skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Beeper has proven that we now have another one: iMessage.

Why not use the more modern, featureful & secure option instead of antiquated SMS? Why are you still defending corporate greed at the expense of user experience?
Yeah, good point, lol.

Let's see... abortion, school shootings, jobs, climate change, blue bubbles...?
I think they ignored a rarely talked about but important aspect. iMessage is free for Apple users because it comes bundled with all Apple products. The cost to run iMessage and deliver millions of messages daily must be a significant number.

With beeper, they are enabling the functionality for android. That is every android user signed up with beeper will end up costing Apple some money to send messages to iphone (or to send messages to other android users using the same thing).

In my opinion, next step for Apple is to mandate having an apple device to be able to use an Apple ID as part of their TnC. They will keep closing loopholes in the meantime, but don't think Apple will let beeper win this, purely because of the can of worms it opens up.
Chat Wars: Microsoft vs. AOL (2014)
If RCS goes live on all Apple devices in all jurisdictions and that solves the problem then great!
You know what they say about benchmarks... ;-)

I prefer Linux, but performance is not my main grief about Windows.
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The only relevant line in there is:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

I would argue that "editorialize" is the wrong word here.

W4 Games (Godot) announces pricing model for console ports
W4 Games announces pricing model for [Godot] console ports

would both be clarifying modifications, not editorializing ones. All definitions of "editorialize" involve an opinion, and although it is possible to express an opinion via a cleverly chosen clarification, this is not one of those cases.

That said, the quoted rule above does prohibit this change because of the "Otherwise"—clarification isn't one of the reasons listed above it. I wish that something about basic clarification could be added. I almost missed this article because I only weakly recognize the name W4 Games as the commercial face of Godot.
Hey hope you're doing well - have your charges have been fully dropped finally?
Are you saying Reader was killed to funnel people into Google+?
Live in NYC, just few days ago I saw two women walking together on a busy sidewalk, both glued to their phones. Then one of them walked straight into a large visible scaffolding support pole.
Friendly reminder that "working in tech" doesn't mean you're pulling in $250k+/yr. Most people "working in tech" aren't in Silicon Valley, and can't easily save 50% of our income per year and still have enough to pay for both food and the mortgage/rent.
> I guess MU-MIMO helps in theory with that, but doesn’t seem to in practice.

I'd really like to see some thorough testing on this. My hunch is that mimo and more importantly beam-forming is something that works under lab conditions if every wifi device in range uses chips from the same manufacturer as the AP, and even then probably still depends on moon phase. Except maybe if you buy really expensive pro gear.

If some tech outlet would get a random assortment of popular APs and then test this stuff with a dozen phones and laptops that would surely be interesting.
If you let juniors design and deploy a DB layer to prod it's your fault not the DBs. Transaction isolation is generally complicated topic that a lot of senior devs have a pretty tenuous grasp on ime and distributed Postgres solutions don't solve this particularly well either last I checked
In a similar story, my wife gave me an Omega calibre 1861 Moonwatch years ago, and I nearly always wear it. But a few years ago, I got an Apple Watch for running, and now I often wear both, because I like the heart monitor, the haptic hints while driving, and don't always have my phone along. I wish the Apple Watch had a face that didn't have a time display.
I disagree, I'm an Apple user and don't view this positively for them. There's a lot of narratives including better security, more interoperability, or even just a david vs goliath battle with Beeper. If it was Google proper, it might be a different story but people like to root for the small guys on the side of right.
I'm confused, though, how then do they claim it needs the same resources as 13B? Is that amortised over parallel usage or something?
Tons of dead sardines, mackerel wash ashore in northern Japan
As dang explains in one of the linked posts, it's because if they don't do it, the discussion usually becomes "how is this on the front page when it's 2 days old?" instead of discussing the topic at hand.

Of course in this case we're now discussing the opposite question and still not discussing the topic at hand.
> Reverse-engineering a closed protocol and distributing an Apple Binary (IIRC correctly) are a bit more than just "implementing a protocol."

