skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really better than a regulated industry? Because that’s the alternative when you have prohibition.

Scale is important. If the "regulated" (I use that term loosely in this context) industry is hundreds or thousands of times larger than the previous unregulated industry, then I could see it being a much worse problem.

And the fact that ads for sports betting have taken over broadcasting and online media for anything even tangentially related, my reaction is that the problem has gotten much worse.
It would help if the legal profession (at least in the US) did not actively select against numeracy. The running joke in law school is that everyone who was a decent student but bad at math goes to law school because the LSATs do not have a math component, unlike the GREs. I’m an engineer and former lawyer, and when I was in law school I actually ended up taking a really disproportionate number of tax law classes because I was so much better than my average peer at basic arithmetic that I could always beat the curve in classes that required basic calculations. And we’re not talking about even intro level algebra, just basic arithmetic. Addition, subtraction, some multiplication and division.

By ignoring math skills altogether, the legal profession necessarily ends up selecting for individuals who on average have a poorer understanding of anything quantitative or statistical, and often that also correlates with poorer understanding of all technical and scientific matters, because the same innumeracy means those individuals don’t make it far any sciences at all, even in their secondary or tertiary education. So they often don’t even have strong fundamentals on the basic concepts in those areas.

As an engineer, it was maddening to witness and absolutely pervades every aspect of the US legal system. Which both translates into reaching false factual conclusions as in OP, but also infects legal reasoning with a ridiculous lack of rigor (a point which lawyers often dispute vigorously, but they have no concept of just how much rigor they lose by eschewing mathematical and especially statistical reasoning), and it also translates into poorer operational efficiency and administrative efficiency in the legal system, and poorer outcomes from the regulatory system, which, while often informed by technical concerns, remains a primarily legal- and lawyer- driven process. That opens up regulatory bodies to subjective political concerns where there is absolutely no reasonable technical case to be made. This phenomenon is most obvious in recent history with climate change related regulations, but is pervasive throughout the US policy making establishment, and contributes substantially to our challenges with special interests and regulatory capture.
They didn't dig 2400m 'deep'. They dug into the sides of mountains which rise 2400m upwards from where they dug, as a side a effect from a construction site for water tunnels and their access-ways which would have been dug anyways for the adjacent dam and electricity generation site.

AFAIK nobody goes 'that deep' for science alone, it's always adjacent to mining, leftofer/unused/abandoned tunnels, and often closes down when the mining ceases, and the operation getting too expensive without the ongoing mining.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOLAB , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfranc_Underground_Laborator... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Underground_Research_F... for some examples.
Phones can do that today, with things like Family Link: https://support.google.com/families/answer/7103340?hl=en

Or there is a purpose-built phone for people that don't want to figure it out: https://gabb.com/
How is it fascinating? Apple exerts pressure on customers to buy their products, and then further pressures to keep them integrated with Apple's ecosystem. Here, a customer gave in to the first pressure and is disappointed by the artificial friction Apple uses to upsell their customers.

So... are we shocked that iPhone customers don't de-facto agree with everything Apple does? Or the fact that OP would be willing to criticize something they paid for and supposedly identify with?

It's really not fascinating at all. It reads like a perfectly level-headed and candid criticism of an ecosystem by someone who isn't invested in the success of one particular company. It's almost too lucid for HN.
the defense will always have less time and money to get their own expert witness, and i can tell you for absolute certainty that there is way more demand than supply for defense experts.

and yes they have a million other disadvantages that are SUPPOSED to be balanced by the advantage that the standard burden of proof offers. but that is clearly failing if prosecution experts are running rampant with few checks, and 95-98%(!) of criminal cases plead out before a trial even occurs. public defenders are time constrained in the extreme(https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/31/us/public-def...), and public defendants are financially constrained in the extreme. its a terrible mixture.
Educational programs aren’t free, though. The tobacco industry was forced to spend billions paying for these programs as part of the master settlement in 1998. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Ag...
99% of them dropped two weeks ago. Working on the last one now. Will post more once it is all over. Thank you!
You have a garbage sandbox if you can get viruses that easily. People expect much better from modern operating systems.
People tasted the fruit in Apple's garden noticed that it tasted really good. So good in fact that it made them go "Is this walled garden actually that much of a bad thing? Because man, I do love eating this fruit."
> Quanta Magazine

Their YT videos are also top notch.
> Yeah, not the point. The point is to prove that it's possible and relatively simple, and the only reason Apple operates this way is to lock people into the ecosystem.

Is that the point? Everybody already knew that Apple's messaging strategy was a business calculation based around lock in.

