skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Apple's device sales subsidize the cost Apple pays to run this system.

And Beeper bought and paid for the Apple devices which they use to route iMessage. What's the problem? Looks fair and square to me.

Apple is legally allowed to try to block me for breaking their ToS, but legally, I bought the device, I can do whatever I want with it since it's my property now, including trying to route iMessage on my device and my account if hat's what I want.

It's still not stealing because I paid Apple for the HW, and stealing means breaking the law, not breaking Apple's ToS which are silly and worthless anyway.
This seems unsurprising?

CAR-T is engineered to kill of CD19 expressing immune cells.

I’m sure you could take b-cell depleting antibodies as well and have it push your autoimmune disease into remission. And they are already used to treat autoimmune diseases like MS, Crohn’s, etc.

But depleting immune cells comes with a host of side effects. Risk of infection, even diseases that you’d otherwise easily fight off.
Yeah. The mechanics of JWTs are complex, involving maths that is easy to get wrong. Hopefully the implementation is based on a standard library and the author didn't roll their own crypto. Hopefully the library hasn't got any known vulnerabilities. Hopefully the implementation hasn't got any problems. Because the JWT actually contains sensitive information that is useful to an attacker, and if they can forge their own JWTs then the system is wide open; all the attacker needs to do is work out the username of an admin (or worse, the JWT itself tells the system if the user is an admin).

Session IDs don't have any of these problems. It does mean you have to do a database lookup on every request, and that can cause problems with scale, but if you have to hit the database anyway for other reasons then you have that problem anyway and have to solve it for those other reasons.
apple did the "embrace, extend, extinguish" with this.

the original apple messages app did AOL messenger and others.

then it gradually forced you off of them into imessage.
How do you as an iMessage user, prevent the person you sent a message to from sharing it with others?
Lots of cold emails and cold reachouts on LinkedIn/Twitter/Threads probably. Checking out research lab websites in universities like UC Berkeley is probably a good place to start.
Maybe it's hard to find enough technically strong engineers with a passion on testing. Microsoft used to advocate how technically challenging to be a SDET - software engineer in test. IBM used to tell its test teams that testing engineers know the big picture, understand the products, and have to do awesome technical work. Unfortunately in reality, more engineers are more willing to directly develop products than becoming an expert in test.
> SMS

Can you change the SMS app on Apple devices now?
By the way number of questions on stackoverflow stopped decreasing many years before the advent of LLMs..

I think Chatgpt/Copilot merely accelerated something that was already known to be in a bad state due to the toxicity of the platform.
This is a really hard time to be in that market. I built my own "mesh" system by deploying 3 separate routers in bridge mode, connected via ethernet (lucky that house was pre-wired). We moved to a house that didn't have that and I used powerline adapters which worked well enough, but once wifi 6 came and the true mesh systems like Google Wifi and Eero put together a system that has much better handoff (by coordinating), open source really just hasn't kept up. The powerline solution kind of sucks because it caps out for me at 20 Mbps (which is very disappointing when scp-ing a file over the LAN!). I've heard people able to get 200 Mbps through powerline, but I haven't been successful. I built a system that just used three routers each with a slightly different SSID, and a script on my laptop that would switch it to the one with the most power once it hit a certain differential threshold. That was honestly my favorite system, and what I plan to do again once my current system retires.

My current system is a Protectli 4-port firewall appliance that is running AlmaLinux. It gets CGNATed by my ISP (Starlink) but I set up Tailscale (Headscale) and don't really have any issues now from CGNAT. Cockpit plus plugins provides me a good GUI, although I prefer to just SSH and use the CLI. I have two "wireless access points", one is a Linksys WRT3200ACM: AC3200 (open source edition). It's good, not great. The other is a (swallow) Google wifi. The Google wifi adds a layer of NAT in order to provide mesh. You can avoid that by putting it in hub mode but you lose wireless handoff if you use that. I've been pretty happy with that system for several years, but I'm still on the lookout for something more open that isn't a major downgrade on speed/reliability. I can more or less hot swap any WAP into place since most of the brains/config is in my Almalinux router.
Drought the trigger of rise of professional skateboarding in 1970s California
What makes your anecdote more valuable than GP's? You may not know anyone who does the "snobby conformist" act, but GP does. Why should I care that you haven't experienced it when someone who actually has experienced it tells me so?

