skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! I'm one of the founders of Beeper. Previously I started Pebble and worked as a partner at YC for. few years.

I’m proud to share that we (Beeper) have built a real 3rd party iMessage client for Android. We did it by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol and encryption system.
Our new app, Beeper Mini, is available to download today (no waitlist): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beeper.ima

Unlike every other attempt to build an iMessage app for Android (including our first gen app), Beeper Mini does not use a Mac server relay in the cloud. The app connects directly to Apple servers to send and receive end-to-end encrypted messages. Encryption keys never leave your device. No Apple ID is required. Beeper does not have access to your Apple account.

With Beeper Mini, your Android phone number is registered on iMessage. You show up as a ‘blue bubble’ when iPhone friends text you, and can join real iMessage group chats. All chat features like typing status, read receipts, full resolution images/video, emoji reactions, voice notes, editing/unsending, stickers etc are supported.

This is all unprecedented, so I imagine you may have a lot of questions. We’ve written a detailed technical blog post about how Beeper Mini works [1]. A team member has published an open source Python iMessage protocol PoC on Github [2]. You can try it yourself on any Mac/Windows/Linux computer and see how iMessage works. My cofounder and I are also here to answer questions below in the comments.

Our long term vision is to build a universal chat app [3]. Over the next few months, we will be adding support for SMS/RCS, WhatsApp, Signal and 12 other chat networks into Beeper Mini. At that point, we’ll drop the `Mini` postfix. We’re also rebuilding our Beeper Desktop and iOS apps to support our new ‘client-side bridge’ architecture that preserves full end-to-end encryption. We’re also renaming our first gen apps to ‘Beeper Cloud’ to more clearly differentiate them from Beeper Mini.

Side note: many people always ask ‘what do you think Apple is going to do about this?’ To be honest, I am shocked that everyone is so shocked by the sheer existence of a 3rd party iMessage client. The internet has always had 3rd party clients! It’s almost like people have forgotten that iChat (the app that iMessage grew out of) was itself a multi-protocol chat app! It supported AIM, Jabber and Google talk. Here’s a blast from the past [4]

[1] https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works

[2] https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush

[3] https://blog.beeper.com/p/were-building-the-best-chat-app-on

[4] https://i.imgur.com/k6rmOgq.png
These are great references. Read them all briefly, without getting too bogged down in the technical details. As far as I understand it, the libevdev library basically provides one of the lowest levels of interaction with evdev files that comes after reading them yourself, and it is not recommended to read evdev files yourself, as there are many intricacies that can occur.
> why does the wire to the switch have to be 14/2 high voltage?

That way, it's easy to extend the circuit later if you make modifications to the structure.
I have over a dozen picos in my house and haven’t replaced any batteries yet (5+ years now).

I really wish they’d make a Pico in the Maestro shape though.
yeah exactly, I was like "what's new here?"

I already have these in my house
If the battery doesn't die, you won't buy another air tag. :-(
Generally I've had pretty good luck with Stack Overflow. Recently however I had a ten year old popular question about how to read terminal responses in a shell script removed b/c some mod decided questions about shell scripts belonged on "another Stack Exchange site".
I would be that all of them use iPhones and neither of them uses FF mobile.
> ...the more urgent debate is how to adapt to this being the reality.

Start building more offline community. Building things that are outside the reach of AI because they're in places you entirely control, and start discouraging (or actively evicting...) cell phones from those spaces. Don't build digital-first ways of interacting.
Even people famous in their time are forgotten in short order. A good lesson for those deluding themselves into thinking they'll be an exception. Better to be remembered as a decent human being to your loved ones.
Personalized Nutriution Plans App
Hello everyone !

My brother and I have been developing the "Nutrition AI" app and would love yor feedback so we can improve it!
We are both software developers and have been working on this in our free time, as we wanted a cheaper alternative to get nutritional advice.

How it works:
You describe your goal (lose fat, explore cuisines, lower my sugar level etc)
and you get personalized:

- Multiple daily meals & recipes
- Detailed ingredients & nutritional facts
- Personalized advice for the plan
- Weekly grocery shopping list

Your plan & details can be viewed anytime in the app (or website) in organized screens. (attached in this post)

The app uses multiple ChatGPT-4 agents behind the scenes. So a complete nutrition plan costs 3 euros.
You can also change any of your personal details and re-generate the whole plan 3 more times for free.
We also provide a few completely free plans as examples. You can find those in the main menu.

All plans are provided for educational purposes.

