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Apple hijacked SMS.
You can't CHOOSE to send SMS.
If your phone is tied to a computer for a shared imessage account, if you're outside with your phone alone (while computer is online) the phone cannot receive text messages. (The sender ios device presumes 'success' in sending the message because it is received by the computer. It does not have the ability to send just sms).

So, i'm all for anything that shakes up messaging and maybe returns some of it to users.
Some people really want to anthropomorphize generative LLMs.
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iMessage is pretty much dead in the EU though so I doubt the EU regulators will ask for interoperability.
The link at the top of the HN page opened a new tab for me, so there was no "back" to go to.
From everything I've read on the matter, I believe that the UX nightmare when you include a non-apple user is an intentional design choice, rather than an engineering problem that hasn't been solved. They want the experience to suffer when somebody outside of the ecosystem is involved so as to create social pressure for the outsider to change.

The ironic part of all of this is that while the EU may be forcing Apple into supporting RCS to fix the situation, Google has resisted every effort to extend RCS to their own Voice platform.

It's really a shame that Microsoft gave up on mobile, because they really could be a real middle ground for the rest of us that just want interoperability.
I have found the overall design aesthetic and user experience to be tremendously worse on Android however, and with a lot more ad-riddled apps.
Uhhh they provide plenty to anyone who bids. Nvidia uses them.
Reading the comments on how vim and Emacs have implemented Undo/Redo with various options was very helpful. I personally don't use these editors, but I'm working on a graph drawing tool where the user usually modifies multiple parts of the graph. Right now we only have linear redo/undo implemented. Reading about all this other options is really helpful. Especially the Time travel and the regional undo are very smart features that are also very helpful for all graphic based editors.
When I was 62 I went to a 4 day week with a 20% pay cut.

What made it easier was backfilling the pay cut by beginning my 401k withdrawls, which you can do starting age 59 1/2.

Every Thursday evening I felt like I was on vacation!
Thermal conductivity isn't really relevant in window glazing materials, because nearly all of the insulation is provided by the argon in a double (or triple, or quadruple) glazing unit. Most of the recent advances in efficiency have come from improving the thermal conductivity of the frame and the use of low emissivity coatings to reduce infrared transmission.

Regarding the embodied energy, I think that the reduced durability of basically anything that isn't glass will prove fatal in most applications. We abandoned plastic smartphone screens for a reason. A glass screen might crack if you're careless, but a plastic screen will become severely scuffed in normal use.
The game is in early access. Steam clearly explains that when you buy an early access game you take the risk of it never being finished. I don't know much about the events or the promises behind this game but I woundn't say it's a scam just because it went bad. Social media are full of people calling it a scam. Am I missing something or is it just the usual social media nonsense?
That makes sense; the backlash needs to be much less than the tuning fork travel, right?
Or better, use matrix/element if you can (the backbone technology of Beeper). It's an open protocol not beholden to one central server (Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram/Discord) that could go out of business, get bought, or change their usage policy at any time.
Google is slacking here and I hope Apple's involvement in RCS will help to move this forward. Samsung Messages also does not support Google's E2EE even though it supports RCS and pretty much all of the user-facing features Google Messages provides. Based on Google's whitepaper [1] about their E2EE support, I imagine it's because of the identity service they use for key exchange being centralized and internal (when really the identity service a contact uses should be an RCS capability in the extended contact system [RCS terminology here], and they should interoperate).

[1] https://www.gstatic.com/messages/papers/messages_e2ee.pdf
Cheaper and faster inference. Cheaper fine tuning.
Support costs for Microsoft definitely go up.
JVM supports more languages than ever.
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While I don't mix text and voice control that often myself, it appears to be fully supported: https://faq.whatsapp.com/1803878309981730/?locale=sv_SE&cms_... as for what actions an app supports, that appears to vary based on what the developer included.
> You think this isn't bad?

Remember I said "wasn't so bad". Compared to the speculations such as all jobs being eliminated and flawless AI impersonations leading to a total breakdown of communication, yes. It's bad, but it could be a lot worse. And governments can cause fantastic amounts of greater harm just by declaring war. No algorithms required.

> Considering we've just started all this?

Remember I said "if this is as bad as it gets"
Even if you limit it to the US, they have 56% which is only a very small majority. Are you trying to argue that that 44% of users not on iOS can’t message others because of that terrible Apple monopoly? Frankly, that’s just ridiculous and your fantasy case is so hopelessly going nowhere nobody is going to even start it.
I got over that using WiFi enabled power line adapters.
https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/about/

Send this guy your story, he might be able to help you
Messages sends SMS/MMS (on a Phone or configured Mac/iPad/Watch), but will transparently upgrade to the iMessage protocol when talking to another Apple user. This has substantially better features over SMS, including network access and the ability to send higher quality multimedia.

