skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this paid? I thought it was free.

As for beeper cloud, I’m a paying customer to Apple and I just want to use my damn chat app on desktop that I pay for.
I was using Beeper Mini a few days ago, so not sure what you mean by "had to have it to begin with." I did!

My partner and I were finally able to move off Messenger... for a day.
I wholeheartedly agree and find myself the same. Banging your head on a rock only makes the head hurt
Apple will need to charge a registration fee for devices that can't be strongly authenticated (no secure element) - that way legitimate use (of both Beeper and legacy non-SE devices) is possible while spam is made unprofitable.
Facebook mines the metadata to increase revenue received through advertising.

It’s not free, the end user just isn’t paying in monetary currency.
That sounds like an uphill battle, lol. Signal came and went, WhatsApp and WeChat and Line dominate in much of the world, even email these days is mostly proprietary webmail. I think the average person will always prefer ease of use over openness or security.
Depends on the environment.

The simple fact of the matter for many students (In America at least) is that it's not a lack of time in class that's leading to a lack of education. One of if not THE primary function of primary school in America today is to be a place for kids to go while the worker bees go to work now that its no longer socially acceptable for kids to run free.
There are very much ways to improve it. With no interference, there are a whole host of ways to improve range. Things like beam forming (sending the signal only in the direction of the client).

In busy WiFi environments like cities, there are probably even bigger gains to be had - tricks like CDMA and long FEC codes to allow your message to still be received whilst others are transmitting.
> "why isn't there iMessage for Android?"

Is there a single person in the world who didn’t already know the answer to this question?
My day-job is Data Engineering. We've carefully built our ETL patterns/tools/data structures to be idempotent. It's amazing how freeing this is. Dealing with cascading failures, intermittent failures, delays, re-runs and time-zones are all os much more manageable when we know that just re-running any given task will do the right thing.

It's also amazing how hard of a concept idempotent data pipelines are for some folks to understand, and how much effort they'll put into _avoiding_ idempotency.
I've never seen this to be the case. Could you elaborate on how dang does this?
Sure, but if Beeper keeps working, likely some free alternative isn't far behind, and if that means your messages don't come up as blue, that will be everyone's preference.
Sprinkle some seasoning on these guys, cus they're cooked.

There is no path forward for integrating with Apple unless Apple opens up imessage. Fat chance. These guys took years and years and years to switch to a non-idiotic charging port! :(

I wonder how viable their business is without imessage integration. They are still aiming for all-in-one chat app - but that's not new and has been done at least a dozen times before.

How is this VC scalable?
I also got really into learning about watches and watching a watch repair stream on twitch (in 2020), and I even pulled out my great-grandfather's pocket watch from the 1890s and got it serviced/repaired (or at least running again for a while but now it won't run again; I suspect the person I took it to didn't do a great job).

When it came to buying a watch for myself I also ended up also getting a solar powered Casio with NIST synchronization ("Waveceptor"), the type with hands (for the looks). I love the idea that it's technology without software updates or battery changes (hmm, does the battery you charge with solar wear out?), and always keeps perfect time to the second without any effort on my part. This one (price seems a lot higher than before): https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.WVA-M640D-1A/

Somehow, watching all those meticulous adjustments to make sure the mechanical watches kept good time made me prioritize that to the point I didn't even get a mechanical watch.
Bingo. This whole "journalist" as a protected class just gives them cover to treat everyone crappily by distracting from this core issue.
The community will do that for them.

Btw it is unfortunate that 'censored' became the default expectation. Mistral gives the raw model because that makes it useful for all kinds of purposes, e.g. moderation. Censorship is an addon module (or a lora or sth).
What privileged? What do you mean?
Apple does charge for access to their servers. Or are you saying they’re free to pick another business model?
Standard Go templating can do almost anything you want it to do, but figuring out how to do it from the documentation alone can be a real challenge.

If this sounds to the reader like a defense of Go templates... it isn't.

