skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story is Steve Jobs just announced that without consulting any engineers first. It was a total surprise to them.

They actually seemed to be working on it, but Apple was quickly hit with a patent suit from some company over FaceTime. I believe they had to re-architect how it worked to get around the patent.

They haven’t done anything about it since then. I wonder if they simply can’t because of patents. Either way by now I think they’ve decided it’s a strategic advantage and they wouldn’t do it by choice.
The other reply in this thread might beg to differ: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38295849

I think the reality is no discipline, be it Engineering, Product or Finance, is immune to flights of fancy.
What do you mean? You install postgres on 2+ machines and configure them.

Installing software is exactly what multi-million dollar companies do.

Backups are not hard either. There's many open source setups out there and building your own is not that complex.
> Yes not giving credit to you is a dick move, but it isn't a requirement of the license.

Actually, it IS a requirement of the MIT license: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

From what I understand, the person OP is referring to did not include the copyright notice, and provided zero attribution until pressed.

> This is just how open source works.

No, open source works because people believe that even if their work is being used for free, their contribution is recognized. People like who the OP is referring to chill that sentiment and do immense harm to the "open source" ethos.
I suspect a fair amount of hard real time applications are not running on 3GHz CPUs. A 100MHz CPU (or lower) without an MMU or FPU is probably more representative.

But it's not really so much about being fast, it's about being able to guarantee that your system can respond to an event within a given amount of time every time. (At least that is how a friend who works in embedded/real time explained it to me.)
Coworking existed before WeWork. It'll continue to exist after WeWork. Spaces will continue to be local rather than global. And there's nothing wrong with that.
I suffered an embolism watching that video.
To be fair to Google, though, they did not intend to operate this as a SaaS. They fully expected carriers to run their own RCS servers but almost none did, so stepping in to fill the void was a follow-on decision from Google (which was honestly a very smart move - Messages w/RCS is hugely improved over vanilla SMS) only after realizing carriers didn't have the appetite to abandon SMS.
This a comparison of the src folders using Meld: https://postimg.cc/sM2HDP7G

In the scrollbars on the right, blue is modified, green is new, black is equal. Only a handful of hooks, helpers and simple components are still the same. 90% sounds quite far from reality.

Not that I think the lack of credit given to the original project isn’t scummy, but… it’s just someone being an asshole, not much you can do about that.
Amazon.com: FAQ: Deprecation of Amazon Drive
> I’ve been tapping my foot ferociously since I was a kid and the most I’ve been “on” is caffeine. Lots of it, though

So you're kind of proving the parent poster's point, no?

Or are you suggesting caffeine is not stimulant or a psychoactive drug?
We are kind of assuming a lot when a $100 a month account obviously requires a credit check.

They require a SSN because people don't care and it makes it cheaper to offer the accounts, not because it would actually be a big problem to sell internet service without credit checks.
>My understanding is that stimulants do exactly the same thing in a person whether they're "cognitively healthy"

I don’t know a lot about stimulants in general, but I know for caffeine in particular this is not true. As an anecdote, I have a friend that caffeine puts to sleep, she just can’t take it. I’ve come to find out (partly from knowing her) that part of why the FDA doesn’t regulate caffeine, is that it has a very wide range of varying effects on different people.
From the article:

> Finally, Apple says it will work with the GSMA members on ways to further improve the RCS protocol. This particularly includes improving the security and encryption of RCS messages. Apple also told 9to5Mac that it will not use any sort of proprietary end-to-end encryption on top of RCS. Its focus is on improving the RCS standard itself.

> For comparison’s sake, Google’s implementation of end-to-end encryption is part of the Messages app on Android rather than the RCS spec itself.
They’re not doing it to be evil. They’re following the MMS standard that was designed for phones released in like 2004.

