skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Making a product that people like and use" is abusing market power?

How does Apple abuse this power in the US but not EU with no differences in the product?
Middle management and agile almost seems like a contradiction in terms in the first place. Although I guess that's what SAFe is for.
Shedding light on Quake I and II lightmapping [video]
This is especially dangerous on dark, hilly roads at night. Each time these 'floating' headlight vehicles crest a hill, they temporarily blind other drivers.

To say this was a short-sighted (no pun intended) design is an understatement.
That wouldn't me just your verbal evidence there, as your other neighbors would be able to collaborate that you neighbor was crazy. There would be bruises on his knuckles. His clothing would have your blood on them.

In cases of rape, where there's usually ample forensic evidence, there need not be a complete reliance on someone's testimony.
The difficulty of sandboxes is to offer a usable, useful API to the outside world that is still secure. Operating system processes would perfectly fine sandboxes except for the huge hole current syscalls and other out of process APIs rip.
Why should Apple be bullied to enter a market they clearly have no interest in?

Apple's message is clear: if you want iMessage, get an Apple device. And I fail to understand how "access to iMessage" should be considered a public good that Apple must be forced to allow others access to, there's nothing special about it, there's plenty of different services providing the same experience, anyone can launch an iMessage competitor.
The interesting part is how the generation works. Any links to content about that?
I was a kid in the 80s; they told us weed would kill your desire to do anything (And a lot of other shit, too).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amotivational_syndrome

Which was fun when it was the smokers in our class doing things like rebuilding cars into drift racers and becoming major Pop/Rock bands.
According to the game's executive producer, it's a AAA game.

https://gamingbolt.com/baldurs-gate-3-has-a-triple-a-budget-...
> United States vs. Microsoft Corp, 2001? [0]

As the wikipedia page you yourself are citing, overturned on appeal.

> And ongoing: United States vs. Google LLC (2020) [1] and United States vs Google LLC (2023) [2].

Ongoing, so a bit hard to count these as evidence of successful market regulation.
Curious. In Europe, I never know if my friends are using Android or iPhone. My gf has iPhone and we never had any issue sharing pictures and videos- we both use Whatsapp (never heard of iMessage outside of this absurd "green bubble" thing that happens in the US) and Google Photos.
iMessage is not about the color of the bubble. While the color is what's most noticeable to the end user, a non-iMessage chat means:

1. Unable to rename group chats
2. Photo sharing quality is lowered
3. Video sharing quality is abysmal
4. Messages traverse carrier networks in plain-text
5. Loss of undo send and delete
6. Loss of inline replies
7. Loss of typing indicators and read-receipts (if enabled)

Just to name a few.
Sure, it's strictly better... There's nothing requiring you use iMessage and you can send send SMS messages to iPhones if you choose to do so. It's a great way to secure SMS messages by default. That iMessage acts like SMS automatically is _good_ thing.
Interestingly, the mathematical definition (and functional programming definition) of idempotency is slightly different. Or I've seen it used slightly differently, anyways - specifically, a function is idempotent if the result of f(x) is the same result as f(f(x)).

I've seen this lead to some confusing back and forth between software engineers, where one engineer means one definition, and the other engineer meant the other definition.
The problem is indeed two-sided. Distracted drivers, and distracted pedestrians.
cause they are at school and in their formative social experiences
You might be interested in looking into Ayman Odeh’s background.
I suspect the end-game of Beeper is to explicitly set a legal precedent or at the very least a highly publicized fight over adversarial interoperability, something no other company dared to do (because most tech companies nowadays themselves make money out of interoperability restrictions).

I assume there's some very rich benefactor behind it that is willing to fund it.
I strongly recommend reading through this site if this topic interests you at all (which it probably does if you’re reading this comments thread!). Lot of explanation and detail about how it works, what it does, and how to use it yourself. It’s good stuff. And yeah, it’s been in Firefox for two years now: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/12/webassembly-and-back-again....
But I thought we were meant to do things that don't scale?
Exists one irritating problem - our foundations depend on Boolean logic, for which things must be black or white, no halftones.

For example, we usually talking about Earth as very ordinary world, assuming, we are not special.

For most parameters, Earth ordinary. But exists at least one parameter, which is specific.

What I mean, Earth in Galaxy region, where density of interstellar matter is very low, so low, for example Bussard engine could not work.

But for example in central Galaxy region, density of interstellar matter is few magnitudes larger, Bussard engine might work, and it is very real tech for interstellar travel with speed close to speed of light.

Sure this have some consequences, for example central galaxy regions considered very active for star bursts and even explosions, so they have not billions years of calm life, they really dangerous for life as we know it.

So, we are ordinary world and not ordinary at same time. From our current science view, we are in void, with low matter density.