Moreover, since you admit those people exist, why wouldn't you support interoperability between iMessage and other platforms? It would only benefit you as a user since it would allow you to message your friends that are on Androids, and wouldn't be to your detriment at all since you're not doing the "snobby" act yourself. Where is your defensiveness coming from? It sounds like you're on the same team as GP.
Title should probably be "Mitchell Hashimoto reflects as he departs HashiCorp". Lots of folks have no idea who "Mitchell" is without that key extra bit.
That movie was so good but was entirely overshadowed by the release of The Matrix, which released just 2 months earlier - I think people assumed that The 13th Floor was just a Matrix knock-off, which it wasn't. Both were great, of course, but 13th Floor just got a bum deal with it's release date I think.
The AI industry is on the verge of becoming another boys' club
The Voyagers also carry the Golden Records, which are full of information about Earth, its species, humans, samples of different languages, and music. It also has a description of our solar system, and details how to listen to the record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record
Error 402: Information Sorta Wants to Be Expensive; Almost Wants to Be Free
Full title is a word short:

> Error 402: Information Sorta Wants To Be Expensive; Information Almost Wants To Be Free
This is a great way to go if you don't mind the power consumption and/or learning how to administer them. You can buy used Juniper equipment that went for 4 to 5 figures when it was new, for dirt cheap (2 figures). Still plenty sufficient for home use. If you've never done Juniper before it can be a bit of a learning curve, but the equipment is really solid.
> A) you are unmoved by it and have wasted your time

It's this one. I am a reasonable person who is deeply familiar with the original coin-op game and, IMHO, there is nothing remotely racist in it. I see from other posts that apparently the bulk of the claims you're citing are related to later console games which I have never seen, have no opinion on and which are off-topic from the content of this thread since the OP is entirely about the creation of the original arcade game over 40 years ago.

> a damaging franchise I'd want to risk my memories and be sure that I wasn't doing anyone any harm.

I categorically disagree that playing a 40 yr old arcade game beloved by millions on my personal MAME cabinet can possibly do "harm" or "damage" anyone. I find the suggestion ludicrous but based on that wording and framing, I suspect you and I have profoundly divergent world views and that further engagement will A) Not be productive, and B) Violate HN's prohibition on culture war topics (which I 100% support).
I'm still waiting for my anti-mosquito star wars system. Maybe the "AI" will help.
It required no ongoing infrastructure for people to use IE either on Windows or on Mac. iMessage requires servers, bandwidth, and operators.
This proposed law, and similar ones across the English speaking work (Australia, UK, NZ, US) are because of lobbying by Baroness Beeban Kidron [0] for a decade.

An earlier comment of mine:

Baroness Beeban Kidron has been lobbying for stringent anti-CSAM measures in tech for years [0].

She's lead a major pressure campaign in the US, Canada, and the UK for years [1]. Her charity 5Rights and WeProtect both have been able to back Labour and the Tories so she's able to lobby across the aisles.
It doesn't hurt that the publishing company her parents founded (Pluto Press) has a strong niche in the political space.

The Molly Russell suicide also played a role [2], which she leveraged to highlight the need for restrictive anti-CSAM measures, especially as it became a top tabloid story in the UK.

[0] - https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/14/british-baroness-on...
I was building something really similar here https://ablepaint.dreammachine.one/ !
My hunch is that there is some fundamental misunderstanding of what CUDA is and why it works. Its been like 6 years now of well funded attempts to displace CUDA, and there has been very little progress. In fact I'd argue its gone backwards as things like FlashAttention have further locked in the benefits of CUDA & Nvidia chips.
> It feels like most tech companies or software engineers are using macs.

This is a very US-centric perspective. I honestly don't know a single software engineer who uses a mac as their primary machine (except where a mac is necessary or very useful, such as writing apps for macOS or iOS). The typical machine that people who do software development use privately is rather some high-quality ThinkPad model with either GNU/Linux or Windows on it.
> It's interesting to simultaneously see takes complaining about fragmentation and apple having monopoly power in this thread.

