skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you (or the appeals court) specifically identify what information service capabilities ISPs are offering that keep them from being classified as telecommunications providers? With what protocols or software would I get my ISP to "generate, process, retrieve, or otherwise manipulate information"? Surely there's a concrete example of this hypothetical "offering a capability". Discussing it purely in the abstract is clearly not working to convince people the ruling is appropriately grounded in both the law and the technological realities of what ISPs actually do.

Once we've identified concrete examples of information-manipulation capabilities offered by ISPs, then we can see whether any of them survive the exclusion of "use of any such capability for the management, control, or operation of a telecommunications system or the management of a telecommunications service".
I'm a big archive team fan but gotta go with the ABC acronym such as "always be collecting" or "always be capturing"
100% this. Until there is a mechanism to disambiguate between first and last click referrals, it will continue to be an issue.
The insufferable derision of "NPC Coworkers."

How about you use some of that fuck you money and go buy a soul, asshole?

I will never have $60M, but I will also never not have a soul.
It will integrate with their other products and add value through lock in. Same as all of their other acquisitions. Atlassian is all about building an ecosystem so valuable you don't even want to escape.
I'm familiar with Mailhog. The tool I used when running an SMTP server locally was SMTP4Dev, which is similar. Local solutions like those are great when you're running your system locally, but can become a bit of a headache when you're trying to run them in the cloud and manage security, updates, and access to multiple team members.

Free emails for testing can also work, but then you have to manage access to that email account (if you're dealing with multiple team members that need access) and have the ability to modify the destination of any of the emails sent from your system. You'll also lose the ability to view the actual destination of those emails, which can be valuable information for testing.
I'm describing insurance not working. I'm explicitly saying you can't assume you'll be able to work the rest of your life. A hit-and-run drunk driver could hit you can run off, and you get paralyzed and your insurance denies your (very expensive) claim. Even if you sue them and win, that could take years before they pay out. $100k ain't gonna go very far.
I have successfully argued this for at least a certain class of devices. Namely, it practically can't happen _for small devices_. e.g., a TV remote with a voice feature activated by a button simply won't have enough _power_ to constantly be listening, uploading, or processing.

Harder to convince folks that _nothing_ does this, but takes an edge off their more paranoid tendencies.
Wow.Poor baby!
Ok so this is what strikes me: he dumps his girlfriend and runs away to a mountain he humblebrags about climbing without training.

He talks about people as NPCs.

Maybe the only real thing in life is good relationships with other people, odly enough.

Now you have all this money and nobody to share it with?
Where are your friends and family?

Now that the whole world knows you’re rich you’ll never know if they really like ‘you’ or just your money.
The ability for someone with a news article or a game to only have you experience it if you pay their fee or watch their ads, preventing you from copying the content off your device or modifying it in some way that is unauthorized (removing ads or otherwise modifying the behavior to circumvent protection mechanisms) is pretty obviously the exact same idea -- not some mere metaphor -- and is a protection of the exact same "right" conferred by the exact same laws as allowing someone with a movie to only have you see it if you pay their fee or watch their ads... I am honestly having a difficult time understanding your confusion here :/.
Slightly related, here's one I saw being solved using Cypher: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/halfterpierre_adventofcode-di...
My experience working at one of the companies that gets accused of this a lot is that many colleagues wish we were as evil as claimed because it would be so much easier do their jobs that way than struggling through the reality of it which is endless red tape over the tiniest issues that have even the slightest proximity to privacy. So I've been a bit skeptical too.
Been just looking at tour systems and there are not that many truly open source ones. Nice one
Denzel Washington's movie (he's the EP) The Equalizer says:

The two most important days are
the day you're born, and
the day you find out why.

We're here to be happy because of the happiness we've created for others.

Most people have other far less important yet far more deleterious desires.

As with all things human, the choice of path is ours alone, and we alone bear the fruits of our chosen journey while we tread it still.
From the release notes it seems only if the in-built SSH integration was used and the server that a more recent (5ish year old or later) version of Python. The latter condition is probably going to exist even on enterprise dists (RHEL 9 for example will have Python 3.9 installed by default)
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You’re on the right track, but I think it’s a bit deeper than just needing something to work on or stay busy with. I effectively retired a few years ago and have spent the time since engaging in various “work” across the kinds of categories you mention. Yet, all of these efforts have carried a sense of purposelessness—a lingering question of whether any of it truly matters, especially knowing I could stop tomorrow without significantly impacting my wellbeing.

This contrasts sharply with the purpose I felt when I had less money and was struggling to build my business. Back then, everything felt deeply do-or-die meaningful. Now, no amount of exercise, goodwill, or intellectual pursuits compares in terms of providing that same sense of purpose.