Plus, I would agree that while it can do almost anything you want, that doesn't mean it always does it in a good way, or in a way that makes sense if you aren't a programmer. It's a pity. There's some power there, and I like the attempt at making templating safe, but it could really use a v2.
Can you explain this in a step by step manner?

I really can't quite grasp how the photon/phonon switches back and forth like this.
Not just wasted work, but a general understanding that there's no point to working hard, when the work gets thrown away every time.
Getting an appointment with the NHS to pull a wisdom tooth, right now, takes between 6 and 9 months.

I had never used the term "socialized healthcare" unironically before, but now it's starting to sound like there's some truth to it.
I very much appreciated the wording and tone of:

> We trust in the honesty of our clients and that they will abide by the contract. We also trust they properly recognize their staff in the game credits.
Only question is what’s the endgame? It’s not like they’re going to gain meaningful followers from this. This happens every 3-5 years with something Apple does and all that happens is Apple hardens even more, the little guy gets some press for a month and then disappears into the ethers
The recent increase in the number of schools going 4-day is mostly a teacher attraction and retention strategy. There’s an ongoing severe teacher shortage, and poor rural districts in states with low average teacher pay are catching the worst of it (for obvious reasons). The alternative is the school district basically collapses from lack of staffing, or else has to come up with a bunch more money. It may or may not harm educational outcomes (I’d guess it tends to, personally) but they’re not doing it because they think it’ll help vs a normal 5-day school week, rather, because the alternatives are (to them) much worse.

Expect various other mitigation strategies to creep their way into nicer and nicer school districts, as the crisis worsens. That, or we’re gonna have to increase teacher pay a ton (good luck). I expect private tutoring services to positively boom over the next decade or two, as lower-than-usual SES families turn to them just to get back to the level of education they used to get “for free”.
Yeah it's pretty much all Rails. Of course there's a long tail of non-Rails Ruby stuff out there, but realistically you can interpret the Ruby marketshare to be the Ruby-on-Rails marketshare.
brand identity crossed with conspicuous consumption and intentional degregdation of interoperability.
OK, having spent practically 10 years inside and having helped 1000s of people with their cases, here's my single-person perspective: at least 95% of the people locked up are guilty of something related to their charges. The justice system isn't completely off-kilter.

My main issues were that a) many people were overcharged (i.e. charged with extra crimes they were not guilty of) simply to obtain a plea deal; b) often police/prosecutor/judicial misconduct was used to get the defendant into the justice system and convict them; c) the sentences are often out-of-whack compared to the crime; d) jails and prisons generally offer very little value and rehabilitation.
> Then how does WhatsApp run their service for free across multiple platforms?

FWIW, this is always a good question to ask yourself when considering using a service... they are getting paid for it one way or another.
Well, it's conceivable that you could end up creating a separate copy of the information in your brain's neural network.

Now imagine you keep getting interrupted in the middle, but really want to read it all, thus gradually filling the whole of your brain capacity.
But Java already has a cryptography stack (including TLS) in pure Java shipped as part of the JDK which has been maintained for years. So manpower isn't the issue, the problem is that Java code can't be easily used by anything else. The awkwardness of JNI cuts in both directions.

It could be solved if there was a way to generate a shared library from Java code with an auto-generated reasonable-ish C API. Then people could take the Java SSL code (+bouncy castle or whatever) and implement the OpenSSL API. Ditto for lots of other libs. But as no such thing exists, everyone gathers around the C impl because that way you get the most stakeholders.
Most of my friends and family work part time.

Those who don't at least have home office and/or can freely decide when to work.

