skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they did use plain cgroups and Linux kernel features from what I remember.

Technically just Linux namespaces and seccomp. Those are the parts important for security. cgroups are more about enforcing resource limits, which Sandstorm never got around to (but planned to, eventually).

> I'm not even sure what the business model of Sandstorm was

We had basically two plans, and the problem is we didn't consistently follow one of them:

Plan A: Make technology that excites people, especially developers, and shows fast growth and adoption. Sell investors on a long-term vision of an app store and such -- but get them to fund a big Series A pre-revenue that would allow us to develop for many years.

Plan B: Sell a product to organizations (enterprise, government, etc.) that, for policy and/or compliance reasons, could not use cloud apps. There are still a lot of these!

Plan A is really what we needed to stay focused on, and what our team really understood how to execute. We were actually totally succeeding at growing the developer community! But Plan B was enticing because it seemed like a faster path to revenue, and it felt like showing revenue would make our pitch even stronger. But we had no idea how to actually execute on Plan B, how to sell to those kinds of organizations. So our efforts there totally flopped. And when investors saw us fall on our faces they weren't excited to keep investing.

All that is to say, I don't think it's the idea that failed, I think we failed in the execution.

I had intended to keep working on Sandstorm on the side as an open source project when I joined Cloudflare, but then my work there (Cloudflare Workers) was successful, and, well, it's a lot more fun to work on something that is succeeding, so I gave up on Sandstorm.
Does anyone know about people doing similar reverse engineering but for javascript code in websites?
BFF's first album was in 1993, and Jamiroquai was formed in 1992, I think. Both of those were well after the term was muddied beyond recognition. I'm skeptical of the claim that Jamiroquai was being tagged "alternative", same with Cherry Poppin' Daddies (also 90s, IIRC).

Note that by the mid-90s, if not sooner, a lot of 80s alt-rock was seeping into AOR / classic rock / hard rock playlists. (Source: was a DJ on a classic rock station from 1995 through 1998. Played R.E.M., Pearl Jam, bunch of other alternative/grunge stuff alongside 60s/70s/80s classic rock. And a little bit that wasn't technically on the approved list since I was usually working midnight to 6 a.m., but that's another story.)
Barebone web research agent (Apache 2.0)
I don't really understand. Pkl seems to be a configuration language? How are you going to run clang-format, rustfmt, go fmt, pyright, etc. using Pkl?
Paywalls on people's content would work well if they have some type of revenue sharing, but paywalls on entire subreddits would be a disaster.
Highly relevant! Thanks for this.
Not sure I understand what you are trying to say, do you find the prediction to be helpful? 150-190 BPM is such a huge range, what useful information can be derived from it?
I concede Radiohead (though, of course, not Nirvana). First time I saw Radiohead was at an REM show (Patti Smith made a surprise appearance). I'd still go to bat for the argument that REM's influences are more influential than REM itself is.
Bonus points if you got to watch your own greenfield work turn into a legacy project someone else maintains.
A coffee for $3.50: Argentina is the most expensive country in Latin America
>the economy is booming and unemployment so low.

Well that's your first problem. We're hiding the underemplyment crisis with "but unemployment is so low!". Quality of life for underemplyment is a lot closer to homelessness than middle class.

The deeper problem that America is more and more trying to focus on the elite over the working class.
I used to think that naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors were the 2 biggest problems in CS, but then I learned about the "sleep/wake" problem and realized it's NP-complete.
The original Instagram link goes to a 404 for me, did they delete it out of shame?

lol
If you have a modern machine with S0 sleep, which is "modern standby" it's very much solved. What it does is it pauses all userspace processes, disables all cores but one and keeps it running on the lowest frequency. The system stays "on" but all devices go in power-saving state which is good enough for days.

So it's not really a problem unless you really wanna do deeper sleeps.
> maybe you could tell us what you'd have the Democrats do

Instead of limp statements by Schumer and the like taking about "bromances" and complaining about how Trump and Musk are executing their actions, maybe they could focus on what is being done and the actual substance and consequences of it.

It's politically safer for them to stop at the how. But their constituents care about substance, not dramatics. People are generally numb to this stuff, because we constantly hear each side attack the other relentlessly, like immature grade schoolers. It's noise that we've been programmed to tuned out.