Between us and other part of galaxy, exists huge (for us) void, which is not easy to cross.
Do lotteries advertise to children in your state? I guess scratch-off game designs are bright and colorful, but here in TN the ads on TV/radio are largely angled at adults.
Lotteries (gevernmental or not) and sport betting are worlds apart in term of societal damage
macOS Sonoma 14.2
Arc browser is now live on Windows
While it's true we would die first, I bet we'd transition to other power sources even earlier. If we ever get fusion working reliably, that will probably be more convenient than geothermal, and at that point the geothermal plants will start slowly going defunct with no replacements.
Today's licensing deals generally prevent any players from doing a simultaneous EU release with no geo-blocking.

This proposed law effectively forces these deals to be rewritten.
So many reasons not to use SMS: No indicators that the message was actually received (2023 and SMS is still flaky on deliveries), no read receipts, no presence notifications, no typing notifications, no encryption in transit or rest, no escaping group chat spam... that's just the high points.
A single video showing actual device working will be very useful. Even if its just a prototype.
good idea.
my main concern is that UX gets broken then. Because users forget and click another tag expecting it to switch, and suddenly see no results at all.
i will think of a good UX solution for this
Chrome’s quality is what’s usually cited as being the primary driver behind its rise to its current position of most popular browser, but the reality is that Google’s intense marketing is at least as responsible. In-app prompts, prompts in Google search, and Chrome getting bundled in installers for every other Windows app were big contributors to its momentum.

Of course it becoming the default browser on the majority of Android devices and Google web apps underperforming in other browsers also played a role but that’s a bit of a different topic.
Every Noise at Once: The exact future of this site is uncertain
Apples response:

> These techniques posed significant risks to user security and privacy, including the potential for metadata exposure and enabling unwanted messages, spam, and phishing attacks.

Didn’t it recently come to light that apple have been “exposing” that metadata to government agencies for years? Maybe they should stop exposing metadata rather than blaming others for replicating their implementation!

How does a 3rd party implementing their API mean there will be “unwanted messages, spam and phishing attacks”? Are they accusing the 3rd party of doing that, or do they believe 3rd party software is inherently inferior to their own (which constantly needs security updates).
My uncle used to say “they had vote after vote after vote to legalize casinos in our state. It kept failing and they kept bringing up new votes. And wouldn’t you know once it was legalized we never had to vote on it again.”

Legislation is weird because the bad guys only have to win once, and to prevent them you have to win every single time.
Heh. I was not prepared for the punchline that this "only" goes from 4^k to 3.993^k. I mean, they're creating a whole new form of proof that will almost certainly allow further decreases, and they generously aren't holding back until they make a bigger dent, but it just intuitively feels like the true value has got to be way, way smaller.

(On a side note, I am so often stunned by the quality of articles on Quanta Magazine. I sorta thought this type of quality writing was dead and gone from the freely accessible web.)
There is no doubt that Google will refund every single customer that asks (they are way more flexible about refunds than Apple - I've known people who were able to get substantial amount of IAPs from games refunded just because they didn't like the results they got). I suspect those refunds will be net negative for Beeper.
I don’t see how betting on sports is any worse than buying lotto tickets or making risky options or shitcoin trades that the person barely understands.
I am the opposite of you, in that I refuse to buy Apple products, regardless the degraded UX I experience because of it. I will gladly suffer with a worse UX in order to vote with my $ and support vendors that align with my principles.

But I fully agree with you on this. It would be ideal for consumers to change, but it's not going to happen and it's not reasonable to expect it or demand it IMHO. If we rely on consumer behavior then things are only going to get worse and Apple more entrenched. Machiavellian behavior in business works. We have long known that individuals making microeconomic (e.g. personal) decisions can have a negative macroeconomic (e.g. big picture) effect[1]. I don't think anything will change for the better if left entirely to the market.

[1]: Tragedy of the Commons
I wonder how far I would have to dig before I found the way Google is funding Beeper Mini. They are a sacrificial lamb, getting lead to slaughter so Google can ask EU regulators to stop Apple’s anti-competitive actions.
> time and time again I watch lawyers refuse to hire expert witnesses for their own side because <insert hubris here>.

Because they are very expensive and most regular people don't have money for them? Because public defenders have a few minutes to look over a case and don't have time or resources to bother with this level of care? Which of the two are caused by hubris?
Because it's possible for competitors to build replacements for the rest of the apps.
Do you know if they have anything on the following? Sahara is the source of minerals for the Amazon rainforest (winds carry fine sand over the Atlantic), "regreening" Africa is likely to stop this transfer, leading to soil exhaustion in Amazon.
I try to make my pipelines idempotent, but a couple of them require us to send the output file to someone's email. Does anyone know how to send an email idempotently?
It starts with selective enforcement and repeated police contact with young people. That's how the business of imprisonment fills the funnel in the US.
we should start with public campaigns , like they did with cigarettes. mandatory warnings and bans on advertising such media.
Has any of this ever been tested in court though? Also, the whole thing can be (and very well may have been) implemented using a "clean-room" process, where the Beeper app developers were never exposed to proprietary Apple code, instead working off the pypush PoC's code.

