skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To lose something you'd have to have had it to begin with. Users aren't gaining an additional secure messaging channel would be a more accurate description.

I personally won't waste my time trying to be an early adopter of this. I suspect the upcoming RCS support will be the only "apple native" way to have non-shit tier messaging between android and iOS, and Apple will keep breaking Beeper if they can.
It might be a controversial topic, but this post had some oddly rapid upvotes for HN.

I'm trying to understand what the target of this hacky iMessage spin-off of Beeper is. The whole idea of subscription-based monetization. Rather no way of Apple not patching quickly, dealing with this as soon as it raises attention.

But maybe that was the intent of a hack they found? A clever marketing strategy, to gain some rapid traction with the controversy, highlighting their project?
To be blunt: at this point, no one. If the 4-day work week didn't happen during the ZIRP, it's not happening now.

I know there are studies that show it can be better and more productive, but employers don't care. They want butts in seats as long as possible.
Non-idempotent actions often have Lovecraftian outcomes, so I can imagine...
>I’m reminded of the Rittenhouse trial where the prosecutors had a technician massage a still from a video for hours until some very tiny collection of pixels, enlarged from the original by quite a bit, were arranged in such a way that they said demonstrated Rittenhouse initiated aggression against the first man he shot.

Is there an article with more on this?
Full resolution images available here:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2...

Click each image, and then scroll down for links on the left sidebar for the full resolution images.

For example this 11694 x 13392 pixel PNG file (warning may crash browser): https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01HGGZBZ1WK06H9NMB5WZTZPXD.png
Indoors cats can have a happy, full, low stress life indoors. The onus is on you to make sure that’s the case. It means providing entertainment (play, toys, windows) and making a little effort. Indoors cats are not in prison like you’re trying to make it sound.
Amazon's practices are 'the essence of competition,' it tells judge
Why call it transparent wood? It's filled with mostly epoxy.
It isn’t anti-freedom and pro-proprietary to have a view on what you think the law says and what you think Apple’s right to respond is.

The original kid who reversed: Great hacking, I think we can all applaud. This is a for-profit (VC funded?) company charging users by piggy backing off of servers they don’t own or pay for (and using apple binary blobs?).

If they used the protocol they reverse engineered on their own servers that’d be completely different. But that wouldn’t be profitable for them.
I'm surprised this isn't firmly attached to the top of HN right now for the entire day.

This is a tiny company (appears 30 or so people?) that just scored a 2B valuation, produced easily the most performant 7B model and a 7B*8 MOE model that performs at the level of a 70B requiring the inference power of a 14B.

I feel this could be a potential bigger threat to OpenAI than Google or Anthropic. I gather with the huge recent investment they'll be able to a) scale out to a reasonable traffic load in the near future and b) attract the best and brightest researchers put off w/ various chest puffing and drama that has been front and center in this industry.
The way I see it Beeper are deliberately poking the bear. They knew Apple would block their implementation (I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they had this replacement ready to go). You don’t have to trust them, if you don’t want to use the service then don’t.

They’re highlighting the closed nature of Apple’s messaging system more effectively than anyone has in a long time. I support them in doing that.
I'd look at Facebook more than Google.
Do you remember Kids' Space?
This is addressed in the announcement, beeper is happy to add a pager emoji to the message metadata to allow for identification.
Kukei.eu – curated search for web developers
https://github.com/nifanfa/MOOS

I ran across this link-hopping through GitHub repos after reading the article. Its x64 but might be closer to what you were hoping for.
Dynamic Map and Dungeon Generator
I stumbled across this and thought it would be an interesting thing to share. The tool is web-based (electron too) and can generate entire continents that also zooms down to the dungeon level. Ontop of this it has generated encounters and stories that are linked to locations on the map, and allows virtual table top sesions with moving counters and light sources.

trailer with features: https://youtu.be/cHwHRlzU-Gk?t=54

docs: https://docs.hexroll.app/

It even has it's own scripting language: https://docs.hexroll.app/scroll/scroll-tutorial/