That’s just the quality of pictures/video MMS carries.
MMS is email-style MIME messages retrieved over HTTP on a data connection. Push notifications for MMS are delivered as a special SMS, but otherwise it's far far closer to internet than cellular, and it's green.
Love the product. Had a monthly recurring donation for many years. Dropped it over what I consider to be their serial mishandling of open source. See https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pull/6186 for the latest chapter in the, "we won't implement desktop GIPHY that we announced in 2016, and also won't merge it when someone else thoughtfully implements it for us" saga.
I am not judging the users of the product. I am saying that the overall product will worsens society.
OpenAI explores how to get ChatGPT into classrooms
As far as I understand it, there are several layers that make up an airplane window, the one in the middle is the vital one and the extra layers on either side have other purposes.

In this incident, the outer frame had melted and the outer pane had separated from the rest but the central layer was OK at that point in time.

https://thepointsguy.com/news/what-are-airplane-windows-made...
Similarly I watched all of stobe the hobos yt vids up until current before I found out he had died.
As someone that works somewhere that goes AWS first and is 100% cloud native, you'd have to give me a massive increase in salary to deal with hardware.

Been there, done that, don't care to return to that life.
Is it even public? I have a google account. Can I use it?
Performing arts is about showing, where magic is about manipulation. Magicians need to go one level deeper.

I think sales representatives come closer to it, though manipulation is not required or a desired practice. Standup comedians could be another slightly similar job.
Have you checked out Jaeger [1]? It is lightweight enough for a personal project, open source, and featureful enough to really help "turn on the lightbulb" with other engineers to show them the difference between logging/monitoring and tracing.

[1] https://www.jaegertracing.io/
Raising prices is legal, but each rental company has to be independent. The rental companies broke the law by using a 3rd party company to collude to raise prices.
The reason we care about those things is that they kill people. It turns out that, even with those things, nuclear kills fewer people than everything else. Wind turbines kill people other ways. Hydro dams literally have the record for the single most catastrophic energy related disaster in the 1975 Banqiao Dam failure. And even dams that don't fail are so much worse for the environment that I can't even explain it. Dams on the west coast are probably the single biggest reason for the collapse of west coast salmon populations (among countless other species). Dams are an ecological disaster even when they are working perfectly. Nuclear at least has to fail before it causes major issues.
Employees who violate Amazon's RTO mandate will be blocked from promotions
Don't forget, some of the worst outcomes per dollar spent
I don't deny it's big business. I guess I could have been clearer: replacing human contact with an AI simulacrum on a subscription basis gives me an icky feeling. IIRC, there a dating app that used bots to chat with men to make it seem like there were more women active on the app than there really were? That was also gross.

Can you imagine AI waifus pushing ads / propaganda on behalf of the highest bidder? Yuck.
I wonder if Apple might run its own RCS servers
Mary and Joseph were without a place to sleep .. rent is a lot older than that version of things.
On the flipside, Hangouts being sunset is the main reason I eventually left the Android ecosystem. Hangouts on a Pixel phone on Google Fi service was excellent for an SMS app. Feeling snubbed by the life getting choked out of Hangouts, I'm no longer a user of all 3.
The thing that really depresses me is that many humans will become "AI friends". It's really hard to know exactly what to say in all social situations. Imagine if you could have a little AI whisper in your ear something witty to say? Extend that out and many conversations you have with human friends, you're really just having with an AI.
You you talking about electricity or gasoline?
Not exactly ok. I am looking for ways to completely get off Google because of its recent developments.

Yes, it is a fine line, but that does not mean it's better just to bury my head in the sand and ignore it rather than challenge it like some many technologists do.
I found that with the bandwidth and storage that my company was using on the cloud, we could get ROI in under 2 months by building a server and running it in house. Now we've scaled up to a dozen servers but it's still just a handful of computers in a closet that saves us $50k/mo in cloud costs. It was dirt cheap to slap together and scale up incrementally.
does HN have any thoughts on Xenomai[1]? I've been using it for years without issue.

