skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"420 Requester Impaired" I thought this was an April 1 RFC.
If Microsoft discontinues Windows and stops partnering with all personal PC manufacturers to produce computers/laptops... while simultaneously pushing the xbox as 'more than a gaming console', introducing 'portable xbox' like laptops, etc. but keeps them otherwise extremely restricted... what happens? no antitrust?
Was it from a number with the same area code as your Signal number? What was the spam for? Care to share the message if you still have it? I research around spam as a hobby.

Email is in my bio if needed. Thanks in advance.
Thank you! You saved me :)
Although it is non-obvious, which AST fragments are considered valid and which are not.
There is a huge difference between making a “service” exposed by an app and making an app.

How many successful “apps” do you know of? And most successful “services” that people access through the App Store don’t go through the App Store for payments
Many people do want to move to Singapore, and follow through with it. The population is over 40% immigrants.
Not for mobile. The default is to have everything sensitive locked down.
I don't think likening Apple's stranglehold on users to the authority of a government helps your case.
The Court technically can if Google asked for JMOL prior the case going to the jury.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_50
I wonder if Lina Khan will be able to finally get her anti-trust case through against Google.

It’s interesting how the judges in Apple vs Epic stayed with Big Tech, same with Microsoft on the Blizzard acquisition.

Almost if the Judges are scared of Big Tech but the Jury composed of lay people see the monopoly for what it is.
One of the problems of reading digital books (at least for me) is near-completely forgetting where a fact came from, and just remembering the fact. The source was a book on the future actually being likely to be good/improving from where we are now.

My memory on the specifics is vague. I remember him saying they had lost fish hooks (maybe just some fishing technique in general?). And that further losses occurred in the migration to Tasmania, leaving the settlers there even further behind.

I don't know what "Quadrant" references.
I don't think the credentials are faked. The author's blog post seems to give the details. He is publishing a public key to Apple's servers and figured out how to read the public key of other users. It seems like he is using the normal Apple encryption path from there. Although I don't fully understand the details.

https://jjtech.dev/reverse-engineering/imessage-explained/
Unfortunately, apple’s position as both phone manufacturer, iOS manufacturer, and App Store maintainer resulted in them being able to successfully argue that their control over the App Store was a feature that was expected by users and was needed to maintain a smooth and secure operating ecosystem

Google, on the other hand, just got pilloried because they are not the phone manufacturer (for the most post), but instead were using their position as the producers of android to pressure phone manufacturers and companies to not compete. Their own internal docs showed the extreme lengths they were willing to go to stop companies from producing third party apps stores. It was this stifling of completion that just got them reamed by the court
Presumably you at lease derive meaning from your family; not all of us even have that.

I often hear “Had a wife in kids in Baltimore, Jack. I went out for a ride and I never went back” from “Hungry Heart” by Bruce Springsteen in my head when I think about mid-life discontent. That and “Office Space”; it seems to be the rule that we experience it rather than the exception.
Sure, assuming your programs don't execute other programs. I don't know much about OpenBSD specifically, but spawning all over the place is the "norm" in terms of "Unix philosophy" program design.

(I agree with the point in the adjacent thread: it's hard to know what to make of security mitigations that aren't accompanied by a threat model and attacker profile!)
So you'd arrest all of the homeless addicts and put them in jail for consuming in an unapproved place?
I mean Kotlin already does, I believe Java will too, but you’re right that python, js, ruby, golang, rust and c/c++ don’t use Wasm GC
I just had a coworker say that he surreptitiously installed an app on his son’s phone that allowed him to see everything his son was doing remotely and listen in to his son’s conversations. He showed it to us in action.
That part was accurately in scare quotes.
I asked a pretty straightforward question and you responded with a very vague tangent. What other options are there besides giving people homes or allowing them to live on the street?
They govern the iOS platform.
This needs to be part of the conversation.

To most people 'fentanyl' == 'The Devil', and rightly so after so many deaths.

However it does still have legitimate medical use.
Have you really been paying attention to everything going on with the typical PC?
I had to give up caffeine for health reasons. My energy level returned to normal after a few months, but man do I miss the taste (decaf still has some caffeine).
You hear that incels? Getting a second date is as easy as switching to iPhone!
My suspicion is that if you have a single page where there are lots of interdependent elements that update state together, then it may become difficult to maintain.
About a decade ago I had to help with due diligence on a potential acquirer in the San Diego area. Qualcomm was the largest tech employer there and from the developers I talked to they seemed to have a terrible reputation at least among software folks.
Ok, it's kind of what I experience but it's good to know I'm not alone
Or maybe I can just assume that the government will enforce anti competitive laws and not waste all my time trying to sus out whether a product has some anti competitive trick going on.
This attitude is exactly what I was talking about!

american iphone users just want others to be iphone users
If extreme penalties for illicit drug use were the part of the equation that worked, then why does Saudi Arabia's drug problem continue to get worse? They've had a marked increase in the abuse of amphetamines, cocaine, and opioids over the last two decades.

