skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you would enjoy the book Moonwalking With Einstein. The author is a journalist who's interested in memory competitions and while interviewing he ends up training with these people. Of course, learning that these are skills that surprisingly most people can lean.

I think it's really eye opening into what we can do. The guy trains a year and wins the US competition, moving on to represent the US in a world competition. I think anyone would be impressed if you saw someone memorize a deck of cards in under 2 minutes. But maybe the most astonishing thing is that we are all capable of this but very few can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalking_with_Einstein
>might be useful in saturation attacks

with deployment of cheap point defense systems - like cheap radar (Starlink phased array is $500 or so) plus shotgun (Russians currently do "soldier with shotgun") - on every tank, IFV, truck, etc. only stealth (not an option in those price ranges really) or saturation will be the way to go. Single $20K drone would be just wasted by such point defense. To the point defense add automated predator/interceptor drones patrolling against the attack drones. Thus saturation with large autonomous hives with drones of various types - coordinators, predators, and actual attack drones.
The R1 paper says that they didn't use "process reward modeling". And the paper that introduced GPRO says that it can be used either with "outcome supervision" or "process supervision", with outcome supervision "only provid[ing] a reward at the end of each output". Put together, doesn't that imply R1 uses sparse rewards provided only at end of COT sequence?
I regret to inform you that solutions like Ad Naseum are snake oil.

Bot-clicks and LLM networks are already pretty pervasive clickers of ads. Most ad networks already have ways of filtering out noisy clicks. And anyone dumping real money into ads will be smart enough to tie their ROI to conversion events, not clicks.
So what’s the problem? Attempting crimes is a crime too.

Edit:

You initially wrote:

> no victim means no crime. victimless "crimes" are just 'arbitrary rule' violations (like going 56mph in a 55mph zone) or infractions. the twisting and distortion of language by the state is counterproductive to society.

So you think not being allowed to bomb someone while being unsuccessful is ab arbitrary rule and should not be called a crime?
The 80/20 affordance set to me is something like:

- I can break a route into segments.

- Segments modes can be chosen, or the fastest (or some other metric) one is computed.

- Segment routes might be manually entered (waypoints) or computed.

- Arbitrary sequences of segments can be strung together, whether automatic or manual.

- Can ask for a whole trip to be computed to start, and then "sculpt" it by splitting it into segments I can modify (manually override, change modes, etc).

Maybe one day I'll try to whip something up that matches what seems would work to me. I get the sense this kind of tool might be like knowledge management tools where there's no one size fits all solution.
Glad someone said it (lesson 4!).

Trite, insipid, self-centered, self-congratulating; and wholly lacking in perspective or self-awareness of where computing, academia, Google, the US, and nature really are right now.

> Embracing these 16 life lessons and remembering to say (all of) the nine magic words may, and hopefully will, help you have a blissful, lifelong relationship and a happy, successful career.

Ignorance is bliss - but only for the ignorant. Glad Jack's alright, but he might do well having a look outside his bubble.
Anyone who fooled themselves into believing that “cookie banners” were just about cookies is due a good wake up call like this.
Curious to know why browser fingerprinting has a “half life” of 24h? I always assumed it would be more static compared to an IP address and therefore a more powerful tracking mechanism (albeit more shady / less legally understood compared to using IPs).
Flickering shadows delight damp walls

Snuff it out! Let sleep come again.

Beyond the cave, morning calls.
Fancy, but asking for trouble. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...:

“Why isn't my time zone highlighted on the world map?

In the original release of Windows 95, you could change your time zone by clicking on the map, and the time zone you selected would highlight. Similarly, you could change your Region Settings by clicking on the world map. This was one of those little touches that made Windows 95 that much more fun to use.

But we had to remove those features within months of release, even though we based both of the maps on the borders officially recognized by the United Nations.

In early 1995, a border war broke out between Peru and Ecuador and the Peruvian government complained to Microsoft that the border was incorrectly placed. Of course, if we complied and moved the border northward, we’d get an equally angry letter from the Ecuadorian government demanding that we move it back. So we removed the feature altogether.

The time zone map met a similar fate. The Indian government threatened to ban all Microsoft software from the country because we assigned a disputed region to Pakistan in the time zone map. (Any map that depicts an unfavorable border must bear a government stamp warning the end-user that the borders are incorrect. You can’t stamp software.) We had to make a special version of Windows 95 for them.

