skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My only complaint with VS is that it's optimal resource requirements always seem to be just beyond the limits of my work issued machine. Functionally I have no issues with it and it's worlds better than a lot of other IDEs that I've used.
Expert witnesses are inherently adversarial, like the court system itself. There is no "neutral" evaluation of the reliability of a piece of evidence. If one side hires an expert to evaluate something, they are under no obligation to have the expert testify in court if the evaluation doesn't help their case.
> The whole green bubble thing with Android SMS on iPhone is a problem, but the solution is to get everyone to use a different chat app. Apple will never give this up.

There are so many competitors in this space, you really can't claim it's for lack of trying.

Defaults are powerful, especially for Apple users.
They don't elaborate enough how M:N scheduler is supposed to be used. Does it only work for ractors?
Big Tech Funds the People Who Are Supposed to Hold It Accountable
Sounds like grounds for a lawsuit against the company. They are stating false things about their product and causing people harm.

An official and highly paid representative sent to testify in court couldn't just be dismissed as "well, one salesman misspoke, not our fault".

This would be the just recourse, but I'm aware that probably nobody can afford this justice.
Yep, also the EU has already dropped their iMessage thing
All those real-time features are antipatterns that do nothing but create anxiety and a false sense of urgency. We use Slack at work, and the typing indicators/presence detection/etc. drive me (and many others) downright insane.

I agree that encryption in transit and rest are important, but there are open and verified solutions like Signal. It seems like extremely poor security hygiene to take Apple's word that their closed-source chat service is actually secure as they claim for it to be.
I responded to a (your) comment claiming that highschool English classes are consumption-mode literature classes.

> Kids don't learn to write novels in literature class either - you've missed the point of such classes.

> Literature classes are consumption courses, too, and lead a few to develop a lifelong reading (and consumption) habit, btw.

Kids don't write full novels in those classes because the timeframes involved couldn't possibly permit it, but nevertheless half the time in those courses is dedicated to getting students to write short stories, poetry, (not merely essays!) At the highschool level the courses are about writing as much if not more than about consuming literature.
Like freedos, much less sophisticated, without a filesystem or extended memory driver
Pro-Apple
This is not a binary situation.

I am writing that the choices made by lawyers are often for hubris, not lack of resources. This is my anecdotal experience, which is why I included qualifiers.
People have thought the same thing with every version of windows, a word made up by a blogger last year isn't going to change that.

Linux's interface is still archaic compared to windows 7 unfortunately.
I'd be tidally fine working 40h a week in four 10h days. A whole new free day is such an improvement that longer hours on other days can't hope to outweigh it.
> Isn't this one of them?

I don’t believe so. Beeper Mini uses Apple’s protocols the same way the native iMessage uses it; they didn’t exploit a security hole (unless you classify the device faking part as a security hole—I don’t). They maintain the E2EE flow.
> In the US is it dwarfed by at least three other platforms

Maybe because it comes preinstalled?
Relying on the assumption of an “authorized client” is fundamentally not a reliable security or anti-spam mechanism, as this Beeper saga demonstrates. A curious 16 year old casually figured out how to make a client be “authorized”, and a motivated party just demonstrated basic interference from Apple can’t stop it from continuing to practice guerrilla interoperability. Apple might be able to sue Beeper out of existence, but lets not pretend this approach is any meaningful defense against spam.
No code..as usual :/
Either they're authorized to use the service and (almost certainly) signed a TOS, or they're not, in which case they're using the service unauthorized.

Not a lawyer but I don't see what else could be true here. I suppose you could say the end users are the ones violating the TOS? I don't think it'll land with any judge, "your honor we just did the reverse engineering (without signing a TOS) and sold it to our users (who did sign a TOS, but didn't reverse engineer), so we're all clean."
edit: nm, their help page explains it.
I've experienced this first hand, even as an adult (well 20 something). I'd be left out of group chats because MMS breaks everything. I'd even missed events because it was all planned in the group chat, and assumed someone would mention it in person to me.
Unfortunately we're heavily in the minority. The vast majority of people won't do this.
A case against a monopoly with a minority market share. Good luck with that!
Fortunately the moderation here isn't a faceless monolith and if you email them they would most likely be happy to cooperate with your concerns about this.
If there was group of spooky masterminds behind tobacco, why would they waste their time on a relatively small market like the USA?
> We—of course—expected a response. What we didn’t expect was 1984-esque doublespeak. The statement is complete FUD. Beeper Mini made communication between Android and iPhone users more secure. That is a fact.

