skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple knows of such limitations and does nothing to improve the situation.

Why would they? It's not their problem, nor does it seem to be a big deal for their customers because they're not clamoring for a fix.

> In fact they ban those who try. FTA.

They don't, thiugh. The App Store has tons of photo and video sharing services, email, and other messaging services; I'm sure any number of them would let your iPhone-using friends and family easily send you a non-mangled videos. This is a solved, dozens of times over.

iMessage, on the other hand, is a service Apple provides for Apple customers. They get to set the terms under which it's used, and Beeper did not abide by those terms.
backdoors know not their guests
Without sounding overly pessimistic, but I have the opinion that copyright laws were written and developed in a different era.

Finical interests, not the public’s, are to blame for the overly restrictive copyright laws.
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In this realm, I’ve been happily using 1Password’s Operator for Kubernetes secrets.

Feel free to ignore the Nix stuff, but I’ve outlined how I create entries with the 1Password CLI: https://github.com/heywoodlh/flakes/tree/main/kube#1password...

After a OnePasswordItem is created, a secret containing your fields and their values appears. It’s marvelous!

(Integrations like this are why I switched away from Bitwarden to 1Password)
The premise of this bioweapon is that it can target the specific DNA of the target person or subpopulation.

Anything which can do that can target the mutated genome of a cancer in a human.

> of basically the same species type as the organism

Which means you will not be able to target a single person or subpopulation, because they are all the same species type.
then to OP’s “where’s the hacker spirit” question: the answer would be “the hacker spirit is to replace iMessage with anything less controlled”, right? that’s still equally as subversive against The Powers in the sense that “hacker spirit” implies any form of subversion.
hello,

"old school": i have an older pc of mine sitting in a corner, running linux - atm debian testing/trixie -, & its filled with a bunch of "somewhat outdated" hdds - of various sizes.

to access it i use

* borgbackup/vorta

* rsync over ssh (external)

* rsync over nfs (internal)

* samba

a remark on reliability:

* i make at least 2 copies of important data to different hdds

* the system is only active during backups and is disconnected from power - to avoid data-loss/problems due to lightning or power-surges.

* and yes, i don't disconnect the lan-cable - but what would live be w/o risks ;))

a remark on filesystems for such setups:

yes, btrfs would be great - respect the conjunctive here ;) - it would be great to create snapshots / generations etc.

but using rsync over larger datasets to a btrfs filesystem, especially if you have a lot of smaller files, can be very time-consuming ...

so i went back to ext4 ... and using rsync itself for snapshots ... sadly ;))

cheersv
QA/Integrations/SQM and how to avoid rejection was one of the skills taught hands-on AFTER university by the great masters who were unceremoniously forced into other occupations like: auto leasing, banner print shop, etc. when they were forced to crack open their 401Ks to make their house and family support payments in spite of the dot com bubble crashing the NASDAQ and related capX for six miserable years.

For example, at 16, my QA manager (whose husband had a Nobel Prize) and my tech lead (who wrote malloc/free for Unix and was learning VMS from me as fast as I could learn C from him) were totally opposite forces, separated by HR and different directors. QA didn’t code anything but batch jobs/shell scripts and contracted back to Engineering for any apps they wanted (or simply required them to be in the release package). If you wanted to keep your job, you didn’t submit programs with performance/functional deficiencies and definitely not logic issues as compared to the SPEC that all parties signed at the outset of the project (put that in yoh Kan Ban, Man rofl)

Ok another arrogant post from older former child prodigy! Happy Holidays!
One should not preorder anything ever.
You can’t trust the output to be accurate yet, the resulting model would be worse than the original for artefacts.
> Either you insist that copyright must be respected at every level, and the creators of material used for training deserve appropriate compensation

I don't think that current copyright laws automatically entitles people to royalties from something like AI-generated imagery. The dichotomy you've presented here isn't pro-copyright vs anti-copyright, but "so pro-copyright that they argue for expanding the current laws" vs not.

> Want to create a proprietary model for commercial use? Pay up. Creating an open source, copyleft project exclusively for personal use and artistic expression? Exemption.

That definitely benefits all the "powerful corpos" you've mentioned here. Now, Disney, Adobe, Meta etc. can use a fraction of their money to get all the data they would ever need and be the sole profiteers, while all newcomers will face an impassable barrier to entry that prevents them from ever threatening the existing players.
When I signed up for 23andme many years ago, it was via a friend in another country, who re-mailed it for me under a fake name and paid in cash. For some time I would log in through a locale-specific 23andme sub-domain until they eventually merged it all together.

It wasn't long before they figured out who I was and placed me within my family tree. My fake name now lives among near and distant relatives I was not aware had signed up themselves or their parents/grandparents. They know who I am, who my siblings and cousins and aunts and uncles are, etc. This was always going to happen as soon as I sent them my sample.

