skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, wow. That's fantastic!
It wasn't just POTS but also the kind of switches you went through for a given call. POTS over the right lines could be amazing.
Zana aims to be like Mason.nvim, but with the goal of supporting not only Neovim, but rather any other editor.

Zana is swahili for "tools" or "tooling".

A minimal package manager for Neovim (and other editors) which uses the Zana Registry to install and manage packages.
Subsea fibre optic cable deliberately cut for the 2nd time between N.S. and N.L
I would say anecdotal. This hasn't been my case across four universities and ten years.
As bird flu spreads, Canada buys 500K vaccines for humans
Gotta wear clothes with embedded data to poison the recording (not an original thought by me saw it in GITS SAC 2045)
I wonder if someone in the US will declare that, actually, Signal is actively targeting the Russia-aligned threat actors.
To be fair, MSFT was not started as a research company and is more of a mass market commercializer of existing technology. Bell Labs' primary goal was to discover new science and invent practical applications. (Reminds me I should go read "The Idea Factory"! (story of bell labs))

IMO new breakthroughs in our understanding of physics would be needed first to make substantial progress in QC. As long as MSFT isn't investing in attosecond lasers or low temperature experiments, RSA will remain secure.
>A good non-NSA agency should also learn from this to be able to effectively false-flag as NSA

It seems like such a lapse in tradecraft that, absent other indicators, I would just assume it's a crude false flag attempt.
I am a bit perplexed though as to why they have implemented fan-out in a way that each "page" is blocking fetching further pages, they would not have been affected by the high tail latencies if they had not done this,

"In the case of timelines, each “page” of followers is 10,000 users large and each “page” must be fanned out before we fetch the next page. This means that our slowest writes will hold up the fetching and Fanout of the next page."

Basically means that they block on each page, process all the items on the page, and then move on to the next page. Why wouldn't you rather decouple page fetcher and the processing of the pages?

A page fetching activity should be able to continuously keep fetching further set of followers one after another and should not wait for each of the items in the page to be updated to continue.

Something that comes to mind would be to have a fetcher component that fetches pages, stores each page in S3 and publishes the metadata (content) and the S3 location to a queue (SQS) that can be consumed by timeline publishers which can scale independently based on load. You can control the concurrency in this system much better, and you could also partition based on the shards with another system like Kafka by utilizing the shards as keys in the queue to even "slow down" the work without having to effectively drop tweets from timelines (timelines are eventually consistent regardless).

I feel like I'm missing something and there's a valid reason to do it this way.
A 2019 study of 5 European airports in 2019 had no-show rates of 14.4%: https://www.ozion-airport.com/product/comparative-analysis-n...

However, my understanding is that airlines have much more sophisticated per-flight and per-passenger models that calculate the predicted no-show factor based on the historical rates for that particular route (e.g. you're more likely to get more no-shows in business class flying from NYC to SF compared to holiday travelers with a reservation on the Florida Keys)
There have been a few networks that have tried to emulate what you're describing with regards to local pseudonymity (NextDoor being the first that comes to mind), but most of the audience for it just uses a local subreddit or Facebook group now. WhatsApp can also be an option, depending on the country you are in.
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see how legal immunity equates to legal authority.

If you are a government employee and Trump orders you to do something that exceeds his authority, can't you still say no? It seems like the Supreme Court only said that Trump can't get in trouble for asking. I don't think the court said that you have to answer yes.

I'm not trying to say that we're in a great position here or that immunity doesn't have some very destructive effects. But I am saying that we shouldn't act as if he has powers that the Supreme Court hasn't given him.
"Russia-aligned threat"... so... the US?
No, it means that if you approve a device to link, and you later have reason to unlink the device, you can't establish absolutely that the unlinked device can no longer access messages, or decrypt messages involving an account, breaking the forward-secrecy guarantees.

That leaves you with the only remedy for a signal account that has accepted a link to a 'bad device' being to burn the whole account. (maybe rotating safety numbers/keys would be sufficient, i am uncertain there) -- If you can prove the malicious link was only a link, then yeah, the attack i described is incomplete, but the issues in general with linked devices and remedies described are the important bits, I think.
This is exactly the same as my experience. The first optical migraine was super scary.
All of the SpaceX contracts should be cancelled immediately.

No tax dollars should go to Nazis. We have grandparents dead on the beach of Normandy.
Even if you thought that SGX was bulletproof and pins were impossible to brute force, instead of just being 'better than what most other apps use' what possible justification is there for outright lying to users by claiming that their app doesn't collect any sensitive data when it does?

Signal is advertised and recommended to some extremely vulnerable people whose lives/freedom depend on their security. Signal owes users a clear explanation of the risks that come from the use of their software so that whistleblowers, journalists, and activists can make informed choices. Lying to those users is disgusting.

