skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how this is not theft of service, or at least unlawful access.

If I am reading the articles on Beeper correctly, they've applied a pretty brilliant hack to gain access to the iMessage network without an Apple ID.

That last part seems key (pardon the pun).

Can someone explain this to me? I feel like this technical issue is really in the weeds, so I'm sure there are multiple nuances I'm missing...
If clients supporting multiple protocols become popular they could default to a sensible open protocol. Which, as the default in the popular app(s), would become the most widely used protocol. People can switch at their leisure because the app supports both, but over time the users transition because it's the default.

Since the old and proprietary protocols are only sustained by the network effect, they lose users, and eventually support for them gets dropped.

It's a method of transitioning from a collection of proprietary systems with their own network effects to an open one, by temporarily supporting both. For obvious reasons the operators of the proprietary systems don't want to be subject to that competition, which is they same reason they shouldn't be allowed to shut it out.
In other words, they are stealing Apple's monopoly?

And that's a problem...why?
One workaround is something like barrier/synergy, if that still works on macos. Doesn't cover phones, but it's something
Some consumer routers may have the ability to filter URLs I think. I'm not really experienced in networking/web technologies. The reddit schema seems easy enough to understand but yeah IG/tiktok, seem impossible. Could you force a particular build of chrome that has extensions baked in for blocking sites/urls? Maybe an endpoint management tool to keep those applications in check. Something like Jamf.
Have you considered https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile ? What you described sounds a lot like what Helmfile does, but more terrifying.
Apple Maps does this. I just confirmed it last week when I was international. I was honestly surprised at the detail in areas I had not marked for download.
The rep was Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was once pretty popular during the Obama years when she helped create the CFPB. She sadly doesn’t hold much sway (e: in the senate) anymore.
To what extent is an LLM necessary here? As far as I can tell (and perhaps I haven't looked closely enough yet) the purpose of the LLM here is to generate things that look plausibly like python functions conforming to a given type signature.

But it should be possible to generate random, correct python functions conforming to a given type signature without an LLM. This would be an exercise like [1], just with a substantially more complex language. But might a restricted language be more ergonomic? Something like PushGP [2]?

So I guess my questions would be:

(1) What's the value add of the LLM here? Does it substantially reduce the number of evaluations necessary to converge? If so, how?

(2) Are other genetic programming techniques less competitive on the same problems? Do they produce less fit solutions?

(3) If a more "traditional" genetic programming approach can achieve similar fitness, is there a difference in compute cost, including the cost to train the LLM?

[1] http://www.davidmontana.net/papers/stgp.pdf
[2] https://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/push.html
I suspect you're using some plugin that's blocking cookies (whether they correctly detect that as EasyList or not). Due to that, it's possible that CNN can't store your response to their privacy popup and so they have decided to limit their liability by preventing access.

If this turns out true, it would be quite ironic: they can't show you a legally mandated cookie selector intended to increase your privacy because you're running a piece of blocking software that's intended to increase your privacy.
Do Star Wars people not like Star Trek too?
I’d prefer to live in a society where all rights are protected rather than just my friends’ rights.
Does not beat the “BIND zone files generated by m4 macros from a shell script”, I had the honor having to modify. Comes close second, though.
You might be thinking of this: https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics
As an Android user I'd rather use iMessage than WhatsApp, if I have to choose between proprietary messaging apps. Meta isn't a company I want to rely upon, but I'm forced to because of almost everyone using WhatsApp where I live.
A Bootstrapped SaaS Journey to $10K MRR
> I found this claiming an A100 can generate 1 image/s.

The article you linked is over a year old. Needless to say there have been a LOT of optimizations in the last year.

Back then it was common to use 50+ steps for many of the common samplers. Current methods use a few steps like 1. This OnnxStream are using SDXL-turbo, and you can combine LCM and a few other methods to go very fast.

The reason it's so much faster now is the OnnxStream is only using a single step.