I never believed my anonymity trick would truly work, I just wanted to make it sufficiently difficult for when 23andme inevitably sold out, got gobbled up, or turned evil. I learned what I wanted from the service, and have only logged in once a year or so since to see if they updated any findings or disease studies.

While I truly appreciate the concept of bringing privacy and anonymity to this field, it's worth considering we are all quite easy to identify using these samples.
Unreadable without paragraphs. A micro necessity?
Trust is generally something you build and lose, rather than something you are given by default. That reputation can be a massive asset or liability.

The level of trust I currently give in Beeper is that identity verification happened such that someone could potentially be prosecuted for abuses after-the-fact.

They have not built up a reputation, and in the face of potential scams or privacy abuses their reputation may not be as valuable as the user information they can gain access to.

Small incidents can cause significant reputation harm to Apple, and those equate to billions of dollars lost in corporate value.

Even the recent notification monitoring announcement harms their reputation, where the government itself mandated non-transparency. (For this reason, I somewhat expect they are trying to design an oblivious notification system, where role separation prevents a single intermediary from knowing both where a notification is from and where it is going to.)
Because there are fewer steps

Edit: I just reread your comment and noticed this part.

> but with less friction than needing username, password, email confirmation.

And then I understood the confusion.

There is no signup at all with r3ply. It is similar to magic links, except instead of confirming you own an email by clicking a link, you just send the comment directly from that email.

Hope that is more clear.
One of these is inherent, dictated by technological abilities. The other virtual, made up and kept in place by abusing a monopoly.
Does Directory Opus work on Wine?
I think that's the only app that's keeping me on Windows. Nothing comes close to it in terms of the set of features when it comes to file management on Linux or MacOS.
Yes, but from my point of view I had to speak my request twice before the AI responded.

I thought it was thinking, but it was a very long delay between pauses.

I like the idea, don’t want to come across as negative!
We have autonomous vehicles right now in San Francisco.

I understand the blockchain-AI comparisons, but there are a few significant differences:

1. AI has proven to be much more useful in the real world

2. There are more highly respected experts anticipating transformative impacts of AI in comparison to blockchain

3. AI has a much lower scam/real product ratio than blockchain
I recently read the book DotCon. It's quite an enjoyable read because the author adopts a slightly mocking tone of voice about big predictions like "The Internet will replace print media and even TV". Seemed ridiculous and yet gen Z and younger now get their news from Tiktok and would rather watch YouTube than a movie.

What really got me was how both the bullish and bearish views were correct. In 1998 people knew we would eventually watch media over the internet, but it wasn't until after 2020 that my dad would open Netflix first instead of regular TV.

In 2020 I saw a whole bunch of businesses scramble to accelerate their "digital transformation" and try to figure out "APIs" and "mobile". So if it took the pandemic for businesses to wake-up to computers and the internet, how long will it take for existing businesses to overcome the organisational inertia to adopt AI?

In reality, existing profitable business models will chug along and slowly see their margins erode as new young businesses come along and eat their lunch. Just as Amazon continues to ride the "simple" idea of putting the computer at the centre of a retail business (and decades of good execution) while many old school retailers are still struggling to catch up.
> I thought Google clamped down on that practice a while ago, since it increases power, data, and memory usage.

I don't really follow the reasoning. If saving on power, data, and memory usage were more important than the ability to receive messages, it would follow that you were better off carrying around a cinder block than a phone.
Maybe there’s an easy way to just read all their replies but I see now that in the linked blog post it links https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works which goes over the technical details and mentions the python repo. Thanks
The repo is pretty anemic so far, but I starred it anyways:

https://github.com/openbao/openbao

Sad to see Hashicorp going this way, they made a lot of great stuff.
Seems to be back now for original beeper, although not yet for beeper mini, the app in question (beeper ceo just sent out a global message). Your move, Apple...
> But 30% for using a distribution service is just absurd.

It’s the market rate. Almost all retail stores online and offline charge 30%.
Responding to legal requests is part of operating a phone service, and apparently they failed to do that without seriously endangering a stalking victim.

I have no idea what exact laws and liabilities apply here, but my feeling is there's very likely going to be an undisclosed civil settlement between Verizon and the victim, and maybe some laughable fine (let's say ≤$10k) for violating privacy laws on the criminal side.
My colleague and I recently gave a workshop about security keys where we tried to answer questions like:

* Why should I use a security key?

* What is it used for?

* How can I choose one ?

* What features should I look for?

We did cover FIDO2/Passkeys but also multiple other use cases.

Here are the slides if you're interested: https://tome.one/slides/amiet-pelissier-security-keys-worksh...
> definitely won’t be preordering anything like this until I see more definitive reviews.

There’s almost zero reason the preorder games nowadays. That’s been the case since the move to digital, or even since the move from cartridge-based media to disk-based media (when supply became a non-issue).

