skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realised this the other day, a friend send me a video via mms (I'm on android) and the quality was super poor (like 90s gif like quality). I though she must have some issue with her camera or so, no next time I saw her we looked at her phone (which is an iPhone), perfectly fine video. It's just apple degrading the performance for who is not on an iPhone.

I mean just imagine they'd degrade sound to nearly noise if you'd call a non-iPhone.
Well no, the vast majority of palestinians have never lived in Israel, it is not there home.
Don’t forget about stretching the American military thin against China (our real political foe) and the fact Israel has illegal nukes and is willing to end humanity if they ever lose their homeland.
The PA have no legitimacy with the majority of Palestinians especially in Gaza. Israel tried to ignore the vote that brought Hamas's political wing into power in Democratic elections in Gaza, and supported what was essentially a coup by the PA. But, the Palestinians rose up against the PA and its Israeli backers and reclaimed control of Gaza.

Funny since Israel originally supported (including arming) Hamas* hoping the religious Hamas would split the populations support for more secular nationalist movements in Palestine. But, you can be both religious and nationalist.

*Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood; Hamas grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Typically not. Google as an example: the transformer paper (Vaswani et al., 2017) was arxiv'd in June of 2017, and NeurIPS (the conference in which it was published) was in December of that year; BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) was similarly arxiv'd before publication.

Recent announcements from companies tend to be even more divorced from conference dates, as they release anemic "Technical Reports" that largely wouldn't pass muster in a peer review.
> They take 30% of your margin.

that would be nicer than the current situation where they take away 30% of your revenue
There's been a lot of speculation about this, and in principle it's correct. At the end of the day Beeper can work to spoof genuine devices until its indistinguishable from an old iPhone and to block it Apple would essentially have to either force push an update to every device and enforce its installation (they probably can't/won't do this). But in reality Beeper probably leaks a load of data to Apple that Apple can use to block it and it's just a cat and mouse game between Beeper bringing in new workaround vs Apple blocking whatever they notice abusing the system. It really just depends how motivated Apple is to chase this down, and the low cost way for Apple to chase this down is.... to sue Beeper. Beeper might actually be able to outsmart them over time in engineering, but they sure as hell can't outspend them on lawyers.
This is actually a great point I didn’t originally consider. People could easily infiltrate the iMessage fort with spam and other stuff which at the moment requires a genuine Apple device.
I am the OP.

The advantage for me was it came up near the top of the Google search results, I downloaded it, and it did the thing I was trying to get done.

In other words, for me it was good enough. So I didn’t spend time “shopping” and was able to pick up my creative work again quickly.

If later it isn’t good enough, I can try something else.
It looks like we are comparing standards here, and that neither passes the bar.
FWIW in my experience delays in e.g. home renos (or for that matter larger scale projects) are mostly for reasons unrelated to the engineering. In software projects, it's probably the #1 reason (i.e. we didn't know how to do it when we started).

Software is still absolutely king for number of large scale projects that just never ship, or ship but never work.
That's the optimistic viewpoint.

The pessimistic viewpoint is that you get to pick up to one.
I thought the same thing but you are not comparing apples and apples.

If you say just price I would say pi ~$120, vs alder lake ~$190

But the most important thing the pi has is mindshare.

It is not better hardware-wise (beaglebone, banana pi, etc)

It is not better at general purpose computing or a nas or a desktop (any intel or amd machine is better)

But it is good education. You don't have to "install" linux, just put the sd card in and go.

You can learn hardware things. You can learn linux things. You have lots of company. Many people are using it at the hobby level (several million). Someone has done it and made a web page or youtube video.
not only that it isnt the same and it sucks more, it is harder to type for me
Thank you. This is a good resource.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this, but still find it incredibly useful.
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but the real problem some of use have with Apple's behavior is the real underlying reasons they're doing this

I am reasonably sure that their main driver is profit which really means exploitation of people;

I consider their public arguments lies made up to cover up the fact that what they account for as profit comes from what are in the end some really ugly historical and traditional imperialistic (colonial, neocolonial, and occulted) practices
You can reverse your type 2 diabetes with fasting, diet and exercise.

But the important to understand is that not every person with diabetes will be able to do it.

The medical definition of type 2 diabetes is not connected to the condition of the body where enough damage accumulated that it is no longer reversible. Medical definition only takes into consideration markers like blood sugar levels, not the amount of damage or ability to recover.

So what happens is you get prediabetic, then diabetic, then at some point your diabetes becomes irreversible.

Good diet, fasting and exercise will help in any situation, but only in some will allow you to reverse the diabetes and have normal life.
What would I use PowerShell to do, though? Most of Windows is a GUI.