I could be wrong and maybe the Democrats have pure intentions this one time, but if you don't believe that politicians root for the other team to fail, despite the negative consequences to the people they represent, then I'm afraid you may be the ignorant one.
Manhattan is great to be homeless in. free food available every couple of blocks, lots of social services. can sleep in hospitals, on the subway or elsewhere. good free transportation in the form of the subway. subways not a bad place to sleep, certain comedians did it getting started in new york. I do it.

cold isnt a big problem if u know what ur doing. during the summers u can spend all day at the beach and that makes up for it.

spend the day at the library working on the computer. police and security are relatively lax so long as you know how to blend in, some homeless people are less socially adept and dont take care of themselves so they are magnets for reprisals in a manner of speaking.
Well yea, they teach you in officer’s schools that disobeying an illegal order probably won’t turn out well for you immediately, but it’s your duty. You will get punished sometimes, but if the order goes against the law and your morals, then you have to disobey it. Covering the McCain ship name probably isn’t worth disobeying, but firing on civilians is definitely worth any cost to yourself to disobey.
Just run of the mill stuff, pay-to-play to such an extent that everyone in a public service department that I sell software into all have jobs with vendors lined up for after they retire. They are very open about it. Most other vendors have been investigated for bribery by SFO, PNF and or FBI. Only a few stuck, I think they just bribe more people to make the other bribery charges go away. One that did stick was KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton. Most vendors in my space seem to operate on a pyramid scheme where the money they take in from new deals has to pay for the consulting fees of the predecessors. I’m more interested in making good technology than dealing with the stress of all that so I try to compete on technical merits - which is tough.
Several of those philosophers had kids too. Hegel had 3, for example.

Heidegger was with Hannah Arendt for a while, and had several kids from previous relationships. Dude had a few affairs, and one of his kids probably wasn't his.

Machiavelli had like 7 children!
I don't work in cybersecurity, though I kind of considered it.

Cybersecurity looks fun, I have seen a few DEFCON talks and if it wasn't in a different continent, maybe I would have been there. Finding vulnerabilities, cracking stuff, learning about all the incredibly clever attacks, defenses, and how to overcome them, CTF games, etc... All fun stuff.

But the reality looks more like implementing the latest recommendations from whatever regulatory agency, checking boxes, writing reports. Being hated by everyone else because they are trying to do their job and you are in the way with all your restrictions, some of them you know are useless but you have to put them in place to check a box. Going through who knows how many reports full of false positives.

Of course I guess there is some stressful moment when you are actually under attack, calls in the middle of the night and all that. Not for everyone (and not for me) but at least, that's exciting. But most of the job looks more like doing administrative paperwork in an office than the cool stuff you see at DEFCON.
Conversely, reading through my own code from ancient history (>3 months ago) is both humbling and terrifying :D
I think there was a little more to it
Local coverage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083012
Great question! There’s been a lot of movement in this space, but most existing solutions focus on simulation-based testing—generating synthetic test cases or scripted evaluations.

Roark takes a different approach: we replay real production calls against updated AI logic, preserving actual user inputs, tone, and timing. This helps teams catch failures that scripted tests miss—especially in high-stakes industries like healthcare, legal, and finance, where accuracy and compliance matter.

Beyond replays, we provide rich analytics, sentiment & vocal cue detection, and automated evaluations, all based on audio—not just transcripts. This lets teams track frustration, long pauses, and interruptions that often signal deeper issues.

Would love to hear more about your assistant - how are you thinking about testing and iteration?
Does anyone seriously believe that Musk is doing this for the benefit for anyone but himself?

The answer to the post question is "Of course he f* is, that's why he is doing it"

Oh ... and people will die.
The Future of Autonomous Vehicles [pdf]
This looks great! I love that it builds on top of existing tools has so many kinds of export already. Thank you so much for sharing it - I'm always looking for good tools for quick animation and presentations.

Like you, I'm a big fan of Keynote. It would be amazing to have Keynote-style smooth animation here too (tweening, easing curves, Magic Move, etc.), though I'm sure it would be a huge project in itself.
This. Linux users must resort to bronze-age tooling in 2025; Crafting and launching handmade scripts by candlelight to diagnose their plethora of sleep issues. But the community likes it this way. Meanwhile, Mac users continue to have sleep that 'just works' and Windows users have an entire sleep troubleshooting toolkit:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...
I've been using this technique for a decade, after I read Julie Sahni's Classic Indian Cooking, which is how I learned to make absolutely perfect basmati rice that's fluffy and not mushy. Sahni's recipe is ridiculously complex, but once you squint it's basically just the principle of cooking like pasta.

For basmati, the method is to boil water, add rice, cook for 4 minutes (some types of rice require more time) until al dente, then drain, quickly rinse in cold water and put back on stove to rest for 5-10 at a low temperature. To retain heat but avoid overcooking during the resting phase, I use a lid with a dish towel in between.

