skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they do. They’re in the pocket of Elon and Starkink is taking contracts once destined for Verizon. Even without Elon the GOP has always been in big telco’s pockets.

From the article (which is amazing btw):

‘The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) contained a whopping $42.5 billion to expand broadband access under the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. To make sure that money wasn’t wasted, it contained a number of provisions (as the name kind of implies).
Like demanding ISPs provide at least one tier of service poor people could afford. Or encouraging networks built with taxpayer money be open access, which, as we’ve discussed at length, helps boost broadband competition and lower costs. As well as encouragement that taxpayer money be spent on the most future-proof technology (fiber) where applicable. Pretty common sense stuff.

King Trump earlobe nibbler Ted Cruz has been whining ever since the infrastructure bill was passed about how these kinds of common sense provisions are “woke.” “Woke,” you’ll recall was a pop culture term that used to mean “enlightened,” which was hijacked by authoritarians to whine about anything they don’t like. Now new Trump NTIA boss Arielle Roth has joined the fun:

“Roth has criticized the program’s emphasis on fiber and “a woke social agenda” that the NTIA has been pushing in its funding.”
Again, by “woke” we mean “trying to make sure broadband that uses taxpayer money is affordable to people” and “trying to make sure that taxpayer money is spent on the best possible technology.”

What is the extremist GOP really mad about? Well one, they voted against the popular program, only to turn around and try to repeatedly take credit for it. Two, it’s pretty clear they don’t like poor people and minorities. Three, they don’t like that a lot of the money might wind up funding popular, community-owned broadband networks, instead of being given to Elon Musk and AT&T.

I’ve been covering telecom long enough I can tell you exactly how this is going to play out.
The BEAD program is largely managed by the NTIA and States. While a lot of its is already earmarked, the GOP is going to work overtime to ensure as much money as possible goes to Elon Musk‘s Starlink. Ignoring that Starlink isn’t affordable, doesn’t really scale well, ruins astronomical research, is fucking with the ozone layer, lacks decent customer service, and is run by a giant racist toddler.

They’ll ignore all the important stuff — like making sure U.S. broadband maps are accurate. Meanwhile they’ll gut the agency in charge of keeping telecoms from ripping you off (the FCC), resulting in higher bills for everyone. Then, once they’ve redirected money to cronies and gutted oversight of the sector and mapping of real-world access, they’ll declare “mission accomplished” on U.S. broadband access.
Great stuff, very innovative. And definitely not “woke.”’

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There are a ton of interesting businesses that could be built if all of America had good, fast, cheap internet but seems the MAGA GOP hates progress or something.
But Mozilla said what they will do. They also had very expensive rebranding to support it! They are now activist AI company that wants to fight disinformation, censor people and sell ads.
I don't think the analogy is weakened by bringing numbers/quantity
into it. The dynamics work for any number of principals. Take a 3
player game, where Alice trusts Bob but is better off with Bill,
however Bill is not visible to her because of chaff/disinfo/noise
broadcast by Bob or Bob's confederates.

It's not what Mozilla does, it's about what Mozilla says/claims.

Mozilla is a deceptive/defective entity here.
Definitely, since I was a little kid I have been imagining whales swimming in Europa's underground oceans, only waiting for us to drill a hole deep enough to find them.

Can anybody who's looked into this topic further tell me why this may not be the case? Would the pressure down there be too big, would it be too cold or what other possibilities could prevent a planet with oceans to manifest life?
Turning my ESP32 into a DNS sinkhole to fight doomscrolling
Agonizing to see this, but not for any current love of Skype. Redesigns killed it, and so obviously at the time were going to kill it. Redesigns like this kill trust and familiarity in a product, eventually the Microsoft account upsell meant I could not even log in using my Skype username at one point. I'm a tech person, imagine a mom'n'pop suffering the same.
The question I can’t find answered is why now?
What do people who aren't pretentious prats call "latency" and "quantiles"? =P
"At least for the more tech inclined" instantly eliminates 99% of users, probably even of Firefox for what you're talking about. I mean I'm tech inclined and I have no idea how you propose to firewall an internet browser from calling home. Maybe it's possible, I've never tried so I legitimately don't know. But if it is, it's an absolutely meaningless portion of users who'd even be able to do so much less go through the effort of actually doing it.
This is a great example of how one can make a big impact with a simple one-day side project.