Is it? Their argument about a potential increase in spam (by removing the existing annoyance barrier of signing up to iMessage with a phone number before getting full access) is valid. And from their perspective, a third party app could be doing anything with the messages once unecrypted, despite Beeper's claims to the contrary.

Don't get me wrong, it's obvious Apple went looking for the first 'valid' reason to kill Beeper Mini. I also own a ~~Beepberry~~ Beepy, so I am a fan. But this isn't FUD at all, this is a potential risk to their userbases' privacy (as well as their bottom line).
anxiety is a disease. we didn't have a major war or famine so it's unlikely that material factors are so bad as to cause mass stress and anxiety like they do during wars. OTOH genz were raised under the watchful and judgemental eye of large crowds/mobs, and everyone thought that was OK. I think we will soon have convincing evidence that this sort of constant comparison is as bad as destructive addictive substances
No but religion mixes with the identification of groups, providing excuses for people who have other agendas. For the sections of NI that are recalcitrant to the inevitable normalization, the prospect of joining "a nation of Catholics" provides ideological ammunition that they wouldn't otherwise have.
The stats would be different if people trusted strangers. Some people are awful to their acquaintances too, but they'll be that way with or without a social network. Can't really do anything about people abusing hard-earned trust.

Large network isn't an issue in of itself. Most people indirectly know tons of people. Overly connected is the issue, cause it incentivizes bad things for popularity. Nobody directly knows like 1M people IRL. Even worse if there are no real-life consequences. Maybe we're saying the same thing.
Everybody gets their say in the decision. It's called democracy. Somebody spouting off their opinion saying the process should be changed is part of the process; they not only get to do that, they're encouraged to.
The feature team is as a comparison, not in addition to the product team.
yup, unless that's changed recently.
he and Nick Craver have been making some great impacts there.
Microsoft does this with Windows links, to the point it opens edge despite my default browser being set to not edge.

The insidiousness of them all is frustrating
>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

You mean the UK? What you describe is uncommon in most european countries. UK is a very exception because private over-the-counter gambling outlets (aka bookies) are legal. That's not the case in most european countries where usually the state has monopoly.
Stanford, Meta inch towards AI that acts human with new CHOIS interaction model
Meta Starts Encrypting Messages on Facebook and Messenger App
Looks like hardware vs. software abstraction. Considereing the perspective of an LLM startup: Would you rather write 20k LOC of complex code that would make you be able to more easily switch hardware platforms - or - write 600 LOC of less complex code and be pinned to a single provider?
Apple also uses a lot of infrastructure that they don't pay for on their devices. Everything from open source code used in Darwin to public internet infrastructure. Besides that, if that is the reason that they don't want to offer this, they could offer a paid subscription for Android users.

The reason they block this is not that they cannot afford the infrastructure, it's peanuts for them. It's because they want to continue maintaining the schism in the US where Android users are stigmatized for green bubbles, pushing them to buy iPhones. (AKA exploiting teenagers' insecurity for profit.)
Some people want to create. Some people want to consume. Some people want to collect. Sometimes consumables become collectible (Baseball cards). Sometimes collectibles become consumable (Mona Lisa postcards). Creators are allowed to decide who their market is and adjust as they see fit.
> Usually the correct course of action is to just... say nothing then ?

literally yes, that is the correct course of action.

the issue is that you cannot publish videos and make money if you refrain from talking about stuff you don't really understand.

which is one of the problems with modern society, in general.
can you elaborate? why do you think so? not trying to be hostile, i want to fully understand your point of view.

I am under the impression AI is solving many problems, more start ups...requires money... nvidia has money.... why is it a ponzi scheme?
The technie vs normie divide exemplified right here in these comments.

You don't hear iPhone users begging their friends to get on signal unless they are discussing drugs or sensitive topics. You hear android users ask iphone users to install wtv app all the time.

And I am talking about anecdotes here, but there are well-document events (some that happened this year) that do emphasize what I am saying. I won't share them though because you know... jobs... and that they should be obvious if you are following this conversation over the past decade. What I will say tho is that only one company wants (wants being generous) the other to change their messaging.

> The fact that it can be simple to share high fidelity pictures and videos, but it isn’t just because Apple wants their walled garden benefits nobody but Apple

Irrelevant. iPhone users mostly just want android users to get iphones. Doesn't matter why.
> while stifling competition

How? Lock-in, sure - but unless you do a lot of market gerrymandering (which Epic tried but got laughed out of court), how does anything apple do stop people competing?