If I want to do more fancy rice, I use the absorption method, because it allows me to fry a bunch of stuff and retain the flavour, as nothing is poured out. For example, I will roast some cashews, add some butter or ghee, then the rice and water, and cook under a lid for 10 minutes. With basmati I found that the best water to rice ratio is 2:1 by weight. So for two people, use 150g rice and 300ml water.
We were lucky enough to experience explosive growth of tech industry in the past 20 years. A perk of this golden age is that one did not have to work on legacy code at all, if so we chose. Better, we got to build 0-to-1 systems[1] that could make a difference, like the first search engine, the first key-value store, the first machine learning pipeline, the first resource orchestrator, the first data pipeline, the first real-time OLAP system, the first distributed logging system, the first bespoke compiler, and the list went on.

Unfortunately, we had this level of luxury because we had growth, especially new business scenarios that involved thousands of companies and millions and millions of users, thanks to the confluence of internet, mobile, social network, cloud, and machine learning applications. I'm not sure we are going to have similar growth in the coming 10 years, but I hope I'm dead wrong.

[1] The downside, of course, is that engineers tended to abandon a project after version 0.1, like what Twitter engineers did to their Manhattan project.
Only on Linux though, on Windows it’s O(n2) and on Macos it’s O(log n)
a few of my writeups discuss ways of doing this:

appleid https://zemnmez.medium.com/how-to-hack-apple-id-f3cc9b483a41
steam https://hackerone.com/reports/409850
Great ideas, I will ask about these in the follow-up with infection disease.
> Why mention Rust at all?

I like knowing what language a tool is written in. If it's written in Python or JavaScript and it isn't something that's absolutely essential I can just immediately move on. It also lets me know if it's something I'd be willing to contribute to. It's odd that the authors mentioning the language is so triggering for you.
Daily trading volume is about ~$5m
You don't need a consciousness to be aware.
There was a bunch of upvotes and discussion. Sure things get flagged after awhile for reasons, and discussion devolves, but lots of people saw and engaged the story. It's not nothing. All is not lost. Stuff moves fast around here. Your submission is a dupe of day old news.
I love my Kobo reader and am happy with switching to it after a decade or more of daily Kindle use. But I think it is important to not over-sell it. It has had certain unexpected frailties, such as corrupting the database when I neglected to eject the USB device before pulling the cable, something that resulted in losing my notes and current progress. I also had to learn about the Kobo ePub format and install a Calibre plugin to get that working, otherwise some ePub files would rapidly drain the Kobo battery. I did not expect bad html/css to significantly affect battery life. I'm not sure I would recommend it to an older person or someone who doesn't have a little patience for tinkering.
> deploying a fix all by myself, no review, for a legacy product that really didn't have a good testing environment.

This sounds like a great way to cause a live-site incident.
https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2022/12/26/surpries-at-hi-dime... it's both much more likely to be actually orthogonal and almost always very close to orthogonal.
You said "So I wrote, and won, a grant for $650,000." Who submitted the grant? They are the person who "won".
Do yourself a favor and read this link: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/

And yes, airport security is also a colossal waste
That's what I'm saying, though. How can 100k be seen as "not granting you any form of comfortable life"? The vast, vast majority of people living in these areas you quoted earn less than that, and it's tone deaf to just assume every one of them is miserable.
The article at its source, Nature, with many more photos and a different title:

"Did giant ice age beasts carve these vast caves in South America?"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00216-x
> I get your point, but realistically you're talking about a minuscule chance of being sued as first defendant given the thousands of OSS devs in the region

There's that, and and there's also the fact there's no point in suing people with little money.

An aggrieved company isn't going to go after a random open source dev, because that cost more than it is worth. They will find an actual commercial vendor to sue.
The animation in the commercial reminds me of Reboot, the 90s cgi kids cartoon. I found the animation too uncanny to stomach.
Been really enjoying the author's YouTube content lately, even though I'm not too experienced in reverse engineering.
Argentina's constant financial issues and adjustments is as fascinating as it is scary.
US productivity is going into things like un-avoidable advertisements from your new Jeep when you come to a stop, embedding dark patterns for everything, and spending all R&D on a tool to replace all human workers. A nation can totally be held together heathily under today's 'productivity'.
Yes, one more precise way to phrase this is that the expected value of the dot product between two random vectors chosen from a vector space tends towards 0 as the dimension tends to infinity (I think the scaling is 1/sqrt(dimension)). But the probability of drawing two truly orthogonal vectors at random (over the reals) is zero - the dot product will be very small but nonzero.

That said, for sparse high dimensional datasets, which aren't proper vector spaces, the probability of being truly orthogonal can be quite high - e.g. if half your vectors have totally disjoint support from the other half then the probability is at least 50-50.

Note that ML/LLM practioners use "approximate orthogonality" anyway.
It also has "geôle", which is also old fashioned.
Sure seems likely! Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia article for Vril:

>When H. G. Wells' novella The Time Machine was published in 1895, The Guardian wrote in its review: "The influence of the author of The Coming Race is still powerful, and no year passes without the appearance of stories which describe the manners and customs of peoples in imaginary worlds, sometimes in the stars above, sometimes in the heart of unknown continents in Australia or at the Pole, and sometimes below the waters under the earth. The latest effort in this class of fiction is The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells."

