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> so far the take away is that they weren't sufficiently powerful to follow through on the decision.

> previous board was clearly unfit to make any major decisions concerning the company.

We are saying the same thing.
Why stop there? Why not force every iOS app to support running on android?
That’s how standard Beeper does it, or at least used to do it: https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/21/pebble-founder-launches-be...
In general with more power women are able to be more selective of their mates. By default women are hypergamous. They rather share an alpha male. This changes dating culture into hookup culture where thousands of young women hook up with a few top tier men. Coupled with birth control and disdain for polygamy it lowers the population overall as women seek polygamy, but culture doesn't allow it so they are sort of stuck in this hookup mode as there are "no good men" willing to settled down from their point of view.

Prior to women gaining power we would have no choice but to marry a man because marriage was coupled with survival. Women in general couldn't work and even in prehistoric times we couldn't hunt. Thus before feminism, someone like me had to settle for a man that was at my level. So overall this imbalance is better for us and worse for men.
The Beeper vs Apple battle is already getting the attention of US legislators

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/10/senator-warren-calls-out-a...
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Lazy ass. Back in my day, before walking up hill both ways to school, we had to wake up before we went to sleep and our parents would kill us every night!
> Rider and VS Code are slowly killing Visual Studio for .NET development.

You're probably right, but I never understand the dislike for VS on HN. For me it's s a reliable, capable tool.
...in the US.

The rest of the world uses Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal.

This blue/green bubble SMS but not SMS -thing is a 100% an American issue.
Me buying an iPhone for my kids doesn’t make me locked into the platform. I just want my kids on the same platform as I am.

Where is the lock in?
They are not entitled at all, they are filling a void in the market that Apple doesn't want filled. As I understand it this is explicitly legal under the DMCA and the EU DSA,
How are you 'spammed to death' by people like Alex Jones? You can easily just block him and or ignore his posts. I've been on Twitter for a decade and have never seen posts by Jones, even before the ban.

It was never about what you just described. It's not that you don't want to see posts by Alex Jones, it's that you don't want anyone to see posts by Alex Jones.

This IS a freedom of speech issue.
Would love to discuss how it worked for you
In France primary schools are traditionally off on Wednesdays and when I was there it wasn't uncommon for mostly women to have that arrangement: 80% pay but Wednesdays off.
Giving your Apple ID to a third party is an incredibly bad idea for your security, full stop. Do not ever do this. Any argument that this helps user security because your messages are now E2E is completely undermined by the risk to your identity for literally all of Apple's other services, and that someone could now impersonate you in Messages. But it'd be encrypted!
> Apple has every right to change their API, if they do Beeper will go down, and Beeper will blame Apple.

They can blame whomever they want, what difference does it really make.

> For one, I do not want to have my Apple ID login routed through a third party.

As long as you don't use the service, then you're fine. I don't see why you should even care if other people want to use this service.
I appreciate it, and would love to hear what you think.
I'm 0% confident in a surprise acquisition by Apple. Beeper doesn't seem to offer anything that Apple couldn't do themselves.
There's something funny about Warren posting on Twitter while shouting about antitrust. I really wish government wouldn't make public announcements on closed platforms.

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That aside, it seems like an easy way around that would just be for Apple to adopt RCS in addition to iMessage.
I don't know where you're getting "entitled" from. They clearly don't care what Apple does, they have plans and designs to work around it.

Beeper isn't "blaming" Apple for being Apple. They're saying that Apple is full of shit when they claim that Beeper hurts the security and privacy of their users.
I think we can commend their efforts and call out their entitled messaging at the same time. These are not mutually exclusive.
Immediately noticed the same thing and makes watching the videos painful. Just speak like a human being.
Thanks for bringing that data. And yeah, half a million is a staggering number if true.
Come Fishing for Plastic
I dont think you really need further specifics - years later without bombs going off I expect, with no further explanation to those polled needed, that the 70/30 split would probably be the opposite direction.

This sounds more like manufactured consent than the will of the people. Plus, I don't know if this happened with Blair's measures, but across the pond, the Patriot was initially written to be sunset after 4 years (from 2001), but wasn't fully sunset until 2020! This was long after the majority of Americans in polls said they didn't want to trade civil liberties to fight terror.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/183548/americans-say-liberties-...
Yes definitely, if the top says "we're doing it this way" then the smallest parts will have to do it that way. But in a company like Google (and IME most large companies) the top doesn't get that specific. They give broad strategic objectives and let the departments figure out the best way to achieve them. It's possible of course, but seems unlikely to me that the top would say something like, "remove RSS feed support for the developer blog." And if they did, I would expect either complete silence on the issue, or some corporatey Newspeak about it. Since they said "Unfortunately, we don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're actively working on a solution" that to me seems like a top-down direction is extremely unlikely.
In this analogy, the needle is as big as we can make it.