Maybe stop cherry picking the parts that you like and pretending like they're the parts that worked?

https://www.unodc.org/pdf/report_2000-09-21_1.pdf

https://www.unodc.org/pdf/trends2003_www_E.pdf

https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2008/WDR_2008_eng_we...

https://www.unodc.org/res/wdr2022/MS/WDR22_Booklet_3.pdf
> 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 think "slow language" never meant that way. It was more like a counterpoint to the claim that there are inherent classes of languages in terms of performance, so that some language is (say) 100x or 1000x slower than others in any circumstances. This is not true, even for Python. Most languages with enough optimization works can be made performant enough that it's no slower than 10x C. But once you've got to that point, it can take disproportionally more works to optimize further depending on specific designs.

> 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.

Ironically, Python's relative slowness came from its uniform design which is generally a good thing. This is distinct from a TCL-style "everything is a string" you've said, because the uniform design had a good intent by its own.

If you have used Python long enough you may know that Python originally had two types of classes---there was a transition period where you had to write `class Foo(object):` to get the newer version. Python wanted to remove a blur between builtin objects and user objects and eventually did so. But no one at that time knew that the blur is actually a good thing for optimization. Python tried to be a good language and is suffering today as a result.
Right, which is not something Apple "needed" to do because they didn't allow competition in the iOS phone manufacturing business.
You mean just like Epic got special marketing deals from console manufacturers?
Since he ends the article on a positive not...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_construction niche construction feedback loops have unpredictable consequences. It's not always positive or predictable.
Did Atari have a haunted house game with a physical screen overlay? My mom’s late brother, Robert Padilla III, used to work at Atari in the 70s and she seems to remember him bringing home “an Atari” to play “pong” and “haunted house”. She said there were overlays that you would stick to the screen. But perhaps he brought home an Odyssey console? Sadly I’m not able to ask him to clarify as he passed away after a long later career at NVIDIA.
hahaha, I'm from Argentina curiously so I have that solution quite handy.

It's good to know your opinion on rest, thank you very much
I wonder how R&D cost divided into patent and real product cost
You can long press on the message bubble after hitting the send button in Messages to switch between sending as iMessage or SMS. Discoverability of UI/UX features on both iOS and Android is inscrutably horrible.
Whether they are right or wrong… after another setback how long do we think Sundar Pichai will stay in place.
Ok, it's an interesting technique. Working on less challenging stuff when not on your best
It is honestly shocking that there were some form of human building houses with stone axes half a million years ago. It's difficult to reason about what kind of humans they were.. but it sounds quite a bit like modern humans. How old are we exactly? And when I say "we" I don't mean Homo Sapien as we would likely identify in a sort of "uncanny valley" way with other species of human.
You could, however, give as much of the product away as you can for free (less $100 a year for developer account) and then Apple is basically paying you to distribute it on their platform. That's definitely not the mafia.

If you want to charge money, Apple will collect it for you and take a cut. If you don't want that deal, you can still distribute your app for free, you just can't charge money for it in the app. You can still charge money for the service, but you have to do that on your own website and infrastructure (a la Netflix, etc.), not Apple's.
But bad for incremental opening of things. It isn't like Apple will see this and think "oh, I want to to happen to me as well!".
It’s not clear to me that making it legal was the problem. The marketing was catastrophic. The amount of messaging, in doctors’ offices and otherwise, about using long-acting painkillers, getting ahead of the pain, making sure your pain was treated, etc was ridiculous.

Nowadays, the messaging is quite different. And we’re starting to learn that the opioids may not even work for the things people like using them for, regardless of how dangerous they are:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Yes, that’s an RCT with oxycodone users reporting more pain after 6 weeks compared to placebo.
IANAL but the patent system seems to be based upon outmoded thinking that a theoretical monopoly: (A) can be established (B) can be practically guaranteed or enforced by a single government authority (C) is a desirable 'deal' for the inventors vs. the nontrivial fees, disclosures and temporal inputs required on their part. Essentially the inventor is asked to invest in the commercialization of their idea before the viability is known. This greatly favors larger corporations as it is a resource vs. risk question.

