are different.

  client$ sha256 -q /etc/services                                                                
  469d28e72ed0e0994d31b555cc1bed7bc95a23fd1beeb30062affb64db0dd44a

  server$ sha256 -q /tmp/services  
  sha256: /tmp/services: read error: Is a directory
  server$ sha256 -q /tmp/services/services                                                                                                 
  469d28e72ed0e0994d31b555cc1bed7bc95a23fd1beeb30062affb64db0dd44a

Here's an OpenBSD 7.9 client and Ubuntu server both running Samba rsync:

rsync -av -e ssh /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services

The above command creates a mirror of the local file /etc/services in a remote file called /tmp/services. The outcome is exactly the same as if I had run "scp /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services"

If you disagree, please state what operating systems you're using and copy/paste the output of the following commands on each side:

  uname -a
  rsync -V
  openrsync -V

I get

  $ rsync -V
  rsync  version 3.4.3  protocol version 32
  (snipped)

  $ openrsync -V
  openrsync 0.1 (protocol version 27)

Then please run the commands I ran above, in particular

openrsync --rsync-path=openrsync -av -e ssh /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services

And then type "file /tmp/services" on the remote server.

I don’t think it’s any more facile to use the term “intelligence” to describe the synthesis engines that we call “AI” when we use the same word to describe the gradient-seeking behaviors of slime molds.

It’s not general intelligence, but it’s a system that’s able to produce novel outputs from its inputs in pursuit of a goal. The fact that the goal is always externally-provided is more related to consciousness than intelligence.

Real “I am persecuted for my genius” energy.

Reads like a post straight from r/iamverysmart.

Yes, the bin for general waste is even labeled “burnables,” and in my experience that is where non-rigid plastic films go.

(Films are very difficult to sort automatically; we landfill them here in SF.)

The FDA doesn’t “allow” snake-oil supplements. They have no authority over supplements.

They in fact do have a lot of requirements for supplements and their labeling, but do not require (in fact forbid) any claims that the supplements should be used to treat or cure any disease.

https://www.fda.gov/food/dietary-supplements-guidance-docume...