It’s not e.g. paying google large sums of money to avoid making its own competitor. Being big isn’t itself anticompetitive.

And on this exact topic - there is a whole ecosystem of messaging apps that exists. They just have to build their own userbase.
Because it's sent as MMS. Apple implementing RCS next year will mitigate that.
Because by abusing an older style auth method, they skip a lot of the checks required to start iMessaging people currently.

This methodology can be abused by SMS scammers, phishers, etc to easily target the iMessage network that users may often feel has a higher default level of trust.
> If Beeper catches on, and all my Android friends install it, and some of my messages start getting lost, delayed, what have you, that's when I'd start to feel it.

You realize that's been Apple's fault right, intentionally breaking Beeper?
Being primarily a criminal, #1 doesn't follow my experiences. I've been very friendly with a large number of prosecutors in my time, and I can't imagine a single one of them being a liberal.

#2 it is totally true that prosecutors heavily rely on the judges being ex-colleagues of theirs. I have never heard of a prosecutor only bringing charges where the defendant is clearly guilty, though. That does not follow my experience, primarily in pre-trial detention, where I got to read the discovery materials in thousands of cases. Obviously they have a bar in felony cases of having to pass a grand jury, but it was once said you could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich#Cultural_impact
I hope so! After years of using git, I'm come to the opinion that it's far from a great solution. Arguably, it's not as good as some of the vcs it replaced. Hopefully, something better will be coming in the future.
Or use a more battle-harded abstraction like Hugging Face transformers and get both a) minimal LOC in the end-application and b) portability.
You say it like it's something bad. Having a common vocabulary is extremely helpful for communication. Instead of restating the obvious concept over and over all the time you can just ask your peer "is this idempotent?".

Naming something also helps us to think about it. "A square" is also an obvious concept, but by naming it you can reason about it more easily, and use it to define more abstract concepts later. One of the main reasons we - humans - dominate the earth, is because we evolved an advanced language, which allows us to name ideas and build upon them.
Define "over". Opera the web browser earned $80 million on $380 of revenue and I don't know anybody that uses it. If Apple releases an Android iMessage client, but Beeper still has enough paying MAU so they can pay their employees and investors, is anything "over" just because there's competition? It isn't a winner-take-all like a game of football or something.
It’s paid. It’s cheap ($2/mo?) but it’s a subscription.
It would take a lot of effort to burn an entire paycheck on lotto tickets. It would take 60 seconds to do so with online betting.
You wonder how anyone survives in all of the world where nobody uses iMessage (which is everywhere except the US). How do people even manage to open WhatsApp? How do people survive this horror!
So all this ‘pent up demand’ for AI (as investors) is basically the company that builds the tool?

Imagine if Levis Strauss back in the gold rush days was the mysterious whale that bought most of the gold.

Could Satoshi Nakamoto be Jensen Huang?

I’m just posting silly tinfoil hat theories bit this is interesting…
AI will mostly let us get into a (much) deeper mess by cheaply generating tons of mediocre code. By the time AI gets around to understand complex code, it'll be to fix it's own generated mess.
Hey HackerNews Crew,

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>It was pretty easy to hit the targets. If you bet the same $200 ten times then you're at $2,000 gambled.

Yes, gambling is easy, as long as you win.
Who else is in the midst of rebuilding in Rust and what are you rebuilding?
> If Apple insists, we would consider adding a pager emoji to metadata on all messages sent via Beeper Mini. This would make it easy for Messages App to filter out any messages from Beeper Mini users.

As an iPhone user I would love for them to do this so I can not communicate with these users. The green/blue bubble gives me an indication of the encryption being used, and presenting a blue bubble while the messages are being MITMed (how Beeper works) is something I want to be aware of.
I hesitate to wade into this but he does not do interesting chemistry.
I am deep into chemistry YouTube and followed Nile red since literally his first year on the site.
He has wonderful presentation, clean videography, and great presentation. But his chemistry is some of the most rudimentary in the scene.

On the opposite side "chemical force" is amazing and borderline unwatchable.
> don’t bother with a computer science bachelors degree unless you are dead set about getting a masters

I disagree.

At least in the United States (I'm not even from the United States, but I studied there), a master's in Computer Science (CS) does not add that much more value than a bachelor's. Infact, as far as coursework go in some schools there's quite a bit of overlap between senior undergrad and grad school classes for CS.

Go for masters only if you want to go for PhD immediately afterwards. And trust me, PhD is NOT the correct path for everyone. Infact, I know a lot who join the PhD program after bachelors, realize it's not for them after a couple of years, and then exit with a masters.