Beeper also presents itself as a company, so I'm not sure how releasing software that annoys Apple just to make a point could possibly help their bottom line. If that was the goal, they should've released the code as an anonymous open source project rather than painting a huge target on their own backs.
> You realize that's been Apple's fault right, intentionally breaking Beeper?

Sure, it's impossible that Beeper's app or services could ever just malfunction on their own. The first bug-free app!
The relevant draft spec for a standard way of signalling this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-httpapi-ide...

The diagram in the article shows “Header Idempotency Key : "A"” (honestly not sure whether the second, third and fourth of those spaces exist: the diagram’s text kerning is atrocious). This should be the header field `Idempotency-Key: "A"`, though “A” would be a bad string to use (see Security Considerations).
This device is for 40 USD. What phones can you buy at this price point that provide the same latency, reliability, and big keys you can smash, as this device?
Lua has metamethods: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#2.4
Beeper Mini does not MITM messages. E2EE is maintained throughout. More so than iMessage actually, which sends all your encryption keys to Apple in the most common configuration (iCloud backup). Where's your concern about that?
To be honest, HF compat comes at the cost of abysmal performance compared to an inference solution such as vLLM.
If we don't regulate behavior at some level, and continuously pursue "freedom" over all else, our society will not be acting in the best interests of its people.
Whenever I see "bare-metal" thrown around, I think about how Atari Pong was literally all hardware, as in the entire game was printed on the circuit board as actual physical logic gates. With the advancements of modern technology, I wonder if it's possible to put something much more complex yet completely functional as a standalone program on a circuit board.

https://i.redd.it/kxks306cu9y81.jpg
This aspect is ignored, because it's clear that Apple blocks third-party clients to maintain its dominant position in the US (social unacceptability of green bubbles among teens).

If cost was the problem, they could offer a subscription.
> doing the right thing
> following the letter and spirit of the law

These things do not go hand-in-hand. Corporations aren't going to "do the right thing", no, but they certainly are going to follow the (letter of the) law to some extent. I don't imagine Google pays millions of dollars to lawyers for them to sit around :P

This sort of logic can be used to dismiss the entirety of law - after all, crime still exists despite being illegal, so what's the point, right?

So again, the bigger issue is making it difficult/impossible for corporations to circumvent (hopefully sane) laws - and probably to minimize the influence they have on creating that legislation.

Anyway, this is also why FOSS is important - assuming these systems were made free and open source, and a company wants to abuse their position... users aren't locked into their platform and can hopefully move to another
If that's your use case, definitely check out the Withings Scanwatch line. If you're not using a lot of the other features, the battery can prob go well over 30 days between recharging.
> there's nothing special about it, there's plenty of different services providing the same experience, anyone can launch an iMessage competitor.

There very evidently is something special about it. It comes from Apple, so it enjoys the advantages of their closed ecosystem and Apple can get away with offering an inferior product.

Apple has no interest in a market they control which has interested customers. Apple should be bullied into it because any other option is an utter failure of capitalism.
> Edward I was the "bad guy" in Braveheart. As always, things tend to be more complex than we want to believe.

Braveheart was criticized for many historical inaccuracies (my personal favorite is the scene near the end when Isabella of France tells Edward I that the child she will have, who will inherit the English throne, is by Wallace, not Edward's son--which couldn't possibly be true since, first, Edward II didn't even marry Isabella until after his father Edward I was dead, and second, Edward III, who succeeded Edward II, wasn't born until 1312, seven years after William Wallace died). However, it is true that Edward I had William Wallace hanged, drawn, and quartered for treason against England. (Which, since Scotland was a separate kingdom from England at the time, does seem a bit much.)
> The underlying connection method is open source, for anyone to review.

SSPL sure isn't open source and I'm certainly not reviewing this. At best it's source available. I'm all for separating the meaning of the term from OSI's opinions but this usage misses the mark.

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc.
Both Total Annihilation and Outlaws had real bangers
>> RAM speed does not matter. The processing time is identical with DDR-6000 and DDR-4000 RAM.

That's referring specifically to prompt processing, which uses a batch processing optimization not used in normal inference. The processed prompt can also be cached so you only need to process it again if you change it. Normal inference benefits from faster RAM.
By over, I just mean that their days in the spotlight/media would be gone and people would generally be less aware of their existence. Not that they won't be able to compete against Apple.

If anything judging by Apple's Android apps recently, especially with my personal experience with their Apple Music app I would say they have a really bad track record thus far. It's a really buggy and almost unusable mess.

