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bo1024··on Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data
I thought the point of passkey security is that you don't have to send the private key around, it can stay on your device. Different passkey per device. Lose or destroy a device, delete that passkey and move on.
bo1024··on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
I don't know, but arguably the OS version is better for privacy, as each app can just trust the signal sent by the OS instead of collecting a bunch of personal/biometric data.
bo1024··on What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics
The easiest way to read it is "there exists a function h in O(1) such that f(x) <= g(x) + h(x)."

I think first we should teach "f in O(g)" notation, then teach the above, then observe that a special case of the above is the "abuse of notation" f(x) = O(g(x)).

bo1024··on Be wary of Bluesky
> But people do and it is reportedly fairly easy so the majority of people are on Bluesky's layers while all is well.

The post discusses why, when all is not well, it will be too late.

bo1024··on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
None of the author’s blog post or actions indicate any level of concern for genuinely supporting or improving open source software.
bo1024··on Why HN is a decade behind on crypto
Thanks! I read it.
bo1024··on Why HN is a decade behind on crypto
Looks like a good video based on the overview. But like many here I’d prefer a text option.
bo1024··on GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
What is the smallest phone that Graphene will run on? I would love to switch but these massive pixel phones are a no go for me.
bo1024··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
No, it’s not fully threaded like those examples (or HN). In a particular discussion, you can’t reply to a post in the middle and have your reply branch off from the main discussion.
bo1024··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Thank you!

I'd like to convince other parts of my organization to move to Zulip, this will help.

bo1024··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
What’s the state of accessibility on Zulip?

(Thanks for making Zulip, I love it)

bo1024··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Slack has basically one main hierarchy level (messages are grouped into channels) while Zulip has two, streams and topics. So you can create a stream for each project (say) and create a different topic for any given point that needs discussion about that project.

Kind of like if each slack thread discussion had a title and was discoverable from the left sidebar and didn’t get in the way of the other threads.

bo1024··on An anecdote about backward compatibility
The answer to any question of the form "why is something the way it is?" is always "historical reasons".
bo1024··on Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling
Are you describing how sports gambling odds are set? Prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi do not function the way you describe, at least, not yet.
bo1024··on ChatGPT Health
Same question. I wonder if they use ML to try to classify a chat as health information and not add it to their training data in that case.

I also wonder what the word "foundational" is supposed to mean here.

bo1024··on Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium
It’s an issue, but a small part of it. The funding cuts and immigration barriers have already laid foundations for a massive harm to the US’s edge in research and education.
bo1024··on Strange.website
The Internet is a computer network used to transmit information (as packets).

One system built on the Internet is the World Wide Web, which is just webpages served with the http/https protocol.

Other protocols that route over the Internet include email, ssh, Tor, torrents, apps, etc.

bo1024··on Ask HN: Help with LLVM
The broad use of discord is so frustrating, how can people find information by searching when it is locked behind registration and not indexed?
bo1024··on GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive
That would be cool, but they probably only get rights to sell the games, not full ownership of all rights.
bo1024··on Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4
Nice! I'd imagine that defining a cut as simply a partition of the vertices (rather than a subset of edges) may simplify things slightly.
bo1024··on Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (2011)
Is this essay from 2011?
bo1024··on HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)
You mean a display engine that works like an HTML renderer, except starting from TeX source instead of HTML source? I think you could get something that mostly works, but it would be a pain and at the end you wouldn't have CSS or javascript, so I don't think browser makers are interested.
bo1024··on Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
Cloudflare hosts websites for free?
bo1024··on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill
I think the point is that this study suggests a causal relationship (having leadership power enables one to make more money), which is stronger than just correlation (being in leadership positions correlated with making more money).
bo1024··on Notes on Shadowing a Hospitalist
Yes, and the term didn't exist 30 years ago. It's a relatively recent thing, but very widespread now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_medicine
bo1024··on Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
As you see later, it uses cat to dump the contents of a file it’s not allowed to open itself.
bo1024··on Implications of AI to schools
This is great for a “capstone project” at the end of a degree. But along the way, you have to master sub tasks and small skills in order to build on them later to accomplish lofty goals. So you need to learn the basics first. But AI is really good at helping you cheat on the basics without learning. So we still need to get them to the point of being able to use AI intelligently
bo1024··on Implications of AI to schools
This makes some sense, but my first question would be how do you define a clear, fair grading rubric? Second, this sounds like it could work for checking who is smart, but can it motivate students to put in work to learn the material?
bo1024··on Nano Banana Pro
Port and starboard

I guess car people use “driver side” and passenger side”, but the same car might be sold in mirror image versions

bo1024··on The internet is no longer a safe haven
I wasn't picturing collecting payments from visitors (presumably with cryptocurrency), but instead just asking visitors to burn energy. It would be socially better to collect payments, but we can't assume every visitor is set up with a cryptocurrency wallet.
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