I'm a freelance technical writer, and I don't get more than one draft/outline done a day. I work 3-5 days a week, but never more than 5h. When I'm done with a bigger task for the day, the following work won't be as good. It only works if I'm really hyped for the next task.
It won't happen until we eject the gerontocracy from Congress. So, probably not in our lifetimes. It will become a norm to see sitting Congress persons in wheelchairs with oxygen tanks and freezing in speech. AI lol? These people don't get AI any more than my parents. They want to fund wars abroad and think houses cost $200k. They are completely out of touch.
Why are Apple users so upset about this? It's almost as if they don't want interoperability with Android users. And please spare me the spam excuse.
Except VS is the first party IDE, and Microsoft already acknowledged VS Code will never provide feature parity with VS.

Rider, being a 3rd party IDE, will always be playing catchup with VS and .NET tooling from Microsoft.
> On 20 September 2018 the Ukrainian parliament approved amendments to the constitution that would make the accession of the country to NATO and the EU a central goal and the main foreign policy objective.

That definitely came out of nowhere and not because Russian soldiers occupied Crimea and effectively occupied east of Ukraine. Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons and Russia was one of the guarantors of Ukraine’s sovereignty.

And regardless of all of this, Ukraine is a sovereign nation and can do whatever the f””” it wants.
I don’t really understand the long-term purpose of Beeper. Apple has already announced RCS, which will fix most complaints about text messaging interoperability.

There is still the question of encryption, which Beeper is strongly pushing, however Apple has announced it wants to develop an RCS encryption standard, so it sounds like it will be solved at some point in the next few years.

At that point, all Beeper becomes is a service to turn a green bubble blue.
AMD: The Adventure Continues [video]
Why do you dislike code gen?
Is that a smoke able Blunt? Otherwise none care.
the primary issue I see with this is for things where unfinished work results in something going from being finished the next day to blocked from Thursday until Monday. Some small question or task that could be done in 5 minutes but now has to wait that entire time. Just not going to work for many businesses
I think it depends on your definition of "failed." An eye witness said it was him. He likely didn't have an alibi that could have withstood an eye witness pointing at him and saying "he did this." Had he been at a convenience store on camera, or some other incontrovertible thing, it would have most likely turned out differently.

I'm not sure how a reasonable judge or jury would have come to any other conclusion given what little we know about this third-person retelling of a case so I don't think they "failed" him at least in the way I typically think of that word being used in these contexts.
It's done all the time.
This is amazing, thanks for sharing! Why did you choose Zig as an implementation language? With "embedded" I assume you mean embedding the VM in an application, i.e. not "embedded systems", isn't it?
"Meaningless" isn't accurate at this point. Media doesn't get nearly as severely downgraded (if at all), so the user experience of using an RCS chat is better than SMS/MMS.

There are still disparities, though, that should be presented. There's no standardized end-to-end encryption yet for RCS (although it could be argued Google's protocol is a de facto standard), and Apple has indicated it will be implementing RCS as the standard dictates, i.e. with no E2E encryption. Using blue bubble to indicate E2E encrypted and green to indicate otherwise is a reasonable UX choice.

After Apple implements E2E encryption over RCS via whatever standard (which can be reasonably inferred as their intention from their announcements), if the delineation for green-vs-blue is still iMessage/not-iMessage (rather than E2E vs not-E2E), then I think "meaningless" applies. But we're not there yet.
the TL;DR would be:

There is no place to hide anymore (nowadays).

A single hit? Probably.

But now imagine a series of bunker-busting MIRVs from a single ICBM arriving in sequence behind each other. Each one carving out a nice crater, for the next one to go even deeper.

A thermo-nuclear jackhammer.

With that jackhammering a few hundred kilotons per MIRV/hit would be sufficient, I guess. More would be wasted. Goes just up in the air.

Each ICBM carrying anything from a hand full, to a dozen(maybe even 20?) of such MIRVs.

Now, how many ICBMs would be needed? 2? 3? 5? 10?

Let's try! BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM... Yeee Haa!

That aside, this location has 2400m of mountain over it, but the access-ways are probably on the sides, way lower, not necessarily in some steep gorges.