Kudos to Ithai Levi who made this, take a look at some of the code here: https://github.com/hexroll/hexroll-backpack
This indicates that the jury/judge also failed the innocent man. What would have saved him? Are these cases relics before dna? Would it happen again today?
And unfortunately, judges are the only legal entity empowered to use their intuition for legal decision making. Sentencing is a good example; judges can kinda just decide sentences based on feel. Just throw some number out there.
https://archive.ph/LOgzq
Maybe some religious texts
Yeah, that message is a pet peeve of mine. Like, you know what I'm trying to do.
all the digital and agile transformations I've seen had 1 thing in common: they missed to get buy in from middle management. Instead there are agile coaches preaching[1] to the choir while the rest of the org is betting against their success.

[1] Art imitating life in that regard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB340S0tGf8
I don't think most of the criticisms towards Google literally assert that the top brass demanded specific technical decisions. Rather, "the top brass demanded it" or variations thereof is meant as shorthand for "the top brass set objectives and operational constraints that ultimately led to this choice being made, and this type of consequence was foreseen by said top brass but deemed an acceptable tradeoff".

The workings are much more indirect, the intentions slightly different, but the outcome is the same.
The big cache is irrelevant for this use case. You're memory bandwidth bound, with a substantial portion of the model read for each token, so that a 128MB cache doesn't help.
It sounds like the same requirements as a 70b+ model, but if someone manages to get inference running locally on a single rtx4090 (AMD 7950x3D w/ 64GB ddr5) reasonably well, please let me know.
There is the Berkeley BOOM core as well [1], which is more interesting to me.
[1] https://github.com/riscv-boom/riscv-boom
They released a new product last year. But it's expensive and I haven't seen a killer app.
No, we mean cutting out that blue/green bubble shit to drive wedges between users.
> I do not want to have my Apple ID login routed through a third party

Then don't use Beeper.

> I trust an established, trillion dollar company far more with that sensitive info than I do a fast-moving, eager-to-break-things startup. And the list goes on.

Thankfully, you don't necessarily have to trust them since the entire process runs on your device.

> I really don't believe they're entitled to parasite off the undocumented iMessage API.

Do you also believe it's "parasitism" for a tool manufacturer to create a screwdriver that fits another manufacturer's screw shapes? That's more or less exactly what's happening here - they made a tool that fits the existing proprietary API and interacts with it.
Happened in Vegas too. Some kids ran over a retired police chief and attempted a few others.

> Police said Keys was driving during the first hit-and-run and, while a passenger, recorded footage of the vehicle striking Probst.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/retired-police-chief-killed-las-ve...
For me, it's less about craving a specific service, and more about watching tech drama and idealism at war.
But other side of the Apple reality is your then stuck when all your other relatives use Android.

I am then forced to use some $app, persuade my contacts to use said app. Defeating the point of iMessage when I just want native support all around.

Something that Apple had never implemented anywhere else and for which it could decades ago.

I wouldn't switch to an Android because the feature became available.

If all your contacts use Apple Devices, sure go nuts. But when others don't iMessage becomes unpractical.

But hey, vendor device lock-in money is very nice. It's unfortunate that they don't water the lawns of the walled-garden nor restock the bird feeder. We are expected to do that ourselves using a wooden ladder with missing prongs.
you might enjoy Swiss Micros take on old HP classics. DM42 and DM32 are lots of fun!
I don't think this categorization is technically correct, and even in the places where it is partially correct I don't see that the "off-by-one" phrasing adds any value.

Off-by-one errors are a very specific type of error in algorithm implementation, where a closed boundary and an open boundary are confused. A general bit flip is not really an example of this unless it is connected to this specific kind of mistake.

And data corruption is much broader, and can involve adding or removing data from a stream in addition to mutating existing data. Saying that all data mutations are a "bunch of off-by-one errors" is just asserting that there exists a hamming distance between any two binary representations of the same length, and I don't think this adds a lot of insight.

