skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adjusted for the inflation on the items that the poorest tend to spend their money on? The inflation statistics I've seen have a few buckets for certain kinds of expenses, but don't break things down into baskets of goods based on income.

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2023/01/inflat...

: As there are no official estimates of inflation by demographic and income groups

: In the first post of this series, we present disparities in inflation rates across racial and ethnic groups as well as across income groups between June 2019 and December 2022. We present evidence that during this period, Black, Hispanic, and middle-income households were most affected by rising inflation, experiencing steadily higher price increases relative to the overall average between early 2021 and June 2022. This pattern is largely because a greater share of these groups’ expenditures is devoted to transportation, particularly used cars and motor fuel, categories that led the 2021 inflationary episode. However, over the last five months, as transportation inflation has declined, these gaps have declined as well.

: It is likely the case that the same rate of inflation represents a greater welfare loss for lower-income than higher-income households because of the former’s lower capacity for substituting to less expensive goods, greater liquidity constraints, and larger marginal utility of real income.
Might it be because the whole world is actually concerned about the massacre Isreal is now committing on the Palestinian people?
In my experience, incoming SMS are mostly spam, and other low trust notifications, while incoming iMessages, even if unknown to me, are likely to be real people. Buying an Apple device is an expensive signal, and Apple will quickly shut down abusers, maintaining that relatively high bar.

Letting (actual) Android users use iMessage probably wouldn’t affect that, but the open source hack/reversing of it opened the door to iMessage spam that Apple, for the sake of reputation, and customer satisfaction, is obliged to close.

Anyway, I guess my point is that there are some “burdens” that are less obvious than others.
Except they charge a thousand dollars to enter and then let everyone else in for free but they have to wear a badge and the pictures they get from the roller coaster photo booth are 240p.
>> Or will you start splitting hairs, "Oh it's not due to the law, probably a coincidence haha".

> 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.

LOL.

A silly mistake, surely, to codify apartheid into law, teehee. And then one thing leads to another, and people somehow end up being discriminated. Completely unrelated, though! Could happen to any of us if we’re not careful!
B: Why haven't you signed?

A: I tried, but I couldn't edit the Google doc.

B: I could put your name in for you.

. . .

People don't just spontaneously wake up at 2:30 am to sign a letter.
Perhaps a lesser told eve story that the general public hears.

In eve opsec is an understandably important part of the game. Lots of information (was) disseminated on forums and various groups would penetrate them with a spy and leak their information.

However, you can actually burn spies by using coded synonyms to reveal the person who leaked the information.

I'll let you read for yourself.
http://failheap-challenge.com/showthread.php?16311-Taking-th...
> We've really done one over on ourselves by adopting the mental model that only a vertically integrated corp can deliver privacy and security to users. This rigid tendency towards homogeneity is bound to suffer a tragic systemic failure before too long.

Look no further than the other news that came out this week re: government spying via push notifications. (https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments...) Consumers rationally trust the few big companies which are incentive-aligned to protect their data and government then goes after those few big companies. I thought this was particularly galling:

> In a statement, Apple said that Wyden's letter gave them the opening they needed to share more details with the public about how governments monitored push notifications.

> "In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information," the company said in a statement. "Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests."
Beeper Cloud, their other product, does exactly this...

https://help.beeper.com/en_US/chat-networks/imessage
Hopefully not!
As a European living in the US, it's been baffling to me. Everywhere else in the world people use WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. This iMessage green/blue bubble nonsense just isn't a thing outside the US.
Agreed. I think Apple wins easily though. If they can break it once a month for a day or two, I think that makes it inconvenient for beeper mini users.

Maybe not though, who knows
The voice seems real, not AI-generated.
Yes yes. I'm from Israel. I know that story.

Palestinians did not reject a one state solution. Most Israelis don't want that. I.e. annex the West Bank and Gaza and have a single country, let's call it "Israel-Palestine".

I think the Israeli Arabs are a model/proof that it can work. It might need a generation or two to get there.

If you want more radical ideas then if all Palestinian Arabs convert to Judaism we can also solve the problem pretty quickly...
would you trust Gitlab Enterprise Edition more if it had FSL license? https://fsl.software/
It seems no one told the EU that once AI works it is not called AI anymore.
> I'm not sure how this ends unless they drop that?

I can't imagine the average Palestinian person having the headroom to do anything about those 1%.

Does that mean that Israel should implement whatever response they feel like? That is what we are watching play out, and it's an ugly scene.

What if, alternatively, the average Palestinian person was actually in a position to help? What would that look like?

--

What this really seems to boil down to is that no Palestinian person gets a say about what happens in Palestine, except for that violent 1%. That's a pretty obvious motivator for people to join that 1% group. It's also a motivator that might potentially be eliminated without violence. It seems to me like that would be worth a try.
Uhhhh yes it did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli_blockade_of_the_G...