In fact you need deep pockets to litigate, and you get ~zero protection until that is done save threatening C&D letters. Most patents are garbage (eg. clear prior art exists, they are obvious and non-inventive, or they are poorly structured and easily sidestepped - but make the governments and lawyers money) and most alleged infractions are settled out of court (possibly largely because most patents are garbage, but invalidating their claims in court costs too much money).

In the recent words of a prominent university law professor, "IP law is the field of law in which I have witnessed the most inconsistent results during my career" ... ie. great firms sometimes yield crap results, and crap firms sometimes yield great results - it's a relative shit show.

In an ideal world it would be great to see either a deconstructed patent system or a revised patent system with lower fees, more boolean logic, less jurisdiction-specific human language verbiage, and a more structured character to the claims and description text. Realistically, that isn't going to happen because vast investments in the status quo exist.

(Source: Spoke with four IP law firms across two countries and some prominent law professors in the last month, currently spending ~100% time on patent theory, drafting and review - 'tis the season to be lawyery!)
> There is a huge difference between making a “service” exposed by an app and making an app.

Not in terms of Apple pricing, which is what we discussed.
PRML == Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/pattern... for the free PDF copy.
And malware has never existed in the Google Play store, right?

The point is that if you are the owner of the device you get to choose what to do with it, not Google. If the trade off for that freedom is an increased risk of malware then so be it. The people that want to only use the Google Play store as their source of software are free to do so, that's the beauty of your device being /your/ device.
The lesson should be: do not get caught paying off companies to not compete with you when you already have a monopoly because you will get pilloried by a jury.

Because that is what Google just got punished for doing. They paid off companies to not ship third party app stores pre installed, pressured software companies to not make third party app stores, and gave money to companies to not compete with Google play
In these groups is the consensus view you've all come to that addiction is to blame and nothing else of note? Any shared group feeling about overall policy solutions? Or everyone thinks if drugs were maximally criminalized they wouldn't be there?

I'm genuinely curious but I'm also biased. I was a homeless street addict myself for a long time and the only way I ever got out was a combination of harm reduction and expensive medical attention I am in no way entitled to as an american.

Most of my problems were ultimately caused by carceral violence and I can't really see how more of it would have helped me. But idk, open to other views I guess.
There seems to be a major difference between "will pay taxes for 30 years and then be a burden on the system when you get liver disease at 60" and "will be a burden at age 30 when you need multiple mental health professionals and non-stop funds"
Religion is far from the only venue to explore the purpose and meaning of one's life.

I think religion is declining because people are discovering there are many ways to perform self-discovery and practice fulfillment.

The only aspect of religion that has been beneficial to modern society is providing a social venue for others to interact. This can be achieved by building stronger neighborhoods and encouraging the development of more welcoming social venues -- something that I think is the cure to America's loneliness epidemic.
Yeah, Apple is even more restrictive and monopolistic, which somehow means they're in the clear.
Curious - Are you really maxing out that 5gbit connection where you would need to upgrade to 10gb? I have the 1 gbps symmetrical service from AT&T and have never maxed it out. Even with 2 adults working from home and 2 teenagers. All of us usually streaming something on different devices on weekends at max resolution, plus game downloads via steam/xbox gamepass, backup jobs pulled from friend's homelab, my own backup transfers to another offsite location, in addition to me self-hosting bunch of stuff that I share with family & friends, I've yet to max out that 1 gbps pipe.

The fastest transfers I've seen from source is from Xbox game pass downloads on a PC coming it at 150-200 mbps. Even 4K streaming is usually no more than 20-25 mbps/stream. AT&T keeps sending out flyers enticing me to upgrade to the new 2gbps or 5 gbps service. But again, even during heavy usage I have plenty of bandwidth leftover. So I'm wondering how one maxes out a 5 gbps connection.
And yet there was a time when the same thing could have been said about not having secured cockpit doors.
Learning to work (very) remotely
I gave a talk at Cloud Native wasm day talking about some of the stuff you can do with a WasmVM. Redpanda (where I work) is a storage engine who’s performance is predicated on kernel bypass (Direct IO, thread per core, locked memory). You can use stack switching to context switch between the VM and host application in a handful of cycles. Also having good upstream tooling for a lot of popular languages is big for adoption.

