skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d extend it to any icons, not just AWS ones. I agree usually the generic technology is more interesting than the semantic thing. Icons in architecture diagrams are distracting noise. They might be okay if they were smaller, but usually they’re huge and overpower the text.
I teach people how to advertise for a living.

This is how I teach it: an advert is simply the ability to buy a knock on someones front door.

That is literally all you are doing when you buy an advert. All business activity you experience today is an abstraction of business we have already done, I'm sure back in the day people thought door to door sales people were annoying, and I'm sure sometimes they were not.

From a founders perspective, you can take this door knock framework and use it for anything, want to do product research? knock on a door. Want to test a marketing message? Knock on a door. Want to boost sales? Knock on a door.

Adverting done wrong can be very annoying. Thankfully people who advertise incorrectly don't usually last very long, and sadly there are indeed a lot of not great marketing folks out there, but cancer on society... hmmm. This article conflates every kind of commercial outreach with malware, psychological abuse, or brand brainwashing... “zero-sum” and purely wasteful. Ok, but in practice competition drives improvement, and customer choice is central to a functioning market, leading to innovation.
Corporations aren't people, they have no right to speech.

You can go ahead with a career in Warhol simulacras if you want.
Me Big PZ player, hugely influencial reference to my creative brain!
No it doesn’t. English is as algorithmic as math.

If there is a formula x = x^1 + y you wouldn’t say ; no good it implies z is also the same. You would not because it says nothing about z.
> At a bare minimum, he has created several incredibly successful businesses in his lifetime, so he must be doing something right.

No, this is a common fallacy.

The main reason to get crazy rich and successful is statistics: be lucky. I.e., accidentally do the successful things. And usually starting rich helps, so you have the opportunities.

Crazy success is not a measure for capability. There is no correlation. Yes, it is sad, so despite this, the fallacy is a great motivation for many.
> Informing potential customers of products that might be useful to them.

Isn't there an insurmountable conflict of interest when the person doing the informing is also the person who directly benefits from the product being 'useful' to as many people as possible?
John Gotti died of throat cancer...
> Its a huge gift to society that the a fantastic knowledge and productivity suite is available to everyone.

It's not a gift. It's a transaction, but you pay with your attention and data about yourself so that someone can more effectively try to sell you something you might not really need. Upside: people who don't have money can now participate in knowledge pool. Downside: thousands of other people try to make sure that those people don't ever have more money because they spend them on marketers that were the best in marketing.
But is torrenting better than buying music e.g. through bandcamp or directly from the artist's label? I do a combination of streaming for exploratory listening and buying to support artists. And live shows when I can. I'm not trying to suggest I'm holier than thou, but I really don't think torrents are the answer to this equation. However I strongly agree that the current system isn't working for artists and needs disruption.
Unless it's an arcade machine like Bombjack which has two Z80s and three AY sound chips ;)

It's still possible to wrap all that as nested state in a single global, and it works just fine:

https://github.com/floooh/chips-test/blob/613dbfe907104f4110...

That's a single mutable global with all application state, but inside that global are nested structs and the code working on those structs takes essentially a 'this' pointer. This approach works well since it enforces a strictly hierarchical code and data structure with a single root-struct (and also a single root-source-file) at the top.
That may be true, but this isn't exactly a new drug overall. It has been available as a diabetes treatment since about 2005. So we should have some longer-term data on the topic.
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But how will I know when to drink Nuka-Cola?
Well you have answered your own question there. Why cant all ads be opt in?
I do not disagree.

However all “good” ADs are less effective than they could be when the population experiences a nearly unavoidable torrent of “not good” ADs.

People are savvy and broadly know the difference but on a subconscious level likely begin to perceive PSAs with more skepticism than is warranted when so much advertising masks itself as helpful advice when in reality it is selling a service based on nonsense statistics or bad faith argument.

I think some kind of pushback from society against the worst forms of advertising is needed.
Where's the hustle in a free local only model? I don't see the angle.
First, I use Cambridge definition, which makes the usage of monetization correct.
"to make money from something"

Second, not all IAP are abusive, I didn't said nor meant that.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/monetize
Every now and then you get comments like this, that are intentionally offensive, like a burning bag of poop.

The point of .at() is to check the bounds at runtime. Here is your answer.

Regarding the comments. You don't necessarily know if it is a logic error and you certainly don't know if it is in your code.

Now onto the how. You handle it like any error. If you don't have a specific error handling strategy, you handle the error at a higher level e.g. your HTTP server returns a 500 http status code and logs the error and the location, so that the developer can fix the bug.