That's a key problem with the developer story on Windows, especially coming from GNU/Linux. Where are my standard compilers and libraries? What use do I have for a terminal on Windows? In bash, I get powerful commands and a simple text-based pipeline hooked up to coreutils and literally anything else that runs on the command line, which is a metric ton of software in that ecosystem.

Back to Windows. What would I want PowerShell to do? What would I use PowerShell for that I wouldn't want to just use Bash instead? Windows doesn't have coreutils or nice command line software to do fun or powerful things with.

I see PowerShell as a "look we have a terminal!" from Windows, but nothing that I want to do in said terminal to motivate me to learn.
So the board thought he was being abusive (which may or may not be true) and was worried about their ability to hold him accountable. Due to this they then tried to remove him and realized that their worries were right: they don’t have the ability to hold him accountable.

Wonderful.
What do you think why suckerberg didn't done that until now? Facebook knows exactly that they need to be extremely cautiones to don't lose all their users to threema, signal or telegram.

Thats the reason why until now they only added non intrusive monetizing ideas than company accounts and so on. And when you ask me, they found a way to make whatsapp better. I can now order sushi via whatsapp. Here in Germany I know no other messenger that makes this possile.
RCS uses transport encryption and I honestly have no idea if it uses cert pinning or server certs or the like. The bigger concern to me is that it puts your telco in charge, just like the old days of SMS. Without E2E they get to see all of the contents of messages and to share it with whoever they deem they want to share it with, which history has shown is too many people. Telcos were very willing partners in the development of RCS for a reason. And there's a reason the base spec doesn't include E2E. Telcos want a return to the good old days.

SMS is insecure and no one should use it. RCS isn't that much better and history is a lesson that it returns to a partner that isn't trustworthy.
Ask HN: How do you do personal backups in 2023? (Google and Dropbox issues)
I love the idea of seamless backups and have been using Dropbox for a few years... It is completely broken with OS X Sonoma.

The recent complaints about Google Drive files going missing also doesn't build confidence.

What are folks using for backups? Ideally automated processes.

Thank you.
Who controls the airspace of Gaza?

Who controls the water, electricity and internet in Gaza?

Who controls the borders of Gaza?

Who has military ships control sea waters of Gaza?

Who randomly sends missiles, air strikes and “mows the grass” in Gaza?

Israel.
It's weird to deny that executives can comprehend the impact of their decisions on the price of their ticker, but ok.

> It’s easy to get caught up in conspiracies that we want to be true.

I'm not saying there even needs to be a conspiracy for this specific case. I'm pointing out that there is nothing in the law that would stop them from taking advantage of this timing. Also that previous layoffs have resulted in a bump in share price multiple times in a row, and what do you know, it happened again. Even if it was a gamble, how can you deny that they're able to time information drops to their personal advantage? Isn't that a problem in itself?
No. This is an entirely self-centred view. The only people that equate this sort of transparency with genuine security are computer nerds. These tend to be the sorts of people that don’t sit very highly on my internal list of “people who stand to benefit the most from increased privacy measures”. For…literally every other member of society, this sort of implementation detail doesn’t mean anything^. They hear some (from their perspective) very abstract words like ‘open’, and all that means is that they’re trusting some league of computer nerds to tell them that something is ‘secure’. This is somehow meant to be more convincing than Apple, who, to most people, is at the very least another mob of computer nerds, but in reality also happen to have a pretty good track record of making phones that seem to work alright for people.

Beyond optics, let’s just look at attack surface. The implication that the sort of security holes that “openness” would fix are anywhere near the top of the list is…where’s that xkcd about cryptography and crowbars? It’s very clearly in the realm of nerdy cosplay. You know what is* a much more realistic threat? Some stupid third-party client on the Play store that exfiltrates all messages sent and received. Apple has absolutely no control over that. No protocol security accounts for that.
The follow up tweet says he typo'd the company name in the screenshot: https://twitter.com/RossHudgens/status/1729927440112189820

And the tweet fundamentally misunderstands how ahref works. If google killed the site in question, ahref would have no idea given they have their own crawl.
My points are narrowly related to the parent's assertion that Apple preventing Beeper Mini interoperability / allowing SMS is evidence of their convictions relating to privacy being hokum, but since you're not one of those 3 month old accounts I see making specious arguments…

> Last time I checked, Apple still used security questions any hacker can get answers to on Facebook.

Apple's default for a number of years has been to use trusted devices IIRC. Their kb article on resetting a forgotten Apple ID password even suggests that it's better to wait until you're back with a trusted device than to immediately try to reset without one, suggesting that the process is somewhat intensive and perhaps subject to human review? I just kicked it off online and the first question _is_ to confirm an obfuscated cell phone number, but I can't imagine that after that it's mother's maiden name dreck?

> Apple has the ability to control security issues on Android: they can release an Android app, like every other E2EE messenger out there.

