skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still need a valid phone number with a SIM that can do the special SMS needed for this, so it's hardly going to produce a big spam farm too fast.
Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns
Market forces only provably work in a steady state. Unsurprisingly they're not that good at dealing with sudden swings.
Dichotomy promotes the narratives of all belligerents.
I’m in Asia, my phone number has been with me for almost a decade. I haven’t received spam in a blue bubble, only on SMS (green). Just want to give you a perspective in the other part of the world.

This are not just spam but most are sms phishing with links. We have poor, inadequate cyber laws, so we are glad Apple is doing its part sealing this off.
Yes, totally understandable that this would be blocked within our legal system... but its a proof of concept that it would not be burdensome for apple to enable interoperability. We should be demanding support for open standards for messaging from mono/duopolists like Apple/Google.
First, note that facial recognition is not the same thing as being able to recognize celebrities. It's about being able to identify you or me as we go about our daily lives.

> Sounds like the devil is in the details. What if you scrape a large quantity of images and the end result just happens to be able to recognize many faces?

I think you can solve this by focusing on the end result. If you create a tool that scrapes images, processes them in some way, and ends up being capable of facial recognition, then it should fall under the purview of this law.

> Hosted services like ChatGPT can "solve" this by refusing to identify faces, and if you hack around it with prompt engineering, well, they can tell the EU that they tried

And then the EU can reply "you didn't try hard enough, now take down the tool and pay these fines".

However, is there any sign that ChatGPT can do general facial recognition?

> Open source models that can handle images, though? Hopefully this regulation does not end up forbidding the use of general-purpose open source models

This a more valid worry, to my mind.
Might be relevant: https://twitter.com/dzhulgakov/status/1733217065811742863.

Anyway, if the vanilla version requires 2x80gb cards, I wonder how would it run on a M2 Ultra 192gb Mac Studio.

Anyone having the machine could try?
Except they didn't hire him? He gave them some kind of info about the sms verifications, which they then had their devs implement.
I think Elon Musk is just mentally unwell.
Maybe you were lied to about how "market forces" work?
You are literally responding to one. Would you rather everyone reading here took that comment's advice or yours?
There are companies who have come out of YC who have main drivers other than profit.
If you’re not going to be satisfied with anything short of Netanyahu on tape saying “our intent is to kill as many Palestinian civilians as possible”verbatim, then we can just end this conversation now. Even the US would probably be forced to meaningfully withdraw support if Israel fully took the mask off (though as I’ve shown, many high ranking ministers and IDF members have come shockingly close).

What you hear instead are thinly-veiled justifications. Oh, we had to bomb those hospitals because there were tunnels there. So sorry about the civilian deaths at a refugee camp, but we just wanted to get that one commander.

Let’s be real here. Israel shut off food, water, medicine and electricity to Gaza. They’ve damaged over 2/3 of the buildings there [1]. As of a month ago, they’d dropped almost 2x the amount of explosives the US delivered to Hiroshima [2].

These are not the actions of a country “going after military targets even at some cost to civilians”. Israel is doing exactly what Hagari said: inflicting maximum damage.

[1] https://x.com/tksshawa/status/1732447886237974898

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/11/9/israel-att...
Actions certainly do have consequences, like roughly forty years prior to the wall's construction, arbitrary "military orders" that post-occupation immediately granted the military total authority over every aspect of Palestinian life, declared all water to be the property of Israel, and that land could be seized for any reason - and more which have since made it illegal to do nearly anything without the authorization of the military, which includes everything from planting flowers to doing anything related to water to groups larger than 10 people assembling to attending school to operating a tractor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Military_Order
In the 2022 Correspondence Chess Championship, humans hurt the performance of computers by themselves. I posted about this here: https://twitter.com/LechMazur/status/1721008768899555677
> and I'm an older Millennial, it should be mostly us buying homes right now

There's a huge Boomer generation also trying to downsize.

Back in 2021 the average homebuyer was 45 years old. This probably hasn't changed that much: https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-us-homebuyer-age-sal...

https://www.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/documents/2021-h...

- GenZ at 2%

- Older Millennials at 23 percent and Younger Millennials at 14 percent of the share of home buyers. Millennials have been the largest share of buyers since the 2014 report

- Buyers 41 to 55 (Gen Xers) consisted of 24 percent of recent home buyers.

- Buyers 56 to 65 consisted of 18 percent of recent buyers and buyers 66 to 74 consisted of 14 percent of recent buyers.