Reverse-engineering the protocol was the first step to implementing it. The point is that there was no vulnerability exploited in the protocol - it's as secure as it ever was.

I don't think they are shipping an Apple binary. Can you provide a source for that?
There is some truth in this. In the startup world, we often tend to avoid this framing because it isn't positive - but every startup begins in the process of failing (running out of resources and ceasing to be a going concern, one way or another).

The term "runway" is often interpreted to mean: "We need to get this plane going fast enough to lift off before the end of the road". Reality is more complex, because there isn't a plane yet. You have to design and build that as you go, and if you get it wrong, you crash.

Management is in this position: without action, the company will die. With the wrong actions, the company will die. Many decisions close doors, and it's not exactly clear from the start what sequence of doors will lead to the company not dying.

If you involve the team too much in the sausage-making aspects of this, they will invariably become distracted, lose focus, and the company will die. If you leave them too much in the dark, they will lose trust, and the company will die.

It's not easy, and all of this leads to the duck nature: calm up top, under the water feet are paddling like crazy.
Apple has always been anticompetitive to an extent that would make Bill Gates blush, at least as far back as I can remember. They are one of the most toxic tech companies in that regard. I hope that they are forced to open their walled gardens (app lockdowns in particular), but I have no doubt they'll find another way to be anticompetitive. It's just in their company culture.
Not sure if you’re sarcastic or not but Promixa is 4+ light years away.

So unless we have FTL tech, this is impossible.
You do not have to deal with the generated C, simply consider it the IR.

The main benefit of generating C over LLVM IR is portability: C is supported by far more systems than LLVM can target.

For example, it enables porting Rust applications to Mac OS 9 (https://twitter.com/turbolent/status/1617231570573873152), or porting Python to all sorts of operating systems and CPUs (https://twitter.com/turbolent/status/1621992945745547264).

The main "goal" of w2c2 so far has been allowing to port applications and libraries to as many systems as possible.
For more information, see the README of w2c2.
That's true for a steady-state wave, and hence this model is accurate for a steady-state light wave. But if you were to consider short pulses of light then there is no longer a relationship between the group velocity and phase velocity.

The group velocity of these pulses through a medium will still be lower than the speed of light in a vacuum and phase kicks won't influence the group velocity.

Explaining how the group velocity of light can be slower in a medium than in a vacuum requires analyzing the coupling of photons with electrons to form polariton quasiparticles. You can then calculate the mass of these polaritons which in turn gives you the speed and get the full picture. Doing this, however, is incredibly complex and so it's much easier to consider simplified scenarios like either the steady-state case where you can simply reason about the scenario in terms of interference patterns between the light wave and the electromagnetic waves produced by oscillating electrons, or you can consider some non-steady state scenarios involving photons themselves being absorbed and reemitted by electrons but neither of these explanations fully capture the phenomenon.
This sort of thing happens all the time. The Innocence Project has a multi-year backlog. If you are a black man with a public defender the prosecution almost doesn't even have to show up to get a conviction. Death row is full of people who were railroaded by the system.
Living in the country where absolutely no one uses iMessage, the whole kerfuffle about the colour of the message bubble leaves me completely flabbergasted.

I mean, probably the curvature of the Earth is involved, but from here this looks like a very small hill to die on.
Don't forget Turso's libsql which uses a local node+reconciliation

https://medium.com/chiselstrike/introducing-embedded-replica...
> Each person along the way is self-moderating because they won't be scamming or harassing their real acquaintances.

LMAO. Bernie Madoff got started by roping in friends and family. Friends and family are literally the biggest targets in every MLM scheme. Family is frequently implicated in identity theft (they have access to your files). Gen-Z has figured out that they can scam their families and cry gay persecution from them to avoid accountability. The vast majority of rape cases (70-90%) are acquaintance rape.