As to whether it makes sense philosophically. The only limitation is your lack of imagination. In C, the program would keep executing and create a security problem. The fact that the exception handler got called in the first place implies that at least the security vulnerability has been averted, meaning that you did indeed recover from the error, even if the catch block is completely empty.
Do you use an ad blocker? If so, you're not supporting the ecosystem you love. Or do you love it because it's so easy to have all of the upside while pushing the costs onto other people?
According to the Supreme Court, they do.

Regardless, this isn't really an answer. What metrics are you using to determine if an ad is misleading? Take for example the early 2000s BMW ads which were short films with various celebrities and actors. Are these "misleading" and not allowed?

Again, these aren't even remotely implementable ideas without complete state control over the media.
Even our Renault scenic from a decade ago seamlessly connects to my phone when I enter it.
> Maybe its just a function of growing up during the transition of physical software to advert/subscription software, but I love the advertising model.

I also have been around a while, but I am the opposite opinion as yourself, mainly because I really appreciate actually owning something that I don't need to pay to continue to consume like Media which is a good example.

> I have a lot more of a problem with infinite scroll & algorithmic content delivery than advertising

This is basically the same thing as the advertising models that are being used except the advertising is a bit more nefarious (IMO) into manipulating you into feeling like you have to buy something, gamble a little bit or whatever it is just to remove money from your wallet to them.

The products you mention are obviously great for society, this isn't for debate I think, but it's how these services are monetized, which they should be 100% but there is a disgusting extreme in play these days to my eyes.

In the same service based ecconomy, I am okay with paying for Kagi for example, pay as you use without (hopefully) my data being sold to the highest bidder.

There are better models possible then the one we have, I think that's somethign that should be explored.
Revisiting this, does this count as evidence? I see it as at least 1 data point

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999735

https://boomsupersonic.com/boomless-cruise
Why, cuz it makes sense?
> Product placement is still in, so long as "such portrayals are not disruptive and are appropriate within the context of the game." Valve gives a racing game with real life sponsors on the cars as one example of what's okay […]

There is your answer, right in the article.

Of course, as a developer dealing with licensing issues you should ask for explicit clarification, but that's to be expected.

And yeah, the age rating going up because you choose to show beer ads makes complete sense. That's not about advertising, but about the fact that you are including adult themes (like drinking alcohol) in a game. Even fictional beer like Duff or Pißwasser will trigger that.
If it was a ad supported site practically everyone from here visiting would be using adblockers, I don't really see the difference
After reviewing the paper and GitHub training dataset, I have the following observations:

The 800+ training samples, each containing solutions with detailed reasoning steps, were primarily generated by DeepSeek r1 and advanced models. The reasoning processes within these training solutions are crucial. It's possible that the advanced models have encoded these reasoning processes through the generated samples. Given a sufficiently large model, it can effectively restore such reasoning weights, effectively adding a delta from DeepSeek r1, among others.

Therefore, it's not surprising that, with relatively few fine-tuning data, Qwen 2.5 has achieved such significant improvements.

This is merely a conjecture. Further research is needed to analyze and visualize the changes in network weights before and after fine-tuning.
I feel like people greatly misunderstand medicine, even "easy" things like broken bones aren't 100% fixable. Most cures for serious stuff leaves insane marks on the body and psyche. The best approach is preventative, we already have the magic bullet: stay fit, exercise, eat clean, don't smoke, don't drink, bam you just got out of 80% of modern diseases, the rest is up to luck

> that can instantly cure any disease or injury

> on what year this fiction would be real he says "2045-2055"

I bet my left testicle we won't even have wide spread autonomous cars by then
The ratings are for the books not the audio recording. Unfortunately there is no data points for the rating of the audio, since the sources don't collect rating.

I could add a feature to allow for audio recording rating in the future. It would be helpful since some audio recordings can be of poor quality.
>Everybody finds ads obnoxious (at least some of the time)

In my experience most people actually don't, and any anti-advertising strategy has to come to grips with this fact. For example I really can't stand radio ads so when I'm in the car with somebody and the radio starts playing ads I will ask if they can turn it off. Usually they will be pretty surprised, ask "why" etc. I think many people are genuinely able to "tune it out" and not be annoyed by ads.
Yeah I could say:

"Wall Street Loses 14% Within 10 Minutes of Opening Bell" (1929 Crash)

"Radio Broadcast Causes Mass Panic Within 10 Minutes" (1938 War of the Worlds)
Yes, IIUC those points are correct - you need relatively capable models, and well-crafted questions. The comparison with AlphaGo is that the processes are analogous, not identical - the key point being that in both cases the model is choosing its own path towards a goal, not just imitating the path that a human labeler took.
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Just give me 5 good guys, young or old, ideally a mixture so I can grow some talent organically.
Also note, "resource" is not the same as "talent".
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These are good. But I think there is a tipping point where the asymmetry of power (millions invested in databases, information gathering, algorithm development, etc.) pushes against the tiny power an individual has. There is no agent on the individual's side that has power (time, money, smarts) enough to counter the onslaught. It's a problem of degrees.
That does sound like it would be a pretty big limitation. But there appear to be plenty of vector instructions for 32-bit integers in RDNA2 and RDNA3 [0] [1]. They're named V_*_U32 or V_*_I32 (e.g., V_ADD3_U32), even including things like a widening multiply V_MAD_U64_U32. The only thing missing is integer division, which is apparently emulated using floating-point instructions.