It's simple an genius! Love it!
do you have something to show?
> HN users are like 60% of the firefox user base

lol

> i recommend writing to legal-notices@mozilla.com to object to this policy

denial

anger

bargaining <--- you are here

depression

acceptance

Best accept that the Mozilla that was interested in creating a User Agent as opposed to a consumer product is gone and look for and support the creation of alternatives.
If they're worried by what might be in the profile data they're syncing they should just make it e2e encrypted so they can't know what's in it

But they clearly want to collect and sell that data
totally depends on where u live. id say 99% of places, u wont. also, research purposes is ok if its obvious. u can download malware in lots of places, sources, so taking them off of github really wont do anything either.

personally if i post such things i will either ensure it has detections everywhere or somehow neuter it. usually for research you dont really need to have fully functioning malware. just enough to prove some question. so despite posting sources of malware being ok, and it being available in lots of places, i do think, especially for advanced things, its better not to contribute it freely... but to each their own. i'd advise strongly against just outright posting functional cyber weapons, not because its illegal, but simply because its really not needed. there is more bad potential than positive use compared to broken or incomplete versions.
Ah but I (usually) know when I will probably be wrong if I do give an answer, when I know I'm not familiar enough with the subject. Or if I do I will explicitly say this is an educated guess, at best. What I will not do is just spout bullshit with the confidence of an orange-musk-puppet
Every day we get closer to reinventing the Java applet.

Again.
Huh?

It approximately doesn't matter in the longer run and on a global scale whether you release your heat into the ground, atmosphere or sea. It's all conducted around sooner or later anyway.
usefulness is bound to scope/purpose,
even if innovation stops, in 3y (thanks to hw and tuning progress ) when 4o costs 0.1$/M and 4.5 1$/M even being a small improvement ( which is not imo ), you will chose to use 4.5 , exactly like no one now want to use 3.5
Show HN: Payments Stack for AI Agents
Are you a startup/builder who's using Agentic workflows?

How about Agentic payments?

At Prava we're building Payments stack which allows your AI Agents to have a wallet independent of the CC/bank acc. Thus, allowing them to make payments like us humans in a secure way.
It's priced like this because it can generate erotica.
I don't get how Apple patched this. What does the patch change to do differently?

I don't see a way of fixing this without shutting off the current Airtag network.
Maybe Mozilla doesn't own that information legally, but they grant themselves practically unlimited rights to do what they want, as the restriction they imposed to themselves ("to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.") couldn't be more wishy-washy.

No difference to me. Goodbye Firefox.

By the way, what alternatives are there for Thunderbird?
It might be helpful to look at something like Typescript Tic Tac Toe in the type system [1]. You can comment out individual lines in the GameLoop type, and then hover over `____________DISPLAY___________` to see the current game state. Illegal moves will result in type errors.

Running Doom in the type system effectively means a lot more types have been generated (effectively a C to typescript-type compiler was created if I understood this correctly), then the game was started with no inputs entered. Theoretically if the author had infinite time and compute resources, the history of control inputs up to a certain point in play could be put in a tuple, and the type system would generate the state of the game given the code and the moves which the user had input so far. This state would include what's on the screen, but also internal state variables controlling things like where the enemies were moving, whether projectiles are in air, their direction, collision detection, etc.

[1]: https://tsplay.dev/wE95vw
There is an official policy on this: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-polici...

So, sounds like the Github team should take some action here.
Once upon a time (windows 8 I believe) you could install the "mobile" version of office apps on the desktop and just use that for free. Limited in functionality, but free.

This seems to be severely handicapped. Only onedrive files, no local files, for example.
> If only people cared as much about privacy as vegetarians do about not eating meat...

In Germany, a lot of people do (in particular in hacker and IT-affine circles), and I do claim privacy discussions there often do become as heated as discussions with vegans about meat.

This is the reason why in Germany Firefox has a significant market share (according to

> https://www.statista.com/statistics/462158/browsers-most-use...

13.65%).
Which network access is telemetry?
Things that are hard: launching a terminal at a location, viewing or copying a files path, navigating a deep file system, column width in the column view, searching for files, finding file info, and lots of other.
> "....to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

We weren't born yesterday, and companies pull this shit all the time. This sentence is meaningless. You could use this sentence to justify literally any behaviour.

One _easy_ way to read this change:

> "... to help you interact with online content"

Selling your data to have more relevant ads could easily be justified as helping you interact with online content

> as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

Using firefox indicates that you want us to do this.

Or,

we made it an opt-out that is quietly rolled out in an update.
I think it's just as well not to have a monoculture (i.e. chomium-based-browsers).

Just being different and capable of rendering websites makes the web a place where standards matter. It doesn't have to be noble to make this happen.