If you don't ever want to fall back to SMS, you pick some other app (WhatsApp, Signal, etc).

In the US, unlimited texting became a thing much earlier than in the EU, partly because the carrier and network relationship is structured differently. So SMS is bad but free, and thus a bit more tolerable.

A higher percentage of iPhone users means that more often than not, you'll find your text is using the much better protocol. As a result, many in the US never had to pick a third party to be "winner" via network effects (like say LINE in certain asian countries).

This puts things into a weird state, where SMS and iMessage sort of act like a single pseudo-"product" in the US available to both iPhone and Android users, but where Android users get a way worse experience and where iPhone users get a worse experience when talking with Android users.

Which is where I get to personal opinion, and say this is mostly Google's fault. https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo... . As owner of the other major platform and with the ability to release a compatible chat app for iPhone, they've had and squandered every opportunity to own the space.
I'm currently investing in Intel as a way of hedging the risk of Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Once the TSMC factories are bombed the competition for Intel will basically disappear overnight.
James Holzhauer I guess, he did well in sports betting and then became a Jeopardy champion. Not that I'd recommend it for most people lol. It's a negative sum game once the house takes their cut, so for every winner there's more than one loser.
They’re doing marketing to sell more shovels as they’re a shovel selling company.
It is free even without purchase. I could give someone an old iPhone and they can use it without issue.
I hereby demand that Apple stop supporting email interoperability with non iCloud users. The current situation, where the iCloud email users enjoy first class communication with gmail users, is tantamount to theft.

That’s reasonable, of course.
What? Casinos are infamous for having the same policy.
But we did get faster browsers, pretty cool browser tech. Also, Google search results have page loading speed factored in, which is also a plug for everyone.
FISA "reform" bill would greatly expand the entities forced to surveil users
"You can prevent the biggest encroachment on your privacy rights since the Patriot Act in two minutes max." - Edward Snowden
$64 billion in fraud, $4 billion compensation, ... "total recoveries to 91% of their fraud losses."

What math is this? I got 6.6%.
There's a pretty direct correlation between prosperity bible type thinking and wealth accumulation in the US.
I think the her hubby was a king or something. That usually comes w a bit of privilege.
I mean, we could structure our society so that everything wasn't arbitrarily gated but that would be gasp socialism.

Also, Telegram and Signal are already open and can be bridged from anything to anything so yeah, we should force Messenger and Imessage to accept, at a minimum, bridging as well.
In some countries it's already legal to reverse engineer software for the purpose of interoperability.
So how is it any different than just adding bound checkings for normal C code?
Agree... they'll definitely evolve and get better, we're in the floppy disk era, but so far they suck. Nothing but weird motion, a shitty echo of mainstream / stock footage.

I also get the sense that in the early days where data curation matters, research teams need to hire curators that can siphon good from bad examples. E.g. don't train on shit stock footage, pick up a book on fine art photographers, train on that shit + good films and you'll get a pretty good model.

In the future I suspect curation will matter less and less because in the limit you should train on literally the entire internet.

I'm definitely excited for where it might go though. If it ever develops to a sophisticated point, which it most certainly will, we'll be able to do stuff with it that is just impossible by typical production means.
If you raise issues on the asp.net repo and tag David Fowler, he's pretty passionate about removing allocations whereever possible :)
Of course winter does not happen at the same time throughout the world. Would be interesting to see if it does the same if asked in a language spoken in the southern hemisphere.
It's climate change, not some piddly amount of barely radioactive water diluted to undetectable levels.
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>if you are VRAM constrained

So this is a perfect model architecture for the alternate realities where nvidia decided to scale up VRAM instead of compute first? I'll let them know over trans-dimensional text message.

Also if quantization scales similar per 7b expert as seen in dense LLMs, i.e. the bigger the model, the lower the perplexity loss, this could be the worst performing model at <=4bits compared to anything else currently available :(

-A very sad 24gb 3090 user.
Personally I've recently discovered the YouTube channel Acerola [1], who works as a graphics programmer at Intel I believe and posts highly technical but also entertaining videos on real world rendering/shader techniques that are actually in use in games.

