World: spends millions of dollars and decades fighting bot traffic on the internet

OpenAI: here's a bot browser

So called “vampire drones” have the capacity to identify electrical transmission lines and leech off them

This is still speculative tech, no?

I remember seeing a demo. It doesn’t honestly seem very hard.

I don’t think induction alone would cut it. Having the drone make contact and step down hundreds of kilovolts seem pretty hard to me. Plus the EM interference on the drones systems would be a challenge under the best circumstances.

I bet it won't by next month or so.

I love the NYT mini so I made some scripts and HTML to auto generate more 5x5 puzzles, posting one very day at my site

Great effort!

I'm a fan of the NYT Mini, too. The art of that puzzle, I think, is in the clues, which are usually not straight synonyms or dictionary-type definitions. Some examples from recent puzzles:

  Name tag heading: HELLO

  Word shouted during a defibrillator scene in a hospital drama: CLEAR

  Kind of orange with a "belly button": NAVEL

  "I'm not a ____" (online affirmation next to a checkbox): ROBOT

  What breweries might creatively repurpose as seats: KEGS

I haven’t tried [1], but it might be hard to get an LLM to produce such clues consistently. I’m not sure how well I would do at it myself.

Another feature of the NYT Mini is that the creators seem to limit the number of pop-culture facts to at most one per puzzle. I’m bad at names of actors, cartoon characters, pop stars, etc., but I’m usually able to solve the puzzles even when they have clues and answers like

  Ogre who asks "What are you doing in my swamp?!": SHREK

because I can get the answers in the other direction.

[1] A few minutes later: I did try. I gave Claude 3.5 Sonnet the above clues and answers as examples and asked it to produce clues for today’s NYT Mini answers. Here are the results:

https://gally.net/temp/20240904miniclues/index.html

Not as clever as the NYT’s clues, but not terrible, either.

Could you share some details on what algorithm you use to generate the puzzles?

Did you auto generate the clues?

Kind of. They are auto gen from Wikipedia content but I edited them manually so they were shorter and made more sense

I thought only you can prevent wildfires

Sure, but I have known for several decades that I shouldn't. That slogan was already being questioned when Regan was president.

How is this done? You need to get a router from them? Or is it just software and it works with some routers?

It’s probably a router that you add on to your existing infrastructure and it’s managed remotely via some sort of API.

companies too.

is it actually a train station? that would be awesome for the commutes of people that will work there

mexican company in HN front page! fellow mexican here

Hello, how you doin'? What's your company?

big semiconductor company in guadalajara

Given Nintendo has preferred HW for legacy support (i.e. Included older cpu's on newer gameboys for supporting older games) I am thinking they included the original nes cpu plus another newer chip for game selection GUI and HDMI up conversion

have regular expressions gone too far?