skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bluesky does allow you to hold your own keypairs.

Your identity must be registered at plc.directory, the central service they control, which allows them to stop clients from being able to verify your identity. I think they intend on decentralizing this, eventually.

However, you are allowed to create an identity which only uses keys you control. You are also allowed to update an existing identity and transition it to only use keys you control: https://web.plc.directory/spec/v0.1/did-plc
That just means it's time to declare martial law, proscribe the legislature, and try to launch a coup.
I suppose that's a fair point, didn't think of that indeed.
Syft (https://github.com/anchore/syft) and ScanCode (https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit) are good open-source tools to generate SBOMs and search repos for licensing information — I'm curious to hear if there are reasons why those wouldn't work for enterprise purposes.
The hackster article has a bit more technical infos: https://www.hackster.io/news/exploring-the-invisible-world-w...
Manatees and dugongs feel like "whale-like sloths", though I have no idea if they're taxonomically related
Also gendered: indoor task preference and cleaning product exposure?

Nonstick cookware exposure

Reduced fat, increased fructose foods (sugar feeds cancer)

Exhaust and walking?

Cooking oil and air fryer usage rates have changed.

Water quality isn't gender-specific is it?

Rocket stoves change lives in other economies; cooking stove materials

There are salt-based cleaning products, USB dilute hypochlorite bleach generators that require just water and salt, there are citric acid based cleaning products, and there's vinegar and baking soda.

Electronic motorized plastic bristle brushes?

Ironically, bleach doesn't kill COVID at all, but UV-C does.
A local radio station (rather ironically, KFOG) used to have an event (KFOG KaBoom!) every May, capped in the evening with a massive fireworks display over the bay. It was a fantastic event, people from all over the Bay Area could see it. My family had friends with a boat, so we would go see it on the bay. I don't remember there ever being a problem with fog. Fog is most common in the summer than in the fall, winter, or spring.

The last KFOG KaBoom was in 2010 (in the parking lot at Candlestick). KFOG, the station, went off the air in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFOG_KaBoom
> things will tend to become more disordered over time

Only if they weren't disordered to begin with. If you start with well stirred coffee and milk and stir it again, it won't be more "disordered" than what you started with.

The problem is that our universe started as "ordered" for reasons we don't understand. We call it the big bang, and that's the origin of the arrow of time.

No big bang means maximum entropy, no arrow of time, and no conscious observer. And if there is, that would be a Boltzmann brain scenario, and no one wants a Boltzmann brain scenario.

The question of the arrow of time is literally the last question of life, the universe, and everything.
You used a few ordinary words but you described my dream
I'm with you, but the government (at least in the US and UK) should definitely be spending more time figuring out how to patch reliably, and little less on PQC.
So the trick is to pick the dimensions that are relevant and discard the rest when calculating the distance.
Awesome! Thanks for the clarification.
Kind of useless in 2D space. Not sure what they think they are showing here in the visualization.
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Hit a single first before trying for a home run.
And noisy places are cheaper to furnish! Double win
It's surprising that such a high-quality answer lacks a mention of the polynomial-time optimal register allocation algorithms in common use in current compilers. It's true that graph coloring is NP-complete, so you can't solve graph coloring in polynomial time, but graph coloring is register allocation with an additional constraint added: that you can never move a variable from one register to another.

Removing that constraint turns out to allow guaranteed polynomial time solutions, and that result is now widely used in practice.
I can give at least two:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perez_v._Sharp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
DeepSeek is another big one, "100 additional authors not shown"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19437
What I also remember, market professionals usually name big holes as red oceans, mean, they are red from blood of huge players, battling there.
For now yes, but I am going to add outlook and apple calendar in the future
Is "Imaginary Situation A" better than "Imaginary Situation B"?

No idea. Just hit the market with what you have. Iterate until you find people willing to pay for your thing.
There was this differentiation and discussion in the thread. He claims he has the support. But you are correct, everything I’m relating is his statements on the Twitter thread. For all we know, the entire story could be false.
WOW, you've got to be kidding me... What's wrong with hackernews?
I've heard reports of reduced frame rate issues on laptops from DMUB/DMCUB/panel self-refresh, though your issue sounds different and I probably can't usefully debug it without a full dmesg/journalctl --system log.
The general problem is that what plays well in the media and what makes the most difference aren't necessarily the same thing.

