skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> would kill us every night!

Luxury! I used to dream of my parents killing us every night.
I don’t deny that what I’m asking for is challenging, but if anyone would have the power and influence to pull it off it would be the WiFi alliance. Going higher and higher in the spectrum just sucks for the end user. Something in the 1-2 ghz range that isn’t a congested disaster like 2.4ghz would be extremely helpful for most home users. I understand that spectrum is hotly contested and rife with corruption in allocation processes, but it’s insane to me that the most important and most used wireless technology (by any metric really) is relegated to crappy leftover spectrum.
> so maybe their codebase has evolved too.

Unfortunately, not so much. They still follow PHP 5-days style, for example they still haven't adopted the short array syntax [], they always use array() which is horrible in my opinion.

The code base is horrible, but the front-facing experience is not so bad (unless you start installing lots of plugins, which tend to add different interface styles and lots of banners everywhere in the admin panel).
They only thorn they're creating for Apple is forcing them to do anticompetitive things while they're being investigated for anticompetitive practices in places like the EU.

In terms of technical problems, Apple will likely be able to keep up their end of the arms race with less than 1/2 of a single developer's time. The cost to continue patching Beeper out of their systems will be a fraction of a rounding error for them financially.
The marginal cost of an extra user on the APNS server is extremely small. Hell I bet the overall barrage of spam push notifications across the iOS landscape causes orders of magnitude more load than Beeper users, and Apple doesn't complain (despite push spam being against the App Store rules).

Of course, Apple is welcome to start charging a reasonable fee for the service.
It will be far from meaningless if I can send a high resolution image easily to a groupchat containing a mix of android and ios users.
Sorry that this conversation is going in circles. At first, I was talking about the culture of migrating to a new system when it supports ~75% of the features (by importance) of the old, rather than closer to 100%. I would find it reasonable for some team to judge that RSS support is not in the crucial 75% (and its lack would not constitute production breakage); clearly you disagree. That's fine.

As for the rest, I was just explaining the general idea of a production freeze. If you're going to stop trying to make changes by a certain date "to be safe"; then that's the freeze date. Equivalently: people keep trying (and sometimes rushing) to do things until the actual freeze date. The date is early enough (quite a bit earlier than Dec 24) so that there's still enough time and people left to fix things or roll back, if there are genuine emergencies. This replaces the risk of production breakage with the risk of embarrassment/questions from asking for approval for an emergency fix during the freeze period, so people will still only do things they're fairly confident will be safe. Anyway, none of this is relevant unless lack of RSS support is considered a production breakage, which is the very point of disagreement here.

Sorry about the "few weeks / months" comment; I was editing it out while you were posting your comment. But yes, when deciding whether something is a blocker, it's safer to assume that it can take indefinitely long (until it actually exists), even if you think (or have been promised) that it will be quick. It's the difference between taking the mean versus the 95th percentile of the distribution of time estimates.
Spam bots can already use the Mac version of iMessage. I doubt Beeper will change spam levels for iMesssage users.
Andrej Karpathy's Take:

Official post on Mixtral 8x7B: https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/

Official PR into vLLM shows the inference code:
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/b5f882cc98e2c9c6...

New HuggingFace explainer on MoE very nice:
https://huggingface.co/blog/moe

In naive decoding, performance of a bit above 70B (Llama 2), at inference speed of ~12.9B dense model (out of total 46.7B params).

Notes:
- Glad they refer to it as "open weights" release instead of "open source", which would imo require the training code, dataset and docs.
- "8x7B" name is a bit misleading because it is not all 7B params that are being 8x'd, only the FeedForward blocks in the Transformer are 8x'd, everything else stays the same. Hence also why total number of params is not 56B but only 46.7B.
- More confusion I see is around expert choice, note that each token and also each layer selects 2 different experts (out of 8).
- Mistral-medium

Source: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1734251375163511203
What syncing issues on Sonoma?
The extreme cynicism really surprises me. The dude is here participating directly in the convo and giving super straight-forward answers! If that doesn't already seem like a good enough reason to be reasonable, then perhaps remember that you're talking to/about an actual human, not just a randomly generated text string
You don’t just decide to lock someone up for a crime. Police gather evidence, give it to a prosecutor, the prosecutor makes a case (or not) and they will either go to trial or plea, then it’s in the hands of a jury or judge.

Claiming guilt to plea down to avoid a case is a problem, but that isn’t the case you’re making. There’s nothing magical about criminal prosecution.
I've done this for 12 years now, at 3 different employers, first and current one for proportionally less pay, middle one was full hours compressed into 4 (not as good). Its a no-brainer. We tech workers are well rewarded. Most white collar westerners are more starved of time than of money. Extra day off means more time to spend with family, do hobbies etc. Employer definitely gets more than 80% out of me as I'm more rested. Pay hit is less than you might think because the last 20% is taxed more heavily than the first 20%. (due to the first X amount being tax free). Can save money by cooking from scratch more, shopping around for things. I'm not very practical or good at fixing things - if I was I'd probably save even more.
I love PHP and I think it's one of the best languages. But I can't stand WordPress. It's written like we're still in the PHP 4 age.
> 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.

