skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beeper is a really cool idea by some cool people (people behind the Pebble smartwatch) but I've resisted using it for fear of bans. I don't want my Slack/Discord/Instagram/AppleId/etc to get banned for using something not allowed under the terms of service. How are people who use Beeper dealing with this? Are you just using dummy/test accounts that you don't care about or are you just rolling the dice.

I would like to live in a world where I could use Beeper without worry but I don't feel like we currently live in that world. Am I wrong?
> I'd teach them relational algebra...

Agreed. Curious what materials you've found that really drive this home?

Like 90% of googlesearch results simplify things to the point where this is missed.
Nobody has a right to research you or your behavior. We shouldn't be leaving holes in our software because the methods chosen rely on leaky and chatty protocols to gleam info.

The user agent string shouldn't exist to begin with. It was a boneheaded decision to allow that sort of easy discrimination baked right into the protocol.
Seems like it would be good for an individual mission, kill power to the area to gain an advantage, finish the objective and leave. Power can be repaired pretty quickly if there are parts to replace the shorted ones, so civilian risks (i.e. cholera if water can't be treated without electricity) are reduced.
I didn't realize this was the same person who wrote Fine Structure! That book is amazing. Definitely going to pick up their other books now.
I was a little unsettled by some of the bloodlust around this guy, with people saying quite seriously that he should face even a life sentence for what he did. (Personal aviation folks, mostly.)

But on the other hand, 6 months seems incredibly lenient. What do people here feel?
I guess we should add (2021) to the title.

The story is especially relevant today because of recent LLM / GPT advancements; however, it is almost three years old. Perhaps that makes it all the more impressive.
I have been considering the mod! I’ve watched a video or two about that mod but I don’t want to rush into it with CRTs all having electrical bits on them that can kill me if I do something wrong. I’m entirely new to electrical tinkering but eager to learn for this circuit bending stuff.

I’m east coast but not near NY… maybe I can justify it by renting a U-Haul van and filling it with TVs ;)
What an awesome game that was - even more awesome to know there are people that remember it. :-D
I'd love to try this. Anyone with a referral code?
Sunbird was claiming they reverse engineered iMessage (either to maintain e2e encryption, or to just do stuff on device).

It looks like Beeper has actually managed to do the latter, which is really exciting!!
Elon's Gordian Knot
All of it, barring pardon/commutation or something overturning the verdict or sentence:

Its federal, so there is no parole.

Its less than a year, so federal good conduct time reductions aren't available, either.
I don't think Firefox's usage of Rust is in any way relevant to Rust's popularity (or lack thereof) at this point in Rust's life, nor going forward.

(I also suspect it's neither the largest nor best known project that uses Rust, but that's very difficult to quantify.)
Can it truly be irrelevant? Our so called society may be modern based on some subjective chronocentric premise, but our biology and the sociological patterns
from which they are derived are largely just as they've been for millennia.

My point is that we can attempt adjudicate out our biological programming through social conditioning, but it's still there lurking under the surface. It's built into us and we can never truly hope to escape it as long as we shall live.
For real? You can net 5000 eur a month in Prague?
>Really was closer to a genocide.

Yes but that was a pretty ordinary occurrence in the ancient world.

I don't think the Celts were that much nicer when they invaded Greece a couple of hundred years earlier (or Rome/Italy itself prior to that).

The Romans supposedly murdered up to half a million people just during the siege of Carthage.

When Ceasar was ~12 the rebelling Greek kingdoms/cities basically exterminated almost all the Italians living in Asia Minor (~100k people). The amount of violence violence committed in Gaul seems to be only unperrendented in the sense that most generals weren't really successful enough to be in a position to murder that many people compared to Caesar.
How do you know you could fix all if you haven't shown you can fix one? And finding a way to talk to someone in charge is far easier than running, small steps work too. For context, Teachers are protesting en route to pick up my dog around where I live. Didn't know that till now.
I'd rather no one has any surveillance tools on that scale.

It's weird, though: I supremely dislike Musk, but I do think he might be a less-bad steward of that kind of tool than a lot of people/corporations.

Then again, he also throws a bunch of tantrums, so I expect he'd eventually weaponize that kind of view into everyone's lives. Probably in childish ways, not your garden-variety discrimination.
The "everything app" can mean an app that does everything, an app that everyone uses, or both.

It's totally possible that X expands its feature set while its audience and cultural relevancy continue to decline. I would not be surprised if it stabilizes at some point as a moderately profitable medium-sized tech company. But it's never again going to be the global phenomenon it was a decade ago.
Well, the threat of it at the time did anyway. I don't think they still offer the same deal for new signups. I keep thinking I've slipped through some crack in their billing system.
Facebook wanted to do this with Messenger too.

If they couldn’t do it, I see no reason to believe that X can.
> Why do you support a crooked company like Google?

