skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got an SMS like this many years ago from Capital One on the same basis, and it said to call a specific number if I had questions... I couldn't find that number anywhere online or on their site. It took forever to find their fraud hotline on the website, too. Different number to the one in the SMS, naturally.

Turned out to be legit, and they were calling about a transaction at a gas station that I had actually been to. But the fact that I had nothing to go on except a text message from an unknown number was super suspicious.

These banks need to realise that there is a difference between customers trusting their brand, and those same customers trusting some random message claiming to represent their brand.
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> It’s not, and they don’t.

> they don't

They (Apple) don't accept requests without a valid serial #, but Beeper Mini is working (for users without iDevices), so there's some kind of exploit, no?
I am an Apple user. I've owned more iPhones and MacBooks than I can remember.

I am the one who foots the bill for iMessage and APNS.

I want to be able to message my friends with Androids with the same ease as I do my friends with iPhones.

I also would like to be able to access my messages when I run Asahi Linux on my MacBook.
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And this why there should be mechanism to throw judges and prosecutors for this sort of misconduct in prisons, for sufficiently lengthy sentences. With inmates being the peers they prosecuted.
No no, I feel the OP is onto something.

> obeys some laws of physics we still haven't figured out.

That statement might have been over the top, but I think they're right with respect to the information. Spatial logic, optics, signal processing, reasoning. It's beginning to feel like there's an interesting representation that cross-cuts these spaces in a powerful, generalizable way.
> It's Apple's private message delivery system!

In the US, where democratic principles govern and capitalism drives the economy, the regulation of corporations emerges as a necessary practice. This approach rests on the understanding that while corporations are essential for economic growth, they must operate within a framework that prioritizes the public's interest.

In a democracy, every entity, including corporations, should answer to the people. Corporations wield significant influence and power, and without oversight, this power could be used in ways that harm the broader society.

Corporations should reflect the values of the society in which they operate and not undermine social, environmental, and ethical standards set by the democratically elected government. Regulation of corporations is not about impeding economic growth but about guiding it in a direction that is beneficial for all members of society.
The Charing Cross, erm, cross is marvellous and yet so badly situated, the mind boggles. My ex-girlfriend was a tour guide and filled me in on it about twenty-five years ago and NOTHING has improved.

Look at where it is on the satellite image:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/A7ZF3acr35XnN1AX7?g_st=ic
Like a glacial tumbleweed made of moss. This is wonderful!
Yah, treating time as fungible is a big mistake and people do it all the time.
Your alternate implementation would have to monkey patch the shipped code. That is a fork in disguise.

Not to repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38604600

The easiest way to produce a monkey patch for Emacs which reverts some behavior would be to maintain your own private fork of the repo, where you do a proper job of rebasing, resolving conflicts and validating. Then from that you take the necessary files (all the files that are different from upstream) and produce the hot-load that can be distributed to people. But, totally not a fork, man!
Can’t reproduce this. See for yourself: https://x.com/IanArawjo/status/1734307886124474680?s=20

Inspectable evaluation flow in ChainForge: https://chainforge.ai/play/?f=2yvqkpe1vpus8
>And as you say, if you start missing child support payments the judge will hit you with contempt charges and put you straight back in jail for several months to teach you a lesson.

All of this should be illegal, debtors prisons by another name is all this is.
How does this keep happening?

Over and over again people create some statistically significant way of measuring a difference in the length of responses.

Why the obsession over that metric? People in the twitter replies going on about how that shows it's getting worse.

For me, the shorter responses are the better ones. It's specifically in my personal instructions to reduce the length of responses. In saying that, sometimes I want longer. Then I specify it so.

It's "cool" that it has different response lengths seemingly based on its perceived date. It doesn't make it "better" or "worse"
What is up with this meme around here? Of course terms of service are legally binding. They're a contract.

It is possible to put unenforceable terms in a TOS, but it's simply untrue that "TOSes are not legally binding."

What do you think is the distinction between a legally binding contract and a TOS?
> It’s not broken. Apple devices have a low-friction “hot path” for communicating with other apple devices. That’s it. Want to use it? Get an apple device.