It's both. For example, Apple degrades the experience for "green bubbles" even though it doesn't need to. That's not, strictly speaking, a social problem.
maybe, they exercise their dogs and walk often?
I've seen both city and suburban dogs treated well and poorly.

I do think it's harder to manage a dog's existence in a crowded city's parks.
> If you hack a secure communications channel so that unauthorized client software/hardware can pretend to be authorized software/hardware, how does that make the channel more secure?

How does it make more insecure? It doesnt, security should be accomplished by the protocol, messages themselves not by blockong access to a communication channel.
Otherwise its just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
> their decision to open source their game engines has so many implications that it is hard to even begin quantifying their impact

What are you thinking of?

As far as I recall, the main benefit has been to developer curiosity but I don't know of much impact beyond that. The games that used Id engines like HL or Call of Duty had to license it anyway right and didn't use the open source versions? I don't recall much of a scene around the open source engines unlike the mod scene that used the official game and assets.

Things like Quake2 running on the Quest uses an engine that I think started off with original source but eh, it's not that significant. Q2 was huge to me at the time but I can't muster the enthusiasm to play it in VR. I look at it briefly and I'm done.

There was Quake II RTX created by Nvidia but again, eh. That and Portal RTX did not make a convincing case for ray tracing. They ran like pigs and didn't look terribly good to me.
Yeah, because specially you can do everything with JIT and only AOT when publishing, and it is still reasonable anyway.

Go isn't special, the world just happened to forget how fast AOT compiled languages with modules used to be, before C and C++ took over with their text file inclusion model.
Copyright law is often abused to prevent adversarial interoperability, so it's relevant, even if it might not actually apply.
We know that addition is a relatively trivial operation, say, on 64 bit integers.

A more interesting example IMO would be something like "how many lines of C it takes to execute person.name='Bob' in Python, where person.name is undefined".

That would better demonstrate why we use Python in the first place (hint: it's not "to add integers"), while also indicating why it is slow.
What's anti-competitive with what Apple does with iMessage? iMessage's lack of popularity everywhere else in the world is proof that competition is able to flourish. Apple is under no obligation to make an Android app, and it's silly to pretend not making an app for another platform is somehow anti-competetive.

The market simply chosing a preference is not anti-competive. iPhone and iMessage is able to compete on it's own merits without competition being artificially hindered.
Seriously, Apple would make absolute bank selling this exact service, even if it was restricted to blue bubbles, reactions, and high-quality media.
You might not need it.
You do have to trust them - you have to trust both apple and beeper not to harvest your messages and personal/contact info.

And stupid analogies help nobody. Which part of your screwdriver is costing the original manufacturer money every time you turn a screw?
Never was interested in Rolexes, too flashy for my taste. Seikos are sporty, can match with everything and does not want to show off to everyone
A Terms-Of-Service document enumerates your rights and the rights of the owners of the property under the terms of service, anything that isn't explicitly named you can assume to be disallowed unless you have a document to prove that you have an exemption.
In the Netherlands this is completely normal for most types of jobs, 48% of the workforce works less than 36 hours. Are you looking for anything specific?
Big was used for porn. Don’t forget porn. Torrents too.

Bing going legit and genuinely threatening google wasn’t on my bingo card for sure.
> Thats the entire point of the Apple ecosystem. They want to control the entire user experience end to end

I don't doubt that.

> and it is why many people like Apple products so much.

No. People like the quality and the refinement and polish. In most cases those things to not require (as much of) a closed ecosystem. Beeper is proof of that.
Someone "hacking"[0] into my bank account shines a light on the fact that my bank wasn't so locked down to begin with, but I still don't want people doing it.

Keep in mind, iMessage also relies on a server component. It's not some peer-to-peer protocol. Apple has to pay for the costs of sending messages, high resolution videos and photos, audio recordings, and supporting iMessage apps[1]. You can argue that this is included in the price of the iPhone/iPad/Mac but obviously is not for random android devices. Personally it doesn't bother me if Apple has to just eat the costs, but it is a cost, and probably a not insubstantial one.

[0] Social Engineering.

