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Releasing drone swarms wrapping in chaff with IR lamps or laser diodes to account for different guidance methods. They cluster around predicted trajectory. Could be more cost effective than a Patriot battery

From reading other responses, it seems there is an assumption the image itself is fingerprinted. The digital content is encoded, there is essentially a barcode on your TV screen with lines running horizontally that you cannot see with the human eye. The encoding is picked up as the signal, it does not need to see or recognize if that is your favorite actress on the screen.

Sounds like you also measure from Kelvin

Used to do it as a hobby for a day or two at a time. Just drive in a random direction and take roads you don't know. After a day of driving break out paper maps to find my location. No asking for directions. Ran across interesting things like Natchez Trace Parkway.

Do something similar in large cities except only look at the city's map the day before and then set out sans map using public transit and foot only. My directionally challenged friends thought it curious so a couple tagged along once. One of them had a blast "getting lost" on purpose and dubbed them adventures and continued tagging along, becoming the highlight of trips. Find things you do not expect, good and bad. Keep a good nature and you meet interesting people.

Playing the long-game version of oil production

Comparatively, as I have both a Costco and Sam's Club memberships, the floorplans on Costco stores are much more efficient. Both stores get crowded but Sams suffers from poor design which makes traffic worse. Although, Sams does compensate with a smoother checkout experience.

Applause for the pun.

When working with ultrasound, I think of it the context of a micro-agitator versus the large scale shaking, snipping, and slapping clothes against rocks methods.

What is old is new again. Pre Search engines, this was one of the best ways to get around. Find site/link libraries and run a search in page against the link descriptions.

Creating an unflattering online review has such a low bar for confirming identity. It would not be a surprise for a law firm advertising the review takedown service were hiring bot farms to leave reviews at scale, create their own market.

A couple of tweaks. The prompt suggested a "profitable" station but did not include finer details that the profitability needs to be in competition with the other AI stations. This creates a known input for periodic reference feedback.

Other parameters which may address the Claude strike might be to outline a goal of most profitable, experiment with genre and content with goal to become the most profitable show on a station that contains different shows. The show with highest listener engagement will get a coveted time slot to boost their revenue.

Great memories. The human engagement was more genuine to everyday in-person interactions than the current state of MMORPGs and even most Social platforms. The game was also great in how extensible it was. Too great in some aspects that allowed botting, but accessible enough that general public, coding novices experienced an "intro to scripting" to create sophisticated macros.

Had similar discussion around prompting. Spend years clearly outlining required data inputs, creating forms to dummy proof communication from users. Now that AI is in the picture, users are willing to learn to write elaborate Shakespearean-scale prompts. They are more willing to learn how to communicate to a computer more than how to clearly communicate to a human.

It's possible to stop gifs if the domain framed them with the proper code. Unfortunately many people believe gif = png,jpg and exert zero effort to handle them differently.

For those with paywall issues.

https://archive.ph/nf6f4

In contrast. A third party created a bogus profile of a global brand and began releasing unfavorable content as though they were the brand. The global brand leveraged their relationship with Google to shutdown the profile (which could be labeled as satirical). Google went on to provide the private account and contact info of the third party posting. It was discovered the third-party was a subcontractor/vendor to the global brand. The global brand shut down all work with the party and had them black-balled in their industry.

The Irish gov't wasn't spending enough ad dollars for Google to care.

YouTube isn't the only Google property knowingly allowing scams, Google Maps has some interesting activity if you dive into it. A "policy", regulation, or law only matters if it is enforceable and enforced.

The digital platform policies are relatively meaningless, subjective enforcement, appeasement measure for advertisers. You will not see the needle move on video as fraud until the commission model for talent fees and use rights change for digital. A talent fee commission model results in industry tracking of creative content in order to route talent fees to actors and musicians. It is a secondary layer of tracking with funds attached that forces a platform to respond when illegal use of image and identity is reported.

"Hello Dave, tell me again about your glory days playing high school football."

Agree, most work seems to treat the brain as the sole locus of neurological activity when the brain is one piece of a system.

