skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more interested in how and why Avedis III decided to immigrate to America, the Armenian Genocide happened only a few years later. Either he saw the writing on the wall, or he picked a very, very lucky time to move a 300 year old business to another continent.
It's all fun and games until you need to deal with the right of way
I’m a bit confused by the suggestion to "Just don’t use iTerm2." The reality is that this type of issue could happen with any project, and switching tools doesn’t provide meaningful protection. If anything, incidents like this often lead to stronger security practices. It’s like the old joke about firing an engineer after a mistake, and the manager responding, "Why would I fire them? They’ve just learned a lesson they won’t forget." Based on iTerm2’s track record, it doesn’t seem like they’ve had frequent critical security issues, and I doubt they’ll repeat this mistake. If they do, then it’s fair to reassess.

As for the MacOS Terminal app, it might seem like a lower-risk option because it’s simpler and updates less frequently. However, being closed-source makes it impossible to audit, which brings its own risks. Ultimately, every tool has tradeoffs, and choosing the right one depends on balancing your needs with the potential risks.
100% this! Calling one's colleague an NPC is not only demeaning but also shows a lack of awareness and empathy. Does the author even understand that by his logic, he is a NPC in his colleague's world?
PageCrypt: Password protect HTML
SHL suffers from the same latency issue as SHLX it turns out
Wall Street headhunters are gearing up for a 'bonkers' hiring market in 2025
https://archive.ph/syZwQ
DNS would seem to fall squarely under the "use of any such capability for the management, control, or operation of a telecommunications system or the management of a telecommunications service" exclusion. The brief seems to have invented a requirement that the exclusion only apply to inward-facing controls and not user-facing features. But I can't see how the brief's reasoning doesn't also apply to the service of mapping a phone number down to the real call routing necessary to connect a long-distance call; is that now an information service that renders POTS not a telecommunications system? Dialing an outgoing call is clearly "managing, controlling, and operating" the phone system, but is not purely internal or inward-facing, and usually involves making stuff happen on the equipment of at least two phone companies (while the brief insists "No ISP would allow unsupervised third parties to “manage[], control, or operat[e]” its system", as part of inventing another requirement that the management/controlling/operating capabilities be used by ISPs rather than by end users).

The caching to which the brief refers is operating CDN nodes. This is obviously something many ISPs don't do at all, and thus is obviously not a key part of being an ISP. It's a complementary service, where ISPs are in competition with other colocation providers. It's also extremely bad public policy to enshrine CDN services as a core part of an ISP's job, because shenanigans with CDNs are one of the major motivating factors for having net neutrality regulations in the first place. And allowing ISPs to escape regulation of their packet-transit services by tying them with value-add services is horrible; that behavior needs to be discouraged using antitrust regulation, not incentivized by the courts. We went through over a decade where bundling internet service with email service gave ISPs unfair leverage to lock-in their customers (by retaining control over their online identities) before third-party email services like Hotmail and GMail were able to erode that power and give consumers more freedom to leave their ISP.

Did the court actually specifically rule on either of these two arguments?
There's a difference between "building tech for the government" and whatever governmental cosplaying DOGE is doing.
Guys, it's a major 21st century skill to learn how to use LLMs. In fact, it's probably the biggest skill anyone can develop today. So please be a responsible driver, learn how to use LLMs.

Here's one way to get the most mileage out of them:

1) Track the best and brightest LLMs via leaderboards (e.g. https://lmarena.ai/, https://livebench.ai/#/ ...). Don't use any s**t LLMs.

2) Make it a habit to feed in whole documents and ask questions about them vs asking them to retrieve from memory.

3) Ask the same question to the top ~3 LLMs in parallel (e.g. top of line Gemini, OpenAI and Claude models)

4) Do comparisons between results. Pick best. Iterate on the the prompt, question and inputs as required.

5) Validate any key factual information via Google or another search engine before accepting it as a fact.