If you want to find large-scale government waste, it's going to be things like Medicare approving unnecessary treatments, or corrupt officials subtly shaping the bidding process for government contracts to make sure they're awarded to the expected cronies for the expected exorbitant costs, or subsidies that are supposed to go to the poor but are shaped in ways that really cause them to go to landlords or drug companies.

But "we streamlined the bidding process for cloud services contracts to make it feasible for smaller entities to make viable bids" is a non-headline even if it would save billions of dollars. "We're eliminating housing assistance and turning it into a refundable tax credit in the same amount for the same people" would improve government efficiency (and outcomes), but it's not viscerally satisfying and makes people feel bored or uncertain rather than happy or angry.

What sells is simple overt fraud. If you can find some 30 year old cashing their dead grandmother's social security checks, that's a headline that will get people worked up. Which means they want to go find some of that stuff to throw meat to the base, while hopefully also doing those other things that are actually more important but don't get the mob excited.

The opposition then plays politics either way. If you actually reduce Medicare spending on unnecessary treatments you're "cutting Medicare" but if you go find a few clear instances of outrageous fraud then it's "just a drop in the bucket" and you're not making any real difference.
Try all major isps for one. Bell Telus Rogers. Just Google it and you'll find tons of people dealing with this problem as they discover they can't host anything because they're natted and unreachable.

I've lived in Canada for > 20 years in several cities and provinces. I'm telling you that CGNAT is extremely common.

I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about.
Having an executive do crazy things all the time is unstable. Systems tend to evolve towards a stable state. A dictator with absolute power, an impeached executive, or a dictator removed by populace uprising are the likely outcomes of nonsensical positions.
Even 6502 from 1975 has it (and a few more like shift/rotate instructions).
Second, fine the crypto companies to extract taxes, but don't close them and keep the scam going so you can fine them again every few years.
I imagine humans are just as likely if not more likely to do this.
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I'm not speaking out of my ass, I was homeless myself on and off for nearly twenty years, and have relationships with homeless people in my community still.

Almost no one "prefers homelessness" to anything else per se, but they may decline the terms on which housing is offered. For example "break all your social ties and move away from the only city you know" is extremely hard for anyone to accept.

Look at some other conversations in this comment section! A lot of people want to "solve homelessness" but a lot of them also don't care what happens to the homeless people on the way. "Come with us, to a place you've never heard of and know nothing about, where all your needs are met"? No thanks my man I have read Maus.
Well, hopefully this surprises no one but it's good they ran the statistics. I guess when you add this to the studies that show people are ridiculously trusting of what AIs say, this will lead to ongoing inflation of egos.
AfD is a Nazi party, and nobody's silencing them, despite overwhelming opposition in all EU countries. If you listen to EU parliament speeches, there's all kinds of radical political views being shared during debates. Vance came to Europe to peddle US culture wars and got laughed out.
To go big you first have to dominate a small market. Every big success started as a niche. It's not so much that you can pick the size of the success ahead of time, but rather make sure to increase the odds that things will work at all.

My advice:

1) target a large TAM - is there a large enough market of people that are willing to pay for that type of solution?

2) try to maximise problem-founder fit - what are your unfair advantages and do you have access to early adopters who can give you feedback and spread the word?
The windows kernel is old. The Linux kernel is old. These are both old code bases, but they're not "legacy" at least in terms of how many would phrase the term. A codebase let to rot is legacy. A codebase that is constantly improving itself to be in the best state so that it can adjust to modern programming standards is just a good piece of software.

That all said, it's all subjective, blah blah the end.
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> Further complicating the incident, one of the injured men reportedly posted “death to the Arabs” in a message on social media after the shooting. “My father and I went through a murder attempt against antisemitic background,” he wrote.

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/17/miami-shooti...
How do you get a job in cybersec field after graduating if most positions available require past experience?
As someone with thirty years of ops work under my belt, I feel compelled to say a few words in reply to this article.
I once ran into a corporate laptop that had been downgraded from Windows 11 to 10, that would burn up its CPU during Modern Standby and eventually enter hibernate after burning a good fraction of its battery. The sleep study identified various PCIe devices and I tried installing drivers but they did not help. I wonder if it would've worked better on Windows 11 with stock drivers.
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No offense but you sound quite immature.

If there was a recipe for Mark Zuckerberg's wealth there would be many of them. There's is no tried and true set of instructions that makes someone a billionaire, it feels dumb to even have to type that.