To give a parallel, your high blood pressure may not be due to your heart, as it may be responding to a system of factors. Vasodilation and vasoconstriction of blood vessels have a direct impact. Your kidney health, an organ outside of your circulatory system can trigger high blood pressure. O2 and CO2 levels in the blood can trigger a response.

Looking at the brain in a vacuum will only get us so far.

A fasting pill? Like GLP-1 drugs which reduce hunger and thus reduce food intake? There might be a market for something like that.

While that would work as an estimate of total sq meters, applying that scale in a localized area would have too much of an impact on wind/currents, inversion, and the downstream of those changes.

First targets would be urban heat islands and airports. Second would be industrial and manufacturing facilities. Regulations and Nimby would likely mean manufacturing and industrial would be more quick to adapt for use.

The case for urban heat islands is pretty straightforward, but the application with airports would be to mitigate the heat trapping that takes place, especially overnight. Exhaust from flights result in more heat being trapped, similar to urban heat island but due to atmospheric effects and not solely due to surface materials and lack of greenspace.

The collective sentiment is that using "X" will make searching and referencing the platform and actions in the platform more challenging. "Did you 'X' it?"

Someone in the branding team will make a juvenile tag line of "X marks the spot" and ironically it might catch on for the sake of people calling the platform "the spot". "Did you find 'the spot' for it?"

Going through the comments and felt the same nostalgia. Everyone is pitch perfect with the tone of the conversation 30 years ago. Camps of "leave well enough alone", "not another language", "big corporations trying to cash in on this internet trend".

Back in the day, some of us were programming snobs. Personally guilty of making comments downplaying the value of HTML and JavaScript.

Cliff Clavin?

Generally, a "take-over" is a guarantee from a publisher that all ad slots appearing on a specific page will only deliver ads for a single advertisers for a limited time period, usually a day or two.

Variations on "take-over" exist where you may have a "branded slate" in which the normal framing and background of the site will also be updated to align (and sometimes synchronize) with the "take-over" ads for that day.

You have likely visited imdb.com at some point in time. With so many TV shows and movies premiering throughout the year, IMDB has a higher frequency of "take-overs" than an average site.

The "pop-ups" or interstitials did decrease due to being bad design & bad consumer experience, but have returned and are now overrun with publisher sign-in and privacy/consent interstitials.

There was a second flaw in the premise between print publishers and websites. Some print publishers inflate circulation numbers when attempting to sell ad space in an attempt to make the ad space appear more valuable.

Similar double-selling of television ads take place as well. A network ad may run in the network feed and will appear in the network affidavit logs as having run. Local affiliates supercede network feeds all the time and in some of those cases they do so during a network ad pod and run station-sold ads. Consumer sees only one of the TV ads but both get reported as run.

Fraud in advertising isn't something new or isolated to the online medium.

A couple of these products already exist for Android (and released before AirTag came to market). The difference with these products vs AirTag has been scale and consent. Apple devices are listening for AirTags without intervention or user consent by default. Existing Android products required additional steps to install softward and opt-in to the listening for tags.

Without the scale, your Android devices may be the only devices in your area listening for "Tags" which isn't bad if you are trying to find your keys at your house, but makes it difficult to track your luggage with airlines or monitor where your kids may be. Of course, the flip side of this scale is the current malicious use of AirTags for stalking & harrassment.

What solutions are there to this problem? Asking Google to recreate AirTags is simply recreating the problem within a second ecosystem. Perhaps this is an example of how lack of scale can be a 'good' thing from certain perspectives (a philosophical debate on the tipping point of your product shifting from consumer good to community harm). If you have honest conversations with lawyers or Risk Management, you'd know that passing laws against misuse has no effect unless a law is enforceable.

We're back at the core of the question, AirTags being only one example. How does society navigate the use of helpful technologies for malicious purposes.

Cue Moxie's quiet leafblower. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33324195

why bury it? Add it to the mix before you pour your driveway, then remember to not play, lie down, or park your vehicle on it.

And I think we've seen the same Woody Allen movie

If something were to "fall" into a "Black Hole", from the object's perspective, the object would seem to "fall" for an infinite amount of time.