On a BeagleBone Black, it typically gives jitter on the order of hundreds of nanoseconds. I would consider it "hard" real-time (as do they). I'm able to schedule tasks periodically on the scale of tens of microseconds, and they never get missed.

It differs from this in that Real-Time Linux attempts to make Linux itself preemptive, whereas Xenomai is essentially its own kernel, running Linux as a task on top. It provides an ABI which allows you to run your own tasks alongside or at higher prio than Linux. This sidesteps the `printk()` issue, for instance, since Xenomai doesn't care. It will gladly context switch out of printk in order to run your tasks.

The downside is that you can't make normal syscalls while inside of the Xenomai context. Well... you can, but obviously this invalidates the realtime model. For example, calling `printf()` or `malloc()` inside of a xenomai task is not preemptable. The Xenomai ABI does its best to replicate everything you may need as far as syscalls, which works great as long as you're happy doing your own heap allocations.

[1]: https://xenomai.org/
"Aero" itself was already a well used term, the "frutiger" part adds nothing and is just an attempt to reinvent something seeking fake nostalgia. What's next "Forstall Aqua"?
Who is reproducing these and publishing results?

Moxie made it very clear he never wants third parties like f-droid -actually- reproducing and signing packages for distribution to de-googled signature-enforcing android distros etc. Providing side-loadable apks as an alternative a joke.

Third party builds and distribution would serve as public canary and be better for privacy forbidden. He argued the tracking advantages of centralized development and distribution outweighed any wins of allowing third party clients.

In reality a build published with a breaking change and a subtle crypto backdoor omitted from public sources may not be discovered for days or longer. Long enough to decrypt most every convo on the planet.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
It's because they focus on a broader and more varied medium (stagecraft, devices, sleight of hand, reading people...) vs other artists (sitting in a room for hours focusing intensely upon little dabs of paint/clay/sound/code/text...).

That's my guess.
Media quality would be a start, at least. The only other thing I'd love for them to "fix" is the inability to add non-iPhone users to existing group chats. With those two things I -- and probably most Android users -- would be at a "don't care, this is good enough for me" state.
Cue means get ready to start. Queue means wait until later.
It's even simpler than that: solar, wind, existing hydro+nuclear, short term storage, and natural gas is enough to bring us to net zero.

Wait, you say, natural gas? But natural gas is dirty. Well, in the US if we could magically remove all other sources of greenhouse gas emissions except for the natural gas power plants, we'd be at net zero right now.
I noticed that some websites also reveal different parts of the credit card. Really hope that this attack also doesn't work there. Lmao...
Yes, you can do it in DNS. Update the record with your new ingress, then wait for the timeout on the old record to assert itself and the new connections move over.

Not all DNS servers properly observe caching timeouts, so some customers may experience longer delays before they see it working again.
Disclaimer: Former AWS consultant from banking/Wall St.

It's been a big "duh" for 20+ years. Large-scale, consistent loads aren't suited to cloud infrastructure. Mostly its shops that don't care about costs, don't know any better, or lack technical capabilities outsource most of their infrastructure.

The use-cases for *aaS are:

- Early startups

- Beginning projects

- Prototyping

- Peaky loads on-demand or one-of

- Evade corporate IT department

AWS and VPSes can also be ill-suited for personal use if you live in a major city with bottom tier, cheap datacenters that can rent a 1 GbE uplink, a PDU plug, and 4U. For anything substantial, it's not hard to lease some dark fiber and run (E)BGP.

https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/as-numbers/request-...
I don't think they care since they moved to a single rack single colocation setup, no idea who saw that deployment plan and said "yeah this is sensible I'll approve it."

They're selling an observability solution...
And unfortunately had its funding dumped because it wasn’t shiny AI.
> My internal life is related to the structure of my body in an unknown way

That's right, an unknown way. So we know the internal structures of computers and their programs, but we don't know the internal structure of humans and how that leads to sentience, but somehow this translates into having good reasons for thinking the relationships in computers are not isomorphic to or meaningfully related to the unknown structures that lead to human sentience? Don't you see the big blank there? This just does not follow and is exactly the first point I made in this thread.