As an Apple user who likes Apple products (I just really dislike this iMessage stance), I don’t agree. When I open the app that allows me to communicate with other users via phone number, and when that experience can’t handle sending a photo in the year 2023, the experience is broken.

I’m glad they’re implementing RCS support (which seems to be their acknowledgement that there is an issue to solve), but the fact that they chose to wait until 2024 is unacceptable.

> Apple isn’t obliged to make its messaging app work for everyone, on all platforms.

That’s not what I’m arguing. The desire for iMessage is a symptom, and I’m not saying they should be forced to make iMessage work everywhere. The problem is that non-iMessage support on the phone is atrocious. They’re selling a general purpose communication device that is incapable of exchanging run of the mill content with other general purpose communication devices, and using that poor experience to drive iPhone sales.

There are many ways to solve this that don’t require Apple to make its messaging app work for all platforms. They’ve already solved this for other categories like VOIP apps, which enjoy a unified OS-level experience.
I never heard about PineTime until now! Looks like a cool gadget. What has your experience been with it, apart from it being more accurate than a mechanical?
How do I go back to the old Acrobat?
No, because the semantics of JS aren't amenable to producing fast wasm.
While I hated the new interface from the very start, I forced myself to use it for about a month. Finally, today, I had enough. The posted link shows how to revert to the prior UI.

Adobe seems to think they are not replaceable. It's a simple matter to uninstall Acobat Viewer and use Chrome (or other PDF viewers) instead.

For some reason they decided they had to fix something that was not broken and, in that process, deliver confusion and a bad UI instead of making things better for users.

Anyhow, glad someone was smart enough to allow for disabling of the new UI. I got very close to just deleting Acrobat from my system. I am busy enough to add further aggravation to my day.
You say that, but what is Apple going to sue Beeper for? Tortious interference? That seems a stretch.

In a similar vein: has any maker of web scraping tools been sued by a website? I couldn't find anything.
It's not, not really. Prices of new set cards are basically set by a box price and the probability to get said card. If the price is too high, people will buy a lot of box, other cards in the same set prices will fall, until the price is right.
Thanks. That should be in the title of the post.
Vocabulary can delude and manipulate as well. Idempotent serves to delude more than it informs. In this case idempotent is taking an trivial and obvious concept and makes it seem more snobbish. Why write a whole article about an obvious and trivial concept? Perhaps the word itself is making it more complex then it is.

The software industry is littered with these words. Design patterns especially. Rob Pike once referred to it as infatuation with nomenclature.
The problem is when you take into account his whole track record there's really not any reason to believe he doesn't sincerely mean that. He was a huge and influential proponent of Gramm–Leach–Bliley, yet after '08 went on the record as saying it was outrageous that the lack of regulation allowed this to happen... regulation that was in place prior to Gramm–Leach–Bliley. When the IMF chief economist warned of the '08 financial crisis years prior to this, Summers called him a luddite.

He also had an... interesting... time as Harvard president, where he set out to belittle Cornell West on a variety of issues, including some that were racially charged - specifically saying that West having a rap album was an embarrassment to Harvard. West decided to return to Princeton after that. Summers then later proposed men as having a higher population of people at the highest aptitudes to be a potential explanation for the lack of women in STEM, despite the science here being quite spotty.

I don't think there's really anything in his history that would garner giving him the benefit of the doubt here.
OpenAI can raise a ton of more cash, so they may not have a road to profitability yet, but they have long time before they crash.
Additional recent context:

https://www.aroged.com/2023/12/09/the-day-before-is-sold-as-...

> The Day Before arrived on the market and turned out to be very different from what everyone expected. The game is not only full of bugs and assorted problems, but also has a different gameplay structure than promised. The team was in fact talking about an MMO, or a massively multiplayer online game. In reality, it is more of a draw game.

https://www.polygon.com/23992623/the-day-before-steam-launch...