This repo claims 149 images/s on a 4090 https://github.com/aifartist/ArtSpew

However even if you only get 1 image/s with whatever GPU you have I stand by my original statement that unless you want to do it for the cool factor (which is very valid), pre-calculating them makes more sense.
Think of metastasis as, that particular cancer evolving to a level where it can successfully break through the "impedance mismatch" of colonizing other tissue.

At that point it's more like multiple cancers at the same time, with the very cruel consequences of exactly how drastic that sounds :/
In a July post [0] they said "while superintelligence seems far off now, we believe it could arrive this decade". Now they're saying "within the next 10 years". I wonder if that reflects a shift in thinking on timelines?

[0] https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment
Firefox! From the day it was released, on Windows, OpenBSD and Android, so that's 19 years? Because I know that everything else, with the exception of textual browsers like elinks and w3m, send telemetry to their masters.
i don’t get something: why DWR and not proper waterproofing?
Ma Bell had a monopoly.

This is one messaging app on one brand of phone. Nothing stops you from using another phone, or multiple or other messaging apps. And messaging apps aren’t restricted by a “default” in quite the same way a web browser is. I have friends on WhatsApp and Signal and Instagram and I message them all without any appreciable difference in effort.
It's not quite the same.

A lost-and-found is where there's little or no business relationship and you didn't ask for the stuff.

If we have a formal relationship where you're holding on to my stuff or vice-versa as part of that relationship, you are generally required to return my stuff and I am required to return yours when the relationship ends. If I am working for you, and you have my tools at the office, you need to return them to me. If it's impractical for me to pick them up (e.g. I left them in an office in Alaska), that means you need to ship them to me at your cost. If a contractor has your data, and you don't renew the contract, they need to reasonably provide it back to you. If you are leaving a relationship and your ex has a bunch of stuff at your house, you need to return it. Etc.

That's very different from someone losing something on your property.

I suspect, in this case, if both sides had equal legal budgets, Google would lose a court case. Now, testing that is very impractical since legal budgets aren't equal, but from a pure justice perspective, that's how it works out.
I have a controversial opinion on that, but I seriously don't see the point of locking areas out of the public just to preserve them.

Learning more about cavemen from paintings that have been studied for decades is not going to enable scientific discoveries that will advance humanity, it will not change anything to the present or the future of humanity. It literally serves no purpose other than to tell stories of a past so distant it does not hold lessons that are important for the future.

So what is left beside just the enjoyment of the public? What is the point of preserving those paintings by forbidding anyone from ever seeing them?

We have thousands of pictures of those paintings, gatekeeping their access to a handful of scientists is no different than letting them disappear entirely.
I think the re-release of Skyward Sword on the Switch fixed a lot of the "helpfulness" (really solution ruining hints).
I think many buy Apple for status, they keep buying Apple because their products generally work better/with less hassle for regular people
who just need to accomplish tasks with their computers.
Surely the CPU usage is what will cripple the pi?
Who is on stage in this clip and what they are saying?

https://youtu.be/xHZ-Dvv2cN4?si=VdmfLrcEq6AFm-7W
it's a horrible experience with terraform too.
> you don't get grey screens of death regularly

Is this a thing that happens to people? I haven't seen one in a decade.

> and you don't have to reset the PRAM and SMC every goddamn week just to get the thing to boot.

The last time I did that was maybe 5 years ago.
I'd rather be killing it with hard work of the yeoman pirates of the Crimson Permanent Assurance to prove a point that they don't have to be legacy Harvard admits/underwear models to grind up the competition as a seasoning for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Bring me your reformed ex-cons, fugly seasoned secretaries, and the technically disabled to mop the floor with the Instagram Fiji, duckface and plastic surgery selfie crowd.
Because Apple has enough cash to pay off enough congressmen.
They didn't respond to my email so I tried twitter. That got a prompter response! No details about how to actually perform the insta-win are visible in the video so I wasn't too pressed about someone replicating it from the tweet
Yeah, they’re AWS secrets management services.
I don't know if the 1981 issue is covered, but you can read some very fun examples of bugfixing and OTA updates on the Voyager spacecraft in this article:

https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pbarfuss/VIMChallenges.pdf

Including a 20 year wait for a pro-active fix to pay off in prod!