All I've been pointing out this is that people making strong statements about LLMs lacking sentience are leaping to conclusions.
The EUCJ actually makes it clear that unbundling volume licenses on resale is not permissible, see paragraphs 69 and 86 of the judgment: https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=12...
Thanks. I'm more stupid for having read that pile of shit.
I don't like them; aesthetically they don't appeal and technically they fall short as you describe. But just about a year ago this was the State of the Art ('Age of Illusion' by Die Antwoord) with visual coherence maintainable for <10 frames or less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq56o0YH3mE
The fat in the cells are turned into energy, but generally the cells remain.
Very nice !
(Hard time finding the author/contact info though...)

At "Storage and LoadBalancers" the NFS link point to https://microk8s.io/docs/nfs
Should be https://microk8s.io/docs/addon-nfs
You have to love the daily usage graph.
Resembles a modern form of a 1994 case in which the Justice Department successfully went after airlines for using a marketplace to collude. I’d actually argue some of RealPage’s requirements and design choices may have been created to help evade some of the similarities to the case by taking agency away from management. https://www.justice.gov/archive/atr/public/press_releases/19...
Some mental illnesses can't be cured I guess.
Hey me too.
> In terms of whether these things actually make a difference in how likely a child is to seem "ADHD" - yes, really.

The reason parents are holding sugar back from kids is they think they're hyper due to a "sugar rush", which is completely placebo i.e. they're just acting like that because they heard you're supposed to.
> How far DoJ is allowed to go in biting the hand that allowed it to be created will be interesting.

Interesting how in your own head you are. Maybe DoJ needs to show the government and law are for all - not just "landlords".
> I was expecting some insights into federal subsidies and bad incentives.

I would bet a large amount of money on that - there are green subsidies for building the chargers and keeping them built, but the actual operation (selling electricity) is a money losing proposition and a business that doesn't make any sense. So mostly broken chargers is a way to maximize green subsidy for an otherwise unviable business model.

Compare that to a gas station that makes money actually selling the gasoline, with an obvious incentive to keep the infrastructure functional.
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1. Kids care about it. Why? Because you can use iMessage via iPad without needing a phone number, and this is how lots of tweens get started with messaging.

2. Any Android users with iPhone friends trying to use iMessage for group chat cares about it. It's impossible to add Android users to an existing group chat... and any time you have a mixed iPhone + Android group chat it degrades a number of the iMessage group chat features normally accessible to iPhone users.

3. Any Android users receiving media over SMS/MMS from an iPhone user cares. They'll be receiving images & videos that look like they were shot with a potato.

The blue vs green color doesn't matter, but the effects mixed platform chatting has on both iPhone & Android users is significant.
Oh look at that. Another company who doesn’t know how to use cloud complaining about paying too much.
I really, really, want to go into a bunch of detail on exactly why this calculation is so incredibly naive. More as a personal thought exercise than for internet fame (since this will be buried under a buried comment).

Maybe I'll find the time...

But, like everyone else is saying, putting things in a datacenter in a resilient way for a high profile, high bandwidth, multi-national app is not the same as buying some ssd, or even running a hetzner instance.
No, and I'm not going to. I won't make the decision to conceive a person who's ultimate fate is to die, not without knowing that they themselves would have chosen to have lived a finite life. I myself will not know whether life is worthwhile until the end, and at that point it will be too late to do things differently.

I have been a child though, and have had a younger sibling.

And I certainly know, beyond any doubt at all, that 20 to 30 years ago parents weren't dosing their children with sleeping pills. At least not almost 1 in 5. This does not have to happen.
Nuclear materials already move intercontinentally on commercial ships. Somalian pirates can already pull an Exxon Valdez using commercial oil tankers.
Yes. In Europe it's common to use superior text messages like Signal. Even Whatsapp is better than iMessage.
An ergonomic chair (Hag Capisco). Fixed back/leg pain.
I hadn’t thought of this, but yes, it very much makes me feel connected to everyone who reads regularly (and interestingly I feel differently about the posts and people who read HN on the weekends too). It’s probably as important as the strict adherence to the rules of the forum that keeps it fresh and generally positive.