They are both issues! Fragmentation in messaging is a real problem in the US, and iMessage has for a decade been the closest to a solution for iPhone users. Users' frustration with fragmentation pushes them into the app where 1) they know the message will get there, and 2) there's a 50% chance the experience won't suck. iMessage's existence in a fragmented market and refusal to interoperate all but guarantees the fragmentation will continue.
Probably wanted help chrome keep its market share while keeping firefox insignificant.

Also I wonder where do those decision makers work now.
Nothing anywhere close to event horizon can "slowly spiral in". There are no stable orbits within 1.5x the diameter of the event horizon. To get anywhere close without falling in would require a very powerful rocket, one that could accelerate to near light speed just to stay there.

Now if you are falling in your hand never disappears, it's just that your body would accelerate into the black hole a little faster than your hand is accelerating because you are pulling back on your hand. But your hand never could have a negative velocity (moving away from the blackhole) no matter what you do.
Tomorrow Voyager 1 shaves its head, now identifies as Vega, and is
coming home.
It burdens companies that want to grow and aren't big enough to borrow money at low interest.

This is basically an attempt at increasing the incentives for monopoly formation. If you are big enough you can shrug it off and even buy a tax distressed company at a discount.
You site looks good, and your results are fantastic! Job well done. I did hit a server error though, so obviously still some issues to work out, but overall, really well done. Moving to semantic search was one of my top priorities before we went under, but I struggled to justify the costs of it as we were operating on a shoestring budget.

Best of luck to you and your team on user acquisition!
A couple hundred servers, and like 5 engineers.
> Or finding that articles that would normally belong in the New Yorker or NY Times Magazine are in the main "newspaper" (if those distinctions even make sense anymore)

Yeah. I recall seeing someone comment - quite some time ago, probably 20 years now - that the NYT was morphing from "slightly staid establishment mouthpiece" to "what upper-middle-class professional women want to read". My wife is a subscriber; QED? She reads the thing every day. I might glance at the homepage and read an article or two now and again, but I'd be perfectly fine with only a games subscription (the crossword is excellent, and Spelling Bee has helped me tremendously with anagramming).
> Yes. Are experts the only ones who are allowed to speculate ?

Experts (and here, it's scientists, not economists or whatever) speculations are based on field knowledge and current facts.

> authorities are not to be trusted [...] Japan is no stranger to cover ups [...] etc

Ok. Since Japan "can't be trusted", would you say that UN scientific committees can, on scientific subjects? Like IPCC group 1 and 2? Here is the IPCC group 1 equivalent for radiations:

https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/areas-of-work/fukushima.h...
OPEC+ now controls barely half of oil market, says IEA
The Remington No. 1 - which introduced the QWERTY layout - omitted number keys for 0 and 1; the O and I letter keys were considered sufficient. The No. 2 added a shift key, and a full number row.
It’s easy to have principles when you can just be strict when it’s about what someone else is doing and be loose when it’s about what you’re doing yourself.

That’s not a balance, it’s just hollow grandstanding.
Strongest Solar Flare of Cycle 25
Interesting that they make you contact support to cancel your subscription, but don't make you contact support to sign up for one. I wonder why the discrepancy.
https://archive.today/cWak1
Hashicorp was always a role model for open source companies. Congratulations for that era. You achieved something impressive.
What is "Marxist torture"?
The cheapest way to get a 80gig setup is to to only offload some layers to GPU, and use CPU/system RAM for the rest.

I run ~120GB models on my PC with a 7950X, 128GB DDR5, and RTX 3090.
I (mostly) do favor government intervention with Apple, but you make a good point. Originally the income tax was only to apply to the uber mega rich. It didn't take long for it to apply to all the middle class too.
Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe, audacious reply on X
Thank for the warning. I use Bitwarden exclusively. It didn't happen on iPhone 13 Pro 17.1.2 -> 17.2. Currently upgrading iPad Pro 4th gen as it took until today to get iPadOS 17.2.
It seems the CEO of Beeper is literally doing that.
The software people at laptop OEMs most definitely are idiots, and Intel's processor designs are increasingly reliant on software being smart enough to properly manage and use that hardware. Intel and Microsoft are doing a mediocre job at best of handling the software challenges, and then the OEMs ship the system with crapware that makes it impossible for the processor to stay in its low-power idle states.