- Buyers 75 to 95 (The Silent Generation) represented the smallest share of buyers at five percent.
Crime against Arab Israelis is appalling. Nothing to do with the nation state law (which to be clear is a stupid mistake), as far as I can tell it’s not even mentioned in the article.
Israeli leaders have been quoted as saying they intend to erase Gaza, flatten Gaza, etc. Their top general has called Palestinian civilians "human animals". The PM has been quoting bible verse to justify genocide. There is no question Israel is murdering civilians as a goal not by happenstance. And, they didn't begin only with this latest massacre. Israeli leaders have a euphemism for their periodic massacres of Palestinian civilians; they call it, "mowing the lawn."

E.g., only a few years ago, there was a peaceful march of thousands of Palestinians demanding their right to return to their homes on the other side of the separation wall. The Israelis opened fire with live ammunition, murdering 200, and maiming thousands more-- it appears the Israeli snipers were aiming for the protesters' kneecaps to permanently disable them. The protesters were unarmed. Zero coverage in the western corporate press.

In a prior massacre of Gaza that the Israelis called, "Operation Cast Lead", the Israeli snipers wore shirts with a picture of a pregnant women in the cross hairs of a rifle, with the slogan (in Hebrew) below, "One bullet, two kills."

And, as has been ongoing continuously for decades, Palestinians were forced from their homes by Israeli settlers only days before the October attacks. And there was a murder of Palestinians by Israeli settlers also only days before the attack-- these things happen literally all the time, so it is expected that there would be.

Israel has also kidnapped more civilians including children than they released in the prisoner exchange since they began this most recent massacre of Gaza. If you paid attention, the hostages Israel released were in large part women and children, held for years without charge, and under indefinite detention. Two of the children they released were two 14 year old boys who were 11 or 12 when kidnapped by Israel, and they were released into an area where there is no way for a Palestinian to travel to the area their families reside, as Israel prohibits Palestinian travel. There were plenty of younger child hostages released by Israel as well. These kidnappings (without charge and indefinite detention) are also a constant occurrence. Pretty much a guarantee, if you are caught demonstrating against the occupation.
vertical scaling*
>Of course, it's very unlikely Apple is doing that. Just putting the thought out there.

Is making wild claims and then immediately trying to disavow them in the next sentences the hacker spirit?

How does it at all follow that Beeper Mini is using encryption properly (or else it wouldn't work) but it's unlikely Apple is? How would Beeper have been able to reverse engineer it if Apple's not using it? Who did they model their correct implementation of Apple's protocol off of?
It originally didn't, but it's part of the Netflix subscription. Someone said there's the premium version out there but I don't see it.
Since you seem to be an expert on this matter I have always wondered whether at some point it becomes faster to prove novel theorems using a theorem prover then doing it on paper. I imagine that quite a bit of time is wasted in proving things that are already proven. In a similar manner that if there would be no libraries, just snippets of code in papers, in computer programming a lot of time would be wasted writing the same things again. I imagine a "proof finding" tool like hoogle is a "function finding" tool could provide a lot of value here. What is your perspective on this?
Woses aka Woads (Picts, known for "painting" themselves with tattoos).
> Wouldn't you want to look at protein per calorie or EAA per calorie?

PDCAAS is a reasonable standard to use, pro-rated against total calories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_Digestibility_Correc...
Apple appears to have blocked Beeper Mini's iMessage app in less than a week
Speaking of digesting random things, I found myself bored in the shoe section of some store (I wanna say Nordstroms), and I was curious if I could eat the leather shoes. Beef is beef, right? Apparently you cannot digest leather due to the chemicals involved in the curing process.
This was said at the heat of the moment when the bodies of the Oct 7th victims were still warm and the entire country was stunned and lost.

This complete siege didn't happen.
It was the same when Apple banned Fortnite for daring to accept payments outside of their walled garden and the forced 30% cut. People falling over themselves to hate on Epic and defend Apple's forced cut and the total removal of developer freedom. If it was Microsoft the entire tone would be completely different.
> this is map showing all the lands occupied by Israel with timeline https://i.stack.imgur.com/0xM5P.jpg

That map uses the word "Palestine" with three different definitions:

1. The geographical area of Palestine, also often called The Holy Land among other names, that was not inhabited by Jews.

2. The area that the UN Partition Plan designated for an Arab state.

3. The areas that the Palestinian Authority has both civil and military control over.

The problem with the first definition is obvious: It displays a geographical area with a racial modifier. That would be like showing a map of France with all the areas where French people live highlighted, then assuming that 100% of the remaining areas are "Immigrant Land". In reality, the far majority of the land was not settled by Jews nor Arabs in time frame of this map - it was so empty that the Ottomans created laws specifically to increase both Arab and Jewish settlement in the area, they didn't care so long as the taxes were paid.

The UN Partition Plan was not perfect, but it for the most part proposed an Arab state in the areas that were Arab majority, and a Jewish state in the areas with a Jewish majority. The Arabs rejected this plan in an attempt to conquer more land - so complaining that the borders changed from these borders is disingenuous. The Arabs started a war (well, more than one) with the specific intent of changing these borders.
Yes in fact they are. I have the amazing ability to recognize a problem even if I don't have it myself*. If you really can't do that, perhaps you should try.