I don’t think humans need the pursuit of money itself to be happy, but once the foundational needs in Maslow’s hierarchy are met, the higher levels often feel less urgent—and, paradoxically, less fulfilling. There seems to be diminishing returns from “work” as a source of purpose.
You've already started from a couple of assumptions that I don't believe are true.

> there are abundant opportunities for improvement and cost saving if there is a stakeholder that actually cares about cost savings.

This fails to explain why private corporations (which presumably have from one to millions of stakeholders that care about cost saving) would waste millions of dollars. The idea that "for profit" organizations have some builtin magic trick that means that they improve and save money in ways that other sorts of organizations cannot is just demonstrably untrue.

What is true, of course, is that no matter what the type of organization, if there are people who care about and are empowered to meaningfully tackle waste and inefficiency, then things can improve. And this happens, both in government and non-governmental organizations. You don't hear about it much, for broadly the same reason you don't hear about for-profit organizations wasting money: it just isn't news.

The second assumption that I think you're making is that "wasteful outcomes" are by definition a bad thing. The problem is that government often is tasked with tackling problems where wasteful outcomes are a more or less builtin part of the way things get done, and we accept that (sometimes) because the full cost (not just financial cost) of trying to reduce waste is higher than the waste itself. A typical example: yes, there's no doubt that some government benefits go to people who are not eligible for them. However, the task of identifying all those people has many costs, both direct and indirect. The whole system becomes massively more invasive of everyone's lives when one of its prime directives is "make sure that not one cent goes to some not entitled to it". So most societies accept that there will be a level of waste, which is made up for by the benefits of treating things as if they are closer to a universal benefit.

There are plenty of other examples of this in different domains where the government operates.
back in 2005 my friend and I were obsessed with the game and I told him I'd build a new computer when HL3 released because mine barely ran HL2. I still think about that for some reason and how crazy it would have been to us then that HL3 would simply never come
In a Catholic and the way those verses are interpreted is that it’s not that you have to give up all your money but give up greed, it basically means that you should not worship your wealth but place your highest of high towards God, then and only then you can use your wealth towards the Good as you have no more attachments.

I think Protestant have similar interpretations but I could be wrong as they have many denominations.
It's based on the usage data of the model with multiple providers from OpenRouter.
Having kids gives your life purpose in a way almost nothing else can.
> My ISP absolutely did not in any way manipulate a single bit of that data

I'm certainly nitpicking here, but surely they modify the IP TTL field? And probably reset the DSCP bits too? And quite likely - unless you're lucky to have a globally routeable IPv4 address, or living in the IPv6-only future - perform NAT on your traffic?

And I'm 99.9999% sure they shape/rate-limit your traffic. Buffering and/or dropping packets is almost inevitable for any larger telecommunication service.

Nonetheless, it's not an information service, of course. Still a pipe, just not entirely dumb one.
Some more earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578929
The purpose of life is ultimately to acquire internal resources.

First, hunter-gatherer internal resources (we are all still hunter gatherers after all, biologically speaking). The kind that makes you a capable hunter, i.e. the ability to acquire food/goods:

- Self-confidence
- Self-belief
- Patience
- Ability to acquire new skills
- Charisma/EQ
- Ability to succeed in society and on earth

Then, the qualities preached in religion:

- Peace
- Love
- Kindness
- A teaching and empathetic heart towards others
- Compassion, etc.

Once you've acquired these things, you will no longer be afraid of death. Because you will have accomplished what you were born to do.

TLDR: Study the qualities that martial arts masters have. Because they are the people most at peace with death, which likely means they have accomplished what they were born to do. Then, acquire those qualities. Finally, teach others those qualiites.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578929
I'm not rich, but I have enough to live out my days [humbly], and leave something to my daughter.

But I get to write code, Every. Single. Day. Code that I want to write, the way that I want to work, at the Quality level that I want to deliver.

That's heaven.

I would not be here, if I had been able to find work, after leaving my last company at 55. So, I guess being frozen out of the tech industry is maybe the best thing that has happened to me. It was the kind of thing I wouldn't have known was possible, until I was forced into it.

But I wouldn't turn down a few extra mil. It's just that I don't think the fox is worth the chase.
All those things you said are objectively true. But it’s literally US government who is up in the arms right now screaming left and right how “we have to win against China”. Not taking China as a serious competitor is just weird nowadays. Take most of top industries, and you can find its equivalent in China serving the same amount of people.
How about a pitch deck for a company [1] claiming it can offer microphone eavesdropping based ad targeting [2]? Maybe that was still aspirational though.

