skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So because of this you're more likely to purchase an Android product on your next device refresh? I don't see how that logic works out... "My family shouldn't have to use the inferior protocol, so next chance I get I'm going to switch myself to that protocol?"
https://archive.ph/HDEgt
For those needing context, The Day Before is a survival style game. (shooters usually, limited supplies, always hostile zones with NPC enemies and player enemies (usually)

The genre is fair well established so there were many comparisons during development to existing games in the genre and some hiccups during development [0] and some ethical concerns [0].

Prior to the release, the Dev Team for the game released a statement preparing players that the game has issues, and trying to quash claims of the game being a scam [1]

I have not followed this game's development personally, but when I first read about it on another forum this is the context I wish I had.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Before_(video_game)#De...

1 - https://twitter.com/FntasticHQ/status/1731680871856369689#m

edit: fixed formatting on citations.
I was a juror on a criminal trial once and there was a ballistics expert who testified that he was "100% certain" that the markings on a shell casing came from a certain gun. This is based on a visual inspection under a microscope.

I googled it after the trial and sure enough when you put this sort of thing to the test, experts are not correct 100% of the time.
A feature to the prosector maybe but a bug to the public at large.

1) People do convince themselves of falsehoods; the person may not actually have done that initial crime.
2) Being able to trump up lessor charges can be (ab)used even if the person didn't commit an initial crime but instead is just a ~journalist~ nuisance.
Those who have not watched the Wendover Productions video on Sports Betting in America definitely should: https://youtu.be/Pm5bTZRhncY?si=rh-7RO8_nqPT5_PH
Taco Bell: Tasty Temple Challenge

It's a DOOM knockoff. The enemies are snakes and scorpions, and your weapons are...Taco Bell sauce packets.
Nominal family structure is quite different and has changed rapidly in the past 50 years. Some family structures are much higher anxiety.
When I have difficulty assessing tone in an e-mail or chain of messages, I ask ChatGPT to help interpret for me. So far, it's been a helpful neutral party and does help me to step back from my own reaction and consider a perspective I hadn't thought of before. That said, it's also been pretty accurate at picking out "overly aggressive" or condescending tone.
I'm not sure why you're so confident in that 0.0% assertion. iMessage is integrated with the default/ubiquitous messaging app on iPhones, and I think it's reasonable to assume that teenagers are messaging mainly other teenagers who are likely to have iPhones (and thus using iMessage).

What do you think is beating out iMessage here apart from SMS? Snapchat, WhatsApp, various social net DMs? The biggest non-iMessage usage numbers I can imagine still don't exceed what I'd expect from iMessage, just based on its ubiquity in that demographic.
It isn’t proxying afaik, it is calling the Apple servers directly. The only thing getting to Beeper servers (and that can be disabled) is an IDS key without its matching decryption key, for Beeper to be able to see if messages are coming to signal the phone (which has the encryption key but is not connected continuously) to fetch it and show the notification.
The continuous push for web browser based internal tools
I hate to say it, but having read the book that episode is based on, you can pretty safely pass on the book. It didn't really add anything that wasn't covered in This American Life. Which is a bummer: I was super excited to read the book and get all the little bits that were edited out for broadcast.
This is about a game and a gaming company.

HackerNews is about sharing things that may be of interesting to software hackers and startups, not necessarily topics directly related to those two things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I tried ollama today and it is super easy, finding good models is definitely going to be challenging. I tried a few on some sample (JSON) tasks and it is... frustrating... how they ellide or are unable to follow instructions.

Is there a good fine-tuning workflow with ollama?
I learned about the game yesterday -- it's a "last of us prequel"

I thought it was a joke from Videogamedunkey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC9a4Dkbq-g (a comedic, but respected game reviewer)

Basically seems like the game is super boring and nobody likes it -- games studio is folding.
Latency to what though? It's gonna depend up on what you're trying to hit.
Show HN: 90s – an async C++23 web server with templating engine
Hi HN, I'd like to share with you a proof of concept of a project I've been recently working on in C++.

C++ got support for coroutines this year, so I played with that idea that it might fun try it out and build a C++ layer on top of my previous C based project (which currently has a fully working Lua layer for reaching the same objectives).

As for templating, the basic idea is to kinda resemble PHP, that is two core parts: live reloading can be achieved by hot swapping .so/.dll files (similar to hot-swapping .php files), <? ... ?> alike syntax for embedding the code.
All embedded code can also leverage the co_await syntax, therefore making the webpages implemented this way simple and easily scalable.