Geopolitics is a very sensitive subject.”
Silicon Valley's defense industry was the *first* tech sector there, and (arguably) the primary reason the rest of tech grew up in that specific place, as an offshoot of it.

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ ("The Secret History of Silicon Valley")

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22Secret%22%20History%20of%20...
You posted this in 2023 too. Thought it sounded familiar!
3D Printed Heat Exchanger Uses Gyroids for Better Cooling [video]
> IP address is pretty definitively regulated as PII under GDPR rules. Our lawyers consider that any sort of hash or other derivative would still be PII, and thus require consent.

Probably more helpful to phrase this as Personal Data instead of “PII” as the latter does not appear in the GDPR once and the former is much broader in scope than pii data.
There's a distinction between first-party data and third-party data. You can view your own server logs - but sending over user data to a service like Google Analytics is what is regulated.
"AI used to frame" Portuguese lawmaker accused of theft
Probably as much as possible.
Those are expensive teams to maintain and deploiment is probably not much compared to it.
If you are cynical you could see it as just training for an important case.
That is just cookies. What GP was suggesting was a history trail, not a session id.
You still need to be careful, as this won't catch panics from go routines launched from your http handler.
Ads are doing worse, not better. The purpose of an ad isn't to be clicked but to increase revenue. In the end of the year data will show clicks have gone up but other more important metrics haven't.

Who is guilty for tracking users? The site relying an income from ads with user-tracking, or the company buying the ads based on tracking instead of some less invasive method of distribution?
Good attempt but TikTok also makes people rich. Amassing a huge following and being popular brings brand deals etc.

I hope this takes off though.
Just dumping an idea here:

In the past I've had issues with forgetting to add triggers for states that are used somewhere as a condition or switch. This leads to lost updates and frustation.

React state hooks, which I'm deeply familiar with, will result in a linter warning if any of their dependencies are missing. I'd really like something similar for automations.
Very weird article, so he watched like 10 clips and invested 10 minutes and then proceeds to write "what happened when offline person tried tiktok" - how is this even serious? On the other hand 1st paragraph of the article brags about his anti social media stance and how he turned it into sort of side-hustle so probably this article is carefully crafted to be clickbait and at same time not taint anti-social-media-person image.
"Cartels set up their own shadow cellphone networks and run submarines. Maybe there are just easier crimes that pay better with a lower risk profile"

Indeed, selling drugs is apparently easier. And I can imagine the cartels don't want to risk their daily buisness, by kidnapping the wrong person from the west, as that would mean more heat on their buisness. But they surely do kidnappings and worse. Mostly in their fight for local control as far as I know.
I am also using AI extensively to discuss my research, for example [1].
And also very excited about AITP (artificial intelligence theorem proving) [2].

[1] A Conversation with Graham Priest About Abstraction Logic. https://practal.com/press/cwgpaal/1

[2] Abstraction Logic Is All You Need. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14737457
It's pretty clear that we need not just a law but an actual constitutional amendment requiring them to go back to the old way.
Yeah that's true. I was arguing with people about this in secondary school for what it's worth, all the while getting what I would call misfitting undergarment ads.

Would you elaborate on what you mean by friction with micro transactions?
What if I only use the first two parts of the IPv4 address and nothing else. Does that still require banners?
I do that, plus a little more (page being closed), with an identifier in session storage. If doNotTrack is turned on, the session storage is skipped.

I do not have a consent banner, and I do not believe that I need one.
I was also wondering this. The hardest part about this would be scraping 40m photos.
I imagine it depends on the type of meeting and how many pointless busywork meetings a company mandates
Not sure about color change, but dimming works fine - I have Shelly Dimmer2 modules behind switches, paired with "dumb" dimmable bulbs. Remotely controlled by HA / Adaptive Lighting, while also working with physical switch.
or tap two phones or connect with phone number and then whitelist (which sends the pub key across).
Yes, but if order doesn't matter, the delete might appear before the create.

Might be misunderstand something
This is a hobby project. Some people write a compiler. This looks more fun.
Reminds me of old polish encyclopedia: horse - everybody knows what horse is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowe_Ateny
That's exactly the argument I'm making about Tailwind. Inadequate as a design system. You have these bundles of rules just a thin step above CSS and there's nothing obvious about how things should look.
I don't think WASM's value was ever in a hardware instantiation of the actual instruction set.
Ah sorry, you might be right. I meant "sparse reward" as a reward system that is mostly 0 but occasionally 1. Your "sparse reward" means only providing reward at the end of each output.
Some sites need them, or they would not exist. A page with ads, where the advertisers what to know, at mleast, how many times their ad was displayed. They have an aproximation of this number for printed press, for TV, for the radio.