Real acquaintances are the most likely to be victimized in literally every form of crime, including murder. Trusted networks only function when people have decency and don't exploit their insider access.

> That's why OG Facebook without groups, pages, global recommendations, etc was actually very civil.

I'd argue it's because the networks were smaller, and no other reason. When you have a large family, you can afford to fuck over a few members and live with never being invited to Thanksgiving at their house again.
As long as Apple keeps encouraging their users to be shitty to Android users, I'd say it's important.
I’m a former Android fanatic turned iPhone user. I still own Android devices, but my primary device is an iPhone. I haven’t had something excite me as much as this Beeper Mini situation in years—I love that they’re doing this.

One of the things that got me to switch to the iPhone a few years ago was the fact that it seemed Apple was actually doing a lot of the right things when it came to privacy and security. Obviously, I was still pretty skeptical of them, but compared to Google, Apple’s track record seemed a bit more trustworthy.

The way Apple tries to lock you in though while stifling competition is extremely disappointing. They’re on the wrong side of history.
Except Al Capone actually did what he went to prison for. Yeah he did a lot of other stuff nobody could prove to the standard of a courtroom, but what you're talking about is someone "knows" Al Capone is bad, so they fabricate crimes and evidence and frame him for those in order to send him to prison. That would still be wrong. This is a feature, not a bug.
> If you want rich media and other bells and whistles, use WhatsApp.

People in America don't use WhatsApp. There's no reason for me to switch when none of my friends/family/contacts have it.

> How often does someone whine so loudly about insisting on using the closed, Apple-proprietary protocol that their friends need to pay a monthly subscription for a third party interop app?

Enough that people don't date people who use Android
Please explain to me why that wouldn't be in anyone's interest?

Why should I pay costs for server uptime and maintenance for clients that I a) did not authorize and b) did not pay for me keeping up my servers and c) actually accept that a third party is getting money for providing said access to my servers?

I really don't get how Apple is to blame for protecting what they pay for.
There were a lot of complaints that websites which never had to bother with certificates before now had to set one up (and pay for one). Though that's now largely solved by Lets Encrypt.
I wonder if this was the inspiration for the name of the creator of DotA mod, icefrog
And not remotely connected to the article, the source paper in question, its author, the subject, or even the same century.
> They want to control the entire user experience end to end, and it is why many people like Apple products so much.

Totally. But in a messaging app context, that doesn't apply or even make sense. They could just release an iMessage app for Android and keep the experience exactly the same for their iPhone users.
In the late 1990s and early 200xs, there were a lot of claims that there was no such thing as a "slow language", that all languages can be run as quickly as C if you just built a sufficiently smart compiler and/or runtime.

I haven't heard anyone make this claim in a while. The inability to speed up Python beyond a certain point despite a lot of clever approaches taken was probably a good chunk of the reason, the remainder being the wall that JS has hit despite the huge effort poured into it where it is still quite distinctly slower than C.

If I were designing a language to be slow, but not like stupidly slow just to qualify as an esolang, but where the slowness still contributed to things I could call "features" with a straight face, it would be hard to beat Python. I suppose I could try to mix in more of a TCL-style "everything is a string" and "accidentally" build some features on it that bust the string caching, but that's about all I can think of at this point.
> An easy way to support the statement that this highway runs east–west is to reference a map that shows it going that direction; however, citing such a map is considered “original research” by some of Wikipedia’s most hardcore policy enforcers.

Wikipedia in a nutshell.
It amazes me that sports betting is allowed to persist as is. It’s an addictive hobby with similar detriments to addictive substances, yet advertising to children is ok.

If you go to Europe, you’re probably familiar with betting parlors. They shittify any town they take over, filling up with lonely men losing their money.