Only an extremely naive individual, perhaps an 8 yo kid, would believe such thing exists; particularly if it's on a book that costs $19.99, lmao.
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We need US military to step in and jail all traitors.
> Most other employment law issues are regulated at the state level.

this is just flat-out not true. look at the NLRB [0] and OSHA [1] for the two most obvious examples of the federal government regulating employment conditions.

there is certainly lots of employment regulation that also happens at the state and local level, but why is that an argument in favor of not doing federal regulation?

eg, if I'm working in North Dakota and get injured on the job, then yeah the state government will adjudicate my worker's comp claim, and generally speaking the feds don't need to get involved.

however, if the company I work for in ND requires me to sign a non-compete contract that supposedly applies in all 50 states, and might prevent me from moving to South Dakota or another state - how is that not a concern of the federal government? this is interstate commerce, which the constitution very explicitly gives the federal government power to regulate.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Board

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_Safety_and_Health...
I'm still a fan of LeanPub and try to buy a book there if possible. It's an older site/storefront now, but still active and with new books mainly in the software/tech space.

It provides a better return for the authors, has a very simple UI/UX without dark patterns, makes it easy to grab newer book versions, and never has DRM.

Not sure if it's listed on the site, as it seems we've hugged it to death.
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> if you're worried about state-level SIGINT

... you might be worried about other things like postal interception, or physical security of your devices. You can never order any electronics or anything online, or use couriers services if you are person of interest for state level spooks like FBI, CIA. Tech spooks making personal visits to your home, phone or computers in-person also possible.
It's not that deep, bro. The tech bros were the fascists all along.
Are the humans around you half as obsequious as the LLMs you use? No, right?
Yes, unfortunately YouTube is the last Google products I can't abandon because of the few YouTuber I like. But I try to use YouTube fronts.
The view looking west from the east bay, particularly the Berkeley marina, is one of my favorites. The photos of the golden gate before the bridge was built still kind of makes me shiver
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Using an ICC profile per the last comment in that report didn't fix it for you?
> This is creating an extremely fragmented society, all creating their own bubble of what they want to see

It has always been thus. E.g. right wingers did not use twitter back in 2021.

I will grant it's getting worse though... for instance, the battle here on hackernews between left and right has strongly intensified and it looks like the left will win the downvote/flagging war and the right will stop posting in (and reading) political threads.
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That's just how people talk — at least, when they're trying to keep conversation productive.

There's a reason the "shit sandwich" is part of professional communication etiquette. If you don't know how insecure the person you're talking to is — and yet productive communication with them is required, and there's no conversational arbiter there to enforce that — then you may as well assume for safety's sake that your counterparty is insecure. And how do you keep a conversation with an insecure person from derailing? You reassure and emotionally validate them in your responses. (Which might be read as "flattery.")

Now consider that most conversation that gets recorded online, probably came about as the result of such "intended-productive interactions with people you don't know very well" (think: LLaMa trained from buyers messaging sellers on Facebook Marketplace)... and it should be clear why LLMs look like this. The training dataset [mostly] looks like this! This is the default way online-recorded conversations happen — so it's the default way LLMs speak, unless the LLM has been prompted to use some more-particular approach (or, in a conversational context, "falls into" some alternate approach by recognizing how you're talking, and responding the default way that the default type of person who would respond to that type of message, would talk.)

Interestingly — presumably due to this bias in the depth and breadth of polite-interaction training data — I find that LLMs produce much better output in multi-turn conversations when I respond to the LLM the way I would respond to a human: thanking them for their input, pointing out where their own insights resonated with me with phrasing like "I find your idea of X especially convincing", etc.

I think the sort of conversations where people are super-brash to one another, the way a human might default to being with a "machine", represent only a small part of the base language-model training dataset. Due to this, having brash human responses in an LLM's context window tends to over-circumscribe the kinds of responses it's willing to give — i.e. it focuses on the types and styles of responses that appear in that brash-human-interactions dataset, limiting its flexibility and cleverness vs if it wasn't so-constrained.

(From what I can tell, the brash-conversations part of base-language-model training datasets is mostly composed of highly-technical academic/industrial/medical conversations. Being brash to the AI seems to cause it to get all ten-dollar-word-y and jargon-y in response, and to drop all use of slang / emojis / etc — i.e. to evoke the writing style of those highly-technical conversations.)
> You help people by giving them new opportunities, not by taking existing opportunities away. Have some empathy.

By making them work for BigTech that takes makes them rely on tips because it takes most of their profits?