I have a lot of sites that are also banner free, but they are paid with other means (usually grants). But when the money ends, the sites go down.

The sad thing with analytics is that the dreadful banner makes it look like my site that only sets a cookie to know what is an unique visitor looks the same than other site that collects hundreds of data variables and then sell the data to hundreds of third parts, making the data sharing a business in itself.
I feel like most commenters in general are absolutely deranged. News articles are the worst for some reason, then YouTube, and Reddit isn’t that much better. I often wonder how these people look, work and function in real life.
> I will never understand how you go back from a very customized editor setup to the one with "reasonable defaults with little to no things to configure".

That's one of the reasons why I chose Vim over Emacs after switching back and forth for a while.

I do prefer the design of Emacs because I prefer having full control over my environment - I even coded more than a couple of tiny, application-specific editors - but sometimes I have better things to do than e.g. reading docs or searching for a plugin/extension mod that does what I need, or do it myself; sometimes I am a mere luser who want things to "just work" out-of-the-box.
You can collect anything without limits as long as you don’t associate this data with identification data / profiles.

An amount of visitors isn’t creating any privacy concern. That would be another situation if you stored individual completion rates associated with, say, an IP or worse, an user account. You would still technically be able to do it but not without clear consent from the user.
A fifth generation fighter jet can bomb the factory that makes them, the truck that carries them, jam their coms, and land in a parking lot to rearm, refuel and do it all again.
Show HN: Flutter and ML Kit Pose API for an App to Prevent Neck Pain
I'm sorry, what? Is this actually arguing that consent is needed to log the user agent string?

Has this person studied law?
The old automation in YAML is very cluncky as the author also mentioned. The new UI guided creation is not powerful and can become confusing for complex cases on the other side. I do all my automation with the node-red Integration. But the combination of the node-red flows with the Homeassistant dashboards is not very good.
Do you plan to change the automation to something like node-red but better integrated? Or change the yaml to sonething less declarative and more code centric?
CRTs are definitely much better than OLED or LCD in one major aspect: Motion clarity. OLED and LCD are sample-and-hold screens, meaning they will display a frame for the entirety of a frame time, like 1/60th of a second at 60 FPS. A CRT displays frames just for a fraction of the frame time (the rest of the time they are dark), which prevents perceptible blur when our eyes track moving objects, which they do all the time in order to prevent blur. More details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42604613
Do we know which change(s) made DeepSeek V3 so much more efficient than other models?

I went through the paper and I understood they made these improvements compared to "regular" MoE models:

1. Latent Multi-head Attention. If I understand correctly, they were able to do some caching on the attention computation. This one is still a little bit confusing to me;

2. new MoE architecture with one shared expert and a large number of small routed experts (256 total, but 8 in use in the same token inference). This was already used in DeepSeek v2;

3. Better load balancing of the training of experts. During training, they add bias or "bonus" value to experts that are less used to make them more likely to be selected in the future training steps;

4. They added a few smaller transformer layers to predict not only the first next token, but a few additional tokens. Their training error/loss function then uses all these predicted tokens, not only the first one. This is supposed to improve the transformer capabilities of predicting sequences of tokens. Note that they don't use this for inference, except for some latency optimisation by doing speculative execution on the 2nd token.

5. They are using FP8 instead of FP16 when it does not impact accuracy.

My guess would be that 4) is the most impactful improvement. 1), 2), 3) and 5) could explain why their model train faster, but not how is performs greatly better than models with way more activated parameters (e.g. llama 3).
You can turn on the referrer header for same site, however I suspect the author would argue that this would be contrary to GDPR. There is also the ping attribute on links, but again, if we accept the author's premise...
Those point defenses might work against small slow moving $500-1000 drones, but not one moving 200+ mph with an evasive trajectory (hence why I mentioned the recent F1 drone). Add a small rocket motor to the $20k drone for final approach and it’d probably top out at 400-500mph and it can use propellers to “jump around” randomly in its flight path so targeting it is nigh impossible. That would require something closer to a proper missile defense system or CIWS and tanks/APCs/etc would not have those anyway.