Get back with me when the Mozilla Foundation has done a fraction of what Google has done in furthering our knowledge of computer science. Other companies making significant contributions to our knowledge of computer science are AT&T, IBM, and Microsoft. Would you prefer them to Google?

Also, the Firefox against the world meme is juvenile.
Personally:

1. Let me install extensions locally (without making me hunt down some alternate build that harasses me to upgrade every day).

2. Fix using the GUI key for GUI shortcuts, which has been buggy since the Quantum transition.

3. I like Chrome's collapsible tab groups. I think Firefox also once had some sort of tab grouping I liked.
Sounds like a great business model if you're able to pull off the reduction in support load the article also mentions.
It's very field dependent. The first author=person who did most of the work and last author=advisor is pretty much just how biomedical science works. Other fields have different traditions. I'm a computational biologist who has worked in both biology and computer science, and in CS (at least in the 1990s-early 2000s) the tradition was simple alphabetical order, for example, with no privilege afforded to either the first or last place. Along with other quirks like how presenting a result at a conference was considered equal to publishing it as opposed to in biology where conferences are more social networking events.
I haven't seen anybody else talk about what the experience of following somebody from another service is like on the user-end.

Following pixelfed accounts from Mastodon is actually fairly straightforward. You simply see them as a tweetlike message with an image attached. One caveat there is that Mastodon does not allow for as many attached images as pixelfed, and I believe will simply drop any images after a certain point (I want to say max size is 4).

Following a peertube account or channel (you can do either) will show a post whenever new videos are uploaded. You can find the OP on mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@jeena@tube.jeena.net. One neat bit of functionality is that if you put all of your peertube follows into a single list, you've basically got a chronological subscribed page (a la youtube). Also take note that comments can be left on either the peertube site or from within mastodon.
I don't know the legal text, but improving interop specifically between messaging services seems to be a goal of the DMA, according to the EU parliament [1]:

> Interoperability between messaging platforms will improve - users of small or big platforms will be able to exchange messages, send files or make video calls across messaging apps.

Lock-in mechanisms like the above would at least run counter to that goal.

I also think that enforcing device restrictions on a messaging service is more problematic than on some random API: Messengers are subject to the network effect and usually you can't freely choose which messenger you want to use - it depends on which one the people you want to talk with are on.

In an extreme case, some person or business could choose to exclusively communicate using iMessage. Then you'd have to buy an iPhone just to be able to reach them. This seems like exactly the kind of interop problem the EU is concerned about.

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/202...
I hope he at least permanently lost his pilot's license over this. 6 months does seem light, but I just don't want him flying again.
This one comes to mind immediately: https://xkcd.com/927/
Design of the Tabula Backgammon Engine
tabula is a backgammon engine I recently created.[0]

The engine builds on principles described by the author of the Motif engine.[1]

You can play against the engine right now.[2]

0. https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/tabula
1. https://bkgm.com/motif/engine.html
2. https://bgammon.org
I thought it would be a nice way of getting Plutarch on HN's front page
"I remember doing similar tricks when I was a kid. Nowadays I simply won't even care trying. The problem clearly isn't supposed to be solved this way."

This level of snark is undeserved, and a subtle amount of bitterness/jealousy leaks through.

Even if this stops working, this was a fantastic exercise to learn and practice reverse engineering.

"The problem clearly isn't supposed to be solved this way." No duh, there is no public iMessage API and not even the EU can make that happen. There is nothing wrong with *hacking* a solution to a problem.

"Software development is about doing the things the right way, not exercising in futility." LOL what? Okay thanks Agent Smith, have fun at your BigCo job installing Norton antivirus and pinging me about updating my laptop every 2 weeks.
For evil
I have one that filters on keywords too, with a toggle button to show them again in red, been thinking about adding URLs for a while but never got around to it
gpt says

The distinction between iMessage (blue bubbles) and regular SMS/MMS (green bubbles) on iPhones matters because iMessage offers additional features like read receipts, typing indicators, higher-quality media sharing, and seamless syncing across Apple devices. While the color of the bubble itself may not be significant, the functionality and experience differ between the two, impacting communication capabilities.
> Human safety comes first.

Let's look deeper at the real question they faced: How much risk (of life and limb) is it worth to save a chimpanzee's life?

Obviously the answers aren't 0 or 100%. If it was 0%, then we wouldn't have zoos, zookeepers, pets of many species, farms, etc. 100% means it's worth trading certain death for a human to save a chimpanzee - arguable philosophically, but for the sake of this discussion, I'll rule it out.

The answer is in-between. Everyone takes risks around dogs, horses, cattle - small children play with most of them. Zookeepers take much greater risks, it seems, around wild animals. So do hunters, tourists, etc.

How much risk do we tolerate? Do zookeepers take 1/1000 risk of death over their careers?
This is incredibly stupid and petty.