Gas-rich is where the danger is, as I understand it. Those gasses expand as they get closer to the surface, and if they're trapped in viscous magma that doesn't flow easily and puts a lot of stress on the rocks above.

The fluid basaltic lavas of Hawaii don't explode, they flow out and make shield volcanos.

Check out geologist Shawn Wilsey's videos.
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A house I lived in for a while had one room where all the interior panes were plexiglass. It wasn't that clear (they'd been significantly scuffed up) and there were some cracks at the edges that had been half heartedly sealed.

When asking a neighbor about it, that room was a child's room who in their younger years had tantrums and would throw things at the window. After the glass windows were replaced a couple times (once in the winter which was pricy for a "need to fix this today"), the parents replaced the windows with a rather durable plexiglass. They didn't break again, but they got scuffed up until the child outgrew the tantrums and the house was later sold.

Having something that is potentially more energy efficient (lower thermal transmission) and more durable are existing problems that this could provide a solution or a direction for future solutions.

(older articles) https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/10/01/transparent-wood-... and https://web.archive.org/web/20201006210438/https://www.fpl.f...
I negotiated a 4 day week as well and won't go back either. You cant beat having a three day weekend and Fridays off. A co worker does the same but takes Mondays off which works for his family better.

I would also like to try a split week: work mon-tues, off wed, work thurs-fri, off sat-sun. This way you have a mini weekend giving you two "friday nights" and there's no weekly gauntlet to run.
The only reason I knew about idempotency is because growing up I was a little shit and I learned that you could break a LOT of electronics by getting it to do a second thing midway before finishing doing the first thing.

If it had a screen and buttons, I would try to break it.

So I started striving for highly reliable systems not because there are professional bad actors out there or spammers or to achieve high performance… but because there’s another little shit out there.
I really miss some empirical economics and management research during that 4-day workweek debate. Most of the debates come from parties with a vested interest in them. What makes me more curious is: what is going to be the minimum or maximum performance time offset in terms of competitiveness that the companies will need to overcome to adopt or not?
Mistral-medium has not been released yet.
> Phone number registration is not working yet. All users must now sign in with an AppleID.
I don't believe you. Most of those dogs are fine, but a few just seem to have a screw loose in a way that can't be fixed through training or socialization. People who believe otherwise are in denial or lack experience. Whether the root cause is due to irresponsible breeding or whatever is irrelevant, it's just really antisocial behavior to bring a pitbull where they can potentially present a risk to others.

Think through the potential consequences. If a beagle freaks out and bites a toddler then they might need a few stitches. With a pitbull it can be fatal.
> Add to that the necessity for less-technical people (artists, designers, VFX, audio, etc) to use it

How is that solved with Git?
> iPhone users just want android users to get an iphone.

That's what Apple wants. So they maintain arbitrary limitations to incentivize their customers to also want it.

"Android? You're buying it wrong"
When the VC money got tangled in the roots.
> The short summary of Cagan’s definitions is that feature teams are told what to do and are measured on delivering output. They’re incentivized to ship products, have low levels of collaboration and almost no autonomy. Product teams, on the other hand, are empowered to solve problems.

Seems like author's product team has quite an ego of itself, having feature team only ship products and not solve or point out problems is a recipe for tech debt and disaster.
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Is there really a was without increasing power? The openly available frequency bands are limited quite a bit, so can the wifi alliance do anything here?
I'd like to see some benchmarks. For one thing, I suspect you'd at least want an X3D model for AMD, due to the better cache. But for another, at least according to top, llama.cpp does seem to manage to saturate all of the cores during inference. (Although I didn't try messing around much; I know X3D CPUs do not give all cores "3D V-Cache" so it's possible that limiting inference to just those cores would be beneficial.)

For me it's OK though, since I want faster compile times anyway, so it's worth the money. To me local LLMs are just a curiosity.

edit: Interesting information here. https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/14ilo0t/extensi...

> RAM speed does not matter. The processing time is identical with DDR-6000 and DDR-4000 RAM.

You'd really expect DDR5-6000 to be advantageous. I think that AMD Ryzen 7xxx can at least take advantage to up to 5600. Does it perhaps not wind up bottlenecking on memory? Maybe quantization plays a role...
Best-case outcome is that Apple decides engaging in an arms race with a motivated competitor isn't worth the time or effort and they enable some (probably limited) interop.

I can imagine a "blue-green" type of message that's encrypted but not from an Apple device; Apple keeps their status symbology and users on both ends get E2E encrypted messages to and from Apple device users without Apple users switching to a third-party app.