The whole problem with cheap drone swarms is that their range is shit and whatever you use to deploy them will just inherit the existing weaknesses - whether that’s cost, logistics, or payload.

I think saturation attacks are only going to be useful against static targets with large numbers of squishy meatbag targets as a cheaper way of taking out soldiers as measured in $/life, where a (maybe very expensive) plane drops a payload of small hunter seeker drones that target every human-looking IR source in the vicinity. I think that could be a lot cheaper per kill than dropping hundred pound bombs.
Most of the non-IP components of fingerprinting are pretty goofy things like browser version, device, screen size, etc. If you are dealing with web traffic in any meaningful number, you have to dip into really minute details to tell apart visitor 10,001 from 10,002.

More often than not, the details that make your device unique on one day will not stay unique by day two. Your browser might change versions, you might resize your viewport, install a font, etc.

I believe phone apps can get more conclusive device IDs via the SDK, but for web traffic cookies and IP addresses are still the only reliable identifiers. I would take any study or hypothetical about fingerprinting with a massive grain of salt if they don't keep a stable match for 30 days.
Sorry! PII is still the industry shorthand.
Timers are "smart" now? I just though they were timers. Does the timer on my cooker, so I don't need to set an external timer, make my cooker smart too? Is my outside light over my bins "smart" because it's connected to a light and motion sensor and come on automatically at night?

I've definitely no "fashionable allergy" to digital forms of automation. I simply don't want the massive complexity that comes with it.

I'm also not advocating against it, I just don't see the point it in.
And as a result of this, if you want to optimize your program to be fast on Windows, you will make very different optimization decisions than on other platforms.

For example, Windows runs virus scans on close(), which makes it very slow. This means that sometimes it makes sense to have one or more background threads exclusively dedicated to closing files.

There's a good talk on this at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbKGw8MQ0i8
This is exactly why it's important to find each other, so we can keep each other safe. There is strength in numbers. If you put up your posters on community notice board and use a non-personal email (I just made a new Gmail account for it) then nobody can be identified, the worst case is someone pulls the poster down.
We have a very common species of wasp where I live: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropalidia_revolutionalis As the article says, they are mankind's friend. Mostly. I've only seen them attack when protecting their nest. But they swarm when doing so, they can sting multiple times, and they so common building a nest near your front door is a regular occurrence. So despite them being a good insect to have around being asked to dispose of a nest is regular fatherhood experience.

Most use insect strays. Lighting an A4 sheet under the nest also works. Both are gruesome ends for the nest.

Over time I noticed their attacks are driven by motion. When their nests are disturbed they buzz around, home in on the nearest moving thing and sting it. That usually provokes more movement, with more stings sure to follow. Running involves lots of movement, and you have to cover a lot of ground before they give up.

They hurt like buggery, but they've never done me serious damage and this behaviour suggested a different approach might work. Sadly it was when the kids were near adulthood when I worked up to the gumption to try it out. You approach the nest with no weapons, and no defences. You move slowly. Very slowly. With your bare fingers, you twist the nest around and around, until it breaks and falls to the ground. (I hope they fly off to live another day, but who knows.) The wasps do get angry and buzz around for a while, but don't know what to attack. You have to back away very with the same grace you used in your approach.

I've made it work for small nests. I've had fail for large nests, but even then not reacting when you are stung does seem to limit the damage to a couple of stings. I'm not to proud too claim it's a fine demonstration of some manly qualities.

I haven't done it in a while. Time has moved on, kids have moved out, I've moved houses into a bushland setting, or maybe I've just got older and finally earned the gift of wisdom [0]. Nonetheless the story continues to be useful - it's great for keeping sons and son-in-laws in their place.

[0] I suspect it's the move to bushland. I've never seen these wasps when bush walking. Yes, mankind has inflicted a lot of suffering on these wasps. But I suspect the suburbs we built are a utopia for them.
If you watch 100 creators and have a budget of $100, not only is it tedious to set up (and update) 100 subscriptions (high friction)

But also it's impossible to allocate $1 to some creator you rarely watch because there are no micro transactions that are use-based (unlike with ads)
A linked list? I guess you are forgetting to mention other requirements.
yazi for me!
Exactly. But also even in build-from-scratch use-case when there's a multitude of binaries to be built - think 10s or 100s of (unit, integration, performance) test binaries or utilities that come along with the main release binary etc. Faster linkers giving even a modest 10% speedup per binary will quickly accumulate and will obviously scale much better.