As for bachelors study whatever you find interesting. Maybe that's CS. You'll also probably be just fine taking math, EE etc.
Golang's only consistent advantage over Java is lower latency on compilation, startup, and GC. OpenJDK will eventually level the playing field with Project Valhalla. In terms of FFI and language features Java has already caught up. And faster startup can be achieved with CRaC.

Rust in turn is not competing with Java.
I'm defending the position I've taken in literally two dozen places, so what you're saying here is demonstrably false.

I just don't trust you.
I'd imagine the majority won't support GC, at least not for some time
That might be your opinion on how things should work, but the person I replied to didn't understand why their window stopped scrolling.
This is incorrect. They're using a legacy, less secure protocol - not in the sense of encryption, but in the sense of the need to generate auth tokens per user.
Ye you are probably right that I am american-centric in my perspective. Only one that really matters in tech tho.

Percentage share of iphones are rising in korea and japan tho for similar reasons though.
Caffeine is not the problem, but coffee. At least for me.
The protocol's implementation is intended to verify you're connecting a device Apple built, with stuff like secure enclave and end-to-end encryption as known quantities. With Beeper, you have to give your Apple ID to a third-party app, which they then proxy through a server of some kind (https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/11/beeper-mini-is-back-in-ope... "signing in with our Apple ID generated an Apple prompt that noted our ID was being used to sign in with a device “near Los Angeles, CA” (where we are not located.)")

I don't see how you could describe that as anything other than a security hole.
> green bubble vs blue bubble will has social and dating implications

IMO that's a "them" problem. By "them", I mean "people who let something as trivial as this have social and dating implications".
If you want privacy a de-googled android phone is far better than apple.
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> My best answer is for us to provide every court have an on-call statistician, reviewing every case.

Anyone paid by the government is always going to know which way their bread is buttered. They would always be looked on with extreme suspicion. Even public defenders have this problem defending their clients when they are paid by the same government that is prosecuting the defendant.
When a person no longer benefits in any way from the social contract, that person is unbound by it. Almost always, this means eliminating all contact with that society.

And I am taking a firm ethical stance; it's just not an absolute ethical stance.
I'm interested in the topic, and its just a collection of some interesting info that this chap has found. Trusting the information has nothing to do with it - I can discern whether the info is valuable for myself.
This reads as a bit incoherent, even if you skip Nazi comparisons so I may be picking this up wrong but:

He's angry that a dean defended free speech on campus by supporters of Palestine because ... she wrote an open letter saying she felt personally threatened as a black woman and a mother due to racist policing a few years ago?

I'm not seeing the logical link there? If she suppressed someone else's letter about feeling personally threatened, that would be hypocritical but this just reads as a random political attack. Like she was guilty of wrongthink and so she had invited any and all consequences, even if it came as a result of protecting the free speech on campus that he's been asking for?
"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."

Incredible truth in this statement!
Do we know that beeper wasn’t cut off by e.g. an automated spam algorithm?

I saw lots of technical discussion in previous threads that stated that they were using the same faked hardware ID for all messages… that would seem an obvious red flag.
> "Making a product that people like and use" is abusing market power?

This is a very one-sided framing of the situation and leaves out quite a few factors.

People aren’t just buying Apple products because they like them. They’re being forced to buy Apple products to stay in the “in” group. They face exclusion by peers due to Apple’s dominance in the geo and in certain demographics.

As I understand it, iMessage is not dominant in the EU, so the market conditions are quite unlike each other.
"Free speech" is a bogus concept in social media. Social media is a controlled environment shaped by algorithms. Ideally, is is like Disneyland: Very safe seeming, attractive to families, and very profitable. On a smaller scale compare it to a local pub. You have a bouncer to make sure fun doesn't turn into bad experiences.

The so-called "free speech" in social media is the equivalent of buying the local pub and firing the bouncer. And then a biker gang starts cooking meth in the back room. You now own a biker bar meth lab.
There’s no piggybacking. Beeper’s messages never hit Apple servers.
I never figured out how to use Mastodon and the likes. Can somebody explain? I mean, I would know how to use it if my goal was self-indulgent shitposting or very questionable marketing strategy, but these services are always mentioned as an alternative to Twitter, and Twitter is primarily a news-feed (which probably works because some other famous people are engaged in shitposting and marketing strategies, but this is none of my concern — for me it's just a news-feed).
Aren't 70% of American teenagers on iPhone because of the iMessage network effects? The whole "green bubble" shaming issue.