Website: www.nutritionai.app
Android: Nutrition AI (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.nutritiona...)
iOS: We are working on it!
that was the give-away
Is there an argument to be made that this could be retro-fitted in older homes to reduce fire risk? Or does fire risk mostly come from outlet wiring?
We really need to have much stronger anti trust legislation and enforcement. It is absolutely ridiculous to allow companies to behave this way.

And before someone says that "free market is always good and government is bad", the optimum free market strategy if there is no government is to hire hitmen to assassinate the executives of competidor companies. A real competitive free market will always require the government to prohibit companies from forming artificial mottes around their monopolies.
It’s still bullshit.

Yes, it takes 9 months to grow a baby and it’s a health toll and a health risk. Fair.

But unless you’re planning to abandon your kids, most of the investment comes in the years after and this responsibility is equally on both father and mother.
Sorry, best I can do is a Elementry OS Linux.
Thanks for commenting :),

Sure you can have a mesh of database, Have your input data in one data technology, run models on a distributed compute, save models on different database tech and manage the jobs on other!
>grifters

AKA Google employees, heh
Broadly, on the monitoring side, we’re more focused on evaluating the quality of the model’s outputs (is it violating your rules, handling specific subpopulations / edge cases correctly etc.). OpenLLMetry is more focussed on telemetry and tracing, whereas for us ‘monitoring’ is a means to running your tests on production data.

Openlayer’s also intended to be used on non-LLM use cases. Here are a few other ways we’re different:

1. Support for other ML task types

2. Includes a development mode for versioning and experimentation

3. Native slack and email alerts (openllmetry might integrate with other platforms that do that, but not sure)

4. Collaboration is deeply embedded into the product
I would say something like "hup!" (friendly) or "doorspelen, pannenkoek!" (less friendly, but would score you points).
across a bunch of different gradients. senses will be the next step, humans grok that good and easy. once multiple gradients are considered, non-sensory gradients are going to be next.

this is all a bunch of gobbledygook until it isn’t.
Matrix multiplication works with the @ operator, e.g. A@B. (Or with the * operator if defined as np.matrix, but nobody uses that and probably shouldn't). For matrix exponentials you need scipy.linalg.expm, but there is nothing in Python preventing why it couldn't be done with e.g. e**M if wanted (or even e^M if wanted but probably shouldn't). You can even implement it yourself in a few lines.

You don't seem to know much about what you're criticizing.
> My comments try to explain why Ukrainians believe that Russians have stolen the "Rus" identity (from them) only for themselves.

Which is completely irrelevant to the thread. And, let’s be honest, is of little interest to anyone. This cultural appropriation bullshit has gotten old a long time ago already.
Living there, I don't believe you. I went often in Ferentari and never had trouble.
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Unless you want to move a switch, or add a new one, or the route is blocked by a post, or you need to RE existing wiring
It's never too late to have a stance on something. Actually it's quite difficult to do things the other way around.
Kimchi dumplings are delicious. I really would like to try kimchi pierogi.
For a while now, whenever I have taught SQL to people (which was only I think 3 times over like 8 years) I ask them to imagine that the word SELECT can be replaced with AGGREGATE which unlocks these magical words GROUP BY and SUM and so forth, and they understand me perfectly well: and then I drop on them that I was lying and the magic word is still SELECT but you have to know which kind of SELECT it is from context clues and they are like “What???? Whyyyyyy.”
Fine-tuning Mistral 7B on Magic the Gathering Draft
The (Often) Overlooked Experiment That Revealed the Quantum World
Would it be feasible to just use low-voltage wire given that everything is LED now?

Also, for places where I don't have a wire but would like to add a recessed light, I wish I could find a battery powered one. I wouldn't mind getting on a ladder and plugging in a USB-C charger once or twice a year if it means I don't need to hire an electrician and fish wires around
You need to get rid of codebase ownership and find something else to replace the trust it brings.

- Fine granularity forkability. Fork functions, not just projects

- Curators/Reviewers who endorse the validity/security aspects of those forks.
Just to add some anecdata, we have both Google Analytics (if you accept the GDPR tracking request…) and our own internal statistics based purely on useragents. Here are some percentages for November (this is Germany, generally far higher FF usage)

Ours:

Chrome 37.4%
Firefox 24.7%
Safari 21.1%
Edge 7.5%
Opera 2.6%

GA:

Chrome 39.3%
Safari 31.5%
Firefox 11.9%
Edge 9.9%
Samsung Internet 2.9%

For us, GA is undercounting FF by almost 13 percentage points, over 50%.
Did you read the post?

The author delineates between surveillance and spying, primarily, by saying mass data collection has been happening for years. Actually doing something with that data has been more difficult. AI summarizes audio and text well, which will turn collection into actual analysis, which the author calls spying.