Seen most charitably, the fact that the very first line of their privacy policy page is an outright lie might be intended as a dead canary to warn users away as loudly as they can, but even in that case I'll be happy to say it plainly: Signal shouldn't be trusted.
Try to open news about USA-Russia latest talks. Basically Trump now is repeating propaganda topics from Russia Today, their fake claims about Ukraine.

USA pushed Ukraine to give up nukes, offered security assurances instead. And then during full scale war donated just 30 old tanks. And now Trump is talking with Putin behind Ukraine's back on how they should surrender.

Unfortunately USA is not a superpower anymore and their word means nothing.
That's impressive, but what's the real-world application?

* Fusion's potential is enormous.

* Health software, like fusion, needs breakthroughs.

* Are we ready for the data deluge?

* Can we build it fast enough?
Yaak 2.0 – Git, WebSockets, OAuth, and More
"Don't you want to subscribe to your own printer? We'll reactivate this device after you subscribe to your own printer which you purchased."
>Norfolk partnered with a company called Flock Safety in 2023 to install 172 automatic license plate reader cameras throughout the city. The goal, as Police Chief Mark Talbot put it, was to create “a nice curtain of technology,” which would make it “difficult to drive anywhere of any distance without running into a camera somewhere.”

Ooof that sure as heck sounds like a very granular search for ... everyone who gets caught on camera.
Imagine finding absolutely no issue with an EO that uses phrases like “so-called independent regulatory agencies”.

This is what Germans must have felt like in 1933.
Certainly I've seen elements of this style in pre-ChatGPT writing. (Of course, it didn't just invent the style.) But I disagree strongly that it's clear, concise or skillful. The way that bullet-point lists are used here is highly distracting and frankly counterproductive, and a "conclusion" hardly seems necessary for a piece that presents the rules for a simple game. Entire sentences like "Let’s dive into the rules and strategies of this captivating game." are pure fluff here, too.
I think you'll have to pay a team millions to figure that out, it is unlikely to be a static rate but rather decided based on multiple traits like time of year, time of flight, distance of flight, cost of ticket, etc.
Yes, it was a single party government, but not consolidated under a dictator until Stalin. Even Lenin, until he basically retired (was very sick and died soon thereafter), didn't have the iron grip on the government that Stalin did.
>Contrary to popular belief, the United States does not require police officers to identify themselves as police in the case of a sting or other undercover work, and police officers may lie when engaged in such work. The law of entrapment instead focuses on whether people were enticed to commit crimes they would not have otherwise considered in the normal course of events.

--your source

Not as straightforward as you're implying.
Thanks! Getting all the possibly-relevant related code isn't too hard; the hard part is filtering down to what's relevant. So I think specific use cases (e.g. "how do I get from a known entry point to some method/property/etc") is gonna be key.
Right now, I use adGuard. Any adblocker such as uBlock origin should do this. However they tend to ban uBlock origin, because it's widely known. Or at least when they go after adblock, they go after that one first.
I'm not aware of enough world politics to tell you if it has happened. I would not expect such a change to happen overnight, instead it would take 50-100 years for people to get used to the change and then change how they act. Thus a lack of any examples doesn't mean it won't happen. (it also doesn't mean it will - politics are always changing)
I'm seeing a lot of helpful discussion, and I'm learning a lot. It's been easy for me to skip over the hyperbole.
Wechat is the internationalized version; Weixin is for mainland China.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weixin+vs+wechat
Yes, changing the plan from one arrived at by people familiar with the problem sure sounds like something that would need either talking to those people or engaging with the problem for months or years.
The current round of fighting.

There's still quite a bit of Europe that Russia wants to plunder for resour... I mean... influence. All of Ukraine, Poland, the Baltics, the Balkans - anywhere that used to be a part of the Warsaw Pact - is a target.

Appeasing Putin now will likely see another military action in the next decade, especially if the US significantly reduces or totally ends its commitment to NATO.

To be fair, the US has done nothing but harp on its allies in the organization to increase their g_ddamn defense spending for the better part of three decades now, and only some of them have truly taken it seriously since 2022. Even if spending levels are increased now, it won't have enough of an effect to see battlefield dividends for several years, if not at least a decade. The end result is that the US will be the security backstop for a Europe that has taken American willingness to get into a possible thermonuclear war for granted, in the face of more Russian incursion, no matter how poorly handled that incursion might be.
The article you attached does not say that the ruling gives the president immunity from all crimes committed while in office.
Random and round robin partitioning are the configurations being discussed.

The main point of the article is that low message volumes mean you can get unlucky and end up with idle workers when there is still work to be done
In the past, Qualcomm was infamous for high licensing fees.