And judging by how many laptop OEMs actually bothered to ship the Arc discrete GPUs, a fair number of them must also be dumb suckers.
While I'm also in favor of Apple doing something, anything really, that's better than the frustrating status quo, I could see how blunt/incompetent regulation might weaken encryption.

I've been wondering if we can already see the foreshadows of Apple's next move, actually: CKV is already only possible between modern (iOS 17.2 or macOS 14.2 and above only) devices, and their RCS implementation will presumably not be end-to-end encrypted.

I could see them opening up "legacy iMessage" (i.e. non-CKV, non-ephermerally-encrypted) and integrating RCS, but assigning new color to "modern iMessage" exclusively. That would credibly count as opening up their service, while still preserving a distinguishing feature for Apple devices, and even nudging people to upgrade some old devices.
Renouncing isn't hard for most people, except Americans who have to pay thousands of dollars in fees. Acquiring the new citizenship is what's hard; most decent countries don't just hand that out.
60% to 70% of students cheat?! And it probably continues into adulthood. No wonder the world is such a mess, everyone is uneducated and cheating. I wonder if there has been any research on the effect of this in the adult population.
Yes, and there was Trillian, which was compatible with all of ICQ, Yahoo Chat, MSN Messenger and others.

But because Apple decided to make their messaging system a marketing tool instead of an interoperable app, we don't get to have a Trillian equivalent today.
If you are serious about it then grab a Physics 101 textbook and get familiar with the subject. Read skim through it and then reevaluate and decide what exactly you need or want to learn. Physics is a huge subject so you need to be a bit more focused on what you need or want to be able to understand where to start.
"Jury Rules Google App Store Operates as Monopoly" is in the headlines this week. So it seems maybe there is some risk to Apple with regards to iMessage.
I could also have done something else with my free time than solve this problem and then let a bunch of nitpickers reproach me with nonsense. See e.g. this comment which was one of the first and stayed on top for a day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633438
I always wonder how people square "It's a fraud" with "It's a fraud that fits the reality of power and abuse incredibly well."

I get the sense that some people really just don't like to talk or think about the banality of evil.
No one because they want it to be false cuz of neo-romanticism
It has nothing to do with mastering COBOL. It has everything to do with mastering the banking systems.
Microsoft ha annunciato di essere impegnata nella lotta contro un gruppo di cybercriminali che, secondo l'azienda, si è posizionato al vertice mondiale nella vendita di account Microsoft fraudolenti. Questo gruppo è stato identificato con il nome di Storm-1152 da parte di Microsoft stessa. La compagnia ha messo in atto azioni volte a chiudere i siti web utilizzati dal gruppo e ha sequestrato le infrastrutture negli Stati Uniti utilizzate da questi cybercriminali.

In un articolo pubblicato sul blog, Microsoft ha affermato: "Storm-1152 gestisce siti web illegali e pagine sui social media, vendendo account Microsoft falsi e strumenti per eludere i software di verifica dell'identità presenti su piattaforme tecnologiche di rilevanza. Questi servizi riducono il tempo e lo sforzo necessari ai criminali per condurre una serie di comportamenti criminali e abusivi online."

Secondo quanto dichiarato da Microsoft, Storm-1152 avrebbe creato ben 750 milioni di account fraudolenti, generando così milioni di dollari di entrate per il gruppo.

L'azienda ha ottenuto un'ordinanza dal Southern District di New York il 7 dicembre, che le ha permesso di chiudere i siti web gestiti da Storm-1152. Tra questi, vi era uno denominato Hotmailbox.me, che secondo l'azienda vendeva account falsi di Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft ha anche oscurato siti progettati per aggirare il noto servizio di verifica CAPTCHA e ha cancellato gli account sui social media utilizzati da Storm-1152.