I think Beeper is intentionally aiming for (heavily publicized) litigation to set a precedent.
There are bookies still operating to this day, one in the local dive bar my wife and I frequent. I have no idea who is muscle is but if you don’t pay him you will have violent repercussions. He’s an older guy who chain smokes some sort of pipe tobacco and he’s been there forever.

Is that really better than a regulated industry? Because that’s the alternative when you have prohibition.
Try as you may, you will not escape the village

https://youtu.be/op7IgFbT8l0?t=194
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.

Google could be leading that charge and providing a world beating chat app that works across all phones and all desktop devices. They have every reason to provide the best chat app in the world and yank iPhone users over to it. Instead they have given up on chat. The Google Hangouts/Meet chat situation is a disaster on iPhone and on desktop. They don't even try. It's proof that they are lost.
Why a certain material is called "carbon fiber" even though it uses a lot of plastic to bind the fibers?

The fibers matter.
Would anyone be able to link to data on the effect shortening the school week has on education?
TUI WiFi signal scanner
That's actually the formula for nullipotency, where applying it 0 times is the same as applying it any number of times.

I believe idempotency is when f(f(x)) = f(x)
There's such a goldmine of information in old forgotten research papers somewhere. I really hope somebody figures out a way to use LLMs and adjacent tech to extract these gems out of old journals.
How are they funding development?
I’m curious, how so? I don’t participate in either aside from maybe a few scratchers a year (like literally, 3, maybe) but at a surface level them seem to be very similar.
My amateur intuition, having played around with local llms a little bit and seeing things load a token at a time, is that they're conceptually like if you took all n-grams for all lengths n, then sorted them by frequency in the training data, and truncated that list at some point. So the most common words, or even most common words+punctuation, will be one token, less common words with "normal" spelling will be a few tokens, while unusual words with atypical letter combinations will be many tokens. So, e.g., " the" will probably be one token, but "qzxv" will probably be four, depending on what the training set was (something mostly trained on Wikipedia will have different tokens than something mostly trained on code).
It's really not an American issue. It's an immature people issue. I've yet to meet anyone who actually cares about whether their messages show up as blue or green when they send them. My social network (in the US) is about 50/50 for Android and iPhone users, and we have a variety of group threads that have both types of phones in them.

The only people that care are:

- Maybe some children

- Some immature adults

- A lot of people who have never used an iPhone and don't even know what the blue/green bubble is but whine about it anyways.
I would imagine a significant number of people would be willing to spend $5-$10/mo to be able to use iMessage + FaceTime as native Android/Windows apps (you can already FaceTime with non-Apple users via a link [0])

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212619
Looks good, congratulats!

I've used zenpen.io for years, it persist just to local storage in your browser so the content is there when you open the page back up. Wouldn't count on it for persistence, but it's my absolute go to for quick ephemeral note taking
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-chatgpt-as-a-siri-s...

https://www.howtogeek.com/713498/how-to-launch-google-assist...

I remember doing something like this a while ago.
Could be a combination of that and EV-specific tires that decrease resistance and increase range.

What I've observed is that I get about 5.2-5.3 in the summer, and about 4.8 in the winter. When my wife drives it, she gets more like 4.9 in the summer, and 4.5 in the winter. So there's a difference in driving style, but my wife definitely doesn't try to drive particularly efficiently and still beats 3.5 by quite a bit.
I just like saying "idempotency" so everyone thinks I am super smart. "Yeaaaa, I am going to need you to go ahead and make that idempotent, yea, great, thanksss."
I'm going to go with a combination of Stockholm syndrome, crabs in a bucket and snobbery. Apple users like to think they're in a special little club.
Cool series, I look forward to future posts.
They sure are trying hard to get sued.
1 out of 20 is still pretty nasty given the size of the US prison population.
They've been liberal since they were founded.
They defend free-market economy, self determination of individuals, open societies, free global movement of capital, men and information.

However, they might not be liberal in the sense that the word has taken in the US in recent years.
Very exciting! I love that the time line for humanity keeps getting pushed back. HOWEVER,

>All that evidence after nearly half a million years is a miracle of a find.

