skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Net worth went up but pre-tax family income is pretty flat. This tells a story that I'm familiar with: those that can afford to invest made a lot of money, but everyday workers are no better off. You don't pay for food by selling property. So these graphs aren't convincing to me of the story you're trying to tell.

Food is an interesting one. In my experience the value of fast food is at an all time low. Before it would be half the price of a sit down place. Nowadays it's more like 80% of the price. I'm not sure what exactly happened there. I went to subway and my bill was $15. I went to a sitdown place and my bill was $19.
Only BPNs used Beeper hosted services, and this is an optional component of the app (which enables push notifications when Mini is not running).

Otherwise the IP Apple sees is those of the individual handsets on whatever network they are on.

It's pretty likely that they blocked Mini based on the IDS (Identity Service) which requires the device to pass it's hardware model, serial number, and disk UUID as described elsewhere.
If the lawsuit gets dismissed on summary judgment, that's one sign...
What is an alternate solution to the decades-long conflict which is not a "two state solution"?
Small correction: Republicans _and_ democrats get paid off. Both groups are made up of politicians, after all.
To be fair it is a memory/recite test mostly. “Define this”
Are we talking about Beeper Mini, or Apple?
I take it you're American?

Some countries and cultures around the world have very different closely held thoughts about pedestrian safety.

as much as I personally like the thing (though its a little big in my opinion), I am in agreeance that it would not be allowed on Australian roads. Its just not safe enough by our standards.
I think you underestimate how much the employer's unions want contract law to be respected.

As for the socialist conspiracy theories, they mostly feel out of favor in the 1990s.
I think it's workable with a constitution that guarantees rights for Jews such that the 50% Arabs can't change that and with a long slow process of building that single state (30 years? 50 years?). There might need to be other safeguards, Arabs today don't really serve in the IDF so maybe that would need to continue.

What else is the long term trajectory here? Israel can't keep occupying Palestinians indefinitely (and I'm using the term "occupy" in the Israeli meaning, not in the Palestinian meaning, fwiw). Two states as we've seen is not going to work. Anyways, I know this is a hard time to talk about this.
In that very article they mention you can turn BPNs off, it is just used to listen to APNs when the app is not running. If that's what they blocked, Beeper Mini would still work while the app is running, or at least when that setting is turned off.
If people expect an uninvolved (so uncaring) third party to curate their valuable photos, those people deserve to have their photos disappear.

By all means use phorevr.com if you want to, but maintain your own personal backup as well. Have a sense of responsibility over your possessions. "No use crying over spilt milk."
> Meanwhile, Palestine has shown no restraint at all in their 10/7 massacre and no Jews live in Palestine, whereas many Arabs live peacefully in Israel.

Do you realize that isreal is the side who killed at least 10x the number that the other side kill. I can see that you describe hamas's action as horrible but there is no way of condition that justifies what isreal did and is still doing to Palestinian civilians (no
matter how you think you can)
Iraq never attacked anyone? Have you heard of Kuwait, Iran and Israel?
Just to add, it seems like the overwhelming concern i hear expressed is for pedestrians.

I'm also a bit concerned in general with the trend of vehicle on vehicle collisions. Cars are adding a good fraction of a ton of batteries, and that's somewhat terrifying: that a cars inertia is so much higher than it used to be. Now instead of a car with well designed crumple zones we have a car designed by some lunaric to go out and win Robot Wars, designed for Mad Max car combat?

In the US, we have trouble with bad visibility & vehicle heights that send pedestrians under. But there at least been a somewhat civil world where we don't have giant swinging blades and cleavers attached to cars. It's hard to see the cybertrucks design as anything but something out of Carmageddon, as flauting the at least semi polite society we lived & building something terrible. With the added vehicle masses at play, it feels like we could start to see some incredibly terrible vehicle on vehicle colossions too, not that we don't already have enough vehicle based horrors to haunt us.
“I can’t even” isn’t a mature response to complexity.
> Apple will do anything to virtue signal

Subjective, speculative.

> when in reality

I think you mean "when in my opinion".

> they are making a decision on improving their profit

Speculative, and "improving their profit" is clumsy enough vocabulary that it's a red flag on continuing to discuss this with you.

> regardless if it decreases security of its customers and other people

The plurality of countervailing perspectives in this thread – which you have failed to address or refute, as far as I can tell – ought to indicate to you that it is arguable that Apple's decision in this case increases security of its customers.

> It is undeniable and silly to argue against.

I'll let others judge who seems silly here.
Just give games and applications different rules. They're both software, but one is an artistic work, and one is a tool.
Wait, what? Android user here so I might just be confused, but my impression always was that it's the received messages that are different, hence the whole blue/green bubble debacle, and Android users being bullied for having green bubble texts.
This is the study link: https://www.ippr.org/files/2023-12/1701878131_inflation-prof...