Probably simpler to use them as starting point for the 'jackhammer', if only for the shockwaves of hot plasma to propagate more easily into the deeper structures along them, and wreaking havoc.
"The term Axis of Resistance [...] is a label used by pro-Iranian commentators to refer to an informal anti-Israeli and anti-Western political and military coalition led by the Iranian government. It includes the Syrian Arab Republic, Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah and various militant groups in Palestine. Pro-Ba'athist Syrian militias, some of the pro-Iran militias that are a part of the Iraqi PMF, the Houthi movement in Yemen, Cuba, Sandinista Nicaragua, Bolivia as well as Maduro's Venezuela are also considered part of the alliance."

"Despite the alliance's differing ideologies, such as secular Ba'athism, Communism, Shia Khomeinism (a type of Islamist Qutbism), Chavismo, Sandinismo, etc., they are unified by their declared objectives of opposing the activities of pro-Western parties, Israel, Arab Gulf states, Sunni Jihadists and the MEK in the region."

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

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It helps so much that the WebAssembly "virtual machine" promises so little (compared to, say, Java.)
the growth is decreasing, since years, and the 2050 estimate of 10 Bn is fairly constant over the past 30-50 years

in a nutshell human world population growth overall is due to growing life expectancy, not childbirth, the number of children per women goes down because education goes up and extreme poverty ends.

Hans Rosling has a very entertaining way of conveying this.
I know a guy who did and he hated it. 9 to 9 at the office, going to the gym afterwards was out of the question and he was eating a lot of crap from the vending machines.
Apple doesn't degrade the experience, that's a carrier limitation when sending SMS and MMS messages to anyone even other iPhone users.

E.g. MMS messages generally have to fit within 300-600KB so they are horribly, horribly compressed.
https://m.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=mms
Group messages. RCS doesn't have a good solution for this.
That doesn't mean anything. It's still against the rules for a good reason and shouldn't be encouraged.
> - Amazon does not carry Google branded products

What do you mean? I just searched on Amazon UK and can easily buy Pixels, Home Nest etc.
no, you should only quote things that you want quoted. ("duh")

the caveat being if you actually do want things expanded then you should not quote them.

for i in $(seq ...)

comes to mind...
The context is a little different, with the EU looking into whether iMessage is anticompetitive and should be opened up:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-argues-imessa...

I imagine Beeper is providing exhibits A and B for any such court case, should it happen. And they get some good brand publicity along the way.
we only have skatespots for USA right now, what country are you in?
That's exactly what the announced RCS support for iOS provides. Just not the blue color of iMessage.
"Why is WoW a front for a morally questionable bunny labor operation? The short version is, programmers’ time is limited, and NPCs’ time is not. Programmer time is extremely valuable, and most of the ‘stuff’ that can be done in a game can be done by NPCs,” said Chapman. “NPCs already have to support things like pathing, casting spells, using weapons, doing various actions to other NPCs, etc. So, while you could in theory have a programmer separately implement every ‘effect’ you wanted in the game with some minor benefit, if you already have a class of thing in a game that can solve your problem, it’s a better use of time to use the existing system.”"

I am sorry, but it still is just bad design, if you have to missuse a different class. So strictly economically speaking yes, after the system was already running, it might have been cheaper to go with it than redesign - but the initial design flaw is still a flaw. But they still made lots of money this flawed system, though, which is a good reminder, that the most important thing for any product is usually, does it work?
yes, basically
What is the carbon footprint of the glass that it replaces, and the lifetime lower costs of heating / cooling because of lower thermal conductivity?

This isn't a simple "cost of process to make it vs amount of C related if burnt".

And there are efforts to make glass lower carbon footprint too ( https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/new-glass-cuts-carbo... )

https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2022-06/2019%20Fl... is what its competing against.