* Android user in the US where this dynamic primarily exists, but I just don't care because I'm not 20 any more. I only very occasionally need to send a video or picture to anyone, and in those cases, I know enough to use email or a google photos link or something, which probably annoys the recipient a little and makes me weird to them, but I'm just ok with that since I know where the blame really lies. Similarly in the occasional times I txt with family members or friends, we're not in high school and so they don't care about my green bubble, and I just accept the annoying stupid extra txts I get that say "x smiled" or whatever. That ux don't bother me in the sense that I don't spend any time thinking and caring about it, but that doesn't make it not utterly stupid and ridiculous, and especially so when you know it's a deliberate act and not an honest technical limitation. Astonishingly it's possible to both recognize that something is not worth investing much care over, and recognize that it's wrong and that it's a deliberate wrong commited by someone and not just the weather. Amazing!
There's a theory, price-over-volume, that the sudden shift in demand and expectation of inflation gave companies room to explore a different point on the revenue curve, where they increase the price and simply sell less volume. Prior to the pandemic this was risky and people assumed they were near optimal already. During the pandemic a bunch of companies learned they could push on price, sell less, but still make more revenue. All companies did this independently and simultaneously so the usual competitive effects didn't kick in. And now we're at a new equilibrium that the few companies in each industry are happy with.
they let it happen
No such thing as excess profits in a free market...
No: it does not
They’re not Israeli citizens.
“Market forces” create monopolies that buy off politicians and entrench their price-fixing power.
Not a great proposal, frankly.
OpenAI's Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions
I can't tell if this is a joke!
Yearly reminder that a long time ago, chat services used XMPP and we were on the verge of having GChat interoperability with FB messages and I think Yahoo or something similar at the time. None of them really wanted to do it for business reasons, so they could “add value” (and charge for it)….same reason RSS has fallen out of favor (no good way to inject ads and tracking). IRC and Matrix still exist.
Blocking interpretability could be illegal, especially as they near market dominance
plenty of time left to participate in the current Decker jam, Dec(k)-Month: https://itch.io/jam/deck-month
This is a really great example of trying to use outrage to distract from the fact that you’re not addressing the point you’re allegedly replying to.

You got stuck because you didn’t understand the implications of the original hot take you had. It’s ok, it happens.
> It's just apple degrading the performance for who is not on an iPhone.

The reason the video looks like ass is because MMS messages aren't meant to be very large. While (iirc) there isn't a hard limit, the recommended maximum message size is ~600KB. The only way to fit a video into that range is to compress the hell out of it.
This is a massive simplification to the point of being misleading. Those laws are largely superseded by contract law, which is exactly why collective agreements are made, and the order in which layoffs are made are usually among the first to be negotiated. There are lawyers that base their entire careers on such matters.
Only assuming it's able to hide the faster one in free parallelism.
> media controlled by people - like TikTok

If you think TikTok (or Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc..) are 'controlled by people' I have a bridge to sell you.
Which part do you think doesn't fit?

I believe the example i gave does fit. I understand from your post that you disagree but i can't figure out what specificly about it makes you think it doesn't fit. What is the part that isn't fitting?
Because free markets are not in fact efficient, despite economists really wanting them to be, and there is zero form of rigorous proof that they are.
I can think of scenarios that explain this without the explanation being "corporate greed". eg if you had cheap suppliers and expensive suppliers, then the cheap ones went out of business, the expensive ones' profit would rise without their actively doing anything.

That's what happened with eggs in the last year; the price went up because nearly all the suppliers' chickens caught bird flu and had to be culled. So the surviving ones made a lot of profit as a reward for still operating. But prices are back to normal now.

Easier than explaining this:

> Inflation is now beginning to regulate in most major economies and coming closer to most central banks’ targeted 2%. Some companies that previously passed rising costs on to customers to continue making a profit have now sought to repay them with price cuts.

Good thing those companies that were greedy in 2021 are apparently negative greedy in 2023. I guess greedflation is transitory.
People never think about complexity as a tool, but it's as much of a tool as the lowly assumption. If anything, they're two sides of the same coin.

You can make things simple by making assumptions, you can enable cool things by making things complex.

the thing about assumptions is that they're dangerous. easy example: assuming the timezone in a db column vastly simplifies things but if you're ever wrong things can go terribly wrong.

Which is why some of the most dangerous developers on your team are the ones who either don't _respect_ assumptions or don't even realize they're building in assumptions.

The flip side is true for complexity. You can absolutely harness complexity to great effect, but if you have developers who don't realize they're building in complexity or don't respect the cost of that complexity, you have dangerous developers.
Yes. Who would want to be the genius who discovered a revolutionary paradigm in energy transmission and created numerous world-changing inventions when you could be the rich asshole who ripped him off?