[1] Ok how many people actually use these? Still, they are part of iMessage.
Hey there, I'm the marketer on this project. I'd love to know which browser version you're on so we can find the right fix. Thanks!
There was a lot to be said for the original patent application process where you had to file an instance of a working machine using the process along with your patent application.
Because it doesn't scale.
I assume the cat counts as an in-proximity listener to the radio, which makes it initialize. Having initialized the radio, the cat can be garbage collected.
Well look at all the unicorns that pivoted their way into success. Clearly you're supposed to pivot! /s
What's proprietary about SMS?
>I find it hard to believe

I find it hard to believe you find it hard to believe. :) There’s a cliche term for such cases, “he said/she said” and they are not at all uncommon.
Public schools are publicly subsidized day care centers. If people worked less there would be less need for the day care period.
I know multiple people who have moved to 4 day work weeks. Most of them are 4x10, which they still much prefer.
> you can't make a 3rd party Signal client and connect it to the official Signal instances.

The Signal guy doesn't want you to do that (just like Apple), but it's absolutely possible. It's in fact much easier than in the iMessage scenario since all the client sources are available.
Preservation of a Leaf (2010)
Apple/Google/Microsoft/Amazon do a lot of extremely petty things that should disgust us and give us a glimpse at how this pettiness and adversarial conduct might escalate in a GAI world:

- Amazon does not carry Google branded products. ([edit] they do now once again, whew!)

- Search in GMail is nearly completely broken when you have too many messages, yet Google (ostensibly a search company) can't deliver good email search at scale so they don't bother.

- Apple allows lots of customization of push notifications and notification behavior (lock screen, badge icons, etc., etc.) yet does not simply let the user turn off push notifications that are advertisements or promotions.

- Google does not let parents choose third party whitelist "experts" for kids content recommendations. The status quo is that most kids either have parents who spend hours curating or they get to watch all the generative content garbage that Youtube hosts.

- Google Maps contains significant glitches and confusing navigation suggestions even though there must be terabytes of data showing that they routinely result in wrong turns and rerouting.

These are all examples of market failures that are fostered/continued by various anticompetitive aspects of the markets these firms operate in.

Not sure why anyone would expect Apple to allow Beeper Mini when clearly iMessage is meant to secure a competitive advantage at the expense of apple customers convenience and freedom.
The best case outcome is to get publicity leading to US and EU antitrust regulators to file a lawsuit against Apple, both of which Apple loses. The conclusion of this lawsuit is that not only must Apple allow access to iMessage, they also must allow changing the default for every component of iOS - messaging app, browser, app store, let you replace Siri with other voice assistants - and to lower the 30% app store fee to 10%. Same rules apply to Android.

Okay, that might not be likely, but you did ask about the best case outcome.
I'm not sure suburban and rural problems are as relevant as density in an apartment building. You can add APs, etc, but you can't stop collisions with neighbors.
If those objects happen to be more frequent than expected, I think we should envision a way to send small probes with the ability to slowly mine their resources and build things like larger communication antennas or telescope mirrors using in-situ materials, taking advantage of their great mass and speed to create much bigger structures than we could reasonably send out there
Did apple had any right to hijack sms, feels a bit entitled. When I first got an iphone I didn't really understood what was going on with me messages, and why they were different for some people. The interface is so subtle that most people think they are sending sms.
You might prefer my attempt at a similar explanation:

https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/How-to-%28and-how-n...
That's not true, we now have strand-type games. ;)
Why not?

Fiat currency is a tool created by governments to accomplish goals. Massive income inequality generally conflicts with most liberal democracy's goals. Taking loans against unrealized gains lets people much richer than me pay a much lower effective tax rate.

Why not invent a new tax to address this?
Bad news! This is now Beeper mini works now _according to the very article to which your comment is attached_.
And if you're using this in place of SMS, having a single bad guy be able to read your messages is still better than having all the bad guys be able to read them.
Reading

> I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.

makes it feel like he was sincere about it not being a serious policy recommendation. I read it like Jonathan Swift recommending we eat Irish babies.
iMessage is one of the primary reasons I will not buy an Android phone.
Didn't find any with a cursory search, but the full trial is available on YouTube, and this particular argument is incredibly frustrating to watch. The judge should never have allowed it in.
in my opinion, the killer VR/AR apps are work related before the consumer market. HUDs will be much more valuable in jobs that require you to do things in an IRL environment. Think hospital, warehouse, restaurant, and military among others.

For knowledge workers, there are apps like Immersed and Virtual Desktop that give you virtual monitors. I'm doing this in a Quest 3 and looking forward to the Visor when it comes out.
I had started writing basically this and stopped because you did a much better job. Thanks for taking the time to articulate this.

I want to add a subtle but important part: outside of the tech community, almost nobody knows this problem exists. If you try to explain it their eyes glaze over. Normies with iPhones, if they think anything, think iMessage is "texting". Blue bubbles mean they can see when you're typing and can send reactions, green bubbles mean you can't because you're on Android (or, "Samsung"). None of them think of iMessage as a "chat application" on par with WhatsApp... it's texting.