Link to the talk if interested: https://youtu.be/t4-Al2FoU0k
I think this pypush method uses Apple servers. I think the key aspect was the author figuring out how submit public keys and request public keys for other Apple users from Apple servers. From that point it seems to be as secure as public key cryptography.

https://jjtech.dev/reverse-engineering/imessage-explained/
>The factors that orchestrate their coordinated movements is still a mystery.

I'd propose that the path of the sun biases the mice's movements in the same direction, since the ice in their shadows will be colder.
Your last sentence almost gets the point: Apple never claimed iOS is an open platform open, nor made it available to other hardware vendors to use as they wish.

This isn't Google being "punished for being more open" it's punishing them for claiming to be open and then doing a heap of hidden deals to prevent competition.
Selling hard drugs as a legitimate business owner has lots of liability attached, so prices will never be 'dirt cheap'. In addition to this, drug legalization is only sold to the masses if the cities/states that legalize them get tax revenue. Again, this will not lead to less expensive drugs.

What's already started happening is that the black market prices continue to be cheaper (because dealers don't have to pay taxes, insurance, or any other costs associated with legitimate businesses) and legitimate businesses can't compete, and they go under.

It's interesting to me that the same people the scream about muh socialism and want legal drugs aren't willing to pay the price for it.
*Agent Smith voice*

But what use is a fork() if you're unable to exec()?
Sliding door was optional on the T2 from 1964 onwards. Not standard.
> Do you also complain about so many other things that "unethically curb your abilities"?

You curiously omitted the last part of the sentence: "...to release a set of weights". Please don't pretend that I was speaking about anything else, and don't overgeneralize my statements; that becomes a straw man argument. Believe it or not, some laws are unethical. I am happy to provide examples.

It's a case-by-case basis which involves evaluating the overall impact on human rights for all parties involved.

The ideal scenario is one where all rights are preserved under good faith, and publishing/owning models is treated no different than any other software project, while the actual use of such software continues to be subject to existing laws. In this case, can strengthen consumer rights without weakening developer rights.

> Ah yes, let's regulate this black box with no insight into what it does, and only guess at its possible outcome. Whatever can go wrong?

I specifically said we should not be legislating weights, so I'm confused about which point you are trying to make. Weights are the black box. Company policy, employee behavior, and business logic are not, and are accessible for scrutiny by the courts if needed. So no, let's not regulate the existence of software, which sets an incredibly dark precedent for digital sovereignty.
I can't help but feel that framing your support for the parent's fourth amendment comment "as a gun enjoyer" effectively poisons the well in attempting to lend fourth amendment cover to whatever second amendment humbug one may wish to smuggle into the conversation (e.g. stockpiling weapons as a "privacy" issue).
> If you want to run a third-party app store, okay. But you have to play by Apple/Google's rules and standards.

I am not sure if you even posted on the right comment or if you even read the article.

This whole post is about how actually those rules are illegal and therefore we don't have to follow them.

The whole point is that actually we can use the law to force Google or Apple to change their rules, or forcibly allow developers to not follow them.

> your store gets booted.

If Google or Apple doesn't follow the law then they will be forced to do so by the government, and fined large amounts of money.

The rules of the US government overrule the rules of companies.

> If I ran Apple or Google (and was running with the "customer safety" angle):

I don't think you understand.

Your whole post is basically just saying "these are the rules".

Yes, those are the rules. But those rules can be illegal.

Just saying "yep. These are the rules" is a vacuous statement that is unrelated to the crux of the argument, which is that those rules can be illegal and the government can force Apple or Google to change them.
If it’s genuinely dangerous for passersby when people are on the streets and have high doses of meth in them, then maybe?

I don’t know nearly enough about the behavior of mentally ill homeless people and how it varies with addiction status and current meth levels, but I think there is no shortage of recent reports of dangerous addicts in various cities.
Imaging large-scale neural activity w cellular resolution in awake mobile mice
I was down in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in 2008 for BGG (Board Game Geek convention). I tracked down the address to the id office, and got John Carmack to sign my id ball cap (had it custom embroidered). I didn't meet Carmack, but the kind receptionist took my cap back to his office, and he signed it.

https://www.blackcompany.com/images/id_cap_signed_john_carma...
Read the post; they've made it free now. They said they'll consider charging again if/when things stabilize.
Addiction may have been the root cause of GP's assault, but there are any number of reasons you may be attacked in broad daylight. Despite the risk of prosecution to the perpetrator, many thousands are assaulted every year. Not even the threat of the noose kept the Old West safe.

In the face of imminent threat, only personal preparedness is of value.
I read the entire thing and still can't tell if this is a joke.
I'd count Taiwanese MediaTek as "western", maybe at least half