> On 9 October 2023, Israel imposed a "total blockade" of the Gaza Strip, blocking the entry of food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity.
It isn't weird, its completely straightforward why this is a problem.
Oh, no offence taken at all. If anything it's something I've been willing to express found the right time to comment.

I'm not psychically disabled as I have no deformities, have fingers which work but it just seems that any portable device I use gives me hand cramps or just not enough room to flow.

It would just be nice for the factory default to just be usable. Thank you.
How does Sundar Pichai still have a job? Isn’t he ultimately accountable for turning Google’s state of the art AI research into multiple bungled attempts at commercialization?
Is it your opinion that since it’s possible to subvert it they should abandon the attempt?
Wow, the emails even included the proton default signature of "sent with Proton Mail secure email." I can maybe see not noticing in the "from" field, but how does that not raise red flags?

I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is that police routinely use their personal accounts for such things.
This sounds very similar to the GDPR fine structure, and that doesn't have that loophole.
I’m very interested in this. Specifically, I don’t want it to be a web service, I want it to be in a CDN.

Took a crack at building “vector-store-in-a-cdn” last weekend.

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/portable-hnsw
We replaced StepFunctions ASL with TypeScript by making Lambdas suspendable
Does Apple block imessage on rooted phones? If not, what level of device security do you really have?
Except price fixing does occur. I’m not saying everything is the result of it, but they absolutely do.
I asked it if it spoke spanish, said yes, I then asked some stuff in spanish and it responded in English anyways.

Sometimes it would hang unnaturally for a long time after I finished speaking and then do the beep to "confirm receipt" of what I said. I think that may need to be more sensitive?

The voice was a little andro - make it more manly or more feminine to make it more human.

Good start!
Agree Israel could do a lot more in the West Bank (or maybe try just not being there...), but the present conflict is the result of attacks launched from Gaza, the area Israel fully withdrew from in the early 2000s. Gazans freely voted for Hamas for the first time shortly afterwards (which was the last time Hamas permitted them to vote). Ironically, polls for the time suggest that many of the Gazan voters who switched to Hamas did so as a protest against corruption and authoritarian trends in their Fatah govt and believed Hamas should have changed its core position to actually consider negotiating a peace settlement with Israel, but it's a pretty clear example that even drastic unilateral Israeli action (they did remove their settlements in that area... after the changes of government necessary to force it through) need not lead to peaceful outcomes.

Israel and especially its present governing coalition is not blameless for the situation (and nor are Palestinian factions and some of their supposed allies blameless for Israel's tendency to keep electing governing coalitions more interested in projecting power than continuing peace processes), but it's a lot more complicated than Israeli govts wanting Hamas to be a thing and nobody else in the region having agency. Undoing tacit support for an Islamist alternative to the PLO in the 1970s isn't really a policy option (if it is, someone should give the undo button to the US for Afghanistan!), that happened because there was open conflict long before Hamas and Netanyahu, and apparent diplomatic wins for the PLO did them absolutely no good in the noughties when Palestinians could still choose whether or not to vote for therm
And by implicitly trusting authority, you mean trusting the device manufacturer with billions of sales and intense scrutiny from security researchers and state actors spanning decades, right? You mean trusting the entire of the security industry to have managed not to miss this glaring and easy to detect invasion or privacy? This isn’t “it’s not happening because Apple promises it’s not”. This is one of the most scrutinized platforms in the world. Making wild claims and disavowing them immediately is lazy rhetoric, just as oversimplifying this as an appeal to authority is lazy rhetoric.
Where are they getting training data?
Archive: https://archive.ph/pkhfT
Are these iMessage group chat really a thing?

In my part of the world Whatsapp is the defacto standard for group chat and even for things like scheduling anpointment to a doctor/dentist/hairdresser.

And that is because it is available on android, apple devices and even those cheap kaios halfsmartphones.
That’s fair, but compare it to SMS. What if Apple blocked SMS messages sent via cellular carriers, which are also using their services (software on phones, etc.) Then suppose it wasn’t malicious SMS or spam, but legitimate messages sent using a competitor’s product (e.g. from all Samsung phones).
For all we know they allowed it to happen so they'd have an excuse to retaliate. See also: basically every 9/11 conspiracy theory.
The canary trap! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
Define "could get away with it".

What normally prevents this is competition, not regulation. Normally, if someone raises prices of something like eggs "too far", then people buy their competitor's eggs.

So "could get away with it" means that competition no longer prevented them from raising prices. So that brings you right back to the supplier thing, or something very much like it.
No, I don't think you've managed to get any of it.

You are profoundly confused.
You're both saying the same thing, which boils down to supply and demand.