On the other hand, using the term "off-by-one error" carries with it a lot of baggage and connotations, most of which do not apply to scenarios you have described or general data corruption.
Welding I: Essentials, Safety, and MiG Class
This groups doesn't seem to exist on any noticeable size.

Otherwise, why does every place insists on destroying face-to-face interaction by adopting open-plan offices where any chat is disruptive?
Apple's Nonsensical Attack on Beeper for Making Apple's Own Users Safer
They charge for the API, like OpenAI.

https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/pricing/
> Worst case is Apple keeps escalating the fight knowing that Beeper can't outlast them.

I feel like this is in Apple's DNA. Perhaps Beeper is lucky that Apple needs to support a lot of legacy devices and they might not be able to fully plug this hole without creating a big support nightmare.
Article doesn't explain anything definite about the whole kerfuffle regarding Sam's firing other than to provide elaborate innuendos that have little basis without official quotes from concerned parties.
Who gives marketing their phone number? Email or bust.
Love love love SomaFM! Pretty much always playing DefCon, Underground 80s, or Groove Salad while I work. The soundtracks of my adult life.

Thanks, SomaFM folks, and I encourage everyone to support them financially with a donation or merch purchase.
A walled down proprietary messaging platform is so common as to be unremarkable. Google has probably 5 in the works right now. Meta has a few, and there’s dozens of others to choose from.

It was really cool news when they reverse engineered the API. It was less cool when they sold paid access to this unofficial API. Beeper is barely pro-consumer because again, they’re charging for something open sourced by a 16yo kid which has no official support.

The green bubble blue bubble story is really tired. Yea it’s real, but it’s not a technical problem it’s a social problem. Haven’t we learned that you can’t out-hacker a social problem?
Hi there, can I know what browser version you're using? I'm the marketer leading this project and would love to ensure that it works for everyone. I believe the experience breaks in earlier versions of some of the browsers. Not sure if we'll have a fix but the least we can do is give the reader a warning while we find a suitable fallback solution. Thanks for the feedback!
> Hasn't it been disproven now though?

No, it hasn't. And there isn't much serious work being done on it afaics, but lots of anectdata and politics.

I think it is clear that it is possible to build productive fully remote teams, for at least some applications. It's not clear if it's optimal, or how broadly it applies in terms of applications or people.
Hackers do things because they can. Apple is entitled to gatekeep their own technology until it is regulated as a utility. To me the anti-hacker spirit is a company thinking just because they did something they subjectively think is good that Apple is then obligated to keep it running.

In what world is Apple obligated to keep a service running which allows unauthorized security related behavior? Such a hole in a service is usually called a security vulnerability and is patched away asap.
Imitating a first-party user isn't the same as being a third-party user.
> the government doesn’t use any tax revenue to do this nor impose any debt on the government

Where is the initial capital investment supposed to come from? And what is the purpose of collecting taxes other than to provide services to the citizens? What's different between garbage collection, water, power and internet?
Anyone have some detail on the copyright law connection here?
I don't really disagree with you, but I've been on the other end of this before and there was a major incentive to get it in before the break: all the context in our heads.

If we waited several weeks until after the christmas break, we'd lose a lot of mental context. It's also a horrible dark cloud hanging over your head. When dealing with a big migration, it's really ideal to do it while everything is still fresh. Context switching can be very expensive
I don't think it's just a matter of not understanding technology, but not having any sway in politics. Most of their peers care more about personal brands and culture wars and virtue signaling than doing the boring day to day task of regulating minituae for consumers.

People like Warren and Bernie are like the determined sergeants in the trenches, while most of Congress is busy grandstanding and trying to become the next Napoleons or Trump.

They just don't care to actually do anything useful, instead focusing on optics and pork barrels and revolving doors.
I don't want millions of Android phones being able to spam me on iMessage, thank you very much.
You aren’t though because sms exists as fallback.
The article doesn't mention window tint...but I couldn't imagine that is having 0 effect.