It's still a proof of concept, so the current state might not be final, but it's not expected to change way too drastically besides adding support for MySQL etc in near future.
man, it’s hard to imagine what it’s like to spend years working on an MMO just for it to suck and immediately shutter. i feel bad for everyone on that team.
The hackintosh community has tools to generate those #s. e.g. https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Post-Install/universal/i...
https://archive.ph/bqgy8
Quite true, but it's worth noting that Longshanks did not succeed in unifying Scotland with England. (He did conquer Wales before he invaded Scotland, which was certainly a significant unification.) What eventually unified Scotland with England was dynastic turnover (James VI of Scotland succeeding Elizabeth I to the throne of England), not war. (Although the unification did end up being enforced by war in the 1700s.)
I've heard this happens on the 30th of every month.
> …because they're winning enough in the market(s) you care about is silly

I disagree that what follows “because” is an accurate representation of what is happening, and reduces a more complex issue to an oversimplified notion of “winning”.

Microsoft was also winning in the market. How a company wins is what matters in discussions about anti-trust. If that winning is appreciably supported by anti-consumer behaviors, it becomes problematic.

I don’t know if what Apple is doing rises to the level of antitrust, but it’s certainly anti-consumer.

> Dressing up what is ultimately the normal bump and tumble of competition in a market as antitrust because they're winning enough in the market(s) you care about is silly.

Anti-consumer behavior being part of the “normal bump and tumble” is hardly a good reason to find it acceptable. Anti-trust actions have been weak or almost non-existent for years now, but again has nothing to do with whether or not the status quo is acceptable.

I don’t find those arguments compelling, and we’ll have to agree to disagree
I couldn't even get their webpage to load until I turned off scripts and unblocked check.ddos-guard.net.

That said, it is hard to understand how much stuff is going on in the background unless you have good browser extensions and proxy or outgoing firewall.

I use firefox and just block mozilla.[net,com,org] firefox.* etc.
> Should our society be spending hundreds of millions of dollars on laying new fiber for marginal improvements?

FTTH is a vast improvement over cable in every metric, so yes.
I'm not sure I follow: what kind of Google projects are you talking about? Google internal ones or external ones? And depending on the answer, who should get distracted by it? ... aaaand then in the end, catching up to what?
I use this in Gov Cloud with GitHub Enterprise Server. It is working great as a POC.

It will be in production with a lot of usage soon so I can evaluate how it scales.
So over promise, over hype. And fail to deliver. Sell 200k copies, get 100k refunds... Close down...

No pivot here for pretty bad game...
Fair enough :).

I still think work on improving single-core/device performance is worthwhile, as distribution will always strictly not-better, and almost always strictly worse, due to coordination costs reducing efficiency. If two Cerberas can be glued together and achieve roughly 2x of their performance, it's still going to be more efficient than achieving equivalent performance from many more regular GPUs. Getting the hardware fast enough so that you need just one device for your problem - that's a special case that will yield extra win.
Beeper Mini uses the official channels to get authorization. It's not a "hack".
> The fact that we can synthesize stuff like this from text

We can't synthesize stuff like that from text. It's synthesized from a(n obscenely large) combination of annotated still images and video clips. The text guides the synthesis (or perhaps better to call it reconstitution) process.
20 years ago, credit card companies could setup on college campuses to offer silly "rewards" to students that applied for the credit card. Pretty sure that was banned many years ago now.

But if you're asking "how does this happen???" it's because a) much money is involved and b) it's novel.
AFAIK they are using a reverse-engineered Apple binary that does the real iMessage - and since Apple doesn't update apps outside of iOS updates, Apple can't, in theory, patch it without also breaking iMessage on older iPhones.
> ad-free ads

The future is here!
You could just... read the code: https://github.com/Cerebras/gigaGPT
This is absolutely brilliant. It doesn't change the way shopkeepers and small business owners currently work, which is absolutely critical to its success. Uses a familiar form factor, another critical aspect to its success. Can work offline. Store the history of millions of transactions and then sync the next time it connects. Is mechanically robust. Has a long warranty by industry standards.

Congratulations to whoever came up with this.
The usual way it works for me is packing in enough information about the problem, the context, and relevant background/theory as I possibly can - to the point of obsession. Then once I've established a constant background hum of thought, I have to encourage the epiphany to arrive.

Monotonous physical movement is an epiphany trigger. Activities like running, washing dishes, and showering all set the stage for the epiphany to arrive. It can take a week or two when it comes. If it doesn't then I take a break for a month and try again.
But Oumuamua will engage it's cloaking device or warp speed. After all it's an alien ship that will be divulged in the latest round IAP disclosures by the US government ;)
Maybe they generate legit-looking fake device serial numbers, that just happen to match real devices most of the time?
I don’t know them but it’s too bad Propnight might disappear too, some streamers I follow play it sometimes and it’s fun to watch.
Engineering was >15 trillion seconds old when engineers decided a 32-bit timestamp ought to be enough for anyone
It's true that technicalities in the USA can lead to very guilty defendants walking free from very serious crimes.

These doctrines were created by judges who were sick of prosecutors and police violating the constitution and not getting punished for it.