However, part of the process of creating an open industry standard like 4G/5G is getting a legally binding commitment from the patent holders to license standards essential patents to all takers on "reasonable" terms.

> If the patent holder refuses upon request to license a patent that has become essential to a standard, then the standard-setting organization must exclude that technology.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discrimina...

So Qualcomm is still entitled to some money, but not nearly as much as they made back when there was no legal restriction on what they could demand.
I don't care if you're a 3%er or a John Brown Gun Club fan, this is an absurd fantasy.
Great analysis. By your logic you don’t think that the Enabling Act of 1933 was a power grab, correct?
This is completely incorrect.

The attrition rate of the federal government is 6-7% per year. This is about 150,000 new hires a year if you maintain the same size government. You can even see it from the DOGE website showing hundreds of thousands

So yes, the vast majority are new employees. The idea that the government hasn't grown doesn't mean that new employees haven't been hire.

I'm shocked at the number of people that are defending government hiring when government jobs have been the butt of jokes for decades. Government headcount needs to be cut drastically. It doesn't have to be demeaning the way it's currently being done, but the 8 month offer was pretty generous in my opinion.
That's fair, I can see how someone could feel that way.
The President isn't "head of government". He's the head of the executive branch. He's not in charge of the other two branches.
Wow, this feels unreal.

Was a lurker there when I still went to school (so ~20y ago)
You can get devices that adapt an analog phone to VoIP, something like this https://a.co/d/54J6Svg

I've never used that device so I can't say how good it is, but something like that would let you use any analog phone.
I’ve been on the lookout for an old analog phone for something similar but a bit different: Home Assistant can tap into a VOIP box and provide voice AI to it so I want to have a phone that you can just pick up and have a conversation with an AI. Maybe use varying system prompts to have it emulate historical figures or celebs or something. Will be fun for my tween I think :)
“Just install this chrome browser extension” is all it takes now. Hell, you can even access cookies and previously visited sites from within the browser. All it takes is some funky ad, or chrome extension, or some llama-powered toolbar to gain access to be able to do exactly that.

Background services on devices has been a thing for a while too. Install an app (which you grant all permissions to when asked) and bam, a self-restarting daemon service tracking your location, search history, photos, contacts, notes, email, etc
"Virtue signaling" in theory means "talking the talk without walking the walk", but it's generally thrown out by people who make no effort to assess whether the person criticized is walking the walk or even in contradiction of such evidence.

Driving an economically efficient car -- choosing any sort of car -- has enormous consequences on one's life, for example. Choosing to by a particular car isn't a decision made lightly. But Prius drivers back in the day were accused of virtue signaling, as though the Prius were equivalent to a temporary tattoo.

In fact, speaking of temporary tattoos, simply having a bumper sticker advocating for animal rights, say, belief in anthropogenic climate change, or peace in the Middle East will expose one to regular displays of hostility and aggression, so it isn't a cheap signal.

In other words, in my experience your observation is spot on.
I originally came here to comment how crazy it seems that DoD employees at NSA cannot be bothered to cover their tracks by working nonstandard hours/holidays (obviously Mil & Intel folks do this, they even get deployed!). But the thought occurred to me that attribution to NSA was likely a desired outcome here (“We can hack you too”) and there are probably many people at NSA working nonstandard hours/days to prevent attribution.

I think the English language aspect is much more interesting and difficult/impossible to prevent.
> I heard he also blames Poland for being invaded and starting WWII.

This one is fake, even if plausible. https://www.der-postillon.com/2025/02/ueberfall-auf-polen.ht... - Der Postillon is equivalent to US's The Onion.
Thanks Mahmoud! Does the code review aspect of this demo resonate more with you than the authoring part?
I remember being 16 and getting a call one Saturday morning from two teenage girls who "just dialed random numbers until a boy answered."

Talked to them for three hours :-)
In general, people are going to interpret this EO with their own lens. Unsurprisingly, reasonable people may disagree on the merits of the EO as a whole.

However this part of the EO is pretty concerning

> 'The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch'

and later

> 'No employee of the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General’s opinion on a matter of law'

This can potentially enable an end run around congress and the courts in that the President can easily choose to interpret laws in a manner inconsistent with the intent of congress and courts. Now, we can argue the point and say that presidents have already done so in the past and that congress/courts should have been more specific. However it quickly gets into the issue of the impossibility of congress or the courts anticipating and specifying every detail to avoid a 'hostile' interpretation.

This part of the EO says the president's opinion is the law as far as the executive branch is concerned. Given that the executive branch implements the law, this would imply that the president's interpretation is all that matters. The other two branches have no real role left to play. Given the supreme court's ruling on presidential immunity, this is a dangerous level of power concentration.