Firefox is just standing in there like a marker - as long as there's AN alternative, there's a chance for ANOTHER alternative.
with 4.5? Why? It's only meant for creative writing.
That is in theory already possible today, also just with obfuscated js blobs.

But the way the ad networks work, is that they do dynamic content loading. So knowing where the ads are coming from and just blocking those lists will continue to work also in WASM.

But indeed, modifying the content specifically, when all you have is a canvas, will be close to impossible.
This existing HN submission is probably the better one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065
But how are these import taxes explained in a way that isn't completely obvious to hurt a lot of people and businesses within their country?

I can't imagine being this blind to their own future. There must be a huge effective propaganda machine twisting any logical thoughts or many sad people that lost any perception on reality.
> That's the problem.

That's not their problem.
I'm saying I think all the issues you are reporting, including the lag times and such, seem specific to your setup, maybe Sway specifically or Wayland. I don't use Gnome or KDE or have any keychain stuff installed, I run Alpine with Awesome, and haven't experienced the same issues you have.
That's really interesting - just made me think about some AI guy at Twitter (when it was called that) talking about how hard it is to create a recommender system that doesn't just flood everyone with what's popular righr now. Since LLMs are neural networks as well, maybe the recommendation algorithms they learn suffer from the same issues
markov chains are used for my favourite financial algorithm; the allocation of overhead costs in cost accounting. wish there was an easy way to visualise a model with 500 nodes
>Goodbye web-components. A W3C spec

And good riddance. I really don't get any personal value out of the vast majority of modern web apps. Much, but not all, of what we do on the web could be via a much more basic interface.
There's no such thing as a corporate promise. There are such things as legal contracts and lawsuits, neither of which likely apply to anything Mozilla says about their browser.
Licensing perhaps
I know, that's my point - branding Lync (thanks for the correction, I forgot the spelling) damaged the Skype brand to no real benefit.

I know Teams is fairly pervasive, but that's on the usual Microsoft Enterprise stranglehold, certainly not on Teams' merits or riding the popularity of Skype pre Microsoft.
It's already been trivial. There's a few sites showing you a special message or denying access if you block ads. uBlock doesn't really help here that much and if they tried, the issue is very asymmetric - it's much easier to update the site than to patch it again.
You read the terms and conditions, right? For your children's classes, right?
Agents seem to be such a massive, glaring security concern. I feel like I took crazy pills. Why is everyone releasing these and giving them more and more access??
Now my homepage should answer in under 300 ms again. Thanks for visiting!
EA Open-Sources Command and Conquer Red Alert
How is it financed?
It's also not clear what the definite use case is for this versus other models like o3.
That's crazy! What is happening in Europe??
One question is ... do you want to spend the time on this or the business. Maybe hire a company (or maybe better the tech family friend) to maintain it for you?

Otherwise there are some good technical answers but in short if you are not paying you'd have to learn. Maybe buy a second domain (some are $1) to practice on.
It's an apt username for naively giving read access
Here's a reminder that an European alternative exists: https://chat.mistral.ai

It lags somewhat behind the US offerings, but a great way to fix that is to direct some money at them. Also, as things progress, that lagging starts being less and less important.
I think a better word than orientation is "axis". They are conceptually similar to axis-angle, with some added sugar to make an algebra
Sometimes I wonder whether having the document-based-web and application-web in one place a good thing or bad.

Ideally the document based web would require only a subset of standards (html, css, and javascript) and should be much simpler to implement a browser. Then anything more complex could just "Open in an app runner environment".

But then of course since the application-web subsumes the document based one, there is no necessity for vast majority of people to ever care about the pure documents. Maybe gemini people were right and we need a completely different protocol.
For a very long time, I was pissed at "the web" being abused by heavier and heavier "apps" instead of staying "websites" and keeping "desktop apps".

Now I am starting to think that this is maybe just a super inefficient way to improve the technology for desktop apps: after years and a shit load of money put into running apps in the browser, maybe the end technology will just end up being used for desktop apps. And going through the browser will just have been a detour.

ElectronJS, Tauri... as if there was a realisation that actually, we want desktop apps, but unfortunately we invested in web tech, so we recycle it however we can.

Not sure if that makes sense, but that's how I feel. I liked desktop app, I'd be happy if it all cycled back to proper desktop apps.
> launching a terminal at a location

A workaround for this (especially if you have a terminal always open) is to drag the file/folder you want to operate on into an open terminal window, which will paste in its path.
According to the tweet, Mozilla claimed

> “Does Firefox sell your personal data?”

> “Nope. Never have, never will.”