Apple's never had to confront this because nobody's had this much success smashing the walled garden on iMessage before. If Beeper is persistent and good enough, they'll have the first foot in the door of such an outcome.

Worst case is Apple keeps escalating the fight knowing that Beeper can't outlast them. Everybody loses in this situation; Beeper and Apple both burn a bunch of money with no benefit to anyone, iMessage users see people popping into and out of chats because Apple keeps blocking them, and most non-Apple users continue sending unencrypted SMS messages because Apple users won't switch off iMessage.

Of all the moats Apple has, iMessage's "blue bubble" is by far the most arbitrary. Allowing strictly controlled interop with non-Apple devices doesn't change how good iMessage is, it only dents the ecosystem's most superficial status symbol.

I'm rooting for the better outcome but expecting the latter.
He's had his own products for a long time now. It's better for him in the long-run, so advertisers don't end up being the arbiters of truth.
I do this, but I instead do more like 6 hours across Mon-Fri. If my life circumstances change I can see preferring longer days Mon-Thu.
Beeper cloud used the device as a relay mechanism. I'm suggesting the same on-Android-device implementation, but rather than randomly generating an apple device to send to Apple's registration servers, they use a device I legitimately own.

No relays (so preserves security) & harder for apple to identify (because to them it'd be as if I'm just using my iPad)
Editorializing is against the site guidelines

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Interesting I'd get downvoted for sharing this...
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You only need a renamer for out-of-order issue - I guess you could execute a backward compatible ISA using only in-order issue. Still, it doesn't strike me as very likely to be implemented in that way.
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Skyrim is a counterexample, which is heavily extended through both an officially supported scripting engine, and unsupported code hooks.
You can't make any design with purely "user defined preferences" because none of the metrics will be reliable and if the settings deviate too far from the average things get all wonky pretty quickly, even for fairly simple designs.
edit: guess I was wrong
"Their JavaScript API is clunky, esoteric, and hard to understand for devs"

I loved her opinion, I've always shared that sentiment but I was afraid of saying it.

I also wish there was a way to develop such abstractions (WebComponents) with/in HTMX.
Do you have a link to the case details? At the very least, there has to have been some additional evidence to convict, even if circumstantial. I find it hard to believe that someone can be ruled guilty of a crime as serious as rape based solely on the plaintiff's testimony.
This is one of those technically correct comments, but missing the point. We're probably too old for this but the green message bubble vs blue message bubble is an actual thing that many people care about.
A few years back there were some stories in a Swedish newspaper about a method for medical age estimation of asylum seekers developed by a government agency. I could hardly believe my eyes when the person responsible for the accuracy of the method was quoted as saying that it was very reliable, because it used two unreliable methods to estimate if the person was above 18 years old, and then concluded that they were 18+ if either method so indicated. You don’t need to be a genius to realize your false 18+ rate will be higher when combining two methods in this way than it would be if you used a single method, but he argued the opposite.

This caught my attention and I spent an inordinate amount of time, together with a group of other concerned people, trying to convince this government authority they were wrong, and later to expose them for it / stop them from continuing. But it sadly turned out to be next to impossible. They persisted with inaccurate/false affidavits and court testimony for years, until finally the minister of justice ordered a formal probe into the method. They then patched it up as best they could without exposing their previous errors, and pretended like nothing had happened. The formal probe issued an interim report with pretty harsh commentary, and was then cancelled by the minister of justice before it could give its final report.

Forever changed my view of the Swedish justice system.
> He's no prankster.

Though he does seem like a bit of a crank. Apparently Craig Murray thought Russia "lacked a motive" to poison a Russian spy who defected to the West, but he believed the Jews had "a clear motivation." That reeks of a broken reasoning process driven by prejudice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray#Skepticism_about_...
The part that's wild to me is that Beeper is collecting revenue from their users for this.

Apple doesn't charge for iMessage, and instead that service is funded by device purchases. Beeper is charging people who haven't purchased devices to help them parasitize the infrastructure of the service, and instead of contributing to Apple's operational expenses, they're pocketing the money.

There's no scenario where this stands, even if iMessage came to non-Apple devices Apple is probably going to charge users if they're not buying Apple devices (I can't imagine it being an ad-driven service).
US law is applied unequally. It’s very harsh, sometimes random and I’ve heard all Americans break the law daily. We would all be in jail and sometimes prison.

US crime is like driving across the only road that is covered in black ice with toll trolls on the way, you have to cross it, you know it’s there, and you can do it carefully but you never know what will happen or where you’ll slip up.
I noticed that too, all the supermarket (and “vet only” foods like pedigree pal etc) are mostly fillers like corn or other things that cats don’t really eat normally but make it much cheaper to produce.
> It wasn't that prompt

He was back at OpenAI in less than a week from his firing.