And all the government officials we wish would step in are included in this lot. They all have iPhones and they love them. iPhone is synonymous with 'smartphone' in common discourse and Apple is happy to trade brand dilution for that kind of "default" brand status.

And, as you eloquently point out, we could break the world trying to loosen Apple's grip on texting, only to find that we just transferred some of their power to Google, which isn't much better.
It’s false based on what? Your own anecdotal experience? I have a friend group that has iPhones and Androids. We went on vacation and had to jump through so many hoops just to share our pictures. We don’t care what devices everybody uses, because why the heck should that matter?

The fact that it can be simple to share high fidelity pictures and videos, but it isn’t just because Apple wants their walled garden benefits nobody but Apple. So your claim that this is laughably false is easily refuted by my anecdotal evidence.

People that are friends or family with differing devices do exist. I know, it’s shocking. And it would be nice to have something as simple as messaging just work without all these stupid UX downgrades for no reason at all.
This is more like a 3rd party releasing a tool that unlocks a proprietary security shroud so you can plug in a wireless router to an ISP POP. You aren't authorized to unlock that shroud or rebroadcast that internet, just like Beeper Mini is not authorized by Apple to use their authorization-required iMessage service.

If I sold internet off that wireless router and the next OSP tech that gets into that POP (rightfully) unplugs it, why should I have any right to call my ISP and chew them out because people gave me money for that internet access?
Not to pick a fight, but there is this misconception from salaried employees that the running of a company is mostly calm and relaxed, and there are certainty where next months salary is going to come from. Or at least that good management achieves this.

But in reality, leadership of a company is constant chaos, the image of the dog with room on fire saying everything is fine comes to mind.

Who knows what the right decisions is, everybody has feet of clay.
ya, I don't doubt that some are exercised well and often but being walked around a concrete jungle is hardly a substitute for big open spaces.
I thought about this so I only mentioned FPS :P

But still, even with the toolset Skyrim is still pretty time consuming to develop large mods. It won't be possible without its dedicated fans -- which is kind of ordinary for RPG but less for modern FPS.
DMCA allows reverse engineering for interoperability. I'd say it's relevant.
Kotlin is really only relevant for Android, and because Google says so.

And even in spite of that, they had to backtrack on leaving Java behind, as Android was slowly not able to consume modern Java libraries.

Kotlin on the browser lags behind Blazor, and Kotlin/Native was so badly implemented they had to redo the whole memory management concept, originally incompatible with JVM semantics.
This a bit misaligned, blame shifting. I will be the first to admit there are unscrupulous, fame seeking, and overzealous expert witnesses out there. But, there are mechanisms in the courts to filter most of them out. I just think it is not done for money, time, career, or political reasons.

I have seen this fail both in the adversarial (e.g., US) and elsewhere in inquisitorial (e.g., EU) court systems.

In the adversarial courts, time and time again I watch lawyers refuse to hire expert witnesses for their own side because <insert hubris here>.

Overall, there is also the opportunity for a voir dire of the expert witness. Failure to perform that is again lawyers' fault.

So, who is to blame for all the mistakes? Yes, all of them.

Final note regarding experts in court, specifically around professional expert witnesses - there is a racket in the industry where new-comers are kept out. The expert witness industry does some gatekeeping not only for expertise, but for retiring law enforcement in some jurisdictions. For example, in some US states a digital forensics expert required to be a licensed Private Investigator, unless former law enforcement. The PI licensing requirement are completely irrelevant for the expert witness role.

Personal anecdotal experience - Lawyer thinks he is technologists, refuses to hire expert witness, begs expert to come middle of the case. Lawyer hires cheapest expert, opposing expert makes haggis out of cheapest expert.

Funniest one was where in a small court the State's expert start going off on some cockamamie ideas about transference. The opposing expert was an instructor and had one of her classes in court to learn. The class burst out laughing, and the judge had to gavel. When she got on the stance, it was just glorious, torturous evisceration.
If through magic they were able to make a replacement that didn't utilize Apple's servers/resources (e.g. Point-2-Point), I think you'd find the attitude different.

The inherent problem right now is that they want to create a commercial product using another company's servers/APIs without that company's permission, ultimately leaving Apple picking up the bill (inc. additional support ticket volume, like when iMessage gets locked on a given AppleId).

Is iMessage part of Apple's moat? Absolutely. Is it good for consumers for iMessage to have a hardware lock? No. But even if that is true, this seems like something regulators should be involved in solving.

Plus there is nothing anti-proprietary or pro-freedom that Beeper Mini is doing.
I'm not assuming either claim is bogus or legit. I'm saying trying to divine the legitimacy of a study without much context beyond a handful of "Alice says X but Bob says Y" is a fool's errand. On any "X/not X" topic one side is probably going to be correct, but not necessarily for any good reason.