Did you disagree?
It's kind of amazing how blatant it was, they weren't even really trying to hide it much.

Similar to the VW emissions thing; if they'd been intentional about it they could have made it look much more like a mistake.
> Having users pay recurring would also incentivize car makers to keep investing in updating their software...

Please no. I don't want fancy software that hides essential features 4 layers deep and stops working when the internet is bad and the billing service can't be reached. I want buttons for the features and a display that works with android auto. Nothing more, nothing less.
They install that true coat the factory, there's nothing we can do. But I'll talk to my boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2LLB9CGfLs
> and the entire value of the drug is in the measurements.

I'm not sure this is true.

While modern Adderall has a closely controlled mixture of multiple enantiomers, it hasn't always been this way.

Medicine historically didn't care nearly as much about racemic mixtures, and the possibility of stereo toxicity (eg Thalidomide).

Many drugs in modern human history, including mixed amphetamine salts, have been marketed with very little concern for racemic purity.
"I am personally unaware of any serious reason to believe that Firefox’s numbers will improve soon."

There is a serious reason: Youtube ad-blocking. The combination of Firefox and Ublock Origin (or perhaps other ad-blockers) allows you to watch Youtube while blocking ads. Increasingly (and definitely in 2024) you will not be able to do this with Chrome.
Came here to say the same, ironic the OP link is to a MS property
No they don't. What issue do you have with that line? English is my second language.
FF is at 4% usage on Cloudflare Radar [1] which doesn't use JavaScript to measure usage.

[1]: https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage
Wikipedia has an ongoing project on improving articles on the subject of western esotericism (quite interesting one even for "scientifially-minded" if you look at the origins of the Royal Society and the surrounding protosciences). I've been using Wikipedia since its early beginnings, on my primary account loosely contributing for well over a decade and many of my edits from years ago were left unchanged.

A few months ago I've tried creating a small page about a modern-day occultist who seems to have near Indiana Jones status in that community for digging out one well-known magical ritual from medieval archives all over Europe with academic scrutiny (the Abramelin ritual, A Dark Song is a recent interesting movie about it). His name already was mentioned on some related pages.

Went through some lengths searching for more secondary material after they asked for it. Had hours of conversations via Wikipedia IRC to make sure I deliver exactly what is needed (and they claimed my sources are sufficient there). But even several academic papers discussing his work were not enough for the admin in charge, apparently his whole bio needs to be in a secondary source for him to be considered "noteworthy" - which seems to be an impossible demand in this small community.

I get the danger of self-promotion, Wikipedia has a few obvious pages of company CEOs self-promoting, who probably asked some poor employee bloke to write it. But meanwhile Wikipedia is scattered with obvious industry propaganda / damage control (see the suspiciously detailed Monsanto damage-controlling articles on glyphosate or the Séralini affair; and some more recent pharma-related topics) and literal advertisements from several industries. Just check out that page about Justin Bieber portraying that kid as some modern-day musical genius. Industry marketing departments – of course – do have the resources to literally fight for their articles full-time. On top of it this all severely and widely influences public opinion - these articles are much more widely read than one about a well-known author in a hidden subculture -, and nobody seems to be interested in doing something about it.
By using terraform docker provider or something else? Like Nomad?
Air tags have replaceable batteries
But what do you use to insert tabs then? For me, giving up Caps Lock would be a lot more convenient than giving up Tab, because I almost never use Caps Lock, whereas I use Tab a lot.
> The problem here is only in the definition of the variable to test: Yes, "responsiveness" isn't well defined.

That's all that was really required for the purpose of that analogy - arguing that there can still be useful/relevant tests without agreement on definition, as a response specifically to your "Without a definition [...]" claim.

But, I do think you could equally say that the responsiveness test is actually testing speed of the computer or speed of the connection, in addition to some defining responsiveness in a way that isn't related to click-to-new-content speed.
Hopefully this will provide enough momentum for a non-proprietary extension for encryption to be made, and Google will need to adjust.
We simply need meaningful penalties that involve jail time and % fines, on top of the ill gotten gains. The current model is steal $1 million, get fined $250k, enjoy the profits.

Sadly, that'll never happen, because CU made bribery legal and who's congress going to listen to? The 100s of millions they allegedly govern or the guy that handed them $25k for a kitchen remodel.