> Flat or float glass plants (NAICS 327211) operate high temperature furnaces that melt siliceous minerals and other materials to produce glass typically used in windows, glazing, and windshields. Glass manufacturing is energy intensive and a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the industrial sector. Emissions from plants producing flat glass are the largest source of GHG emissions in the manufacturing lifecycle of products made with flat glass. In 2019, 22 flat glass plants reported direct emissions of 2.95 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Emissions from these plants represent nearly 70% of total direct emissions from flat glass industry.
The only reason why I tolerate that Electron app, is exactly some tooling only supporting it, e.g. VS Code is now the official IDE for Powershell.
If I have a computer that's technically capable to interoperate and talk with someone else's computer, why should we intentionally restrict that ability?

The answer isn't to say that in other locations we have a different gatekeeper so all is well, the answer should be that Apple's gatekeeping should be broken, and then other gatekeepers' gatekeeping should be broken too.

We should all have one messaging client that can seamlessly use all the major protocols and services - in fact like we used to have over a decade ago.
I’m really curious how this is possible.

Why wouldn’t every iMessage sent be tied to an Apple ID?

If Beeper can do this, wouldn’t that mean anyone else with the same technique could basically spam iMessage users across the world?
That was the point I wanted to make. I don’t see Apple letting Beeper make money off of a service they don’t run. If the app was open sourced and free then Apple wouldn't really be able to stop it. Apple can definitely sue them as a business, though.
> Google is conflicted about AI. Having AI do searches for you and summerize the results is both way more expensive than normal searches and means way fewer ads are shown

But those ads would be compelling and more valuable. There is no reason to believe the current inference LLM architecture is the optimal one (as shown by Mistral's MoE) - future inference will likely be cheaper than it is currently.

The sentiment that Google's goose is cooked I'm seeing in this thread seems like wish-fulfillment to me. Especially considering that the upstarts also don't have a clear road to profitability
Skatespot has a social element.
I doubt that this can be done that easily without recklessly endangering the experience of their 1+ billion users.

Beeper on the other hand has far fewer users, who by now likely expect a bad experience. Beeper can be way more agile.
I write the content in HTML. I know many like to write it directly in Lisp where Lisp macros that correspond to HTML tags do the work of generating the HTML. However, I began blogging long before I learnt Lisp, so I had a lot of content written in plain HTML, so I stuck with HTML for the content.
The righteous fall seven times, they rise again
"Since its always going to take some amount of time to start a compute, we decided to (mostly) accept that the ongoing cost of keeping compute starts consistently fast across our entire fleet wasn’t something that we could do reliably: so we didn’t. Instead we’re (basically) always starting computes before anyone asks for them, and then when we get a request for a compute, we just take an “empty” compute, give it some configuration and… that’s it? You have a compute in a few hundred milliseconds."

That's not a cold start anymore. You just made a warm instance pool. What a waste of time this was.
What does one need to learn to begin to attempt something like this? Seems like the author works on .NET for Microsoft so that certainly helps!
Gen Z is bringing a whole new vibe to the workplace: anxiety
This reminds me of Dave Sobel's book Longitude, which tells a fascinating story on how John Harrison created the first reliable marine clock. Such stories humble me and make me deeply appreciate the ingenuity of mankind to conquer the seemingly impossible challenges to build the civilization we enjoy today.
It's interesting to see how polarizing this topic is. I'm curious if people are just reacting according to the "party line" so to speak, ie based on whether they are iPhone or Android users.

We can do a poll to confirm this without revealing your phone preference.

Just respond with "Affirmative" if you are an iPhone user and dont like this OR you're an Android users and like this. Likewise, respond with "Negative" if you're in the opposite camp.
How many ways does Apple have of blocking Beeper interoperability without major changes to their protocol that breaks existing functionality? They've already exhausted 1 of them without much delay.
And it completely depends on what you mean by innocent.

A lot of cases are won by defendants, who after spending years in pretrial, find the prosecution did not have enough evidence to convict them.

I've been witness to some far-out jury cases where the defendant was massively guilty but the jury acquitted for some reason. That's why I would often recommend a jury trial in a lot of cases simply because juries have such a high randomness attached to them.
https://archive.is/s3k80