Even if you support the current president's goals and objectives, setting up the president as the sole power center is an inherently unstable system. Nothing prevents the next president from having a radically different opinion. There is a very good reason why the founding fathers built in an elaborate system of checks and balances.
I appreciate the offer but I think you'll probably find someone better to talk to here in the comments.

MCP is super cool and I've loved playing with it but playing with it is all I'm doing. I'm working on some tools to use in my $dayJob and also just using it as an excuse to learn about LLMs and play with new tech. Most my work is writing tools that connect our to our distributed fleet of servers to collect data, run commands, etc. My goal is to build a SlackOps-type bot that can provide extra context about errors we get in Slack (Pull the latest commits/PRs around that code, link to current deployed version, provide all the logs for the request that threw an error, check system stats, etc). And while I have tools written to do all of that I'm still working on bringing it all together in something more than a bot I can invoke from Slack and make MCP calls.

All that to say, I'm not a professional user of MCP/Mastra and my opinion is probably not one you want shaping your framework.
That sounds like Ancient Greek democracy except the gap was much larger than 51-49.
You can in libreoffice, but not excel. You _must_ change your locale. I went down this rabbit hole a few weeks ago trying to open some Dutch datasets.
> The impression I get from simply reading these various discussions, is that some folks are not convinced that the pain from accepting Rust is worth the gain.

Read the above email. Greg KH is pretty certain it is worth the gain.

> Possibly also that a significant portion of the suggested gain may be achievable via other means.

I think this is a valid POV, if someone shows up and does the work. And I don't mean 3 years ago. I mean -- now is as good a time as any to fix C code, right? If you have some big fixes, it's not like the market won't reward you for them.

It's very, very tempting to think there is some other putatively simpler solution on the horizon, but we haven't seen one.

> Over and above that, there seem to be various complaints about the readability and aesthetics of Rust code, and a desire not to be subjected to such.

No accounting for taste, but I don't think C is beautiful! Rust feels very understandable and explicit to my eye, whereas C feels very implicit and sometimes inscrutable.
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If you read the referee reports of the Nature paper (they are published alongside it) you'll see some referees echoing similar points.
If people understood how the legal system worked this would largely be irrelevant.

People think police are judges or prosecutors and (falsely) trust what they say accordingly. The police are evidence collectors for the prosecution, who presents evidence to a judge. Police are the lowest men on the legal totem pole and have little power in deciding the outcome of your case.

That alone should be enough to make you never trust whatever they promise, because really they cannot promise anything.
Sure, in an ideal world. These folks all attend the same parties, and by many accounts seemingly think the same thoughts, which is pretty wild!

All three branches are now run by ideologues. There is no independent thought. There may be independence on paper, and on that we would agree. But the situation here in reality isn’t really related to what’s on paper. In fact these folks mean to ignore all the current laws and just do whatever the fuck they want and I’m not making that up. I’m reporting what I see.
OT: Why does almost every comment in this thread currently say “2 hours ago”, when they were probably written when this story was first featured, about 3 days ago?
Refuse to comply with their illegal threats.
They created the circumstances where this could happen. It's a long term project. Supreme court picks, disenfranchisement, propaganda, refusing to hold Trump accountable for his crimes.
That blows my mind, I would expect maybe 1 or 2 passengers per plane at most. I'm trying to think of what factors would cause that many no-shows, it has to be mostly missed connections?

I can't imagine spending hundreds of dollars and just not showing up.
Another thing to consider here is that lower quality goods will get thrown out more, which is going to create a lot of waste, especially when done at scale.
> one of their best candidates was kicked out of the party a while back and is now Trumps DNI

Yeah, and the fact she's working for Trump now is proof that was the right call.
Yeah we abandoned that a long time ago. Now we're at the corner of "Hide behind civilians, shoot the kidnappers, the hostage and a couple innocent bystanders then suppress the report about the incident for 5 years." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Miramar_shootout) and "order the victim to approach you, shoot her, lie to the media to say that she was wearing combat fatigues and had a gun, then suppress video of the incident for two years" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Savannah_Graziano).
In abstract, arguments always sound great.

As far as I know majority of research on fusion / future of nuclear is financed by NOT government.

Spending $50 million on housing immigrants or $2 million on DEI programs that result in wasting employees times with "training" about white privilege will not create fusion.

If fusion is commercially viable, it doesn't require taxpayer (i.e. mine and yours) money to be developed.

Not to mention that universities are grifting on science grants and using half the money for "overhead", not for actual research.

It's also an open secret that grants don't necessarily go to the best scientists but to best grant proposal writers and those are not the same people.
Amazon Chime End of Life Feb/2026
I honestly am annoyed to use websites and services like this. Annoys the crap out of me and everyone else, but since it's petty much forced down their throats, the "eventually" is "eventually everyone stops complaining".
We should probably up it another 7 million then.