> And are also if ignoring the fact that every product or service requires energy, and energy prices are on the rise

The study tackles this head on. It mentions that the rise in energy prices due to the invasion of Ukraine is one of the initial triggers of high inflation, but that market power held by some corporations in certain sectors, including energy, amplified the inflationary effects of these initial triggers. Resulting in price increases peaking higher and remaining more persistent than they would have been in a market with less corporate market power.

Basically, it says there shouldn't have been this much inflation, but it got amplified because of lack of competition, and of being able to justify price hikes due to customers expecting there to be inflation.

They talk about the energy sector specifically, and how their costs did not increase, but they found themselves in a position of market dominance, where they could raise prices above their increase in cost and get away with it.
There's that, but I'm not an SV person and my reaction was still "well, duh!".

An app like Beeper Mini wants to be something like NewPipe for YouTube: installable only if you know how to download F-Droid, maintained by a community of fans, used only by people who understand that Google can break it at any time and it might take days to weeks for it to recover.

What Beeper did instead was build a startup and sell subscriptions to mainstream users, and now that it inevitably broke they come off as very whiny about it. It's not just Silicon Valley business types who see that and wince: it's offensive to old-school hackers too.
More likely to kill the occupants of the Tesla than the other car
No, I find the idea of deliberately killing even a single Palestinian disgusting. Thank you for asking.
> also, it seems to me that compassion is an involuntary reaction.

Compassion is very much a quality that can be developed and nurtured.
The How It Works article is clear that BPNs is only used to serve push to your phone when the app isn't running. Disabling it would not cause send/receive failures.
Yup. The bar keeps going up.

First everyone started driving SUVs and pickup trucks. Then the SUVs and trucks got bigger and heavier until they could barely fit in a parking spot or highway lane.

So obviously the next step was to make a truck out of steel with sharp edges, and have an enormously heavy battery for maximum destructive potential.

America needs the CyberSUV.
You are simply cherry picking. In the context of addressing the UN, he had to exercise restraint to be taken seriously (it was not an entirely sympathetic audience, and in some cases, like the US, a hostile one)-- this does not negate his other statements, both that I already linked, and others which are easy to find.

Israel is an apartheid state. Israel, last time I checked, had 19 laws which give preferential treatment of Jewish citizens of Israel over non-Jewish citizens of Israel (not talking about Palestinians in W. Bank / Gaza).

Palestinians are not permitted to repair their homes or even their mosques. Go up on the roof and make a repair, and you risk having your home bulldozed by the Israelis.

I once hitch hiked on a Jewish only road in Israel. Jewish only really means not Palestinian.

What exists in the W. Bank and Gaza, is much worse than apartheid. Israel has turned Gaza into an open-air prison-- a concentration camp, if you will. Israel controls all water, food, fuel, electricity, and people entering and exiting from Gaza[1]. And, their carpet bombing of the civilian captives has turned this concentration camp into a death camp.

[1]Israel's PM calls his periodic starving of Gazans, "putting them on a diet" when he blocks shipments of food. And, the water wells in Gaza are contaminated by salt water intrusion, so Israel cuts off fresh water to punish Gazans as well. No freedom of travel even when Israel isn't carpet bombing civilians (the Israelis call these periodic massacres from the air, "mowing the lawn"). Gaza is correctly called an open-air prison or a concentration camp.
The ladder paradigm has its place, as does function block diagrams, as does what the plc vendors call ‘structured text’.

controlling physical processes like oil refineries, power generation, or sawmills is different from most computer programs as are the consequences of bugs or errors so it makes sense that it takes different people with different interests and skills.
Only required when Mini isn't running.
I already answered your question.

Your second point is wrong, by the way. There are hundreds of thousands of Jews living in settlements in the West Bank.
Actual study (super easy read): https://www.ippr.org/files/2023-12/1701878131_inflation-prof...
On the "Hallucination Problem"
Assuming these are all true, without any mitigating factors, there is still a significant effort to reduce civilian deaths. Yes, like I can, the IDF can do better. External forces can and should apply pressure to the IDF to minimize civilian casualties.

I'll try to clarify: I don't I care as much about any vague notion of "intent". I care about reasonableness in the sense of paying attention, gathering reliable information, and acting rationally based on the probabilities.

I can speak about some rough criteria for thinking about the moral tradeoffs, but unless I was very close to the situation, I wouldn't have the specificity to comment on particular choices. For example, did your example about cutting off electricity serve a military purpose? What was the analysis?

Again, criticizing the details is important, but we can't forget that the IDF is making some effort. And Hamas is using human shields. So it isn't correct to put the blame solely on the IDF.