TVs and cars have microphones now and are privacy nightmares. Car companies have patents [3] for in-car keyword based ad targeting. Without legalisation, it's really only a matter of time.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90999277/cox-cmg-active-listenin...

https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-list...

[2] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24224884-how-voice-d...

[3] https://www.pcmag.com/news/ford-patents-in-car-advertising-s...
Instead of engaging with others, you should’ve just stayed bold (or in your own words - foolish) and started the robotics company, pouring in whatever money you could. Sometimes other people are unintentionally demoralizing. Who cares if you’re burning through your own cash? In a few years, it might just turn into something big.
Actual problems are things like extreme poverty, access to drinking water, deforestation and habitat destruction, climate change etc. Not internet browsers. Good grief.
Could you post your config for inspiration? I dont like starting with a blank canvas.
nobody realizes it but this is an ad for having kids. if he had kids they would have helped him not be such a little bitch and continue doing productive things. when you are an evolutionary dead end you have the curse of excess productivity rather than the joy of investing in the future.
Not to judge or sound condescending, but it seems like you’re lacking empathy and a community.

I know exactly what I’d do in your situation: help others. I live in a small city, and it has some problems and some opportunities. Even lacking funds I still do what I can to help the community around me. Spend some time with people who aren’t all in tech or on the beach and go find some reality. People like elon preaching doge are too far removed. Work on the ground. It’s hard and it’s real.

Best of luck!
Sure, you can do that. That's what I mean by being unable to relate.

It's not like it's a one off "I took a couple of days off to build a table" or "I used my X weeks holiday to go to Thailand", all of your hobbies, interests, travel, museum visits, etc etc happen all of the time when most people around you are doing a 9 to 5.

"How was work today?" It wasn't, I don't work, I haven't worked for years, I can tell you about my entrepreneurship or my studying or whatever but then again, now you know I don't work.

That's at a lower level. If you have 50 million like the author then you may well have multiple homes or just live out of hotels if you choose to, it's constant.

Are you hiding all of that?
Every site that I frequent that should have an RSS feed has one.
What? Turkish coffee is a thing
people surf the net so automatically that they forget they are doing it and blame Alexa for snooping.
Slightly off topic, but Microsoft ones are even worse - when I tried to sign up to OpenAI/get a new Microsoft account, the captcha were so difficult that it took me 5 minutes to solve (unsuccessfully). As a libre wolf user with very strict settings, I think privacy-aware users bear the externalities of this bot vs server arms race.
I'm _pretty sure_ you're referring to `-C - -o $filename` and not this behavior. This one allows slurping ranges of local files and sending those in their entirety. I am open to maybe one day it does something crazypants with `-X PATCH --variable "fred@file[867-5309]"` or such but I doubt gravely that it does any such thing today

As shown here:

$ python3 -m http.server 9090 &
# that doesn't matter, just return _something_ on :9090
$ ls -l .DS_Store
-rw-r--r--@ 1 mdaniel staff 18436 Dec 30 11:30 .DS_Store
$ curl -vo .DS_Store -C - http://127.0.0.1:9090/.DS_Store
** Resuming transfer from byte position 18436
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Trying 127.0.0.1:9090...
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 9090
> GET /.DS_Store HTTP/1.1
> Host: 127.0.0.1:9090
> Range: bytes=18436-
> User-Agent: curl/8.7.1
> Accept: */*

One can see where curl helpfully loaded the local file's 18436 size, set up the Range header, and included it on the first-contact with the http server.

While digging into this, there's actually one for its modification time, too. Curl knows all:

$ curl -v --time-cond .DS_Store -o .DS_Store -C - http://127.0.0.1:9090/.DS_Store
> If-Modified-Since: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:30:50 GMT

As for your "well, just don't use it then" stance, it has been my experience in building software that the Law of Unintended Consequences is brutal. The first bug report filed where someone discovers that a `--header` argument cannot contain {{ anymore due to a fat-fingered function change will let me put another quarter in the I Told You So jar
I don't fault this guy for wanting to join DOGE and make a difference. The fact that he was able to make a few phone calls and actually get hired into an influential position despite having zero background in government, civics, economics, finance etc. should, however, tell you everything you need to know about the department and its brain trust.

I wonder what will happen to all these Signal conversations when the inevitable scandals/lawsuits/inquiries happen. Surely the public will be able to scrutinize them right?
I am hearing you say “why can’t I be normal and do insignificant things” while calling the people who do “NPC coworkers”

And that is your internal struggle my friend
> What is a forward deployed engineer?