Online just hides it a little better.
It doesn't sound straightforward to me. I saw the ads and assumed it would be credit and require a deposit of near the size of the bonus to be kept for X days and maybe bet at least once, but needing to risk $25k on bets you're very likely to lose (I honestly can't remember if 1-3 means 0.25 or 0.75 probability, or neither, but even 0.75 is going to be hard to keep) wasn't expected. I'm sure it's all there in the fine print when you go to sign up, but the ads pretty much just yell at you "we're giving you free money to gamble with!".
This really shouldn't be downvoted. This isn't reddit where we lap up everything an authority or so-called expert serves in front of us, especially when those experts are slaves who need to sensationalize things to make their careers more relevant, "I discovered the oldest structure".

True intellectuals are skeptic. Try being a little skeptical, like the parent comment above. I'd sooner trust a freeman like the parent commenter than a chained academic and their redditor fanbase.
...and then you find that you have to go back and do another one in Word, for the places that will only accept a .docx as input.
You burn wood slightly to make it stronger. This was also common when making wooden spear tips.

https://www.customshingles.com/blog/wood-burning-for-wood-ro....
In a Free Market and increase of interest rates, allowed inflation to build a healthy normal transition to establish equitable value in markets. Today we actively notice elements of a Manipulated Market that will only force a temporary quantitative value to a fragile economy.
The manpower involved could also be an issue, they can gather dna and evidence but more likely it’ll be ignored over other cases.

For better or worst, we should accept that our justice system has holes and flaws, and we should do our best to avoid them. There isn’t much to help you and they might not have any suitable punishment or aid to give to the crazy person.
That's not unsafe, just insecure.
Hum... Did Microsoft ever isolate their development infrastructure from the one that was compromised by Solar Winds? They never even tried to claim they did something about it.

Anyway, half of those acronyms have more vulnerabilities than Windows on a normal computer.
A friend of mine got her Apple ID compromised years ago and cloud sync brought back the spam that the attacker was sending. iMessage spam is not new - whether it will increase remains to be seen.
The original GTA had this, it was a really great original soundtrack. Probably had as much to do with the series’ original success!
It will be help if any of the videos showed this thing actually working physically. So many flashy videos but none of them actually shows how it looks and works in practice.
Anyone under 18 should not be allowed on social media. I would even take it a step further and say no smart phones till you’re an adult at 18.
Feedback Wanted: How to Build a Text-to-SQL Agent
Preview..... Please tell us what you think about this new open-source capability below.

You can create a Text-to-SQL skill, connect it to an agent, and publish a chatbot to Slack.

Here's the demo.

https://www.loom.com/share/7c206876892e4ae688d9e6d3ad94b011?sid=75d521ec-15c0-448a-bba2-cbeea6ee7bd3
Finance, economics, ecology, virology, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, software engineering, pretty much any field with a technical component (i.e one that uses numbers).

You could reasonably just look at 2^n for software, though in general usually continuous math is simpler then discrete math IMO. Doubling vs. e^x is kind of an exception to the rule, and if you do any software involving signal processing or simulations, you'll want to understand the continuous version.
> and to lower the 30% app store fee to 10%.

In danger of being an Apple apologist, the app store fee for the vast majority of sellers is 15%.
I'd wager the majority of software developers do not code at all outside of work hours, and the vast majority do not code more than an hour or two per month on average.

The "constantly coding on side projects" developer is pretty rare, in my experience, but tend to bubble together. (in startups, cooler tech companies or in the "innovation teams").
Intel is using angstroms, so their "2nm" node is "20A" and the "1.8nm" node is "18A". These of course still don't have any more relationship with the physical size of the transistors than previous Intel, TSMC, or Samsung nodes but it keeps it relatively clean without needing a decimal point in the name.
And yet, the idempotent solution in the article is not idempotent.