I get the sense that Hamas' evil is simply taken for granted while the IDF is held to a higher standard. That asymmetry is problematic; it would lead to world public opinion turning against even against the best-possible-version of the IDF. There simply is no amount of civilian deaths that is a good thing. It is all awful. We have to compare this against the horror that would come from the continued existence of Hamas. We have to chose the lesser of the evils.

Again, I'm supportive of better options. I'm just not close enough to know what they are. Israel should hunker down and ramp up defenses? Wait until there is an international coalition to manage the attack on Hamas while providing services so that civilian impact isn't as tragic? Maybe that could work. Who would lead that? The UN?
Cryptography yes, but are you sure about parsers? As far as I can tell, there's some kind of U-curve there. Beginners code them by hand, intermediate-level programmers and intermediate-scope projects use parser generators, and people maintaining the most sophisticated parsers prefer to code them by hand too. For example, GCC used to have a bison parser, but they switched to a hand-coded recursive descent one because that let them produce more helpful error messages. Clang uses recursive descent too.
We are essentially competing in the same space with https://dime.run/

We also use VMs. But they are persistent. So you always see your runners as Online in GitHub UI.

We achieve this by investing in virtualization technology so that idle runner VMs do not consume too many resources. Disclaimer: I used to work for Google Cloud.
Sedans actually kill more pedestrians than heavy vehicles overall despite there being 4 SUV/truck purchases for every 1 sedan purchased.

Deaths by SUV seems to be on the rise though.

Here’s data from a bike site.

https://data.bikeleague.org/new-nhtsa-data-vehicle-data-show...
"Arab culture", "Arab societies", "in Arab societies, everybody thinks the same", etc.

It's ridiculous to paint all "Arab societies" across Asia and Africa with such a wide brush and deny differences.
Beeper video reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S24TDRxEna4
Yeah I remember. There were 3rd party winsocks and they had compatibility problems. I remember upgrading to 95 and trying to run 3.1 winsock apps. It worked. But it had lots of issues.

I was just pulling out the XP example (a decade newer than 3.1) to illustrate the scale of difficulty one would have. You could literally have the same SChannel binary run on Win11 and WinXP... And the XP one wouldn't be able to talk to the modern internet due to TLS. Obviously the further back in time you go, the more of this type of problem you would have.
Thought the same. +1
I read your comment and was like "Alecto is out!" but no, still not released.

I did find Nona difficult going, agreed. Love how the author keeps switching up styles.
> The only major interference actually came from Israel which backed the rival political group Fatah.

This is an oversimplification. A few months before the election, Israel pulled out all its forces/settlements/infrastructure from Hamas-dominated Gaza, while keeping them in place in the West Bank where Hamas was stronger. This was a huge victory handed on a silver platter to Hamas, by the administration of Israeli PM Ariel Sharon (who the Palestinians call the "Butcher of Beirut" [0]).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre
I wonder if in the future this will look like AOL arguing over whether it owned any of part of Netscape.

Maybe not the best analogy but you get what I'm saying... will OpenAI inevitably lose their first-mover advantage and become completely supplanted by an overwhelmingly long tail of competitive alternatives?
> While this obviously contributed to rising prices, the report finds that company profits increased at a much faster rate than costs did, in a process often dubbed “greedflation.”

I think there is this expectation that companies "should" only raise prices necessary to cover their cost increases. But companies charge what the market can bear and, depending on the specific circumstances, this could be equal to, less than, or more than the cost increases.

To use a HN-friendly example, let's say AWS cuts their EC2 costs. If you're providing an undifferentiated computation service using EC2, you'll likely have to cut your costs or you will lose all your business to your competitors. If you're providing a highly differentiated SaaS product, you can probably keep the cost savings to yourself.

You can reason in the opposite direction for price hikes. Depending on the exact company in question, they could be in a privileged position of the supply chain or have marketing power that allows them to increase prices even more.

One main difference here is price stickiness [1], i.e. prices tend to be fixed for a period of time, even if the underlying economics has changed. I think this is underlying reason for perceptions of "greedflation" because, during period of inflation, prices become less sticky and companies use this to adjust prices to better match the underlying economics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_rigidity
It's not that, it's that quality doesn't matter and mostly neither does technology.

If you are doing network switches or GPUs or server CPUs or whatever, yeah, technology matters. If you are building pretty much any SaaS, MCCA, etc. the tech is literally irrelevant and mostly the more "new" tech you use the worse off you are.

Quality also only matters in some contexts and those are even rarer than the above.

Timing and solving a problem is all that matters in terms of revenue. As long as you aren't too bad, it's fine. The only real five-nines requirement for SaaS is that 99.999% of them would be fine with one or two nines.
I would like to hear your personal experience, then. I've heard similar things from many Arabs, I often ask questions to understand their culture better. Most of my contact is with Beduins, just because we live close to each other.
In the West Bank.