> I don't see how this makes any past behavior irrelevant.

You don't have to see anything. The conclusion from all the smoke and mirrors that emerged is that Altman was hired back at OpenAI. Rendering the previous board's decision null.
Beeper on main(ish)stream media.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/12/11/apple-shutters-new-app...
Yeah definitely no hard feelings or anything, but again: In my opinion, if an ASR-33 teletype is a GUI, the term loses basically all meaning.

That said, you're right that physical paper is wonderful. I often find myself wishing for some way of moving easily between digital and paper representations of a problem I'm working on. The best I've come up with practically so far is heavy use of index cards and a scanner when I want to get things back into the digital realm. I think something like this could be slick and nice, but my current implementation is actually pretty clunky, so I tend only to do it during the initial phase of a new project -- print off all the info I think I'll need, grab a stack of index cards and a mechanical pencil, walk away from my workstation and sit down at the kitchen table to think and scribble, then scan in anything that needs scanning in and work the rest of the project digitally. I'd love to have the ability to move back and forth with less ceremony, but so far I haven't seen anything that would facilitate this.

I think the reMarkable (2?) tablet might be at least part of what I want, though I haven't had a chance to look into it very deeply. They probably also depend on a cloud service that could go up in smoke at any time, which I'd like to avoid for something super integral to my daily workflow.
Then how does WhatsApp run their service for free across multiple platforms?
Apple's RCS implementation is meaningless unless they cut out the blue/green bubble shit.
> showmanship

What do you mean by that? I know what the term means but considering it's one of the most used programming stacks I don't understand what you mean when you use it.
Sure, but the same is true of a 40h work week - there are still another 128 hours in the week you have to cover.

You need 4.2 40h teams of people for full coverage in a 168 hour week. You need 5.25 32h teams for the same coverage. It's not a radical jump.
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Sorry, I've referred to multiple things in that comment - which are you asking about?
"Take existing C code, compile it to WebAssembly, transpile it back to C, and you get the same code, but sandboxed." Nice!
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> Messages App is the default chat app for all iPhone customers. Not only is it the default, iOS makes it impossible to change the default chat app. In the US, where the majority of people have iPhones, this means that the easiest way to chat is by tapping on your friend’s name in your contact list and hitting the ‘message’ button.

This is not true. On iOS - iOS has APIs for third party messaging and voip apps to intergrates natively into the system where they are presented as equal peers to iMessage and default phone app.

When I view contacts in the first party Contacts app, it presents message & call as the top options for my contacts. The first time per-contact it'll prompt you which you want to use, with third party options getting equal billing compared to first-party, but after that it'll remember.
Of course, if you're on Android -- which you would be to use this service -- then maybe you don't even have any other Apple services (I don't). So this is not a problem.

In fact, can't I not just create an new Apple ID specifically for this?
Apple needs better critics.

Senator Warren would be a lot more effective if she or her staff understood how technology actually works. Senator Markey is another person who cares about this stuff but is also incompetent to regulate it.
Why does it have to be free? Aren't beeper showing that there is a market of users who would pay to be able to use imessage from non-apple hardware?
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More common words can be just one token, but most words will be a few tokens. A token is neither a character nor a word, it's more like a word fragment.
True, removed.
As a Google Android user using a Google Pixel and Google's RCS on Google Fi, the messaging system is a total clusterfuck. There's no way to reliably send or receive messages, and sometimes my images will be degraded silently, group messages to other Fi users often don't work before several retries, reactions are totally hit and miss...

IMessage is a much much much better experience. It's not at all bad for their customers. It's a huge plus of that system over Android and other platforms that still try to piggyback off SMS or haphazardly support RCS.
Isn't this a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or other US laws? Doesn't the fact they are trying to make money off of this negate any ethical hacker arguments?
SEO and SEM (Search Engine Marketing) get mixed up a lot. SEO vs SEM is like aesthetics (color theory, composition, etc) vs a billboard ad. The latter cares about the former, but the former is innocent.
Yeah, I am not expecting this to be a protracted game of cat and mouse. Apple will just sue them in the end; that'll put a REAL quick stop to this.

I wish things had more interoperability, but Apple is under no obligation to implement it or be okay with it. And honestly, I believe them when they say that this is a security/privacy risk; even if it does serve their anticompetitive tendencies.
Has anybody tried a 3x12h? I think I'd get just as much done and be way happier. I hate the commute, the meetings, the office bullshit. I just want a long list of tasks, some drum and bass music, and a fresh pot of coffee. Let me do 3 heavy sessions a week and give me freedom to be human the rest of the time.