"A CCS FSW patch was developed and implemented in 1995, and linked on the spacecraft in 2006 for V1 and 2005 for V2 to automatically restart some of the critical functions in the event of an Error entry. This patch was exercised in flight in 2014, nearly 20 years after it was installed, when one of the CCS processors went into an error entry on V1; the patch worked as designed."
Absolutely nothing. I already use alternative services for Android contacts. I just like iMessage and wish it was available on non-Apple hardware. Would be immensely more convenient.
Alright, sure, although I'm not sure if that really matters? We still need people to do these jobs and we need tons of them (not just a few)?
I mean, even if they can't recover it at this point, it's still been far more reliable and useful than any program I've ever written or hobby electronics project I've built. Along with Apollo it's really a testament to the phenomenal productivity of American science in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
This is pretty disappointing to hear. I’m really surprised they can’t even get a clean build script for users, let alone integrate into the regular Pytorch releases.
Heh. I never had the pleasure of working with aqua regia. I watched a grad student burn himself with it once. We were filling out incident forms for a week.
>Stop buying into hype. There isn't one model to rule them all, there are models that are better in differing contexts.

I didn't say any of that, there is simply no open source GAN model that can compete with the open source diffusion models we have today, and the fact that these models can be distilled down to 1/2/4 steps makes GANs less attractive.
> Apple could also push out an update tomorrow that would end this once and for all by utilizing device attestation and leveraging Secure Enclave

More proof that Remote Attestation is evil and does not exist to serve the user.
My pleasure! Thanks a lot to you for playing it.
I guess the EU will be closely watching with Digital Services Act
Iraq... End of story
Depends entirely on what you are trying to get out of this.

If you want to write a game engine or something, you just need to understand some equations and how to implement them.

If you actually want to understand physics - as in the rhyme and rhythm of the physical world - you will have to grind it out. Your coding skills won't help you much. No one has written an essay on the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Coding in the Natural Sciences [1], because there isn't much. Most you will get out of your coding skills is that you can quickly numerically simulate some physics equations. But simulating equations is not physics.

Rather than simulating the models, the skill of Physics is to build the models that correctly describe the system in question. Building models requires actions like making the correct assumptions or identifying the symmetries of the system. These skill emerge from mathematically modeling a large number of systems, in a wide variety of domains, so you get the intuitive understanding of what to do when faced with a novel system. Mathematics provides a very convenient framework for making assumptions and identifying symmetries, while coding does not.

So, really, the prescription is to master calculus, linear algebra and differential equations, and then grind your way through about ten physics courses in sequence. There is no shortcuts unfortunately.

I would recommend paying graduate students at your local university to tutor you.

[1] https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf
Zero-dependency random number generation in Rust
While it’s a nice thought experiment, I find it hard to dismiss centuries of culture as a bubble. The idea that history is meaningless is dangerous.
I wrote about how infuriating this process is EIGHT YEARS AGO.

https://medium.com/let-s-talk-design/bye-bye-adobe-3c3ba22c4...
Intel has not done anything in the past ten years. They wasted billions on barely functional GPUs. They sat on CPU monopoly and slowed innovations while churning out profit.

At least Nvidia built something to facilitate advances in AI. They made a bold bet that paid off.
I have this too in Ungoogled Chromium with add-on "I still don't care about cookies". They seem to be keen to show me their beautiful cookie pop up.
If you unexpectedly get balloons in your video, here's why: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105117
> from Mexico to Patagonia, and from The Canaries up to the Pyrenees.

Sounds a bit imperialistic?