[0] https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/radeon-tech..., p. 259, Table 83, "VOP3A Opcodes"

[1] https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/radeon-tech..., p. 160, Table 85, "VOP3 Opcodes"
Knowing what constitutes "minimum viable" takes experience.
On the app side they seem to be trying for subscriptions first.

In a few years some "solo founder" will post something insightful about being able to sell offline applications as a one time purchase instead of trying to convince or trick people into subscribing. And they'll present it as a new discovery that will "revolutionize the software market".
I currently work on a B2B SaaS company (not gaming) where we have quite the interesting problem:

We want to move clients onto our cheaper plans.

The profit margin on our cheaper offerings is higher (because of licensing agreements), so we have an incentive to try to get people to cheaper plans. It is the first time where monetization-maximization efforts align with user's best interests I ever worked on.

The users who don't need the extra features need to be informed they are not using them and the ones who do use those features extensively should be left alone.
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I watched a bit of "the Superbowl" once and it made me feel the same way about using the unfiltered web: I can't believe anyone watches this without adblock. Then I slowly started to realise the NPCs in Idiocracy/Wall-E aren't actually fictional...
This is super cool, but maybe it's important to distinguish projects like this from frontier medical AI research (i.e. new models). This however does exactly what lots of health advocates and even pharma companies have been getting at for decades: informed doctor-patient discussion and patient self-advocacy. Organising and interpreting medical records is an awesome use case.

I imagine any potential user of a tool in this state would know what be wary of, but I do worry a little that LLMs have been trained on bad health advice or misinfo, and there will be very limited training data from real patient diagnoses. Even if dangerous data is minuscule in training terms, can good prompting de-risk dangerously bad advice?
People (fraudulently and/or accidentally) use multiple social security numbers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/odds-someone-else-has-your...
We know that most of the content is crap.
From a personal perspective, my view on ads has done a complete 180 over the past decade. 10 years ago, I was massively in favor of ads: they were a nice way to indirectly show support to those who produced high quality content. And while I acknowledge that cloud providers have astronomical costs associated with the ability to provide so much data on request instantly, at this point the internet is borderline unusable without a hyper aggressive ad blockers - both on browser level and DNS level. Everything in the article is completely true. Especially the common characteristics: take any video for instance. I'm perfectly fine with watching a 5 second ad or endure a few banners. But much like untreated cancer, those minutes spread to the point where the vital functions get cluttered with crap. Even with the browser based ad blockers, pihole blocks almost 10% of requests. Sure, some of them are trackers, some of them are services owned by comrade elon musk which I've blacklisted but a large chunk are still ads.
> I have a lot more of a problem with infinite scroll & algorithmic content delivery than advertising.

When it's done well, I agree with this sentiment, but the vast, vast majority of online advertising is done terribly. It almost always has a negative impact on my use of the hosting site.
OP was not claiming that all cars they produce are lemons. They were claiming that the customer service is terrible if you get one that is.

> I have the opposite experience. Everything worked out of the box.

You did not have the opposite experience. You had no experience because nothing on your vehicle went seriously wrong.

I suspect the customer service might vary significantly across countries, but I can't speak to that myself.
This does not make any sense. Is the person speaking drunk or mentally impaired in some way?
Photo or it didn’t happen.
In serious, I was sad there wasn’t a photo or at least discussion of the scale and details of the project.
Did you really write this whole post without reading the article?

Sounds like you could even be selling ad space in the game on those cars/tracks and its totally fine because its not out of place. Same if you had a game set in a city with a billboard that some corporation paid to advertise on. Its not out of place.

This is pretty clearly written as a ban against mobile game style ads where it "gates" gameplay.
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"people often find it hard to accept the findings and much preferred the multi-regional hypothesis"

Why would people find it hard to accept out of Africa? Why would people prefer the / a multi-regional hypothesis? Is this even true? Can't say I've ever met anyone who've argued "it must be so", not to mention providing any reasoning for anything such.
> This is a nice run through of some pitfalls. I'd love to see an accompanying "how to make a great architecture diagram", I think the purpose behind these diagrams often gets lost (or was bad to start with) and as a result I've seen (and probably produced) a lot of unhelpful architecture diagrams.