Supply shocks (e.g., bird flu) result in price rises in the presence of relatively inelastic demand (e.g., consumer staples).

In economic terms, "get away with it" means "what the market will bear". Find me a company that doesn't try to charge as much as it thinks it can to optimize for total profit when you account for decreased sales due to higher prices than other sellers in the market.
If you check the How it Works post, they do show the Beeper Push Notification Service running in the cloud [1] to intercept 'new message available' APNs and then notify the Android device a new message is available.

[1] https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works
Israel is claiming that any male is a combatant. But, even if you accept such an insane definition of combatant, the majority of the casualties have been women and children.

The GP is just spreading falsehoods to justify genocide. There is a huge ops campaign by Israel and pro-Zionist organizations within the US. They are doxing, getting people fired, anything to scare people into self-censoring their critiques of Israeli genocide of Palestinian civilians. There are no doubt some useful idiots parroting Zionist propaganda, and also Zionists themselves spreading it in this discussion forum. But, no serious person can believe that over 10,000 women and children (including literal babies in incubators) murdered by Israel in this latest of many massacres, are "combatants".

(the US also used such a definition in Afghanistan to fake its civilian casualty numbers-- any male that appears 14yrs old and over was the American's definition of "combatant")
It doesn't matter if they support hamas you still cannot genocide them.
Microchips are actually a more defensible belief. I can deduce that inflation isn't caused by greed with an extremely basic knowledge of economics. Meanwhile, while it seems a priori extremely unlikely that Bill Gates has been spiking our vaccine supply, in order to actually disprove it, I'd need a microscope and some time.
If more users are sending encrypted messages over APNS instead of SMS (remember, SMS is effectively unencrypted plaintext), that sounds like the definition of "more security".

Hmmming and hawing over "OEMs... and ...lax app marketplace security" seems like quite a high bar to hold, a bar so high it ceases to be useful. Remember, iPhone users can disable passwords on their iPhone entirely; if that's not something you ever worry about, then worrying about a minority of OEM's seems like mere pretext to keep your comfy walled garden all to yourself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)
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hey makers,
I've spent the whole night to compile this list out of
> winners of Product Hunt
> best dev tools on DevHunt
> recently active on GitHub
> most internet backlinks
> most mentions as "alternative to .."

Let me know if I should add anything there.
I didn't know it was over a thousand, that's my mistake.
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Well Gaza is self governing (or was, until Oct 7th). Israel can't (couldn't) impose apartheid on Gaza any more than France imposes apartheid on Germany by being a separate country with borders.

West Bank is more complicated, but the same concept applies.

If Israel was motivated by racist or other tendencies to want to impose apartheid, they would start with the areas they have full control over. Why would they allow Arab voting if they are trying to impose apartheid?
> just the IPs Beeper Mini was using to connect to the APN service.

Hmm, wouldn't blocking IPs be overly broad and risked affecting regular users? Considering that IPs are scarce and constantly recycled by ISPs etc. Blocking device identifiers sounds more targeted and, for that reason, realistic.
I don't believe in closed protocols or crappy interoperability. There are several approaches that could improve things, like adopting Google's encryption improvements to RCS so that mixed iPhone/Android conversations are secure ("but that's not in the standard!", well, then, get it or something similar in the standard); they don't have to let others into iMessage necessarily. Apple claims to care strongly about their users' privacy and correctly attacks Google for caring a whole lot less. Encrypted, full-featured messaging would benefit their own users.
I’m poorer for having read this unsubstantiated drivel.
That is not the same thing as "greedflation" (getawaywithitinflation?) so it also conflicts with the article. You seem to be suggesting more of a buyer side change in what prices they forgive.

Any explanation needs to show why it didn't happen from 1990-2021, did happen 2021-2022, and then partly undid itself. Certainly some room for psychological factors in 2020, but it's probably not the main reason.
Seems like the government's fault. In every other area of even marginal importance we have better and more advanced authentication systems. Yet governments the world over continue to use signatures.

I mean something as simple as a piece of paper with a password that lets you find an authentication info in the court website. An email. Or even an automated phone or email address that lets you authenticate online
Or "nobody reads or even looks at email signatures."
You are certainly correct. But every ethnic group of people has a right to exist in their place.

To my eyes, there is enough evidence to warrant an investigation to determine if Palestinian civilians have been criminally murdered and forcibly relocated en masse.

Also to my eyes, there is enough evidence that Hamas military murdered, kidnapped, raped, and brutalized Israeli civilians such that an Israeli military response was justified.
You may not have ever experienced this yourself, but it's a known cultural phenonemon. Here's a New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/technology/personaltech/a...