Anecdotally about half the cars I see have very dark tint on the driver and passenger window, making it nearly impossible to see a pedestrian through it at night when making a turn. I know tinting these windows used to be illegal in my city, but a few years ago they stopped doing emissions testing and that was the main place they ticketed violations for tint, so its completely unenforced now.
I saw the announcement on Twitter and came over here to talk about it. People are really excited about Beeper.
I love NetNewsWire on my Mac, but I also use Linux and Android, so I'd love if there was something as perfect as NetNewsWire on those platforms!
> I bought into the ecosystem exactly because of the quality and functionality of iMessage. There's absolutely no spam

I’m glad I bought into the ecosystem for other reasons, as I definitely receive occasional iMessage spam. It’s about as frequent as WhatsApp spam.
Great points. I just want to toss out an example of why you might want an OS to use with flash of decent size to do wear leveling on everything. The classic example I give is a media player subject to power interruption and you don't want to include an internal battery in the design for graceful powerdowns, so the player needs to save a checkpoint of play state every ~5 seconds so the device can resume intuitively. Such as indexing back to your position in a 40 hour audiobook. You're also going to have menu navigation and a combination of changing settings and device local media library changes. And now comes along some Internet angle so there are C libraries that implement browser functions and that means cache and cookie writing. And software updates. Ring buffers are smart but there's a whole lot of writing going on here! It would be great to code everything in high levels so if it emulates properly on a desktop, once it's pushed into the devices (say a generous 128GB flash with 28GB reserved for the system) the devices will have a 20 year lifespan with no batteries to fail or leak.
How many people have been killed by Teslas on full self driving versus other makes?
> charging users by piggy backing off of servers they don’t own or pay for

Apple is free to charge for them. In fact, I think it would be the best outcome and a mitigation to the upcoming spam onslaught now that the protocol has been documented.

> But that wouldn’t be profitable for them.

Is it a problem to profit off creating a tool that some other manufacturer intentionally doesn't want to create (since Apple is more than capable of building an Android iMessage client)? Isn't that the whole point of a competitive market?
They deserve it. Google is one of the big reasons why the web is the way it is today - bloated, spammy, overly SEO-optimized.
I think per year of use. I.e. if you want to publish updates for your game, you have to be paying for a license for that year.
For small indie shops probably, for those that use Unity to full extent, there is still a long road ahead.
Photorealistic Video Generation with Diffusion Models
It’s not a simple problem. Heavily regulated places like the EU don’t grow as fast. Non growth is problematic too since we need to still help millions of people out of poverty in a sustainable way. There is no free lunch and simplistic solutions like four-day workweek don’t address the full problem.
Fancy word for an obvious concept.
Wondering how you got in to that field?

A few years back I was asked to informally provide a technical review the prosecution's evidence in a case involving a former colleague. The police expert's sole credentials were a 10 year old A+ certification and a few employer-sponsored day courses, but was confidently representing themselves as an expert in networking/computing/technology. Their theory of the case was brutal - filled with nonsensical jargon, fabrications and misrepresentations. Things like "a computer behind a NAT is unreachable from the Internet under any circumstances". Instances where timestamps were implied to correlate but were actually 6+ hours apart once time zones were factored in. Pages and pages of things in that vein.

None of that mattered - they were convicted anyway. It broke my faith in the justice system. The prosecution behaved in exactly the same way as today's legions of right-wing conspiracists, grifters and politicians do, because the truthfulness of their words didn't matter to them. Because the defense cared about the accuracy of what they were stating, they could be easily drowned out by confident, rapid bullshit and innuendo.

I desperately want to find a way to help make the system better, but at every avenue the response has been "it's your funeral".
Google does it too, with their proprietary messaging app that extends the RCS protocol.
Group chat SMS doesn’t work globally the same way as it apparently works in the USA.