Doesn't the UK government have anything better to do? The obvious and mandatory prerequisite before rolling out such pointless legislation is to have an accurate way to verify age that is also reasonably difficult to circumvent... which doesn't exist.

If I were from the UK I'd be more ashamed of the adults than the kids.

> Acceptable methods could include:
... [list of ideas that don't work] ...
credit card checks

Bingo. Most sites already have this so it's a whole lot of hot air. This goes directly after the free porn sites, but it's trivial to just use a VPN and pretend like you're in the USA.
Nonetheless, the article's examples sound like clearly attributable job specific cancer risks. Cancer decades later from lots of longterm sitting are harder to account and probably not included.
Lamborghini introduces four-day week for production workers
>> The creation of these tools and their massive/universal adoption a la web-crawlers is still a large gap though.

It only takes a decade or so.

Consider people who are young children now in "first world nations". They will have always had LLM-based tools available and voice assistants you can ask natural language questions.

It will likely follow the same adoption curves as smartphones, only faster because of existing network effects.

If you have smartphone with a reasonably fast connection, you have access to LLM tools. The next generations of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops will all have LLM tools built-in.
Tech independence is, at best an individual solution. Sure, maybe you can be free, but you leave everyone else behind.

What we need are collective solutions. Solutions that work to protect your parents, your children, your friends, your co-workers—everyone—from tech megacorporations whose intention—in some cases openly and explicitly—is to own the world and make everyone pay rent to them for existing in the digital space.

At worst, "tech independence" is a mirage. You may have your own physical server, running an OS you've built from scratch, whose code you've inspected and verified free from infiltration, but you're still communicating over wires owned by those same megacorporations. If too many people walk away and say "not my problem anymore," rather than fighting for better laws and regulations to rein in the massive overreach of big tech companies, we lose the critical mass to be able to continue to fight them.

Which would you rather have:

A world where no one has to pay that digital rent? Where everyone can communicate, network, etc privately and safely, with end-to-end encryption over open protocols?

Or one where you get to play the Lone Hero Standing Alone Against The Evil, while others continue to be abused?
ugh when you tech bros are all driving around in your smart cars broadcasting unregulated tracking data to a centralized place and people are tweeting about it you’re going to rethink whether or not it should be allowable.
Sorry; I was, perhaps, unclear.

Apple does not in any way intend it to be used to identify the outgroup and shun them.

SMS on the iPhone used green bubbles for years before iMessage existed. When iMessage was introduced, it had blue bubbles simply to distinguish it and make clear "these are users of the new service you can video chat with, send files to, etc". Like I said: a useful informational signal.

It wasn't until years after that that this wailing and gnashing of teeth about blue vs green bubbles started. To the extent that such a social dichotomy exists, it is a purely emergent socially-created one, not one that Apple has pushed in any way.

Furthermore, it would be a regression for Apple to remove that useful informational signal just because people are upset that they get accurately identified as "the one in the group who is using a different device, and thus cannot safely be added to group chats for reasons entirely outside of Apple's control".

The bubble color isn't the problem. The problem is, as you somewhat allude to, inseparable from the fact that there is a way to tell the difference between People Using iMessage on Apple Messages and People Using SMS.
Any use cases in particular?
I don't think that paints a complete picture.

There's a shared covenant and there's shared block lists, both of which heavily influence what the norm is on the larger Mastodon network. Perhaps an even larger dynamic are activist-type admins that have an extremely low tolerance for content countering their political beliefs and will blackmail other admins into enforcing a block of a user or entire instance.

None of this is a shocking revelation as a large portion of older Mastodon users are known for their excessive safety-ism. It's a perpetual conflict on the network versus those that want to be more forgiving and pragmatic.

Anyway, the bottom line is that mainstream Mastodon is a left to far-left network, and content is moderated as such. The idea "just pick another server" doesn't really apply.
It might the largest customer, but I am not sure it's a majority customer. According to SpaceX, several months ago they had 1 million paying customers. Assuming the cheapest price they are bringing in $100 million a month.

Is US govt paying them $100 million a month?
Chicago

Pros: Affordable compared to similar cities, yet very rich and diverse economy with multiple sectors represented. Friendly people and decent infrastructure. Relatively "central" in the US for domestic travel.

Cons: Extreme weather. Above average (though not as bad as advertised) crime problems. Lack of any worthwhile natural POI except for the lake. Relative isolation from other great cities in the US, as most of the rest of the Midwest is dead, dying, or uninteresting. Limited entrepreneurial culture.
You're right, my statement was factually incorrect. The correct statement is "Apple is currently fighting an effort to require iMessage to be interoperable".