Notwithstanding the tens of millions of native speakers of autochtone non-spanish languages in these territories: Mapuche (260K), Quechua (7.2M), Aymara (1.7M), Guaraní (6.1M), Wayuu (400K), Mayan (6M), Miskito (150K), Garifuna (120K), Nahuatl (1.7M), Mixtec (530K), Catalan (4.1M), Basque (750K), Galician (2.4M). Spanish is quickly eroding all of these, but they still exist! (And this only counts native speakers. The number of people who are fluent in Guarani or Catalan is certainly more than the double of that.)
DO Postgres has no superuser, which is very annoying, extensions are old, their user requests website is abandoned, and they don't seem to care.
let's go flying
The systemd transition was rocky early on but we're way past that and it works great. I say this having dealt with systemd in production since the early days and IMO there's no reason for continuing to hate on it.
> I remember being a little disappointed in the “Neptune all night” TV special during the flyby as the whole night they only received one photo

I remember waiting for the next month's National Geographic to include the next planet Voyager visited. Joys of the pre Internet era.
That's also possible with XMPP and Matrix.
They just liked to get away with closing their fences
It’s not the “separate” part that I think is ridiculous. It’s the fact that the team is named “quality assurance.” It relies on a metaphor from
manufacturing that’s entirely inappropriate for software.

If you want to call it “Testing and Exploration” you’d get no argument from me. (Though I do think you’ll find that team is hard to staff.)
only if they've read and internalized this paper
>> he used money of the church but titled the land in his own name. When the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints found this out they excommunicated him, but he was still able to retain ownership of the land.

That was Walter Gibson, not Larry Ellison. Ellison bought it from Dole, as they phased out pineapple production in the h1980s. Ellison owns 98% of the island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai
This is why this use of the word, while correct, is weird.
Because Ma Bell was a regulated monopoly, and iMessage is not a monopoly. People routinely use WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, SMS, FB Messenger, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I love that these guys are poking the bear. I wish Apple would do something to let me send high-quality photos and videos to my Android-owning friends via "text". But I don't think the government has a place to force that issue. Plenty of alternatives exist.
OP didn’t ask about managing from the controller. I prefer the controller and use it myself. Some of my family members do not want a controller and use the Unifi APs I suggest.
my late dentist went skiing, got a nasty cough, died 2 weeks later, lung cancer. no symptoms before. just a seemingly fit and healthy normal weight 30-something guy with a wife and kids. (maybe he inhaled too much enamel dust or who knows, the point is that humans are very bad at noticing these things on themselves/others.)
Overengineering is building in buffers that you didn't actually need. But it may be much later when anyone can prove it.

See also the roman aqueducts. Today we would have used about half as much stone, and they'd be falling apart in our lifetimes. Instead, lucky chunks of them have lasted 20 times as long as anyone ever could have expected to need them.
I was just using that as a reference. Stable diffusion will run well with almost any relatively modern gpu.

You don't have to use a 4090, you'll still get double digit performance with a 3060 or whatnot.

> for people who can only otherwise afford Raspberry Pis ;)

You can rent a 4090 for 0.7USD/1hr, or get an A100 for 1.1USD/hr. And if your project is a display + raspberry pi then those costs will dwarf the rental cost.
A lot of people don’t understand the absolutely insane (and totally stupid) power of “blue text” in social settings, especially among teens. “Green text” is social suicide, largely because a lot of reactions and emojis and stuff don’t work. It’s also a status symbol… even though high end Android phones cost about what higher end iPhones cost and refurb iPhones are cheap.

The iMessage platform is probably the strongest lock in on iPhones. Break that and the phone market gets competitive again.
Would it be cheaper/equally effective to go for one less decimal place and make 10 of them?
Page 9 of the document you linked to:

* A provision that all money subject to a clawback or repayment provision must be paid within 90 days of notification by MSF. Amounts not paid within 90 days would be subject to a penalty of 1% per month, prorated on a daily basis. *

That word "clawback" is key. Elsewhere in the document it refers to benchmarks, so I presume if the benchmarks are not met that the clawback would take effect. In this case I have no idea what the contract is with GM, so we also don't know the benchmarks that would impact the clawback.