> Over time, the annoyance and frustration that built up between blue and green bubbles evolved into more than a tech problem. It created a deeper sociological divide between people who judged one another by their phones. The color of a bubble became a symbol that some believe reflects status and wealth, given a perception that only wealthy people buy iPhones.

...

> On dating apps, green-bubble users are often rejected by the blues. Adults with iPhones have been known to privately snicker to one another when a green bubble taints a group chat. In schools, a green bubble is an invitation for mockery and exclusion by children with iPhones, according to Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that focuses on technology’s impact on families.

> “This green-versus-blue issue is a form of cyberbullying,” said Jim Steyer, the chief executive of Common Sense, which works with thousands of schools that have shared stories about tensions among children using messaging apps.
They are.

Then again, so are the unions.

Tesla just chose the most expensive way possible to solve the matter. That's well within their rights, of course.
Wouldn't your iPhone still receive spam SMS text messages with Apple Messages? And isn't Apple Messages commonly exploited by NSO Group (Zero-clicks)? Maybe I'm wrong, but this does not appear to be very fort-like.
The whole underlying point is that Apple will do anything to virtue signal when in reality they are making a decision on improving their profit regardless if it decreases security of its customers and other people. It is undeniable and silly to argue against.
Thank you so much Dan. Was away so didn't see it immediately. Will reply in private. Thanks again!
But what kind of attention did it garner? Now, we all know that these folks are pretty delusional. They spent time developing an app that everyone except them knew was not long for the world. A rational company would realize that it wouldn't live long enough to recoup any money. Releasing such a still born product doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy about it. Hell, Google releases products that live longer than this.
Fractionnal scaling and touchpad gestures have been supported for years. But obviously it depends of the desktop/wm used.
I meant that 2100 on lichess is about where tournament CMs tend to be... roughly. It happens to converge about there, but that's coincidence.

Online is a different game, sure. But relative strength is not that variable between games.
> AI systems that manipulate human behaviour to circumvent their free will;

Like Facebook and TikTok?
I really wished Israel didn’t blatantly start airbombing Gaza civilian infrastructure and blockade food, water, gas.

When Russia does this on Ukraine, we call them war criminals but when Israel does it on Palestinians we call it business as usual.

The idea of military revenge doesn’t get us anywhere.

Defense is the best offense. Little gains the world made in Middle East stability have now been reversed for decades.

As technology progresses, the drones and missiles will become cheaper and more destructive.

An eye for an eye makes the world blind.

I really wished US provided weapons based on condition of only making precise targeted attacks for specific terrorists.

That means our a big chunk of $800B defense money, funded by our tax money is used to obliterate civilians in Gaza. That makes me sad.

It’s likely this turns into another Afghanistan multi decade war with trillions spent and nothing to show for it. The only winners are defense contractors.

US could have played peace maker role. Be the party to stop missiles flying everywhere. Provided humanitarian and medical aid.

Demilitarize and deescalate.

The current strategy of destroying hamas by destroying Gaza and its inhabitants is pretty stupid.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
It has been working for over a decade. All you have to do is install the third-party app store's APK, and give that app permission to install or update apps.
Cool it with implying bad motives. It's against HN guidelines.

Of course corporations will try to raise prices when they think they can get away with it. The question is, why did they think they could get away with it? Or, put the other way, why didn't they think they could get away with it before?

I assert that what prevented them before was competition - if you raise your price, and the other vendor doesn't, you lose business. Well, what happened? Did that mechanism just take a holiday? Did competitors disappear? Or what? Why did companies think they could get away with it now, when they didn't think that before?

That's where all these "greed" explanations fall short. Of course companies are greedy. They were greedy five years ago, too. Why weren't they raising prices then?
No it isn't. It might work that way on a spreadsheet model, but in practice people whose jobs are automated away become unemployed. To the extent that their job was skillful, acquiring another skillset is likely to take a while. I suspect that there will also be a subtle kind fo discrimination attendant on this, with the assumption that if one was replaced by AI, one must not have been very good at the previous line of work.

AI is manifestly not automating away the shittiest jobs like hand-digging for rare earth minerals, subsistence agriculture, sorting through garbage to collect recyclables and so on. It is being very disruptive to cottage industries like graphic design, tech consulting and the like. In some cases it will certainly free up providers to skip the boring stuff and move up market or serve a larger number of customers, but in other cases it's just going to make people redundant. For example, it's entirely practical right now to launch and run a greeting card company without ever hiring an artist.
They Do, the latest rwkv v5, matches mamba at 3b scale, and from the benchmarks I see, its similar to hyena
I recently started using Arq Backup to replace Time Machine. It does the local backup to an external SSD and cloud back up to Cloudflare R2. I'm happy so far.
> if you allow access to your network, you're only accepting spam.

Well no; spam yes, only spam no.