Spoiler: It's not the citizens.
Old hardware that doesn't have it. Are they gonna ban my iMac from 2009 that was before iMessage was a thing?
Sounds as if that happened suddenly ("got hit"), what changed (in the workplace) that made such bad things possible? (After not having happened for 20 years)

How long did it take until you felt better again? If I can ask
> Russian dumplings are pelmeni

Not only that. It’s also vareniki that can be filled with potatoes or cheese. The best I’ve had were with Adygeya cheese in the Krasnodar region.
Those are always nice in the first few years, but then a decade or two and three owners later, the switch is now hardwired to a height that was appropriate for shorter generations, controls some track lighting that isn't commonly used, doesn't support dimmable LEDs, or just plain isn't where you want it, next to the new dining table...

They become the electrical equivalent of tech debt. A few dollars to install, thousands to move or change.
You won’t teach yourself by running papers through Claude, and you won’t need to if you went from first principles rather than rushing.
TFA

>The Gemini pack also includes a proprietary battery management system and DC-DC converter to enable the NMC cells to replenish the LFP cells as they get depleted.
Google Files is testing the ability to search inside photos and PDFs
Huh. You agree to the new terms if you do not notify 23andMe otherwise.

Can your inaction be taken as accepting a legally binding contract?
Reading decompiled (reverse-engineered) code is not as insanely hard as it sounds. You can usually find functions, and then it's a matter of finding _what_ a function does.

If you can somehow attach a debugger or get breakpoints, it's even easier.
Love that site, so good and really captures what I don't like about modern housing
(I'm the author of the original post [1]) And while I think the rules, in the end, make sense, I think it's not quite as clear cut as you describe, consider:

SELECT (SELECT sum(1) FROM xx LIMIT 1) FROM aa;

which returns

3
3
3

Personally, I think having the inner aggregation always attach to the nearest `SELECT` would have been an equally valid way of defining how this works, but it just so happens it is not defined that way.

[1]: https://buttondown.email/jaffray/archive/sql-scoping-is-surp...
Shorter lifespan as your vital essence is siphoned away
The Historia Civilis series on Youtube has some excellent videos on Roman history:

https://www.youtube.com/@HistoriaCivilis
I would have gladly payed a subscription fee to activate seat heating had it been possible

You would've just had heated seats, no fee required.
I haven't seen Quinetic before. This is ever smarter than the solution in the article. Just use the kinetic energy of the press, rather than collecting ambient energy. Seems more reliable. OTOH limits what kind of switches can be used.
You're mixing shareholders with stakeholders. Shareholders are only the investors. Execs would only care for stocks if their variable is tied to it. Low/mid employees don't really care.
Having your rules based on % of marketplace usage is terrible... just one reason (out of many) is that is a moving target. Unbelievable (believable?) shortsightedness. I guess we're back to IE5 days. Everything is circular ehhh?
At least if you have regenerative brakes. Otherwise weight matters in stop and go traffic quite a bit.
As a regular tshark/pyshark user, where much of the output is CLI, I enjoy this.
I understand that - what does that have to do with Tesla?
I think food delivery at scale is unprofitable, at this point the technology in those apps doesn’t really have a moat. The next logical big step is to have drones delivering the stuff, and at that point you have this massive amount of tech and research to get food 2 miles down the street…it seems pretty counterproductive.
There is an option in the app to disable push, which I assume is disabling the BPN connection
It was fun to write and if more people start botting like I do it might eventually become useful. But yes it's premature if that's what you mean.
Is it a nightmare for people living there? or does it look like one for people looking from outside? I have argued about this with people from SG and they prefer the security and stability over the supposed freedoms.
Always a great and humbling remember of the importance of political & economic prioritization of (proper & unfettered) scientific investigation. This cognitive & technological peak that the Greeks achieved was not to be seen again anywhere on our planet for ~1700 years.
it'll also increase demand for used cars without these features.
Nobody was blaming vendors either. That doesn't change the fact that vast swathes of hardware vendors put much more effort into helping Windows support their hardware than Linux.
Sticking a wireless controller onto a wall is a much simpler operation than cutting a hole in the drywall, fishing wire, patching the drywall, and repainting.
Generative LLMs can be turned into classifiers quite easily, search engines cannot.
Both submitted and previous are cool and very well made. Grants!
I did explain it dude. Taking trillions of dollars from the wealthiest would reduce real estate prices at the top of the market, offsetting (to some degree) inflation at the bottom of the market. It's not complicated. You're just hand-waving away this obvious implication of tax-funded UBI because it contradicts your argument.

Also, there is no empirical evidence supporting your argument. The one study you posted has zero statistical significance. Pretending otherwise is pseudo-science.
Am I understand right that HDMI is not possible in free/libre distros with no blobs?
Microsoft's Copilot is getting OpenAI's latest models and a new code interpreter