I feel very fortunate that this place hasn’t succumbed to the noise and negativity that most places I’ve haunted on the internet have in the previous decades.
As usual this is a might be onday if there are no unforeseen.....

Interesting. But I want one for my pond
Counterpoint: most shops do not need most of the bespoke cloud services they're using. If you actually do, you should know (or have someone on staff who knows) how to operate it, which negates most of the point of renting it from a cloud provider.

If you _actually need_ Kafka, for example – not just any messaging system – then your scale is such that you better know how to monitor it, tune it, and fix it when it breaks. If you can do that, then what's the difference from running it yourself? Build images with Packer, manage configs with Ansible or Puppet.

Cloud lets you iterate a lot faster because you don't have to know how any of this stuff works, but that ends up biting you once you do need to know.
I suspect Apple will still allow fallback to SMS and green bubbles, iMessage will be blue ansd RCS will be a new colour
Great work! Good use of Mode-X blending effects to achieve "true color" :). I missed this one when it got out, but I'd have loved it.
the brain has enough blood and oxygen, it uses that to depletes other resources when firing

so no.

think of it like a computer, drawing more electricity faster won’t help the physical properties of the RAM or transport bus (much). it already has enough of that, the bottleneck is elsewhere. but good breathing does help cognition

compared to muscles the brain is a small surface area with a wide bus. when exercising, the demands are about getting more oxygen to more muscles, which is merely transported by blood, and the heart beats faster to pump blood faster, the breathing is an attempt to oxygenate more blood. thats the difference between muscular activity and brain activity
that's more not being able to find a hotel room than not being able to afford rent, though
Not so much against open-source local LLMs, but you can bet those will be on the list for regulation as soon as they become as good as GPT4 is now.

Meanwhile, here on HN, take a look at the recent story where someone uses 100 lines of Python to instantiate David Attenborough. You'd be burned as a witch if you built the system behind that demo 10 years ago, and you'd be treated as a God-level hacker if you built it 5 years ago. Today, virtually the whole HN thread is full of comments advocating that regulators step in. "Buh..b..b..buhtwhataboutmahCOPYRIGHT?"

It's fucking disgusting. Who are these people? They're not hackers; what are they doing here?
> Loy wrote that the biggest problem during shooting was the climactic dinner party scene in which Nick reveals the killer. Powell complained that he had too many lines to learn and could barely decipher the complicated plot he was unraveling. It was the one scene when several retakes were necessary, which brought up an entirely new problem. The script called for oysters to be served to the dinner guests and, in take after take, the same plate of oysters was brought out under the hot lights. Loy recalled that "they began to putrefy. By the time we finished that scene, nobody ever wanted to see another oyster".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Man_(film)#Filming

(Great movie BTW!)
They both positively and negatively affect all people at different doses. The question is what the best dose is.
Agreed. I find that we're going in this direction in many areas, games just got there much faster.

Pretty much everywhere there is some undercurrent of "use this ultra-small generic interface for everything and life will be easier". With games and ECS, microkernels and IPC-for-everything, with frontend frameworks and components that only communicate between themselves via props and events, with event sourcing and CQRS backends, Actors in Erlang, with microservices only communicating via the network to enforce encapsulation... Perhaps even Haskell's functional-core-imperative-shell could count as that?

I feel like OOP _tried_ to get to this point, with dependency injection and interface segregation, but didn't quite get there due to bad ergonomics, verbosity and because it was still too easy to break the rules. But it was definitely an attempt at improving things.
Ahh. So it’s really good?
Does it play mine with voice isolation on Mac/iPhone?

I’m kind of addicted to that.