I'm literally paying for all three top AIs. It's been working great for my compute and information needs. Even if one hallucinates, it's rare that all three hallucinate the same thing at the same time. The quality has been fantastic, and intelligence multiplication is supreme.
Minor quibble with the linked complaint: the GPL doesn’t require you to post source code, it just requires that you have to provide it when asked, and only to people using your software. (But you’re not allowed to restrict anything they do, like repost it.) Just follow the whole Redhat / CentOS drama for exhibit A in this behavior.
Neither do I. There’s no technical way it can be happening without it being easily spotted, not to mention how many would have to conspire.

However I am still waiting for a comprehensive explanation for how it is actually happening.

There there are many ways to correlate people and their interests, but I wonder how deep it goes. Basic geolocation and public interaction metadata: Sure. But I’ve also heard people believe that it ought to be possible to spot closeness via Wifi and Bluetooth.

This is such a culturally relevant topic that there must be some serious knowledge about it somewhere.

As for my own tests, I’ve made it a point to mention that I’m considering spending money on a well advertised-for product that I haven’t yet searched for online every time this topic comes up. No ads so far. In the next phase I’ll progressively tell more people to start looking it up.
I think that was parent's point.
Ah, so the cryptography involved in authentication schemes is a first year CS trivial task. Hashing, salting, optimization, defending against side-channel attacks, looking for backdoors introduced by state actors, developing standards used by the strongest militaries on the planet that protects literally enough nuclear weapons to destroy all life on the planet, that's old news by week 3 of the course at any community college. The folks who went overboard with those Phds in cryptography or became specialists in elite OpSec or post-quantum cryptography really did waste their time and money, and someone should tell the CIA they don't need to go hunting for the best cryptography hackers on the planet, just grab a year one CS brogrammer and they can totally make sure all is secure in the ToR network.

Tell you what. I'll never become a specialist if you never become a doctor. I'd rather you not refuse to admit that there are better doctors for a task than you if my health is in your hands.
Honestly, I don't usually, but turning up the center channel volume usually helps.
That kind of callow, callous indifference towards the lives of others is the kind of thing that could get a healthcare ceo assassinated while the country cheers on the assassin.
My phone can listen all day every day. It listens for "hey google" and it can listen and passively tell you songs that are playing. It's not outside the realm of possibility to do their audio fingerprinting on keywords and what not. The advertising potential makes it extremely juicy
I feel like I shouldn't love x86 encoding, but there is something charming about this. Probably echoing its 8-bit predecessors. It seems like it's designed for tiny memory environments (embedded, bootstrapping, etc.) where you don't mind taking a hit for memory access.
You forgot the steps of pressing your own silicon wafers in the garage, followed by soldering motherboards from zero, and of course, having a steel mill to build racks and computer cases. The only way to ensure true independence.

In all seriousness, I am a big advocate for hosting your own infrastructure as much as you can, but that requires you to be REALLY into doing it. Otherwise, it's just a completely unnecessary chore.
> What a loss for Turkey!

Yes, and no. Mikael Zildjian stayed in Istanbul and made cymbals until his nephews asked him (in 1977) to stop making them and exporting to the USA.