There's also pbr, which I understand is a legit professional level physically based rendering engine that is fully open source and documented in the form of this text[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@Acerola_t
[2] https://pbr-book.org
I don't know WTF the New York Times is thinking, making their paywall cover everything. No first paragraph, not a subtitle, even the the title itself is truncated. How is anyone supposed to get interested-enough in their content to register?
We force companies to incur costs for the public's benefit all the time. In special cases we even require them to serve loss generating customers as a condition of operation. No one is forced to operate a power company, but if you do you are bound to provide power to customers regardless of their individual profitability. Similarly, dominant vertically-integrated messaging systems could be required to provide interoperability at a reasonable charge (or even no charge!). Apple could then decide whether or not they want to operate a system under those terms.
Several of those would make for great profile pics...
I can imagine that your brain was developing those neuron paths for a while, but on that bus, in that moment, the paths related to these topics have finally met!
> It's Apple's private message delivery system!

It's not!

> Note: Beeper Cloud’s new Oct 2023 iMessage bridge never used Mac relay servers and still does not today. It uses a similar method to Beeper Mini, but runs on a cloud server.
Google is solving problems at Google scale, where improving something by 2% yields millions.

Re: "distracting other companies", there's however this famous essay by Joel Spolsky (2002):

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

> Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET – All New! Are these technological imperatives? The result of an incompetent design group that needs to reinvent data access every goddamn year? (That’s probably it, actually.) But the end result is just cover fire. The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can’t spend writing new features. Look closely at the software landscape. The companies that do well are the ones who rely least on big companies and don’t have to spend all their cycles catching up and reimplementing and fixing bugs that crop up only on Windows XP. The companies who stumble are the ones who spend too much time reading tea leaves to figure out the future direction of Microsoft. People get worried about .NET and decide to rewrite their whole architecture for .NET because they think they have to. Microsoft is shooting at you, and it’s just cover fire so that they can move forward and you can’t, because this is how the game is played, Bubby.
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Elon Musk's new AI bot, Grok, causes stir by citing OpenAI usage policy
Hey Nils, love your work - back around '90 when I joined Mark Williams I was a big Scheme fan, so your whole t3x.org site and "Scheme 9 from Empty Space" particularly puts a smile on my dial.

I do think the fact that Coherent really hewed 100% to the original V6 approach based on the basic design constraints of bootstrapped minimalism was part of the charm. Doing the 4.0 release process I really pushed myself hard to get as much POSIX compatibility in as humanly possible, but the balancing act was the size-coding part - making /bin/sh still be 16-bit while having $(()) and shell functions and able to process those insane MB-sized GNU autoconf scripts that embedded >64kb here documents, etc. Another big part of why the size-coding style mattered was keeping the system comprehensible since with only a few developers everyone was spread so thin, but that's again part of the fascination.

I've always wanted to give Coherent a bit of a conceptual reboot for modern x86 (particularly multicore, which means a complete new kernel) but staying to the 16/32-bit size and with a style similar to your books walking through the process of making it and how all the design choices need to interlock to make that possible is something I wish I had the free time for.
you can choose; there's an option buried in settings somewhere
The “How Beeper Mini Works” post from a few days ago doesn’t mention the serial number, so I don’t know.

But whether this is happening or not is immaterial to the broader philosophical issues being raised.

For sake of argument, let’s say they’re faking a serial number to make the app work. How does that change the impact of Apple’s anti-interoperability stance?

Again, if the real issue is security, nothing stops Apple from providing a secure alternative. And again, this takes us back to: this isn’t about security.
I haven't researched the actual numbers...but isn't that kind of sad?

We may get two more, not near as sizable as the last one...and if we manage things right, my kids will get some, too.

It doesn't take hardly any money at all if you start early enough. $100 a month becomes $320k at retirement. (yes, handwavey tax implications, but still, 100 a month at 7% for 44 years is $320k)
I vaguely get the ban.

Cigarettes and alcohol are probably high on the list of things people 'go out for a pack of'. Doubly so when there's fuck all to do. Banning them would theoretically lower some spread.
This reminds me of the Lego Island music quality improvements recently done. Very fascinating to see how data was handled on discs at the time.
So you mean a Eureka moment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_effect
Obligatory ‘C is not a low-level language’ blog post.

Standard C doesn’t specify any specifically low-level detail, no cache, no vector instructions, nothing.
Well yeah. We don't have emergent consciousness. We have a mirror.
> Because I want to talk to my friends without being locked into Apple's ecosystem. Simple as that, I don't need any other reason.

You can't do that now with SMS and a plethora of other messaging apps?
The post is about unsolicited requests at startup, Tor Browser does not connect to Tor unless you click Connect or enable the auto-connect option.
Indeed. The real sadness is that people get hurt in the political crossfire.
I mean you can literally just set the iMessage toggle to 'Off' on your phone

It's not even buried. Settings -> Messages -> iMessage == Off
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Scientists announce a new 'organoid intelligence' field
Sorry for the slow reply -- didn't realize there weren't notifications on HN.