(This is one of the reasons why WhatsApp is big in the rest of the world)
"Moat" is SV buzzword that means monopoly as a goal. These people want to own the thing and not let anyone benefit from it other than themselves.

The fact that Beeper Mini is possible in the first place categorically proves Apple is making a decision here to restrict interoperability. If we have regulators for anything it should be for things like this. At Apple's scale it is completely unacceptable behaviour.

The whole iMessage things lost me as a 23 year customer of Apple. I just don't care about them anymore because they clearly don't care about their customers. Plus they've release the same goddamn phone for the last decade. Tim Cook has been coasting on Job's legacy and times almost up for them being on top.
I have two kids in high-school who insist it's not a thing. I've seen their text chains, and they're all standards-based (green) because their friends have both.

This isn't to say there aren't toxic cliques whose alpha-teen leaders insist on certain brands of phones, clothing, ebikes, etc., but just that the flames of this particular media panic are actively fanned by Google and Samsung PR.
GNU Jami or similar messaging systems are the solution, not some proprietary vendor locking solution.
Hacker news is the public arm of a hyper capitalist venture capitalist clan.

It never has and never will be a ‘free spirited hacker place’ despite the name.
I think they’re a lawsuit startup, as in funded in service of the speculative opportunity of favorable court case and/or political outcomes stemming from their intentional behaviors. Think Uber being funded to set case precedent versus taxis, in order to pave the way to deprecating humans taxi drivers in favor of robots. VCs love speculation and Beep’s PR has been quite effective at riding the coattails of pre-existing beliefs to push for their desired legal outcomes, from which they would profit.
Don't be absurd. I'm a big proponent of GDPR but you seem to be under the impression that it's a magic spell. You seriously believe that, legally, if you post a comment on HN, you're putting an obligation on someone? I have a piece of the moon to sell you, then!
Yeah I was super excited to try it out last week, but then it went down and I didn't receive important messages from my wife (didn't even realize the app was down).

I probably won't try it again until it has a few months of uninterrupted service.
Hi there. We're working on a prefers-reduced-motion version of this so hopefully it'll work well for those who don't prefer animations.
I think the system of American policing was originally cooked up to enforce the existing social hierarchy via selective enforcement, and it appears to remain mostly unchanged because it seems to continue to serve that same purpose.

Why would people with power to change it do so, when it is working as intended? Prosecutors don’t bring charges against police and judges and senators and large landowners/rightsholders (or the DNI).
> Between the rise of generative artificial intelligence this year and the reckoning of work-life balance that came with the Covid-19 pandemic, efforts to shorten the workweek have accelerated.

It's not clear to me how these things are connected. How does generative AI make it necessary or feasible to shorten the work week? Don't get me wrong, I'd love to try it, but I don't get the sense that generative AI has made people 20% more productive across the board. In certain cases, sure, but I'm skeptical about making that claim for every member of a large-sized company.

We could say "it's okay to be less productive but have a better work-life balance", and that's fine, but it doesn't explain the quoted sentence.
A loved one's suicide note.
I'm glad that at least you need an Apple ID for this to work. Apple probably closed the spam hole.
A 4 day work week makes a lot of sense to me but I think it will be even more useful if the 3rd day doesn’t just mean a longer weekend.

One of the best uses of the 3rd day off would be being able to do things that are usually closed on a weekend (doctor visits, bank transactions, etc). So if we implemented a 4 day workweek by simply adding Friday to the weekend we would lose this benefit.

What inthink would be great is if we keep the 2 day Sat/Sun weekend and then add a rotating 3rd day off, where some people take Monday, some Tuesday, some Wednesday, etc off.
I wonder about its strength. Like, how thick would a piece of this transparent wood have to be, at 60' by 10', to withstand the pressure of 18,000 cubic feet of water?
Here is an example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66513959
I don’t know how anyone could function like that. I’m a zombie after a hard 6-7. I can keep staring at the screen and poking at the keyboard, but
Nothing of value is getting accomplished.