They try to introduce DLC incentives, but those are almost always not enough, if you’re on the fence. I’ve only preordered if I already know I’m going to get it anyway (which is very rare).
I remember when it happened, and all the following memes, but I had never actually heard the whole story.

On a related note, has there been any development around the author of Faker.js? He rug-pulled faker.js in a similar matter, leaving only a cryptic message about Aaron Swartz. There was some additional drama about how their open collective funding was sketchily transferred to a new group of maintainers following. Always wondered if there was a story behind his decision to pull it, or if it was just some personal issues they were going through.
Zionist militias certainly had no qualms about doing it to the Palestinians even before 1948.
Thanks I see that mentioned here https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works
One thing to keep in mind before buying their NFC keys is that it can only store up to 10 resident keys
Except that it gives a very broad excemption for law enforcement using facial recognition.
Use an SD card adapter.
Author makes some fair points but not thinking about indirect monetization

Suppose you have a marketplace app, making $1 billion per year. You integrate a shopping AI bot that improves customer LTV 10%, so now your sales are $1.1 billion, a $100m growth! (Numbers hypothetical)

That’s just one app. Imagine that across many companies, use cases etc.

So while AI didn’t capture the full thing, if it captures a piece of many things by expanding the pie it could be extremely lucrative

The same argument was used for crypto actually - the difference is not so many people (in developed countries anyway) have need for microtransactions. Whereas lots of people have need for “microtasks” - things they want but are too expensive. Example: consider therapy appointments, could be $100s per appointment. How many more people would go to therapy if it were 10x cheaper? Or personal assistant - I would hire one right now if service were cheap & reliable

Each market may not be huge on its own but across a lot of markets - it adds up
Yeah without the actual agreement (which is still subject to voting, etc) this is an empty discussion

This is literally based on one short tweet

Edit: this seems to be a (slightly) more substantial press release https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231206IP...
> could have fooled me. If we're being realistic, I doubt this will affect more than 10k people.

Could have fooled me x2 -- we both can pull numbers out of our bottoms. ;)

The part you seem to be downplaying is this: there are things that can't be directly measured. Public resentment is one of them. It's one of those variables that grows and grows until at one point an eruption happens. Include that in your analysis, history has proven that this factor does exist.

> Good thing most people still pay in that case. The other part of that metaphor is that 999,999 people may pirate, but 5m or so are still making that product profitable. anti-piracy isnt just about making pirates relent, but to shut down future pirates in later products.

Obviously, yes. It's a scaremongering tactic. I'll admit they are succeeding, one after another trackers fall down with a tempo that the pirate community does not seem to be able to sustain; they bring some other trackers back up and that seems to be enough for them for now, if I read TorrentFreak's articles well that is.

So back to the original topic: what stands in court is only a short-term factor. Again, looking at the pirate scene and the steadily declining revenue from streaming and the slow and steady grow of piracy (again), I'd say part of the people had enough. Start persecuting more aggressively and things might escalate in unpredictable ways.

How will this unfold? Beats me, and you, but I am interested in following the battle.
Awesome, just signed up for your waitlist :)
So your experience isn’t representative of the work presented by this post? Or does llama.cpp use the same technique for quantization?
I want to use adb to communicate with my iPhones. Google is evil using adb as a moat and locking away my access to adb! See how silly that sounds?
Service Level Indicators
BD-R and Mdisc DVD-R are not dye based.
I have tried to talk to engineers about contingency analyses for what would happen if a unit went down, and they tend to have very wishy washy answers. Or giant tediously compiled reports that can model exactly one change.

Any idea why that is?
It feels kind of an old-gen game with those colours, water and movement. Not too excited
Darn, now i have to search for "OF".
Me too. All throughout my education, group projects and speeches were both these scary, uncommon things that you could afford to fuck up, and I skated by on individual talent.

Now I'm an adult, several years into my career, wishing that the schools had done a bigger quantity of low-stakes group projects instead. It's a muscle that was never exercised
> Communism only looks good on paper if you know nothing about human behavior.

Yet even HN is full of people dreaming of the proletariat revolution
2012.

We were sold the 5 year story in 2012 first.
It’s very hard to have a state that doesn’t push one culture or another as primary. Otherwise there’s no glue keeping the society together. Which is important to get people to approve government decisions.

As for peacefully coexisting, would you say that Christians and Muslims peacefully coexisted in Ottoman Balkans too?
How AI Is Revolutionizing Personal Style
Exploring how artificial intelligence is personalizing fashion experiences. From data-driven style recommendations to virtual try-ons, AI is not just a trend but a game-changer in fashion.
Okay, I might have to mea culpa here, as I thought it was a reference to the infamous Topsy the elephant, which Edison was not involved with.
This looks cool! I will have a look how it works.

