danielrmay

Thank you for the detailed response!

I totally agree. They advertised Zelda on Facebook, which is why I was following the page in the first place. YouTube and other platform entities are introducing verification solutions of their own, but nothing exists centrally, and I’m concerned about that path.

Dine elsewhere if you’d like, but I’d ask if you find your point ironic considering the core argument in the post. If there is more concrete feedback that you have about the voice or style I’ll take it.

I wrote this article earlier this week and it attempts to describe the change we're seeing on the internet with the advance of cheap agentic content.

I tested eight models from unrelated labs (Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemma, Kimi, Grok) at default temperature with the prompt "Write a story in 10 sentences." Four converged on a lighthouse keeper; two of those named him Elias. The commonly derived "Elias Thorne" name now appears as the byline on an alt-medicine cancer protocols book ranked #18 in Oncology Nursing on Amazon. If anyone has a larger sample, a counter-result, or a better explanation than mode collapse into a shared training-data basin, I'd love to hear your comments.

Amazon isn't alone here, of course. Since writing this article, I also found Dr. Elias Thorne's YouTube channel, where another operator appears to be producing AI-generated health videos for seniors.

"It pretended to be the official client" is not a security argument if the mechanism was client-supplied metadata.

That’s not impersonation. That’s Bambu discovering that user agents are not authentication.

This is a v0.1 draft protocol for letting users own the derived claims AI systems make about them, rather than the platform that derived them. There's an in-development Rust reference implementation alongside it (in private, not yet public).

Would value feedback, particularly from anyone who's worked on Solid, AT Protocol, Iroh, or the Willow Protocol. The comparison chapter in the spec walks through how this relates to each. Willow in particular has real overlap and I tried to be honest about that.

Brilliant. If you needed proof the internet is still alive, here you go. I feel like Neal's creations are the result of creatively iterating on "what if" and "why not".

I spent some time getting Gemma4-e4b working via llamacpp on iPhone and I'm really impressed so far! I posted a short video of an example application on LinkedIn here https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7446746... (or x: https://x.com/danielrmay/status/2040971117419192553)

This was a powerful read and a useful lens to apply to the legibility of the technology era we're in.

Solid analysis, these quotes were particularly damning imo:

"You don’t accidentally forget to disclose that your memory is split into two non-unified pools. That’s a deliberate omission of the single most important architectural limitation of the device."

"Read that filename. layer_27_36. That’s not dynamic hot neuron routing, that’s static layer assignment"

My all-time favorite. Compaq had a compelling story, and I liked where the writers went after the first season.

The original title isn't appropriate or descriptive for this context.

i was 12 sorry lol

this is how i got my start in programming, eventually leading to working in finance and now in gamedev for a AAA. many of the programmers i worked with as a teenager to build neopets automations are in similar places. i have so many stories and even met my ex wife of ten years through the community!

oh and i regret all the duping glitches i found and exposed and stuff im sorry

That's the business model.

What do you use now?

Just to make a pedantic point, SSNs do not indicate US citizenship or nationality. Permanent residents (green card holders) and those on temporary work visas receive SSNs.

Yeah, this should state "Chrome extension" or similar in the title.

I don't think posting a comment necessarily means you value it as a submission

Is it? I think the S8 Plus is the equivalent - unless the new iPhone comes with a stylus.

Interesting! Over the last few years, as popularity has seemingly increased, I've noticed more and more the use of bots to speed up the checkout process and ensure that fans don't miss out on "drops".

Did you see any of this while you were working there, and did you work on anything to try and combat this? Very curious as to whether this is recognised and active measures are put in place to discourage the behaviour.

Donate to the EFF. They're the only organisation providing solid advice on how to protect yourself against these (IMO unconstitutional) border searches [1]

[1]: https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017

I wonder if there's some kind of restriction meaning they aren't allowed to serve ad content to those living in the UK (and presumably paying a licence fee) and thus the simplest option is just to wall off users based in those locations

Avg salary of $250k per dev? Are you hiring?

I'm pretty sure this already exists. These APIs have been in development for a couple of weeks now and as far as I can tell (from watching the /r/pokemongodev subreddit) there haven't been any bans. Niantic, at present, don't appear to have any automated system attempting to catch bot-like behavior.

Didn't think I'd have to scroll this far to see some sense. Thanks

Let's see:

- Large open source projects

- MOOCs with many students

(Taken from discussion of this post from yesterday):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9754626

I like this, I just think it's a shame the keyboard quality had to suffer for the device interoperability.

Did this really need saying?

Is there ascandal going on here somewhere?