Which would thus expose them to security weaknesses of a device and OS they do not control, and potentially expose iPhone and iOS customers to increased risk should an Android iMessage user's phone have malware, or screen scraping, or keylogging, etc.

> Apple chooses not to, and it's their choice, of course. It doesn't care about the privacy of it's non-users, and it doesn't care about the privacy of its users when they communicate with non-users. From what I can tell, it only cares if you stay within the Apple bubble.

Nail on the head, but I do think that folks overstate the simplicity with which Apple could provide a comparably secure iMessage experience on Android.
Have Purism solved the problem where it will randomly burn through an entire battery charge in an hour?

That basically makes it a non-option for the overwhelming majority of people, and it was still an issue 6 months ago.

I really want to like the Librem but it's hard to justify the price tag when you're going to have to carry another phone around with you anyway.
Only an external keyboard works? Also how does it survive Amazon’s device update etc? This looks very interesting though!
Your view is clearly not representative for the whole of EU.

Most of my family, friends and colleagues are on iMessage. I often need to explain why facetime will not work.

Whatsapp is also common, but different as it does not as easily replace SMS.
I'm pretty sure some of the spam I am getting was using this vector. Hopefully it kills it now.
It's possible they checked before (and the article suggests they had an inclination where the gene should be) but the resultant backcrosses involved a spontaneous recombination of the relevant fragment. It's possible someone checked the wrong vial in lab, or mislabeled results. It's possible something funny "just happened".

Wet lab is hard, and everyone is chasing the eureka moment.
You must also add on the time to get to the station from home and the time to get to where you're going in the destination area from the station there.

For instance, if I live in Bellevue or Redmond and want to go to Portland, I can drive in the same 3hrs as it would take someone who lives in Downtown Seattle to take the train. But if I were to take the train, I'm looking at a 20-30min taxi or uber ride first, plus the cost.
Sounds good but needs some demo videos to show what it's capable of before I'd think about downloading it.
That's a pretty sweeping generalisation on it's own. You personally interacting via iMessage with people in the EU has absolutely no bearing on this. When people say that 'no-one' uses iMessage, they are really saying saying that it's a very small percentage. It's like saying 'no-one uses Yahoo! mail' - relative to GMail and Outlook.com, it's use is vanisingly small these days, but I guaruntee that there is a not-insignificant number of mail originating from Yahoo domains.
I can’t really tell the difference between signal telegram teams discord et al.

But messages falls back to sms and that I can notice.
> I am reasonably sure that their main driver is profit which really means exploitation of people

Just wondering if you've forgotten what site you're on.

This is YC which exists to build companies whose main driver will always be profit.
Because they’ve proven to be the most trustworthy and if you can’t trust the manufacturer of the device and OS you also can’t trust any app running on said hardware.
that's one of the reasons they're doing this

but I don't think it's their main reason, if anything I see that argument as convenient posturing which aids in covering the uglier underlying reasons
I'm perfectly fine saying supporting Hamas is antisemitic and that Netanyahu has said and done plenty of antisemitic things, including Holocaust revisionism.

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2018-12-13/ty-article-opi...
"somewhat" easier is debatable.

The bad situations from the costs of duplication are often far worse. If those code paths had slightly different needs, they would diverge. It often feels like 90% of my career has been to take on massive undertakings to learn am entire system to ultimately pick these out after the fact & replace it with something reasonable.

I don't have data to support any absolute claims of what is better vs not. However, every project, team, company, industry that I have worked on has been filling my time with the above scenario. Not sure what universal truth could be pulled from that (if any)
> I mean, Luddites had the exact same kind of fear about the steam machines, yet the conditions of the workers have significantly improved with the industrial revolution.

No, what actually happened is decades of declines in the safety and material condition of workers, children forced into factories, organization and violent rebellion by labor unions, and a peace carved out with mass enfranchisement, the formation of working class political parties, and the passage of labor laws. People who say this kind of stuff always have a “draw the rest of the owl” conception of history.

Funnily enough, there was also a corollary movement to the Luddites in France that almost no one knows about because a. they won more of these battles b. French workers did not face as much of a decline in their standard of living as English workers did in the same period as a result.
This is why internships and real world experience is so important. A course is 3 in class hours a week over 12-14 weeks typically. After homework and assignments it is ultimately maybe 40-80 hours of content.

Which means you learn more in one month of being on a normal, 40 hour workweek job than you have in an entire semester of one course.
Yeah anything that's not E2E encrypted is pretty useless for privacy/security these days. Might as well just use DMs on reddit, twitter, etc if you don't care about E2E
I think there's a difference in emphasis and intent. We're painting pictures here. So one picture we're painting is "kill as many civilians a possible with no other military objective" and the other picture we're painting is "go after military targets even at some cost to civilians (and the question of that cost)". The reality is that in every way, every military in the world, executes the second picture. The variable being what is a reasonable threshold for the given military objective. The accusations against Israel intentionally try to place it in the first picture.