With regulations, you don't have to take opportunities away. You can just control the abuse.
>The point here is to reduce harm and improve privacy by small increments at a pace that is realistically sustainable for an average person.

Here's the rub. I buy that privacy is not dead, however free privacy is very limiting. Total privacy remains a complicated pay to play game.
Establishing meaningful data access for algorithm audits
Microsoft cuts ties with USAID-funded "fact-checking" outfit NewsGuard
There are risks, costs and benefits whichever path you take.

Have you ever built something small? I mean the whole thing, including the parts you know you're not good at and the parts you've never done before. If not, maybe start there.

A big idea can be aspirational: "I will make the biggest bestest X the world has ever seen." You can have that goal and still make the smallest most interesting part of X as your first iteration.

If you prefer a more rational approach, there are standard methods of business/product assessment that you can apply at the idea stage to rule things in and out. Success or failure is rarely guaranteed, but if the idea is big, unexamined blind spots can bite you years down the road.

Another factor is resources: do you have time/money/drive/attention-span/grit to see a big idea through to maturity. There are many steps in that process and each step has its own challenges and potential for failure.
I don't recall their name, they were a guest on the Root Causes podcast discussing PQ topics, though your summary varies from what I was trying to express. It's not that RSA will be classically broken, but that novel attacks to reduce factoring times of RSA key like batch attacks have a statistically significant chance of being discovered, that "further" was not meant to imply "completely broken classically," but "weakened further using classical approaches". Sounded plausible to me, though that's not a thing I'm any kind of domain expert in.
Where did you get the idea that Microsoft caused REM? All I said was they followed similar trajectories.

You think the radio, tv, live concert and record industry made billions selling a product people were only pretending to like?

There’s a lot to be explored in the social currents of the 80s-90s and the business of the music industry but you’re not going to get there from that angle.
> [..] suggests that by blocking everyday sounds such as cars beeping, there is a possibility the brain can "forget" to filter out the noise.

> "You have almost created this false environment by wearing those headphones of only listening to what you want to listen to. You are not having to work at it," she said.

Ah yes, the natural peaceful environment of car horns blowing at >100 decibels.

Look, any research in any medical condition is always useful. But the entire article doesn't mention a word on the real problem: the world has just gotten too damn loud. Car horns are loud enough to cause hearing damage even at short exposure, as is extended exposure to traffic. So yeah, maybe we should primarily be looking at the modern hellscape that we've created instead of looking at the ways people use to manage this.
Exactly. I don't get all this talk about how Europe is an open air museum etc.
We've got a lot of problems, lack of leadership is definitely one of them, we struggle with natural ressources (mostly due to our very restrictive laws).

But reading US press, one could think it's a small, struggling group of countries, sliding into insignificance. This is mostly based on somewhat false narratives, and stock market capitalizations, which are currently at historical bubble levels in the US.

While in reality, Europe is an economic powerhouse, very strong in a lot of important industries (guess what company has a de-facto worldwide monopoly on machines used to make computer chips ?), has an excellent education system and fairly stable institutions.

We just need an electrochoc. Trump / Vance may just have delivered this much. They may be surprised by what's coming next though.
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I ended up finding the application it's intended to run, ELKS, the most interesting part. ELKS (“Embedded Linux Kernel Subset”) is apparently a very, very old fork of Linux from the 1990's that targets 16-bit real-mode x86 systems with no MMU (e.g. 8086) rather than 32-bit protected mode x86 (80386 and later). It's fascinating in a similar way to how, say, ancient religious schisms are. It's still actively maintained even!
On the flip side you can have some utterly glorious but short days in January.

Friend moved to SF for a job and got an apartment in the Richmond because it looks safe. After a year she moved to an apartment at 16th and Mission. Because the fog was making her depressed. And because she could ride her bike to work instead of taking the bus. The conundrum of San Francisco the sketchiest areas have the better weather.
That's nonsense because much of the damage from tire dust is from a specific synthetic chemical called 6PPD.
The employee's right to sign away their rights maybe.
That article says that they are talking about introducing articles of impeachment, which have almost zero chance of succeeding. So, no, not "already", and not in a way that is likely to do anything.

That's more "performative bloviation" than anything of substance.
Legacy code is amazing RAG material to throw at an AI ;)
My understanding, and this holds true for me, is that the introvert/extrovert concept is a “how do you charge your batteries” kind of thing. Extroverts do that around people, introverts do that not-around-people.

I’m not sure sticking a bunch of like-minded introverts in a room would help. In fact, for me, I know it doesn’t.