The solution is to fix the system to stop this misconduct and then we could rid ourselves of this doctrine. It's a fucked up system.
While helping somebody with an assigment during uni studies I realized binary counting is equivalent to computing all the permutations. We used that fact to solve one of many problems in an allnighter.

Not very impressive but it felt deeper to rediscover by oneself.
It doesn't look like Cerebras mentioned the most important part, by trading model complexity due to using a vastly more capable system, they could could refactor that 600 line model effortlessly and rerun.

They can watch different layers train and find out how to optimize training or quantization, etc.

It feels like they kinda missed the forest for the trees here. The article should have focused on model architecture optimization due to the small LoC and the system having ridiculous training capacity.
> Most people do not think that getting paid for a job even as the company makes more money is "exploitation," even if it is so under the communist definition.

This is only because most people have never even had a thought to challenge the status quo of how capitalism works.
It would've been either late 1992 or early 1993. It was a rather low end 386SX/20 laptop.
COVID enters the chat…
The “forcing” would likely come with conditions and some oversight. See how big phone companies in some countries are “forced” to allow competitors (eg. MVNOs) to connect to their networks at wholesale prices - do you think they chose that price point themselves?
I almost forgot that you could MMS to email addresses. Crazy times of old.
The Forgotten Man of mRNA Research
I absolutely agree. The problem with the doctrine is that it should not exist. The misconduct should be punished. The doctrine only exists because there is no punishment for the police or prosecutors.
Every attack ever uses something that can be described as "official channels." It's all in the code, after all. As Apple's response makes clear, this is indeed not via the official channels.

"Authorization" in the legal sense != authorization in the cryptographic sense. You can get a token and still be not legally authorized to access a system.
Thank you this was a nice read and it's useful to understand that it's a very personal topic.

Another book I have read explained the "person first" approach to describing disabilities, and it makes sense as I can see how it's very much so on dependent on the individual preferences.
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian: When Lunatics Run the Asylum (2023)
> Git doesn't have a way to "store a partially resolved conflict" in a way that would remember that it hasn't been resolved.

Exactly my point: this is a fundamental limitation of Git for which there is no good workaround. It's not inherent to the domain, but is a limitation of Git. Pijul (for example) considers conflicted states simply to be normal.
My government banned cigarettes and alcohol during lockdown (don't ask).

And the only thing it achieved was they missed out on billions in sin tax revenue during that time. I have a few friends and family in the retail and hospitality space, and all of them were trading under the table.

Our local ice cream van (who remained operational because they were deemed "essential retail") pivoted to a mobile liquor store overnight.
The cynical skepticism isn't a bad thing, especially as you've pointed out, so much stuff has been published that would make it necessary. Wholehearted acceptance, blindly, on anything new is just not a sound practice. Even if reviewing and confirming the material only takes minutes, it was at least reviewed and confirmed.
Audio https://www.alternativeradio.org/products/chon275/

Happy 95th
https://www.wsj.com/tech/biotech/the-forgotten-man-of-mrna-r...
The second paragraph clearly states that it is a game.
> The problem with this is that it runs into free speech issues.

No it absolutely does not. Rules and regulations on advertising including what can be advertised, how it's advertised, who it can be targeted to, and the medium in which it can be advertised in are already strictly regulated in the US, Canada, and Europe.
I'm not experiencing that. Granted, I have 16 GB of RAM, and browsers are memory hogs, but my CPU is a Core i5-7600K with no overclocking, so not something super-strong.

Are you sure your experience is common rather than anecdotal?
I'd have assumed there'd be something more going on in iMessage, like each device has a private key that needs to sign the messages, and Apple can ban any private keys that leak -- but in theory couldn't they even be prevented from leaking by secure enclave?

I'm just speculating on what would have made sense, but I'm guessing that's not how it's working since Beeper Mini exists. It begs the question: why isn't that the way they do it?
> Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless customers have explicitly opted in to receive them via consent language displayed in your app’s UI, and you provide a method in your app for a user to opt out from receiving such messages.

From (section 4.5.4 of) the App Store Review Guidelines. GP is incorrect on many points.
Maybe it really does have seasonal depression.

The current date is part of the system prompt as far as I can tell. At least on ChatGPT you can ask for current date, not sure about API (EDIT: indeed, this is explained further in the tweet that OP links to[0], go there since that's where the actual info is).

Maybe the model learnt that humans in general tend to give shorter/lazier responses around this date (being trained on texts with dates in metadata, think forum posts, blogs, tweets, etc.) so it could very well be imitating trends in seasonal human behavior.

[0] https://nitter.net/RobLynch99/status/1734278713762549970
This.