It’s funny because just the other day I thought about implementing the same for GitLab in order to learn more about terraform.

(Note: I work for GitLab, but as a Frontend Engineer and usually not on CI topics)
Splatting various kinds of blobs is actually an old idea. It’s a branch of point cloud rendering that researchers have been talking about for a couple decades now. What’s new is the technique to create the splats from photos.

NeRFs are made of a dense grid of tiny AIs that each can answer what the inside of that grid cube looks like from any angle. You march through the grid to see how a whole scene looks from a particular angle.

Gaussian Splats target the same goal with a different approach. A splat is just a fuzzy oriented blob. You render them by sorting them front to back then marching through them per pixel until it gets opaque enough.

The Gaussian aspect is important because Gaussians are differentiable. With that you can start with a bad estimation of the splats, render the bad estimation, compare it to the photos and back-propagate the difference between actual vs desired to iteratively improve the bad estimate to a better one.

Triangles are great because you can make solid, closed surfaces from them. But, you have to maintain the connectivity between the vertices. That makes adding and removing triangles from a mesh a major challenge.

SDFs are great because you can easily make crazy changes to the topology without ever thinking about connectivity. But, you have to be able to describe the shape of the whole scene with math. For realistically complicated shapes, that adds up to a lot of math per marching step.

Splats are loose, independent blobs. They are easy to individually manipulate. Adding and removing them is trivial. But, it’s difficult to get the appearance of a solid surface from them.
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My colleague at Adobe built one for our own use, since HashiCorp didn't provide one at the time: https://github.com/adobe/cryptr

IIRC HashiCorp was not interested in supporting these kinds of tools because they were in direct competition with the Vault enterprise offering.
WOW!!! This article really hits home for me. I’m a 32 year old woman who has an overbearing mother. I still live at home and is religiously trying to save money to get a place of my own.

However, my mother have this notion that I will never amount to anything….little does she know that I have given up the fight to win her approval. My sister is the star of the family and who happens to be 12 years younger than me. My mother does not treat her the way she treats me. She gets so much more freedom than me. It does hurt…after all I’m a human being.

I’ve come to understanding that its my life and I have to be the one to live it.
I mean, I 100% agree size is not everything. You can have a model which is massive but not trained well so it actually performs worse than a smaller, better/more efficiently trained model. That's why we use Llama 2 70b over Falcon-180b, OPT-175b, and Bloom-175b.

I don't know how Mistral performs on codegen specifically, but models which are finetuned for a specific use case can definitely punch above their weight class. As I stated, I'm just talking about the general case.

But so far we don't know of a 7b model (there could be a private one we don't know about) which is able to beat a modern 70b model such as Llama 2 70b. Could one have been created which is able to do that but we simply don't know about it? Yes. Could we apply Phi's technique to 7b models and be able to reach Llama 2 70b levels of performance? Maybe, but I'll believe it when we have a 7b model based on it and a human evaluation study to confirm. It's been months now since the Phi study came out and I haven't heard about any new 7b model being built on it. If it really was such a breakthrough to allow 10x parameter reduction and 100x dataset reduction, it would be dumb for these companies to not pursue it.
Just take the L man.
That's the case for every technology after it was invented
There's no overall consensus within engineering about the change itself.

What is amusing is that most of the public response has been aimed at Terraform whilst internally Terraform wasn't the concern. Gruntworks and the others were not mentioned internally.

It was Vault. It was IBM.
It might be complex, but at least is stable. Nothing is deprecated and only sightly extended, with most processes relying on old APIs. Microsoft, when doing the counterpart (supporting linux kernel syscalls) just gave up and resorted to VM.
This green bubble/blue bubble crap is too much ado about nothing

Just use literally any other messaging app
Ideally it should not be advertised then e.g. https://www.warpbuild.com/pricing
Looks beautiful! Definitely will play.
Wait, why is requiring Windows not outlandish? It's not like other platforms or browsers don't have DRM support. Even on Firefox on Linux, there's a setting to enable DRM-required media.
> As the understanding of genomics advances, you can stay up-to-date on your genome with the Nebula Library.

Then to the privacy policy:

> Nebula will store your Personal Information as long as your Account is open, unless you make a request for us to delete all or any of your Personal Information prior to the closing of your Account as described in this Policy. If you decide to close your Account, then Nebula will automatically destroy all Personal Information related to your account, including User Data, Survey Data, and Genetic Data.

So, my reading of all of this is aligned with how you and vatys have read it, too.
I’m still addressing the same point. You purchase something and then it’s taken away from you without any sort of compensation.
That's an incredible scene. I think it's based on St James Infirmary.
Flashy product announcements without an immediate release are part of the “big company game”. Usually they are just a mechanism to make leadership more confident about the product by showing them how excited external people are about it, creating hype, etc.
Can you share how you would clean it up?