Today, Mikael's apprentices Mehmet and Oksant are still manufacturing cymbals (under different brands, obviously, as they are not from the same family).
Ha, I’m imagining a sort of thriller movie villain reveal where people are intently saying silly things into their phones, while the camera slowly pans over to the smart TV in the corner, which is actually listening.
or boats with dragging anchors
But that wasn’t my point. My point is that Tesla buys the parts and assembles them. They don’t build the parts. Just like VAG for example (who also assembles, and doesn’t build. They’re actually pretty interesting because they insist on multiple vendors in multiple regions for each part)
That's not an assumption. It's easy enough to look at what Apple does.
Hmm, I feel like it might be something like "I have problems with you, but you have none with me. I have enough respect for you that I don't think there's anything wrong with the way you see things, but don't want to keep going with those different viewpoints?" with an addendum that "I don't necessarily want to force you to change." which leads to not saying anything about what those issues are? Potentially because those issues are things you don't actually want to utter, like "I can't bring myself to believe you aren't with me for my money."
What are your preferred devices now?
Then maybe take the whole post itself down?
Please don't use the word "autistic" as a slur.
You have some very strong opinions and a lot of vitriol for your coworkers. Hopefully you can find a path that eases some of what is frustrating you. Maybe you can lead a project or team or something and do it your way and show everyone if that is or is not better than what they are currently doing.
Great resource, thank you for sharing! I should include it in the blog post footnotes.
> marriageable women

What does that even mean?
Slight difference between asking techies to modernize government tech and asking them to retool the entire federal government.
It's still pretty condescending. Don't know what someone's role is, but assume he doesn't do anything? Him calling other people "NPCs" is a pretty clear sign that he thinks he's the Main Character.
I was amused they don't commit to either "full-stack" or "fullstack" spellings :)
Polling for time sensitive things sucks. But for RSS, why not just poll once a day? Even if you're polling once an hour, a 304 response is, what, a few hundred bytes?

I just checked my own server logs, and HTTP 200 responses were 12.7% of the total requests against my rss.xml. Which is suboptimal I guess (I haven't made a single post this year) but isn't outrageously terrible.
what should he have done? given her half first?
I think it does fit "a bunch of resources that people can just use". It's a shared pool where the only rule is to put derived code back, except the rule is even less because personal use is exempted.
Thanks! It's definitely a very good target architecture. My case is a bit different as I'm learning to make a dynarec, so I need to learn client assembly which is x64 or arm, depending on which laptop I'm using :)
> One big piece of advice I have is to try to avoid letting others in your social network know exactly how successful you’ve been.

Having lived through this arc myself, this is excellent advice. While the most enlightened/mature people have no problem just being happy for you, this still leaves a lot people for who a significant disparity in wealth/success becomes a problem. It ends up impacting the nature of your relationship with them in subtle but significant ways and it can be very hard to get past. I've found it's just better to avoid the issue by being as stealth as possible about wealth (while still being honest and true to yourself).
I thought so too, but it turns out there's a variety of ways to circumvent MS's hardware gatekeeping, such as CPU requirement (see: Tyny11 see: Rufus).

At least at this time, Windows 11 is not that much heavier/resource-needy than Windows 10. There's a small but non-negligible number of people running Win11 on things like Thinkpad x250 or T450 (Inter 5th gen CPU), for example.

The regular Joe Schmoe prob won't be able to do that, but he's not likely to use 2015 laptop in 2024 to begin with...
Yeah and back in those times where you hopped on your phone line to dial to your ISPs modem to access the services they host I'd completely agree they were information services providers which happened to maybe offer this new fangled "web" thing you might have heard of on the news. People signed up for those ISPs because of the information services the ISPs provided.

Now people sign up for their ISPs because they offered the better price/throughput/stability math, or often they were the only one reasonably available. Practically nobody signs up because one provider has better email or better newsgroups.
AFAIK low voltage wiring generally doesn't matter from a code perspective, but yea I would only see that as a temporary solution for renters and of course only use plenum-rated cable for it.

I've only done that particular trick in an apartment that had through-wall vents above the bedroom doors so it was literally four inches the cable was inside the vent.
Interesting, although once it’s been digitised, is there that much value in it? I could see an argument for resources being better spent on preserving objects that aren’t already hyper-fragile or whose construction _itself_ is what’s valuable (eg art). I guess clearly someone thinks so
Your point seems spot on to me. We’ve fallen into the trap of differentiating legislation by implementation (technology) instead of job-to-be-done (societal OKRs). Email is just mail is just a way of exchanging letters. Digital packets and analog signals are just ways of sending data over a wire.
what colanderman said…
Have in your mind your requirements. E.g. license, community, how funded, bugs, try a few out and check the ergonomics, talk to others who have used it.
Exactly this. At some point, you need to delegate. Make it portable, don't get locked into a proprietary architecture, and you'll be good. Not everyone will be able (or has any desire) to run their own rack.
> Paying Honey means you can limit the discounts available through Honey, sort of like a shitty protection scheme.