I do believe that never is a very, very clear statement (concerning every possible future) that needs no legal cover.
I think Microsoft has a general problem with getting rid of unwanted things within their eco-system. I keep complaining that their feedback.azure.com portal is filled with spam/malware comments and links, but even internally their teams can't reach anyone to get it fixed. Example https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/idea/9d0b22d8-c025-...
Thousands report Lloyds, Halifax and TSB banking apps not working
Bubble charts?
If you're on macOS, then Kagi's Orion seems good:

https://kagi.com/orion

It's been working fine for me anyway.
Why limit your changes to syntax? Intercal's COME FROM would be a good addition, but you definitely also need SOLVE and PROVE statements to increase the power of the language.

Having IF TERMINATES and IF NOT TERMINATES predicates would be useful, too. Why limit yourself to everyday computable functions? And if you really wanted to, you could implement both SOLVE and PROVE in terms of them...
Well I guess that will be the last time I use edge. KUNTZ
Absolutely agree. The blog post is claiming the opposite to what their ToS is granting - but one is fluff (that will be forgotten soon) while the other is legally binding. I cannot imagine applications like browsers that would require such an unrestricted license for user input just to do its service. That clearly indicates some "other" future motive that is underlined by the notion to remove the FAQ entry and other past actions towards an advertising future at Mozilla.

Am looking forward to explore some of the alternatives. And no, I don't want a just a correcting/updating/informing follow-up blog post of how we the users got it all wrong.
In fact, the current UPDATE makes it worse:

"UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice."

vs. the ToS:

"You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

No - you don't need a license for my input. Just pass the butter, it's not your job to "use that information" in any way, form or shape. How did you survive 26 years without any license to our input? What did legally change that would require that license? No one asked you to: "We use data to make Firefox functional and sustainable, improve your experience, and keep you safe." (from the blog). What does that even mean? If you have specific use-cases in mind state them clearly, instead of this overreaching general license, that may or may not be misused now or in future. As of this ToS you may very sell my data to AI companies to "help me navigate the internet" which is not even part of the Privacy Notice protection.

Reinstatement your privacy guarantees in the ToS and be transparent about explicit use-cases.

Meanwhile, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
> Would you accept a 10% decrease in the quality of your life in exchange for an extra year? I probably would. I probably still would if that was a 20% decrease. But I probably wouldn't go for that extra year if I had to accept a 90% decrease in the quality of my life.

The context is _clinical trials_, tho, so that's not generally what's on offer.
Post author here. I agree with the sentiment... Emacs org-mode sticks with me because it grew on me over the years. It's awesome, but it's also a lifestyle :D

For your (very legitimate, "just gimme a distro") needs, perhaps Emacs Writing Studio could entice you back into the fold: https://lucidmanager.org/tags/emacs/
That's because teams was offered for fee with m365 which most companies used anyway.

Having said that, Zoom is an absolutely terrible product. The backdoor they installed in Macs for example and then when it was brought to light refused to remove it until Apple was forced to blacklist the application. They're either incompetent or evil.
Yes, that was the full prompt.

Yesterday, I had Claude 3.7 write a full 80,000-word novel. My prompt was a bit longer, but the result was shockingly good. The new thinking mode is very impressive.
The early version of Google Play Music asked for your MP3s, so you could have them in the cloud for streaming. I guess they did this for a baseline of data and music and now I wonder if this was an elaborate hack to circumvent legal implications. Should have read the terms back then.

That would be an interesting story!
System prompts in LLMs do not reliably override user prompts
That's exactly what Firefox originally claimed was a stark difference compared to Chrome: "use us and you can finally be safe and not need to play cat and mouse anymore"
Are containers not good enough to replace profiles for your use case? I've been juggling those like profiles and I'm very happy.
What a great article!

Note that this only exposes the repositories that were public at one point, then made private. While they were public, the contents got indexed and the ever-data-hungry models can still access this indexation.

We informed Microsoft of our findings, outlining that deleted or private GitHub repositories were still accessible through Bing’s cache and Copilot and that this functionality posed a security risk by exposing organizational data. We also alerted all affected organizations and advised them to rotate or revoke any compromised keys.

Microsoft classified the issue as low severity, citing its "low impact" and asserting that this caching behavior was acceptable. Nevertheless, they responded quickly and within a two weeks, Bing’s cached link feature was removed, and access to the cc.bingj.com domain was disabled for all users.

From the article, I'd probably disagree on the low impact, but nontheless the response is reasonable.
I am very aware but that does not change that currently its a superior alternative.
Maybe a special flag with a passcode which must be passed to `git clone`, where this passcode is shown in such a banner. To make sure you've read the banner.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...