And also who claimed to have invented a telephone that talked to the dead[0], btw.

[0]https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas...
If OP is using a space heater or an electrical furnace to heat their home, then the money they make would offset the electricity bill a bit, since computers are efficient heaters.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/gaming-pc-vs-spac...
There are a lot of people who just credulously cite any statistic when it makes Israel look bad and dismiss anything that mitigates Israeli action as Zionist lies. It's hard to reach these people.
Wales is Celtic and pre-dates Brittany. Bretons came from Britain before or after the invasion.
Telling young people to work-life balance is actively harmful
I am surprised intercom-over-IP isn't a big thing. There could be plug and play UDP multicast intercoms powered by PoE, and wifi walkie talkies, there's not really any tech challenges, but for some reason there's no popular standard for how to make that happen.
Without looking it up, do you know what a monopsony is? If so, why are you claiming any given middleman business is only one of them and not the other? Since they have opposite effects.

I also don't think the monopoly model applies outside industries like energy where there's obvious physical reasons to have one, but there are reasons it helps to grant one to a business in exchange for heavier oversight. It's hard to regulate a lot of small companies.

In general though, "big monopoly corporations" causing everything is a leftover of 70s New Leftism, which was a failure and worse than their prior Marxist analysis.
> In contrast, Israel has a ~20% Arab minority (excluding Gaza and West Bank).

I'm reminded of an anecdote (probably false) of when someone was asked in an interview why all manhole covers are round. He replied that not all manhole covers are round. They countered "Well, just consider the round ones".
I can tell you exactly how I would react if someone were to do something to my daughter, which is the biggest source of joy to me right now.

So what exactly is your solution then? To create 10-20 times the suffering that has led to the growth of Hamas to begin with?

But let's say, for the sake of the argument, that that line of reasoning is justified, which for the record, I don't think it is. How does that then justify the violence, and the killings happening in the West Bank? How does it justify shooting Palestinians in the US?

Nobody here wants to hear it, but the only country that has gotten a hold of its Islamist terrorism problem without mass bombing is China. And contrary to what people in the US like to hear the Organization of Islamic Cooperation which comprises dozens of Muslim countries, have praised Chinas efforts to build infrastructure and schools. The US shouts about Uyghur rights all the time and then bombs them the moment they hang out with the Taliban for training[1].

Even the guy who came up with the Uyghur genocide says that the people working in the factories are treated well, and yet that's somehow a bad thing[2].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-targets-chinese-uighu...

[2] https://twitter.com/adrianzenz/status/1732406580623098274
a possibility, but we can't be too safe!
I wasn't ignorant of it - that's why I said "any modern Israeli party". I'm aware past Israeli/Zionist groups have engaged in terrorism and in some cases deliberate civilian massacres. As far as I know Likud hasn't within the past 50 years.
In what way would Beeper's action cause Apple's customers to breach a contract with Apple? I would think most of the people who would purchase a service like this would be Android users, not iPhone users. Some of them might own Macs, but what would be the contract that the user would be breaching that would result in damage to Apple?
Your argument fundamentally boils down to, "oops". I think we can apply a little more critical thinking than that. Most military folk know better than to say the quiet part out loud.
My understanding of tortious interference is that it is broader than actually preventing others from using a service. Even just saying things to dissuade them from doing business with a company can qualify.
In every social mileu there are insane things that are commonly believed. Believing in "greedflation" is like believing in vaccine microchips.
https://shopgoodwill.com/item/185825793

This would do. $.99 over budget though
Like SMTP, BGP or most "ancient" network protocols, it was built on completely different assumptions about who was actually allowed to connect to the network, and therefore trustability.

Unfortunately, there is way too much old gear around, probably hundreds of billions of dollars worth, so instead of actually rebuilding communications systems we're forced to bolt on security (and features, like with IPv6) onto an extremely large pile of ossified bull dung.
I'm pretty sure it's AI generated. For a couple days I was falling asleep to this one anyway, not much content like it about Eve elsewhere (other than the book that was written).
you act like these numbers are hard to find:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Tell me do you think the Palestinians deserve their own country?
How do you propose to fight Hamas?

In an ideal world what you’re saying would be true. Hamas could be eradicated without civilian casualties. No children would get hurt.

But you’re not proposing an alternative — and part of the reason is that Hamas has made it explicitly hard to do so.

Is the verdict that any territory that is sufficiently populated can’t be retaliated against?
Automating jobs is the thing that gets people out of poverty.

The exception is when the regulatory environment prevents certain jobs from being automated or otherwise competitive, resulting in artificial scarcity of necessities. But then your problem isn't AI, it's market consolidation and regulatory capture.