This is unrelated but I was actually duped by Apple Music, I intially thought that the audio quality was noticably better but as it turns out it was actually just louder. Raising the volume made YouTube Music sound just as good.
NaCl solved that long time ago
Maybe once the economy finally starts trickling down, we'll have a reason to behave ourselves again
Beeper Mini does not MITM messages - it's a reverse engineering of how iMessage works, and runs entirely on-device, without putting messages thru Beeper's servers. It talks directly to Apple and pretends to be an iPhone.

You're thinking of Beeper Cloud, which does iMessage thru a Mac Mini in the cloud.
Recent and related:

W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38580742 - Dec 2023 (85 comments)
The "better education" part is directly funded from tobacco lawsuits.
Rolling moss gathers no stones.
Ah, yeah, I've seen this.

(I've been slowly learning cryptic clues myself this past year.)
its more than a shame. emoji, gifs and images are a core part of teens' communications (I have one, I know all too well), and iMessage's green bubble is also a guarantee that these things won't work, so its not just a shame, it is a hard road block.

Fortunately a lot of teens moved to discord.
Mistral is in France though and the EU is throwing cold water on "AI" at the moment. I think this hurts them in the long run.
I’ve seen several family members and friends who might have bought a few scratchers here and there, or even played “their” 3-5 sets of numbers twice a week, but otherwise kept their gambling to an annual trip to Vegas get sucked into sports gambling now that it’s always available on their phones.

Not just the money, but also the amount of their mental energy it comes to capture.
For those hearing about Cerebras for the first time, they make a chipset that's similar to a GPU in matrix multiplication speed but way bigger (a whole wafer) so it can fit more transistors and memory onto one chip. They achieve this small LOC count because they don't need to shard across multiple devices / backprop consolidate on a central CPU / etc. These tricks are usually what blows up a project from a single architecture proof of concept to a robust training pipeline that can handle the billions of parameters on modern models. This is more akin to training a whole model on a single GPU because... it kind of is.

Even with a wafer scale chipset this approach has limits. You eventually will still need to shard to fit more parameters / use different training modalities / etc. I'd look at this more as a proof of concept for the ergonomics of what LLM training can look like when you have access to a much larger compute primitive versus a new state of the art in feature-equivalent clean code.

Disclaimer: I'm a small investor in Cerebras.
Can you show an example of an aquisition they've made to explicitly stop an external company using their APIs?

I've not heard of one, it doesn't appear to be in their playbook.
Before someone jumps at you for daring to ask this question... yes, there are many many math riddles, and indeed not all are equally important, and we may not always know in advance which ones are.

Some turn out to be more "productive" in the sense of leading to development of techniques, connections to other fields, etc.

Ramsey theory (the riddle discussed in the article) is one of these, here is just a short list of nontrivial applications to CS (admittedly, mostly to theory of CS):

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/TOPICS/ramsey/ramsey.html
So you take a language that compiles to wasm, then you take your wasm output and transpile it to c? Welcome to the frontend world I guess
Stay far away from HuggingFace if you can. Battle-hardened if you only do the absolute simplest and boring stuff. Look at the number of open issues and skim through a few source code files and you’ll understand.

Like LangChain, they were at the right place at the right time. That doesn’t make them good.
I'm dying to know the technical details, but I wouldn't advise Beeper to disclose because it will just make it easier for Apple to block them.
We need to be aggressively removing microplastics from the supply chain. They act as hormone replacements (1) resulting in declining testosterone levels (2), which in turn results in higher levels of neuroticism (3).

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33916482/

2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32081788/

3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28214680/
> With Beeper, you have to give your Apple ID to a third-party app, which they then proxy through a server of some kind (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/11/beeper-mini-is-back-in-ope... "signing in with our Apple ID generated an Apple prompt that noted our ID was being used to sign in with a device “near Los Angeles, CA” (where we are not located.)")

I think they have another primary product of the same name that operates this way, but Beeper Mini never sends your credentials off anywhere other than Apple’s servers [0][1].

[0]: https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works

[1]: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush
Google's AI note taking app NotebookLM available to all U.S. users
As noted in the comment, Google products are once again available on Amazon. They were removed for several years not long ago.

Ads are subjective? Apple has many criteria for rejecting app store submissions, why not add "misleading push message content not labeled as advertising"
I'm intentionally anonymous on this account for reasons that have nothing to do with you or this topic. To reveal anything about what I've made would reveal details about my life I'm not comfortable sharing, least of all to someone who is clearly an Internet troll begging for attention.