And, as for the -dev packages:

1) As always, a tooling issue (aka why is there no IDE for this?)
2) A design issue: no sub-packages/"aspects"
That certainly feels like how they're acting, but what about the actual incentive structures cause it to be this way? Why does the company benefit from being a good machine for generating short-term profits for short-term investors?
To pile on, part of the conflict between liberals and those further left is that "law and order liberal" is a thing. That is, while liberals might concede that the justice system is flawed, there's still an underlying faith that the system will get it right the overwhelming majority of the time.

The extreme radical position is that the justice system is fundamentally and irredeemably broken, and that there is no way that a conscientious leftist could work with, let alone within, a system that exists only to oppress the people and reinforce the power of the ruling elite.

There's obviously a lot of gray between those two positions, but the punchline is that its very possible to be a liberal DA. e.g. Chesa Boudin's stated goals exemplify what that's supposed to look like, although without unified support from the police and the judiciary, Chesa Boudin also exemplifies what would actually happen.

Experiences like that drive the broader leftist calls to defund or abolish the police. If you can't get buy in from the entire judicial system to reform itself, then just getting a leftist prosecutor elected/appointed will quickly lead to that prosecutor either being ejected from the position, or co-opted by the system they were trying to fix.
Maybe this came up in the earlier threads (announcement, outage) so I apologize if it's been discussed ...

This project is fantastic. The hacker spirit is in full force, and I love a good David and Goliath story. However, all the comments about demanding interoperability and protocols keep confusing me -- I don't consider APNS a protocol (like TCP anyways), it's also not incidental, extra header space to stuff data into in an existing message being transported (ala early SMS), and it's not an open relay for everybody to use. It's Apple's private message delivery system!

Why does everybody feel entitled to use it if they're not using Apple products?

I'm not licking boots over here, just genuinely curious. I wouldn't want to set up a mail server and then foot the bill and assume liability for whatever the hell goes through it from random people on the internet.

And trust me, I'm all for civil disobedience and sticking it to the man with clever technical solutions, but given the (probable) massive costs of operating APNS, Apple's got every right in the world to close any gaps in their system and keep kicking Beeper out.. and Beeper can keep trying to get back in.. but I just can't wrap my head around making the assumption that APNS access is somehow a fundamental right that we're all being denied.
majority notice the hell out of latency when their video call packets get delayed
Regulations are accumulative though, not just relative to your era. So a critique in 2023 would be more relevant than one in 1970 as the pure scale of it has increased dramatically.

I've seen a few graphs showing staffing counts and budgets for US regulatory agencies have grown exponentially since the 1970s (adjusted for inflation), while it was relatively flat before then in the 60s. Economic regulation growth in the US has grown steadily while social regulations (workplace, climate, healthcare, transportation etc) grew dramatically. Adding in TSA / Homeland security and it's a hockey stick.

https://regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/za...

I'd be curious to see similar charts for the EU.
It's gotten worse since the introduction of smartphones. Instead of a button being hit changing into a pressed state instantly, they added animation that looks nice, but they end up making UI feels laggy and unresponsive.
Nearly unreadable, but I slogged through a few paragraphs before coming to a digression about the “preferred pronouns” of some guy they were quoting. Bail.
> ":earlier 15 minutes" takes you to the code as it was 15 minutes ago.

TIL. Very cool. tnx
The wepon skin-gambling part lies strictly with Valve and the $2.50 key mechanic, with a minor but vital support from popular commentators like Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill. You can unlock a skin that sells for six digits; you will (99.9999999%) unlock a skin that sells for $0.17... And Valve will take 30% of that sale.
Pyramids? Piling rocks in pyramid shape is pretty sturdy... And rocks are somewhat renewable resource.
Do you blame north koreans for starving because they didn't do something about the kim family?
It's interesting that they refer to this as a "new" test as I believe it's been around awhile. Anecdotally, at least 8 years ago, a pediatric nurse I know asked an adult male who was having symptoms to jump and based on the pain on his face took him to the ER where he was in fact diagnosed with appendicitis.
Emacs's undo is great in that invoking an undo command is itself undoable. And that is different from just your standard redo. It definitely needs some getting used to but it is very powerful.

But I think your second points deserves an even bigger mention: Emacs has the ability to apply undo only to a certain "region" - which in Emacs parlance is basically just a selection of text. For those of you who have never seen it:
imagine two parts of a file you're editing, say one part at the top, one at the bottom. You start by editing the first part (top) and then then move your cursor somewhere down to the second part of the file (bottom) to do some more editing there. But then you realize that your edits in the first part of the file were baloney. In most other editors, if you wanted to undo them, you'd be forced to also undo the edits in the second part of the file. In Emacs, however, you can simply select the first part at the top of your file - if you hit undo then, it will only undo the last edits done inside that selection and leave all edits outside of that region untouched.
Nope, they own or control the vape companies. Philip Morris owns 35% of Juul, and R.J. Reynolds owns Vuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuse
> Why does everybody feel entitled to use it if they're not using Apple products?

Network effects.