And the violence by Zionist settlers (with tacit approval of the Israeli state) in the W. Bank against the Palestinians has only gotten worse since the attack by the Hamas Palestinian resistance forces in Gaza.
There is most definitely a section of society which is held in check by laws, and their outcome.

Those that do not fit the above, having no impulse control, or perhaps mental issues, then laws result in stuffing them away.

It's not perfect. Yet every human society does this, and has done this for millenia. Consider that.
It does seem like the design of utes/small trucks seems have leaned in to this aggressive style over the last 10 years.
The projects can be appreciated while also acknowledging that advertisements are part of the value exchange. There's nothing wrong with knowing that if your options are to either watch ads or pay for a service, and you privateer the service instead, that that is not as reasonable as it seems to some people.

Note: this is very different from "but I want to block all ads", that's not what I'm writing here and also not what others might be writing.

As for the audience, it varies, but this website is a VC thing, so it makes some sense that a bunch of visitors are from the VC ecosystem and as such might be very money-oriented.
> Is that really true though? Jailbroken phones, iMessage may still work. Any device security gets thrown out the window.

Apple closes exploits which allow jailbreaking, precludes it in the EULA. What more would you have them do?
LLM Agent System: cited Bio Wiki Articles at near human accuracy
this is def not true
That's a non-answer, totally disconnected from the reality of the problem. Harassment is already illegal. Punishing the harassers doesn't undo the damage. And in most cases the harassers are themselves also minors. They often act without really thinking through the consequences, and because they're minors they can't be given severe punishments.
What's untenable is that the third party software is unsanctioned. You can make the argument that it would be a good or better system with third party clients, or that Apple should open the system up, but it is ridiculous that anyone would trust a client/integration that depended on some kind of hack (regardless of the nature of that hack--such as whether it's decrypting and proxying or getting into the ecosystem in a "secure" way)
The plan has existed for a long time and it is worker ownership of the means of production. If the means of production is heavily AI based then that would be community ownership of the means of production, where everyone is co-owner in the bulk of the production systems they depend upon for survival.

The problem is not that a plan doesn't exist! It's that powerful don't have the goal of enabling the plan, and they use their power to actively fight against it.

I do not see that changing with the advent of more powerful computer systems.
I think you misinterpreted his post. It seems you both are much in the same position.
I've been warning for some time about the potential vulnerabilities involving felinus inputtus sources. It should be noted that Apple has already solved this problem some time ago in Catalina, and I believe their fixes even made it into the Darwin codebase. Even though it's BSD, there should still be some interesting insights gleaned from all that fuzzing.

One potential workaround I've found that works with my own white input weight (that looks very similar to the one in the photos) is to use a can opener. I know it sounds strange, but there appears to be some sort of resonant frequency involved that resolves the downward pressure in very short order. YMMV.
Yeah. E.g. cashing out and leaving the business to bagholders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_river_to_the_sea

QUOTE

The phrase was popularised in the 1960s as part of a wider call for Palestinian liberation creating a democratic state freeing Palestinians from oppression from Israeli as well as from other Arab regimes such as Jordan and Egypt.[6][7] In the 1960s, the PLO used it to call for a democratic secular state encompassing the entirety of mandatory Palestine which was initially stated to only include the Palestinians and the descendants of Jews who had lived in Palestine before the first Aliyah, although this was later expanded.[8][9] Palestinian progressives use it to call for a united democracy over the whole territory.[10] while others say "it's a call for peace and equality after ... decades-long, open-ended Israeli military rule over millions of Palestinians."

/QUOTE

Even in the most charitable interpretations about what happens to the Jews living there, it is a call to replace the state of Israel with a completely different state.
>Maybe it's worse for people who voluntarily stay in contact with many others using different messengers

This is the problem I was expressing. If I want to contact Joe I have to use Signal, if I want to contact Sarah it is WhatsApp. Sam is SMS. Its hard to remember who is using which app.

> but I don't see the problem with just having multiple messaging apps, especially since modern phones just consolidate all messaging services's contacts into your contacts app (at least on Android). You don't even need to remember who is reachable where.

That is easy enough if you use the contacts app. I usually go straight to the app I want. Regardless, it doesn't solve the core problem because people use multiple apps. How am I supposed to remember which app they prefer? I could message them on their non-prefered app, but I don't like doing that if I can avoid it.
Spotify has negotiated, they just haven't come to an agreement.

Tesla has refused to negotiate. Even then, it still took five years before the conflict escalated.

At some point negotiations with Spotify will have to be restarted. It's likely not an option for Spotify to exit the country completely, which is perfectly possible for Tesla.
> how publishing a private key makes the slightest bit of sense.

From what I gather, the private key was private until it was leaked to / stolen by the team who published it for this use case.

I don't have enough context to say, because I have to admit that once published, the keypair corresponding to the private key is likely to be revoked/discarded.
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