This is a good start though - hopefully someone can find the actual contract with GM.
As long as iMessage doesn't support federation, Apple has a monopoly on it too. If not, then Ma Bell wouldn't have had a monopoly either, since you could say mailing letters was a competitor to telephones.
I think their switch away from XMPP predates E2EE and some of them still aren't using E2EE, so that's not the real reason. XMPP has good E2EE now with OMEMO though.
> demonstrably improved delivery speed

Thinking this can be reduced to a single metric is the blight of modern software (and business in general, I think). Mapping an individual change to improved delivery speed is in the vast majority of cases an impossible task and any decent developer knows this. It's management+ that wants simple easy metrics since they lack the deep understanding required to do their job well. Software development is - despite management's hopes - not line work. It's much more akin to R&D. The line work gets eaten up by AWS.
Sendmail originated in the late 70s/early 80s when there were tons of incompatible systems like DECNet and whatnot, instead of just SMTP, and all of them had all sorts of buggy implementations. Today "SMTP" is analogous with "email", but that wasn't always the case. Sendmail won because it could talk to all of them, in bug-compatible ways.

Later this feature became more of a liability than anything else and people unfamiliar with the original context are left scratching their heads and going "wtf is this shit?! Maybe those Berkley people really were on LSD?!", but it was a hugely critical feature and without it Sendmail never would have gained the adoption it did – it really was tons better than anything else.
In terms of expected mission duration and the durability of its components.
No matter what exactly the mechanism is they use to end up with these hyper-specific results the end results is that by fusing data from an always expanding amount of sources companies are gaining insights into peoples lives which are nearing the almost mythical "all seeing eye" in a way that never happened before in human history. And I think we should ask really hard questions of whether society should continue to allow this or whether it should be reigned in. And we shouldn't accept vague "oh, you know, a person could do this too, so it's okay" or "companies are just persons" statements as an answer. Even for die-hard market fans there's the question if a market can work if the other side in an transaction knows everything about you.
Thanks for introducing me to that project, it's in the same space of unifying access to all these different models.

Wonder how you felt about the comparing results aspect? Dis their chat interface felt more intuitive and natural than the "search" interface?
Fun to see you mention my game as I also submitted this Donkey Kong link! I worked on YOYOZO from September 5th to 27th (23 days) I submitted it to Catalog on 21st. The final week of the stretch was polishing. I did another day or maybe three to add score boards just prior to launch. It was in review/queue longer than it was in development, by far!
"Interoperability is picking apple's pocket by allowing people cross-platform secure communication in a way that's usable to them" is a take that is bending over backwards to lick corporate boot. I get that part of apple's marketing is extreme brand loyalty, but your communications with non-ios users being less secure harms you as an ios user too, and the loss to apple is one of control over its customers' behavior more than anything else
Right, but increasingly many of those “end users” are large businesses.
Zot Zot Zot! Nice to see another anteater here!
To the OP: It looks like your `button`s have no `color` property, and are just relying on the user agent stylesheet to (hopefully) be a dark text color. This will vary for different users.
OneAPI isn't bad for PyTorch, the performance isn't there yet but you can tell it's an extremely top priority for Intel.
I guess that means they have to break reader mode as well.
Take a look at this related work
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11441
We're talking here about literally the most valuable public company in the world and a product (iPhone) used on average dozens of times and several hours daily by nearly 50% of the US population. I'm generally a free market kind of guy but even I admit that at this scale it is OK to apply different standards.
Does it really matter? You're just reading a blog, are you afraid someone is tampering with your article?
Brave and FF on Linux, Windows and an old MBP.

I don't install Chrome anymore.