Great question as this isn't a title I was familiar with until I myself joined the company, but this is a common title in Palantir and other consulting companies. It's an engineer role that interfaces with external customers. While we're not a consultancy, some of the work that an FDE will perform is very similar to that of consulting as they will be directly interfacing with external customers.
I thought we were talking about friends? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the meaning of the word.

I wouldn't imagine being friends with someone and not trusting them with knowing how successful I am.

I think maybe, and this might be a cultural thing, a lot of people tend to use the word lightly. I simply wouldn't get to a stage of being friends with someone I am not able to trust in such a way that I have to hide how much money I have from them.
> you need to replace money/salary/financial success optimisation

Kind of ironic, but that kind of sounds like the people who've been saying those things aren't the most important in life might have been right all along?
https://archive.is/wPLhc
It's pretty common in third world countries.
Terminal came out 23 years ago, Windows Terminal in 2019. The old Windows terminal was garbage.

I still prefer the blurred transparency of Terminal over the too transparent Windows Terminal, but that’s a matter of taste.
Thank you. It’s been a while since I read some Doonesbury. Now, I might go on a bender.
Yes, that's why I am suggesting to 'publish first, review at your leisure'.

Just like what we are doing with blog posts or web comics or novels.
Real shame when US companies miss out on Canadian talent like this…
> Is it?

Pretty much the same failure mode, just with different immediacy. No more travel, no more ability to start using new banking services, no more proving identity for becoming employed, pretty much anything that needs you to provide valid governmental ID (ID card or passport) and doesn't accept alternatives.

On the opposite end of that, both those services might accept something like a driver's license and the banking service might allow you to log in with their app, or a similar identity provider as a backup.

> There’s zero need for the government to mediate between me and my bank, or some random service provider on the internet.

Who else should we depend upon for verifying the identity of someone? Because currently it's a hodgepodge, especially when some places treat the equivalent of an SSN as a secret or have other half baked mechanisms, whereas in actuality it's a problem that's been solved far better, the same way how e-signatures work here when a single competent authority implements them well (certs on the e-ID card, you choose what to sign, but there's both data integrity and non-repudiation, a service that everyone integrates with and it is basically treated as a commonplace utility).

> What you’re describing sounds like a fun technical challenge assuming a perfect world. ...

Yeah, that's about it. Have a good one!
It's never even about forgiving. I am not even angry at them. What happens is there is now suddenly a pedestal. No matter what we do, they know I gave them money. And I know they took it. The relationships don't remain the same anymore. It's weird.
It's possible to get gcc to generate sequences that would trigger this: https://godbolt.org/z/rYKqPxn7b
Who is "they" in your comment?

Do you mean the Loom cofounders are ex-Googlers?
We search for everything we talk about these days…our location services are always on. The times I’ve noticed this I can usually trace it back to a friend had been searching for something and then we (our phones) were in the same place. Even the guy from the lawsuit with the doctor… his phone knows he was at that doctor and that doctor offers that procedure. Seems possible without listening.
Visually Mediated Motor Planning in the Escape Response of Drosophila (2008)
I've always had philanthropic ideas that I will never be able to do, because I do not have the funds or the time. Metastatic cancer and alzheimers, on a cellular level, is an obvious pursuit. I would educate myself and get involved. I want to make a difference in the world, and not by monetary measures.
Warp Field Mechanics 102
This, of course, depends on how long you’ve been using macOS and what long list of quirks you’ve acquired.

For me, „just” being able to use a full-screen-mode-that-is-different-than-native-macOS-full-screen is worth it; but I imagine there are maybe like seven other people out there for whom it matters.
100% - it takes away your hope. In this case, that by "making it" in the world of startups will fill the void in your life.
Scientists demonstrate a novel sleep-based technique to weaken negative memories
What you are chasing is your god or a spiritual quest.

As you don't have a conception of a global god on top of all the other you swing from one to another: finding myself, doing hard, things, robotics, climate change, girlfriend, pleasure, etc.

Those can all be good things, but they are not the top thing.

"You will have no other god beside me"

The central God is you idea of good, the things beyond your reach.

You keep your girlfriend, she become your wife and you have kids.
You can climb montains but it doesn't need to be himalaya, etc.
Maybe your big thing will still end up around physics
Everything in it's place. In the proper amount.

Now if you loose one thing it's not the end of your world.

This keep you centered and avoid the crazy swings.

As we can see in this tale, his god was the startup or money. Once he had more than enought no motivation was left, he killed his god and had to find another one. This happen to a lot of people that reach their goal, instead of being happy they are emotionaly destroyed.

I hope this is clear and can help others.
You are describing small communities, not collectivist ones.

Large "Collectivist" communities have body count in the hundreds of millions.