Microsoft ha persino identificato le persone principali dietro Storm-1152, tutte residenti in Vietnam: Duong Dinh Tu, Linh Van Nguyễn (noto anche come Nguyễn Van Linh) e Tai Van Nguyen. Microsoft ha affermato: "Le nostre indagini dimostrano che queste persone hanno gestito e scritto il codice per i siti web illegali, hanno pubblicato istruzioni dettagliate su come utilizzare i loro prodotti attraverso tutorial video e hanno fornito servizi di chat per assistere coloro che usufruivano dei loro servizi fraudolenti."

L'azienda ha condiviso queste informazioni con i membri dell'apparato giudiziario degli Stati Uniti per un "rinvio penale".

Questa azione di Microsoft giunge alcuni mesi dopo che l'azienda aveva ammesso che hacker cinesi avevano ottenuto accesso agli account email di Outlook del governo negli Stati Uniti e in Europa. In seguito a questo episodio, l'azienda ha annunciato un nuovo sforzo nel campo della sicurezza informatica denominato "Iniziativa per un Futuro Sicuro", finalizzato al miglioramento degli sforzi di contrasto alla criminalità informatica da parte di Microsoft.
It's currently the 3rd most popular app in the UK iPhone app store [1], so clearly some people have heard about it.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/gb/charts/iphone
Is still worth giving Usenet a try again? Are there any technology Usenet groups that are still active and worth subscribing to?
Traffic goes to Apple’s servers.

Servers handle routing and storing. iMessage will deliver and store the message to server, and then to receiver when it is online.

It is major cost when there are millions of users on, top of notifications.

User pays for ISP, only up to the closest link.
Most importantly,

> You can continue to view and search for historical Usenet content posted before February 22, 2024 on Google Groups.
Apple did build out the iMessage service and pays the bills for the servers it runs on.

Aaron Swartz was hounded to death by the Feds for unauthorized access to a website and charged with a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

He wasn't even trying to turn a profit.
yeah, I nearly forgot about the licensing chaos
It really depends on what stack you pick and what kind of engineers you have. What's App famously used Erlang (an excellent choice for this) and was able to scale to astronomical levels with a fairly small engineering team and hundreds of instances.
This is conflating problems.

This thread is about asking the government to step in to allow 3rd party devices into iMessage, which is decidedly outside of SMS, but gov won't step in because iMessage isn't a monopoly on messaging nor SMS. It's a monopoly on... it's own protocol/service?

Android users always get a message an iPhone user sends so to claim gov intervention monopoly on the basis that the end user can't change the SMS app isn't an argument.
Yeah Arc is incredible in how much it accomplished as a first attempt and as long as they keep at it without chopping it up into a bunch of artificially limited market segments then it'll probably be incredibly competitive in a few generations.
The main services iChat supported - AIM and Yahoo Messenger are gone. Google Chat no longer supports XMPP. I don't know anything about Facebook Messenger. Increasingly messaging services became siloed.
Made really easy: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/gnu-radio-tempest-implementation-now...
LLMs can barely generate legal code, so they're certainly unable to debug them or write the test cases completely without expert guidance of someone who knows what the hell they're doing.

It will take 10 to 20 years before there is "Star Trek computer"-level of self-programming, agent-based systems.
>programmers that keep banks like this running are an enormously underestimated "bus factor" for many of the world's economies, and what kind of back-up plans they have for such a scenario.

Hmm, makes me wonder about potential similar situation with APL programmers - a language I know quite a few large companies use.
Not in this context. They are sending commands. The spacecraft is not responding to them. This is exactly a breakdown of the communication, which is exactly what's mentioned in the first paragraph of the article.
If you haven't already, please consider filing issues on the rocrand GitHub repo for the problems you encountered. The rocrand library is being actively developed and your feedback would be valuable for guiding improvements.
https://enccs.github.io/sycl-workshop/unified-shared-memory/ seems to suggest that USM is still a hardware-specific feature in SYCL 2020, so compatibility with hardware that requires a buffer copying approach is still maintained. Is this incorrect?
Device Trees also don't magically cause incompatibilities either. They're just a declarative specification of the non-discoverable hardware that exists. The old BIOS systems are so much worse than DT and harder to test properly.