> Players and streamers who are playing the game say it’s more of an extraction shooter, à la Tom Clancy’s The Division, without the balance or depth of similar shooters.
No mention of ChatGPT, but I imagine it has been the past year's top unnamed contributor.
only theoretically, and only if UP=nP, in practice we know that k = 8s (or in smaller abelian deployment rings k = 3s = 0s mod 443)
Title tweaked to fit char limits.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal
I'd always assumed most access points already do this. For example, the 2.4GHz band has 14 channels and I've never told my setup which one to use.
3 and 2 from TSMC are divorced from the actual component spacing - they’re all pretty close in terms of actual technological advancements, they just don’t all use the same marketing for process names.
For transformers, especially multi-device training pipelines, yes the codebase can normally be 100ksloc and require a team to do at industry scale. See e.g. Hugginface Transformers, or the Megatron impl they cite.

Cerebras is trying to show how easy it is to on-board single ICs and demo their pytorch integration.

But yeah, where's the wallclock time comparison?! Surely they did one during development, and surely the Sales team knows (or they do once the article was published), yet not even a hint of what their throughput is like. For Cerebras to be this far and not be plastering benchmarks everywhere is a bad sign. Maybe they're going to just die off like Graphcore.
I only play draft, so no.
That in itself doesn't seem particularly damning; what is the purpose of a marketplace except to save game designers from having to reinvent the wheel?

Surely there's more to the accusation, but I don't see how "paying someone else to design part of your video game and then selling a game with those parts in it" would be in any way shocking.
It's also not open, making its very name a fraud.
> hey there is VC money to burn.

given the absolute idiocy some of them finance WASM is a paragon of sensibility and should be injected money via IV. special mentions go out to softbank, tiger global and a16z.
Speaking as one Apple user, I don’t think of myself in a special club - I just like that my shit works. What I don’t understand is why Android users are so vested in ruining it for me.

Can’t have nice things.
Not sure how I feel about that. I did TM years ago and loved how computers were hardly involved. We had a camcorder, lightbox (ok they had chips!) and email list but that wad about it.
The author could have also mentioned the controversial diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma which has long relied on bad science, resulting in wrongful convictions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
> A function is an encapsulated block of code

> A method is a property on an object that behaves as a function

That's not the tl;dr, that's literally the entire "blog post". He's right though :)
That happened today, as our demo was successful and the team collectively reached a level of applied theory that is matching the expectations of our stakeholders.

Truth is that the addition of the word “applied” to that last sentence is 100% my effort.

But my point of view is that everybody will get benefit from that effort, and we can now make everyone understand that the theory that my team has been pushing for months is really good.

No one of the team could have achieved that [because of their poor understanding of those pesky “implantation details”]. So i just did it.
I have an iPhone (and macbook if that matters) and have no idea what all the rage is about.

Is iMessage the default sms client? It's just called Messages on my phone. What does it offer? Mine looks like the stock android one. I see virtually zero options to do anything else than to send a message. Is it US only thing?
These are not the same thing.

There is no guarantee in life that the people that are "right" will have the power to do the right thing, no matter how skilled they are.
Mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez have written an entire book on this very issue of bad statistics causing miscarriages of justice: https://www.amazon.com/Math-Trial-Numbers-Abused-Courtroom/d...
Ooh, I'd love to know a few more details about both.

What kept NaCl from being independently implemented? And what did WASM learn from NaCl?

Edit: ah, someone already mentioned NaCl being CPU-specific.
1 Token ~= 3/4 word
> My recommendation aligns with advising entry-level individuals to explore these tools only when they reach a scale where such complexities become pertinent.

I posit that if you're at that scale, you're figuring out how to get distributed postgres to work and not messing with things like Marmot.
It's my understanding that in the European Union, the new Digital Markets regulations will require interoperability. It's still not 100% what it will cover, but it could become a requirement.
It’s very clear that Apple does not want iMessage on Android.

My point was that if they chose to give in and acquire something like Beeper (presumably due to bad press, concerns about regulatory action, etc), it does not follow that this incentivizes more Beeper-like products.
Stuff like this feels petty by all parties.

Use an app that’s already universal if users are so desperate.