I really hope this doesn't turn out to be one of those too good to be true finds. I hate that the nature of academic research is making me so cynical
Lots of times victims never will. There was a famous case of a guy that just admits to random crimes and the victim refused to believe it.
It's not a stretch at all. They are well aware of the weird culty green bubble clique attitudes. And there are plenty of things they could do to allow imessage on Android. And even if they still didn't want to do that, they didn't need to choose an entirely different color for non imessage messages, they could be more subtle in alerting iphone users the other person in the convo has less features available to them. Much of the time it isn't even relevant.
Yeah, I had heard of Marathon but never watched any gameplay. Watched some stuff on YouTube and it's not nearly as entertaining as Doom, imo.
Beamforming and multiplexing (OFDMA) already exists in home wifi.
I'd argue they subconsciously but actively desire for things to go badly. Because anything that goes bad is an indictment of the system (usually capitalism). They are committed to an idea that our current system is evil and exploitative and if technological progress actually makes everyone's lives way better that would start to eat at their theory.

Look at any major technology and you'll have armies of people talking about the downsides. You'll see that a cure for sickle cell is created and then you'll see everyone complaining that it's only for the rich. Ignoring every cost curve in history and the fact that these companies make the most money by being able to sell to the average consumer. Apple is worth a 3 trillion because its products can be afforded by almost anyone in the first world and a large number in developing countries (especially if a few years old).
Apple is writing their own death sentence here. Beeper Mini's case will definitely be used against them when their anti-monopoly case inevitably comes about:

1. Forcing a monopoly when they force-migrated their users to iMessage

2. Maintaining said monopoly by keeping third parties out

Best thing they could do is put third party clients into a MFI like program and loads of red tape.
This makes me so happy. To see sports betting corrupt ESPN in real time is so sad. Advertising of sports betting should be as legal as advertising of cigarettes.
That would have been a fun one, but rem stands for "root em"!
> When people in other fields try tricks like this, they are castigated by society, and perhaps even find themselves in trouble with the law.

What would be examples for those fields? I'm kind of stuck with thinking about collectibles.
Siri is so incompetent it's basically unusable. I would love if they were forced to allow 3rd party assistants.
Based on my understanding, Beeper is using false or duplicate Apple device credentials in order to authenticate with Apple as "being a legitimate iMessage endpoint".

There's no need to take the—rather draconian—step of locking out all Apple users who are using Apple IDs through the browser; all Apple needs to do is ban the false device IDs and possibly close the loophole that allows Beeper to create them.

Any time you see something that looks like a jailbreak, at its heart is a vulnerability in the device or service that is being jailbroken. That is, fundamentally, a security flaw, and fixing that security flaw is all that's necessary to prevent the jailbreak. The fact that this one is with one of Apple's services, rather than with iPhones or other Apple devices, means that they don't even have to push out some software/firmware update and hope everyone applies it: all they have to do is update their own servers, and Beeper will be locked out again.
Beeper doesn't "hack" anything though, it uses the exact same authorization mechanism as a real iOS device and grants the user access to no more than a real device would.

I agree that the CFAA can be abused to try and prosecute this (as well as the DMCA), and I suspect Beeper is intentionally hoping for (heavily publicized) litigation to settle this once and for all and set a precedent.
If the forest would be otherwise cut down, you are offsetting from that alternative status quo. Or you could do sustainable logging and use wood for durable construction that keeps carbon locked in. I agree that preserving and regrowing forests will not offset current level of emissions, but it's a low hanging fruit to address first, please forests have other benefits for environment and humans.
If the iMessages fail, and give me the "try as SMS instead", I'm likely to blame iMessage.
OTOH this is how they seal some carbon that will end up dumped in a landfill, and not return into the atmosphere for centuries, if not millennia.
So your solution to if statements is to add more if statements?
what about a 6 hour work day and a 5 day week?
Also European^wfrom the european area (I think you get lynched here if you say that after brexit), and I completely agree. But it seems an awful lot of USian cheer for “free markets” only when it is giving the specific outcome they personally want, and I think you should mostly approach these “US Company” issues without the expectation of a Europarliament-ex-machina solution.
The wokeness of US colleges is stupid and the Hamas support is shameful but overblown. Comparing the current affairs to pre Nazi Germany is ludicrous fear mongering.

Politics belong to the universities because politics belong to life and searching for enlightenment. Young have a right to be naive.

If someone is arguing for keeping politics out if it he's just making a political stance to keep the stuffy conservative status quo. Ferguson is parading the Red Scare like it's 50s

On the other hand uni leadership should fight against antisemitism. Antizionism is fair game tho.
Extracting enough energy to do that, would probably meltdown the earth crust.
> Microsoft already acknowledged VS Code will never provide feature parity with VS.

That's correct and misleading. The features that VS supports that aren't present in VS Code are mostly legacy features that need to exist for legacy support reasons and are not being utilized in modern development.
One benefit is that you can remove yourself from a group conversation if everyone is on iMessage. If there is one person on SMS, there’s no way out (you can mute notifications, but if there are unread messages it will show up in the red number for the iMessage app.

I don’t know if this is a result of Apple purposely making it impossible to excuse yourself from a mixed conversation. It would certainly be possible for them to make the unread count ignore muted conversations.