The author proposes a solution that needs three steps: query a cache, execute, update the cache. These are not atomic and, therefore, not thread-safe. As a result, if a second request arrives before the first is finished, the operation will be executed again.
Stumbled aimlessly from biology to IT to philosophy to comp sci to criminology, got a lucky internship while working on data recovery and hardware repair. Lots of informal ways to break in right now because demand is very high but the overlap of legal/technological is still hard to find. So many private agencies will take anyone with decent creds right now. I would straight up cold call medium sized (<12 people)private investigators and law firms if i was looking for work right now.

Your story is sadly pretty common. networking might be the worst area for expert testimony right now because its so filled with proprietary tech and non-standardized jargon. ESPECIALLY the timezones, holy crap the amount of people who refuse to work in UTC. But that theme of 'ancient certs, terrible lazy theory' and zero pushback, is pretty much the norm outside of federal homicide cases. and even then.

Im not going to pretend that defense teams are immune to the kind of 'ends justify the means' wishful thinking, but ive never seen even 1/5th the lazy fabrications or insane ass-pulls.
Those initial leaves are its cotyledons [0], and they are part of the seed embryo. These leaves often die off shortly after the emergence of the plant's first true leaves, but apparently can last for a year or more in some species.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotyledon
New Social Calendar – The Week
We just launched a new social calendar called The Week. Think of if Gcal and snapchat had a baby. The goal of the app is to make it easier for friends to coordinate times to hang and be proactive about making plans. Would love any feedback or initial impressions.
> That's not a cold start anymore. You just made a warm instance pool. What a waste of time this was.

How is that a waste of time? As a customer I don't pay for the warm instance pool and the startup times from 0 are insane. AWS Aurora Serverless (v1 at least, I hated it enough I never tried v2) had startup times that took 5-10+ seconds so being able to start serving queries in less than a fraction of a second is nothing short of magical.
Quake 2 was beautiful set to Orbital's In Sides.
You can predict some use cases sure but not all. Thats what creativity is. To claim that anyone predicted TCP/IP would be used for half the things the internet powers today is laughable. In fact, for them to predict most of that would be in principle to invent these things.

For example, to predict in the 1970's TCP/IP would be used to enable bitcoin would be articulating the invention of bitcoin. Nobody predicted it, it was creatively developed using technologies that the founders invented with no idea it would be used for cryptocurrency.

You can always find a reason to be a doomer about the technology because it's easier to predict negative consequences than to predict the good that will come of it. To argue the negative side, one must only create a hypothetical. To argue the positive, one must practically invent the positive use-case which requires work and creativity.

You can say CRISPR is far too dangerous and allows for designer babies, a moral dilemma. This creates a strong hypothetical argument right off the bat, but for it to be proven a beneficial technology it actually needs the time to develop positive use cases like curing sickle cell disease.
Very neat product and idea.

What challenges have you had developing hardware for this population? (Literacy, cost, picking what to focus on, etc?)
SMS is fundamentally insecure. I don’t want to use WhatsApp.
I don’t think relying on consumers to “not reward” anti-competitive behavior is a good strategy.

I own several Apple devices primarily because the UX and ecosystem is so far beyond anything Android offers (in my opinion), that I’m simply not willing to switch. Of course, Apple’s anti-competitive behavior is a big reason for that.

But I’m not willing to hurt my own daily interactions with the tech that enables my life just because the US Government isn’t willing to do its job.
For those interested, other papers in this theme [1][2][3][4][5]. Number [2] is interesting, as it shows electronics biodegrading in relatively short time frames with experimental comparison.

[1] "transparent paper electronics" (2014) https://www.nature.com/articles/am20149.pdf

[2] "nanocellulose nonvolatile resistive memory" (2016) https://www.nature.com/articles/am2016144.pdf

[3] "Hazy Transparent Cellulose Nanopaper" (2016) https://www.nature.com/articles/srep41590.pdf

[4] "Silver Nanowire Transparent Paper Electronics" (2018) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acsami.8b15230

[5] "High-Speed Fabrication of Clear Transparent Cellulose" (2020) https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/11/2194/pdf
> Can it compete with golang on compilation speed?

No.