What you must earn is my respect, and the person I replied to has lost that.
Tangential: one of Romania's main investigative journals, part of the Swiss Ringier group had just fired its main editors and around 20% of their staff last week, over their reluctance to stop investigating and writing about the local betting industry. The explanation was cost-cutting as the printed edition is no longer profitable, but the journalists claim otherwise, having written extensively about the gambling industry which is a potential advertising partner.
It was open sourced by a 16 year old apparently.

https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush

They used this and added their own changes. From their communication about what they are doing, it's remarkably similar, and i would be very surprised if they did not see this before.
OpenChat framework aims to optimize open-source language models
What is the functional difference between a smartphone and a tablet? Children have tablets as toddlers and while there is a downside, there are upsides. Like videogames and any other demonized thing kids enjoy we do have to take a second to ask about parenting. For some reason when it comes to smartphones parents are helpless although they are the only way kids get them and we have tools that give ultimate control to what they can acces. "Oh but their friends!" I guess it's good to know parents who make this claim would let their kids do drugs if their friends were too.

I don't think that kid should have access to gambling or that social media is great for them, but I think like candy and soda consumption, parents have more control than they don't.
Presumably, this person thinks so because a lot of the cost of running an AI company is buying GPUs, which is mostly going to NVidia. The implication with this headline is that NVidia is propping up sales or driving demand by giving money to startups who will combine it with other investors money and eventually pay it back to NVidia.

Is it a Ponzi scheme? Not strictly, but is interesting to see a company investing in their customers. There’s nothing wrong with doing so, but it’s interesting to see it at a time when demand is so high it can’t be sated.
This makes no sense.

“Because it comes preinstalled it is dwarfed by at least three other platforms”??
Show HN: I built an OSS alternative to Azure OpenAI services
Hey HN, I am proud to show you guys that I have built an open source alternative to Azure OpenAI services.

Azure OpenAI services was born out of companies needing enhanced security and access control for using different GPT models. I want to build an OSS version of Azure OpenAI services that people could self host in their own infrastructure.

"How can I track LLM spend per API key?"

"Can I create a development OpenAI API key with limited access for Bob?"

"Can I see my LLM spend breakdown by models and endpoints?"

"Can I create 100 OpenAI API keys that my students could use in a classroom setting?"

These are questions that BricksLLM helps you answer.

BricksLLM is an API gateway that let you create API keys with rate limit, cost control and ttl that could be used to access all OpenAI and Anthropic endpoints with out of box analytics.

When I first started building with OpenAI APIs, I was constantly worried about API keys being comprised since vanilla OpenAI API keys would grant you unlimited access to all of their models. There are stories of people losing thousands of dollars and the existence of a black market for stolen OpenAI API keys.

This is why I started building a proxy for ourselves that allows for the creation of API keys with rate limits and cost controls. I built BricksLLM in Go since that was the language I used to build performative ads exchanges that scaled to thousands of requests per second at my previous job. A lot of developer tools in LLM ops are built with Python which I believe might be suboptimal in terms of performance and compute resource efficiency.

One of the challenges building this platform is to get accurate token counts for different OpenAI and Anthropic models. LLM providers are not exactly transparent with the way how they count prompt and completion tokens. In addition to user input, OpenAI and Anthropic pad prompt inputs with additional instructions or phrases that contribute to the final token counts. For example, Anthropic's actual completion token consumption is consistently 4 more than the token count of the completion output.

The latency of the gateway hovers around 50ms. Half of the latency comes from the tokenizer. If I start utilizing Go routines, might be able to lower the latency of the gateway to 30ms.

BricksLLM is not an observability platform, but we do provide integration with Datadog so you can get more insights regarding what is going on inside the proxy. Compared to other tools in the LLMOps space, I believe that BricksLLM has the most comprehensive features when it comes to access control.

Let me know what you guys think.
It also sucks for this completely orthogonal reason: it brings in people who have no passion for the sport. Just people who glamorize gambling or want something for nothing. If I'm a big ${sport}ball fan, it detracts (in various ways) to associate with people who aren't genuine fans but just want to gamble.
So "monopoly" as a single entity controlling a single market is a simplistic view of the issue at hand. Anti-trust is far broader than that, where any anticompetitive action can be subject to anti-trust lawsuits/regulatory action.

So the legal argument would be that, because Apple allows for a single messaging app, and interacting with that app requires an iphone, they're effectively preventing messaging app competition.

Apple has a very, very talented legal team though, so, for this to even see argument in court someone's going to have to realllly have to want it, and be able to fund it.
Opinion of a criminal: I don't think there are too many criminal laws at the State level. That is definitely not the reason for high incarceration rates. The guys who are in prison didn't randomly trip over a law they didn't know existed. 99% of the laws are the same as they've been since pre-history: don't hurt someone, don't steal etc.

Sentencing to prison is probably the key problem. Criminals need help. Outright punishment just hardens them. From my experience the bulk of crime has its origin in mental illnesses which are not being treated. The medical system in the USA almost certainly is the cause of this.