If the critics were clear about their issue being how Israel measures proportionality with respect to every single target they go after, and they were able to support their case comparing to other similar military campaigns, and there was a very clear outcome of that comparison, I think that's very fair and I'd even be able to get behind it. But that's not what the critics are doing.
Ah yea, good point!
They didn't spend much time building this feature.

It was an acquihire involving a 16 year old who was doing it for fun.
The article is fine. The title here is edited and clickbait garbage.
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> two old 6-core Xeon CPUs in it

Unless electricity is free, probably gonna spend more on electricity than they're making in monero (or any other coin).
I am very surprised that Beeper is a company with a CEO and everything. It's a hack on top of other services! This was always going to be the end result.

Also, the whole use case is funny to me since everyone in my country (including iPhone users) use WhatsApp.
> How would the Palestinians leave?

Gaza shares a border with Egypt; Egypt keeps that border closed.

> It is monstrous evil.

I agree, Israel is doing horrible things. That doesn't excuse the hypocrisy of the Arab states that are using the suffering of the Palestinians as a political tool against Israel. There's plenty of blame to go around.
I love this comment, measuring complexity via googles/line. That really sends home how difficult it is to grok PowerShell.

What are you building with it that would be harder in bash or another shell? I'm not seeing the value of passing around opaque objects instead of text.
I’m not a lawyer, but I do know how computers work. I’d bet the farm on the very safe assumption that any protocol change that blocks a third-party client at the very least can plausibly be claimed to be in service of security, and most likely be a legitimate claim in reality. It is probably being downvoted because it’s incredibly far-fetched.
I have Backblaze on my Mac and I have a NAS that I copy stuff to for deeper backups.
Why were they able to get away with it? Market forces should prevent this.
> of AI being release,

Released where? Out of the crazy house?
If they solve the data compression issue, I can see this becoming a hardware thing a la how we have triangle rasterisation or ray tracing.
This is the Internet that we need more of.
'Excess profits' at big energy and consumer companies pushed up inflation,report
European Jews do not make up the majority of Israeli citizens. More Jewish Israelis are Mizrahi than Ashkenazi. It's notable when people only talk about "Israeli European Jewish settler colonialists", while ignoring all the MENA Jews who migrated or already lived in the region. It's notable because it's framing the issue as Israel being a modern European colony, which is misleading and incorrect.
It is sad to see how the ...HN bots?... can not keep their personal dislike of Musk from clouding their reasoning. Will that Tesla bot succeed? Who knows, it might. Then again, it might not. One thing is clear: knee-jerk down-voting and childish remarks about spandex suits will not make any difference on whether it succeeds or not.

To those who are triggered by anything related to Musk the question why Bezos gets a free pass. Is it just because he is ideologically aligned and supports the current thing or do you actually think he is a better person and if so, why?
Where is the hacker spirit here? The number of Apple apologists that have crawled out to say "see? I told you so!!" is saddening. It is a bit dicey when you're charging for it, but since Mini was entirely client-side it would be feasible for a free version to exist.

Apple claims iMessage is E2EE, do we have proof they aren't siphoning the messages from the client once it's been decrypted? The level of trust we have to have for Apple is approximately the same for any other iMessage client. Obviously Mini was using the encryption properly else it wouldn't have worked to begin with. Of course, it's very unlikely Apple is doing that. Just putting the thought out there.

One other point raised that I saw was about how iMessage costs Apple money to run, and non-product owners should not have access since they haven't contributed. This falls apart if you own any Apple devices. Myself for example owns a Macbook, but an Android phone. Am I not allowed to use iMessage? I paid the toll.
I listened to one guy fresh off the boat from Korea who would not hear a good word about Israel. Absolutely refused to hear any nuance or mitigation. His reason? Because his country had been invaded and occupied by Japan and his homomorph was Japan=Israel and Palestine=Korea.
Usually the correct course of action is to just... say nothing then ? Or at least take some caution. But hey, it makes for a less sensationalist headline. The thing is that trustworthiness is typically something you look for in a reviewer, clearly not something that can be found there.
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Sorry, I wasn't even aware of 1970.

They are apparently unrelated, it is 2022 that I was referring to.
Ross Perot clashed with General Motors' insular, bureaucratic culture (2019)
Stay put. Palestinians should get a state in Gaza and the west bank.

I'd like to think I have a somewhat decent understanding of the situation, but flawed and with its own biases of course.
Aren't most protocols proprietary? Every app builds their own on top of standard protocols like HTTP, TLS, and IP. Not all services are hostile to third party clients though