Playing whack a mole back and forth over a chat app as if it’s some high minded fight for speech when countless options exist is melodrama for the sake of melodrama and engagement farming

Beeper real goal is like everyone else in tech; get rich. It found the perfect marketing meme, the old David and Goliath story, to piggyback its business goals on.
Andrew Huberman brought up that caffeine can bias individual's preference of beverages, though I haven't looked into related research papers.

ref: https://youtu.be/iw97uvIge7c?t=8063
> I appreciate projects like this that slap together disparate technologies for an interesting goal

That's exactly why I said: "This is a neat proof of concept and I encourage experimentation."
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I'd argue that's not the right framing of the issue. Taking active steps to prevent your services from being used on competing platforms is more than merely "not supporting" them.
I was chatting with a studio manager at a post f/x house when he received a demo reel that immediately was relocated to the trash without viewing it. I called him on it about not even looking at it before rejecting it. He had me take it out of the trash to play it. Before it stared, he told me exactly what would be on the tape and the order of the clips, which is exactly what was on the tape. He said it was the fall semester with such and such teacher at the school, and every submission was exactly the same. They were just the class assignments made into a demo reel.

Everyone of these generative AI demo pages feels exactly like that. Nothing new other than we've done the same thing as someone else type of releases.

Now, I'm willing to say I'm jaded, so if this represents something we haven't already seen umpteengillion times already, where did they bury the lede? It's all still uncanny valley. The wheels on do not look real. The wake from the viking's vacuum does not look real. I'm not sure what the corgi is walking on, but it doesn't look like the ground.
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> Gemini Pro (Google's best available model)

It's not really "available" though, is it? I won't buy any PR benchmarks until the models are publicly available, there's too much variation based on how the models need to toned back for safety reasons before being released to the public
I've been on the receiving end of this - as an individual maybe, but as a committed startup not necessarily. Rooting for them!
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Even better, rolling moss removes its stones. Surely there's a life-lesson in there, ready to be ejected like dust from a glacier mouse.
Was really hoping to read about what Apple changed to break things, even if they won't explain how they worked around it
From the article, number of requests on start:

Mullvad, Orion, Tor, Ungoogled Chromium - 0 (zero telemetry)

LibreWolf - 3

Safari - 6

Brave - 7

Chrome - 9

Chromium - 12

Vivaldi - 13

Firefox, Yandex - 15

Edge, Opera - 21

Arc - 44
Well, Apple does not actually know which serial numbers have been sold. You can still buy Apple products outside of an Apple store, and even at an Apple Store, knowing which serials are sold is logistically difficult.

They could probably implement a process at Apple stores but to do it for third party stores would be more difficult. To avoid simply adding a step for a user to claim a serial number as sold when they set up their Hackintosh or HackiPhone (can we coin this?), you'd probably need a way to authenticate as the store when you mark one off. But there's nothing stopping stores who have excess inventory from selling it off at cost or even a discount when a particular product isn't doing well- and at that point those purchasers will need to be able to mark off serial numbers when they sell those devices.

It's not impossible but it's not terribly likely, at least any time soon.
Don't WhatsApp and Signal already do exactly that?
This line of reasoning makes no sense to me. This is a strategy to further entrench their product in the industry, not a ponzi scheme.
I gave an example right at the end of my comment (but might be I have edited it, so no fret intended). Self-driving cars.

Another commenter in this thread gave more examples, which further underline what I originally meant.

Physical harm means misclassified images/persons/posts/lifes/situations/... with the classification taken as gospel, in self-proclaimed good faith. Content moderation, credit scoring, police, the whole "new" generative space. — a lot of dangerous possibilities have opened.

All of them share the commonly accepted concept of "an a AI making a decision" (in common language).

This is another level of reliance, even if gradually, from computer systems and software in general.

I am not denying that complicated liability questions exist about that too.
For someone who didn't earn much it was a godsend. It looked and felt enough like real UNIX that I was happy to buy it for home use.

However work was all Xenix/UNIX/AIX/Ultrix/etc.
The outrageous cost of daycare means that as a young parent switching to 32h, you're giving up 20% of your pay but saving a few hundred euros a month in daycare costs. So the pay cut ends up being closer to 10%, depending on their income.

Then the kids grow up and go to school and the parents, if they have enough money, have essentially no incentive to work more hours.
> why can't we have the same for messages?

I wonder if e2ee makes this difficult.
You can filter for reviews with at least 1 hour of play time.
It merely implies that being closed is more profitable, not that it is critical to the experience.