The argument stands. It would be a bad idea for Apple to ban competition from iMessage, even with an attempt at plausible deniability, while they are fighting European regulators about interoperability on multiple fronts.
Another: https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
Ongoing,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531104
Seconding meldmerge. Not paying $70 (BeyondCompare) for what meldmerge does just as well and for free.
Honestly I feel like the world would have been better without Google and Microsoft.

The Web has been co-opted, and until those entities lose influence over standards, the environment is at risk.

They should have moved onto their own protocol already.
this one doesn't have reports of using insecure http during account linking and I think you have the option to self-host
NexusRaven-v2: Surpassing GPT-4 for zero-shot function calling
It’s remarkable to me that this would not only lead to competition with PayPal (founded by Musk) but also with Cash App, founded by Dorsey. The article does not even mention this second point, which in my opinion represents a huge lost opportunity for Square and Twitter, who could have had the same partnership when they were both doing well and run by the same CEO.
Indeed both frameworks support model chaining.

However, achieving goals like "training your LLM" or enabling "real-time inference" requires more than just pipelines. For that, we have invested in enhancing compatibility with databases and facilitating parallel computing.

About your last point, I 'm not sure I fully understand. Do you mean to write a guide for moving lang-chain models to superduper? Or to create superduper wrappers for langchain ? Or to move the core functionalities of superduper to langchain ?

The guide, is something have in our immediate plans. The wrappers are under discussion. The latter I don't think it's possible due to architectural differences. For example, superduper is designed with multi-node environments in mind.
Agreed. Even if Firefox makes up a small part of the market share, any website that serves millions of people will want to support it. Imagine if you have a website with 1,000,000 monthly visitors, and 2% of them use Firefox. Dropping support will mean 20,000 less monthly visitors. This gives us an idea of how much you should spend on support. If you make an average of $0.10 a month per user, you should be okay with spending at least $2000 a month on Firefox. That's a pretty big budget, and it's reasonable to go much higher than that if your website is rapidly growing. The big players like Google and Facebook will also be comfortable supporting Firefox at a loss, since you don't want to bleed users and create market space for a competitor. At most, you lose a few small websites that you probably weren't going to visit anyways.
Just got an email update from them. It sounds like you can opt out of the new terms. Not sure what the consequences will be.

> We encourage you to read the new terms in full. Please notify us within 30 days of receiving this email if you do not agree to the terms, in which case you will remain subject to the current Terms of Service. If you do not notify us within 30 days, you will be deemed to have agreed to the new terms.

Notification email: legal@23andme.com
The Messages app in macOS is less capable than the Messages app in iOS. It cannot even edit sent messages.
Freelance? Would be curious to hear about your experience getting into it if you're interested in sharing.
That's fascinating. Thank you for sharing. That really puts the scale of human activity into context.
I feel like submodules are one of Git's most misunderstood features. I agree that they're really not great for the use-case of "I have to work in a bunch of repos at the same time", but they're also not designed for that.

Submodules are a really good solution for problems that look like "this repo depends on some upstream repos that I don't control", and a bad solution for any other problem. They do what they were designed to do.

Imagine that your build-script needs to clone a bunch of third-party dependencies. So maybe you write some kind of clone.sh that loops through a bunch of Git repo URLs. Then later you want to also specify specific commit hashes, so you add a commit-ID field. Then you write a tool that makes it easy to update the fields in your clone.sh file. Guess what you've got? Git submodules.
Even iPhone users in Europe tend to just use WhatsApp. It's the default there, largely because of the history of carriers charging thru the nose for SMS back in the day...when WhatsApp offered "free" messaging (uses tiny amounts of your data plan), it took off.
Even in cases where the perpetrator believes that the underlying act is survivable, they'd probably still rather not get caught at all.
Flameshot[1] is free.

[1]: https://flameshot.org/
OK yes, I agree that everything you said is evidently how things work today in the real world, and your correcion about the definition of unrealized. I was trying to articulate into words the principle OP was getting at: That we should use lending activity "as a trigger for taxing unrealized capital gains". I think there are reasonable arguments for either side honestly.
Not sure what EveryBuddy is. Trillian was a multi-protocol chat client from 2000 [0] named after Trillian [1] from 1979.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillian_(software)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillian_(character)
In that case I think it’s perfectly acceptable to degrade the speaker and screen that were placed in the public realm.
You provided "evidence" in the form of news articles that directly refuted your own claims. The articles explain why those accounts were banned.

It's fine that you dislike Musk for whatever reason but you shouldn't lie about him and it is a lie to say that he banned accounts he didn't like and use examples where he banned people for violating the rules.
You've described a good thing that I also believe is not "tracking" in the "stalking" sense but "tracking" in a surfacing publicly available data way.
Beeper is an app that unifies all the messaging protocols you mentioned (and others) into a single app. They are not introducing another protocol.

Universal in this context is referring to the ability to use a single app across protocols rather than the ability to use a single app across platforms.