U-235 (the fuel used in naval reactors) does undergo spontaneous fission, but not at a rate high enough so reach criticality. Like one of the other posters mentioned, you can make it easier to achieve and maintain criticality by changing the shape of the core (so that fewer neutrons leak out) but in general you do need a neutron source inside the core that is just always spitting out enough neutrons to help the reactor achieve criticality as the control rods are withdrawn.

Once the core has operated at power for long enough, some core materials become "active" (from irradiation) and may help contribute to the neutron source.

Straight U-235 is fairly safe (iirc), but even then I don't think you'd want to ship the fuel assemblies with any moderator as moderated neutrons are what make fission more likely.
> You can't CHOOSE to send SMS

You can turn off iMessage and force sms unless you are referring to something else.
Number registration is and always was optional on Beeper Mini!
I'm not sure what you mean, but it's not the original location (or design) according to the OP.

It has been there since 1865 though, so if you think it's awkward wrt the infrastructure that's developed since then really it's the other way around and I'm not sure who you expected to do what over the last 25y? Or am I missing a joke?
It doesn't need to be a fork, you can have your own emacs config, everybody does. Are you familiar with emacs internals?
I have been seeing recently a lot of TUI and CLIs on HN recently and stumbled across this site which shows more of them in one place.
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That's a great question. However, I'd suggest a different approach as:
1. Southern hemisphere is mostly water
2. Majority of the text online is in English

So maybe a better approach would be to geolocate the prompt in Australia, for example: it's December in Melbourne, Australia...
Original marketing and Steam tags indicated it was supposed to be an Open World MMO, but on release, neither of those things were true; they also took steps very recently to remove both of those tags from the Steam page.
For some definitions of wealth, surely. By most quality of life metrics, the average (Western) European is doing as well or better than the average American.
Pepperfish is going away at the end of 2023
Apple releases spatial video recording on iPhone 15 Pro
Employees are weaponizing communication tools to get colleagues in trouble
It's the same as XMPP/etc vs proprietary chat protocols.

"Slack chat is only for Slack customers."

"Google chat is only for Google customers."

And so on.

Well....if you say it is, then it is.

But the supporters of interoperability would like to...interoperate. So non-Apply customers can send messages to Apple customers and vice versa.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201349
At&t is part of why expansion is hard
It's not hard to see why. The majority in the US are wage slaves who will toil away sacrificing time with family and friends to enrich someone they will never meet.

There are a good number of anthropologists I've read and heard speak who through their research have come to believe on the whole pre-agrarian humans were the happiest to ever walk the earth. They "worked" about 15 hours a week.

I think we're flattering ourselves thinking the modern world is really any better for most people.
Yes! All I hear when entitlement comes up is "Why do you feel entitled to text message your iPhone friends if you don't use an iPhone?"
I think the "send my grandmother non-pixelated photos of my kid using the default messaging app" is a fair ask.
Ah, being 30 again!
Even if old iPhones were free: There’s still a significant issue for people not wanting to carry two phones.
You're taking it backward. You must not kill children. Everything else flows from this point. If your "solution" implies to kill children, it's not a solution, it's not defensible, it's not to be debated. Period. Else you're just as bad (or worse) as the other side. If you're not a fascistic fanatic (like the other side), then don't call for murder and crime (like the other side). Simple, uh?

In war there can be no justice. Now consider what is more just: not killing perpetrators, or killing innocents? Obviously, not killing is preferable. As Socrates said 2400 years ago, it's worse to commit injustice than to suffer it.

If you want an intelligent commentary on the current situation, please listen to Yuval Noah Harari on Sam Harris' podcast about this.
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Does anyone really learn assembly these days? No, not many do. They did in the 1960s, though, even after compiled languages came out. And I've used it clear into the mid-1990s, which is 40 years after the first compilers. So, for long enough to cover the rest of your career, yes, it's still worth learning how to program.

The rest of your questions I do not presume to know answers to.
People are really getting stuck in here.

Look, if its fraud of some sort, sure, get mad.

But if this is people trying to make a living making games and not being very good at business, and maybe not even making great games, then cut them a break. Creating a financially successful company is hard - and when things break down it's pretty mean to attack.
Assets Flip is when you replace the assets in a game with other assets and sell it under a different name. Usually from a demo project or even from a complete game that was "stole".

This game simply used a bunch of assets that were bought on the unreal asset store which is different and tbh completely fair especially with a small dev team.