Naturally I think you'd go a long way just avoiding these pitfalls and doing the reverse (e.g. label your arrows). For a somewhat different perspective on making good diagrams by reducing their complexity, I wrote on this just last month:

[0] https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts/breaking-up-the-master-d...
One that I see is commonly misconstrued is having a user stick figure going to DNS and DNS going to the app.
> and you don’t fully know what your customer wants.

This is very true.

However, as Facebook ads are showing me both dick pills and boob surgery offers, and legal advice for giving up a citizenship I don't have (and even then only available in a country I don't live in), and foreign government announcements that a breed of dog I've never heard of is now banned in that country…

I'm not convinced that this is in any sense "solved" by the huge quantity of surveillance that even Facebook has.

I mean, these advertising profiling errors are what I'd expect in a university student project introducing AI as a concept, not a megacorp whose main monetisation strategy is selling attention to advertisers. Even a classifier itself built by an LLM ought to do better than this when using only my name and GeoIP data.
I don't remember what I had for lunch a couple of weeks ago, but that's not important at all. At least, not to me.

I didn't take the C-19 vaccine. I don't remember exactly why. For that I have a blog post I can go to and refresh my memory.

My blog is my journal, but in a fancy format which makes it harder to be forgotten in a park or in a bus trip.
internet points. Bullshitting. entertainment. validation. putting that github on his resume.

direct Money is the only angle in the world?
So I was thinking about this during the super bowl last night. I'm aware that super bowl ads are higher quality than usual ads, but not by much. I didn't mind watching commercials between game time.

And it wasn't because the ads were entertaining, it's because the content was entertaining. Most YouTube content we consume is very low quality trash. In those circumstances the addition of ads becomes unbearable.

If you want to make commercials and ads tolerable produce better content.
Someone should combine this with an Arcophone! (Jacobs Ladder sparkgap musicical instrument).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WfszpzNAmw
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> most of the time you don’t know who is your competitor and you don’t know all the possible ways that you can inform your audience about product

If we look at the top 10 commercial for this super bowl[1], which is arguable the most money spent on advertising, it's Booking.com, Ram Trucks, Made by Google, Yahoo.com, Marvel Studios, Bud Light, NerdWallet, DoorDash, Doritos, Squarespace.

I'm sure all of those companies know who their competitors are, and the audience already knows about their products. The ads are just trying to jump to our forefront of attention.

[1] https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/most-watched-super-bowl-ads...
Sometimes, arguably, you can do better. For instance, some CLI tools try to guess what the user was trying to accomplish, and show a more specialized message. Eg. kubectl will tell users that a particular kind of resource they were looking for doesn't exist, but there are some with similar names.

This is especially useful in situations where the help text is enormous (dozens and dozens of options).
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They offer an explanation in the intro:

> The most frustrating part wasn't just the lack of answers - it was how fragmented everything was. Each doctor only saw their piece of the puzzle: the orthopedist looked at joint pain, the endocrinologist checked hormones, the rheumatologist ran their own tests. No one was looking at the whole picture.
With the modern trend of continuous updating of software, how can you expect MBAs to leave money on the table and not add ads after the fact?
Umm aren't the IAPs clearly marked? On the ios app store at least.

On Steam I only buy based on 3rd party mentions/reviews so I don't really know what's written on the storefront if it's a free to play game because I've never been to the storefront of a free to play game.

I never preorder btw. Okay, with two exceptions: FromSoft single player games (not getting the new multiplayer thingy) and Kojima. Until they burn me too.
I am going to look into building out a more extensive filtering system where you could combine filters. Trying to decide on a balance of complexity and ease of use.

My personal use I aim to solve is getting accurate lists of the top rated books for a given genre and perhaps before a given year. I've been listening to lots of audio books recently, yet I only have so much time so I am aiming to only listen to the best.
I think a better wording is to say that "advertising is like bateria". Using cancer is way too one-sided as all cancers are bad.

Some bacterias are bad, some are good.

Most of the time we talk about bacteria it is the bad ones we think of, mostly because study of the good ones are so underpriotized and we don't understand them well.

Humans could absolutely not survive without the good bacteria in the stomach. They produce some of the vitamins we need (plus other roles).
Cause they're fallible, overworked humans. We like to pretend doctors are superhuman but they're just the same as the rest of us.

The more you go beyond the common diseases that they see a hundred times a year the more your chances of getting the right treatment approach zero. Occam's razor is usually right when diagnosing people, but it kills the uncommon cases.
If I buy 10,000 $0.01 screws, they aren’t all the sudden going to charge $0.05 cents for a screw…