But the merchant controls the discounts, if they want to stop spreading higher discount codes they can do it any time.

If I had an affiliate program, I would not allow Honey on my platform.
That's an interesting point, although wire(ish) mediums have pretty strict limitations until you introduce a packet-switched peer-to-peer architecture, at which point you arguably get a very different situation (and different market dynamics) versus telegraph/telephone networks.
COM files for CP/M and DOS really are a no-nonsense executable format.

I'm a bit disappointed that Linux (or BSD, macOS, etc.) doesn't support them (or similar) out of the box, though Windows will sort of run them via ntvdm.
Cutting funding to the IRS will increase waste; nobody outside of DOGE seems to think that spending more on enforcement will fail to pay for itself by finding more tax fraud. It's not a large leap to infer that at least some of those behind DOGE are doing this to enrich themselves.
Soultone cymbals are AWESOME. Absolutely love my soultone crash, anf it was dirt cheap
It's like arguing DTMF is a user facing feature so phone services aren't telecommunications.
I'm curious why Amazon doesn't show you in some obvious way what affiliate code your purchase is linked to, if any. I'm imagining something like the way they used to display your Amazon Smile charity if you used that option.

Perhaps they've guessed that it would shock some people to learn how often they inadvertently use affiliate links and they would be discouraged from shopping or find some way to disable the codes.
Initially only Musk was making a paycheck from DOGE - since you needed a X premium subscription to apply. So its more like applicants were underwriting Musk's paychecks - that's how a true-blue American capitalist operates.

He changed it after some blowback but I have to admit - American businessmen are always cunning.
My grandmother lacked vocabulary that can be used to describe 'purpose' -- or mental issues. One word she would very rarely use was 'dharma' i.e. duty. Though I am not sure if she used it in this way.

There were only a few things she really cared about: the health and general well-being of her children and grandchildren and when her grandchildren will have children. It seems to me it was her 'purpose', at least she values these things so much that can be easily confused as purpose.
https://archive.is/qxKlI
Absolutely not and if it weren’t for the US copyright/IP lobby it wouldn’t even be a crime in many places.

Copyright infringement may be criminal. But compared with theft there’s, rightly, a higher standard of proof required.
Best case vs. worst case is important.

Best case, yeah WiFi isn't substantially worse than wired, especially if all you care about is getting to the internet. Worst case, it's a fuckton worse. A wired network will never drop out for seconds at a time because something ran a scan (as noted in multiple places in this thread). A wired network doesn't give a shit about your microwave. A wired network doesn't have meaningful interference issues.

The more active users you have on your network, the worse WiFi is going to be, where a wired network can take more users than you can fit in a residential environment.
You are asserting every ar-15 is a machine gun if those cards are. Is that really your position?
Sorry, as a farmer you have a very clearly defined purpose (and it might be more implicit than explicitly said out loud, but it's very clear nevertheless). And that's to make sure that you have enough to eat for your family and your animals, and enough to sell, and enough seed for next year.

That's why there's no ruminating for a purpose - it never comes up, because it's so clear. And that's why we're often quite rudderless once the basics are secured.
I am open to other explanations. I did not use the name as an online pseudonym, thats why I found it so odd.

