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est··on Fuck Android Developer Verification Program
The question is: does Android Developer Verification Program actually help improving the .apk app store experience?

Probably not. Google is notoriously bad at customer support (for both devs and consumers)

est··on Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
You don't even need a constrained decoding.

As a closed source chat-API provider, you just need to find a way speak JSON correctly at API output.

est··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Ask HN: what would you do if you were operating reddit?

What are some good counter measure, besides ban hammer?

est··on The current balance of power in open models
The open-weight vs. closed model is wrong comparison, I suggest we call them local-installable models and cloud-only models.

Some open-weight models aren't so open in their license.

est··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python
latency and compute comparisons highly depends on your local setup.

you can swith to a better model for lower error rate.

est··on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
> Deteriorated performance if it's across unequal links (3G vs. Fibre WiFi)

Hmm, maybe consider MPTCP-like design? It tackles exactly the problem you descrbed.

> Many countries have single exits to the global internet

Well it's f'ed anyway. But multipath makes content restoring much, much more complicated.

est··on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity
I hope MPTCP would be more popular

Many src-dst connections but as a single logical connection. There's no way any middlebox could easy capture full data even metadata.

http2/QUIC can do something similar with frames (and hopefully multipath)

Don't place your whole stream inside a single src-dst IP connection. Demux them into many paths over the Internet. We need more variety of "traffic shapes" to combat Internet surveillance.

I'd argue it's even more effective than encryption. Split your activity and mix them, monitor traffic over a single transport is useless.

est··on Transformers Explained Visually
Thank you sir for this lengthy explaination.

> You can do this with 5 matricies instead of 3, you can do this with 4-dimentional tensors, and so on

As a outsider I have many dumb quesion like these. I am trying to understand transformers in a Occam's razor way. It's a complicated machinary after all.

est··on Transformers Explained Visually
It seem that everyone is getting into details of how transformers work, but I am more interested in why other setups didn't work.

Or is it?

est··on Xiaomi MiMo v2.6
This model & pricing fits LeiJun's visio for xiaomi: The costco wholesale of tech companies.
est··on MCP was always a bad idea?
MCP is a good idea

JSON is a bad format/transport.

est··on We need to stop using Stored Procedures
This is an implementation problem, you can introduce a JIT'd language plus some "container" with "versioned deployments" in modern DB clusters.
est··on We need to stop using Stored Procedures
I think stored procedures are just strong typed "serverless lambdas" which runs really, really close do your data storage.
est··on Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
> take a picture of an already edited image

I think the "reference image" means a photo is taking by a real iPhone 18 device at a certain time, what the content actually means is another matter.

The "digital negative" in DNG format can be used to analyze the authenticity of the content.

est··on Giving up on smart rings
I just wish a ring can detect 2.4GHz EM and flash with LEDs.
est··on CSS-Tricks in Limbo
Perhaps just make it open source and static host it
est··on Jabber/XMPP: How Do We Gain Traction?
I hope more people realize, protocol is not the problem, user experience is.

The Telegram client leads in every aspect by far. It's just easy to use.

est··on The case against JPEG XL
I mean "mild" bombs where the final output bytes looks normal, a regular sized image, but the decompressing steps takes unnecessarily long, eating CPU or/and RAM
est··on Base84 deserves a place in file names
The default macOS file system is just weird.

It's case-insensitive for storage but case-sensitive on display.

I learned this hard way because some files refuse to download on one of my git repo.

est··on The case against JPEG XL
Perhaps it's just a bad example. I suppose avif can support multiple "scans" of progressive encoding as well.
est··on The case against JPEG XL
I wonder if similar hacks apply to zlib and .png as well.
est··on Remember Hong Kong
Here's how it started

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Poon_Hiu-wing

A guy commited homicide and walks free after 19 months in jail.

est··on Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
I used to search on google.ca exclusively with disabled js and cookie

Until the day it no longer works. Sad.

est··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
Stackless python had such potential, it could be extremely useful in Agent era for long running tasks with durable state.

modern Python went in a somewhat different direction with asyncio, but with tasklet and continuation it could be a much powerful combo.

est··on I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
Very cool article. I had a similar idea where "fact checking" should be real programs for logic correctness.

But IRL it's too vague. The exploit hunting is a better use case.

est··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Models are now having much tighter integration with harness.

It's gunna to happen anyway.

We are sailing into the age of vertically integrated intelligence.

est··on AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
I find we are using AI wrong.

AI shouldn't be "helping" with homework. AI should be the homework.

Start with any topic or problem, students should be encouraged interact with AI, and learn stuff using Socratic method.

Teachers should rate the chat session instead.

And iterate the process to high profeciency.

est··on Finger: the 1971 social network that never died
I like the old MSN/GTalk "presence" idea

Type your current status in a bar.

And the thing that aggregates them? Twitter.

People like to peek into what others are doing.

est··on Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library
I side with your opinion. CSS is bad for UI layout (maybe good enough for text-flows idk)

... opens the SO link

yeah there's no answer to it (even if someone does, it would likely be closed by 5 others)

est··on Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?
seems like AI out of max_tokens
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