So the phrase "the Coming Race" must have been well established in literary circles, and probably used as a shorthand for what today we might call non-humans or post-humans.
How recorders work (the musical instrument)
Reasons to Love Systemd
I'd have to guess that the "transformations" being made to the embeddings at each layer are basically/mostly just adding (tagging with) incremental levels of additional grammatical/semantic information that has been gleaned by the hierarchical pattern matching that is taking place.

At the end of the day our own "thinking" has to be a purely mechanical process, and one also based around pattern recognition and prediction, but "thinking" seems a bit of a loaded term to apply to LLMs given the differences in "cognitive architecture", and smacks a bit of anthromorphism.

Reasoning (search-like chained predictions) is more of an algorithmic process, but it seems that the "reactive" pass-thru predictions of the base LLM are more clearly viewed just as pattern recognition and extrapolation/prediction.

Prove me wrong!
And if you were speaking faithfully you know there are mechanisms by coincidence or design that make it harder for the disadvantaged to vote. It's no coincidence that your rep is probably only available every other Tuesday at 1pm while the disadvantaged are working at one of their two jobs.

> But you don't see very many people moving from the highest-income cities in the U.S. to places like Appalachia

CA declined in population this decade until 2024:

https://apnews.com/article/california-population-growth-pand...

So yes, people are moving out.
> Involuntarily commit or arrest individuals who are mentally unfit to function in normal society.

Finland, the poster child for housing first, does this as well.
It also would have been possible for you to not claim that military servicemembers are not in control of their emotions, and that this may make them present a danger to others by misusing their weapons.

But you did claim that, or at least imply it, so here we are.
There are some managers that will assert authority through public firing of problematic staff for insubordination. However such measures are rarely ever necessary, as most corporate cultures are not that difficult to manage.

The old adage "It's Not What You Say—It's How You Say It" is very true when working within a team. =3
> I don’t see how anyone can «sell» this information when it’s literally available for free already.

It's a channel for OSS projects to get money for corporate funding. Not all standard procedures allow for making up shit that the vendor doesn't provide, so you go and pay for the vendor's SBOM shrug
Today is a very good time to file a tax return filing extension (Form 4068) giving the likely compromising of our taxpayer data and it's also a very good time to contact your state Attorney General and your members of Congress on this ongoing crisis.
sure for something you're spending hours on like instagram. for my business data analytics, I don't care. If I'm doing any serious work I'm on laptop anyway, mobile is just for casual checks

a native mobile app is a gigantic time, productivity, and cash investment. if a business can get most of the value from a PWA, they will be far better off investing that time and innovation into other parts of their business than building a native app for the "smoothness"
> It looks to me that if you want to have a working computer under Linux, it's worth the extra cost to avoid AMD.

I think this is a rather hasty conclusion. The popular opinion is the opposite. If you want a working computer under Linux, it's worth it to avoid NVIDIA, especially for laptops. Sure, AMD are not perfect contributors to the kernel, but they are contributing more than NVIDIA[0]. NVIDIA has made some moves recently[1], but the AMD GPUs are still better integrated. Notably since the Steam Deck had been released, the situation has been excellent.

Anecdotally, my laptop with an NVIDIA GPU has many issues that have persisted over the years with things like high idle power draw or frequent straight up crashes, or incomplete Wayland support. My 3 devices that have an AMD GPU (1 desktop, 2 laptops) however, have been working flawlessly from day 1.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Contributions-2010s-Ker...

[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules
Which is why it is best if you plan for parallelism from the beginning, so that your configuration has a straightforward way to indicate dependencies and making sure certain hooks aren't run in parallel with conflicting hooks
that seems very anecdotal and does not mirror my experience
UDP Gateway for AWS
Today is a very good time to file a tax return filing extension (aka Form 4068) giving the likely compromising of our taxpayer data and it's also a very good time to contact your state Attorney General and your members of Congress on this ongoing crisis.
Windows says that my motherboard serial port is connected to the Pci Bus → PCI standard ISA bridge. Long live DOS!

Thanks for the video about TTM, I'll watch it when I have a chance.
And the wing is missing
GP said afford, not that they are buying them anyway despite living paycheck to paycheck.
it's a fair watch:

D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)
3/2/2013
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM
> Microsoft is, generally, very very good at backward compatibility.

It was. A long time ago. Running old games in Win10 has become a big challenge.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083213
Musk probably uses it to push his political propaganda.
The same author just put this out: https://youtu.be/F5m2JxplnXk
The US ranks #55 in press freedom, all positions in the top 10 are EU countries.