I am not sure about there being no benefit either. We moved here very recently and scraping local property records would take time and not be easily automated. So what if some data aggregator still had a blank under the name field for our address and needed to fill it in so they could address letters since we more or less automatically throw away “current resident” letters. I just don’t know, yes its far fetched but I don’t see any other explanations as much more parsimonious.
You are. I'm tunneling a /23 which I let Vultr announce via BGP over WireGuard to a local router VM. I have a nftables firewall in place before routing the traffic through the tunnel. I block everything except for exposed IPs and ports/protocols just to keep my limited bandwidth free of noise.
You can think whatever you want. When ad companies claim they have that capability and when I see evidence with my own eyes that’s enough for me.
You do. That's why I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they absolutely know what they're doing. Can't tell you how many friends I had to have a talk with who had plain vanilla port forwarding done on their home router, exposing their entire home network to the web.

Nowadays, I recommend them use Tailscale as an out-of-the-box Wireguard-based VPN to safely connect to their home servers from remote locations.
Step 1: Simply create your own Starlink.
Some of this stems from just the extremely bad support for hotkey window management on the part of MacOS.

On my Linux machine with KDE I can open a new terminal with a single hotkey and alternate between open terminals with a second hotkey. I've never once wished for a fancier terminal than KDE's default.

Using Mac for work is a different story, though it's remedied somewhat with Rectangle and similar.
Don’t forget creating a society capable of supporting industry and science. On a planet producing enough of the raw materials. In a Universe with appropriate fundamental physical constants etc etc.
Honestly for some people, just getting debt paid off might be enough of a life changer, in some cases the debt isn't substantial but the income / debt ratio is just not in the best spot. Heck having one or more less bills to worry about could be a tide changer with immense impact.

I know if I could worry less about my mortgage even for a few months, it would have major impacts on my family's life. I cannot imagine others on similar situations, or with way more debt but the income isn't enough.
Strongly recommend tiger21 - which is an amazing community of people dealing with the positives and negatives of wealth. I have found it immensely helpful.

Message me if you are interested.

Tiger21.com
i mean in the end, barring some big issue like addiction or something that's actively harming the relationship, often times you just aren't compatible. maybe you fell out of love or had different priorities. whatever the reason is, it's over, one or both parties don't want to try anymore, which is fine. if people want to go over the details as some kind of post-mortem sometimes that's appreciated but other times yeah, it's something you probably shouldn't say and it just makes the hurt worse.

i guess my slight issue with the post was just that he posted it for all the world to see as some kind of honest self-reflection when to me it was just some throwaway line. i know he didn't even intend for it to be anything so in the end it's whatever.
It's also possible such a law (in the US) would violate the first amendment (being "compelled speech").
The Stress of Working in Modern AI
The 3 cycles latency casts massive suspicion on the bypass network. But I don't see how the bypass network could be bugged without causing the incorrect result. So the scheduler doesn't know how to bypass this "shift with small immediate" micro op.

Or maybe the bypass network is bugged, and what we are seeing is a chicken bit set by the microcode that disables the bypass network for this one micro op that does shift.
It's possible that some informed consumers choose longer battery life over replaceable parts. Your choice is not always the right choice.
When I'm looking for a library I'll consider them in order of # of stars.

e.g. I might search for "TypeScript ORM", open five popular repos, and then compare the two libraries with the most stars to make my decision.

I also use stars to bookmark projects, and I'll usually unstar a project once I've tried it out/no longer need it.
> By far the largest components of spending are Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and defence.

Sure..and all hidden waste projects can be fit into those 3 categories. Things like federal funding on hotels for illegal immigrants, including many millions on unused hotel rooms. ~$400 per person per night for illegal aliens. ~$80+ million USD in a few months.

> DOGE is BS.

Basically DOGE is only BS if you think fraud and waste are not BS. Why don't you actually look at the large number of waste projects on https://x.com/DOGE before saying it is BS ?
There are certainly ways to make it more viable, but I hope that the systems up to billions of people use are sufficiently independently audited so that such features would quickly be found.
digitized data would be beneficial for researching and quick searching and feed to LLMs cause that all we do now